Projects

Deciphering the role of contingency and determinism on the divergence processes in oceanic island birds (CONDET)

State: Project ongoing

Sponsor: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Proyectos de I+D de Generación de Conocimiento

Reference: PID2022-140091NB-I00

Period: from 2023-09-01 to 2027-08-31

Amount: € 317,500 (without overheads: € 254,000)

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera & Pere Bover

Landscape-scale gut microbiomics in a wild bird; investigating anthropogenic and ecological effects in Berthelot’s pipit & Avian viromics and anthropogenic effects in Berthelot’s pipit

State: Project ongoing

Sponsor: ARIES DTP PHD UEA / BBSRC NRPDTP PHD UEA

Period: 2024-2028

Amount:

Principal Investigator: David S. Richardson

Censo de la tarabilla canaria (Saxicola dacotiae)

State: Project ongoing

Sponsor: Universidad de Oviedo y la Sociedad Española de Ornitología

Reference: FUO-23-319

Period: from October-2023 to August-2024

Amount: € 16,000

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Rewilding

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Government of Asturias

Reference: AYUD/2021/51261

Period: from January-2021 to December-2023

Amount: € 161,100

Principal Investigator: Susana Suárez Seoane

Canary Barcode: hacia el inventariado genómico de la biodiversidad de Canarias

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Agencia Canaria de Investigación (Apoyo a la investigación María del Carmen Betancourt y Molina)

Reference: ProID2021010093

Period: from June-2021 to April-2023

Amount: € 69,933.00

Principal Investigator: Brent Emerson

Worlds within islands: deciphering the evolutionary mechanisms driving gut microbiome biogeography using an oceanic island system

State: Project ended

Sponsor: American Genetic Association

Reference: 2022 EECG Award

Period: from January-2022 to December-2022

Amount: $5,900.00 USD

Principal Investigator: Karina Montero, Mark Gillingham and Juan Carlos Illera

Deciphering the causes of a recent avian radiation in Macaronesia (FRIMA)

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Research project funded by Spanish Minister of Science

Reference: PGC2018-097575-B-I00

Period: from January-2019 to December-2022

Amount: € 211,750 (without overheads € 175,000)

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Especies clave para servicios ecosistémicos retroalimentados en agroecosistemas

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Research project funded by BBVA Foundation

Reference: PR[18]_ECO_0026

Period: from April-2019 to March-2021.

Amount: € 100,000

Principal Investigator: Daniel García García

Position: Associated Researcher

Research grant funded by Regional Government of Asturias

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Government of Asturias

Reference: IDI/2018/000151

Period: 2018-2020

Amount: € 123,000

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

International Congress of the Spanish Society of Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Research grant for organising scientific conferences. Funded by University of Oviedo. Year 2018

Period: 2018

Amount: € 1,375

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

The diversity beyond Species richness to understand the structure of communities

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitive

Reference: CGL2014-53899-P

Period: from January-2015 to December-2018

Amount: € 144,000

Principal Investigator: Paola Laiolo & Juan Carlos Illera

Phenotypic diversification of the genus Fringilla in Macaronesia

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Mobility research grant funded by the University of Oviedo and the Bank of Santander. Year 2017

Reference: 03.01.633B.481.60

Period: from 09-05-2017 to 10-06-2017

Amount: € 2,300

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Research grant funded by University of Oviedo

State: Project ended

Sponsor: University of Oviedo

Period: October-2015

Amount: € 757

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of emergent diseases in birds in a latitudinal and altitudinal gradient in the National Park’s network

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Spanish Minister of Environment (Institution of National Parks)

Reference: 375/2011

Period: from 11-29-2011 to 11-28-2014

Amount: € 89,337.75

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Colonisation and diversification of the spectacled warbler in Macaronesia

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Research Project funded by the Canarian Government

Reference: SolSubC200801000201

Period: 2009-2011

Amount: € 41,620

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Presence of the avian malaria in the Canary Islands and Madeira archipelagos: A case study with the Berthelot’s pipit

State: Project ended

Sponsor: John and Pamela Salter Charitable Trust

Reference: R14789

Period: from 10-15-2006 to 04-14-2007

Amount: £ 1,000

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera

Factors determining the breeding success in the Canary Islands stonechat

State: Project ended

Sponsor: Research grant funded by the Spanish Ornithological Society.

Period: 2003

Amount: € 2,000

Principal Investigator: Juan Carlos Illera