See our recent post in the blog Animal Ecology in Focus, telling about our recent paper on species loss and the mesoscale structure of mutualistic networks.
See our recent post in the blog Animal Ecology in Focus, telling about our recent paper on species loss and the mesoscale structure of mutualistic networks.
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…