Pablo Villalva
@ebd.csic.es
Integrative Ecology
Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
I am a conservation ecologist with broad interests in spatial ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and global change biology. My research is focused on the factors that determine species distributions, abundances and extinctions, with an emphasis on the effect of human influence on species and interactions among them.
My main goal is the conservation of biodiversity through the combination of ecological and social views, both vital to understand the actual biodiversity crisis.
EDUCATION
PhD Biología Integrada - Universidad de Sevilla 2022
MSc Biodiversity and Conservation Biology - Universidad Pablo de Olavide 2011
Expert in Geographic Information Systems - Universidad Internacional de 2010 Andalucía
Graduado en Biología - Universidad de Sevilla 2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biodiversity, Conservation biology, Global Change Biology, Macroecology, Spatial Ecology.
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Pablo Villalva and Francisco Palomares
Elsevier BV
Marina ZANIN, Noa GONZALEZ‐BORRAJO, Cuauhtémoc CHÁVEZ, Yamel RUBIO, Bart HARMSEN, Claudia KELLER, Pablo VILLALVA, Ana Carolina SRBEK‐ARAUJO, Leonora Pires COSTA, and Francisco PALOMARES
Wiley
Modern and paleoclimate changes may have altered species dynamics by shifting species' niche suitability over space and time. We analyze whether the current genetic structure and isolation of the two large American felids, jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor), are mediated by changes in climatic suitability and connection routes over modern and paleoclimatic landscapes. We estimate species distribution under five climatic landscapes (modern, Holocene, last maximum glaciations - LMG, average suitability, and climatic instability) and correlate them with individuals' genetic isolation through causal modeling on a resemblance matrix. Both species exhibit genetic isolation patterns correlated with LMG climatic suitability, suggesting that these areas may have worked as 'allele refuges'. However, the jaguar showed higher vulnerability to climate changes, responding to modern climatic suitability and connection routes, whereas the puma showed a continuous and gradual transition of genetic variation. Despite differential responsiveness to climate change, both species are subjected to the climatic effects on genetic configuration, which may make than susceptible to future climatic changes since these are progressing faster and with higher intensity than changes in the paleoclimate. Thus, the effects of climatic changes should be considered in the design of conservation strategies to ensure evolutionary and demographic processes mediated by gene flow for both species. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Mariana Nagy‐Reis, Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima, Claudia Zukeran Kanda, Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira, Fabiano Rodrigues Melo, Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato, Lilian Bonjorne, Marcelo Magioli, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Fabio Rohe,et al.
Ecology Wiley
Pablo Villalva and Francisco Palomares
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Begoña Adrados, Marina Zanin, Leandro Silveira, Pablo Villalva, Cuauhtemoc Chávez, Claudia Keller, Noa González-Borrajo, Bart J. Harmsen, Yamel Rubio, and Francisco Palomares
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Pablo Villalva and Eva Moracho
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Pablo Villalva, Dyana Reto, Margarida Santos-Reis, Eloy Revilla, and Clara Grilo
Elsevier BV