Dr. Marcos Fernández-Martínez is an academic researcher at the Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF), Bellaterra in Catalonia, Spain and member of the Delegació de la Serralada Litoral of the Institució Catalana d'Història Natural. His skills and expertise include spring ecosystems, elemental ecology, macroecology, plant ecology, ecology, climate change, global studies and environment.