Projects

[2021-2023]: Conservation of pollinators in the Canary Islands (RIS3)

In this project, we aim to generate knowledge about the distribution and conservation status of the main pollinator species in the archipelago, in order to delimit areas of importance for pollinators in the present and in a scenario of climate change. The aim is to highlight the value of Canarian pollinators by raising awareness of their importance in Canarian ecosystems, in order to generate added value in the tourist offer of the islands.

[2021-2023]: Evaluation of the impact of anthropogenic factors on the evolutionary history of pollinators in the Canary Islands (AEI-Spanish State Research Agency).

In this project we aim to assess the main impacts of pollinator decline in the Canary Islands on the coastal xerophytic scrub (cardonal-tabaibal), one of the ecosystems most affected by global change in the archipelago, by characterising the loss of evolutionary history in different lineages of bees and flies. This powerful and efficient tool makes it possible to quantify the effect of different anthropogenic impacts over millions of years and therefore offers the possibility of comparing the effects of a decline factor between regions or clades in a standardised way.

[2019-2020]: Multi-scale analysis of the impact of beekeeping in the Teide National Park on wild bees (Gesplan)

This project has evaluated at different scales (community, species and individual) the effects of managed honey bee on the wild bee species present in the Teide National Park.