The research focuses on human mobility (with special emphasis on mobility from Eastern Europe to Spain, across borders), and geopolitical and social changes in Europe, Russia and Eurasia. The group that makes up this line of research involves researchers from the University of Valencia, Universidad Complutense, Universidad Carlos III, Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad de Alicante, University of Barcelona, University of Bucharest, University of Iasi, Romanian Academy, University of Odessa (Ukraine), Cernauti European Institute (Ukraine) University of Varna (Bulgaria), Russian Academy of Sc

The geographic information, generated, managed and analyzed with the help of technology such as remote sensing and GIS, provides a unique tool to analyze events and processes that occur on the territory, facilitating accurate, detailed and real-time information very useful to support the decision making that allow understanding the causes and mitigate the adverse effects of Global Change.

The group aims to investigate the behaviour and make a prospective assessment of agri-food systems from a territorial development approach, based on the wide range of spatially differentiated responses with different historical trajectories.The context of analysis in which the group situates itself is the new functionality that agri-food systems and territorial development processes (rural and urban) have at the global and local levels, from economic, productive, social and environmental perspectives.

The research of the ‘Nutrition and Production of Herbivores’ group is mainly focused on the study of the nutritional factors affecting metabolism, productive performance, final product characteristics and well-being of herbivores of livestock farming interest.

The main objective of this research group is the study of the major parasitic and infetious diseases affecting livestock. Research activities are focused on the investigation on pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology and integrated control -chemical, biological, genetic and management procedures- of the diseases with the greatest impact on livestock, mainly ruminants.

The group's activity focuses on the development of sustainable models of livestock production systems in less favored areas. The main aim is to generate knowledge and integrate the information needed to characterize socioeconomic and technical-productive farming and the development of alternatives production systems that are social, environmentally and economically sustainable.

Researchers belonging to this group conduct taxonomic and systematic studies on families and genera of vascular plants, contributing to geographical flora or taxonomical monographic studies, mainly of the Mediterranean Basin and tropical areas. The aims of the group are to coordinate a team led from the Botanical Garden closely with other institutions and researches. The main resource is the great importance that means the Tropical and Mediterranean historical herbaria at RJB, with the attempt to profit this legacy, giving future projection to it.

Our research is focused on the study of the origin of plant diversity, integrating molecular, morphological and functional data using different approaches, including phylogenetic, biogeographic/phylogeographic and population, as well as niche modeling and evo-devo.

The research group has been studying dispersal patterns of mosses and angiosperms over the last decade. In the current research period, the group is devoted to reconstruction of colonization processes and further evolution of species on oceanic islands based on floristic, taxonomic, chorological, phylogeographic, phylogenetic and population genetic analyses. A three-scale approach is proposed to be undertaken for the inference of the colonization history of plants in any oceanic archipelagos.

The general objective of the group is the analysis of the diversity of fungi based on studies of their morphological, ecological and molecular characters, with a view to reconstructing the phylogenetic histories of the taxa and thus approaching the study of some of the fundamental aspects that govern their evolution and the patterns that determine their distribution, in addition to addressing issues related to the conservation of biodiversity. In addition, a specific objective is to support the Spanish collections and centers on biodiversity, since one of the members of the group is, since 2