Contact InformationEmail: jocarher@ull.edu.es José Carlos HernándezRG ID Scopus ORCID read more 2021-present Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) Professor - Titular de Universidad (Zoology) 2013 - 2021 Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) Profesor Contratado Dr. ULL, Spain - Group leader of Marine Community Ecology 2010 - 2013 Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) Profesor Ayudante Dr. ULL, Spain 2007 – 2010 Villanova University and Oregon State University (USA) Postdoc 2004 – 2006 University of California Santa Cruz (USA) PhD visiting student 2004 – 2006 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panamá) PhD visiting student 2004 – 2006 Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) PhD student Lab members Iván CanoPhD candidate: Diadema africanum mass mortalities and benthic community wide effects Marina AliendePhD candidate: Adaptation of Marine Organisms Dra. Silvia OlivaSeagrass meadows and macroalgae forests ecology Dr. Enrique LozanoEcotoxicology of Metals Claudia HurtadoPhD candidate: Sea turtles of the Webbnesia region Andrés Rufino NavarroPhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community Dr. Celso A. HernándezCoastal Oceanography Dr. Carlos SangilMacroalgae Ecology Dr. Jacob Lorenzo MoralesMarine Pathogens Dr. Jorge Núñez FragaBenthic Fauna Sara González DelgadoPhD candidate: Benthic communities of the future: biodiversity and functioning. Dra. Beatriz AlfonsoCommunity Ecology Dominique Girard BerardPhD candidate: Paracentrotus lividus population biology Formed students Doctorated Dr. Celso A. HernándezCoastal Oceanography Dra. Adriana Rodríguez HernándezEffect of Ocean Acidification on Sea Urchins Populations Dra. Eliseba GarciaSea Urchin Larvae Biology Dra. Sabrina Clemente MartínTrophic Interactions_Sea Urchin-TopPredators Dr. José Carlos Mendoza DuranEcological modeling Master's Ana AlfaroEffect of primary production on littoral fish communities Isabel Sancibrian SpanMethods for sampling fish communities in tropical environments Natali LazzariEffects of underwater volcanic eruptions on coastal fish assemblages. Sofia ViottiEffects of natural acidification on Phorcus sauciatus survival Enrique OgallasEffect of the MPA Ventotene Islands and Santo Stefano on fish assemblages Amaya Miguel BarreraGrowth estimation of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula Carla PérezEffects of a natural CO2 gradient on benthic coastal populations (Bachelor) Determining carbon adquicition system of benthic macroalgae (Master) Pablo Martín PestanoTrophic ecology of brown smooth-hound shark (Mustelus henlei) and grey smooth-hound (Mustelus californicus) Alfredo FernándezPopulation dynamics and relationship with environmental conditions of three scyphozoan jellyfishes in the Mar Menor lagoon (Spain) Andrés Rufino NavarroPhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community Henriette HeidrichMarine benthic assemblages trends of the Canary Islands MPAs Camila Esperanza Salazar ForeroMarine pathogens of sea urchins Javier SepúlvedaLarvae development of Arbacia lixula under a natural pH gradient Claudia HurtadoPhD candidate: Sea turtles of the Webbnesia region Naira SosaSea urchin growth across a natural pH gradient Romain Guet (Erasmus Mundus Programme)MER+ Cohort (MSc in Marine Environment and Resources, Erasmus Mundus Programme Phylogeography of Diadema africanum Marina AliendePhD candidate: Adaptation of Marine Organisms Bachelor´s Vahitiare Quintero RomeroEffect of underwater volcanic eruptions on rocky mesoinvertebrates communities Eros Cabrera GonzálezBiomass export from different littoral macroalgae communities Daniel Miranda GonzálezDevelopment of a long-term monitoring program of Tenerife intertidal areas Cristina González MonjeEfficiency of rocky benthic assemblages on carbon adquisition Héctor Toledo PadillaGrowth and mortality of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Yasmina Díaz SiverioEffects of lunar cycle on Diadema aff. antillarum gametogenesis. Marc BalsalobreSpatial and temporal variation of mesoinvertebrates on rocky subtidal ecosystems Carla PérezEffects of a natural CO2 gradient on benthic coastal populations (Bachelor) Determining carbon adquicition system of benthic macroalgae (Master) Saray PérezStudy of allometric growth of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) in the coasts of Tenerife Liam Barreto PérezForcipulatidae starfishes of the Canary Islands Eva BurgosTemporal study of sea turtles stranding cases in the Canary Islands Andrés Rufino NavarroPhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community Abel Méndez ÁlvarezSettlement of the sea urchin Diadema africanum after the mass mortality of 2018 Asia MattalianoReview of the biology and ecology of Arbacia lixula Estefanía GonzálezSea urchin pathogens Lorena Méndez HernándezSettlement of marine invertebrates in recent volcanic lavas Visiting students Daniel GonzálezUniversidad Nacional de Costa Rica 2018 Andrés BeitaUniversidad de Costa Rica, 2017. John KirwanDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science. Lund University. 2016 Debora TerrosuNatural Sciences at the University of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2015 Alessandra FanaiNatural Sciences at the University of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2014 Martina MatićUniversity of Split, Universidad de Oviedo and University of Ghent. 2014 Lana Allertz & Caroline SchlepperVan Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Science Coastal Zone Management, 2013 Mishal CohenUniversité du Littoral Cote d´Opale, Dunkerque, France 2012 Rita González DomínguezUniversidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain 2012 Emily June GrayUniversity of Hull, Cottingham, UK 2011 Andrea Glockner FagettiUniversidad del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico 2010 Manfredi Di LorenzoUniversity of Palermo, Italy 2008 Flavia NunesUniversity of San Diego, USA 2007 Jane Manning & Victoria GalitzineSwamsea University, Wales, UK 2005 Jake CoyleNewcastle University, UK 2015 Romain Guet (Erasmus Mundus Programme)MER+ Cohort (MSc in Marine Environment and Resources, Erasmus Mundus Programme Phylogeography of Diadema africanum Horst Christian SchulteUniversität Bremen, Germany, 2021 Simona LaukaityteUniversity Groningen, the Netherlands Seagrass Ecology - burrowers facilitation Aitor UgenaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid Taxonomy of early decapods settlers Elin DisseUsing historic underwater lava flows to determine circalitoral benthic community structure