Welcome to the Functional Ecology group at the ​The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência​

We study how species interactions and environmental change shape metabolism at different biological scales. Our goal is to identify the mechanisms that regulate organismal metabolism and how changes in metabolism affect the functioning of communities. Our lab combines approaches from ecology, physiology and experimental evolution using marine phytoplankton as a model system. 
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Photo: one of our study species, the microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta. Credit: Moritz Klaassen (2023).