A5077553374- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Polar Research and Ecology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2022-2024
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
2013-2017
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2013-2015
Unidades Centrales Científico-Técnicas
2013
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2005-2009
Predicting climate-driven changes in plant distribution is crucial for biodiversity conservation and management under recent climate change. Climate warming expected to induce movement of species upslope towards higher latitudes. However, the mechanisms physiological processes behind altitudinal latitudinal range a tree are complex depend on each features vary over ontogenetic stages. We investigated differences between juvenile adult individuals seven major European along elevational...
Summary Fungi are principal actors of forest soils implied in many ecosystem services and the mediation tree's responses. Forecasting fungal responses to environmental changes is necessary for maintaining productivity, although our partial understanding how abiotic biotic factors affect communities restricting predictions. We examined P inus sylvestris along elevation gradients check potential climate change‐associated factors. roots were analysed at a regional scale, by using...
Global change triggers shifts in forest composition, with warming and aridification being particularly threatening for the populations located at rear edge of species distributions. This is case Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) Mediterranean Basin where uncertainties relation to its dynamics under these changing scenarios are still high. We analysed relative effect climate on recruitment patterns interactions local biotic abiotic variables different spatial scales. Number seedlings saplings was...
Abstract Questions Environmental factors have been identified as strong modulators of plant community distribution and diversity, especially in arid semi‐arid ecosystems. Despite recent advances the ecology biological soil crusts ( BSC ) from a perspective, much remains unknown at species level. Do environmental different scales influence richness, diversity composition communities? At level, what are main predictors for occurrence frequency? Location A geographic gradient southeast to...
Egg placement by herbivorous insects is an important step in their interaction with host plants, and the result of processes operating at different spatial temporal scales. Although several studies have examined egg‐placement patterns scales, this has rarely been achieved simultaneously using a multi‐scale hierarchical approach. We studied egg rare European butterfly, Iolana iolas , whose larvae specifically feed on seeds plants genus Colutea, approach Generalised Linear Mixed Modelling. The...
Quantifying dispersal is fundamental to understanding the effects of fragmentation on populations. Although it has been shown that patch and matrix quality can affect patterns, standard metapopulation models are usually based two basic variables, area connectivity. In 2004 we studied migration patterns among 18 habitat patches in central Spain for butterfly Iolana iolas, using mark–release–recapture methods. We applied virtual (VM) model estimated parameters emigration, immigration mortality...
Abstract Aim Forest recovery in Mediterranean environments is influenced by factors such as aridity, herbivory and facilitation shrubs, well seed limitation the case of highly fragmented forests. How these various interact can determine direction secondary succession, yet interactions are poorly understood. We assessed relative importance several forest species recruitment Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss ( ) shrublands at different spatial scales. Location Centre Iberian Peninsula. Methods...
Abstract Aim Lichens are often regarded as paradigms of mutualistic relationships. However, it is still poorly known how lichen‐forming fungi and their photosynthetic partners interact at a community scale. We explored the structure fungus‐alga networks interactions in lichen communities along latitudinal transect continental Antarctica. expect these to be highly specialized and, consequently, with low nestedness degree high modularity. Location Transantarctic Mountains from 76° S 85°...
Abstract Key message In European mountain forests, the growth of silver fir ( Abies alba Mill.), sycamore maple Acer pseudoplatanus L.), beech Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) seedlings is more strongly affected by ungulate browsing than elevation. But, constraint exerted ungulates, in particular probability for to be browsed, increases with elevation most species. Context While concerns about forest regeneration rise due their high vulnerability climate...
Plant breeding systems have been viewed as mechanisms to promote outcrossing in order increase genetic variability and prevent inbreeding depression. However, reduced fitness after crossing, outbreeding depression, has often observed between individuals from different populations more rarely, within populations. We studied the system of Colutea hispanica using experimental hand pollinations field conditions one population Central Spain 2004 2006. Pollination experiments showed that C. set...
Abstract Fragmentation and habitat loss are considered among the most important threats to biodiversity. More precisely, transformation of natural habitats into farmlands has been identified as one primary causes plant species extinction. Therefore, understanding effects fragmentation is crucial successful conservation threatened species. Metapopulation modeling prospective tools used in biology evaluate long‐term survival fragmented landscapes. In this work, we applied a metapopulation...