Has been part of 2 CREAF projects Projects involved in DRESS Plant water use and drought resistance strategies across scales: from homeostatic mechanisms to regional vegetation dynamics ForESmap Forest Ecosystem Services Mapping Research groups this member belongs to Functional Biogeography: terrestrial ecosystems response to environmental changes and gradients Related linksRaúl García-Valdés - Google Scholar raul.garcia.valdes@uab.catlinkedin profile orcid profile researchergate profile I am a professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (https://biodiversos.org/raul-gvaldes/) and a research associate at CREAF.My interests are forest ecology, biogeography, and climate change. In my research, I investigate the impact of climate change on forests by studying the relationship between climate, tree community composition in species and traits, and the dynamics and functioning of forests. I utilize large databases (e.g., nation-wide forest inventories and functional traits datasets) to analyse key relationships (e.g., climate-distribution and diversity-functioning) and processes (dispersion, recruitment, growth, and mortality). Additionally, I use complex models such as patch (metapopulation), Species Distribution (niche), and Forest Succession (GAP) to simulate these relationships and processes, and understand how forests will change in the future.