PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION   

We are a research team formed by researchers and students at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and IRBio in the University of Barcelona (Spain), as well as collaborators from various countries.

Our research group aims at linking morphology, function, and ecology to infer how species diversify, investigate the processes related to the evolution of phenotypic diversity and contribute to species' conservation.

WHAT? 

We combine data on morphology (from animals collected in the field, museum collections, and public datasets), functional traits (bite force, locomotor performance, behaviour), ecophysiology (selected temperatures, water loss) and environmental data to test the mechanisms shaping phenotypic patterns at different organismal levels (individuals, populations, species, and ecosystems) and integrate phenotypic variation across spatial and temporal scales. We aim at increasing our understanding of how diversity evolves and how organisms respond to environmental change, to aid conservation efforts from an evolutionary standing-point.