Laura Cardador Bergua

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0003-2548-8578

Researcher ID: K-4412-2014

Knowledge area: Zoologia

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

lcardador(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Zoologia

Biologia Animal

Conservació de la Biodiversitat

Avaluació de la Biodiversitat

Academic Training

Doctora . Universitat de Barcelona . 07/10/2011 . (Ph.D.)

Llicenciatura en Biologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 2004 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Research interests

Ecologia, comportament i conservació d'aus en ambients antròpics

Patrons de distribució d'espècies i factors associats

Invasions biològiques

Models de distribució aplicats a la gestió i conservació de la biodiversitat

Projects

Desafíos en la predicción de invasiones biológicas: comprendiendo la interacción de los rasgos de las especies y el entorno . 2024 - 2027 . Ref.PID2023-150807NA-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Laura Cardador Bergua

Cognitive buffer and population persistence under environmental change (COG-BUFFER) . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-119514GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Daniel Sol Rueda

Frontiers in invasive species distribution modelling: incorporating human-associations and intraspecific niche structure to improve risk predictions . 2017 - 2019 . Ref.H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 No. 752149 . Unió Europea . PI: Laura Cardador Bergua

Journal Publications

Núñez-Tobajas Z; Senar JC; Rodríguez-Pastor R; Carrillo-Ortiz JG; Cardador L (2023). Niche shifts over spread of a biological invasion: Unveiling the role of changing habitat preference and density-dependence. Diversity and Distributions . https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13761 . ISSN: 1366-9516

Menchetti M; Schifani E; Alicata A; Cardador L; Sbrega E; Toro-Delgado E; Vila R (2023). The invasive ant Solenopsis invicta is established in Europe. Current Biology, 33(17), pp. PR896 - R897 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.036 . ISSN: 0960-9822

Arroyo B; Estrada A; Casas F; Cardador L; de Caceres M; Bota G; Giralt D; Brotons Ll; Mougeot F (2022). Functional habitat suitability and urban encroachment explain temporal and spatial variations in abundance of a declining farmland bird, the little bustard Tetrax tetrax. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 17(2), p. 19 . https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02243-170219 . ISSN: 1712-6568

Cardador L; Tella JL; Louvrier J; Anadón JD; Abellán P; Carrete M (2022). Climate matching and anthropogenic factors contribute to the colonisation and extinction of local populations during avian invasions. Diversity and Distributions, 28, pp. 1908 - 1921 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13591 . ISSN: 1366-9516

Cardador L; Abellán P; Blackburn TM (2022). Incorporating phylogeographic information in alien bird distribution models increases geographic extent but not accuracy of predictions. Biological Invasions, 24, pp. 683 - 695 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02673-7 . ISSN: 1387-3547

Ascensão F; Latombe G; Anadón JD; Abellán P; Cardador L; Carrete M; Tella JL; Capinha C (2020). Drivers of compositional dissimilarity for native and alien birds: the relative roles of human activity and environmental suitability. Biological Invasions, 22, pp. 1447 - 1460 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02196-7 . ISSN: 1387-3547

Cardador L; Blackburn TM (2020). A global assessment of human influence on niche shifts and risk predictions of bird invasions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, pp. 1956 - 1966 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13166 . ISSN: 1466-822X

Cardador L; Tella JL; Anadón JD; Abellán P; Carrete M (2019). The European trade ban on wild birds reduced invasion risks. Conservation Letters, 12, p. e12631 . https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12631 . ISSN: 1755-263X

Cardador L; Blackburn TM (2019). Human-habitat associations in the native distributions of alien bird species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, pp. 1189 - 1199 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13351 . ISSN: 0021-8901

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