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My research focuses on various ecology topics, from plant-insect interactions to forest ecology. I am also interested in ecological networks, conservation ecology, and ecosystem services. I have extensive experience in fieldwork, data analysis, and scientific publication. Additionally, I am an experienced lecturer in ecology and environmental topics, teaching at both graduate and postgraduate levels in both Spanish and English.
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The order Plecoptera is primarily known for its aquatic nymphs and their importance in many stream ecosystems. However, the biology and life history of Plecopteran terrestrial adults is mostly unknown, and hence interactions with plants have rarely been documented. Here, we report on insect visitation to flowers of Corylopsis gotoana (Hamamelidacea...
Explosive pollen release is a mechanism used by some angiosperms that serves to attach pollen to a pollinator's body. It is usually adopted by species with zygomorphic tubular flowers and pollinated by birds and bees. The tree genus Meliosma (Sabiaceae, Proteales) has unique disc‐like flowers that are externally actinomorphic, but internally zygomo...
In the Old World tropics, several hundred species of leafflowers (Phyllanthus sensu lato; Phyllanthaceae) are engaged in obligate mutualisms with species-specific leafflower moths (Epicephala; Gracillariidae) whose adults actively pollinate flowers and larvae consume the resulting seeds. Considerable diversity of Phyllanthus also exists in the New...
Insect induced galls are not known from bryophytes. Here we report the first occurrence of such galls from thalli of a neotropical liverwort, Monoclea gottschei subsp. elongata (Marchantiophyta: Monocleaceae) from Peru. This is also the first report of animal-induced galls formed in modern thalloid liverworts. The gall-inducer is a species of the f...
Most species of Hydrangea (Hydrangeaceae) have a flower arrangement in which several large sterile decorative flowers surround a dense cluster of small fertile flowers. These decorative flowers have been hypothesized to attract pollinators, but this has yet to be tested for this genus. To identify whether the decorative flowers have functions relat...
A new species from the Peruvian Andes, Aa olivacea, is described and illustrated. Information concerning distribution, habitat, ecology, and conservation status is provided. The new species is similar to A. hieronymi by its dense spikes of dark green and brown flowers with translucent whitish floral bracts; but differs from it by its elliptic to la...
La polinización es un servicio ecosistémico de gran importancia para la humanidad, aunque en países megadiversos como Perú existe gran desconocimiento sobre la diversidad de polinizadores, sus interacciones, dinámica y distribución biogeográfica. Se resalta la necesidad de información sobre dichos aspectos en el territorio peruano y de identificar...
Investigadores de la División de Ecología Vegetal del Centro
de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), vienen ejecutando el
proyecto de investigación “Dinámica y biogeografía de redes ecológicas de polinización y parasitismo de ecosistemas costeros y montanos del centro y sur del Perú” - Proyecto REDES (financiado por PROCIENCIA con código PE501078...
This study evaluated the forest dynamics in six permanent plots of one hectare located in premontane forests (between 800 and 1500 masl) and montane forests (between 1500 and 3000 masl) in the Chanchamayo valley, department of Junin, in forests of central Peru. In each plot all the surviving trees, the dead and the recruits (with a diameter at brea...
Documentation of plant taxa has long been subject to the temporal and spatial selec-tivity of professional research expeditions, especially in tropical regions. Therefore, rare and/or narrowly endemic species are sometimes known only from very few and very old herbarium specimens. However, these taxa are very important from a conservation perspecti...
Las lomas costeras son ecosistemas compuestos por abundante vegetación herbácea xerófila y estacional, únicamente distribuidas a manera de islas a lo largo del desierto costero de Perú y Chile. Este ecosistema presenta una gran diversidad florística y muchas especies endémicas dentro del territorio peruano, sin embargo, han sido clasificados como f...
La cuarentena fue la medida tomada por el estado peruano para enfrentar a la pandemia causada por el COVID- 19. Esta significó un retraso para casi todos los sectores, incluyendo el sector académico. Este estudio analiza las consecuencias de esta medida en el trabajo de los investigadores científicos del Perú durante el 2020, enfocándose en aquello...
