My main area of interest is the Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. I have done my PhD research on macroinvertebrates in Chilean rivers, studying some aspects of the life history of species at high extinction risk. I am also very interested in investigating the environmental factors that have structured populations of insects, crustaceans and snails in Patagonia, and I have focused on studying community, biogeographic and phylogeographic issues.

The questions that fascinate me most in recent times relate to the influence of Pleistocene glaciations on fluvial invertebrate species. I am therefore starting phylogeographic studies of some species distributed in Chilean Patagonia: The crab Aegla alacalufi (Crustacea, Decapoda) and the “stonefly” Klapopteryx kuscheli (Plecoptera, Austroperlidae). In order to get the best data from my extensive sampling we have been sequencing the entire mitochondrial genome of Klapotyeryx using Next Generation Sequencing.

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Estudiante Doctorado Ciencias Ambientales-Sistemas Acuáticos Continentales
Centro EULA-Chile
Universidad de Concepción
aoyanede@udec.cl