Welcome to the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Spanish Group for Floral Ecology
We are pleased to announce the celebration of the 22nd edition of the Annual Meeting of the Floral Ecology working group - EcoFlor, which will take place on 6th – 7th February 2025 in León.
EcoFlor is a working group from the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology and organises an annual meeting to talk about science. In 2025, the meeting will be held at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of León.
EcoFlor annual meeting brings together scientists interested in floral ecology and evolution, with the aim of promoting discussion, networking and creativity in science and involving students from all career stages in the process in an open and friendly environment. The participants are invited to present their ongoing projects' results and engage in critical scientific discussion and networking.
Following the traditional format, the meeting will consist of two days of presentations, with plenary talks and oral and poster contributions that will be structured thematically according to the abstracts received. In addition there will be a visit to the Fabero Paleobotanical Classroom & the Carboniferous Forest at the National Museum of Energy, Ponferrada.
Contributions should be in English to promote discussion and interaction, although Spanish will also be allowed.
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NEWS!!
The workshop will consist in a general introduction to HMSC models and the flexibility they offer in multivariate analysis, working with community data (plant and/or pollinator), pollinator observations or multivariate traits such as floral fragrances. Additionally, several practical cases in which they can be applied will be explained using R (e.g. reproductive interactions mediated by pollinators, natural selection at the community scale, variance partitioning for pollinator assembly data...).
WEDNESDAY 5th: 15:00-18:00
SIGN UP -> ecoflor2025@gmail.com
Plenary Speaker
Ainhoa Magrach
Ainhoa Magrach is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and serves as the president of AEET (Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre). She is a dedicated community ecologist who earned her bachelor's degree in biology from both the Universidad del País Vasco and the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, followed by a doctorate from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Her academic journey includes a Basque Government Post-doctoral fellowship at James Cook University in Australia, an ETH Foundation/Marie Curie Co-funded fellowship, a Juan de la Cierva at the Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC and a Ramón y Cajal and Ikerbasque Research Fellow at BC3.
Ainhoa's research focuses on understanding the impacts of various drivers of global change on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services. She has extensively studied the effects of anthropogenic processes, such as selective logging, forest fragmentation, climate change, and agricultural shifts (e.g., to coffee or oil palm), on species interactions—particularly between plants and animals, as well as among plant species.
With over 40 publications to her name, Ainhoa has successfully led projects funded by a range of national and international funding bodies, including the Leonardo fellowship from the BBVA Foundation, several Plan Nacional projects and the ERC Consolidator Grant. Through various initiatives, Ainhoa also actively works to raise awareness about the critical role of pollinators and the impacts of global change on ecosystems.
Plenary Speaker
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Mohamed Abdelaziz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics at the University of Granada. He holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Granada, where he studied the interaction between ecology and genetics in hybrid zones between high-altitude plant species. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stirling (Scotland), where he began a research line focused on the study of the mechanisms and consequences of speciation in plants. This line, together with his ongoing work on high-altitude hybrid zones, has led to various research projects funded by the Spanish State Research Agency, the Autonomous Organization of National Parks, and international institutions such as the University of Stirling.
Currently, his research is part of the Biological Conservation and Evolution in the Genomic Era group (biochangenet.org), which tackles a wide range of issues in ecology, conservation, genetic improvement, health, and more, using genomic tools and an evolutionary perspective. To date, Mohamed has published several dozen scientific articles and has contributed to many more publications at leading scientific conferences. Additionally, through his research group, he has participated in organizing several high-profile national and international conferences. He has also been recognized for his science outreach efforts, engaging diverse social groups through activities ranging from talks at primary and secondary schools to participation in outreach programs and workshops.
