We are happy to welcome Raiana, who is working with Dr Maximilian Pichler during her stay in Regensburg. Her PhD research focuses on how the processes shaping fish communities in coastal lagoons change with an environmental harshness gradient, and how these changes are reflected in the phylogenetic structure of the communities.
During her stay, Raiana will work on methodological aspects of her PhD research involving joint species distribution models (jSDMs), while further developing their application to questions in community ecology. In addition to her PhD research, she also works with ecological networks, investigating how network structure and robustness change in response to targeted species removals.
More information about Raiana's research can be found on her ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raiana-Lima (external link, opens in a new window)
Contacts
Dr. Maximilian Pichler
Ecological Machine Learning Group
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