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Dr Roseli Pellens

Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité – Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles

My career builds on a background on ecology, geography, systematics, phylogenetics and conservation biology. I made my Master's and Ph.D. at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I studied the contribution of forest fragments and fast-growing plantations to the diversity of soil fauna at the landscape scale. I then moved to Paris and worked on several projects on systematics, evolutionary biology, and biogeography. My present research focuses principally on macroecology. I am particularly interested in the patterns and mechanisms shaping insular biodiversity, and at understanding the impacts of climate and land-use changes in their conservation. My main current research projects deal with: the phylogenetic diversity of Monocots in the world’s islands; the disharmonies of faunas and floras in islands in the Pacific Oceans; and a global assessment of the native and invasive fauna in New Caledonia.