ABOUT ME
I am a quantitative ecologist, which means I like to model ecological phenomena under a data-driven framework. My main focus has been on population ecology, where I have focused on developing statistical methods to study the dynamics of structured populations. However, I am also interested in applying my skills in other areas of ecology and thus I have collaborated in projects on spatial and community ecology, sustainability indicators and systematic reviews.
RESEARCH LINES
POPULATION ECOLOGY
Modelling of populations structured by state and environmental variables
Publications
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González, E. J. and C. Martorell. 2013. Reconstructing shifts in vital rates driven by long-term environmental change: a new demographic method based on readily available data. Ecology and Evolution 3: 2273–2284. 10.1007/s00442-012-2432-7
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González, E. J., M. Rees and C. Martorell. 2013. Identifying the demographic processes relevant for species conservation in human-impacted areas: does the model matter? Oecologia 171: 347–356. 10.1002/ece3.549
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González, E. J., C. Martorell and B. M. Bolker. 2016. Inverse estimation of integral projection model parameters using time series of population-level data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 147–156. 10.1111/2041-210X.12519
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González, E. J. 2016. Modelos matemáticos en el contexto de la conservación de especies. In: J. F. Guerrero-MacManus, O. Valadez-Blanco and E. Vizcaya-Xilotl, eds. Naturaleza, Ciencia y Sociedad: 40 Años de Pensamiento Crítico Interdisciplinario en la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM. CEIICH, UNAM. ISSN: 9781938128127. pp. 61–75.
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Queijeiro, M. E., E. J. González, C. Martorell and Z. Cano-Santana. 2017. Competition and facilitation determine dwarf mistletoe infection dynamics. Journal of Ecology 105: 775–785. 10.1111/1365-2745.12699
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Larios, E., E. J. González, P. Rosen, A. Pate and P. Holm. 2020. Population projections of an endangered cactus suggest little impact of severe climate change. Oecologia. 192: 439–448. 10.1007/s00442-020-04595-y
Under review
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González, E. J., D. Z. Childs, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio and R. Salguero-Gómez. Submitted. Integral projection models. In: R. Salguero-Gómez and M. Gamelon, eds. Demographic Methods accross the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press.
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Félix-Burruel, R. E., E. Larios, E. J. González and A. Búrquez. Submitted. Episodic recruitment in the saguaro cactus is driven by multidecadal periodicities. Ecology.
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Muñoz, R., F. Bongers, D. M. A. Rozendaal, E. J. González, J. M. Dupuy and J. A. Meave. Submitted. Demographic drivers of tropical dry forest resilience. Journal of Ecology.
Undergraduate theses in progress
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Dávila-Hernández, G. Modelación de la dinámica poblacional de Mimosa acantholoba durante un proceso de sucesión secundaria.
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Portillo-Tzompa, P. I. Correlaciones entre procesos vitales y su impacto en la dinámica de poblaciones estructuradas.
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Martín-Cornejo, P. R. Un enfoque integrado de estimación de parámetros en modelos integrales de proyección poblacional.
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Rojas-Pimentel, J. Dinámica poblacional de Peidocactus bradyi, especie rara de cacto, y su retracción como estrategia evolutiva.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis
Publications
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Ceccon, E., E. J. González and C. Martorell. 2016. Is direct seeding a biologically viable strategy for restoring forest ecosystems? Evidences from a meta-analysis. Land Degradation and Development 27: 511–520. 10.1002/ldr.2421
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González, E. J., M. Martínez-López, M. A. Morales-Garduza, R. García-Morales, P. Charruau and J. A. Gallardo-Cruz. 2019. The sex determination pattern in crocodilians: a systematic review of three decades of research. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1417–1427. 10.1111/1365-2656.13037