Nine new species of Meriania are described and illustrated and M. zunacensis, originally described from Ecuador, is recorded for the first time for Peru from Andean forests in the Amazonas Department. The new species are M. bicentenaria and M. vasquezii from Pasco, M. bongarana, M. callosa and M. juanjil from Amazonas, M. hirsuta from Piura, M. meg...
Información sobre la venación foliar del género Cedrela, y de la familia Meliaceae en general, es escasa. En este estudio usamos la técnica de diafanización para facilitar la caracterización de la venación foliar de tres especies de Cedrela: C. angustifolia, C. montana y C. nebulosa. Además, usamos análisis de correspondencia múltiple para determin...
Framed inflorescences are unique arrangements in which a cluster of small fertile flowers is surrounded by several larger, decorative sterile flowers. Viburnum (Adoxaceae) species vary in their inflorescence arrangements; some species exhibit framed inflorescences, whereas others do not. We hypothesize that the decorative flowers increase the polli...
A topic of current interest in forestry science concerns the regeneration of degraded forests and areas. Within this topic, an important aspect refers to the time that different forests take to recover their original levels of diversity and other characteristics that are key to resume their functioning as ecosystems. The present work focuses on the...
Nasa is the most diverse genus among the family Loasaceae and it is mainly distributed in Peru. Most species of this genus are microendemics, with distributions restricted to very specific locations; such is the case of Nasa colanii Dostert & Weigend. This species — previously only known from the type collected in 1978 from the Amazonas region of P...
A current topic in forestry concerns the regeneration of forests and degraded lands. An important aspect in this respect refers to the timing that different forests take to recover naturally, recomposing their original levels of diversity and other parameters key to their functioning as ecosystems. The present work focuses on the above mentioned, i...
Catálogo ilustrado de las plantas leñosas del itinerario Lima-Tarma
Mid-point rooted, maximum-likelihood tree of Epicephala moths in Peru based on analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences.
Terminal labels include information on host Phyllanthus species name and extraction ID. Numbers above branches are bootstrap values based on 1,000 replications.
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Female and male genitalia of Epicephala graveolensella.
(a) Apophyses and eighth abdominal segment; (b) seventh abdominal segment and corpus and ductus bursae; (c) valva; (d) aedeagus. Bar = 500 μm.
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Female and male genitalia of Epicephala anomala.
(a) Apophyses and eighth abdominal segment; (b) seventh abdominal segment and corpus and ductus bursae; (c) valva; (d) aedeagus. Bar = 500 μm.
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Female and male genitalia of Epicephala acuminatella.
(a) Seventh abdominal segment and corpus and ductus bursae; (b) Apophyses and eighth abdominal segment; (c) valva; (d) aedeagus. Bar = 500 μm.
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Descriptions of the five newly described Epicephala species.
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Female Epicephala anomala ovipositing into Phyllanthus salviifolius ovary without pollinating.
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Female Epicephala anomala exhibiting active pollination behavior before attempting to oviposit into Phyllanthus salviifolius ovary.
Ovipositor of this moth was blocked by the tepal, and oviposition was not successful. The female is the same individual as in S1 Video.
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Female and male genitalia of Epicephala huallagensiella.
(a) Apophyses and eighth abdominal segment; (b) seventh abdominal segment and corpus and ductus bursae; (c) valva; (d) aedeagus. Bar = 500 μm.
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Female and male genitalia of Epicephala chancapiedra.
(a) Female genitalia; (b) valva; (c) aedeagus. Bar = 500 μm.
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The bat diversity in the tropical rainforest of Peru is of an extreme importance. This group of mammals plays an important role in various ecological processes such as pollination and dispersal of many woody species in tropical rainforests, as well as in the forest regeneration, a process where its importance exceeds that of other animal groups.
