Antonio Mendoza-Fernández

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Granada

Sicily is a Mediterranean island with an exceptional natural heritage, where gypsum outcrops are widespread and associated with an endemic flora. These ecosystems are prioritized by the European Habitats Directive (Mediterranean gypsum steppes, 1520*) in the Mediterranean Basin. Some studies have revealed the physiological mechanisms in gypsophile...

Species–area relationships (SAR) constitute a key aspect of ecological theory and are integral to other scientific disciplines, such as biogeography, which have played a crucial role in advancing biology. The theory of insular biogeography provides a clear example. This theory initially expanded from true islands to other types of systems character...

En la primavera de 2023 se celebró en Salobreña (Granada) un taller científico-técnico sobre los problemas de conservación de Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea (“arto”) y su hábitat ante el desarrollo de actividades socioeconómicas, y las posibles soluciones para la preservación de tan importante valor de biodiversidad del sur y este ibérico. C...

Biodiversity is related to a global problem: its destruction, a fact supported by scientific authorities. It is not trivial that educational dimension has been contemplated as one of the strategies for its conservation. Since 1992 global initiatives such as the Convention on Biological Diversity postulates concepts that linked education and nature...

Gypsum covers a vast area of the Iberian Peninsula, making Spain a leader in its production. Gypsum is a fundamental raw material for modern societies. However, gypsum quarries have an obvious impact on the landscape and biodiversity. Gypsum outcrops host a high percentage of endemic plants and unique vegetation, considered a priority by the EU. Re...

Biodiversity Conservation is a priority issue for the scientific community, and a main subject in the Biology and Geology curriculum at secondary school level in Spanish Educational System. In the present didactic proposal, we use the demographic monitoring of an endangered plant species to illustrate a research tool for estimates of biodiversity l...

Mediterranean high-mountain endemic species are particularly vulnerable to climatic changes in temperature, precipitation and snow-cover dynamics. Sierra Nevada (Spain) is a biodiversity hotspot in the western Mediterranean, with an enormous plant species richness and endemicity. Moehringia fontqueri is a threatened endemic plant restricted to nort...

The analysis of plant elemental composition and the underlying factors affecting its variation are a current hot topic in ecology. Ecological adaptation to atypical soils may shift plant elemental composition. However, no previous studies have evaluated its relevance against other factors such as phylogeny, climate or individual soil conditions. We...

GYPWORLD: A Global initiative to understand gypsum ecosystem ecology - III Workshop. Book of abstracts and modelling course Guide. Almería (Spain) 9-13 may, 2022. University of Almería. ISBN: 978-84-1351-141-2.

GYPWORLD: A Global initiative to understand gypsum ecosystem ecology - III Workshop. Book of abstracts and modelling course Guide. Almería (Spain) 9-13 may, 2022. University of Almería. ISBN: 978-84-1351-141-2.

During the last decades, phylogeography has transformed the ways to analyze and understand plant diversity and biogeography. The repeated and increasingly detailed articles made from DNA data with phylogeographical procedures and algorithms have revolutionized biodiversity research, particularly on biodiversity conservation. This paper presents a s...

Unusual dolomite substrates present a phenomenon known as dolomitophily, which refers to the specificity of the flora that grows on them. Within the dolomitic flora, one of the most widespread plants in Spain is the characteristic species Pterocephalus spathulatus (Lag.) Coult., which forms whitish prostrate thymes. The present study focused on the...

This Special Issue provides an overview of the current status of plant conservation biology in Spain and other regions around the World. Papers represent selected outstanding presentations made during the 9th Congress of the Spanish Society of Plant Conservation Biology, which took place in Granada (Spain) on July 9-12, 2019. These papers cover dif...

The present paper is an overview of state of the art in plant conservation in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems (MTEs), highlighting current studies and neglected topics. A review of the literature dealing with this issue and a general analysis of the results was performed, delving into relevant plant conservation biology topics. The main topics consid...

Simple Summary Little is known about the relationship between dolomite soils and the flora that develops on them due, among other reasons, to their diffuse separation from limestone, and the lack of a common approach and terminology. Thus, the main aim of the present review was to define what the dolomite phenomenon is, delimiting its global extent...

