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Butterfly conservation within cities: a landscape scale approach integrating natural habitats and abandoned fields in central Mexico
(2016-06)
"Growing urbanization and the expansion of the agricultural frontier in tropical ecosystems have generated patchy landscapes composed of remnants of natural habitats and abandoned fields. This scenario offers an opportunity ...
Effects of burial depth on seed germination and seedling emergence of Mexican oaks: a glasshouse experiment
(2012)
"Despite the interest in restoring oak forests in Mexico, very little is known about their regeneration ecology. We assessed the influence of acorn burial depth on seed germination and seedling emergence for eight Mexican ...
Differential allelopathy between genders of an invasive dioecious tree on desert plantsAlelopatía diferencial entre los géneros de un árbol invasor dioico sobre plantas de desierto
(2016-06)
"The Peruvian peppertree (Schinus molle) is a dioecious species from South America that was introduced into central Mexico five centuries ago. This tree has invaded abandoned agricultural fields from semiarid regions, where ...
The relevance of burial to evade acorn predation in an oak forest affected by habitat loss and land use changes
(2014-06)
"Seed burial was proposed as an effective mechanism to evade seed predation in continuous forests. However, the relevance of burial as a mechanism to evade seed predators may be compromised in fragmented forests intensely ...
Conservation value of a natural protected area in the state of Puebla, MexicoValor de conservación de una área natural protegida en Puebla, México
(2012-09)
"Mexico has several natural protected areas (NPAs) managed by state administrations. However, the aims these NPAs are more closely related to local political contexts than to their importance as reservoirs of biodiversity. ...
Conservación y restauración de bosques mexicanos en el escenario del cambio global: una responsabilidad compartida con beneficios múltiplesConservation and restoration of Mexican forests in the global change scenario: a shared responsibility with multiple benefits
(2011)
"Nuestro planeta enfrenta hoy un fuerte cambio inducido por las actividades humanas, el cual usualmente se denomina Cambio Global. La creciente preocupación sobre las consecuencias socioeconómicas de este fenómeno dio lugar ...
Improved predictions of the geographic distribution of invasive plants using climatic niche models
(2016-05)
"Climatic niche models for invasive plants are usually constructed with occurrence records taken from literature and collections. Because these data neither discriminate among life-cycle stages of plants (adult or juvenile) ...
Germinación, infestación y viabilidad en bellotas de Quercus polymorpha (Schltdl. & Cham.) tras un año de almacenamientoGermination, infestation, and viability in acorns of Quercus polymorpha (Schltdl. & Cham.) after 1-year storage
(2013)
"Los encinos blancos tienen semillas recalcitrantes que se mantienen viables por corto tiempo. Sin embargo, esta información es escasa para encinos mexicanos. Este es el caso de Quercus polymorpha, una especie tolerante a ...
Changes in body size spectra of benthic caridean shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) and snails (Gastropoda) as response to seasonal variability
(2016-03)
"Ecologists have been largely interested in the description and understanding of the power scaling relationships between body size and abundance of organisms. Many studies have focused on estimating the exponents of these ...
Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on the diversity of shallow stony corals in the Veracruz Reef System National ParkImpacto de perturbaciones antrópicas sobre la diversidad de corales pétreos superficiales en el Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal veracruzano
(2011-03)
"Anthropogenic disturbances may affect the development and maintenance of coral reefs by promoting diseases and other syndromes. In turn, this may cause local decreases in coral species diversity. In this study, we compared ...