A5072503910- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2016-2025
Wesleyan University
2010-2015
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
2011-2012
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2006-2011
Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
2009
National Research Council
2005
Abstract Species are the unit of analysis in many global change and conservation biology studies; however, species not uniform entities but composed different, sometimes locally adapted, populations differing plasticity. We examined how intraspecific variation thermal niches phenotypic plasticity will affect distributions a warming climate. first developed conceptual model linking niche breadth, providing five alternative scenarios that consistent with existing literature. Secondly, we used...
Abstract The dataset presented here was collected by the GenTree project (EU-Horizon 2020), which aims to improve use of forest genetic resources across Europe better understanding how trees adapt their local environment. This individual tree-core characteristics including ring-width series and whole-core wood density for seven ecologically economically important European tree species: silver birch ( Betula pendula ), beech Fagus sylvatica Norway spruce Picea abies black poplar Populus nigra...
BackgroundBroad scaling relationships between leaf size and function do not take into account that leaves of different may contain fractions support in petiole mid-rib.
Summary Interannual variability in climatic conditions should be taken into account climate change studies semi‐arid ecosystems. It may determine differentiation phenotypic plasticity among populations, with populations experiencing higher environmental heterogeneity showing levels of plasticity. The ability to evolve key functional traits and the survival plant under drier more variable expected for Working Chilean shrub Senna candolleana along its entire distribution range, we assessed...
Background and AimsPlants are naturally exposed to multiple, frequently interactive stress factors, most of which becoming more severe due global change. Established plants have been reported facilitate the establishment juvenile plants, but net effects plant–plant interactions difficult assess complex among environmental factors. An investigation was carried out in order determine how two dominant evergreen shrubs (Quercus ilex Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) co-occurring continental,...
The ability to succeed in diverse conditions is a key factor allowing introduced species successfully invade and spread across new areas. Two non-exclusive factors have been suggested promote this ability: adaptive phenotypic plasticity of individuals, the evolution locally adapted populations range. We investigated these individual population-level Polygonum cespitosum, an Asian annual that has recently become invasive northeastern North America. characterized fitness, life-history,...
Summary Roots are assumed to play a major role in structuring soil microbial communities, but most studies exploring the relationships between microbes and plants at community level have only used aboveground plant distribution as proxy. However, decoupling belowground components may occur due differential spreading of canopies root systems. Thus, microbe–plant links not completely understood. Using combination DNA metabarcoding spatially explicit sampling neighbourhood scale, we assessed...
Abstract Domestication might affect plant size. We investigated whether herbaceous crops are larger than their wild progenitors, and the traits that influence size variation. grew six crop plants progenitors under common garden conditions. measured aboveground biomass gain by individual during vegetative stage. then tested photosynthesis rate, allocation to leaves, leaf specific area ( SLA ) accounted for variations in whole‐plant photosynthesis, ultimately biomass. Despite among crops,...
Understanding constraints to phenotypic plasticity is key given its role on the response of organisms environmental change. It has been suggested that integration, structure trait covariation, could limit plasticity. However, relationship between and integration far from resolved. Using a database functional drought Mediterranean shrub included 20 ecophysiological traits, we assessed environmentally-induced changes in whether constrained expression plasticity, accounting for...
Abstract Water is the most limiting resource for plant survival and growth in arid environments, but diversity of water‐use strategies among coexisting species dryland communities not well understood. There also growing interest assessing whether a whole‐plant coordination exists between traits related to leaf economic spectrum (LES). We used water stable isotopes (δ 2 H, δ 18 O) quantify uptake proportions from different soil depths by 24 Mediterranean shrubland. Leaf associated with...
Abstract Phenotypic differences among populations stem from the interaction between neutral and adaptive processes, phenotypic plasticity. Although clinal trait variation along climatic gradients often evolves in widely distributed species, it is unknown whether substrate specialization, such as that of Mediterranean gypsum plants, has constrained adaptation to climate. Using a common garden experiment with two contrasting watering treatments, we quantified plasticity, assessed evidence for...
Abstract The increasing global rate of road construction is leading to a parallel increase areas degraded soil conditions and steep slopes that need revegetation. Hydroseeding with commercial seeds fast‐growing grasses legumes common practice in revegetation motorway slopes. We carried out 3 years monitoring vegetation dynamics on hydroseeded nonhydroseeded (48 slopes) maritime Mediterranean zone Málaga (southern Spain). Our main objectives were test whether hydroseeding significantly...
Global change is not restricted to climate change, and plant species generally face multiple human‐driven disturbances constraining their viability. Most importantly, interactions among these drivers frequently generate nonadditive effects that cannot be predicted based on single‐factor studies. Our goal was assess the joint of three global are especially relevant in Mediterranean ecosystems, namely, fragmentation, reduced habitat quality, Centaurea hyssopifolia, a gypsum specialist plant....
Habitat fragmentation, i.e., fragment size and isolation, can differentially alter patterns of neutral quantitative genetic variation, fitness phenotypic plasticity plant populations, but their effects have rarely been tested simultaneously. We assessed the combined connectivity on these aspects variation in populations Centaurea hyssopifolia, a narrow endemic gypsophile that previously showed performance differences associated with fragmentation. grew 111 maternal families sampled from ten...
Summary 1 Climate-driven changes in leaf respiration (R) darkness have the potential to determine whether low productivity ecosystems exhibit positive or negative carbon balances. 2 We investigated sustained exposure full sunlight, shade and seasonal drought alters temperature response of R field-grown Quercus ilex subsp. ballota a dry-land continental Mediterranean ecosystem. The plants studied, experience large diurnal variations temperature. 3 Whilst growth irradiance impacted on...
Summary 1. The spatial distribution of individual plants within a population and the population’s genetic structure are determined by several factors, like dispersal, reproduction mode or biotic interactions. role interspecific interactions in shaping plant populations remains largely unknown. 2. Species with common evolutionary history known to interact more closely each other than unrelated species due greater number traits they share. We hypothesize that may shape fine related congeners....
Most work on plant community ecology has been performed above ground, neglecting the processes that occur in soil. DNA metabarcoding, which multiple species are computationally identified bulk samples, can help to overcome logistical limitations involved sampling communities belowground. However, a major limitation of this methodology is quantification species' abundances based percentage sequences assigned each taxon. Using root tissues five dominant semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland...
Populations of widely distributed species often exhibit geographic variation in functional traits response to environmental heterogeneity. Such trait may be the result different adaptive mechanisms, including genetically based differentiation, phenotypic plasticity or a combination both. Disentangling genetic and components particularly interesting crop wild relatives, since they provide unique reservoirs diversity for improvement. In this study, we assessed ecotypic differentiation patterns...