Our team in alphabetical order

Ana is a PhD student. She is developing state-of-the-art spatially explicit IBMs to understand and mitigate human threats to the persistence of wolf populations in the Iberian Peninsula. She is particularly interested in understanding how interactions between dispersal and local extinctions shape wolf expansion. 

Hanna is postdoctoral researcher who is about to join us from the State Museum of Natural History in Lviv, Ukraine. Hanna is an entomologist, and will work on analysing soil fauna history traits, with a focus on Neuroptera. She will also work on assessing how lacewings respond to climate change.

John joined our team as a Marie Curie fellow. His ClimRes project explores how wildlife populations interact with their environment, how humans will affect them in the future, and how we can use this understanding to conserve biodiversity.

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Macarena just finished her undergrad and joined our team as a JAE intro intern. She is putting together a database of life-history traits, importantly the variation in traits, across trophic levels in Doñana and Sierra Morena.    

Maria leads the teams. She is keen on investigating how predictions of population dynamics can be improved by accounting for trait dynamics, environmental and spatial patterning, and tradeoffs between survival and reproduction; and on potential evolutionary consequences of environmental change. You can download her CV here (last update: Oct 2022).

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Teresa is a PhD student at CREAF. She is developing individual-based models of interacting shrub populations to explore how traits, demography, and trophic interactions (with herbivores and seed predators) affect shrub resilience to drought. Her works includes individual monitoring of 4 shrub species in Doñana National Park. 

Eva is a PhD student based at the University of Zurich. She works on lions and dewy pines and is investigating (among other things) the role of space when assessing and projecting the effect of species interactions on population dynamics. Find out more here. 

Louis is a PhD student based at the University of Zurich. He is applying theoretical and empirical analyses to investigate how context-dependent changes in individual investment in survival vs. reproduction (aka. tradeoffs) affect our interpretations of population fate under environmental change. Find out more here.

Matt Clements is a PhD student at University of Sheffield. He is working on density structured population models, including data of shrub communities from Doñana National Park and invasive plants from the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. He is collecting much of the landscape-level data in Doñana. Matt is taking on the challenge of parameterising such models for more complex life cycles that the annual species that have been traditionally used.