Biography:
Errol Vela is a field naturalist that obtained Ph.D. on plant ecology at Aix-Marseille University in 2002. After a 5-year period as biodiversity expert in a private company, he devoted himself to teaching and research at Aix-Marseille then Montpellier universities. His main lectures concern environmental expertise, functional ecology, climatology and mostly botany. His current researches are devoted to studying the Mediterranean hotspot biodiversity, particularly in terms of evolutionary biogeography, descriptive taxonomy and identification tools. He is particularly involved in cooperation with countries from southern and eastern Mediterranean (Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq…). He is the current Red List authority coordinator of the UICN Mediterranean plant specialist group.
Title : Flow cytometry as a support tool for the identification of semi-cryptic species