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…
Understanding the evolutionary and/or ecological mechanisms (including biotic, abiotic and stochastic factors) determining community assembly –i.e., the composition and distribution of biological communities on an ecosystem– remains a central theme in ecology. Beyond the classical taxonomic scope, functional approach has…
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…
Tropical forests are among the most important global carbon sinks and hence their capacity to counter climatic change is of paramount importance. Nevertheless, their capacity to fix carbon seems to have decreased as consequence not only of the destruction of…
Trees, as part of their life cycle, are able to capture atmospheric CO2 and "store" it in structures such as wood, roots or leaves, or incorporate it into the soil. Therefore, when a forest disappears, not only it stops absorbing…
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…
Last week, a team of researchers from different parts of the world met at the German Center for Biodiversity Research (iDIV) in Leipzig (Germany) to put forward new studies to improve our understanding of Andean tropical montane forests diversity and…