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Alumnos
graduados
Current students in the lab
PhD students
Marisol Martínez
I´m interested on exploring socio-ecological transformation processes towards more sustainable futures, as well as their diverse trajectories and the characteristics of initiatives that can promote them. My project is focused on analyzing the transformative potential that local-scale initiatives promoting sustainable cattle-ranching have to enable socio-ecological transformations at local and regional scales. This study seeks to fill the knowledge gap of which factors can facilitate socio-ecological transformations at diverse scales, and which actions promote the emergence of those factors.
Advisor: Karina Boege
Enma Torres
I'm interested in the study of biological interactions and how to apply this knowledge to the solution of socio-environmental problems. My current project seeks to analyze how evolutionary relationships between plants impact their growth, survival and reproductive success. This research will provide evidence of the mechanisms that govern community assembly and species coexistence, which will help to optimize species selection for ecological restoration actions.
Advisors:
Rocío Santos-Gally
Karina Boege
Francisco Parraguirre
I am interested in the mechanisms that influence the covariation among traits of functional modules. Specifically, I study the effects that mating system can have on the covariation among foliar and floral traits in Solanum rostratum. The understanding of this source of variation is fundamental to understand biological evolution in a broad sense. My project seeks to provide experimental evidence on the environmental factors influencing the evolution of functional modules.
Advisor: Juan Fornoni
Master students
Aime Rubini-Pisano
I study how relationship among phenotypic traits vary across mating system evolutionary transitions. To do this, I analyze changes in the variance-covariance matrix among floral traits of six species of the genus Solanum present in Mexico. This work can contribute to our understanding the different adaptations plants can evolve as a function their pollinators, or their ability to self-mate.
Advisor: Juan Foroni
Faride Ugalde
Mi project focuses on studying the influence of plant phylogeny on the assemblage of arthropod communities in tropical systems. Because phylogenetic diversity can change competitive relationships among plants, it is expected that their quality as niches for different arthropod guilds can change. I am experimentally assessing these relationships in a large scale set of synthetic communities
Advisor: Karina Boege
Undergraduate students
Miriam Muñoz Cinta
I study the effect of seed dormancy of the Asteraceae Tithonia diversifolia. This species is particularly important in cattle ranching in intensive silvopastoral systems, due to its ability to increase soil quality, its high tolerance to browsing and because it represents a very high quality source of protein for cattle. Knowing the germination strategies of this species will help to reduce the costs when using this forage species in intensive silvopastoral systems in Mexico
Tutora: Rocio Santos
Jazmin Zetina Roldán
One of the most important biotic interactions is herbivory, as it represents the first energetic transition in food chains. My research focuses on the feeding behavior of lepidopteran herbivores in different successional stages of a tropical dry forest. The main aim is to understand if their diet breath changes as a function of forest succession and climatic variability
Advisor: Karina Boege