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Anna Traveset (La Seu d'Urgell) is a Spanish ecologist who studies how plants and animals interact. She is especially known for her work on islands.
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Anna Traveset
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La Seu d'Urgell
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| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Ecologist, Researcher |
| Awards | Premi Rey Jaime I (2017) Premi Ramon Llull (2022)
Distinción Luis Balaguer AEET(2023) Premio Margarita Salas CSIC (2023) Leandre Cervera SCB Award (2024) |
Anna Traveset is a research professor at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies – IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) in Mallorca. She also teaches at the University of the Balearic Islands. In 2017, she won the Rey Jaime I Award for Environmental Protection. In 2022, she received the Ramon Llull Award from the Balearic Government. From 2019 to 2024, she was the main representative of the CSIC in the Balearic Islands.
Education
Anna Traveset studied Biology at the University of Barcelona. For her Master's degree, she focused on freshwater sponges. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. There, she started studying how plants and animals interact. She did her fieldwork in Guanacaste National Park in Costa Rica.
After returning to Spain, she worked at the Doñana Biological Station from 1990 to 1991. Then, in 1992, she moved to IMEDEA in Mallorca.
Her Career
Anna Traveset started working at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in 1995. She became a Research Professor in 2006. Since 2000, she has led the Terrestrial Ecology lab at IMEDEA. She has also been part of important science committees and evaluation groups in Spain and Europe.
Her Research
Anna Traveset's main research looks at how plants and animals interact on islands. She studies how these interactions have changed over time. Many of her findings also help us understand ecosystems on continents.
She works on projects in the Balearic Islands and other island groups. These include the Canary Islands, Galapagos, and Seychelles. These islands are very important for their unique biodiversity.
Her most important work is about how plants are pollinated and how their seeds are spread. She also studies how plant-eating animals affect plants. Her goal is to understand how these interactions keep ecosystems healthy.
She uses a method called "network theory" to study these connections. Her work shows how things like new species arriving, habitat loss, and climate change affect natural communities. She works with scientists from over 30 countries. She has published about 300 papers and book chapters.
She also edited a book called Plant Invasions: The Role of Biotic Interactions. This book was published in 2020.
Honors and Awards
- 2024: Premi Leandre Cervera, for her career in biology.
- 2023: Distinción Luis Balaguer, from the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology.
- 2023: Premio Medalla Margarita Salas del CSIC, for supervising students.
- 2022: Premi Ramon Llull, from the Balearic Government.
- 2022: European Research Council’s Advanced Grant.
- 2019-2024: Institutional Representative of the CSIC in the Balearic Islands.
- 2017: King James I Award for Environmental Conservation. This is a very important science award in Spain. Its jury includes many Nobel laureates.
- 1996: Bartomeu Darder Award, for the best study in natural sciences in the Balearic Islands.
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See also
In Spanish: Anna Traveset para niños