Undergraduate thesis in progress
1. Bello-López, J. El patrón de determinación sexual en tortugas: una revisión sistemática.
REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPIC SYSTEMS
Modelling the relationship between natural and anthropic system attributes and satellite imagery
Publications
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Gallardo-Cruz, J. A., J. A. Meave, E. J. González, E. E. Lebrija-Trejos, M. A. Romero-Romero, E. A. Pérez-García, R. Gallardo-Cruz, J. L. Hernández-Stefanoni and C. Martorell. 2012. Predicting tropical dry forest successional attributes from space: is the key hidden in image texture? Plos One 7: e30506. 10.1371/journal.pone.0030506
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Ureta, C., C. González-Salazar, E. J. González, E. R. Álvarez-Buylla and E. Martínez-Meyer. 2013. Environmental and social factors account for Mexican maize richness and distribution: a data mining approach. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 179: 25–34. 10.1016/j.agee.2013.06.017
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Ureta, C., E. Martínez-Meyer, E. J. González and E. Álvarez-Buylla. 2016. Finding potential high-yield areas for Mexican maize under current and climate change conditions. The Journal of Agricultural Science 154: 782–794. 10.1017/S0021859615000842
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Block, S., E. J. González, J. A. Gallardo-Cruz, A. Fernández, J. V. Solórzano and J. A. Meave. 2016. Using Google Earth surface metrics to predict plant species richness in a complex landscape. Remote Sensing 8.10: 865. 10.3390/rs8100865
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Solórzano, J. V., J. A. Meave, J. A. Gallardo-Cruz, E. J. González and J. L. Hernández-Stefanoni. 2017. Predicting old-growth tropical forest attributes from very high resolution (VHR) derived surface metrics. International Journal of Remote Sensing 38: 492–513. 10.1080/01431161.2016.1266108
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Solórzano, J. V., J. A. Gallardo-Cruz, E. J. González, C. Peralta-Carreta, M. Hernández-Gómez, A. Fernández-Montes de Oca and G. L. Cervantes-Jiménez. 2018. Contrasting the potential of Fourier transformed ordination and gray level co-occurrence matrix textures to model a tropical swamp forest's structural and diversity attributes. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 12: 036006. 10.1117/1.JRS.12.036006
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Ureta, C., E. J. González, A. Espinosa, A. Trueba, A. A. Piñeyro-Nelson and E. R. Álvarez-Buylla. 2020. Maize yield in Mexico under climate change. Agricultural Systems 177: 102697. 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102697
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Ureta, C., E. J. González, G. Contreras-Félix, M. Ramírez-Barrón and C. E. Santibáñez-López. 2020. The conservation status of Mexican scorpions under current and future climatic conditions. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 18: 116–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2020.04.003
SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
Analysis of sustainability indicators in the context of socioenvironmental systems
Undergraduate theses in progress
1. Villanueva-Reyes, J. Evaluación del sistemas de indicadores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible desde el marco de los indicadores de tercera generación.
