After several years of intense work, Virginia (Vicky) Chirilá defended her PhD dissertation. Inspired by the real-world need to integrate agriculture and biodiversity conservation in her native Cachi (Salta province, northwestern Argentina), Vicky set out to study the contribution of…
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Andrea Fruitos defended her PhD dissertation on bioversity and pest regulation in vineyards
Congratulations Andrea Fruitos for a successful PhD defense! Andrea earned her PhD from the National University of La Plata, working at INTA Junín under the supervision of Guillermo Debandi. Her work focused on the influence of the agricultural landscape and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New group logo!
Our group has a new logo, masterfully designed by Virginia Chirilá. It represents an ecological network, in which species or individuals (colored circles) are connected by interactions (grey lines). You can follow her in Instagram to keep up to date…
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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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