Mario Mingarro

• PhD Student
• Spanish National Research Council

Human impact on natural ecosystems is unsustainable and has led to a significant loss of biodiversity, highlighting the importance of protected area networks such as the European Union’s Natura 2000 (N2000). This study assesses the effectiveness of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in mainland Spain, using a Normalised Relative Severity Index (S...

1. Researching the properties of mutualistic networks over environmental gradients is a promising but underexplored means to test how global change can affect ecosystem assembly and functioning. We examined how elevation and microclimate influenced butterfly-flower interaction networks at the hottest time of year in a Mediterranean mountain range....

Aim The capacity of cool refugia to protect cold‐adapted species against climate change may depend on both their initial climatic conditions and how quickly these change. We test how local climatic conditions influence mountain butterfly communities via their effects on colonisation and local extinction. Location Four mountain ranges in Central Sp...

Climate change refugia are landscapes, topographic features or ecosystems that buffer organisms against exposure to climate change by providing conditions that are stable or spatially heterogeneous (macrorefugia) or distinct from their surroundings (microrefugia). Refugia allow taxa to persist through unfavourable climatic conditions and act as foc...

Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened worldwide. A great part of this threat comes from climate and land cover changes. This situation is specially worrying in areas and ecosystems that are highly relevant in terms of biodiversity but severely impacted by these two factors, such as water bodies in North Africa. Using water beetles as...

Gradients in community diversity and composition rarely track rates of warming, prompting efforts to understand the factors causing non-equilibrium responses to climatic change and their implications for conservation. Here, we test the roles of fine-resolution habitat heterogeneity and microclimate in delaying butterfly community responses to warmi...

This study introduces a novel approach to leverage high‐resolution historical climate data and opportunistically collected historical species occurrence data for detecting adaptive responses to global change. We applied this procedure to the temperature data and the most comprehensive Iberian dataset of dung beetle occurrences as an illustrative ex...

Fisheries bycatch is considered the largest threat to sea turtle populations globally. However, it has been challenging to assess the impact of bycatch on sea turtles in some regions such as Northwest Africa (i.e. Cabo Verde, Guinea, Guinea–Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone and The Gambia) owing to large data gaps. This hampers effective ma...

The integration of biodiversity datasets into information systems is essential in the design of conservation and land management programs, especially in remote areas where the planning of scientific work is essential to avoid geographic or organism group biases. The sub-Antarctic region of Chile, belonging to the biogeographic region of Magallanes,...

Protected areas are threatened by an unprecedented intensification of land use. The effectiveness of protected areas depends on their ability to stop habitat loss not only within their boundaries but also in their surroundings. Based on the CORINE Land Cover data, we describe the land use-land cover changes in European National Parks, both inside a...

Vulnerability of mountain ecosystems to climate change depends on the capacity of topographic variation to provide heterogeneous microclimates and rates of climatic change. Accurate methods are therefore needed to assess climate at spatial resolutions relevant to ecological responses and environmental management. Here, we evaluate a mechanistic mic...

Mountain ranges in the Mediterranean region acted for many taxa as refugia against historical changes to the climate. However, their role in protecting species against ongoing climate change is yet to be tested widely, partly because of a lack of fine-resolution information on species distributions from recent decades. We tested how the elevational...

To this day, merely 8% of all estimated fungi species are documented and, in certain regions, its biodiversity is practically unknown. Inside the Fungi Kingdom, macrofungi and lichens assume a critical part in the ecosystem functionality and have a historical connection to mankind's social, clinical and nutritious uses. Despite their importance, th...

Mountain ranges in the Mediterranean region acted for many taxa as refugia against historical changes to the climate. However, their role in protecting species against ongoing climate change is yet to be tested widely, partly because of a lack of fine-resolution information on species distributions from recent decades. We tested how the elevation r...

Los impactos del ser humano sobre el medio ambiente cubren una gran extensión y han aumentado sin precedentes a lo largo del último siglo. En su conjunto, estos impactos han sido denominados como cambio global: un cóctel de presiones antrópicas entre las que se incluyen el uso intensivo del suelo, el cambio climático, la contaminación, las especies...

To this day, merely 15% of all estimated fungi species are documented, and in certain regions, its biodiversity is practically unknown. Inside the Fungi Kingdom, macrofungi and lichens assume a critical part in the ecosystem functionality and have a historical connection to mankind's social, clinical and nutritious uses. Despite their importance, t...

En el entorno de los días mundiales de la Biodiversidad y del Medio Ambiente el Observatorio de Sostenibilidad ha presentado el Informe sobre el cumplimiento de las Metas de Aichi de biodiversidad en España, analizando cómo las diferentes metas han sido abordadas. Este informe es clave en este momento, ya que se está debatiendo en el Parlamento Eur...

Protected areas (PAs) are intended to preserve natural places, aiming to sustain ecosystem functionality and preserve biodiversity. However, PAs are spatially static, while major threats to biodiversity, such as climate and land-use change, are dynamic. The climatic conditions represented in a PA could vanish in the future and appear in other place...

1. Indices of environmental associations such as the Community Temperature Index (CTI) and Community Precipitation Index (CPI) can be derived from occurrence data to extend the geographic scope or time frame of evidence for responses of insect diversity to global change. 2. We tested whether occurrence records from 1901 to 2016 from the Iberian Pe...

1. Global warming may especially affect ectothermic insect species, making it necessary to forecast the capacity of these species to cope with climatic changes. 2. In this study, we use circular statistics to examine the seasonal plasticity of 32 dung beetle species in 17 localities of a mountain Iberian assemblage. We assume that the high variabil...

Protected areas are fundamental in conservation, but their intactness is increasingly threatened by the effects of climate and land-cover changes. Here, a methodological procedure is proposed able to determine the representative climatic conditions of a protected area in central Spain (Guadarrama National Park) pinpointing the natural areas that wi...

We propose a protocol to estimate the effects of climate change on species inhabiting a reserve by assessing the location of areas with similar environmental conditions to a focal protected area, both now and in the future. Following this protocol it is possible to estimate: (i) the level of change that will occur in the current climatic conditions...