Cristina Garcia Perez

My research interests focus on investigating the chances of remnant forest patches to persist, and eventually expand across managed landscapes, in a changing world where climate extremes are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude. The ability of these fragments to cope with anthropogenic and climate-driven changes depend on their genetic diversity and on the ecological services provided by frugivores and pollinators that transport their seeds and pollen grains (and the genes they encapsulate) across the landscape. I combine genetic and genomic tools (NGS), long term field studies entailing a thorough environmental monitoring, ecological network tools, and novel modelization approaches to: (1) Investigate how the loss of plant dispersal ability that accompanies defaunation and fragmentation might shift plant distribution ranges; (2) Characterize lagged demographic and genetic population trends in response to land-use changes; and (3) Elucidate the functional relationship between population genetic diversity and their ability to cope with increasingly frequent climate extremes. Overall, my research ultimately provides scientific based guidelines to manage biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Doutorado em ECOLOGIA Y GENETICA DE POBLACIONES

2004 - 2009

Universidad de Sevilla
Título: GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF PLANT-ANIMAL DISPERSAL MUTUALISMS
Orientador: PROF. PEDRO JORDANO BARBUDO

Graduação em Biological Sciences

1998 - 2002

Universidad Caplutense de Madrid

Pós-doutorado

2010 - 2012

Pós-Doutorado. , University of Georgia, UGA, Estados Unidos.

Idiomas

Inglês

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Espanhol

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Português

Compreende Razoavelmente, Fala Razoavelmente, Lê Razoavelmente, Escreve Razoavelmente.

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Ciências Biológicas / Área: Ecologia.

Orientou

Salvador Maria Pinto da Silva da Almeida Campos

Gender expression in expanding tree populations: ecological and genetic drivers; Início: 2016; Dissertação (Mestrado em Ecologia) - Universidade do Porto; (Orientador);

Marta Cortesão

Sorting species processes in Gymnosperms; Início: 2013; Dissertação (Mestrado em Ecologia) - Universidade do Porto; (Orientador);

Jorge Arrayás Márquez

Regeneration dynamics of expanding populations: an spatial-explicit approach; Início: 2012; Dissertação (Mestrado em Ecologia) - Universidad Pablo de Olavide; (Orientador);

Eva Moracho

Characterization of the juniper woodland regeneration dynamics by applying GIS-based methods in Doñana National Park; Início: 2011; Dissertação (Mestrado em Ecologia) - Universidad Pablo de Olavide; (Orientador);

Manuel Navarro

Scaling up local processes to regional patterns to forecast the regeneration dynamics of Mediterranean forests on a changing world; Início: 2015; Tese (Doutorado em InBIO) - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; (Orientador);

Carlos VIlla-Viçosa

Phylogeographic studies in the genomic era: Quercus faginea as case study; Início: 2014; Tese (Doutorado em InBIO) - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; (Orientador);

Wilfredo Falcon

Aldraba?s seed dispersal network; Início: 2013; Tese (Doutorado em Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies) - University of Zurich; (Orientador);

Steve Palmer

Início: 2016; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos;

Jesús Muñoz Pajares

Início: 2014; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos;

