Nicolò Tartini

I am passionate to learn about biotic interactions among plant communities, insects and fungi. . I believe that understanding the effect of climate change on plants and their biotic interactions with other organisms is essential if we want to predict biodiversity change to better conserve them. My research in Terrestrial Ecology Group will mainly focus on how climate extremes affect plant-insect interactions using a series of outdoor and indoor experiments. Some of the questions that I will aim to answer through my PhD project: How do climate extremes (e.g., heat waves and drought) change the phenology of plants? How do plant-insect interactions vary between native and invasive plants exposed to climate extremes? How such shifts in plant-insect interactions aboveground will affect aboveground-belowground interactions?