We are back from our second annual group retreat, held at the Biological Station of Ñacuñán Biosphere Reserve. Following the success of our first retreat last year, we decided to establish the group retreat as a yearly activity. The idea is to have…
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Flower diversity and the reproduction of solitary bees
Post contributed by Jimena Dorado A paper evaluating whether diverse flower communities favor pollinator reproduction just came out in PeerJ. This paper came out from my PhD thesis, in which I was mentored by Diego Vázquez. We had previously found that diverse…
Welcome sabbatical visitors Gretchen LeBuhn and Mark Reynolds
Gretchen LeBuhn, a Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University, and Mark Reynolds, a staff scientist with The Nature Conservancy, will be in our lab spending several months of their sabbatical. Gretchen is interested in plant evolutionary ecology and pollinator conservation. Mark…
Back from our first group retreat in Vallecitos
We are back from our first group retreat, which was held last week-end in the mountain shelter of the National University of Cuyo, in Vallecitos, Mendoza. During the retreat, each of us gave two talks, one on past research and…
Verónica Chillo moved to a new post-doc at the University of Río Negro
Vero moved to start a new post-doc at the University of Río Negro, in the southern city of El Bolsón, Chubut. She’ll surely enjoy cooler temperatures there than in Mendoza. Good luck Vero!
Jimena Dorado and Natalia Schroeder become CONICET assistant researchers
Former lab’s doctoral student Jimena Dorado (left) and current lab’s post-doc Natalia Schroeder (right) will soon become CONICET assistant researchers. As such, they will continue being involved in our group’s activities. Congratulations Jime and Nati!
Meet our youngest lab member!
We welcome Enzo, our youngest lab member, born on December 26! Congratulations mom Vero (and dad Mariano)!
A conceptual framework for studying the strength of plant-animal mutualistic interactions
A paper presenting a conceptual framework for the study of the strength of plant-animal mutualistic interactions has been accepted for publication as a Reviews & Synthesis article in Ecology Letters. This is the result of a collaboration between Diego and…
Guadalupe Peralta will join the lab as a post-doc
Guadalupe Peralta was awarded a CONICET post-doc fellowship to work on responses of plant-pollinator networks to changes in the abundance of pollinators. She will be supervised by Diego and by Eduardo Bringa (CONICET-UN Cuyo). Lupe comes from a successful Ph.D.…
Micaela Santos will join the lab in 2015 as a doctoral student
Micaela Santos has been awarded a CONICET doctoral fellowship to work on habitat and interaction networks in fragmented landscapes. She will be supervised by Diego and by Luciano Cagnolo (CONICET-UN Córdoba). Welcome Mica!
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