NEWS & MEDIA
October 2021
Our study on Eurasian forests was highlighted at the cover of Journal of Biogeography
Our study on Eurasian forests was highlighted at the cover of Journal of Biogeography
Summer 2021
First year of field work for our SEEDALP project: The seed ecological spectrum of alpine plant communities in constrasting microclimates
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
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.
Our JVS Editorial about vegetation dynamics and resilience is out.
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.
New project! the Spanish Research Agency has funded our project SEEDALP (the seed ecological spectrum in alpine communities) for the next four years.
March 2020
Media highlight: Regional newspaper talk about our Nature Plants paper
Media highlight: Regional newspaper talk about our Nature Plants paper
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
Finally! After four years of hard work, we published our contribution to native plant selection methods for restoring agroecosystems, a subproyect of NASSTEC project
February 2020
Popular science in the Filarmonic Teather of Oviedo (Asturias) with 400 people!
My speech "Plants are cool" (in Spanish) from min. 22
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
Our Faculty organized a meeting with Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz to celebrate their Princess of Asturias award for Research
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.
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.
April 2019
Our data paper in sPlot in the cover of Journal of Vegetation Science (Vol 30)
March 2019
Happy to contribute to the eduation program at the forestry school of Asturias, the main refuge area for Castanea sativa n Europe
December 2018
A complimentary article highlights our sPlot paper published in the December issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution
29 November 2018
Presenting my project on alpine vegetation in the University of Bologna
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
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!
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
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
May 2018
Excursion of the European Vegetation Survey in Wroclaw (Poland): visiting relict bogs with the southern most European populations of Betula nana
March 2018
New book on diversity and conservation of mires published, I am honored to contribute with an introductory chapter about European mire habitats.
March 2018
Our paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution in the web of the March issue
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!
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!
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
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
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
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
Our Conservation Letter paper about the restoration species pool in Europe, highlighted by iDiv web
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
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
Honoured to participate in the Seed Trait Symposium organized by the King´s Park Authority and Botanic Gardens in perth, Australia
