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

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