– MARTA PELÁEZ. Postdoc. Margarita Salas Fellow

Thesis defended in 2020 with the title “Effects of environmental variation on the reproduction of two widespread cervid species”. EXTRAORDINARY DOCTORAL AWARD and SECF Award (Spanish Society of Forest Sciences). Currently as Margarita Salas postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and UPM

Thesis available at https://oa.upm.es/63289/

 

 

 

– MARÍA MONTERO-BOTEY. PhD student. UPM Fellow

She recentley defended her PhD on Management for the conservation of elephant-dominated lands in Tanzania (Africa). Her doctorated received Summa Cum laude and Intenational Mention and was awarded as the best PhD thesis in International Cooperation. Currently she is working in Tanzania.

 

Montero-Botey, M., Soliño, M., Perea, R., Martínez-Jauregui, M. (2021) Exploring rangers’ preferences for community-based strategies to improve human-elephant coexistence in African natural corridors. Animal Conservation. https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acv.12700

Montero-Botey, M., San Miguel, A., & Perea, R. (2020). Food preferences determine human–elephant coexistence in African woodlands. Oryx, 1-8.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/food-preferences-determine-humanelephant-coexistence-in-african-woodlands/8A69CAA53E90DABAC7B08BFF2227E2C2

Montero-Botey M, Soliño M, Perea R, Martínez-Jaúregui M. 2022. Let’s give voice to local farmers: Preferences for farm-based strategies to enhance human-elephant coexistence in Africa. Animals 12(14): 186

Montero-Botey M, Perea R. 2023. An increasing human-elephant conflict? Impact of African elephant on cultivated cashew trees. European Journal of Wildlife Research 69:5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01629-z

Montero-Botey M, Perea R. 2023. Infrared barriers as a tool to reduce Human-Elephant Conflicts. Wildlife Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01124

 2021. UPM News. Human-elephant conflicts and solutions. María Montero-Botey thesis

 

– MARIO VELAMAZÁN. Former PhD. Current researcher at UMH 

My thesis (defended in Feb 2019) focused on the ecology and management of semiarid Mediterranean systems dominated by Barbary Sheep (Ammotragus lervia). Barbary sheep are wild ungulates that were introduced in 1970 in Sierra Espuña, Murcia (Spain). I investigate the effects of Barbary sheep on threatened and widespread taxa as well as the effects of management practices (firebreaks, artificial supply points, silviculture) on the habitat use to ensure sustainable populations and natural regeneration. Currently at UMH and still collaborating with PAELLA Lab.

 

 

– MIQUEL CAPÓ. Postdoc. Juan de la Cierva Fellow

Currently working on biotic interactions (herbivory and microbial communities) in relation to wild ungulate populations at UPM

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=SsM-7QQAAAAJ&hl=es

 

 

 

 

 

 

– DANIEL GAMBRA. PhD student. CAM Industrial Doctorate with TAGONIUS

Doctoral thesis on Golden eagle ecology and its relationship with ungulates at Aequilibrium project  https://aequilibrium-project.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– GUILLERMO CARRANZA. PhD student. CAM Doctorate 

Doctoral thesis on oak regeneration ecology and restoration. He is mainly analyzing the joint effect of herbivory and drought on oak seedlings and how to use different treatments to increase the efficacy of assisted oak regeneration.

 

 

– CARMEN RELLO. PhD student. Industrial Doctorate

Doctoral thesis on the spectral response of plants to stress, particularly herbivory and drought stress, using field spectro-radiometers, drones and and satellites. Working with the DASOTEC company

– JOSÉ LUIS CHARRO. PhD student.

Doctoral thesis on wildlife management in Argentina and Spain, with special focus on game and livestock species effects on vegetation and management schemes.

– ALBA GÓMEZ MUÑOZ. Technician

Field and lab technician at PAELLA Lab with research interest on the effects of ungulate herbivory on wildfire risk

 

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