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 […]
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Meeting 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 […]
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 […]
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