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 […]
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Screening 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 […]
Continue ReadingTeam Lab Retreat
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 […]
Continue ReadingScience Communication Day at the CEACV
Last Friday, we participated in the “Phenoscience Program” of the Centre d’Educació Ambiental de la Comunitat Valenciana (CEACV). We presented our work on vegetation phenology and the use of the Bioclima app to 100 students from several schools in the Camp de Morvedre region. First, we gave short explanations about plant phenology, the tools we normally […]
Continue ReadingReview on the limitations of trait-based ecology
After several years of work, a major review on the limitations of trait ecology has just been published (de Bello et al. 2025), in collaboration with a great team of traits experts. The paper, dedicated to a recent medal awarded to Sandra Lavorel (Francesco’s former postdoctoral supervisor), focuses on eighty areas of research (SFs) that […]
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