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.
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Arrival 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, […]
Continue ReadingIII SIBECOL & XVII AEET Congress in Pontevedra
Several members of our team attended the exciting meeting of the Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología (SIBECOL) and the Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) in Pontevedra, Galicia (III SIBECOL & XVII AEET meeting). Francesco, Clara, and Dani gave presentations and even organized a special session on “Assessing the interplay between genetic and non-genetic mechanisms contributing […]
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After last week’s activity at the Centre d’Educació Ambiental de la Comunitat Valenciana (CEACV), yesterday we came back to organised a lab retreat. First, Francesco gave a summary of the events from the past months (publications, research stays, congresses and new members’ arrivals) as well as the team’s future plans. Then, every team member presented […]
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