Campo de Dalías, located in southeastern Spain, is the greatest European exponent of greenhouse agriculture. The development of this type of agriculture has led to an exponential economic development of one of the poorest areas of Spain, in a short period of time. Simultaneously, it has brought about a serious alteration of natural resources. This...

To be considered “sustainable”, a city must be built with materials whose extraction and processing are not very aggressive with the environment and its ecological footprint palliated as much as possible. One of the materials most used in construction is the plaster. The gypsum outcrops, although traditionally have been poorly valued, have geomorph...

Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea is a shrub belonging to the Celastraceae family, whose only European populations are distributed discontinuously along the south-eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, forming plant communities with great ecological value, unique in Europe. As it is an endangered species that makes up plant communities with gr...

Analysis and recommendations so that the new cities of the post-carbon era have the smallest ecological footprint with one of their materials (gypsum)

Gymnosporia senegalensis is a shrub belonging to the Celastraceae family, which is native to tropical savannahs. Its only European populations are distributed discontinuously along the south-eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, forming plant communities with great ecological value, unique in Europe. As it is an endangered species that makes up p...

A FIRST EVALUATION OF THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE GLOBAL GYPSUM FLORA Francisco Javier Pérez García1 (fpgarcia@ual.es) Hossein Akhani, Hilda Flores Olvera, Latif Kurt, Juan Lorite, Michael Lyons, Fabian Martínez-Hernández, Antonio J. Mendoza-Fernández , M. Encarna Merlo, Michael J. Moore, Carmelo M. Musarella, Helga Ochoterena, Ebru Özdeniz, S...

El SE de la Península Ibérica alberga una flora singular dentro de Europa continental, rica en endemismos y disyunciones, sobre todo de carácter xerotérmico. Se trata de zonas litorales de clima semiárido y gran diversidad geológica, con una intensa actividad humana que genera importantes amenazas. Esta flora no suele tener mucho protagonismo en la...

La investigación sobre plantas vasculares asociadas a suelos especiales ha atraído desde hace mucho tiempo el interés de botánicos y ecólogos. La flora asociada a sustratos ultramáficos (serpentinas y otras rocas relacionadas) ha sido una de las más investigadas, probablemente por su riqueza en endemismos, adaptaciones muy marcadas y la posibilidad...

Biodiversity has a spatial basis, this is the reason why a geographical basis at a detailed scale is absolutely essential for this study. In the case of the study of gypsophily (i.e., the link between plants and gypsum soils) at a global scale, a cartography of gypsum outcrops worldwide is essential. In order to compile information on gypsum outcro...

High mountain habitats are particularly susceptible to climate changes, which have been classified as the key drivers of biodiversity extinction. Plant species have proved to be a suitable surrogate for estimating the state of an area’s total biodiversity, and the Red List Index (RLI) is one of the key global Convention on Biological Diversity Indi...

Plants that show a strict link with gypsum soils, gypsophytes, constitute a major current research topic in the field of plant ecology. Among the hypotheses proposed to explain this close relationship, the nutritional imbalances that this type of soil implies for plants stands out. According to this hypothesis, gypsophytes would be able to accumula...

Our understanding of the richness and uniqueness of the flora growing on gypsum substrates in Italy has grown significantly since the 19th century and, even today, new plant species are still being discovered. However, the plants and plant communities, growing on gypsum substrates in Italy, are still a relatively unknown subject. The main aim of th...

ANOVA analysis by gypsophily level

For download a free copy of this paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JrQYQ4fXaPvrcXhWRKC3/full We evaluated the environmental adaptability of Lavandula multifida L., a plant species presents in the Western Mediterranean Basin with a threatened peripheral population in Southern Italy. Germination capacity, activities of some hydrolyzing enzym...

Gypseous substrates are well-recognised as supporting distinctive and unique flora assemblages, including numerous gypsum endemic (gypsophile) species. Along with these, others are also frequent although their presence is not restricted to gypsum; they show a clear preference for them (gypsocline). While this phenomenon (gypsophily) has been studie...

Interest in plants growing on special substrates has increased considerably in recent years. The studies on halophytes (plants restricted to saline soils) and serpentinophytes (those restricted to ultramafic rocks) are good evidence of this trend. Research on the phenomenon of gypsophily has not been developed as widely as the other two before-ment...

