Peru (2020)


a. What were your goals for the course in Peru? To what extent did you realise these goals? My goals were quite specific: gain experience in planning, collecting and curating trait and ecosystem function data and; meet other like-minded scientists in the field of trait ecology to build an international […]

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Hello! My name is Jocelyn Navarro. I am from California and recently graduated from Connecticut College. I will be starting my PhD at the University of Arizona in Brian Enquist’s lab. Participating in Plant Functional Trait Course 5 surpassed my exceptions. Before attending the course, I sadly had to take […]

PFTC Blog






I’m so happy for having had the opportunity of participating in the PFTC5. It was very interesting to learn about traits and how to measure them. The course combined different ways of doing science, as taking online lectures, discussing papers, giving oral presentations, writing proposals and analyzing data. Discovering Wayqecha […]

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What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? Hi, my name is Rudi Saul Cruz Chino and I am from Cusco, Perú. I did my undergraduate studies at the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, after that I […]

Hello from Rudi!



What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically?   I am a plant (functional) ecologist with a background in environmental/ecosystem sciences and invasion biology currently doing a PhD in my hometown at Oxford University. My research works at the […]

Hello! From Sara M.





-¿Cuál es tu experiencia? ¿De dónde eres? ¿Qué estudias? ¿Qué es lo que más te interesa, científicamente? Soy Fiorella Gonzales de Arequipa (Perú), soy Bióloga, he estudiado mamíferos y plantas (principalmente arboles). Actualmente soy estudiante de doctorado de Ecología en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, mi tesis está enfocada […]

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