Judit Lecina Díaz

I am a terrestrial ecologist working in the field of forest disturbance dynamics, ecosystem services, and risk and vulnerability assessments. My research is devoted to understanding the risk of losing forest ecosystem services (e.g., timber, carbon storage, soil erosion control, biodiversity, recreation) due to different disturbances (wildfires, insect outbreaks, windthrows), which are changing due to global change. I am also interested in the different challenges when quantifying forest ecosystem services, and in understanding how risk components are influenced by the ecological and social dimensions (in the so-called social-ecological system).

 To do so, I combine different methodological and conceptual approaches, including the use and harmonization of databases (among others, forest inventory plots) and maps, stakeholder analysis, etc.