Produções bibliográficas

Cristina García ; KLEIN, E. K. ; Jordano, P . Dispersal processes driving plant movement: challenges for understanding and predicting range shifts in a changing world. Journal of Ecology , v. 1, p. 1, 2017.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; BORDA-DE-ÁGUA, LUÍS . Extended dispersal kernels in a changing world: insights from statistics of extremes. Journal of Ecology (Print) , v. 105, p. 63-74, 2017.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; VASCONCELOS, RAQUEL . The beauty and the beast: Endemic mutualistic interactions promote community-based conservation on Socotra Island (Yemen). Journal for Nature Conservation (Print) , v. 35, p. 20-23, 2017.
BELLO-RODRIGUEZ, V. ; Cristina García ; MJ, A. ; R, H. ; González-Mancebo JM . Spatial dynamics of expanding fragmented thermophilous forests on a Macaronesian island. Forest Ecology and Management , v. 1, p. 1, 2016.
PÉREZ-MÉNDEZ, NÉSTOR ; JORDANO, PEDRO ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; VALIDO, ALFREDO . The signatures of Anthropocene defaunation: cascading effects of the seed dispersal collapse. Scientific Reports , v. 6, p. 24820, 2016.
LARA-ROMERO, CARLOS ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; MORENTE-LÓPEZ, JAVIER ; IRIONDO, JOSÉ M. . Direct and indirect effects of shrub encroachment on alpine grasslands mediated by plant-flower visitor interactions. Functional Ecology (Print) , v. 30, p. 1521-1530, 2016.
GARCÍA, C. ; RUMEU, B. ; GONZÁLEZ-PÉREZ, M.A. ; NOGALES, M. . Reduced reproductive fitness of an endemic insular juniper population: An eco-genetic mediation hypothesis. Biological Conservation , v. 198, p. 70-77, 2016.
LLORET, FRANCISCO ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA . Inbreeding and neighbouring vegetation drive drought-induced die-off within juniper populations. Functional Ecology (Print) , v. 30, p. 1696-1704, 2016.
GARCÍA, C. ; ESCRIBANO-ÁVILA, G. . An optimised protocol to isolate high-quality genomic DNA from seed tissues streamlines the workflow to obtain direct estimates of seed dispersal distances in gymnosperms. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH , v. 129, p. 559-563, 2016.
VALVERDE, JAVIER ; GÓMEZ, JOSÉ MARÍA ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; SHARBEL, TIMOTHY F. ; JIMÉNEZ, MARÍA NOELIA ; PERFECTTI, FRANCISCO . Inter-annual maintenance of the fine-scale genetic structure in a biennial plant. Scientific Reports , v. 6, p. 37712, 2016.
BORATY'SKI, ZBYSZEK ; ARIAS, JAVI MIRANDA ; GARCIA, CRISTINA ; MAPPES, TAPIO ; MOUSSEAU, TIMOTHY A. ; MØLLER, ANDERS P. ; PAJARES, ANTONIO JESÚS MUÑOZ ; PIWCZY'SKI, MARCIN ; TUKALENKO, EUGENE . Ionizing radiation from Chernobyl affects development of wild carrot plants. Scientific Reports , v. 6, p. 39282, 2016.
MUÑOZ-PAJARES, A.J. ; GARCÍA, C. ; ABDELAZIZ, M. ; BOSCH, J. ; PERFECTTI, F. ; GÓMEZ, J.M. . Drivers of genetic differentiation in a generalist insect-pollinated herb across spatial scales. Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 1, p. 1, 2016.
CARDOSO, GONÇALO C. ; CORTESÃO, MARTA ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA . Ecological Marginalization Facilitated Diversification in Conifers. Evolutionary Biology , v. 42, p. 146-155, 2015.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; MORACHO, EVA ; DÍAZ-DELGADO, RICARDO ; JORDANO, PEDRO . Long-term expansion of juniper populations in managed landscapes: patterns in space and time. Journal of Ecology (Print) , v. 102, p. 1562-1571, 2014.
HELENO, R. ; GARCIA, C. ; JORDANO, P. ; TRAVESET, A. ; GOMEZ, J. M. ; BLUTHGEN, N. ; MEMMOTT, J. ; MOORA, M. ; CERDEIRA, J. ; RODRIGUEZ-ECHEVERRIA, S. ; FREITAS, H. ; OLESEN, J. M. . Ecological networks: delving into the architecture of biodiversity. Biology Letters (Print) , v. 10, p. 20131000-20131000, 2014.
ARIAS, M. C. ATTEKE, CHRISTIANE AUGUSTO, S. C. BAILEY, J. BAZAGA, PILAR BEHEREGARAY, LUCIANO B. BENOIT, LAURE BLATRIX, RUMSAÏS BORN, CÉLINE BRITO, R. M. CHEN, HAI-KUI COVARRUBIAS, SARA DE VEGA, CLARA DJIÉTO-LORDON, CHAMPLAIN DUBOIS, MARIE-PIERRE FRANCISCO, F. O. GARCÍA, CRISTINA GONÇALVES, P. H. P. GONZÁLEZ, CLEMENTINA GUTIÉRREZ-RODRÍGUEZ, CARLA HAMMER, MICHAEL P. HERRERA, CARLOS M. ITOH, H. KAMIMURA, S. KARAOGLU, H. , et al. KOJIMA, S. LI, SHOU-LI LING, HANNAH J. MATOS-MARAVÍ, PÁVEL F. MCKEY, DOYLE MEZUI-M'EKO, JUDICAËL ORNELAS, JUAN FRANCISCO PARK, R. F. POZO, MARÍA I. RAMULA, SATU RIGUEIRO, CRISTINA SANDOVAL-CASTILLO, JONATHAN SANTIAGO, L. R. SEINO, MIYUKI M. SONG, CHANG-BING TAKESHIMA, H. VASEMÄGI, ANTI WELLINGS, C. R. YAN, JI YU-ZHOU, DU ZHANG, CHANG-RONG ZHANG, TIAN-YUN ; Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 February 2013-31 March 2013. Molecular Ecology Resources (Print) , v. 13, p. 760-762, 2013.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; GRIVET, DELPHINE . Molecular insights into seed dispersal mutualisms driving plant population recruitment. Acta Oecologica (Montrouge) , v. 37, p. 632-640, 2011.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; JORDANO, PEDRO ; ARROYO, JUAN MIGUEL ; GODOY, JOSÉ ANTONIO . Maternal genetic correlations in the seed rain: effects of frugivore activity in heterogeneous landscapes. Journal of Ecology (Print) , v. 97, p. 1424-1435, 2009.
GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; GODOY, JOSÉ A. ; JORDANO, PEDRO . On gene dispersal studies in complex landscapes: a reply to the comment on García et al. (2005, 2007). Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 18, p. 4536-4540, 2009.
FORTUNA, MIGUEL A. ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA ; GUIMARÃES JR., PAULO R. ; BASCOMPTE, JORDI . Spatial mating networks in insect-pollinated plants. Ecology Letters (Print) , v. 11, p. 490-498, 2008.
GARCÍA, C. ; JORDANO, P. ; GODOY, J. A. . Contemporary pollen and seed dispersal in a Prunus mahaleb population: patterns in distance and direction. Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 16, p. 1947-1955, 2007.
ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO, JUAN J. ; GARCÍA, CRISTINA . Estimation of the seed dispersal kernel from exact identification of source plants. Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 16, p. 5098-5109, 2007.
JORDANO, P. ; GARCIA, C. ; GODOY, J. A. ; GARCIA-CASTANO, J. L. . Differential contribution of frugivores to complex seed dispersal patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , v. 104, p. 3278-3282, 2007.
GARCIA, C. ; ARROY, J. M. ; GODOY, J. A. ; JORDANO, P. . Mating patterns, pollen dispersal, and the ecological maternal neighbourhood in a Prunus mahaleb L. population. Molecular Ecology (Print) , v. 14, p. 1821-1830, 2005.
Rumeu, B (Org.) ; Cristina Garcia (Org.) ; Nogales, M (Org.) . Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: convocatoria 2010-2013. 5. ed. Madrid: Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, 2014. v. 5. 350p .
Cristina García ; Borda de Agua, L. . Extended dispersal kernels in a changing world: insights from statistics of extremes. Journal of Ecology , 2017.
Valverde, J. ; Gómez JM ; Cristina García ; SHARBEL, T. F. ; Jiménez NA ; Perfectti, F . Inter-annual maintenance of the fine-scale genetic structure in a biennial plant. Scientific Reports , 2017.
GARCÍA-PÉREZ, C. ; VALLADARES, F. ; HERNANDEZ, L. ; DOBARRO, I. ; SANZ, R. ; PUGNAIRE, F. . The ratio of the leaf to total photosynthetic area inﬂuences shade survival and plastic response to light of green stem leguminous shrub seedlings. Annals of Botany , 2016.

