Organization
Three institutions collaborate in the Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB), the University of Oviedo (UO), the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Government of the Principality of Asturias (PA) ( BOE nº 163 July, 2021, BOPA nº 130 July, 2021 y BOPA nº 150 August, 2021).
The IMIB was constituted in July 2021 from the former Biodiversity Research Unit (BOPA nº128 June, 2012, BOPA nº41 February, 2016 and agreement CSIC-UO-PA January 2019). The research staff is ascribed to the Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems (UO) and to the CSIC.
Research
At IMIB we study biodiversity at all levels, from genes to ecosystems, focusing on its variability in space and time, its functions, its threats, and its conservation. We study:
. Our work is structured in seven research groups:- Biodiversity, ecosystems and landscape.
Researchers: Daniel García García, Susana Suárez Seoane, Mario Quevedo and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro. - Coexistence for conservation.
Researchers: Patricia Mateo Tomás and José Vicente López-Bao. - Applied Ecology.
Researchers: Fredrik Dalerum and María del Mar Delgado. - Ecology and evolution on islands.
Researcher: Juan Carlos Illera. - Evolutionary ecology and conservation of ectothermic vertebrates.
Researchers: Jaime Bosch, Alfredo G. Nicieza and Germán Orizaola. - Mountain ecosystems and global change.
Researchers: Paola Laiolo, José Ramón Obeso and Cristina Santín Nuño. - Hervibores and herbivory as ecosystem services.
Researcher: Javier Pérez Barbería.