In this contribution, the conservation status assessments of three vascular plants are presented following to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Saxifraga caprariae Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and S. montis-christi Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and the regional assessment of Halocnemu...

In this contribution, the conservation status assessments of three vascular plants are presented following to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Saxifragacaprariae Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and S.montis-christi Mannocci, Ferretti, Mazzoncini & Viciani and the regional assessment of Halocnemumc...

In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants are presented according to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Crepis lacera Ten subsp. titani (Pamp.) Roma-Marzio, G.Astuti & Peruzzi and Anthyllis hermanniae L. subsp. sicula Brullo & Giusso and the regional assessment of Commi...

In this contribution, the conservation status assessment of four vascular plants are presented according to IUCN categories and criteria. It includes the assessment at global level of Crepis lacera Ten subsp. titani (Pamp.) Roma-Marzio, G.Astuti & Peruzzi and Anthyllis hermanniae L. subsp. sicula Brullo & Giusso and the regional assessment of Commi...

The taxonomic status of Hormathophylla baetica and its phylogenetic relationships to other Hormatophylla species are the subject of controversy. As part of an ongoing study on the genus Hormathophylla, we find that molecular, morphological and biogeographical evidence supports the placement of H. baetica as a subspecies of H. cochleata. We also dis...

The strict relationship between plants and particular types of substrate has long been known to botanists and plant ecologists who have dealt with this issue. The peculiar flora growing on Italian gypsum substrates has been underlined since the nineteenth century (1, 2, 3). The concept of plant gypsophily can be defined as the exclusiveness or mark...

El Banco de Germoplasma de la Universidad de Almería (GERMHUAL), empezó a trabajar de manera sistemática desde 2009, aunque existen algunas aportaciones previas procedentes de colectas realizadas por el profesorado de la UAL y la inestimable aportación de voluntariado de aficionados a la botánica. Aunque el banco está abierto a recoger la máxima bi...

Red Lists are the widest international tool to establish species extinction risks and conservation priorities. Chronological Red Lists comparisons have proved a useful strategy to assess biodiversity loss. Alongside Red Lists, nature protection Acts have been enacted in most countries. The information transposition from Red Lists to Acts would be t...

La restauración de las canteras de yeso supone un reto extraordinario por tratarse de un hábitat sometido a condiciones muy severas para la plantas. La compleja diversidad vegetal asociada los sustratos yesíferos ibéricos ha sido clave para la catalogación de estos ecosistemas como hábitat prioritario de la Unión Europea. En este contexto, y fruto...

Los hábitats gipsícolas son ecosistemas de una extraordinaria originalidad, y son considerados como prioritarios en la Directiva 92/43/CEE. La presencia de yeso en el suelo determina la existencia de una biocenosis muy particular adaptada a unos condicionantes ecológicos muy limitantes. Los ecosistemas áridos y semiáridos están determinados por fac...

El proyecto SEBIECO se inició en el año 2013, tras la realización por parte de Endesa de una serie de trabajos encaminados a la recuperación y la integración ambiental de una escombrera de cenizas y escorias inertes procedentes de la combustión del carbón. La finalidad de estos trabajos de restauración, enmarcados en el Plan para la conservación de...

The identification of areas of endemism is a crucial tool for both the interpretation of the spatial component of biological evolution and the plotting of priority areas as far as biodiversity conservation is concerned. Geographical isolation, aridity and special substrates are among the factors which can help to explain the restricted areas of the...

Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea communities are unique vegetal formations in Europe. In fact, they are considered Priority Habitat by Directive 92/43/EEC. These are ecologically valuable plant communities found in the southeast of Spain. By combining modeling methods of environmental variables, historical photo-interpretation, and fieldwork,...

Convolvulus boissieri is an edaphic endemic plant which grows in the Baetic ranges always in association with high mountain xeric dolomitic outcrops. As these dolomitic areas appear in a ‘soil-island’ pattern, the distribution of this species is disjunct. Populations of this species frequently include a low number of individuals, which could have a...

