Paula A. Morales-Morales

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• Biologist
• Researcher at University of Antioquia

Societal Impact Statement Conserving trees is fundamental to maintaining forests, which are home to about half of the global biodiversity and provide unmeasurable benefits to people. Colombia has 5868 known species of trees, 1148 of which are endemic to the country. Unfortunately, 45% of the endemic trees of Colombia are threatened with extinction,...

Completar la Lista Roja de las Plantas de Colombia es una de las metas principales de la Estrategia Nacional para la Conservación de Plantas (ENCP) y es crucial para la planificación de la conservación de la flora del país. La serie del Libro Rojo de Plantas de Colombia realizó la primera contribución importante a la Lista Roja nacional, y desde el...

Societal Impact Statement Palms provide vital plant resources and ecosystem services to people across the tropics. To improve conservation guidance, a “health check” of palms in two highly threatened biodiversity hotspots in Colombia and Ecuador was undertaken. Palms are very diverse in these regions, but over one third are threatened with extincti...

Triphora surinamensis occurs from the Caribbean to Brazil, but its presence in Colombia was uncertain. Here, we confirm the new record for the country's orchid flora, based on specimens, occurrences, and photograph records from Antioquia, Santander, and Valle del Cauca Departments. We also present habitat details, and the national conservation asse...

Diversity and vertical distribution of epiphytic orchids and bromeliads in two contrasting forests from Northeast Andes of Colombia Introduction: Functional traits analysis allows an understanding of the mechanisms that structure plant communities epiphytes. The distribution of taxonomic and functional epiphyte diversity along vertical gradients is...

Urban Heat Islands (UHI) are a common phenomenon in metropolitan areas worldwide where the air temperature is significantly higher in urban areas than in surrounding suburban, rural or natural areas. Mitigation strategies to counteract UHI effects include increasing tree cover and green spaces to reduce heat. The successful application of these app...

Trees play vital roles in many of the world's ecosystems while providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are threatened with extinction, representing a tree extinction crisis. Here we demonstrate how tree species extinction will lead to the loss of many other plants and animals and significantly alter th...

(Background/Question/Methods): We are living in a time of unprecedented rapid urbanization and climate change. To prepare cities for a warmer future, we should create better urban forest management plans to select tree species capable of tolerating or acclimating to warmer conditions. Here, we study how urban heat islands (UHI) affect species per...

IUCN Red Lists represent a comprehensive and worldwide framework used for biodiversity conservation planning, providing information about extinction risk for species and ecosystems. Despite its relevance for designing conservation action plans, prioritizing sites for conservation, and designing sustainable use practices, by the end of 2020 less tha...

Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban...

El 45 % de los árboles y arbustos endémicos del país están en riesgo de extinción. Es crucial que instituciones del Sistema Nacional Ambiental y de los territorios conozcan las especies endémicas amenazadas en sus jurisdicciones y destinen recursos para su conservación. Para conocer la versión interactiva de esta ficha, la cual contiene mapas con...

Compilación de las evaluaciones UICN de las especies de árboles y arbustos endémicos de Colombia en el marco del proyecto Lista Roja de Árboles Endémicos de Colombia Fase 2

Global Assessment

Priogymnanthus colombianus, a new species and the first record of the South American genus of Oleaceae for Colombia is described and illustrated also we present a dichotomic key for the known species of genus. The new species differs from the three knowns for Priogymnanthus by: leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, completely glabrous, petioles 10–17 (...

Species interactions have long been predicted to increase in intensity toward the tropics and low elevations because of gradients in climate, productivity, or biodiversity. Despite their importance for understanding global ecological and evolutionary processes, plant-animal interaction gradients are particularly difficult to test systematically acr...

Compilación de las evaluaciones UICN de las especies de árboles y arbustos endémicos de Colombia, en el marco de proyecto Lista Roja de Árboles Endémicos de Colombia Fase 1

Solanum nudum es una planta nativa de Colombia, reconocida y usada para el tratamiento de la fiebre asociada a la malaria, específicamente en la zona pacífico del departamento de Nariño. En la presente investigación se realizó un estudio fitoquímico comparativo de la producción de los compuestos esteroidales de S. nudum provenientes de dos regiones...

This book presents a selection of plant species representative from the andean forests, found in the Claro river basin in Villamaría Municipality (Caldas, Colombia). The book includes an overview of the environmental conditions in the zone; the methodology and results of the floristic characterization; a total of 301 vascular species (152 with morp...

Species interactions have long been predicted to increase in intensity towards the tropics and low elevations, due to gradients in climate, productivity, or biodiversity. Despite their importance for understanding global ecological and evolutionary processes, plant-animal interaction gradients are particularly difficult to test systematically acros...

Preliminary results of evaluation of how composition and abundance of Espeletia species on trails, could be a useful and low-cost indicator to determine and quantify disturbance in protected areas located in Páramo ecosystem.

Conocer la distribución de las especies endémicas es crucial en la conservación de la biodiversidad. Para esto, el uso de modelos de distribución de especies (MDE) ha sido una herramienta útil y de fácil acceso en los últimos años. En este estudio se estimó la distribución geográfica potencial del Anturio Negro (Anthurium caramantae) en los Andes c...

Colombia es el país con mayor número de especies Anthurium spp., siendo una gran par-te de distribución andina. Actualmente el género es considerado un recurso floral con alto potencial económico, pero dichas especies están amenazadas por la deforestación y la so-breexplotación comercial. Anthurium caramantae Engl., es una especie de anturio negro...

Los Andes en Colombia presentan una de las tasas de deforestación más altas en el neotrópico y los relictos de bosques se encuentran fragmentados y dispersos. Áreas de conservación usadas para ecoturismo y de fácil acceso no son comunes en Colombia. El Parque Arví, ubicado en la Cordillera Central de Colombia cercano a Medellín, recibe anualmente m...

Cleistes costaricensis es una orquídea terrestre conocida de Costa Rica y Panamá hasta que en 2011 se reportó en un inventario de orquídeas el Parque Arví, Medellín-Colombia a 2300 msnm. El hallazgo de esta especie en el Parque ratifica la importancia de los estudios florísticos en el país aún en zonas intervenidos o consideradas muy estudiadas com...

We document the breeding behavior of the Red-bellied Grackle (Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster: Icteridae) from monitoring seven breeding groups during 4 consecutive years (2006–2009) in the central cordillera of the Colombian Andes. All nests were attended by three to seven individuals, representing family groups composed of adult males and females, as...