Welcome to the Functional Ecology group at the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon.​

We are interested in understanding how communities form and function. To do so, we study how species interactions and environmental change shape energy use at different biological scales. Our goal is to identify the mechanisms that regulate organismal metabolism and understand how changes in metabolism affect community properties. We combine approaches from ecology, physiology and experimental evolution using marine phytoplankton as a model system.
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The Functional Ecology lab in September 2024.

One of our study species, the microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta. Credit: Moritz Klaassen (2023).

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