Post-doctoral researcher (DarCo project)

• PhD Biodiversity and Environmental Management, University of Murcia, 2017
• MSc Biodiversity Management in Mediterranean environments, University of Murcia, 2011
• BSc Environmental Sciences, University of Murcia, 2010 

email: susana.pallares@um.es
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Research lines:

- Physiology, ecology, biogeography and evolution of aquatic insects

- Tolerance to multiple stressors in aquatic insects

- Thermal tolerance and climate change vulnerability of subterranean fauna


Career history:

- 2024 - present. Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia. Murcia (Spain).

- 2021-2023. Postdoctoral researcher (Talento program, Junta de Andalucía). Department of Zoology, University of Seville. Seville (Spain)

- 2020-2021. Postoctoral researcher (Juan de la Cierva-formación). Department of Biogeography and Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Madrid (Spain)

- 2019-2020. Postdoctoral researcher (Fundación Séneca fellowship). Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, University of Plymouth (UK)

- 2019. Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Zoology, University of Seville. Seville (Spain)

- 2017-2018. Postdoctoral researcher. Intituto de Ciencias Ambientales, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Toledo (Spain)

- 2015 (2.5 months). Instituto de Biología Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Water and Cave Beelte Evolution Lab. Barcelona (Spain). PhD stay. Supervisor: Ignacio Ribera.

- 2014 (3 months). Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth (UK). PhD stay. Supervisor: David T. Bilton.

- 2013 (3 months). Environmental Proteomics Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California (USA). PhD stay. Supervisor: Lars Tomanek.

- 2012-2017. Predoctoral researcher. Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia. Murcia (Spain). PhD supervisors: Josefa Velasco, Paula Arribas and Andrés Millán


Publications (updated 2020):

PALLARÉS, S.; COLADO, R.; MONTES, A.; BALART-GARCÍA, P.; BILTON, D.T.; MILLÁN, A ... SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ, D. (2020) Loss of heat acclimation capacity could leave subterranean specialists highly vulnerable to global change. Animal Conservation, 24: 482 - 490.

PALLARES, S.; MILLAN, A.; MIRON, J.M; VELASCO, J.; SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; ABELLAN, P. (2020) Assessing the capacity of endemic alpine water beetles to face climate change. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13: 271-282. 

PALLARES, S.; LAI, M.; ABELLAN, P.; RIBERA, I.; SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D. (2019) An interspecific test of Bergmann’s rule reveals inconsistent body size patterns across several lineages of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Ecological Entomology, 44: 249 - 254.

PALLARES, S.; COLADO, R.; PEREZ-FERNANDEZ, T.; WESENER, T.; RIBERA, I.; SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D. (2019) Heat tolerance and acclimation capacity in subterranean arthropods living under common and stable thermal conditions. Ecology and Evolution, 9:13731–13739.

VELASCO, J.; GUTIERREZ-CANOVAS, C.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D.; ARRIBAS, P.; CARBONELL, J.A.; MILLAN, A.; PALLARES, S. (2019) Effects of salinity changes on aquatic organisms in a multiple stressor context. Philosophical Transactions B, 374: 20180011

ARRIBAS, P.; GUTIERREZ-CANOVAS, C.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; CAÑEDO-ARGÜELLES, M.; CARBONELL, J.A.; MILLAN, A., PALLARES, S.; VELASCO, J.; SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D. (2019) Insect communities in saline waters consist of realized but not fundamental niche specialists. Philosophical Transactions B, 374: 20180008.

BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; PALLARES, S.; MILLAN, A.; VELASCO, J. (2019)  Role of cuticle hydrocarbons composition in the salinity tolerance of aquatic beetles. Journal of Insect Physiology, 117: 103899

SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, D.; RIZZO, V.; BOURDEAU, C.; CIESLAK, A.; COMAS, J.; FAILLE, A.; FRESNEDA, J.; LLEOPARD, E.; MILLAN, A.; MONTES, A.; PALLARES, S.; RIBERA, I. (2018)  The deep subterranean environment as a model system in ecological, biogeographical and evolutionary research. Subterranean Biology, 25:1-7

PALLARÉS, S.; BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; ARRIBAS, P.; MILLÁN, A.; VELASCO, J. (2017) Aquatic insects in a multistress environment: cross-tolerance to salinity and desiccation. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220: 1277 - 1286.

BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; VILLASTRIGO, A.; PALLARÉS, S.; LÓPEZ, E.; MILLÁN, A.; VELASCO, J. (2017) Cuticle hidrocarbons in saline aquatic beetles. Peer J, 5:e3562

PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; BILTON, D.T;  MILLÁN, A.; VELASCO, J.; RIBERA, I. (2017) The chicken or the egg: Adaptation to desiccation and salinity tolerance in a lineage of water beetles. Molecular Ecology, 26: 5614 - 5628.

PALLARÉS, S.; VELASCO, J.; MILLÁN, A.; BILTON, D.T.; ARRIBAS, P. (2016) Aquatic insects dealing with dehydration: do desiccation resistance traits differ in species with contrasting habitat preferences? Peer J, 4: e2382

BOTELLA-CRUZ, M.; CARBONELL, J.A.; PALLARÉS, S.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J. (2016) Plasticity of thermal limits in the aquatic saline beetle Enochrus politus (Küster 1849) under changing environmental conditions. Limnetica, 35: 131 - 142

PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; BILTON, D.T.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J. (2015) The comparative osmoregulatory ability of two water beetle genera whose species span the fresh-hypersaline gradient in inland waters (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae). PLoS ONE 10(4): e0124299. 

CÉSPEDES, V; PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J. (2013) Water beetle tolerance to salinity and anionic composition and its relationship to habitat occupancy. Journal of Insect Physiology, 59: 1076-1084.

PALLARÉS, S.; ARRIBAS, P.; CÉSPEDES, V.; P.; MILLÁN, A. & VELASCO, J. (2012) Lethal and sublethal behavioural responses of saline water beetles to acute heat and osmotic stress. Ecological Entomology, 37:508-520.