Jesús López Angulo

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Complete publication list in my profile on Google Scholar: Jesús López-Angulo (ORCID 0000-0003-3539-2545)

Peer-review

2026

30. López-Angulo, J., Morán-López, T., Pescador D. S., Adrián Escudero, Escudero, A. (2026). Trait-mediated community assembly and species responses to environmental gradients in alpine plant communities across contrasting regional species pools. Ecological processes, 15, 35, .
29. Siqueira-Silva, T., López-Angulo, J., Olalla-Tárraga, M. Á., et al., Martinez, P. A. (2026). Von Humboldt’s Nightmare: Effects of Climate Change on the Plant Biodiversity of Mount Chimborazo (Tropical Andes)” relies on contemporary data, not historical: A reply to Renner. Journal of Biogeography, 53:e70163.
28. Conde-Raposo, E., Azcárate, F. M., López-Angulo, J., Jiménez-López, F. J., Pescador, D. S., Calvo-Donate, V., Rojo-Valencia, M., Navas-Golmar, N., Escudero, A., García-Cervigón, A. (2026). The value of old pine plantations in ants' conservation in the Mediterranean: a comparison with well-conserved forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 606, 123556.
27. Tamburrino, Í., Robles, V., Jara-Arancio, P.,Guerrero, P. C., López-Angulo, J., Cavender-Bares, J., Kalin-Arroyo, M. T. (2026). Phylogenetic signal in flowering phenology weakens over elevation in the high Andes of Chile: evidence for evolutionary convergence in a harsh habitat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 17, 1738754

2025

26. López-Angulo, J., Conde-Raposo, E., Rojo-Valencia, M., Calvo-Donate, V., Martínez, I., Escudero, A., García-Cervigón, A. (2025). Key structural attributes of Mediterranean reforestations for avian diversity conservation: Comparisons with mature forests. Journal of Environmental Management, 394, 127542.
25. Illuminati, A., Matesanz, S., Pías, B., et al., Escudero, A. (2025). Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole-plant perspective on growth, nutrient-use and size. Functional Ecology, 39(1), 38–50.
24. López-Angulo, J., Pardavila Rodríguez, X., Virgós, E. (2025). Evaluación del fototrampeo como método de estimación de abundancias en el tejón europeo Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758). Ecosistemas, 2867.
23. Muñoz-Escribano, A., Schöb, C., López-Angulo, J. (2025). Seeds adapted to mixed cropping increase yield and drought resistance of cereal–legume mixtures. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 4(1), e70039.
22. Hua, X., Lusk, C. H., Dickie, I. A., et al., Brédoire, F. (2025). Site-specific nutrient data reveal the importance of soils in driving the mycorrhizal make-up of woody vegetation worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1), e13936.
21. Siqueira-Silva, T., López-Angulo, J., Olalla-Tárraga, M. Á., et al., Martinez, P. A. (2025). Von Humboldt’s nightmare: Effects of climate change on the plant biodiversity of Mount Chimborazo (Tropical Andes). Journal of Biogeography.

2024

20. Rodríguez-Arribas, C., Prieto, M., Aragón, G., et al., Martínez, I. (2024). Specialization: A multidimensional and integrative perspective. Ecosphere, 15(7), e4916.

2023

19. López-Angulo, J., Stefan, L., Engbersen, N., et al., Schöb, C. (2023). Ecological and evolutionary effects of crop diversity decrease yield variability. Journal of Ecology, 111(6), 1242–1253.
18. López-Angulo, J., Matesanz, S., Illuminati, A., et al., Escudero, A. (2023). Ecological drivers of fine-scale distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a semiarid Mediterranean scrubland. Annals of Botany, 131(7), 1107–1119.
17. Schöb, C., Engbersen, N., López-Angulo, J., et al., Stefan, L. (2023). Crop diversity experiment: Towards a mechanistic understanding of the benefits of species diversity in annual crop systems. Journal of Plant Ecology, 16(6), rtad016.

