Dr. Alex Salas López

PhD in Ecology (CNRS). ANECA-accredited. Forest engineer (UPM). Master's in Education. Professor at UCAV

Education

  • MSc, Education – Universidad de Villanueva
  • Training in business management – The Power MBA
  • PhD – CNRS (France) and University of French Guiana
  • MSc, Tropical Forest Ecology and Management – AgroParisTech
  • Forest Engineer – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and AgroParisTech

Professional Experience

  • Instituto Superior del Medioambiente – Nature-Based Solutions
  • Assistant Lecturer – Ecology, Zoology, Science Education – Universidad Católica de Ávila
  • Technical trainer – sustainable agriculture – SIL Technical Training
  • Training coordinator and educator – National Employment Institute
  • Biodiversity Programme Coordinator – La Canopée des Sciences
  • Pedagogical Coordinator – Le Vivarium du Moulin
  • Research engineer – CNRS, France
  • Research intern – INRA, France

Research Journal Articles

  • J Velázquez, A Dios, D Gülçin, AU Özcan, A Hernando, T Santamaría, A Salas-López (2022). A Model for Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus signatus, Cabrera 1907) Predation Risk Assessment on Cattle in the Central System (Spain). Land, 11, 1389. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091389
  • A Salas‐López, C Violle, F Munoz, F Menzel, J Orivel (2022). Effects of Habitat and Competition on Niche Partitioning and Community Structure in Neotropical Ants. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:863080
  • A Salas‐López, C Violle, L Mallia, J Orivel (2018). Land‐use change effects on the taxonomic and morphological trait composition of ant communities in French Guiana. Insect Conservation and Diversity 11 (2), 162-173
  • A Salas-López (2017). Predicting resource use in ant species and entire communities by studying their morphological traits: Influence of habitat and subfamily. Ecological Indicators 78,183-191
  • S Talaga, H Lalagüe, A Salas-López (2017) Des « jardins du Diable » dans l’est amazonien. Espèces, Revue d’Histoire Naturelle 25 (3), 24-25
  • A Salas-López, H Mickal, F Menzel, J Orivel (2017). Ant-mediated ecosystem processes are driven by trophic community structure but mainly by the environment. Oecologia 183 (1), 249-261
  • A Salas-López, S Talaga, H Lalagüe (2016). The discovery of devil’s gardens: an ant–plant mutualism in the cloud forests of the Eastern Amazon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32 (3), 264-268
  • M Houadria, N Blüthgen, A Salas‐López, MI Schmitt, J Arndt, E Schneider, … F. Menzel (2016). The relation between circadian asynchrony, functional redundancy, and trophic performance in tropical ant communities. Ecology 97 (1), 225-235
  • S Talaga, JHC Delabie, O Dézerald, A Salas-López, F Petitclerc, C Leroy, …J Orivel (2015). A bromeliad species reveals invasive ant presence in urban areas of French Guiana. Ecological Indicators 58, 1-7
  • M Houadria*, A Salas‐López*, J Orivel, N Blüthgen, F Menzel (2015). Dietary and temporal niche differentiation in tropical ants—can they explain local ant coexistence?. Biotropica 47 (2), 208-217.
  • R Blatrix, S Debaud, A Salas-López, C Born, L Benoit, DB McKey, … C. Djiéto-Lordon (2013). Repeated evolution of fungal cultivar specificity in independently evolved ant-plantfungus symbioses. PLoS One 8 (7), e6810