Juan Lorite

Juan Lorite
University of Granada | UGR · Department of Botany

PhD

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Introduction
Juan Lorite currently works at the Department of Botany, University of Granada. Juan does research in Botany, Ecological Engineering and Ecology. Their current project is 'Development of ecological restoration techniques in gypsum habitats.'
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February 2005 - present
University of Granada
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  • Professor (Associate)

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Publications (252)
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According to the new findings on the phylogeny of the genus Erysimum, we propose the new combination Erysimum bastetanum (G. Blanca & C. Morales) Lorite et al. comb. & stat. nov.
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The Baetic mountains, located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, is a major hotspot of biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin, constituting one of the most important glacial refugia for vascular plants in Europe. Despite their relatively limited extension, the Baetic Mountains contain almost 50% of the total endemic Erysimum species in the Iberian...
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It is widely assumed that floral diversification occurs by adaptive shifts between pollination niches. In contrast to specialized flowers, identifying pollination niches of generalist flowers is a challenge. Consequently, how generalist pollination niches evolve is largely unknown. We apply tools from network theory and comparative methods to inves...
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Background and AimsHow generalist plants diverge in response to pollinator selection without becoming specialized is still unknown. This study explores this question, focusing on the evolution of the pollination system in the pollination generalist Erysimum mediohispanicum (Brassicaceae).Methods Pollinator assemblages were surveyed from 2001 to 201...
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Here I examine the overexploitation of Artemisia granatensis, a narrow endemic medicinal plant species from Sierra Nevada, Spain, and the consequences for its conservation. With over 50,000 flowering plant species used for medicinal purposes worldwide, many species face sustainability issues due to overharvesting and habitat loss. Historical docume...
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Cliff ecosystems provide refuge to 35%–66% of the world's endemic plants. However, they face growing threats from sport climbing. Evidence suggests that unclimbed cliffs harbour approximately twice the plant richness compared with climbed cliffs, with increasing impact as climbing intensity increases. Unfortunately, it remains unknown whether the c...
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Biodiversity patterns along elevation gradients have long been studied for plants and animals, but only quite recently for soil microorganisms, especially protists (eukaryotes excluding plants, animals, and fungi). Microorganisms have shorter generation times than macroorganisms, and their abundance, diversity, and community structure are known to...
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Societal Impact Statement Herbaria, as collections of preserved plants, contain large amounts of data both in the labels and the specimens themselves, which can be applied in different study fields. A literature review was conducted to discover how the uses of herbaria have evolved over time since records began. This analysis revealed insights into...
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1. Cliff ecosystems provide refuge to 35-66% of the world’s endemic plants. However, they face growing threats from climbing. Evidence suggests that untouched cliffs harbor approximately twice the plant richness compared to climbed cliffs, with increasing impact as climbing intensity increases. Unfortunately, the origin and extent of the climbing i...
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Aims: We introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, includ...
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Phenological studies have a crucial role in the global change context. The Mediterranean basin constitutes a key study site since strong climate change impacts are expected, particularly in mountain areas such as Sierra Nevada, where we focus. Specifically, we delve into phenological changes in endemic vascular plants over time by analysing data at...
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Background and aims This field-base study evaluates the long-term effectiveness of in-situ remediation measures applied to soils residually polluted by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in an area affected by a mining spill in SW Spain. Methods To evaluate the remediation treatments success, their influence on key soil properties and on the develo...
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Balázs Deák 52 | Guillaume Decocq 53 | Iwona Dembicz 54 | Jürgen Dengler 55,56 | Valter Di Cecco 57 | Jan Dick 58 | Martin Diekmann 59 | Hartmut Dierschke 60, † | Thomas Dirnböck 61 | Inken Doerfler 62 | Jiří Doležal 63,64 | Ute Döring 65 | Tomasz Durak 66 | Ciara Dwyer 67 | Rasmus Ejrnaes 68 | Inna Ermakova 69 | Brigitta Erschbamer 70 | Giuliano F...
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A large part of the soil protist diversity is missed in metabarcoding studies based on 0.25 g of soil environmental DNA (eDNA) and universal primers due to ca. 80% co-amplification of non-target plants, animals and fungi. To overcome this problem, enrichment of the substrate used for eDNA extraction is an easily implemented option but its effect ha...
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The present study evaluates the effectiveness of remediation treatments applied to residual polluted soils affected by the Aznalcóllar mining spill ocurred in 1998 (SW Spain). For this purpose, the influence of the treatments on the main soil properties and on the evolution of natural vegetation was studied. The results showed that amendments appli...
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Cliffs are unique ecosystems with an outstanding but relatively unknown plant diversity, harboring rare, endemic and threatened species, but also rock-specialist or generalist species that can become locally common and dominant on cliffs. The rising popularity of climbing represents an increasing threat to cliff biota, affecting community compositi...
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Sierra Nevada ha tenido una amplia y dinámica Historia Natural que ha configurado la importante riqueza, rareza y endemicidad de su flora y vegetación. Representa el centro de diversidad más importante de la Región Mediterránea occidental, un “laboratorio natural” altamente atractivo desde antiguo para naturalistas y botánicos. En la actualidad, es...
