We are excited to announce the beginning of a new project entitled: Does the spatial distribution of free-living orchid mycorrhizal fungi determine the local distribution of tropical epiphytic orchids? granted by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - sede Cali (Colombia). The epiphytic…
On February 21st Guillermo Bañares-de-Dios defended his PhD thesis at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos` Experimental Sciences and Technology School. Before starting his thesis, Guillermo was employed as a lab technician at Umeå University (Sweden), from where he applied for an…
We are very pleased to announce that… we have successfully completed our sampling expeditions through the Peruvian Amazon rainforest! The DISPLAMAZ project started in 2017 and we worked in several areas along the Peruvian rainforest, accomplishing a 1200 km latitudinal…
Pint of Science fest aims to spread scientific discoveries to a broad audience in a chill, relaxed and catchy way. And what a best manner to accomplish such a target that taking science to bars, pubs or cafes to get…
Since the 1st of March Celina T. Ben Saadi has been officially incorporated as a PhD student joining the DISPLAMAZ Project (Multiscale analysis of woody plants distribution and dominance patterns in terra firme forests of northwestern Amazonia). Celina has been…
From February 4th to 7th the I Congress of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL) was hold at Universitat de Barcelona (UB). This congress was very special, since SIBECOL has been recently been founded from 4 scientific societies from Spain…
Recently, it has been published in Science a study that assess the global extent of dryland biomes, with a particular focus on their forests (The Global Dryland Assessment of Forests). This work, published by Jean-François Bastin and colleagues, shows that…
Our group is starting a new adventure in the Amazon basin, under the name of "Multiscale analysis of distribution and dominance patterns of woody plants in terra firme forests of northwestern Amazonia" (DISPLAMAZ CLG 201675414P). In this case we aim…
Manuel J. Macía and Gabriel Arellano have participated in the workshop "Towards a unifying theory of the emergence and maintenance of monodominance in species-rich tropical forests” at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity (iDiv) in Leipzig, Germany. The meeting took…
We have finished the fieldwork for this year in Río Abiseo National Park, Peru. From March to the end of August, our team have been working in the uplands (3000 m) and midlands (2000 m) of the National Park. The…