
Jesús MuñozSpanish National Research Council | CSIC · Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC Madrid)
Jesús Muñoz
PhD in Biology
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Introduction
Jesús Muñoz currently works at the Real Jardín Botanico de Madrid, Spanish National Research Council. Jesús does research in Botany, Ecology and Systematics (Taxonomy).
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October 2010 - present
May 1999 - present
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Publications (273)
Introduction. Specimens of Sphaerocarpos collected during 2022 from the central Iberian Peninsula did not match any previously known species of this genus. Examination of other herbarium material revealed three identical specimens from three different localities in Spain. These were also morphologically identical to Portuguese specimens previously...
Background and aims
Endoreduplication, the duplication of the nuclear genome without mitosis, is a common process in plants, especially in angiosperms and mosses. Accumulating evidence supports the relationship between endoreduplication and plastic responses to stress factors. Here, we investigated the level of endoreduplication in Ceratodon (Bryop...
Freshwater systems are among the most affected by the introduction of exotic species. The pumpkinseed sunfish Lepomis gibbosus, a centrarchid native to eastern North America, is listed among the top ten introduced freshwater fishes with the greatest ecological impact globally. Despite this, genetic and evolutionary studies of the species are still...
The dragonfly Trithemis kirbyi Sélys, 1891 recently colonized Western Europe from North Africa. Since its first record in the Iberian Peninsula in 2007, the species has been spreading northward and has become naturally established in the central and eastern Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and southern France. Despite its worldwide distribut...
The types of five taxa described with material from northern Africa have been revised, yielding the following results: Barbula commutata var. erosa Corb. is synomyzed with Streblotrichum convolutum var. commutatum; Bryum trabutii Thér. with Ptychostomum rubens; Thamnium alopecurum var. decipiens Corb. with Scorpiurium circinatum; and Trichostomum m...
Protected area (PA) extent has increased significantly over the last 150 years globally, but it is yet unclear whether progress in expanding coverage has been accompanied by improved performance in ecological representation. Here, we explore temporal trends in the performance of PA networks in representing > 16,000 vertebrate and plant species in t...
The dragonfly Trithemis kirbyi Sélys, 1891 recently colonized Western Europe from North Africa. Since its first record in the Iberian Peninsula in 2007, the species has been spreading northward and has become naturally established in the central and eastern Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and southern France. Despite its worldwide distribut...
Background: The aim was to compare the effects of high-flux hemodialysis (HF-HD) versus high-volume post-dilution hemodiafiltration (HV-HDF) on mortality risk. Methods: Retrospective observational study of prevalent patients on hemodialysis who were followed for two years and treated in 28 kidney centers in Colombia. In this study, we included all...
Palabras clave: expansión; genes mitocondriales; peces; variabilidad genética. Los sistemas dulceacuícolas se sitúan entre los más afectados por la introducción de especies exóticas. En este estudio analizamos la variabilidad genética de tres genes mitocondriales (COI, d-loop y ND1) de las poblaciones ibéricas de Lepomis gibbosus o percasol, un cen...
Species’ vulnerability to climate change is often assessed by focusing on potential changes of species’ ranges. This study aimed to develop community-level vulnerability indices which measure bryophyte community vulnerability to climate change, based on the best set of factors summarizing species' niche or geographic properties expected to respond...
In Canadian boreal forests, bryophytes represent an essential component of biodiversity and play a significant role in ecosystem functioning. Despite their ecological importance and sensitivity to disturbances, bryophytes are overlooked in conservation strategies due to knowledge gaps on their distribution, which is known as the Wallacean shortfall...
Climate change impacts particularly affect vulnerable populations such as children. Therefore, addressing the adaptation of educational buildings is crucial in avoiding these negative effects on school performance. In this paper, three educational buildings, located in Badajoz (Spain), Evora (Portugal) and Porto (Portugal), serve as pilot samples t...
Research on bryophyte biology has made exciting advances during the last 10 to 15 years since the publications of Goffinet & Shaw (2008) and Frey & Stech (2009) that summarized the knowledge of the field. New fossils provided insights into past bryophyte diversity and integrative taxonomic approaches combine the ever increasing molecular data with...
Cover of 50th anniversary of IAB
Most existing protected area networks are biased to protect charismatic species or landscapes. We hypothesized that conservation networks designed to include unseen biodiversity—species rich groups that consist of inconspicuous taxa, or groups affected by knowledge gaps—are more efficient than networks that ignore these groups. To test this hypothe...
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a subset of targets that can be advanced through standard urban management activities. In particular, routine urban vegetation management comprises a number of activities with potential impact on Goal #4 (quality education), #11 (sustainable cities and communities), #13 (protect the planet), #15 (life on...
