Mara Baudena

Interessi di ricerca

Con la mia ricerca attuale miro a prevedere come i diversi ecosistemi terrestri rispondano attivamente ai cambiamenti ambientali globali. Mi concentro principalmente sugli ecosistemi vegetali delle terre aride, delle savane e delle foreste mediterranee. Sono interessata allo studio delle complesse dinamiche ecosistemiche che emergono dalle interazioni pianta–pianta e pianta–ambiente, inclusi gli incendi boschivi e i feedback tra vegetazione e clima. English: With my current research I aim to predict how different terrestrial ecosystems actively respond to global environmental change. I focus mostly on plant ecosystems in drylands, savannas and Mediterranean forests. I am interested in studying the complex ecosystem dynamics emerging from plant-plant and plant-environment interactions, including wildfires and vegetation-climate feedbacks. Besides the curiosity about the plants and (eco)systems I study, in my work I'm also driven by the will of connecting different type of knowledge and people within different fields, from the most quantitative approaches of complex system science to plant field ecology, via climate science and (eco)hydrology, touching also the far realm of economics. I personally experienced that connecting people with different backgrounds is challenging, but it leads most often to very innovative and groundbreaking discoveries. At the moment I am involved in the National Biodiversity Future Center, where I coordinate a thematic table about Wildfires and biodiversity (with P. Fiorucci, CIMA Foundation) and the activity 4.2 about climate change impacts on ecosystems (with G. Scarascia, Univ. Tuscia).