A5091410839- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Plant and soil sciences
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest Management and Policy
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
2022-2025
Instituto de Ecología
2017-2020
The tropical dry forest (TDF) biome has undergone a diversity of severe disturbances, with resulting transformations and continued pressures making this type one the Earth’s most threatened. Supporting large numbers native, often endemic species, fragments TDF serve as important but precarious refugia. There are global efforts to restore once extensive type, impact restoration on biodiversity ecosystem function is poorly understood. Here, we present results from an analysis 187 unique...
Global modeling of carbon storage and sequestration often mischaracterizes unique ecosystems such as the seasonally dry tropical forest central region Gulf Mexico, because species diversity is usually underestimated, their content. In this study, aboveground soil stocks were estimated to determine climate mitigation potential highly degraded landscape (<25% cover). Tree in study area had content values that 30%–40% higher than standard value proposed by IPCC (i.e., 50%). Tropical oak region,...
β-diversity has been under continuous debate, with a current need to better understand the way in which new wave of measures work. We assessed results 12 incidence-based indices. Our gradual species composition overlap between paired assemblages considering progressive differences richness show following: (i) four indices (β-2, β-3, β-3.s, and βr) should be used cautiously given that no shared retrieve could misinterpreted; (ii) all conceived specifically as partitioned components...
Abstract Aim Spatial patterns in resource supply drive variability vegetation structure and function, yet quantification of this for tropical dry forests (TDFs) remains rudimentary. Several climate‐driven indices have been developed to classify delineate TDFs globally, but there has not a climo‐edaphic synthesis these assess the extent TDFs. A statistical is therefore required. Location Pantropical. Time period Modern. Major taxa studied Vascular plants. Methods We assembled most known prior...
The pervasive loss of primary forest in the tropics means that we need a better understanding how transforming tropical landscapes affects plant regeneration if wish to recover and maintain diverse composition, structure, function landscapes. Advance (AR) is crucial stage dynamics; it includes all immature woody plants germinate establish may eventually form part as adults. In this study, describe AR three contiguous habitats central Veracruz, Mexico: protected semideciduous forest,...
Seasonally dry tropical regions in the Neotropics are remarkably biodiverse and provide valuable ecosystem services. Thus, it is crucial to increase update our information on biodiversity still preserved within them, particularly poorly studied areas such as central coastal plain of Gulf Mexico, study area. A total 5,583 individuals belonging 157 species, 113 genera, 43 families were recorded 29 forest patches (total sampling area = 8.7 ha). From floristic composition these patches, 6...
The tropical dry regions in the Neotropics are under intense anthropogenic pressures, resulting changes for local communities related with their life patterns, wellbeing, and relationship ecosystems. region has a history of human occupation that shaped traditional use resources. We evaluated richness, redundancy, divergence uses tree species present vegetation patches Gulf Mexico using functional diversity indices. most used Acacia cochliacantha, Cedrela odorata, Enterolobium cyclocarpum,...

 El mono aullador rojo (Alouatta seniculus) es de las pocas especies colombianas primates que no se encuentra bajo alguna categoría amenaza. En comparación con otras posee una alta plasticidad ecológica, lo le permite ocupar ambientes más variables en cuanto a tamaño hábitat y oferta recursos. Los bosques secos tropicales (BsT) Colombia han sido fuertemente afectados por la implementación sistemas ganaderos quedando un porcentaje muy respecto su distribución original mayoría...