Ana (Guida) M.C. Santos | Biodiversity and Global Change Research

ABOUT ME

I am Ana M. C. Santos (a.k.a. Guida Santos), a Ramón y Cajal research fellow working at the Dep. Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). I have broad interests in island biogeography, community ecology, ecosystem functioning and entomology.

I study the factors and processes causing community assembly on different regions, but I have focused most of my work on island faunas.

I am also interested on the spatial variation in community structure of different taxa, looking at taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at different scales. My most recent research line focuses on the impact of global change on diversity and ecosystem functioning.

Explore my website to learn more about the work I am doing with my group BioNCCE .

NEWS

CLIMBFUN project will be funded by AEI

by Ana MC Santos | Jul 31, 2025 | CLIMBFUN, Destacadas | 0 Comments

We will have funding during 3 years to evaluate how dung beetle diversity and the ecosystem functions they perform vary along elevational gradients and over time, also...

DUNGPOOL team present at the SIBECOL/AEET Meeting

by Ana MC Santos | Jun 10, 2025 | BioNCCE, Destacadas, Dungpool, DUNGPOOL - EN, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Results from DUNGPOOL were presented at the SIBECOL/AEET meeting in early June, in Pontevedra (Spain). Talk 1: Cuesta, E. et al. Evaluating the effects of global...

Sonia Llorente obtained her PhD

by Ana MC Santos | May 23, 2025 | BioNCCE, Destacadas, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Her thesis title is: "Integrating functional and phylogenetic diversity in conservation science”. Congratulations Dr. Llorente-Culebras! We are all proud of you

BioNCCE

BioNCCE is a research group that focuses on a wide variety of topics, scales and organisms. Biogeography and community ecology, merged with the impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and also nature conservation.

BioNCCE group

DUNGPOOL

Dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) perform a wide range of ecosystem functions and services, being key to ecosystem productivity and consequently having major economic impacts. DUNGPOOL is a research project focused on evaluating the effect of the species pool, community assembly processes, and increasing temperatures on the local diversity and ecosystem functions performed by dung beetles in cattle-grazed pasturelands.