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Our new great addition to the lab is Sergio Picó. He will start his PhD thanks to the research program of University of Cádiz. He will be working with time series data of terrestrial and marine communities from all over the world to seek general patterns of the stability of ecological communities at … [Read more...] about Welcome Sergio Picó to MESSY lab. PhD on the stability of ecological communities across terrestrial and marine environments.

I go to the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science to give a talk at the seminar’s program of the institute and meet there Anita Narwani, Irene Gallego and other colleagues. My talk will show from a theoretical point of view how we can integrate niche and network theories. I will further show … [Read more...] about Oscar goes to EAWAG (Switzerland) to give a talk

The lab is growing and we are very happy to announce that David García-Callejas has joined the lab to study the effect of the spatial scale at which annual plant species coexist in our beloved study site (Caracoles Real State). He is also creating a  R package to estimate interactions coefficients … [Read more...] about Welcome David García to MESSY lab. Post doc on the spatial scale of species coexistence

We are very happy to announce that María Hurtado de Mendoza Romo (Yes, she has this long name, isn’t that cool!) has joined the lab to conduct her PhD. She will be the FPI (Research investigator under training) of our MeDiNaS project. She will study the spatiotemporal mechanisms that maintain plant … [Read more...] about Welcome Maria Hurtado to MESSY lab. PhD on species coexistence in variable environments

Our project entitled “Mechanisms of species coexistence in variable environments” (MeDiNaS) has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RTI2018-098888-A-I00). During three years (2019-2021), we will be studying at Doñana National Park the spatiotemporal mechanisms that … [Read more...] about New funded project by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation