Claudia Martínez-Megías

Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies | IMDEA · IMDEA-Water

Bayesian network (BN) models are increasingly used as tools to support probabilistic environmental risk assessments (ERA), as they can better account for uncertainty compared to the simpler approaches commonly used in traditional ERA. We used BNs as meta‐models to link various sources of information in a probabilistic framework, to predict the risk...

Pollution by agricultural pesticides is one of the most important pressures affecting Mediterranean coastal wetlands. Pesticide risks are expected to be influenced by climate change, which will result in an increase of temperatures and a decrease in annual precipitation. On the other hand, pesticide dosages are expected to change given the increase...

Pollution by agricultural pesticides is one of the most important pressures affecting Mediterranean coastal wetlands. Pesticide risks are expected to be influenced by climate change, which will result in an increase of temperatures and a decrease in annual precipitation rates in this region. On the other hand, pesticide dosages are expected to chan...

In recent years, Bayesian network (BN) models have become more popular as a tool to support probabilistic environmental risk assessments (ERA). They can better account for and communicate uncertainty compared to the deterministic approaches currently used in traditional ERA. In this study, we used the BN as a meta-model to predict the potential eff...

Mediterranean coastal wetlands are considered biodiversity hot-spots and contain a high number of endemic species. The biodiversity of these ecosystems is endangered by several pressures resulting from agricultural and urban expansion, climate change, and the alteration of their hydrological cycle. In this study we assess the state-of-the-art regar...

The goal of this study is to experimentally assess the possible effect of macroinvertebrate predators on the decomposition rate of leaves in a Mediterranean stream and to analyse the pattern of colonization by macroinvertebrates of the litter bags through time. We designed a factorial experiment with three types of litter bags (allowing the entranc...