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A large part of the soil protist diversity is missed in metabarcoding studies based on 0.25 g of soil environmental DNA (eDNA) and universal primers due to ca. 80 % co-amplification of non-target plants, animals and fungi. To overcome this problem, enrichment of the substrate used for eDNA extraction is an easyly implemented option but its effect h...
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El exceso de herbivoría causa graves problemas de erosión, desertificación y pérdida de biodiversidad. Los vallados han sido ampliamente utilizados para controlar este problema, aunque se ha comprobado que estos vallados tienen a medio plazo tanto efectos positivos, como efectos negativos e indeseados. Sin embargo, no existen trabajos que evalúen s...
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En Andalucía se realizan diversas actuaciones para la catalogación y conservación de la biodiversidad por parte del gobierno autonómico. Con respecto a las plantas, es notable la creación de una red de Jardines Botánicos asociados a espacios naturales protegidos. Estos jardines y áreas protegidas contienen una buena representación de la flora y de...
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Resumen / Abstract El exceso de herbivoría causa graves problemas de erosión, desertificación y pérdida de biodiversidad. Los vallados han sido ampliamente utilizados para controlar este problema, aunque se ha comprobado que estos vallados tienen a medio plazo tanto efectos positivos, como efectos negativos e indeseados. Sin embargo, no existen tra...
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Cliffs are unique ecosystems with an outstanding but relatively unknown plant diversity, harboring rare, endemic and threatened species, but also common and dominant species. The rising popularity of climbing represents an increasing threat to cliff biota, potentially diminishing diversity and species associations, and affecting the community compo...
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Purpose Soil pollution is a major problem worldwide. Some anthropogenic activities, such as mining, may exceed soil capacity, causing relevant health and ecosystem hazards. The use of mineral amendments can help reduce soil pollution. Gypsum mining spoil (GS) is a waste material highly produced in gypsum mining industry, which has never been used i...
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The present study evaluates the effectiveness of remediation treatments applied to residual polluted soils affected by the Aznalcóllar mining spill occurred in 1998 (SW Spain). For this purpose, the influence of the treatments on the main soil properties and on the evolution of natural vegetation was studied. The results showed that amendments appl...
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Sierra NevadaSierra Nevada, comprising 2348 vascular floraFlora taxa (including 95 endemic taxa) is considered one of the most important plant hotspotsHot-spot within the Mediterranean region. Sierra NevadaSierra Nevada presents 362 taxa inhabiting the alpine area (ca. 242 km2), 75 endemic species (62 endemic plus 13 sub-endemic) among them, consti...
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The Sierra NevadaSierra Nevada massif is a hotspotHot-spot nested within a biodiversityBiodiversityhotspotHot-spot in the Western Mediterranean (the Baetic-Rifian range, divided by the Strait of Gibraltar), which in turn is found within one the hottest spots in the World, the Mediterranean Basin. The geographic, geomorphological, geological and cli...
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Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation canopies and near the ground surface, where critical ecosystem functions occur and most terrestrial species reside. Here, we...
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Rosmarinus officinalis advantageously competes with other species in restored gypsum outcrops, and further research is needed to understand the causes. Specifically, we focus on the potential allelopathic effects derived from its terpenes on the emergence of gypsum species. To this end, we established 120 circular subplots in a previously restored...
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El espacio natural de Sierra Nevada, se encuentra en uno de los territorios con mayor porcentaje de especies exclusivas de nuestro continente, más del 10 % de la flora de Andalucía es endémica. En este cuaderno fotográfico se muestra los táxones endémicos más interesantes que singularizan este gran macizo montañoso. In the Natural and National Park...
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Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live in these areas. Bold global targets have been set for dryland restoration to restore millions of hectares of degraded land. These targets have been questioned as overly ambitious, but wit...
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Overgrazing stands out as threat factors on biodiversity, being especially harmful in the Mediterranean, due to strong human pressure and an accelerated climate change acting synergistically. Fencing is a common tool used in conservation biology to tackle this problem. Advantages of fences are usually fast, intuitive, and easy to evaluate. However,...
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A full list of affiliations appears at the end of the paper. R estoration ecology is rapidly advancing in response to the ever-expanding global decline in ecosystem integrity and its associated socioeconomic repercussions 1-4. Nowhere are these dynamics more evident than in drylands, which help sustain 39% of the world's human population 5 but rema...
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Due to the ongoing effects of climate change in the Mediterranean (increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall), conditions for Submediterranean species are disappearing as their habitats are dwindling. We have focused on Euonymus latifolius (L.) Mill., a nemoral-Submediterranean species, at its southernmost populations of Europe. The aim was to...
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In recent years, the popularity of rock-climbing has grown tremendously, setting an increasing pressure on cliff habitats. Climbing may be particularly harmful in the Mediterranean biome due to its appropriate environmental conditions for climbing. A few studies have identified the effect of climbing on plant diversity at a small-scale (namely loca...
