Clàudia Massó Estaje

• Forest and landscape ecology

• Biodiversity conservation and community ecology

• Landscape-scale structural heterogeneity

• Plant–insect interactions, pollination and trophic networks

• Functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity

• BETA-FOR 

Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests

2022 - 2026: PhD student - Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology -  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany).

• "Beyond local complexity: landscape-scale forest heterogeneity drives multidimensional insect biodiversity from structure to ecological networks."

2020: MSc in Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity Management at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

• "Exploring relationships between birds and invertebrate assemblages in the Black Forest."  Conducted at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

2019: Research assistant at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

2018: Research assistant at the Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Spain

2013 - 2017: BSc in Biology at the Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, Spain

Peer-reviewed

2025

Massó Estaje, C., Rothacher, J., Vujić, A., Miličić, M., Chao, A., Mitesser, O., Müller, J., Claßen, A., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, e70252. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70252

2024

João M. Cordeiro Pereira, Sebastian Schwegmann, Clàudia Massó Estaje, Martin Denter, Grzegorz Mikusiński, Ilse Storch. Specialist carabids in mixed montane forests are positively associated with biodiversity-oriented forestry and abundance of roe deer, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 50, e02821, ISSN 2351-9894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02821

Preprints - under review

Pierick, K., Link, R. M., Decker, O., Asch, J., Baldrian, P., Massó Estaje, C. et al. (2026). Forest biodiversity benefits from warmer microclimate, but only in colder regions. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.20.760414

Massó Estaje, C., et al. (2026). Landscape-scale forest structural heterogeneity enhances bee γ-diversity primarily through α-diversity. Under revision at Ecological Applications.

Kacic, P., Asch, J., Bradler, P. M., Carlson, L., Köstler-Albert, L., Massó Estaje, C, et al. (2026). Forest structures related to biodiversity can be assessed using remote sensing – Evidence from a large-scale experiment. Submitted to Ecological Informatics.

van der Plas, F., Mitesser, O., Chao, A., Mori, A., Albert, M., Massó Estaje, C., et al. (2026). Spatial scaling of biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships. Submitted to Science Advances.