Diego Pavón Jordán

Diego Pavón Jordán e-mail: pavonjor(at)mappi.helsinki.fi

Background

My name is Diego Pavón Jordán and I come from Spain. There, I completed my education in Biology at the University of Alicante in 2006 where I also got my M. Sc. (DEA) in 2009. During the postgraduate period I was working, mainly, with Mediterranean raptors, specially with Short-toed Eagles (Circaetus gallicus). This project allowed me to complete my DEA thesis and focused on migration of juveniles and habitat selection. Before I finished my degree, I spent 4 months at the University of Helsinki as an exchange student. Since then, I always wanted to come back here and now I have the opportunity to enroll in this University again as a PhD student.

PhD

Nowadays, I am expanding my horizons, so I left the migration studies (for the moment) and I am diving in a new ocean called population dynamics. Here is where my PhD topic is immersed. I will work on a project titled “Climate-driven changes in the predator – prey community in the southern Finland”. We will study the effects of the changes in the 3-years cycle of Voles, and its recent recovering, we will also look at other parts of the ecosystem, paying special attention to population dynamics of voles predator (Tawny Owl, Ural Owl and small mammals).In addition we will be able to study the sensitivity of the vole cycle to climatic conditions and link this change in the vole population dynamics with climate change and see the interaction between them and the other pieces of the Fennoscandian ecosystem.

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