Behavioural ecology of birds and reptiles

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

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

Evolutionary physiology of animal pigmentation

Ecological impacts of artificial night lighting

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

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.

Population dynamics, ecotoxicology and conservation of birds

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

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.