A5040143020- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant and animal studies
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
University of Castilla-La Mancha
2016-2025
Real Jardín Botánico
2019-2024
Hospital de Manises
2017
Hospital General Universitario de Albacete
2011
Generalitat Valenciana
2010
Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos
2008
Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis
2006
Abstract Aim Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems serve as reference laboratories for the investigation of global change because their transitional climate, high spatiotemporal variability environmental conditions, a rich and unique biodiversity wide range socio‐economic conditions. As scientific development pressures increase, it is increasingly necessary to evaluate recent progress challenge research priorities in face change. Location ecosystems. Methods This article revisits proposed...
Abstract Question: Our knowledge of secondary old‐field succession in Mediterranean environments is extremely poor and non‐existent for restrictive soil conditions. How these ecosystems, such as those on semi‐arid gypsum outcrops, recover seems a priority managing change ensuring conservation specialized endangered biota. We tested whether reinstallation vegetation after cropland abandonment requires: (1) physical restructuring (2) chemical readjustment to enable growth survival gypsophilous...
Only very few studies have been carried out on seed dormancy/germination in the large monocot genus Narcissus. A primary aim of this study was to determine kind dormancy Narcissus hispanicus and relate breaking germination requirements field situation. Embryo growth, radicle emergence shoot growth were studied by subjecting seeds with without an emerged different periods warm, cold or warm plus natural temperatures outdoors under controlled laboratory conditions. Mean embryo length fresh...
<title>Abstract</title> Flowering timing is a critical event in the lifetime of angiosperms, being particularly sensitive to environmental conditions, although range flowering response should be ultimately constrained by evolutionary history. We hypothesized that a) if phylogenetic constraints prevail over phenotypic plasticity expression phenology, peaks would more segregated diverse assemblages than composed close relatives; b) conversely, time mainly plastic trait, drought induce...
The influence of high temperatures on germination four Cistus and five Halimium taxa is analysed. Seeds were heated to a range (from 50ºC 150ºC) exposure times 1 60 min), simulating those heat conditions registered the soil surface during wildfires. After thermal pretreatments, seeds sown in plastic Petri dishes monitored for over days. For all species, was increased significantly control set (untreated seeds) by at least one pretreatments. Temperatures 120 150ºC most efficient promoting...
The implication of the viable soil seed bank in early stages plant recovery after fire was studied a recently burnt Mediterranean pine forest Pinus pinaster. Seed number contained samples taken inmediately and emergent seedling recorded field during subsequent year were compared. Although effect important, available density relatively high (around 2,200 seeds/m2). A small group species containing main shrub unburnt community predominated both germination fire. However, these showed low rates...
:Natural regeneration of Pinus halepensis Mill. was studied for the first three years after fire in a semi-arid area southeastern Spain. In order to establish main periods emergence and seedling mortality, 465 seedlings were labelled ten permanent 50 m2 plots. The results showed that pine recolonization accomplished during 21 months fire. No new detected time. P. mortality post-germination summer ranged between 14.94% 47.35%. After second year, increase rate not always lower than recorded...
Abstract Seeds of Aconitum napellus subsp. castellanum were physiologically dormant at maturity in early autumn, with underdeveloped embryos. Thus they have morphophysiological dormancy (MPD). Embryos fresh seeds on average 1.01 mm long, and had to grow 3.60 before radicle emergence. Cold stratification 5°C for 5 months light enhanced the mean embryo length 2.73 (SE = 0.13) seed germination 20%. However, higher temperatures (15/4, 20/7, 25/10, 28/14 32/18°C) growth was small, no germinating....
Salvage logging is the commonest post-fire emergency action, but has unclear ecological effects. In Mediterranean Basin, drought periods and fire regimes are changing forest management should be adapted. summer 2009, a mid-high severity burned 968 ha of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) in southeast Spain, which was submitted to salvage six months later. spring 2010, plots were set untreated logged areas monitor recruitment survival main tree species three companion species: Stipa...
Abstract Aims Research in the last decades supports idea that certain species, namely ‘nurse species’, can enhance ecosystem function and species diversity their vicinity through amelioration of abiotic environment. However, few studies have explored whether nurse plants promote functional at microhabitat level. Here, we evaluated hypothesis increase beneficiary annual plant assemblage Location Sayeret Shaked Park, Negev desert (Israel). Results The examined, two shrubs one large annual, had...
The direct impact of fire on the soil seed bank and changes observed one year later were studied by analysis content in sample layers at depths 0–2 cm 2–5 cm. Fire had a severe but selective bank: species with transient reserves accumulating surface eliminated, whereas persistent buried tended to remain after passage fire. Thick coats shown be an efficient mechanical protection barrier One fire, trade-off between input output into produced conspicuous recovery density richness surface,...