Dr Alfonsina Arriaga-Jimenez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Email: aarriaga@une.edu.au
Twitter: @@Aarriaga8
Biography
Alfonsina's main interest is arthropods (dung beetles, bees, velvet ants, ants, and mites). Her research goes from ecology, taxonomy, natural history and biogeography. She has experience with Red Lists assessing as an expert for the IUCN. During her work she has describe several new species for science. As part of her research, she deploys dung beetles as indicators and as tools for forest conservation. Since her arrival to Australia, Dr. Arriaga-Jiménez is being working with native dung beetles in forests and grasslands on NSW. With her current project at UNE she aims to go further with forest conservation, using dung beetles as bioindicators of the effects that the recent bushfires have on the entomofauna, and the ecosystem services dung beetles provide to forests.
