As every year, last week we organise a lab retreat, where most of the team gathered to share knowledge and experiences. The day started with scientific talks of each team member, where everyone was able to present their current research or last year advances. This was a valuable opportunity to catch up on our latest […]
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Meeting with Serra Calderona technicians in nasty weather
Yesterday, we went to our plots of Red BioClima in Serra Calderona to carry out our usual fieldwork, monitoring phenology. However, this time we were accompanied by the technicians of the Park, so that we could explain our work to them in case they could help us with the monitoring in the future. We were […]
Continue ReadingPhD Clara Gracia has published her last research article about how dominant species drive ecosystem stability worldwide
Ecography has published the last paper of Francesco’s PhD Clara titled “A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities”. In this study, Clara explores how dominant species contribute to community stability. By applying Taylor’s power law—a fundamental ecological scaling relationship (σ2 = aμᵇ)—the study shows that dominant species are often relatively […]
Continue ReadingPhD Xiaobin Pan has published his later research about how diversity can destabilize plant populations across global ecosystems
New Phytologist has published the last paper of Francesco’s PhD Xiaobin titled “Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities”. Xiaobin analyzed data from more than 8,000 permanent vegetation plots across five continents to investigate why previous research has reported contrasting diversity–stability relationships. The study found that the effect of plant diversity […]
Continue ReadingColaboration with CIEF within the framework of the LIFE Teixeres
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 […]
Continue ReadingPhDs Xiaobin and Clara celebrating their respective new publications
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.
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