Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo
Senior Researcher |
Salva is a systems ecologist and biogeochemist whose research focuses on how biogeochemical processes and ecological interactions generate complexity, variability, and transformation across diverse ecosystems, from arid to tropical regions, including hybrid and transitional systems.
He obtained his PhD in Chemistry and Geosciences (2000) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has held research and academic positions in Spain and Mexico before joining the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he is currently based at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN). His research has addressed carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and global change impacts across freshwater and transitional ecosystems (wetlands, rivers, lakes, mangroves, and coastal systems), with a focus on systems exhibiting strong gradients, hybrid configurations, and shifting boundaries. His work has progressively evolved toward a process-relational and systems-based perspective, viewing ecosystems as dynamic networks of interacting processes that generate emergent behaviors, nonlinear responses, and transformations across scales. He is particularly interested in systems characterized by high variability and uncertainty, including those undergoing regime shifts or functional redefinition. Currently, his research focuses on understanding the processes regulating greenhouse gas emissions—especially methane—in aquatic systems, and on integrating this knowledge into ecosystem management to enhance carbon sequestration and climate mitigation in the Anthropocene. |