I am interested in the use of mammals for palaeoenvironmental inference. The focus of my research has been in the influence of ecological redundancy on the community structure of mammalian faunas, with emphasis on the study of the redundancy pattern at the global scale.

Currently, I am studying new methods to translate morphological information from rodent teeth into ecological information that can be used for palaeoenvironmental interpretations of past communities. We want to implement such techniques in the rich succesions of mammalian fossil sites from the Iberian Peninsula.
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Bioclimatology, Biochronology, Community Ecology, Ecomorphology, Evolution, Macroecology, Geometric Morphometrics, Analytical Methodology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 
• Mammalia
  
• Neogene: Miocene, Pliocene, Recent 
• Regional (Iberian Peninsula) and global geographical scales

 
CURRENT RESEARCH

• Iberian Late Miocene paleoclimatology 
• Neogene mammal paleoecology 
• Community-climate relationships in mammal faunas
• Relationships between climatic changes and evolution of mammals