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Taller de redacción de artículos científicos

Docentes: María Virginia Sánchez Puerta y Diego Vázquez. Contenidos y actividades prácticas: Redacción efectiva; elaboración de un artículo en sus distintas etapas: planificación, borrador, revisión y pulido del artículo, versión final; carta al editor; cómo elegir una revista y responder

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Congratulations Euge and María for successfully defending their PhD theses!

Time for a double celebration in our group: recently, Eugenia Vázquez Novoa defended her PhD thesis on the effects of goat grazing on forest biodiversity and resilience, and even more recently, María Pascual Tudanca defended her PhD thesis on the

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Patricia Moreno Colom is visiting us from Valencia, Spain

Patricia Moreno Colom, a PhD student at the University of Valencia, Spain, is spending three months with our group, collaborating with several group members to study plant demography, plant-plant and plant-seed disperser interactions using multilayer networks. The project also includes

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Welcome Lara Quaglini!

We are happy to host Lara Quaglini, a PhD student from the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Lara is working on the drivers of invasion success of invasive plants and their impact on plant and soil biodiversity, mentored by Sandra

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James Desaegher is visiting us from France

Our colleague James Deseagher is visiting us until the end of July. James is a researcher at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) in Avignon, France. He is collaborating with Diego in a functional classification of

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Writing in the mountains: back from our annual group retreat

This past week we had our annual group retreat, first time after the COVID pandemic. This year we planned a writing retreat, with several hours of writing every day, plus group discussions, hikes, board games, and shared meals. For the

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Congratulations Miranda Lede for defending her thesis on the influence of climate and phenology on solitary bees

Yesterday, Miranda Lede defended her undergraduate (licenciatura) thesis at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. Miranda was interested in how climate and mismatches in the timing (phenology) of flowering and bee nesting influenced

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Rosario Miranda defended her undergraduate thesis on the role of aggressive behavior on the structure of plant-pollinator networks

This morning Rosario Miranda defended her undergraduate (licenciatura) thesis at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. For this project she used mathematical models and computer simulations to explore how the presence of species

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New doctor in the group: Alisa (Lisi) Álvarez successfully defended her thesis

Alisa (Lisi) Álvarez defended today her doctoral thesis, an ecological study of plant invasions in mountain ecosystems of Mendoza. Congratulations Lisi for an outstanding study with important practical implications! Lisi’s thesis combines observational and experimental studies to assess the effect

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