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Education

2020. JdC-Inc fellow (IRTA, Spain)

2019.Permanent position as Associate Researcher (CONICET, Argentina) - Not accepted 

2017-2019. CONICET postdoctoral fellow at the Garibaldi's Lab, IRNAD (Bariloche, Argentina)

2010-2016. PhD at Jordano's Lab, Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD-CSIC (Spain) 

2009.MSc Management and Conservation of Biodiversity, University of Barcelona (Spain)

2008. BSc Biology, University of La Laguna (Spain) 

Research visits

2007. Seneca Grant, University of Salamanca (Spain)

2012. Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources CIBIO (Portugal); Cristina García Lab

Awards

2017. 'Ecosistemas Award' (Revista ecosistemas) for the best thesis synthesis presented in 2016

Talks

2018. New Fund Workshop, Puerto Blest (Argentina). Safeguarding pollination services in a Changing World. 

2018. New Fund Workshop, Quillota (Chile). Biodiversity Conservation and ecosystem services provision to improve economic, environmental and social performance in small-holder farms.

2017 XIV MEDECOS- XIII AEET meeting, Univ. Sevilla (Spain). "Persisting in defaunated landscapes: reduced plant population connectivity after seed dispersal disruption". Symposium Seed dispersal & frugivory in changing Mediterranean landscapes. N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano, A. Valido. Oral presentation

2016 International Conference on Island, Evolution and Conservation. Univ. Açores (Portugal) “The signatures of Anthropocene defaunation: Cascading effects of the seed dispersal collapse on islands“. N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano, C. García, A. Valido. Oral presentation.

2015 Frugivory and Seed Dispersal Meeting 2015. Univ. Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa)“Defaunation-driven downsizing of frugivorous lizards determines genetic diveristy and connectivity of Neochamaelea pulverulenta (Rutaceae) populations on the Canary Islands“. N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano, A. Valido. Poster.

2015 Frugivory and Seed Dispersal Meeting 2015. Univ. Kwazulu-Natal (South-Africa). “Downsized mutualisms: Demographic and genetic consequences of lizard body size reduction for an insular plant species“. N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano, C. García, A. Valido. Oral presentation.

2015 XII ECOFLOR Congress. Estación Biológica de Doñana (Spain). "Defaunation-driven downsizing of seed dispersers reduces seed-mediated gene flow and enhances fine-scale genetic structure of an insular plant species". N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano,C. García, A. Valido.Oral presentation

2014. XI ECOFLOR Congress, University of Cádiz (Spain). "Frugivores body-size reduction: consequences for early plant recruitment".N. Pérez-Méndez, P. Jordano, A. Valido. Oral presentation

2013. X ECOFLOR Congress, University of Sevilla (Spain). "Labilidad sexual en Neochamaelea pulverulenta". M. Méndez, N. Pérez-Méndez, A. Valido. Oral presentation

2013.4th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology, SESBE - University of Barcelona  (Spain). "Do environmental stress and plant size influence sexual lability in Neochamaelea pulverulenta (Rutaceae)?". M. Méndez, N. Pérez-Méndez, A. Valido. Oral presentation

2013. SCAPE Meeting, Lammi Biological Station (Finland). "Do environmental stress and plant size influence sexual lability in Neochamaelea pulverulenta (Rutaceae)?". M. Méndez, N. Pérez-Méndez, A. Valido. Oral presentation

2010. XX Congress of the Spanish Society of Ornithology SEO (Spain). "Trophic segregation of two sympatric gull species: an isotopic approximation". N. Pérez-Méndez, J. González-Solís. Oral Presentation

 Seminars and Workshops

2018. Newton Fund Workshop, Chile. Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision to improve economic, environmental and social performance in small-holder farmers. 

2012. Jornadas LEM, Estación Biológica de Doñana (Spain). "Neochamaelea pulverulenta gene flow: extinction effects of Canarian Giant Lizards". Oral presentation.

Organized meetings

25th-29th June 2012. "Spatial Ecology". Estación Biológica de Doñana (Spain) 

Journal Editor

Editor of Ecología Austral

Journal reviewer

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Land degradation and development

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Molecular Ecology

Proceedings of the Royal Society-B

Biotropica

PlosOne

Ethology, Ecology and Evolution

Ibis

Journal of arid land

Ecoscience

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