Forest Ecologist · PhD Researcher

Zabdi
López

University of Bern · OpenRing Network

I study how forests resist and recover from climate-driven stress across Europe, using century-scale tree-ring records, spatial ecology, and large open datasets to understand long-term forest stability at continental scale.

Affiliations & Location
Forest Ecology Lab, University of Bern
OpenRing Network
Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala
Bern, Switzerland
PhD Research · 2024–2028

My doctoral research investigates long-term forest resilience and stability across Europe, integrating large-scale tree-ring networks, climate data, and remote sensing to understand how forests respond to and recover from environmental stress at continental scale.

I work with the ITRDB and OpenRing databases (8,000+ sites), applying spatial analysis and reproducible R workflows to address questions around forest resistance, recovery, and the role of biodiversity in buffering climate-driven disturbances.

Research in progress — chapters and findings will be shared upon publication.

R Ecosystem
dplR · pointRes
terra · sf · raster
ggplot2 · tidyverse
parallel · parLapply
SPEI · CAST · Quarto
Geospatial
QGIS · ArcGIS Pro
Continental raster analysis
IDW interpolation
NDVI / remote sensing
EASA A1/A3 drone pilot
Dendrochronology
Crossdating · COFECHA
OpenRing pipelines
ITRDB data workflows
Lloret resilience metrics
Drought reconstruction
Other
Git · GitHub
Python (intermediate)
React (apps)
Symbiota / GBIF
Spanish · English · Norwegian
Selected Work & Recognition
2026
Award
3rd Place — TRACE 2026 International Conference
Poster on priority sampling strategies to reduce geographic bias in continental-scale tree-ring resilience inference. 3rd place award.
2023
Publication
Digitalización de colecciones biológicas en Symbiota
Biodiversidad de Guatemala Vol. 3. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10424127. Open-science infrastructure for Guatemala's national biodiversity portal.
2020–
Open Science
Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala
Co-administrator of biodiversidad.gt — Guatemala's national biodiversity data portal on Symbiota, connected to GBIF.
2023
Field Work
Arctic Fieldwork — Norwegian Polar Institute
Summer field season on the COAT project in Svalbard. Vegetation monitoring and R-based ecosystem data analysis at 78°N.