Antonio Ramon Castilla Alvarez (801F-38F7-0C12)

Curriculum Vitae

Antonio Ramon Castilla Alvarez

Dr. Castilla completed his B.Sc. in Biology (2005), M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D. (2012) in Plant Biology at the University of Seville. His postdoctoral experience includes an initial period in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin (4 years) and Northern Arizona University (7 months). During this period, he built a broad network of international collaborators (7 countries). After being awarded the highly competitive postdoctoral FCT fellowship, he began his current position at the Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves” (Lisbon, Portugal). Overall, his research program focuses on the conservation genetics of wild plant species under the ongoing scenario of global change. In his research, he places an emphasis on the role played by plant-animal interactions for the maintenance of genetic connectivity and phenotypic variability of plant populations. He has a productive publication record (19 JCR articles; 42% in Q1, h-index=6, 11 as 1st author and 10 coauthored by students under my supervision) in top journals such as PNAS, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Annals of Botany or American Journal of Botany. He has extensive mentoring experience (officially recognized: 1 Ph.D. and 2 M.Sc. students; not officially recognized: 4 Ph.D. and 7 undergraduate students). This mentoring has been developed in an international environment involving institutions from four countries (University of Texas at Austin, University of Panama, University of Lisbon, University Pablo de Olavide). He has communicated the results of his research in 16 national (2) and international (14) scientific meetings. He has a successful funding record of research fellowships (5) and grants (1) for a total amount of 191,130 euros. He has been part of the organizing committees for international symposiums (2) and consortiums (1). In collaboration with Xavier Picó (EBD-CSIC) and Mohamed Abdelaziz (University of Granada), he is currently editing the special issue “The ecology and genetics of population differentiation in plants” for the scientific journal AoB plants. During his postdoctoral period, he has acquired teaching experience by participating as guest lecturer at the UT Austin in USA (5 lectures) and the Technische Universität München in Germany (1 lecture). He has also participated as instructor of two workshops at the UT Austin in USA and the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica. Finally, Dr. Castilla has participated in two outreach programs at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrating his commitment with the communication of science to broader audiences.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Antonio Ramon Castilla Alvarez

Citation names

Antonio R. Castilla

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 801F-38F7-0C12
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4124-738X
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JY-Y89sAAAAJ&hl=es
Researcher Id: A-3877-2019
Scopus Author Id: 55404207000

Telephones

Fax

21 3653290 (Professional)

Telephone

21 3653333 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012 Concluded	Plant Biology (Doctor) Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Biología, Spain "Geographic variation, interactions with animals and sexual dimorphism: glancing at range limits in a gynodioecious plant" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Excellent "cum laude"
2006 Concluded	Plant Biology and Ecology (Master) Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Biología, Spain "Spartina densiflora, una invasora de marismas mareales más tolerante a la acidez del sustrato que la autóctona Spartina maritima en el estuario del río Tinto (Huelva)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Excellent "cum laude"
2005 Concluded	Biology (Bachelor) Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Biología, Spain "BACHELOR OF SCIENCE" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	WEIGHTED AVERAGE MARK: 2.19

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/05/01 - 2023/04/30	Postdoc (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/03/24	Postdoc (Research)	Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, United States
	Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, United States
2012/08/01 - 2016/08/24	Postdoc (Research)	University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences, United States
	University of Texas at Austin School of Biological Sciences, United States
2011/10/01 - 2012/03/01	Research Assistant (Research)	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
	Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain
2007/01/01 - 2010/12/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
	Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain
2006/02/01 - 2006/12/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
	Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain
2004/10/01 - 2005/06/30	Research Trainee (Research)	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Spain
	Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Biología, Spain

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2003/07/01 - 2003/09/01	Field Assistant (Undergraduate), Genetic improvement of cotton varieties	Eurogenetics , Spain