Jurinea pinnata (Lag.) DC. is one of the three species of the genus that grows in the Iberian Peninsula. This species grows on gypsum and dolomite, substrates rich in endemic taxa. Actually, the genus Jurinea Cass. is particularly rich in endemic taxa associated with special substrates. The island-like distribution of J. pinnata makes it an interes...

The species-area relationship is one of the most commonly studied issues in ecology and several explanatory models have been proposed for the question. Most papers on the relationships between taxa and area adopt the species-level approach. By contrast, our approach exports these concepts to other organizational levels of biodiversity and analyses...

Andalusia has one of the highest levels of diversity in Europe in terms of biology, geology and landscape. Its natural heritage is not only extremely diverse but also well preserved. Only the vascular flora of Andalusia consists over 4,000 species, many of which are endemic. Nowadays many of these plants are endangered and therefore registered unde...

Networks of protected areas are one of the main strategies used to address the biodiversity crisis. These should encompass as many species and ecosystems as possible, particularly in territories with high biological diversity, such as the Spanish arid zones. We produce a priority ranking of the arid zones of south-east Spain according to the rarity...

CONCLUSIONES Se han localizado 1.613 taxones de plantas vasculares en el Levante Almeriense; 454 incluidos en listas, libros rojos, legislación y estudios sobre conservación; 75 amenazados a alguna escala (RE, CR, EN, VU o NT). Se han identificado las KBA a escala global, nacional y regional del LA en Lugares de Importancia Comunitaria (LIC) y fuer...

Background and aims Jurinea pinnata is an Iberian vascular plant which only grows on gypsum and dolo-mite, two types of rocks associated with their exclusive endemic floras. In addition, the plant has an island-like distribution which could affect the differentiation and the genetic variability of wild populations. Thus, the species provides a uniq...

The Baetic ranges in the Iberian Peninsula are extremely rich and outstanding in biological terms. Based on the existing literatura, herbarium sheets and our own field research, we provide a checklist of the endemic flora growing in the Baetic chorological province. The checklist includes 418 taxa belonging to 43 families, with the species pool con...

Within the EU territory, gypsum habitats with a peculiar flora are exclusively restricted to the eastern half of the Iberian Peninsula. The Habitats Directive considers the scrublands belonging to the Gypsophiletalia order as priority habitats (habitats 1,520). Although these scrublands do not represent the only kind of vegetation associated with g...

The Betic ranges are recognised as one of the hot spots of biodiversity in the Mediterranean región. The greater part of this territory is in Andalusia and is very rich in vascular plants, some of them endemic. The territory exhibits enormous orographical and geological complexity. This is, in short, a mosaic, fragmented landscape with extremely hi...

The shrublands of the Convolvuletalia boissieri order have been known since 1953, when Quézel published the first association in the dolomites of Sierra Nevada (south of Spain). Despite their enormous floristic and ecological originality, the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC does not mention them as priority hábitats. This omission is striking given th...

Contribution to the knowledge of inner regions plant edaphisms in Eastern Andalusia (Spain) In this paper we present 21 new records for 16 taxa of peculiar substrates in Eastern Andalusia; these evidences provide several new records for regional and provincial flora.

The Baetic ranges are one of the major hot‐spots of biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin. The prominent Baetic plant richness is based mostly on the variety of ecological gradients, including the geological substrates such as dolomites. Dolomitic outcrops are not uncommon in the area, and they produce genuine edaphic islands inducing a peculiar...

La flora de los sustratos peculiares como las dolomías, las serpentinas y los yesos ibéricos, ha llamado la atención de los botánicos desde principios del siglo pasado. Como resultado de este interés, muchos trabajos sobre flora magnesícola (serpentinas y dolomías) y gipsícolas han visto la luz, aunque todavía se necesita una prospección más exhaus...

The province of Almería presents a mosaic of ecological conditions which has given rise to an extremely rich natural patrimony. Combining a number of criteria aiming at the preservation of endangered species with chorological information is an efficient way of determining the floristically valuable áreas at a regional level. Our research aims at de...

Se presentan tres citas florísticas que suponen una novedad para Andalucía (Tamarix dalmatica), una novedad para la provincia de Almería (Filago hispanica)y una confirmación para dicha provincia (Orobanche ballotae).