Luis Cayuela
A5024841926- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Forest ecology and management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Regional Development and Innovation
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2015-2024
Natural History Museum
2024
Harvard University Press
2024
Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa
2024
Université de Moncton
2024
Ecosystem (Spain)
2017
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2014
Universidad de Alcalá
2006-2011
Universidad de Granada
2009-2011
Junta de Andalucía
2009-2011
Significance Decades of research have fostered the now-prevalent assumption that noncrop habitat facilitates better pest suppression by providing shelter and food resources to predators parasitoids crop pests. Based on our analysis largest pest-control database its kind, surrounding farm fields does affect multiple dimensions control, but actual responses pests enemies are highly variable across geographies cropping systems. Because often not enhance biological more information about local...
Abstract Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in same community. data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies biodiversity centers and, thus, rarely accessible at continental global scales. Here we present sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for exploration patterns taxonomic, functional phylogenetic diversity plant community level. Results version 2.1 contains from...
Summary 1. Compilation of vegetation databases has contributed significantly to the advancement science all over world. Yet, methodological problems result from use plant names, particularly in data that originate numerous and heterogeneous sources. One main is inordinate number synonyms can be found lists. 2. We present Taxonstand , an r package automatically standardise names using The Plant List ( http://www.theplantlist.org ). scripts included this allow connection online search engine...
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data 170,272 georeferenced assemblages, we created global maps alpha (local species richness) vascular plants at three different grains, forests non-forests. We show that is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), 'scaling anomalies' (deviations from...
In this paper we aim to investigate the problems and potentialities of species distribution modeling (SDM) as a tool for conservation planning policy development implementation in tropical regions. We reviewed 123 studies published between 1995 2007 five leading journals ecology conservation, examined two case which is currently being applied support planning. also analyzed characteristics data typically used fitting models within specific context tree Central America. The results showed...
Landscape ecology focuses on the analysis of spatial pattern and its relationship to ecological processes. As a scientific discipline, landscape has grown rapidly in recent years, supported by developments GIS techniques. Although remote sensing data are widely employed research, their current potential roles have not been evaluated critically. To provide an overview practice, 438 research papers published journal Ecology for years 2004—2008 were examined information about use sensing....
Abstract Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record occurrence or abundance all species co‐occurring within delimited local areas. This allows absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing datasets. Although many vegetation have been recorded, most are not available research community. A recent initiative, called ‘sPlot’,...
Our knowledge about the structure and function of Andean forests at regional scales remains limited. Current initiatives to study over continental or global still have important geographical gaps, particularly in regions such as tropical subtropical Andes. In this study, we assessed patterns tree species diversity along ~ 4000 km latitude m elevation range forests. We used Forest Network (Red de Bosques Andinos, https://redbosques.condesan.org/) database which, present, includes 491 forest...
Understanding and predicting the likely response of ecosystems to climate change are crucial challenges for ecology conservation biology. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in tropics as these forests store more half total atmospheric carbon stock their biomass. Biomass determined by balance between biomass inputs (i.e., growth) outputs (mortality). We can expect therefore that conditions favor high growth rates, such abundant water supply, warmth, nutrient-rich soils will tend correlate...
Summary Loss in forest cover associated with human activities leads to islands within a fragmented landscape. Anthropogenic disturbance may also directly alter tree species diversity. Habitat fragmentation and have implications for biodiversity conservation can affect variety of population community processes over range temporal spatial scales. Effects are manifest both between fragments. The complexity this process challenges the predictive value simple models based on island...
Summary The stacking of species‐distribution models (S‐ SDM s) is receiving attention by conservation researchers because this approach capable simultaneously predicting species richness and composition. However, the steps required to build S‐ s implies at least two choices that influence its predictive performance which have not been extensively assessed: selection modelling algorithm application a threshold transform into binary maps be added together final . Our goal was provide...
Newton, A. C., L. Cayuela, C. Echeverría, J. Armesto, R. F. Del Castillo, D. Golicher, Geneletti, M. Gonzalez-Espinosa, Huth, López-Barrera, Malizia, Manson, Premoli, N. Ramírez-Marcial, Rey Benayas, Rüger, Smith-Ramírez, and G. Williams-Linera. 2009. Toward integrated analysis of human impacts on forest biodiversity: lessons from Latin America. Ecology Society 14(2): 2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02847-140202
Abstract Questions: Which are the factors that influence forest and shrubland loss regeneration their underlying drivers? Location: Central Chile, a world biodiversity hotspot. Methods: Using land‐cover data from years 1975, 1985, 1999 2008, we fitted classification trees multiple logistic regression models to account for relationship between different trajectories of vegetation change range biophysical socio‐economic factors. Results: The variables most consistently showed significant...
Ground cover vegetation is often added or allowed to generate promote conservation biological control, especially in perennial crops. Nevertheless, there inconsistent evidence of its effectiveness, with studies reporting positive, nil negative effects on pest control. This might arise from differences between at the local scale (e.g. orchard management and land use history), landscape context presence patches natural semi-natural near focal orchard), regional factors, particularly climate...
Case studies of land use change have suggested that deforestation across Southern Mexico is accelerating. However, forest transition theory predicts trajectories can be modified by economic factors, leading to spatial and temporal heterogeneity in rates may take the form Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). This study aimed assess evidence regarding potential classifying regional cover using Landsat imagery from 1990 through 2006. Patterns were found complex non-linear. When loss averaged over...
The statistical framework of rarefaction curves and asymptotic estimators allows for an effective standardization biodiversity measures. However, most analyses still consist point comparisons diversity a particular sampling level. We introduce new randomization methods that incorporate variability encompassing the entire length curve allow comparison i ≥2 individual‐based, sample‐based, or coverage‐based curves. These distinguish between two distinct null hypotheses: ecological hypothesis (...
Tropical montane forests (TMFs) play an important role as a carbon reservoir at global scale. However, there is lack of comprehensive understanding on the variation in storage across TMF compartments (namely aboveground biomass [AGB], belowground [BGB], and soil organic matter) along altitudinal environmental gradients their potential trade-offs. This study aims to: 1) understand how stocks vary Andean TMFs, and; 2) determine influence climate, particularly precipitation seasonality,...
Global biodiversity is negatively affected by anthropogenic climate change. As species distributions shift due to increasing temperatures and precipitation fluctuations, many face the risk of extinction. In this study, we explore expected trend for plant in Central America southern Mexico under two alternative Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) portraying moderate (RCP4.5) severe (RCP8.5) increases greenhouse gas emissions, combined with dispersal assumptions (limited unlimited),...