Projetos de pesquisa

2016 - Atual

Fine-scale characterisation of dispersal kernels to predict range shifts in the Anthropocene, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Coordenador.
2016 - Atual

Bioclimatic niche and plant community dynamics in response to climate change, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Francisco Lloret Maya - Integrante.
2016 - Atual

Unraveling the potential of SPONtaneous FORest ESTablishment for improving ecosystem functions and services in dynamic landscapes, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Arndt Hampe - Integrante.
2015 - Atual

Capacity Building at CIBIO/InBIO for Research and Innovation Using Environmental Metagenomics, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Pedro Beja - Integrante.
2015 - Atual

VARIAÇÃO FENOTÍPICA, GENÉTICA E DISPERSÃO DAS SEMENTES DE UMA PALMEIRA-CHAVE NA MATA ATLÂNTICA, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Mauro Galetti - Integrante / Carolina Carvalho - Integrante / Marina Côrtes - Integrante.
2015 - Atual

Long distance dispersal by animals and population connectivity of insular plants: mutualism extinctions and its consequences, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Pedro Jordano - Integrante.
2015 - Atual

Ensamblaje de la comunidad de leñosas dispersadas por vertebrados en los nuevos bosques ibéricos: efectos del nicho, del paisaje y del comportamiento de los dispersores, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Joan Pino - Integrante.
2014 - Atual

?Spatio-temporal colonization patterns in expanding tree populations: an integrated genetic and genomic approach?, Situação: Em andamento; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Coordenador.
2012 - 2015

Genetic connectivity networks and colonization dynamics in chronic fragmented landscapes: an integrated spatio-temporal approach, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Coordenador.
2010 - 2014

Gene ﬂow by pollen and seed in Neochamaelea pulverulenta (Cneoraceae) from the Canary islands: consequences of the seed dispersers extinction, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Alfredo Valido - Integrante.
2010 - 2013

Structured generalization: evolutionary dynamics at ﬁne spatial scales in a generalist system, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Francisco Perfectti - Integrante.
2007 - 2012

Seed dispersal by frugivore animals: long distance events and connectivity networks in fragmented populations, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Coordenador / Cristina García - Integrante / Pedro Jordano - Integrante.
2007 - 2012

Genetic variability and long distance seed dispersal in forest Mediterranean species, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Integrante / JORDANO, P. - Coordenador.
2007 - 2010

Plant-animal mutualistic interactions: pollinator and frugivores effects on the genetic structure of plant populations at different spatial scales, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Integrante / JORDANO, P. - Coordenador.
2005 - 2010

Complex networks in ecology and conservation biology, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Integrante / Pedro Jordano - Coordenador.
2004 - 2007

Plant-Animal Ecological Interactions as drivers of biodiversity, Situação: Concluído; Natureza: Pesquisa. , Integrantes: Cristina Garcia Perez - Integrante / Cristina García - Integrante / JORDANO, P. - Coordenador.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos. , Rua Padre Armando Quintas. Campus Agrário de Vairão. 4485-661- Vairão- Portugal, VAIRAO, 4485661 - PORTO, - Portugal, Telefone: (00351) 252660421

Experiência profissional

2016 - Atual

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique