Team
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Vicente Martínez López 2020-2022 (Seneca Foundation)
Forecasting the fate of animal-dispersed plants in a changing world where frugivorous birds are in decline
Steve Palmer 2017 (Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnología
Genetic consequences of group dispersal in plants in expanding populations Funded by PLANTSHIFTS project
Jesús Muñoz Pajares (2014-2016, Funded by CIBIO/InBIO
Genetic consequences of insect pollination across spatial scales
PhD students
Carlos VIla-Viçosa
The impact of climate change in driving speciation patterns: Iberian oaks as case study To be defended in 2021.
Poppy Collins (ACCE-NERC PhD student, 2020-2023)
Impact of climate change on plant-pollinator interaction networks
We are offering a self-funded PhD project. If interested, please contact me and we can discuss some details
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/how-does-the-provision-of-different-ecosystem-services-interact-a-multi-habitat-approach-across-the-rural-urban-continuum-in-the-uk/?p124501
Master Students
2012 Jorge Arrayás Márquez Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla (Spain) Regeneration dynamics of expanding populations: a spatial-explicit approach
2020 Elliot Miles Genetic and environmental factors driving forest resilience to climate change
2020 Jonathan Chris Wood Thermic niches in plants supports Janzen’s hypothesis
If you are interested in doing a Master project with us, visit MRes website at the Univeristy of Liverpool and email me for further details on available master projects:
Available Undergraduate and Master Projects
. Resilience, Resistance or Recovery: how do plants cope with climate change?
. Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Green Areas to People and Wildlife: an integrated evaluation
. How do plants assemblage in species rich-communities: a test of the niche-dispersal hypothesis
. Are ecological indexes good proxies of the efficiency of birds as seed dispersers? (This project is co-supervised with Dr Vicente Martínez-López
. Genomic signals of demographic decline in animal-dispersed plants caused by anthropogenic defaunation
Undergraduate Students
2013 Marta Cortesão Sorting species processes in Gymnosperms
2018 Salvador Maria Pinto da Silva da Almeida Campos Fecundity patterns in expanding tree populations: ecological and genetic drivers
2020 Jonathan Chris Wood Genetic structure of expanding tree populations: an spatial explicit approach
2021 Sophie Manion Application of ecological indexes to evaluate the role of frugivorous birds as seed dispersers
Visiting Students
2011 Beatriz Rumeu Seed dispersal and phylogenetic structure of juniper species in the Macaronesian islands Natural Resources Institute, (CSIC). Spain.
2012 Mohamed Abdelaziz Speciation patterns driven by pollinators a generalist system Genetics Department, Granada University. Spain.
2013 Gema Escribano, PhD candidate Natural Regeneration of chronic fragmented populations in agriculture lands Rey Juan Carlos I University, Madrid. Spain
2014 Carlos Lara Shrub encroachment in alpine grasslands poses direct and indirect consequences effects for native forb species by altering the assemblage of plant pollinators Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I. Madrid. Spain.
2014 Víctor Bello Natural regeneration of island juniper populations Universidad de La Laguna. Gran Canaria. Spain.
2015 Javier Morente Spatial genetic structure of generalized pollinator systems Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I. Madrid, Spain.
2015 Jose Manuel Sánchez Robles A scientific-based conservation strategy to implement relict forest species: an ABC Bayesian approach University of Seville, Spain.
2016 & 2018 Clara Parejo Farnés A landscape study of Mediterranean fragmented forests University of Seville, Spain.
2016 & 2017 Carolina Carvalho Genetic consequences of defaunation for animal-dispersed tropical trees Departamento de Ecología. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brasil.
2017 & 2019 Vicente Martínez López Spatial genetic variation patterns in animal-dispersed tree species University of Murcia, Spain.
2017 Ana González Robles Fragmentation increases individual fecundity variation of a keystone tree species inhabiting semi-arid environments University of Jaén. Spain.
2019 Irene Martín Rodríguez Seed long distance dispersal across geographic barriers explain vicariante plant distribution ranges University of Cádiz. Spain.