Matias is a PhD research assistant in the Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology (IMBIV, CONICET-UNC) in Cordoba, Argentina. His research examines how past climatic changes affected species diversification and evolution, evaluating the role of the past cold and dry glacial cycles on the populations' dynamics. His main objective is to generate a transition from phylogeography studies as a largely descriptive discipline to a predictive discipline. To do this, during his PAGES-IAI fellowship, at the Institute of Biology of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), under the direction of Dr. Santiago Alejandro Ramírez-Barahona, they will continue a worldwide investigation where they will compare the response to climate changes during the last 3 million years on four organism groups (flowering plants, mammals, birds, and amphibians) in their three levels of biodiversity: genetic diversity, species richness, and phylogenetic diversity, as an integrating and novel proposal to know the role of past climate changes on current patterns of worldwide biodiversity.
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