Dr. Marcos Fernández-Martínez is a researcher at the Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) and collaborator of the Global Ecology Unit and the Section of Ecology of the University of Barcelona. He is also a volunteer of the natural history group Delegació de la Serralada Litoral Central, from the Institució Catalana d'Història Natural. His multidisciplinary research is focused on macroecology, global biogeochemical cycles and global change, the role of nutrients, elemental stoichiometry and biodiversity in ecosystem functioning, non-linear dynamics of ecosystem functioning and forest and bryophyte ecology. With the latter, Dr. Fernández-Martínez tries to bring together natural history and cutting-edge research.