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 […]
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1st 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.
Continue ReadingVisit by PhD Miguel Ángel Ortega Moreno
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 […]
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