Roberto Novella Fernandez
Dr. Roberto Novella Fernández
Hubland Nord
2023- Current. PostDoctoral Researcher. University of Würzburg. Global Change Ecology department, School of Ecology. Würzburg (Germany).
2021- 2023. PostDoctoral Researcher. Technical University of Munich, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group.School of Life Sciences. Freising (Germany).
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”. Supervisors: Dr. Orly Razgour and Prof. Dr. Patrick Doncaster.
2014 - 2015. MSc in Terrestrial Ecology. Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). MSc Thesis: Interaction strength in plant-pollinator networks; are we using the right measure?. Supervisors: Dr. Jordi Bosch & Dr. Anselm Rodrigo.
2010 - 2014. BSc hons in Environmental Biology. Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). Mention in Animal Biology.
- 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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Novella Fernandez, R. (2024). A straightforward protocol to sample morphological traits of dragonflies and damselflies in the field. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11604
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Fernandez, R. N., Brandl, R., Pinkert, S., Zeuss, D., & Hof, C. (2023). Body colour drives optimal insect phenology via thermoregulation. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2844783/v1
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Novella‐Fernandez, R., Juste, J., Ibáñez, C., Rebelo, H., Russo, D., Alberdi, A., Kiefer, A., Graham, L., Paul, H., Doncaster, C. P., & Razgour, O. (2021). Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence. Diversity and Distributions, 27(9), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13375
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Alberdi, A., Razgour, O., Aizpurua, O., Novella-Fernandez, R., Aihartza, J., Budinski, I., Garin, I., Ibáñez, C., Izagirre, E., Rebelo, H., Russo, D., Vlaschenko, A., Zhelyazkova, V., Zrnčić, V., & Gilbert, M. T. P. (2020). DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14961-2
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Fernandez, R. N., ez, C. I., Juste, J., Clare, B., Doncaster, C. P., & Razgour, O. (2020). Trophic resource partitioning drives fine-scale coexistence in cryptic bat species. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.159986440.01482605
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Novella-Fernandez, R., Rodrigo, A., Arnan, X., & Bosch, J. (2019). Interaction strength in plant-pollinator networks: Are we using the right measure?. PLOS ONE, 14(12), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225930
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Razgour, O., Forester, B., Taggart, J. B., Bekaert, M., Juste, J., Ibáñez, C., Puechmaille, S. J., Novella-Fernandez, R., Alberdi, A., & Manel, S. (2019). Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(21), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820663116
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Fernandez, R. N. (2018). Els Odonats del Delta del Llobregat. In Els sistemes naturals del delta del Llobregat (1–).
