Dr. Romina Rader is currently visiting us from UNE in Armidale where she is a Lecturer in Environmental Management (Ecosystem Management). Romina is collaborating with Yvonne Buckley and Margaret Mayfield at UQ on using plant and animal functional traits to predict the impacts of land use change upon biodiversity.
Silvia is currently working on her thesis entitled “Biodiversity and Conservation Planning of the Amphibians and Reptiles in the Western Mediterranean Basin”. Supervised by Eduardo Crespo (University of Lisbon), José C. Brito (CIBIO ‐ Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of University of Porto) and Hugh P. Possingham.