After collecting corollas to test the flower economics spectrum, Segovia, Spain (Jun 2024)
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Project about florivory in a Mediterranean ecosystem, Madrid, Spain (Apr 2026 - Photo: Carlos José Almeida).
After recording flower size of some species in the Brazilian Pantanal, Mato Grosso (Sep 2021).
Project about florivory, still during the SARS pandemic, in the Brazilian Pantanal, Mato Grosso (Apr 2021).
Project about flowers in the Brazilian Pantanal, Mato Grosso (Nov 2019).
After collecting some seeds in the Brazilian Pantanal, Mato Grosso (May 2019).
Measuring floral longevity in Kielmeyera regalis in the Brazilian campos rupestres (Serra do Cipó - Feb 2018 - Photo: David Sanín).
After tagging plants to record phenology in the Brazilian campos rupestres (Serra do Cipó - May 2017 - Photo: Carolina S. Oliveira).
Collecting soil samples for BIODESERT project in Santo Hipólito, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Jul 2017).
Some perturbed areas with intermediate grazing (cattle) intensity in Santo Hipólito, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Jul 2017).
Brazilian veredas of buriti (Mauritia flexuosa) and xiriri (Mauritiella armata) in Rio Pandeiros State Park, northern Minas Gerais, a sampling area to collect seeds from wetlands (Dec 2016).
Collecting seeds in a wetland from Mato Grosso de Sul, Brazil (Dec 2017 - Photo: Suzana Moreira), and fruits subsequently collected of Cissus erosa in the Pantanal (Jan 2017).
Measuring flower size of Kielmeyera regalis in the Brazilian campos rupestres (Serra do Cipó - Feb 2016 - Photo: Irene Gélvez-Zúñiga).
Nectar robbing by the hummingbird Chlorostilbon lucidus in Collaea cipoensis, an endemic legume from campos rupestres (Serra do Cipó - Feb 2016 - Photo: Irene Gélvez-Zúñiga).
Flowering of Kielmeyera coriacea and measuring floral transpiration, conducting hand-pollination and recording floral longevity in this species in a Brazilian Cerrado (Serra do Cipó - Oct 2015 - Photos: André J. Arruda).
Recording plant size, collecting mature fruits and the seed disperser Saltatricula atricollis eating fruits (below) of Miconia irwinii in Serra do Cipó Natural Park, MG, Brazil (Aug 2015 - Photos: Tadeu J. Guerra).
Workshop of the LincGlobal Project group about climate change in Buzios, RJ, Brazil (Sep 2014). Below, with my PhD supervisor, Fernando Valladares, in Rio de Janeiro, a couple of days before the workshop.
Fieldwork and study sites during my PhD in Madrid, Spain (2008-2012): Above-left, Cistus ladanifer and Cistus laurifolius in sympatry interspread in a matrix of Juniperus communis and Pinus sylvestris in Puerto de Canencia (Photo: Alejandro Aparicio). Above-right, typical Mediterranean dry shrubland on calcareous soils with Cistus albidus, Juniperus oxycedrus, Quercus coccifera, Pistacia terebinthus and Rosmarinus officinalis in San Agustín de Guadalix.
In the middle, a large hoverfly (Eristalis spp) pollinating Cistus ladanifer and florivore ants picking stamens of this species.
Below, flowering of the large-flowered C. ladanifer and an albino individual of C. albidus (flowers are commonly pink-purple).
Surveying the project of pollination networks in alpine plants with Silvia Santamaría and collaborators in Picos de Europa, Asturias, Spain (Jul 2010).
Fieldwork during my MSc project about conservation and distribution patterns of threatened fern species in Fragas do Eume Natural Park, Galicia, Spain (2007-2008). From top left to bottom right: Eume River valley with Quercus robur, Laurus nobilis and Castanea sativa (Photo: Luis G. Quintanilla); A filmy fern (Hymenophyllum tunbrigense) associated with wet rock outcrops; crossing and exploring streams and riversides looking for some species; shaded slopes with the Ibero-Macaronesian species Woodwardia radicans.
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