Visiting PhD student from Spain

This autumn we are also happy to welcome Gerard Martínez Devesa, a visiting PhD student from the CIBIO Research Institute at the University of Alicante (Spain). His research focuses on the taxonomic and functional diversity of arthropods (spiders and beetles) in deadwood microhabitats in Mediterranean forests. He's visiting our workgroup for three months, working with Meelis to explore which microenvironmental factors and functional traits influence the dark diversity of beetle and spider communities in different deadwood microhabitats of Quercus suber forests.