A5025151734- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and soil sciences
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
2016-2025
Fundación Biodiversidad
2022
University of Illinois Chicago
2003-2005
Instituto de Ecología
1999-2002
Summary Plant functional traits, in particular specific leaf area ( SLA ), wood density and seed mass, are often good predictors of individual tree growth rates within communities. Individuals species with high , low small seeds tend to have faster rates. If community‐level relationships between traits general predictive value, then similar should also be observed analyses that integrate across taxa, biogeographic regions environments. Such global consistency would imply could serve as...
Summary Fragmentation of tropical forest is accelerating at the same time that already cleared land reverts to secondary growth. Fragments inexorably lose deep‐forest species local extinction while embedded in low‐diversity stands early successional pioneer trees. Pasture matrices undergoing passive succession become a ‘pioneer desert’ from vantage remnant immigration, imposing ‘time tax’ loss plants fragments. However, if seeds trees find pastures, or seedlings are planted there, many will...
Restoration of tropical forest depended in large part on seed dispersal by fruit-eating animals that transported seeds into planted patches. We tested effectiveness agents as revealed established recruits tree and shrub species bore dispersed birds, bats, or both. documented restoration processes over the first 76 months experimental southern Mexico. Mixed-model repeated-measures randomized-block ANOVAs seedlings recruited controls mixed-species plantings from late-secondary mature indicated...
Unassisted secondary succession in abandoned tropical pastures often results species-poor forests of pioneer trees that persist for decades. We characterize recruitment rates woody vegetation planting treatments during the first 60 months experimental restoration on thin, eroded soils at Los Tuxtlas, southern Mexico. test hypothesis later-successional is greater fenced plots planted with native than controls simulate natural succession, and further such species would be animal-dispersed...
Summary Along their lengths, stems experience different functional demands. Because bark and wood traits are usually studied at single points on stems, it remains unclear how carbon allocation changes along tip‐to‐base trajectories across species. We examined vs by measuring cross‐sectional areas of outer inner (OB IB), IB regions (secondary phloem, cortex, phelloderm), from stem tips to bases 35 woody angiosperm species diverse phylogenetic lineages, climates, fire regimes, morphologies....
ABSTRACT Experimental restoration may both accelerate and elucidate natural processes of succession on degraded agricultural land by offering insight into factors that influence rates the composition resulting communities. A novel study in tropical coexistence with cattle ranching activities was established southern Veracruz, Mexico. The experimental planting 16 mixed‐species stands 18 pioneer late‐successional tree species from September to November 2006 an eroded hillside pasture...
Abstract Soil degradation by deforestation and introduction of exotic grasses is a grave consequence land‐use change in tropical regions during the last decades. restoration following natural succession (i.e., passive restoration) slow because low tree establishment. Introduction plantings human intervention active results promising strategy to accelerate forest soil recovery region. The present research was carried out explore properties after cattle exclusion grazing combined with native...
Large-scale ecological restoration generally employs un-replicated trial and error to create habitats destroyed or degraded by human activity. Trial follows a management plan that the “best available practice” for each habitat type; adaptive reflecting experience subsequently corrects errors. The process is slow because often well-advanced before adjustments are attempted. Rare simultaneous replicated trials during initial corrective process. “Systemic experimental restoration” would design...
Almost half of Mexican territory has been classified as environmentally degraded. The main response for the last 60 years reforestation to combat soil erosion and loss forest cover, mostly carried out on private lands where negotiations with local stakeholders were critical. Despite four legal instruments referring ecological restoration, no specific instrument that defines basic concepts, criteria standards, required actions, or regulations implement evaluate restoration exists. Ministry...
Abstract Urban areas are foci for the introduction of non‐native plant species, and they often act as launching sites invasions into wider environment. Although interest in biological urban is growing rapidly, extent complexity problems associated with these systems have increased, data on composition numbers plants urbanized remain scattered idiosyncratic. We assembled from multiple sources to create Global Biological Invasions Compendium (GUBIC) vascular representing 553 centres 61...
Background: Forest mulch is the habitat of decomposer organisms and protects soil from erosion. In seasonally dry tropical forest, this organic layer lost due to elimination vegetation cover resulting agricultural activities but could be recovered through restoration intervention. Prediction: The seasonality rainfall, composition species richness plantings recruitment in areas under explain accumulation mass. Study site dates: Four-year-old forest Quilamula, Sierra de Huautla, Morelos....
Los jales son rocas trituradas y molidas mezcladas con sustancias químicas, producto de la minería. En Huautla, Morelos, México, existen depósitos sin contención confinados (presas jales). Las superficies los quedan expuestas lo que vuelve susceptibles al desplazamiento por agua viento. Este estudio analizó el erosión hídrica deslizamiento cinco jales, mediante cuatro métodos: a) cálculo Ecuación Universal Pérdida Suelo (USLE, sus siglas en inglés) vulnerabilidad ladera método Mora-Vahrson;...
Abstract: Seed dispersal into fragmented tropical landscapes limits the rate and character of ecological succession between forest remnants. In a novel experiment in recovery remnants, 120 1-m 2 seed traps were placed fenced plots active pasture 90–250 m from forest, nearby primary secondary forests. Total rain December 2006 to January 2008 included 69 135 seeds 57 woody species. High richness early-successional trees occurred all habitats, but late-successional plants was much lower...
Ecological restoration in tropical dry forests urgently needs to incorporate experimental evidence increase effectiveness. The main barriers for tree establishment are adverse microenvironmental conditions and competition with exotic grasses. Therefore, management should address such order enhance performance. We evaluated the effect of plastic mulching, grass removal, no on survival after 2 months stem volume canopy size years integrated response index (IRI) plantings 11 native species...
Outcomes from restoration projects are often difficult for policymakers and stakeholders to assess, but this information is fundamental scaling up ecological actions. We evaluated technical aspects of the interventions, results (ecological socio-economic) monitoring practices in 75 Mexico using a digital survey composed 137 questions. found that terrestrial ecosystems generally relied on actions included minimal (97%) maximal (86%) intervention, while wetlands, preferred strategies were...
Ecological risk assessment as currently practiced has hindered consideration of ecosystem services endpoints and restoration goals in the environmental management process. Practitioners have created barriers between procedures to clean up contaminated areas efforts restore functions. In this article, we examine linkages contaminant approaches with aim identifying ways improve outcomes. We advocate that project managers other stakeholders use an ecological planning framework, options included...
Abstract Central to the success of restoration is how applied activities influence community assembly mechanisms. Phylogenetic and trait‐based approaches ecology are increasingly being used test for non‐random now assessments habitat restoration. A critical question tropical forests plantings recruitment new species, specifically phylogenetic functional diversity restored habitats. We examined 8 years (2006–2014) tropical‐forest in two planting compositions (12 animal‐dispersed 12...
La ecología de la restauración es una disciplina científica que a partir teoría ecológica desarrolla principios para guiar práctica los ecosistemas. El objetivo esta revisión exponer síntesis situación actual y las perspectivas larestauración en México, así como retos investigación ante el escenario ambiental nuestro país. Se realizó diversosindicadores, publicaciones, congresos, instituciones, investigadores oferta formación recursos humanos. arrojó un totalde 206 artículos (1995-2016),...
Intense and chronic disturbance may arrest natural succession, reduce environmental quality lead to ecological interaction losses. Where succession does not occur, restoration aims accelerate this process. While plant establishment diversity is promoted by restoration, few studies have evaluated the effect of activities on processes animal diversity. This study assessed herbivory lepidopteran associated with two pioneer tree species growing in 4-year-old experimental plots a tropical dry...