Miguel, who is pursuing a PhD with Paola Laiolo at the University of Oviedo, visited us for one month to work on applying Taylor’s Power Law to plant traits, exploring the relationship between trait means and variances and how best to model it. Taylor’s Power Law describes how variability scales with the mean across biological […]
Continue ReadingOnline Seminar for the Response Diversity Network
Last Wednesday, Francesco gave an online seminar for the Response Diversity Network, a global initiative focusing on the drivers of temporal stability in ecological systems. The presentation is now available on the YouTube channel of the initiative. In this talk, he reviewed how differences in functional traits — within and among species — contribute to […]
Continue ReadingVisit from Vigdis Vandvik to CIDE
Last week, Vigdis, from the University of Bergen (Norway) came to Valencia, together with other international ecologists, to evaluate CIDE as a centre of excellence candidate. Besides, she was welcomed by Francesco and his team, as we have collaborated in the past. As usual, we ended the visit with a team gathering and a paella.
Continue ReadingArrival of postdoc Diego Trindade
Diego P. F. Trindade has joined us from the University of Tartu (Estonia) with a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Estonian Research Council. Our collaborative research seeks to examine how the species pool influences the stability of plant communities. Specifically, we are testing how functional redundancy at both the local and species pool levels contributes […]
Continue ReadingLeyre’s Busy Summer: Starting Her PhD with Fieldwork Across Europe
After working with Francesco for many years, Leyre Pedrós has just started her thesis. However, she is already facing long journeys of fieldwork around Spain and even abroad. During these trips she has been able to collect data on biodiversity and functional trait of the most abundant species in each habitat. Innovatively, she has also […]
Continue ReadingScreening of the Bioclima app Documentary and Citizen Science Roundtable
Yesterday we presented the documentary “The Rythm of Plants is Changing” at the Casa de la Ciència del CSIC, were we talked about the Bioclima app and the importance of citizen science to facilitate scientist the study of the environment, in this case the phenology of plants to infer changes due to global warming. Afterwards, […]
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