Alfredo Valido will join our group, starting Jan 2004, with a post-doc Marie Curie Fellowship from the EU and an i3P contract from CSIC. These grants are for a 3-yr period. We’ll be doing research on Canary Island fleshy fruits and seed dispersers, chiefly comparisons of fruit traits of congeners in the islands and the Iberian Peninsula. We are planning a major update for the FRUBASE database, and additional research on dispersal patterns by Canary Island giant lizards.
