Aina Garcia-Raventós- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research visitor at University of Antwerp
Aina Garcia-Raventós
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Research visitor at University of Antwerp
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Introduction
I am an ecologist interested in the causes and consequences of biodiversity variation, focusing my research on investigating which factors contribute to the structure and distribution of animal communities. My current research has focused on the study of population responses in front of environmental changes and, particularly, how behaviour and life-history interact to influence the evolutionary potential on birds phenology.
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April 2017 - July 2019
Position
- Technician
Description
- Working as a field and lab technician at CIBIO-InBIO under the Freshing Project, which aims to apply metabarcoding approaches using environmental DNA in water samples along the Douro basin in order to detect invasive and threatened species of fish.
Publications
Publications (18)
Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis is a powerful tool for population genetics, pedigree reconstruction and phenotypic trait mapping. However, the untapped potential of SNP markers to discriminate the sex of individuals in species with reduced sexual dimorphism or of individuals during immature stages remains a largely unexplored avenue....
1. Climate change has the potential to modify habitat characteristics and, consequently, induce species responses to ongoing environmental changes. Functional traits determine both if a species can persist and maintain stable population sizes in particular ecological conditions, and its capacity to disperse to more favourable habitats.
2. Given tha...
Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses are a powerful tool for population genetics, pedigree reconstruction and phenotypic trait mapping. SNPs could also be useful for sexing individuals in species with reduced sexual dimorphism, yet this possibility remains poorly explored. Here, we develop a novel protocol for molecular sexing of birds bas...
Aim
Freshwater mussels are among the most threatened taxa in the world, partially due to the dependence on fish hosts to complete their life cycle. Knowledge about the role of environmental and biotic drivers in determining mussels' distribution is currently lacking. We aimed to assess the role of environmental and biotic drivers in determining the...
Environmental changes caused by human activities are responsible of rapid loss of biodiversity worldwide. The ability of animals to cope with abrupt and rapid changes largely depends on how reproductive decisions impact on demography. Although decisions like where and when to breed, or how much parental investment is provided are major sources of v...
• A fundamental question in macroecology is how contemporary and historical environments, species interactions and evolutionary processes contribute to determining community structure and shape current large‐scale taxa distributions.
• We used a novel perspective simultaneously considering taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity to elucid...
The number of non-native freshwater fishes in the Iberian Peninsula has been greatly increasing. In this study, individuals of the genus Phoxinus were detected in 18 out of 138 stream sites sampled across the Douro Basin in 2017 and 2018. A total of 26 individuals were barcoded using partial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and cytochrome b (cy...
Conservation and sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems is a priority in environmental programs worldwide. However, these aims are highly dependent on the efficiency, accuracy and cost of existent methods for the detection of keystone species and monitoring of biological communities. Rapid advances in eDNA, barcoding and metabarcoding promote...
Hypersaline environments like lakes almost saturated in terms of salt level are mainly dominated by prokaryotic communities and diatoms. There are studies comparing the microbiota among different hypersaline environments, there are no studies monitoring other inhabitants somehow related to those ecosystems. In this study we aim to understand detect...
High quality water is vital for human life, and ensuring its availability is a basic requirement and a major societal aim. The Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC) is a key piece of legislation for the protection and sustainable use of water in the European Union. In this work we briefly review the WFD directive and the current status of Eur...
The overall goal of ERA Chair/EnvMetaGen project No 668981 is to expand the research and innovation potential of InBIO – Research network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, through the creation of an ERA Chair in Environmental Metagenomics. This field was selected as the focus of the ERA Chair, because Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is in...
The overall goal of the EnvMetaGen project No 668981 is to expand the research and innovation potential of InBIO – Research network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology - through the creation of an ERA Chair in Environmental Metagenomics. This field was selected as the focus of the ERA Chair, because Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is increas...
The overall goal of the EnvMetaGen project No 668981 is to expand the research and innovation potential of InBIO – Research network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, through the creation of an ERA Chair in Environmental Metagenomics. This field was selected as the focus of the ERA Chair, because Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is increasi...
How species will respond to current rates of climate change is a critical question in biodiversity conservation. Climate change has the potential to modify habitat characteristics and, consequently, it is predicted that: 1) many species may shift their distribution ranges to higher latitudes or altitudes to remain in a similar environmental
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A critic question in biodiversity conservation is how species will response in front of current rates of Climate Change. Such environmental alterations have the potential to modify habitat characteristics and, consequently, it is predicted that many species may shift their ranges to higher latitudes or altitudes to remain in a constant environmenta...
Across environmental gradients, some functional strategies are favoured over others resulting in differences in local species composition and distribution of any given functional trait. This generates among‐Species Trait Variability ( STV ) across the gradient (reflecting species turnover), as well as spatial Intraspecific Trait Variability ( ITV )...
Diversity is not evenly distributed in space. Across environmental gradients, some functional strategies are favoured over others based on their tolerance to the prevailing abiotic and biotic conditions, which results in differences in local species composition and Functional trait Diversity (FD) among communities. Therefore, FD can be decomposed i...
Diversity is not evenly distributed in space. Across environmental gradients some functional strategies are favoured over others resulting in differences in Intraspecific functional Trait Variability (ITV) but also in local species composition (Species Trait Variability, STV), which together contribute to within and among Community Trait Variabilit...
