Roberto Novella Fernandez
Dr. Roberto Novella Fernández
Hubland Nord
2023- current. PostDoctoral Research. University of Würzburg. Global Change Ecology department, School of Ecology. Würzburg (Germany). Prof. Dr. Christian Hof.
2021- 2023. PostDoctoral Researcher. Technical University of Munich, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group. School of Life Sciences. Freising (Germany). Dr. Christian Hof.
2016 – 2020. PhD in Biological Sciences. University of Southampton (United Kingdom) PhD thesis “Biogeographic processes determining the distributions of European bats across spatial scales: The role of biotic interactions and habitat preferences”. Dr. Orly Razgour and Prof. Dr. Patrick Doncaster.
2014 - 2015. MSc in Terrestrial Ecology. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain). Weighted Average Grade: 9.07/10, 3.10/4. MSc Thesis: Interaction strength in plant-pollinator networks; are we using the right measure?. Dr. Jordi Bosch & Dr. Anselm Rodrigo.
2010 - 2014. BSc hons (four years) in Environmental Biology. Mention in Animal Biology. Weighted Average Grade: 8.85/10 or 3.03/4 (38 modules; F:0, C:0, B:13, A:11, A+:14). Autonomous University of Barcelona. Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain).
- PhD Thesis Vincent Weir Scientific Award 2022 https://www.bats.org.uk/our-work/awards/the-vincent-weir-scientific-award/the-vincent-weir-scientific-award-winners
- Cost Action Short Term Scientific Mission: Assessing predicted range losses of European bats due to climate change. European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), 2020.
- Beca de Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) (Spanish competitive national PhD scholarship). Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte de España, 2015.
- Best Academic Record Award BSc in Environmental Biology (8.85/10). Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2014.
- Competitive collaboration grant in departments (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2014).
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A straightforward protocol to sample morphological traits of dragonflies and damselflies in the field. . In Ecology and Evolution, 14(6). Wiley, 2024.
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A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond. . In Scientific Data, 10(1), p. 253. 2023.
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Seasonal variation in dragonfly assemblage colouration suggests a link between thermal melanism and phenology. . In Nature Communications, 14(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023.
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Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season. . In Ecography, 2024(4). Wiley, 2023.
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The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions. . In Scientific Reports, 12(1), p. 3224. 2022.
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Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence. . In Diversity and Distributions, 27(9), C. Capinha (ed.), pp. 1606–1618. Wiley, 2021.
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DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats. . In Nature Communications, 11(1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Trophic resource partitioning drives fine-scale coexistence in cryptic bat species. . Authorea, Inc., 2020.
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Interaction strength in plant-pollinator networks: Are we using the right measure?. . In PLOS ONE, 14(12), K. Del-Claro (ed.), p. e0225930. Public Library of Science ({PLoS}), 2019.
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Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections. . In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(21), pp. 10418–10423. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019.
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Els Odonats del Delta del Llobregat. . In . 2018.