Terrestrial Ecology

About us

I study the ecological consequences of heat extremes on terrestrial biodiversity, mainly using experiments and quantitative analyses of complex communities. In my current research, I explore the relationship between ecological resistance and recovery to heat extremes in soil organisms, and I investigate how entire aboveground and belowground communities react to warming and drought in an outdoor mesocosm experiment.

 
  Short CV
2024-Present Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
2024 PhD in Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
2020 MSc in Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
2017 BSc in Environmental Biology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
2016 Erasmus Exchange, University of Helsinki, Finland

Publications

Martinez-De León, G.*, Thakur, M.P. (2024). Ecological debts induced by heat extremes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 39 (11): 1024-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.07.002    
Martinez-De León, G.*, Fahrni, M., Thakur, M.P. (2024). Temperature-size responses during ontogeny are independent of progenitors’ thermal environments. PeerJ 12: e17432. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17432
Sanders, S.K.D., Martínez-De León, G.*, Formenti, L. &  Thakur, M.P. (2024). How will climate change affect the feeding biology of Collembola? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 188: 109244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109244  
Martínez-De León, G.*, Marty, A., Holmstrup, M. & Thakur, M.P. (2024). Population resistance and recovery after an extreme heat event are explained by thermal effects on life-history traits. Oikos (1): e10023. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10023   
Martínez-De León, G*., Dani, L., Hayoz-Andrey, A., Humann-Guilleminot, S., Arlettaz, R. & Humbert, J.-Y. (2022). Mid- and long-term responses of land snail communities to the intensification of mountain hay meadows management. BMC Ecol. Evol. 22: 1–11.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01972-4