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/05/01 - 2023/04/30	Genetic restoration of old-fields in Mediterranean landscapes SFRH/BPD/115781/2016 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2018/03/31	Mejora de la producción agrícola con el aporte de polinizadores nativos manejados PAS AAF309426 Post-doc Fellow Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Cancelled
2011/10/01 - 2012/03/31	Ecological implications of nectar yeasts: consequences on reproduction of two winter-flowering plant species CGL2010-15964 Research Technician Fellow Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2016/09/01 - 2017/03/24	Collaborative Research: Blending Ecology and Evolution using Emerging Technologies to Determine Species Distributions with a Non-native Pathogen in a Changing Climate 1442597 Post-doc Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, United States	National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology Concluded
2007/01/01 - 2010/12/31	Conectando micro y macroevolución en plantas: base genética de rasgos clave, interacciones con animales y diversificación CGL2006-01355/BOS PhD Student Fellow Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Antonio R. Castilla; Pedro J. Garrote; Magdalena Zywiec; Gemma Calvo; Alberto Suárez-Esteban; F. Xavier Picó; Jose A. Godoy; Miguel Delibes; Jose M. Fedriani. "Genetic rescue by distant trees mitigates qualitative pollen limitation imposed by fine-scale spatial genetic structure". Paper presented in 2019 British Ecological Society Meeting, 2019. Maria F. Rodriguez; Antonio R. Castilla; Shalene Jha. "Pollinator-plant species specificity as it relates to viable seed production and level of disturbance". Paper presented in 99th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2014. Antonio R. Castilla; Shalene Jha; Alonso Santos. "Towards to an improved knowledge of species-specific pollinator movement and efficiency". Paper presented in 98th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2013. Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Variation in the size of plants and the reproductive success in central and peripheral populations of Daphne laureola L". Paper presented in 22nd Annual Meeting of Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecologists (SCAPE), 2008.
Journal article	Kimberly M. Ballare; Nathaniel S. Pope; Antonio R. Castilla; Sarah Cusser; Richard P. Metz; Shalene Jha. "Utilizing field collected insects for next generation sequencing: Effects of sampling, storage, and DNA extraction methods". Ecology and Evolution 9 24 (2019): 13690-13705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5756. Published • 10.1002/ece3.5756 Pedro J. Garrote; Antonio R. Castilla; Jose M. Fedriani. "The endemic Mediterranean dwarf palm boosts the recolonization of old-fields: Implications for restoration". Journal of Environmental Management 250 109478 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109478. Published • 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109478 Antonio R. Castilla; Pedro J. Garrote; Magdalena Zywiec; Gemma Calvo; Alberto Suárez-Esteban; Miguel Delibes; Jose A. Godoy; F. Xavier Picó; Jose M. Fedriani. "Genetic rescue by distant trees mitigates qualitative pollen limitation imposed by fine-scale spatial genetic structure". Molecular Ecology 28 19 (2019): 4363-4374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15233. Published • 10.1111/mec.15233 Pedro J. Garrote; Gemma Calvo; Magdalena Zywiec; Miguel Delibes; Alberto Suárez-Esteban; Antonio R. Castilla; Jose M. Fedriani. "Extrinsic factors rather than seed traits mediate strong spatial variation in seed predation". Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 38 (2019): 39-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2019.02.005. 10.1016/j.ppees.2019.02.005 Antonio R. Castilla; Jose A. Godoy; Miguel Delibes; Ana Rodriguez-Prieto; Jose M. Fedriani. "Microgeographic variation in recruitment under adult trees: arrival of new genotypes or perpetuation of the existing ones?". Plant Biology 21 4 (2019): 695-705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.12982. Published • 10.1111/plb.12982 Jose M. Fedriani; Pedro J. Garrote; Gemma Calvo; Miguel Delibes; Antonio R. Castilla; Magdalena Zywiec. "Combined effects of seed provenance, plant facilitation, and restoration site on revegetation success". Journal of Applied Ecology 56 4 (2019): 996-1006. