Dr. Roberto Novella Fernández

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Lehrstuhl für Global Change Ecology
Klara-Oppenheimer-Weg 32
Hubland Nord
97074 Würzburg
Deutschland
Raum: 03.B.32
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4013-0646

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).

2024[ to top ]
  • 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
2023[ to top ]
  • Froidevaux, J. S. P., Toshkova, N., Barbaro, L., Benítez-López, A., Kerbiriou, C., Le Viol, I., Pacifici, M., Santini, L., Stawski, C., Russo, D., Dekker, J., Alberdi, A., Amorim, F., Ancillotto, L., Barré, K., Bas, Y., Cantú-Salazar, L., Dechmann, D. K. N., Devaux, T., … Razgour, O. (2023). A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond. Scientific Data, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02157-4
  • Novella-Fernandez, R., Brandl, R., Pinkert, S., Zeuss, D., & Hof, C. (2023). Seasonal variation in dragonfly assemblage colouration suggests a link between thermal melanism and phenology. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44106-0
  • Novella‐Fernandez, R., Chalmandrier, L., Brandl, R., Pinkert, S., Zeuss, D., & Hof, C. (2023). Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season. Ecography, 2024(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06918
2022[ to top ]
  • Novella-Fernandez, R., Juste, J., Iba~n}}ez, C., Nogueras, J., Osborne, P. E., & Razgour, O. (2022). The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07229-w
2021[ to top ]
  • 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
2020[ to top ]
  • 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
  • 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
2019[ to top ]
  • 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
  • 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
2018[ to top ]
  • Fernandez, R. N. (2018). Els Odonats del Delta del Llobregat. In Els sistemes naturals del delta del Llobregat (1–).