Our most sincere congratulations to the 10 awardees of the first SIBECOL meeting for they excellent presentations!
A detailed description of specific awards and presented research studies can be found here
Oral presentation awards
Guillermo Bañares-de Dios (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)
Guillermo Bañares-de Dios is the 2019 recipient of the EEF Ramon Margalef Award (Category ‘Theoretical Ecology’) for his engaging oral presentation on the ecological mechanisms shaping woody plant community structure using functional traits.
Presentation title: Ecological mechanisms shaping woody plant community structure in tropical montane forests: a multi-spatial functional approach
Carla Vázquez-González (Misión Biológica de Galicia – CSIC, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain)
Carla Vázquez-González is the 2019 awardee of the AoBP Evolutionary Ecology Award for her clear oral presentation on how climate and genetic structure determines intraspecific variation in defensive traits in pine trees.
Poster title: Climate and genetic structure contributes to explain intraspecific genetic variation in defensive anatomical traits of a Mediterranean pine
Poster awards
Yaiza M. Castillo (Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
Yaiza M. Castillo is the 2019 awardee of the Transmitting Science Poster Award (Category ‘Innovative Methodology’) for her poster presentation of an innovative technique called VirusFISH, which allows visualizing under the microscope the interaction between viruses and their hosts in natural communities.
Poster title: How to visualize the interaction between a virus and its host in a marine environment
Lola Álvarez Ruiz (Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, CIDE-CSIC, Valencia, Spain)
Lola Álvarez Ruiz is the 2019 recipient of both the AoBP Evolutionary Ecology Award and the 1st SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Scientific Creativity and Science Innovation’) for the original presentation of her research on the evolutionary adaptations and survival responses of lizards to different fire regimes.
Poster title: How do lizards survive wildfires?
Mercedes Sánchez Cabrera (Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain)
Mercedes Sánchez Cabrera is the 2019 awardee of the AoBP Evolutionary Ecology Award in recognition of her poster on the evolutionary implications of flower color polymorphism.
Poster title: Flower colour polymorphism and reproductive isolation in Lysimachia monelli
Francisco Alejandro López Núñez (Centre for Functional Ecology – CFE – Science for People & the Planet, Coimbra, Portugal)
Francisco Alejandro López Núñez is the 2019 recipient of the 1st SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Original and Clear Science Communication’) for his original presentation of his research on how landscape modeling can help in the management of invasive species.
Poster title: Charging biocontrol batteries: Circuit Theory based forecast of Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae expansion routes in Portugal
Verónica Cruz Alonso (Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá, Madrid, Spain)
Verónica Cruz Alonso is the awardee of the 2nd SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Original and Clear Science Communication’) for her poster on how shrub colonization of abandoned fields regulates the successful development of trees.
Poster title: A temporal perspective of facilitation dynamics during forest recovery in Mediterranean old fields
Irene Jiménez Blasco (Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Irene Jiménez Blasco is the 2019 recipient of the 3rd SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Original and Clear Science Communication’) for her poster on how morphological variation can shed light on geographic patterns and connectivity in the migratory bird Common quail.
Poster title: Assessing population connectivity among islands and continent through morphology in a migratory bird, the Common quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Laura Roquer-Bení (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications -CREAF-, Barcelona, Spain)
Laura Roquer-Bení is the 2019 awardee of the 2nd SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Scientific Creativity and Science Innovation’) for her nice poster presentation on a new method to measure pollinator hairiness, an essential pollinator trait.
Poster title: Hairiness: an essential functional trait in pollinator ecology
Carmen Guiote (Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, CIDE-CSIC, Valencia, Spain)
Carmen Guiote is the 2019 awardee of the 3rd SIBECOL Poster Award (Category ‘Scientific Creativity and Science Innovation’) for her clear poster presentation on the effects of fire regime in different traits related to fire resistance of pine trees in Mediterranean forests.
Poster title: Does fire select for sexual precocity in Pinus halepensis?