2. Nayar-Guarneros, H. Uso de indicadores para modelar, analizar y proyectar el estado de sustentabilidad en México.
Modelling of community patterns, especially along environmental gradients
Publications
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Mejía-Domínguez, N. R., J. A. Meave, C. Díaz-Ávalos and E. J. González. 2011. Individual canopy-tree species effects on their immediate understory microsite and sapling community dynamics. Biotropica 43: 572–581. 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00739.x
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Salas-Morales, S. H., E. J. González y J. A. Meave. 2018. Canopy height variation and environmental heterogeneity in the tropical dry forests of Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. Biotropica 50: 26–38. 10.1111/btp.12491
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Ramos-Fabiel, M. A., E. A. Pérez-García, J. A. Meave, E. J. González and O. Yáñez-Ordónez. 2019. Successional dynamics of the bee community in a tropical dry forest: insights from taxonomy and functional ecology. Biotropica 51: 62–74. doi: 10.1111/btp.12619
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Luna-Nieves, A. L., J. A. Meave, E. J. González, J. Cortés-Flores and G. Ibarra-Manríquez. 2019. Guiding seed source selection for the production of tropical dry forest trees: Coulteria platyloba as study model. Forest Ecology and Management 446: 105-114. 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.05.020
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Romero, E., E. J. González, J. A. Meave and T. Terrazas. 2020. Wood anatomy of dominant species with contrasting ecological performance in tropical dry forest succession. Plant Biosystems 54: 524–534. 10.1080/11263504.2019.1651775
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Bonilla-Valencia, L., F. J. Espinosa-García, E. J. González, R. Lindig-Cisneros, Y. Martínez-Orea, E. V. Vega-Peña and S. Castillo-Argüero. 2020. Functional indicators to explain the antropic effects on community plant composition changes: the case of a temperate forest in Mexico. Ecological Indicators 116: 106515. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106515
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Vargas-Larreta, B., J. O. López-Martínez, E. J. González, J. J. Corral-Rivas y F. J. Hernández. Accepted. Assessing above-ground biomass-functional diversity relationships in temperate forest in northern Mexico. Forest Ecosystems.
Under review
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Romero-Pérez, E. I., E. J. González, N. R. Mejía-Domínguez, E. A. Pérez-García, H. Paz, F. Bongers and J. A. Meave. Submitted. Differential performance of 50 canopy tree species through tropical dry forest succession. Journal of Vegetation Science.
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Victoria-Salazar, I., E. J. González, J. A. Meave, M. Ruiz-Zárate and H. A. Hernández. Submitted. Succession and resilience of a coral patch reef: insights from a ship grounding incident. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
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Sánchez-Ochoa, D., E. J. González, M. Arizmendi-Arriaga, P. Koleff, R. Martell-Dubois, J. A. Meave y H. A. Perez-Mendoza. Submitted. Quantifying phenological diversity: a framework based in Hill numbers theory. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
MISCELLANEA
Publications
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Segovia-Rivas, A., J. A. Meave, E. J. González and E. A. Pérez-García. 2018. Experimental reintroduction and host preference of the microendemic and endangered orchid Barkeria whartoniana in a Mexican tropical dry forest. Journal for Nature Conservation 43: 156–164. 10.1016/j.jnc.2018.04.004
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Santini, N. S., A. Villarruel-Arroyo, M. F. Adame, C. E. Lovelock, R. H. Nolan, N. Gálvez-Reyes, E. J. González, B. Olivares-Resendiz, A. Mastretta-Yanes and D. Piñero. 2020. High organic carbon stocks in Mexican montane habitats are determined by biomass inputs and elevation. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8: 581476. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.581476
Under review
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Miranda-Molina, Y. M., E. J. González, J. Márquez-Guzmán, J. A. Meave and E. A. Pérez-García. Submitted. Pollination success in three tropical dry forest orchid species from Mexico: insights from floral display, visitation rates, and flower micromorphology. Botanical Sciences.
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Luna-Nieves, A. L., A. Maldonado-Romo, E. J. González, J. Cortés-Flores, G. Ibarra-Manríquez and J. A. Meave. Submitted. The interplay of exogenous and endogenous drivers of tropical dry forest tree phenology. Biotropica.
ECOLOGÍA CUANTITATIVA
Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales
Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
Edificio B, 3er piso, Circuito Exterior S/N, Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
+ (52) 55 5622 4921
THESES OPPORTUNITIES
POPULATION ECOLOGY
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Predictive power in integral projection models.
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Population dynamics of early and late successional species in a tropical dry forest using integral projection models.
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Spatially-explicit population dynamics of successional species using point pattern models and integral projection models.
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Landscape and population ecology: studying the effect of landscape configuration on population dynamics.
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
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Joint estimation of community traits and their change over secondary succession.
REMOTE SENSING OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPIC SYSTEMS
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Modelling of the deforestation process in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and the impact of the Sembrando Vida governmental program.