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October 2021
Our study on Eurasian forests was highlighted at the cover of Journal of Biogeography
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Summer 2021
First year of field work for our SEEDALP project: The seed ecological spectrum of alpine plant communities in constrasting microclimates

March 2021
New promotional video of the Research Unit of Biodiversity CSIC-UNIOVI


February 2021
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, the new scientific director of the Atlantic Botanical Garden
Video regional press (in spanish):



October 2020
Our JVS Editorial about vegetation dynamics and resilience is out.
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July 2020
New project! the Spanish Research Agency has funded our project SEEDALP (the seed ecological spectrum in alpine communities) for the next four years. 
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March 2020
Media highlight: Regional newspaper talk about our Nature Plants paper
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March 2020
Finally! After four years of hard work, we published our contribution to native plant selection methods for restoring agroecosystems, a subproyect of NASSTEC project
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February 2020
Popular science in the Filarmonic Teather of Oviedo (Asturias) with 400 people!
My speech "Plants are cool" (in Spanish) from min. 22

October 2019
Our Faculty organized a meeting with Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz  to celebrate their Princess of Asturias award for Research 
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July 2019
Attending the JVS/AVS Editorial meeting in Bremen

Upper row (from left): David Ward, Jörg Ewald, Ingolf Kühn, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Francisco Pugnaire, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Sándor Bartha, Hannes Feilhauer, Yasuhiro Kubota, Josu Alday, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Martin Zobel, Péter Török, Martin Diekmann (IAVS President), Norbert Hölzel, Alessandro Chiarucci, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Duccio Rocchini, Lauchlan Fraser, Thomas Giesecke, Triin Reitalu, Florian Jansen, Helge Bruelheide, Guillaume Decocq, Jürgen Dengler, David Zelený, Zdeňka Lososová, Carol Clark (Wiley). Lower row: Otto Wildi, Valério Pillar, Francesco de Bello, Marta Carboni, Meelis Pärtel, Alicia Acosta, Vigdis Vandvik, Kerry Woods, Monika Wulf, Milan Chytrý.
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April 2019
Our data paper in sPlot in the cover of Journal of Vegetation Science (Vol 30)

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March 2019
Happy to contribute to the eduation program at the forestry school of Asturias, the main refuge area for Castanea sativa n Europe

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December 2018
A complimentary article highlights our sPlot paper published in the December issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution 

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29 November 2018
Presenting my project on alpine vegetation in the University of Bologna

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November 2018
Interview in a Spanish regional TV about our NEE paper


November 2018
High coverage of our sPlot study on global functional diversity!
​Here are some examples:
     Natureecoevocommunity
     EurekaAlert
     Space Daily
     WSL
     University of Adelaide
     CSIC news
     EuropaPress
     La voz de Asturias
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     Universidad de Barcelona


August 2018
Second paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution this year. This time presenting the first output of sPlot, great effort of > 90 contributors!

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August 2018
Launching the Epiphyte Inventory Group (EpIG) in a workshop funded by the German Science Foundation at the University of Marburg.
See the website here including this video!


June 2018
Teaching the field ecology course with my colleagues of Martin Luther University / iDiv in our study system in Picos de Europa

May 2018
Honoured to be the opponent in the PhD of Kersti Riibak about dark diversity in European grasslands, supervised by Meelis Pärtel in the University of Tartu

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May 2018
Excursion of the European Vegetation Survey in Wroclaw (Poland): visiting relict bogs with the southern most European populations of Betula nana

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March 2018
New book on diversity and conservation of mires published, I am honored to contribute with an introductory chapter about European mire habitats.

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March 2018
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Our paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution in the web of the March issue

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February 2018
Our paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution in the banner of iDiv website. Many thanks to all the co-authors and thanks for the congrats received from many colleagues!
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January 2018
​Our paper on the European distribution of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) featured by the University of Oviedo. The species has a traditional importance in N Spain

September 2017
Keynote speaker in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Presenting the seed ecological spectrum at the international conference Seed quality of native species: Ecology, production and policy
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September 2017. Presentation of the Seed Ecological Spectrum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

June 2017
Our Conservation Letter paper about the restoration species pool in Europe, highlighted by iDiv web
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May 2017
Closing seminar about the reference list of habitats of Turkey. I present an overview of the methodology and the main outputs of this project task developed by Turkish experts. See more videos of the project here

September 2016
Honoured to participate in the Seed Trait Symposium organized by the King´s Park Authority and Botanic Gardens in perth, Australia
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