G.E.P. at the MUSE

A. Sanz-Aguilar, from the GEP, visited the Museo delle Scienze di Trento (Italy) with a Short Term Scientific Mission funded by EU COST Action ES1304, the ParrotNet European network of scientists, practitioners and policy-makers dedicated to research on invasive parrots, their impacts and the challenges they present. During 1 month at the MUSE, Ana will collaborate with Dr. Simone Tenan evaluating the population dynamics of the rose-ringed parakeet across Europe.

G.E.P. at the XIV Iberian Congress of Herpetology

A. Rotger presented part of his Ph.D. thesis at the XIV Iberian Congress of Herpetology

with a contribution titled "Contrasting size-dependent life history strategies in female Balearic Wall lizards (Podarcis lilfordi) from insular close populations".

He will defend his work the 30th of November at the University of Barcelona

G.E.P. at the Internation Albatross and Petrel Conference

This year’s IAPC conference was hosted by the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Barcelona. It was a great 5-day conference which brought together old and new friends.

An happy Dani surrounded by almost all his present and past PhD Students!

The conference was a success. We got the opportunity to share our research, listen to exceptional speakers and take part in exciting debates. Prof. D. Oro was a keynote speaker and opened the demography session (see his contribution here). Dr. A. Sanz-Aguilar presented her work on the role of immigration in rescuing a Scopoli’s Shearwater colony. Ana Payo-Payo presented her work on the effects of termination of supplementary feeding on the ecological synchronization of marine top predators. We are looking forward to attend to the next one!

G.E.P. at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute & SEEC

Ana Payo-Payo, from the GEP, has visited the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology  and the Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation (SEEC) at Cape Town (South Africa) with a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. During the 2-month visit at the FitzPatrick and SEEC Ana explored SouthAfrican wildlife and worked with Prof. P. Ryan and Prof. R. Altwegg on the application of multievent and state-space models on seabird populations.