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13343. Published • 10.1111/1365-2664.13343 Cassie J. Majetic; Antonio R. Castilla; Donald A. Levin. "Losing a Scent of One’s Self: Is There a Reduction in Floral Scent Emission in Self-Pollinating Phlox cuspidata versus Outcrossing Phlox drummondii?". International Journal of Plant Sciences 180 1 (2019): 86-92. Published • https://doi.org/10.1086/701102 Majetic, C.J.; Castilla, A.R.; Levin, D.A.. "Losing a scent of one’s self: Is there a reduction in floral scent emission in self-pollinating phlox cuspidata versus outcrossing phlox drummondii?". International Journal of Plant Sciences 180 1 (2019): 86-92. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85057837784&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1086/701102 Megan C. O'Connell; Antonio R. Castilla; Leticia X. Lee; Shalene Jha. "Bee movement across heterogeneous tropical forests: multi-paternal analyses reveal the importance of neighborhood composition for pollen dispersal". Biotropica 50 6 (2018): 908-918. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fbtp.12603. 10.1111/btp.12603 M Luisa Buide; José Carlos del Valle; Antonio R. Castilla; Eduardo Narbona. "Sex expression variation in response to shade in gynodioecious-gynomonoecious species: Silene littorea decreases flower production and increases female flower proportion". Environmental and Experimental Botany 146 (2018): 54-61. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85035013966&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.10.016 Antonio R. Castilla. "Sex expression variation in response to shade in gynodioecious-gynomonoecious species: Silene littorea decreases flower production and increases female flower proportion". Environmental and Experimental Botany 146 (2018): 54-61. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098847217302605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.10.016 Antonio R. Castilla; Nathaniel Pope; Megan C. O'Connell; Maria F. Rodriguez; Laurel Treviño; Alonso Santos; Shalene Jha. "Adding landscape genetics and individual traits to the ecosystem function paradigm reveals the importance of species functional breadth.". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 48 (2017): 12761-12766. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29127217. Published • 10.1073/pnas.1619271114 Rodolfo Jaffé; Antonio R. Castilla; Nathaniel Pope; Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca; Jean Paul Metzger; Maria Cristina Arias; Shalene Jha. "Landscape genetics of a tropical rescue pollinator". Conservation genetics 17 2 (2016): 267-278. http://europepmc.org/abstract/AGR/IND605152323. Published • 10.1007/s10592-015-0779-0 Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "To be or not to be better pollinated: Differences between sex morphs in marginal gynodioecious populations.". American journal of botany 103 3 (2016): 388-395. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26928007. Published • 10.3732/ajb.1500167 Antonio R. Castilla; Nathaniel Pope; Shalene Jha. "Positive density-dependent reproduction regulated by local kinship and size in an understorey tropical tree.". Annals of Botany 117 2 (2016): 319-329. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26602288. Published • 10.1093/aob/mcv170 Antonio R. Castilla; Nathaniel Pope; Rodolfo Jaffé; Shalene Jha. "Elevation, Not Deforestation, Promotes Genetic Differentiation in a Pioneer Tropical Tree.". PloS one 11 6 (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27280872. Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0156694 Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Sex-specific phenotypic selection and geographic variation in gender divergence in a gynodioecious shrub.". Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 17 1 (2015): 186-193. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24841933. Published • 10.1111/plb.12192 Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Herbivory at marginal populations: Consequences for maternal fitness and vegetative differentiation". Acta Oecologica 49 (2013): 32-38. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.actao.2013.02.008. 10.1016/j.actao.2013.02.008 Antonio R. Castilla; Thorsten Wiegand; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Disturbance-dependent spatial distribution of sexes in a gynodioecious understory shrub". Basic and Applied Ecology 13 5 (2012): 405-413. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.baae.2012.08.005. Published • 10.1016/j.baae.2012.08.005 Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Genetic structure of the shrub Daphne laureola across the Baetic Ranges, a Mediterranean glacial refugium and biodiversity hotspot.". Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) 14 3 (2012): 515-524. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22188205. Published • 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2011.00521.x Antonio R. Castilla; Conchita Alonso; Carlos M. Herrera. "Exploring local borders of distribution in the shrub Daphne laureola: Individual and populations traits". Acta Oecologica 37 3 (2011): 269-276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.02.011. Published • 10.1016/j.actao.2011.02.011
