Currently we are colaborating with the Centre per a la Investigació i l’Experimentació Forestal (CIEF) in the context of the LIFE Teixeres project. Specifically, we are measuring several traits in yews cultivated from seeds of different populations in natural parks of the Valencian Community. We will later assess if there are differences in performance between […]
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Xiaobin has come to Valencia during his holidays and met Clara and Francesco to celebrate the recent acceptance of both PhDs’ articles for publication in Ecography and New Phytologist. We will share more details when published.
Continue ReadingWelcoming postdoc Héctor Miranda and saying goodbye to Helena Streit
This month, postdoc Héctor Miranda has joined our team for the next year. Héctor comes after completing his PhD and a two-year postdoc at the Pyrenean Ecology Institute (IPE-CSIC) working on BIOTREND, gathering and organising population trend data for both animals and plants across Spain. Here he will be helping to improve and organise LOTVS […]
Continue Reading1st PopCom meeting: Approaches for Connecting Population and Community Ecology in the Context of Global Change
Yesterday, 25th of November, the Ecology Department organised the 1st PopCom meeting (aproaches for connecting Population and Community ecology in the context of global change). We were able to carry it out in the “Casa de la Ciencia” of the CSIC, right in the heart of the city center. During the day, each researcher, and […]
Continue ReadingResearch visit by Camilla Gustafsson and Jenna Hölttä, from the University of Helsinky
Jenna is currently doing her PhD on the role of functional traits in community assembly, resistance and recovery of aquatic plant communities in the Baltic Sea. She came to CIDE to work with Francesco on her data from a field sampling which was aimed to study the community assembly processes of the aquatic plant communities. Her […]
Continue ReadingMeeting with PhD Xiaobin Pan in Czech Republic
Last week, Francesco and Clara went to the University of South Bohemia, in Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) to meet Clara’s PhD co-supervisor Jules Segrestin and other collaborators. Besides, they were able to meet with Xiaobin Pan, PhD student co-supervised by Yann Hautier (main supervisor, University of Utrecht) and Francesco.
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