Juan Lorite
University of Granada, Botany, Department Member
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... more
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 different topics, all illustrating present trends in plant conservation biology. They highlight the important contribution of different approaches to plant conservation in the area. This special issue is dedicated to the memory of the Spanish botanist José Antonio Fernández Prieto (1950-2019).
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<p>Comunicación presentada al II Seminário Ibérico IGBP - Cambio Global (Lisboa 2010).</p
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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... more
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 and semi-arid environments. Although some species of Moricandia have been used in several phylogenetic studies, the phylogeny of this genus is not well established. Here we present a phylogenetic analysis of the genus Moricandia using a nuclear (the internal transcribed spacers of the ribosomal DNA) and two plastidial regions (parts of the NADH dehydrogenase subunit F gene and the trnT-trnF region). We also included in the analyses members of their sister genus Rytidocarpus and from the close genus Eruca. The phylogenetic analyses showed a clear and robust phylogeny of the genus Moricandia. The Bayesian inference tree was concordant with the maximum...
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Research Interests: Ecology, Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Greenhouses, Biodiversity Conservation, and 12 moreCase Study, Extinction Risk, Environmental Variables, Biological Invasion, Species Distribution Model, Threatened Species, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, Natural Resource, Plant species, Ecological Applications, Area Under Curve, and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
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... Miscellanea chorologica occidentalia, III. Sánchez-Mata, D., Gavilán, RG, Luengo Nicolau, E., Rodríguez-Rojo, MP. ABSTRACT. Se citan y comentan varios táxones, herborizados en localidades del centro-occidente de la Península Ibérica,... more
... Miscellanea chorologica occidentalia, III. Sánchez-Mata, D., Gavilán, RG, Luengo Nicolau, E., Rodríguez-Rojo, MP. ABSTRACT. Se citan y comentan varios táxones, herborizados en localidades del centro-occidente de la Península Ibérica, de diverso interés corológico. ...
Navarro FB, Lorite J, Salazar C. 1999 Estudio ecologico y floristico de la porcion occidental de la Sierra de las Estancias (Hinojora, Madronal y Sierra de Lucar). (Ecological and floristic study on the occidental area of the Sierra de... more
Navarro FB, Lorite J, Salazar C. 1999 Estudio ecologico y floristico de la porcion occidental de la Sierra de las Estancias (Hinojora, Madronal y Sierra de Lucar). (Ecological and floristic study on the occidental area of the Sierra de las Estancias (Hinojora, Madronal and Sierra de ...
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To have an updated checklist available for a given area is crucial for many purposes (educational, conservation, management , etc.). In this paper, a complete and updated checklist of the vascular flora of Sierra Nevada mountain range (SE... more
To have an updated checklist available for a given area is crucial for many purposes (educational, conservation, management , etc.). In this paper, a complete and updated checklist of the vascular flora of Sierra Nevada mountain range (SE Spain), a recognized hotspot for plant diversity in the Mediterranean basin, is presented. It includes 2,353 taxa, 359 more than in the previous checklist (an increase of 15.25%). Also, data are shown on composition (in terms of families, number of hybrids, native/alien species, endemics, etc.) and threat status according to the IUCN. The result is a complete and updated checklist flora of this recognised biodiversity Mediterranean hotspot.
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Brassicaceae is one of the most diversified families in the angiosperms. However, most species from this family exhibit a very similar floral bauplan. In this study, we explore the Brassicaceae floral morphospace, examining how corolla... more
Brassicaceae is one of the most diversified families in the angiosperms. However, most species from this family exhibit a very similar floral bauplan. In this study, we explore the Brassicaceae floral morphospace, examining how corolla shape variation (an estimation of developmental robustness), integration and disparity vary among phylogenetically related species. Our aim is to check whether these floral attributes have evolved in this family despite its apparent morphological conservation, and to test the role of pollinators in driving this evolution. Using geometric morphometric tools, we calculated the phenotypic variation, disparity and integration of the corolla shape of 111 Brassicaceae taxa. We subsequently inferred the phylogenetic relationships of these taxa and explored the evolutionary lability of corolla shape. Finally, we sampled the pollinator assemblages of every taxon included in this study, and determined their pollination niches using a modularity algorithm. We ex...