This study assessed the relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide concentration and ventilation requirements in classrooms. This assessment has been used to design by modeling proper natural ventilation procedures for ventilation and cooling in educational buildings assisted by Nature-Based Solutions implementation. LIFE my BUILDING is GR...
Most existing protected area networks are usually biased to protect charismatic species or showy landscapes. We hypothesized that conservation networks designed including unseen diversity –groups usually species-rich but consisting of inconspicuous taxa, or affected by knowledge gaps– would be more efficient than networks ignoring those groups. To...
Climate change impacts particularly affect vulnerable populations such as children. Therefore, addressing the adaptation of educational buildings is crucial in avoiding these negative effects on school performance. In this paper, three educational buildings, located in Badajoz (Spain), Evora (Portugal) and Porto (Portugal), serve as pilot samples t...
The extent to which species can balance out the loss of suitable habitats due to climate warming by shifting their ranges is an area of controversy. Here, we assess whether highly efficient wind-dispersed organisms like bryophytes can keep-up with projected shifts in their areas of suitable climate. Using a hybrid statistical-mechanistic approach a...
In order to prevent future biological invasions, it is crucial to know non-native species distributions. We evaluated the potential global distribution of Azolla filiculoides, a free-floating macrophyte native to the Americas by using species distribution models and niche equivalency tests to analyze the degree of niche overlap between the native a...
We analyze the structure of diameter, richness, and diversity of the forests in the upper limit of the great Amazon basin located in the Ecuadorian territory of the Cordilleras del Cóndor and Cutucú. Our hypothesis was that the forests of the eastern mountain ranges are not homogeneous, but rather present differences in their structure, richness, a...
1) Background: We analyzed the size structure, richness and diversity in eight permanent forest plots in the upper limit of the great Amazon basin located in the Ecuadorian parts of Cordilleras del Cóndor and Cutucú. Our hypothesis was that not all the forests of the eastern mountain ranges are homogeneous in characteristics, but rather present dif...
We explored how climate change during the last ~ 21,000 years may have affected the distribution and demography of the Plumbeous Sierra-finch (Geospizopsis unicolor) across the Ecuadorian paramos. Also, given the current island-like configuration of this ecosystem, we attempted to identify areas that may hold genetically isolated populations, as we...
Aim
Long‐distance dispersal research in plants has long been dominated by the assumption that an association between plant diaspore adaptations and related transport vectors (standard dispersal) determines the success of colonization. However, the role of diaspore adaptations in a biogeographic context is being increasingly questioned, as evidence...
Aim: Long‐distance dispersal research in plants has long been dominated by the assumption that an association between plant diaspore adaptations and related transport
vectors (standard dispersal) determines the success of colonization. However,
the role of diaspore adaptations in a biogeographic context is being increasingly
questioned, as evidence...
• Climate change is a key stressor for species. Two major consequences of climate‐induced range shifts are the formation of new areas of geographic overlap (i.e. sympatry) and an increased probability of hybridisation in the de novo created contact zones.
• One method to effectively quantify the potential of hybridisation is to integrate ecological...
Schistidium Bruch & Schimper (in Bruch et al. 1845: 93) is one of the most complex and difficult moss genera, and is still poorly known and understudied taxonomically in South America. In the Neotropics, there are around twenty names for this genus without a real status acknowledged (Churchill et al., 2000) as no taxonomical or nomenclatural revisi...
Many species are currently changing their distributions and subsequently form sympatric zones with hybridization between formerly allopatric species as one possible consequence. The damselfly Ischnura elegans has recently expanded south into the range of its ecologically and morphologically similar sister species Ischnura graellsii. Molecular work...
Specimens of Andreaea sect. Andreaea collected in Lesotho show morphological differences from the remaining Sub-Saharan Africa species in the group. Particularly, Lesotho specimens have much larger spores, a character diagnostic in the genus. Spore size also separates the Lesotho specimens from typical A. rupestris from the Northern Hemisphere. Con...
Novelties of the Sierra de Gredos bryoflora (Central System, Spain), with special remarks on the autonomous community of Extremadura This study present new records of bryophytes based on the collections made along the years 2016 and 2017 in both oro and cryoromediterranean bioclimatic subzones of Gredos mountain range, which were scarcely collected...
The most extensive combined phylogenetic analyses of the subclass Marchantiidae yet undertaken was conducted on the basis of morphological and molecular data. The morphological data comprised 126 characters and 56 species. Taxonomic sampling included 35 ingroup species with all genera and orders of Marchantiidae sampled, and 21 outgroup species wit...