Thesis / Dissertation	Antonio R. Castilla. "Geographic variation, interactions with animals and sexual dimorphism: Glancing at range limits in a gynodioecious plant". PhD, Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Biología, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/48367.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020/06/06	Genetic restoration of Mediterranean human-altered landscapes. seminar series in biodiversity and evolution	Seminar series in biodiversity and evolution Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO-INBIO) (Vairão, Portugal)
2020	Seed dispersers inflate kinship in a bout, but promote genetic admixture within the neighbourhood in the long-term	7th Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Symposium (Corbett, India)
2019/06/19	Genetic rescue by distant trees mitigates qualitative pollen limitation imposed by fine-scale spatial genetic structure	Seminário CEF/CEABN: Ecologia, Florestas e Conservação Centro de Estudos Florestais / Centro de Ecologia Aplicada "Prof. Baeta Neves" (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/02/05	Spatial associations between an endemic Mediterranean palm and several woody species in Iberian oldfields: implications for restoration	1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society & XIV AEET Meeting Universidad de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/12/03	Pollinator species-specific contribution to reproduction in trees: an ecological genetic approach	Colloquium for Applied Ecology and Planning Technische Universität München (München , Germany)
2018/02/05	Pollen quality regulating positive density-dependent reproduction in Pyrus bourgaeana	15th Ecoflor Meeting Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, AEET (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2018/02/05	Old-field recolonization by animal-dispersed keystone plants: combining field work, genetic and individual-based modelling	15th Ecoflor Meeting Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, AEET (Palma de Mallorca , Spain)
2017/10/13	Genetic rescue from distant trees through pollination	VIII Congresso Florestal Nacional Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências Florestais (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2016/04/15	Fruiting together? Influence of the conspecific neighborhood	12th Annual Integrative Biology Graduate Research Symposium The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, United States)
2015/12/04	Pollinator species-specific contribution to pollen-mediated gene flow	PIB luncheon The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, United States)
2015/08/11	Pollinator species-specific contribution to reproduction in tropical trees	100th ESA Annual Meeting Ecological Society of America (Baltimore, United States)
2014/08/12	Individual and neigborhood effects on tropical tree pollination	99th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Ecological Society of America (Sacramento, United States)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/11/04 - Current	Seguir a la mayoría o salirte de la norma, ¿qué estrategia facilita la polinización del piruétano? Supervisor	Biodiversity and Conservation Biology (Master) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2017/12/01 - 2021/12/01	Old-field recolonization by animal-dispersed keystone plants: combining field work, genetics and individual-based modelling Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2020/01/15 - 2020/06/15	Unravelling interspecific interactions among frugivores: a new approach based on camera trap data and tailored null model Supervisor	Abroad internship Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal
2018/11/04 - 2019/10/16	Unravelling interspecific interactions among frugivores: a new approach based on camera trap data and tailored null models Co-supervisor	Biodiversity and Conservation Biology (Master) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2016/10/18 - 2016/10/18	Symposium “Application of Genomics Technologies to Understand and Manage Forest Trees, and Associated Organisms, in Changing Environments” Symposium	43th Natural Areas Conference. California (USA).

Distinctions

Other distinction

2016	Texas Ecolab Grant
2009	National Research Council of Spain Grant for Short Stays in Abroad Labs
2007	National Research Council of Spain Pre-doctoral Grant for Thesis Research
2006	National Research Council of Spain Grant for Scientific Training
2004	Fellowship of Collaboration