Carlota Solano Udina

Imperial College London | Imperial · Department of Life Sciences

Males and females often have divergent evolutionary interests, generating sexual conflicts. This is particularly true in organisms that exhibit facultative sexuality, whereby females are capable of reproducing without fitness costs of mating. Here, we provide the first documented evidence with quantitative tracking showing that sex interacts with s...

Rhaponticum exaltatum is an endemic and threatened plant species from the Iberian peninsula, with a very fragmented distribution. However, little is known about its reproductive biology. The aims of this study are 1) to characterise the morphology of its seeds; 2) to compare the germination success of the three most representative populations (Cuev...

The aim of this poster is to determine whether the Spanish legislation protects equally all taxa at different spatial scales. Here we show how many species are currently protected, what percentage they represent as well as the absolute number by taxa, and which of them are spotlit in the catalogues of protected species.