Despite the significant increase of bryological studies in Spain during the last decades, some regions remain poorly studied. This is the case of Sierra de Gredos mountain range, in the Iberian Central System, which we visited in several collecting expeditions, with focus in the insufficiently explored high mountain areas. As a result, we highlight...
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L. 1753) is a plant of great cultural, economic and ecological importance globally. By its structure and function maintains a wide variety of animal species. In Latin America, their crops are being affected by the disease called ‘frosty pod rot of cocoa’ caused by the fungus Moniliophthora roreri (Cif & Par) Evans. 2007, cons...
A pesar de la cercanía de la sierra de Gredos (Sistema Central) a importantes núcleos de población como Madrid o Salamanca, la brioflora gredense dista mucho de ser bien conocida. Este trabajo es el resultado de numerosas prospecciones llevadas a cabo a lo largo de los últimos cuatro años en la citada cadena montañosa, especialmente en la zona meno...
New records of the genera Leptogorgia, Pacifigorgia and Eugorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) on the coast of Ecuador are reported. These new records redefine the current known limit of distribution of these species on the eastern Pacific coast (from southern California to Chile). Some of these species are reported for the first time since their ori...
Oceanic islands are of fundamental importance for the conservation of biodiversity because they exhibit high endemism rates coupled with fast extinction rates. Nowhere in Europe is this pattern more conspicuous than in the Macaronesian biogeographic region. A large network of protected areas within the region has been developed, but the question of...
Appendix S1. Extended methods.
Appendix S3. Oil block importance index.
Appendix S2. List of biodiversity indicators.
It remains hotly debated whether latitudinal diversity gradients are common across taxonomic groups and whether a single mechanism can explain such gradients. Investigating species richness (SR) patterns of European land plants, we determine whether SR increases with decreasing latitude, as predicted by theory, and whether the assembly mechanisms d...
Background: Translocating plants for conservation purposes can be a useful tool to enhance existing populations, restore lost populations, or create new ones, but has rarely been done for bryophytes, especially liverworts.
Aims: Here, the leafy liverwort Herbertus hutchinsiae, a representative species of oceanic-montane liverwort-rich heath, was t...
It has been proposed that wing pigmented spots function in temperature control in male calopterygids. Using two rubyspot species Hetaerina americana Fabricius and Hetaerina vulnerata Hagen in Selys, the present study investigated whether (i) wing spot size and colour-modified aspect can predict temperature gain after a cooling event; (ii) wing spot...
Amphibian populations are declining due to a myriad of abiotic and biotic factors, including invasive species and pathogens. In temperate freshwater ecosystems, for example, amphibian populations are threatened by the predation of introduced salmonids. Salmonids not only directly predate upon amphibian eggs and larvae but may also transport deadly...
Ecuador will experience a significant expansion of the oil industry in its Ama-zonian region, one of the most biodiverse areas of the world. In view of thechanges that are about to come, we explore the conflicts between oil extractioninterests and biodiversity protection and apply systematic conservation planningto identify priority areas that shou...
En este trabajo se reconocieron 21 especies y dos variedades del género Schistidium para la península Ibérica, que son descritas e ilustradas. Se incluye una clave dicotómica para la identificación de las especies.
Data S1. Simplified grid specifying the acidic/basic nature of each pixel used.
A large amount of data for inconspicuous taxa is stored in natural history collections; however, this information is often neglected for biodiversity patterns studies. Here, we evaluate the performance of direct interpolation of museum collections data, equivalent to the traditional approach used in bryophyte conservation planning, and stacked spec...
We assessed the conservation status of the three Mexican Paraphlebia damselflies based on the criterion B of the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's ( IUCN ): P. hyalina , P. quinta, and P. zoe . According to this List, P. hyalina has not been evaluated, P. quinta appears as least concern, and P. zoe appears as Vulnerab...
Conservation planning is crucial for megadiverse countries where biodiversity is coupled with incomplete reserve systems and limited resources to invest in conservation. Using Peru as an example of a megadiverse country, we asked whether the national system of protected areas satisfies biodiversity conservation needs. Further, to complement the exi...
Three fertile populations of Racomitrium laevigatum A. Jaeger from southern Chile have recently been discovered. Here we present a novel description and illustrations of its sporophytes and comments on the phylogenetic implications of this finding.
Although the number of invasive bryophytes is much lower than that of higher plants, they threaten habitats that are often species rich and of high conservation relevance. Their potential of spread has, however, never been determined. Here, we assess whether the three most invasive bryophyte species shifted their niche during the invasion process a...