Alejandra Zarzo-Arias joins our team

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Jan 10, 2022 | News, Research | 0 |

Alejandra Zarzo-Arias has just joined our team, through a 3-yr Margarita Salas postdoctoral contract of Oviedo University, jointly based at MNCN and Rubén G. Mateo‘s lab at the Department of Biology of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Alejandra has worked with mammal conservation, in particular brown bear, and spatial models in her postdoc at the Czech University of Life Sciences, but during this project she will use her expertise in spatial modelling to investigate the effect of species’ niches and ecological interactions to the coexistence of plants and insects across spatial scales.

You can follow Alejandra’s research at her ORCID, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar pages.

About The Author

Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.