A5020069402- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Universidad de La Laguna
2019-2025
University of Washington
2024
Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
2023
Gobierno de Canarias
2023
University of Mons
2023
Tel Aviv University
2023
Royal Museum for Central Africa
2023
Universidad de Murcia
2006-2022
Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena
2022
Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales
2021
Abstract Viruses are omnipresent, yet the knowledge on drivers of viral prevalence in wild host populations is often limited. Biotic factors, such as sympatric managed species, well abiotic climatic variables, likely to impact prevalence. Managed and bees, which harbor several multi-host viruses with a mostly fecal–oral between-species transmission route, provide an excellent system test for biotic factors populations. Here we show continental scale that three broad viruses: AKI-complex (...
Abstract Pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystems globally, ensuring the seed production of most flowering plants. They are threatened by global changes and knowledge their distribution at national continental levels is needed to implement efficient conservation actions, but this still fragmented and/or difficult access. As step forward, we provide an updated list around 3000 European bee hoverfly species, reflecting current distributional status level (in form present, absent,...
The Canary Islands are an archipelago of volcanic origin, located off north-west Africa comprising eight islands. Fuerteventura and Lanzarote the oldest (20 15 millon years old, respectively) easternmost order Diptera is one most relevant taxa in as they constitute second highest species richness. Within this order, family Tachinidae especially interesting all endoparasitoids arthropods play a key role pollinators. In Islands, comprises 52 species, with harbouring up to 20...
In recent years, the development of biodiversity inventorying platforms has contributed to detection exotic species, bringing awareness general public about their impact on native habitats. This is important in Canary Islands and other oceanic archipelagos, where invasive species pose a great risk conservation ecosystems monitoring strategies may not be completely adequate detection. Here we report for first time occurrence Florentine wool carder bee, Anthidium florentinum , address its...
The genus Trichopoda Berthold, 1827 is distributed in the Neotropical and Nearctic Regions some species are very important for biological control. During last decades, pictipennis Bigot, 1876 has received much attention. It of origin, but it been introduced throughout western Palaearctic, probably through exchanges that transported its main host, 'southern green stink bug' Nezara viridula . reported first time from Canary Islands. To date, this detected island Tenerife a single locality on...
In species differentiation, characters may not diverge synchronously, and there are also processes that shuffle character states in lineages descendant from a common ancestor. Species thus expected to show some degree of incongruence among characters; therefore, taxonomic delimitation can benefit integrative approaches objective strategies account for conflict. We illustrate the potential exploiting conflict study case ground beetles subgenus Carabus (Mesocarabus), where traditional taxonomy...
Abstract One of the current challenges for applied ecologists is to understand how manage/restore agroecosystems in a sustainable and cost‐effective way. The intermediate landscape complexity hypothesis (ILCH) predicts that effectiveness agri‐environmental measures (AES) on biodiversity ecosystem services recovery often largest landscapes complexity. This has rarely been tested savanna‐like permanent agroecosystems. Focusing pollinators, we test ILCH at regional scale Mediterranean olive...
Migratory beekeeping is a widely extended practice aimed at increasing the yield of products and pollination services honey bee colonies. However, it represents stress factor, as facilitates dissemination diseases may compromise genetic identity colonies involved. To analyze extent these effects, pathogens infestation rate composition were monitored in field experiment comparing stationary migratory sharing same environmental conditions but differing management (stationary vs. migratory)...
Human population growth has resulted in increased food consumption, followed by agrifood production intensification. activities have a significant impact on the environment, causing, among other things, air and water pollution biodiversity degradation. In an international context where there is strong concern about environmental issues, it also necessary to direct towards more sustainable models. this context, use of frameworks for certifying footprint products can be lever promote...
Abstract Accelerating taxonomic knowledge and making accurate species identifications are critically important given the current biodiversity crisis, particularly in hotspots such as M esoamerica. Objective delimitation that reduces investigator‐driven bias is fundamental to establishment of appropriate conservation strategies, above all managed species. Previous morphological molecular studies on three stingless bee genus S captotrigona distributed exico ( . mexicana , pectoralis hellwegeri...
Population estimates for the diverse raptor assemblage of Dadia National Park, Greece.Dadia which is situated in north-eastern Greece, close to border with Bulgaria and Turkey, characterised by one most arrays breeding raptorial species Europe. The first survey was undertaken 1970s, but until 1999 surveys were circumstantial nonsystematic. Considering some these are globally endangered included Annex 1 Birds Directive, that raptors general considered key indicators biodiversity ecosystem...
Stingless bees are one of the most significant pollinators within tropical dry forests, and both threatened by impact human activity on environment. The loss habitat this pollinator is due to activities like deforestation large areas for purpose intensive agriculture, agricultural burning, urbanization processes, use agrochemicals pesticides. breeding stingless or meliponiculture may serve as a promising tool contribute conservation these forests. Numerous indigenous groups have managed...
Transferred copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into the nuclear genome (numts) have been reported in several Hymenoptera species, even at a high density honey bee genome. The accidental amplification numts phylogenetic studies focused on mtDNA highlights importance correct determination and their related sequences. We report here presence derived from rDNA 16S gene stingless species Melipona colimana M. fasciata (tribe Meliponini) Western Mexico. PCR products were cloned both obtaining...
Alambiaga, I., M. Carrasco, C. Ruiz, F. Mesquita-Joanes, and J. S. Monrós 2021. Population trends habitat selection of threatened marsh passerines in a protected Mediterranean wetland. Avian Conservation Ecology 16(2):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01953-160223
Abstract Aim To investigate the effects of Pleistocene climatic variations on diversification rate subgenus Calathus (Coleoptera: Carabidae), and to estimate role vicariance dispersal for explaining current distributional patterns. Location Western Palaearctic Region, particularly Mediterranean Basin. Methods Fragments mitochondrial cox1–cox2 nuclear 28S EF1α genes were analysed by Bayesian inference. Lineage divergence times estimated using a relaxed molecular clock. Three analyses...