María Fernanda Vázquez visits us for 3 months

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Sep 1, 2023 | English, Español, News | 0 |

María Fernanda Vázquez Flores, a MSc student from the Instituto de Biología in UNAM, is joining us for a 3-month stay at MNCM. She is interested in systematics, marine invertebrates and spatial analysis so the aim of her MSc work is to assess and quantify the knowledge on mexican marine invertebrates available at data from open-access repositories, seeking to identify gaps and biases within these data. She is supervised by Angela Cuervo Robayo, Enrique Martínez Meyer and Nuno Simões and here she will work with assessing the levels of survey completeness across the mexican marine territory.

You can contact María Fernanda by email.

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.