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Dr. Edith Villa-Galaviz
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Since 2023

Scientific Coordinator, Reassembly Ecuador

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2022

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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2020

Postdoctoral researcher, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico.

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2014-2019

PhD at the University of Bristol, UK: "Bottom-up effects of eutrophication on insect interaction networks".

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2010-2012

M.S Ecology at the UNAM, Mexico: "Feeding specialization of Lepidoptera community in different successional status of the tropical dry forest of Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico".

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2010

Curatorial Assistant, Herbarium "Luz María Villarreal de Puga, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

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2007 - 2009

Research Assistant, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

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2004 - 2009

BSc Biology at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

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Research interests     

 

I am interested in understanding how  human actions affect species interactions. My research aims to help the conservation and management of species interactions.

 

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Research domains: 

Species interactions

Ecological networks

Insects: pollination,

herbivory and parasitoidism.

 

 

 Research projects  

 

DFG Research Unit REASSEMBLY 

(FOR 5207)

 

 

 

 

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Contact

 

sc.reassembly (at) gmail.com

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B1|01, Room 264 

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Dr. Edith Villa Galaviz

Fachbereich Biologie

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Schnittspahnstr. 3

64287 Darmstadt

Germany

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 Publications                

  • Vázquez-González, C., Villa-Galaviz, E., Reyes-Hernández, M. et al. 2024. Temporal variation in tree diversity effects on birds and its implications for top-down control of insect herbivores in a tropical system. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05514-1

  • Villa-Galaviz E, Smart SM, Ward SE, Fraser MD, Memmott J. 2023. Fertilization using manure minimizes the trade-offs between biodiversity and forage production in agri-environment scheme grasslands. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0290843

  • Villa-Galaviz, E., A. Cirtwill, R. Gibson T. Timberlake,T. Roslin & J. Memmott. 2023. What makes a good pollinator? Specialized insects with long periods transport the most strawberry pollen.  (Joint first-author). Ecological Solutions and Evidence,  4, e12253.

  • Villa-Galaviz, E., L. Abdala-Roberts, J. Quinto, M.J. Campos-Navarrete & V. Parra-Tabla. 2022. Neighboring plants and core herbivores determine the importance of Swietenia macrophylla in the plant-herbivore network. Arthropod-Plant Interact.  19:387-399.

  • López-Segoviano, G., M. Arenas-Navarro, E. Villa-Galaviz, S. Díaz-Infante & M. del C. Arizmendi. 2021. Hummingbird-plant interactions along an altitudinal gradient in Northwestern Mexico. Acta Oecol. 

  • Villa-Galaviz, E, S. M. Smart, E. L. Clare, S. E. Ward & J. Memmott. 2021. Differential effects of fertilisers on pollination and parasitoid interaction networks. J. Anim. Ecol. 90(2): 404-414.

  • Villa-Galaviz, E., L. Hernández, M. Harker & C. Neri-Luna. 2020. Description of soil and floristic composition of the habitat of L. villaregalis (Campanulaceae), a species endemic to Jalisco, Mexico. Polibotánica. 49: 30-49. 

  • Boege, K., E. Villa-Galaviz, A. López-Carretero, R. Perez-Ishiwara, A. Zaldivar-Riveron, A. Ibarra & E. Del-Val. 2019. Temporal variation in the influence of forest succession on caterpillar communities: a long-term study in a tropical dry forest. Biotropica. 51: 529-537. 

  • Luviano, N., E. Villa-Galaviz, K. Boege, A. Zaldivar-Riveron & E. del-Val. 2018. Hurricane impacts on plant-herbivore networks along a successional chronosequence in a tropical dry forest. For. Ecol. Manag.  426: 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.011  

  • Villa-Galaviz, E. & E. del Val. 2014. El “Foodbook”: las “redes sociales” de la naturaleza.  (The “foodbok”: the nature’s social network). Acercate. No. 5. Popular science.

  • Villa-Galaviz, E., K. Boege & E. del Val. 2012. Resilience of plant-herbivore networks during secondary succession. PloS ONE. 7(12): E63009. 

  • Martínez-Ramos, M., L. Barraza, P. Balvanera, J. Benítez-Malvido, F. Bongers, …  E. Villa Galaviz & I. Zermeño Hernández. 2012. Management of tropical forests. Science principles for conservation and use of ecosystems in rural landscapes. Investigación Ambiental: Ciencia & Política Pública 4(2): 111-129 

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