Evolutionary physiology of animal pigmentation

Using field and molecular techniques to understand the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain biodiversity.

Actualmente estoy realizando mi tesis doctoral sobre la relación entre la variación individual y la posición social en el estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor).

Population dynamics, ecotoxicology and conservation of birds

Investigating the role of song in speciation processes of island birds. Interested in evolution, speciation, adaptation and animal communication.

Luis M. Carrascal is a research professor whose scientific interests are focused on the causal explanations of habitat and elevational patterns in species, and the interspecific variation in position and breadth of organisms within thermal gradients.

Behavioural ecology of birds and reptiles

Ecological impacts of artificial night lighting

I’m interested in how species deal with challenging situations such as stressful conditions, for example due to temperature or humidity, exposure to new pathogens or colonization of new environments.

Ecological and Genomic Approach to Evolutionary Divergence Mechanisms in Insular Birds

Investigating the evolutionary mechanisms that drive speciation, focusing on processes of local adaptation in populations of island birds

Grupo de Investigación en Ecología y Conservación de Aves cpalacin@mncn.csic.es