Yurena Arjona Fariña

Yurena Arjona Fariña is a postdoctoral researcher interested in island plant evolution, ecology, and biogeography. During her Ph.D., she studied the role of dispersal syndromes in the colonization and spread of native plants in the Galápagos and the Canary Islands. She combined a floristic approach focused on the whole flora of each archipelago with a genomic and landscape genetic approach at the intraspecific level. Nowadays, her research is addressing the urgent problem of invasive species on islands. By comparing native and introduced plant species in the Canaries from an evolutionary and morphological perspective, she is trying to disentangle the key of species invasiveness.