Gustavo Paterno is a postdoctoral researcher of the Biodiversity Enrichment Experiment (EFForTS-BEE). His research focuses on:

• the effect of biodiversity enrichment in oil-palm plantations on community natural regeneration and successional pathways;
• disentangling the effect of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity into ecosystem function, resistance to invasion and ecosystems services;
• trade-offs between biodiversity and oil-palm yield;
• and data integration and synthesis.