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In recent years, the popularity of rock-climbing has grown tremendously, setting an increasing pressure on cliff habitats. Climbing may be particularly harmful in the Mediterranean biome due to its appropriate environmental conditions for climbing. A few studies have identified the effect of climbing on plant diversity at a small-scale (namely loca...
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Overgrazing stands out as threat factors on biodiversity, being especially harmful in the Mediterranean, due to strong human pressure and an accelerated climate change acting synergistically. Fencing is one of the most used tools in conservation biology to tackle this problem. Advantages of fences are usually fast, intuitive, and easy to evaluate....
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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...
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Research in environmental science relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature at around 2 meter above ground1-3. These climatic grids however fail to reflect conditions near and below the soil surface, where critical ecosystem functions such as soil carbon storage are controlled and most biodiversity resides4-8...
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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...
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Climate change impacts are of a particular concern in small mountain ranges, where cold-adapted plant species have their optimum zone in the upper bioclimatic belts. This is commonly the case in Mediterranean mountains, which often harbour high numbers of endemic species, enhancing the risk of biodiversity losses. This study deals with shifts in va...
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Degraded ecosystems worldwide are in need of restoration in order to recover essential ecosystem services, promoting biodiversity and enhancing carbon stock. Methods to restore vegetation differ widely in economic cost and effectiveness, but economic evaluations are scarce in the literature. The aim was to perform an economic appraisal of different...
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In this paper we present a low-cost approach to mapping vegetation cover by means of high-resolution close-range terrestrial photogrammetry. A total of 249 clusters of nine 1 m2 plots each, arranged in a 3 × 3 grid, were set up on 18 summits in Mediterranean mountain regions and in the Alps to capture images for photogrammetric processing and in-si...
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La presencia inicial de los humanos en la alta montaña desde hace poco menos de 8000 años presenta más ele-mentos de domesticación de lo que inicialmente se había estimado. raciones arqueológicas es todavía limitada, hay evidencias de uso de ganado doméstico y, en algunos casos, una probable agricultura utilizando mezcla de cereales a cotas interme...
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Current analyses and predictions of spatially‐explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long‐term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate‐forcing factors that operate at fine spatiote...
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Providing a complete data set with species and trait information for a given area is essential for assessing plant conservation, management, and ecological restoration, for both local and global applications. Also, these data sets provide additional information for surveys or data collections, establishing the starting point for more detailed studi...
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Current analyses and predictions of spatially‐explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long‐term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate‐forcing factors that operate at fine spatiote...
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Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are a key component of dryland ecosystems worldwide. However, large extensions of biocrusts are disturbed by human activities, gypsum quarry being an outstanding example. Restoration techniques applied have offered satisfactory results for vascular plants but they could greatly differ in promoting biocrust recover...
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Introducción a la flora y vegetación de Sierra Nevada (Granada) y descripción de un itinerario botánico por cuatro de los principales parajes naturales de Sierra Nevada
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Sierra Nevada ha tenido una amplia y dinámica Historia Natural que ha configurado la importante riqueza, rareza y endemicidad de su flora y vegetación. Representa el centro de diversidad más importante de la Región Mediterránea occidental, un “laboratorio natural” altamente atractivo desde antiguo para naturalistas y botánicos. En la actualidad, es...
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Unraveling the relationships between ecological, functional traits and genetic diversity of narrow endemic plants provide opportunities for understanding how evolutionary processes operate over local spatial scales and ultimately how diversity is created and maintained. To explore these aspects in Sierra Nevada, the core of the Mediterranean Betic-...
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RESUMEN Dadas las amenazas actuales sobre la biodiversidad del planeta, es crítico desentrañar los mecanis-mos evolutivos responsables de la formación de los puntos calientes de biodiversidad («hotspots»). Sierra Nevada es un «hotspot» en la cuenca mediterránea, donde una compleja historia geológica y climática ha creado diversos hábitats a los que...
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The present work assesses the residual pollution in the Guadiamar Green Corridor (SW, Spain) after a long-term aging process (18 years) since the accident of the Aznalcóllar pyrite mine. We have focused on the study of trace elements (Cu, Zn, Cd, As and Pb) in soils, their fractionation and the transference to the surrounding vegetation. The residu...
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Biodiversity comprises various levels of biological organisation. Global patterns of biodiversity are well established based on species occurrence. However, functional and historical processes underlying biodiversity patterns have been only recently approached. The increasingly active field of phylogenetics has allowed the rise of phylofloristic st...
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Moehringia. sect. Pseudomoehringia McNeill is endemic to the western Mediterranean, having its origin and diversification centre in the Iberian Peninsula and mountains of northern Morocco. Both the relationship with the genus Arenaria as well as the taxonomy within the section have been largely controversial. To disentangle these issues, we conduct...
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Background The phylogeny of tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae) has not yet been resolved because of its complex evolutionary history. This tribe comprises economically relevant species, including the genus Moricandia DC. This genus is currently distributed in North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Southern Europe, where it is associated with arid...