Research lines

  • - Behavioral Ecology. IP Alberto Velando and Sin-Yeon Kim.
  • - Biology And Ecology of Earthworms. IP Jorge Domínguez and Manuel Aira.
  • - Biology and Soil ecology. IP Jorge Domínguez and Manuel Aira.
  • - Evolution of life strategies. IPs Sin-Yeon Kim and Jose Carlos Noguera.
  • - Evolutionary Ecology. IP Alberto Velando and Sin-Yeon Kim.
  • - Operation of terrestrial ecosystems. IP Jorge Domínguez and Manuel Aira.
  • - Vermicompost of organic waste. IP Jorge Domínguez and Manuel Aira.
  • - Wildlife Conservation. IPs Alberto Velando and Jose Carlos Noguera.
  • Application of fertilizers (vermicompost) in vines, flowers, horticulture and other crops: In solid and liquid phase and biopesticides in foliar sprays.
  • Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches to study the interactions and changes in the composition, structure and function of microbial communities in vermicompost, soil, rhizosphere and filosfera of the crops.
  • Physical, chemical and biological characterization of compost and vermicompost : fertilizing capacity, potential toxicity and persistence of pathogens for humans and crops.
  • Study and production at pilot scale of biofertilizers and biopesticides through vermicomposting of grape marc and distilled grape marc of white and red grapes.
  • Treatment of organic waste by biological systems: compost and vermicompost.