Anna Traveset

PhD in Biological Sciences and Research Professor at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), a joint centre of the CSIC and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Her main line of research, the study of ecological and evolutionary interactions between plants and animals, began during her thesis, carrying out fieldwork entirely in the tropical dry forest of Costa Rica, in the team of Prof. Daniel H. Janzen, an internationally renowned expert in the discipline of Ecology. Since her return to Spain she has worked in the Balearic Islands (although she has spent short stays in Alaska and South Africa), always within competitive projects, the vast majority coordinated by her, and directing the Terrestrial Ecology laboratory at 'IMEDEA. Her scientific work stands out especially for the important contributions she has made to the knowledge and understanding of biodiversity in island ecosystems. Her main line of research is the ecology and evolution of ecological interactions between plants and animals on islands, although many of her projects are also relevant to the understanding of the functioning of continental ecosystems. Her research focuses mainly on the Balearic Islands, but she has also coordinated projects in other archipelagos such as the Canary Islands, Galapagos or Seychelles, oceanic islands that are important biodiversity hotspots. She has demonstrated a high capacity to generate resources for both national and international research, leading a total of 18 national and 3 international projects. She has published about 200 scientific papers; 150 interviews on the reproductive biology of threatened plant species, the evolutionary ecology of plant animal interactions, and the study of the impact of invasive species on native species interactions, especially on pollination mutualisms and seed dispersal. As a general indicator of the quality of her scientific production, we can point to the five six-year terms recognized by the CNEAI (the last one in 2014), the 7514 citations of her works and her H= 45 index. The number of her articles that have been cited less than ten times (i10 index) is 108. She has supervised 15 doctoral theses, 8 postdoctoral researchers (national and international), 10 master's theses, supervising a large number of interns in different degrees of training. In 1996 she received the Bartomeu Darder Prize awarded by the Natural History Society of the Balearic Islands for her contribution to the study of plant-animal interactions on these islands and in 2017 the Rei Jaume I Prize for Environmental Protection.