He is interested in the physiological basis of life history evolution & senescence. He has studied the physiological consequences of environmental factors affecting larval development in anurans. He has combined laboratory & mesocosm experiments to study costs of developmental plasticity in tadpoles. In particular he is interested in how enhanced growth & accelerated development affect oxidative stress and telomere length during larval development.

She is getting immersed in the transgenerational effects world, where parents' experience can affect the phenotype of their offspring through non-genetic inheritance. She is interested in paternal and maternal effects using a bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, as study organism in order to better understand the working mechanisms, the prevalence and the evolutionary role of these transgenerational effects.

Alexandra is interested in conservation and evolutionary ecology of leptodactylid frogs living in extreme environments: the rock pools of inselbergs on the shore of the Orinoco river. She is studying how amphibian larvae respond to the challenges imposed by very high water temperatures and high risk of pool drying by modulating their development, considering that at the same time they are at risk of predation.

Miguel has broad interests in the intersection between wetland ecology and conservation in a changing world. He currently works at Doñana's Biological Station, where he combines GIS, long time series, field observations and experiments to address the responses of wetland biological communities to anthropic and climate-driven alterations in flooding dynamics.

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She's interested in ecological interactions in freshwater systems.

He's interested in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and the role of plasticity in evolution.

I am interested in applying different approaches to studying trait evolution at different scales. My main research lines are centred on

(1) describing macroevolutionary patterns in trait evolution through the use of comparative phylogenetic methods, (2) using transcriptomic & epigenetic approaches to study the role of adaptive plasticity in trait evolution, and (3) studying the systematics & biogeography of African amphibians. 

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Paula has worked with movement ecology and habitat use/selection of GPS tagged animals before.

Currently she is interested in phenotypic plasticity and evolution of spade foot toads, specially in the differences between american and european species. 

She is an science specialized illustrator & graphic designer. 

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Adrián is interested in ecological interactions and the ecology of freshwater ecosystems. Focusing on temporary ponds, he is studying how the tadpoles of different sympatric anuran species interact with the different aquatic macrophytes they occur with, leading to changes in the whole pond habitat that may affect other organisms inhabiting the ponds.

Rafa has been interested in evolutionary ecology since he started his studies in biology. He is currently studying the behavioral and morphological antipredator responses of various anuran species and their dependence upon stress hormones. He is also addressing the adaptive divergence in developmental plasticity among populations from a functional genomic perspective.

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Paula is a biologist who has always been intrigued by genetics and epigenetics. She has recently become interested in bioinformatics and now studies how genome size and architecture may have been shaped during evolution in relation to developmental rate and plasticity. To this end, she works with the larvae of several closely related anuran species.