I work on landscape ecology addressing ecological approaches to desertification, and the analysis of ecological connectivity in conservation networks. A recent development is a geomatics-based methodology for the assessment and monitoring of land degradation, which has been so far applied to 9 regions all over the world and has been officially adopted by Spain and Portugal for reporting to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. I am currently investigating links between land degradation and ecological conservation. Frequently used techniques include remote sensing, spatial modelling in GIS framework, topographic analysis of Digital Elevation Models, geostatistics and fractal analysis of surfaces. I coordinate the research group on Desertification and GeoEcology at EEZA (CSIC).
