Lucía DeSoto has been recently granted with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to carry out TreEsilience project. TreEsilience aims using tree rings to investigate the role of local adaptation in determining intraspecific variation in tree resilience to drought.
A classification of pollinators (mainly of Erysimum) in functional groups and how to recognise them Read more
We have met to think about evoflor new paths, specifically to address new ways of increasing the collaboration between evoflor members and how to interact even better. Read more
Lucía DeSoto, PhD, is Marie Skłodowska-Curie PostDoctoral Fellow (IF) at Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of the Experimental Station of Arid Zones (EEZA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Rubén Torices, PhD, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Evolutionary and Functional Ecology in the Experimental Station of Arid Zones (CSIC) and at the Department of Ecology and Evolution in the University of Lausanne.
We present in this paper a molecular phylogeny of the genus Moricandia (Brassicaceae). We have found that a Spanish population previously ascribed to Rytidocarpus moricandioides is indeed a Moricandia species, and we propose to name it as M. rytidocarpoides sp. nov. In addition, M. foleyi appeared outside the Moricandia lineage but within the genus Eruca. Therefore, M. foleyi should be excluded from the genus Moricandia and be ascribed to the genus Eruca. Read more
In a paper recently published in Plant Biology, we have identified environmental differences between niches occupied by diploids and tetraploids Erysimum mediohispanicum.
To evaluate the adaptive significance of the geographic distribution of cytotypes, we characterized the ploidy level of 118 populations across the Iberian Peninsula and obtained their interpolated climate variables from the Worldclim 1.4. In addition, we also characterized floral phenotype of both cytotypes. Read more