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Se aportan una serie de citas novedosas o interesantes para la Sierra Nevada almeriense. De estas, ocho son primeras citas provinciales y siete segundas citas. Los taxones que constituyen una novedad a nivel provincial aparecen señalados... more
Se aportan una serie de citas novedosas o interesantes para la Sierra Nevada almeriense. De estas, ocho son primeras citas provinciales y siete segundas citas. Los taxones que constituyen una novedad a nivel provincial aparecen señalados con un asterisco precediendo a la localidad, para las segundas citas se hace referencia al tra-bajo donde se citan por primera vez. Se incluyen además algunos comentarios refe-rentes a abundancia relativa, aclaraciones sobre citas anteriores, etc.
Lichens are the most remarkable component of Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) on gypsum outcrops, representing 60-80% of the living cover. Nevertheless, these crusts are commonly affected by several disturbances, being gypsum quarrying the... more
Lichens are the most remarkable component of Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) on gypsum outcrops, representing 60-80% of the living cover. Nevertheless, these crusts are commonly affected by several disturbances, being gypsum quarrying the most drastic, since it results in the complete crust removal. Despite its importance for vegetation and soil dynamics has been previously highlighted, there are few studies addressing restoration techniques. The aim of this study is to develop and test a methodology to restore lichen crusts in semi-arid environments. We conducted a three-pronged restoration approach, that included the characterization of the lichen community in the habitat, reestablishing the crust by the inoculation of the species aided by adhesives, and monitoring their activity measured as CO2 exchange. Lichen cover and community composition was studied in 18 samples (25 x 25 cm) taken in April 2012 from a natural area of gypsum outcrops about to be quarried, in CW Granada (Spain)...
We report the finding of two taxa of Astragalus L., A. peregrinus VAHL subsp. warionis (GAND.) MAIRE (N. Africa, Sicily) and A. gutattus BANKS & SOL. (from Israel to C. Asia, Crimea), in the S.E. Iberian Peninsula (Spain), which are new... more
We report the finding of two taxa of Astragalus L., A. peregrinus VAHL subsp. warionis (GAND.) MAIRE (N. Africa, Sicily) and A. gutattus BANKS & SOL. (from Israel to C. Asia, Crimea), in the S.E. Iberian Peninsula (Spain), which are new records for the continental flora of S.W. Europe. Information on ecological features and conservation status is provided. Both species inhabit arid Mediterranean ecosystems (with Stipa tenacissima or Lygeum spartum as predominat species) and are under a severe risk of extinction at the regional level, due to the narrow geographic range of both species and the low number of mature individuals in the scarce known Iberian populations.
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Pollinator-mediated evolutionary divergence has seldom been explored in generalist clades because it is assumed that pollinators in those clades exert weak and conflicting selection. We investigate whether pollinators shape floral... more
Pollinator-mediated evolutionary divergence has seldom been explored in generalist clades because it is assumed that pollinators in those clades exert weak and conflicting selection. We investigate whether pollinators shape floral diversification in a pollination generalist plant genus, Erysimum. Species from this genus have flowers that appeal to broad assemblages of pollinators. Nevertheless, we recently reported that it is possible to sort plant species into pollination niches varying in the quantitative composition of pollinators. We test here whether floral characters of Erysimum have evolved as a consequence of shifts among pollination niches. For this, we quantified the evolutionary lability of the floral traits and their phylogenetic association with pollination niches. As with pollination niches, Erysimum floral traits show weak phylogenetic signal. Moreover, floral shape and color are phylogenetically associated with pollination niche. In particular, plants belonging to a ...