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En una larga entrevista para el pódcast "Hablando con Científicos" repasamos el trabajo publicado recientemente sobre cómo la diversidad de coleópteros coprófagos mejora el funcionamiento de los escosistemas (Noriega et al. Nature Communications 2023). Además de...
Max Willian Tavares de Almeida had his viva yesterday, 20th December. After a nice 5-hour defence by teleconference, he obtained his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Max's thesis describes the shortfalls in the knowledge on the...
Drylands occupy over 40% of the Earth’s land surface but there are many challenges to organisms colonizing these environments, such as aridity and extreme weather conditions. Despite these challenges, drylands support a high level of biodiversity that has developed...
Frederico Neves and Juliana Kuchenbecker, from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte, have joined the group for a 6-month sabbatical, until May 2024. Juliana is interested on the spatiotemporal patterns of herbivorous insects. She works at the...
Fernando Hurtado made a great defence of his PhD thesis during his viva yesterday, 16th november, at the Universidad de Alcalá. Fernando has been working on the determinants of the distribution and coexistence of moss species, taking a hybrid approach based on...
Stéphanie Vaz succesfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday, 14th november, by teleconference. She's now a doctor in Ecology for the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. Stéphanie's PhD seeks to analyse the threats affecting the distribution of the Atlantic Forest...