Conferences and seminars

2023

Habitat specialisation as biodiversity pumps

2022

Crypticity within supratidal rockpools

Estimates of global biodiversity are usually limited by the existence of species with reduced or not apparent morphological …

Colonization of opposite ends of an extreme altitudinal gradient

Altitudinal gradients are compelling by their steady change that may confine species to narrow conditions, leading species to habitat …

2020

Tempo and mode of the origins and evolution of salinity tolerance in aquatic Coleoptera

Understanding the evolutionary processes underlying extant biodiversity may help us to comprehend why species richness is not equally …

Coastal rockpools and their beetles

2019

Untangling extant biodiversity in Hydroporini

Aquatic beetles can be characterized based on the habitats where they live, with a main division between species living in standing …

2018

Ochthebiini: a mitogenome approach to tempo and mode of salinity tolerance evolution

Evolutionary novelties may influence the diversification of new lineages, allowing species to colonize new habitats or to exploit new …

From deserts to tropical forest - Short Stay

Mitochondrial metagenomics and the phylogeny of Ochthebiini: A new batch mitogenomes example

Phylogenetic trees are not always recovered with enough support to test particular hypothesis. An increase in the number of gene …

2017

Macroevolutionary consequences of habitat transitions

Macroevolution and habitat transitions

2016

Macroevolutionary consequences of habitat transitions in aquatic Coleoptera

Understanding the origin and evolution of novel traits is one of the unknowns on which evolutionary biologist work. These traits may …