2022

16. Jara, F. M., Carrión, M. E., López-Angulo, J., et al., Carmona, M. (2022). Chemical characterization, antioxidant activity and morphological traits in the leaves of guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray) and its hybrids. Industrial Crops and Products, 182, 114927.
15. Matinzadeh, Z., López-Angulo, J., Escudero, A., et al., Akhani, H. (2022). Functional structure of plant communities along salinity gradients in Iranian salt marshes. Plant-Environment Interactions, 3(1), 16–27.
14. Bartomeus, I., Lanuza, J. B., Wood, T. J., et al., Fidalgo, P. Á. (2022). Base de datos de abejas ibéricas. Ecosistemas, 31(3), 2380–2380.

2021

13. López-Angulo, J., De la Cruz, M., Pescador, D. S., et al., Escudero, A. (2021). A dimmer shade of pale: Revealing the faint signature of local assembly processes on the structure of strongly filtered plant communities. Ecography, 44(1), 87–97.
12. Pescador, D. S., de Bello, F., López-Angulo, J., et al., Escudero, A. (2021). Spatial scale dependence of ecological factors that regulate functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Mediterranean high mountain grassland. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 622148.
11. Illuminati, A., López-Angulo, J., De la Cruz, M., et al., Matesanz, S. (2021). Larger aboveground neighbourhood scales maximise similarity but do not eliminate discrepancies with belowground plant diversity in a Mediterranean shrubland. Plant and Soil, 460, 497–509.

2020

10. López-Angulo, J., Pescador, D. S., Sánchez, A. M., et al., Escudero, A. (2020). Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity. Science of the Total Environment, 698, 133960.
9. López-Angulo, J., De la Cruz, M., Chacón-Labella, J., et al., Escudero, A. (2020). The role of root community attributes in predicting soil fungal and bacterial community patterns. New Phytologist, 228(3), 1070–1082.
8. Hurtado, P., Prieto, M., Martínez-Vilalta, J., et al., Rosas, T. (2020). Disentangling functional trait variation and covariation in epiphytic lichens along a continent-wide latitudinal gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1922), 20192862.
7. Hurtado, P., Prieto, M., de Bello, F., et al., Košuthová, A. (2020). Contrasting environmental drivers determine biodiversity patterns in epiphytic lichen communities along a European gradient. Microorganisms, 8(12), 1913.

2019

6. López-Angulo, J., Pescador, D. S., Sánchez, A. M., et al., Escudero, A. (2019). Alpine vegetation dataset from three contrasting mountain ranges differing in climate and evolutionary history. Data in Brief, 27, 104816.
5. Matesanz, S., Pescador, D. S., Pías, B., et al., Vizcaíno, A. (2019). Estimating belowground plant abundance with DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19(5), 1265–1277.

2018

4. López-Angulo, J., Swenson, N. G., Cavieres, L. A., et al., Escudero, A. (2018). Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(2), 245–254.
3. López-Angulo, J., Pescador, D., Sanchez, A., Mihoc, M., Cavieres, L., Escudero, A. (2018). Determinants of high-mountain plant diversity in the Chilean Andes: From regional to local spatial scales. PLOS ONE, 13(7).
2. Luzuriaga, A. L., Sánchez, A. M., López-Angulo, J., et al., Escudero, A. (2018). Habitat fragmentation determines diversity of annual plant communities at landscape and fine spatial scales. Basic and Applied Ecology, 29, 12–19.
1. Santamaría, S., Sánchez, A. M., López-Angulo, J., et al., Escudero, A. (2018). Landscape effects on pollination networks in Mediterranean gypsum islands. Plant Biology, 20, 184–194.

Other scientific contributions

2. López-Angulo, J., Gómez-Martínez, C., Conde-Raposo, E., Rojo-Valencia, M., Escudero, A., García-Cervigón, A. (2026). Las reforestaciones son incapaces de recuperar la biodiversidad de los bosques bien conservados: un estudio en el centro peninsular. Revista Quercus, 482, 26–32.

1. López-Angulo, J. (2018). Reglas ecológicas de ensamblaje en comunidades de plantas de alta montaña. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. [PDF]

Electronic book

1. Cerzo, E., Contreras, C., Conteras, R., Crespo, A., López-Angulo, J. (2014). Guía de Aves del Municipio de Parla. [PDF]