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My research focuses on studying the niche and identifying the most important processes that drive the coexistence and diversity of biological communities. I have focused primarily on plants, but have also explored patterns of coexistence and diversity in other organisms, including insects and terrestrial mammals. In addition, I also study the importance of diversity in ecosystem functions including carbon fluxes. I have a wide range of technical skills. I started working on observational studies in which I applied various statistical methods including regression techniques, structural equation modeling and species distribution modeling. During my thesis I analyzed the importance of top-down (regional to local) and bottom-up (local to regional) effects and proposed ways to incorporate these effects into general theoretical frameworks. This is a key issue necessary to establish the factors that enable the maintenance of diversity. During my postdoctoral contract at the University of South Bohemia, I developed an experimental perspective that has given me a broader view on the topic and a way to study the impact of local biotic interactions and intraspecific variability for biodiversity at larger scales. In addition, I have recently become interested in the importance of evolution in biodiversity patterns. I am currently working on integrating experimental and observational approaches to study biodiversity across scales and analyze how biodiversity affects ecosystem functions such as carbon flux. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) I have participated in 8 competitive research projects. I am coordinating an international project (DeWood, 250.000 €) in collaboration with Romanian researchers. I have participated in seven national projects and I have been PI in two of them, SoilSkin funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and SCENIC funded by the Spanish Research Agency (141,000). In addition, I have been PI of a non-competitive project to develop a protocol to establish biological cover in urban landscapes funded by the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and the UAM Foundation (20.587 €). I have spent more than 3 years in high quality institutions in four different countries (UK, USA, Portugal and Czech Republic). Of these, I spent 4.5 months at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences on a non-competitive postdoctoral research contract and 2 years at the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic on a competitive postdoctoral contract. I am also committed to the dissemination of my research results, I have contributed to more than 46 communications at national and international conferences. In 2015 I received the award for the best student presentation at the International Association of Bryologists (IAB) conference held in Chile. I participated in the organization and gave an invited talk at the international conference Joint Meeting of the British Ecological Society and the Sociedad Española Briología in 2016. I have acted as a reviewer for 29 papers and have also had editorial responsibilities. I was Editorial Assistant at Frontiers of Biogeography between 2017 and 2019 and I am Associate Editor of Cryptogamie, Bryologie since 2019. I have participated in the evaluation of R&D projects for an international project of the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) in 2019 and I am acting as a reviewer for the AEI Knowledge Generation Projects 2021. Finally, I have a solid teaching background with more than 600 hours of teaching in four different subjects and extensive experience in supervising students. I have supervised 14 undergraduate and two master's students in the last 10 years, and I am currently supervising three PhD students in three different Spanish universities.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nagore Garcia Medina

Citation names

  • Medina, Nagore

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BB16-DD5E-CF19
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4702-1610

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+34) 639632543 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Botany
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/10/10 - 2015/04/01
Concluded
Doctorado en Biología Evolutiva y Biodiversidad (Doctor)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
"Efectos de la escala y los gradientes ambientales en la diversidad de briófitos epífitos de los bosques de quercíneas ibéricos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/05/01 - 2009/05/01
Concluded
Experto Universitario en Métodos Avanzados de Estadística Aplicada (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
2005/09/01 - 2007/09/01
Concluded
Diploma de estudios avanzado en Biología Evolutiva y Biodiversidad (DEA)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2001/09/01 - 2005/09/05
Concluded
Licenciatura en Ciencias Ambientales (Bachelor)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/04/17 - 2019/04/16 Postdoc (Research) Jihoceska Vedecka Knihovna v Ceskych Budejovicich, Czech Republic

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/03/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Fundación de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2019/03/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/01 - Current Unifying niches, interactions and distributions: A common theoretical framework for geographic range dynamics and local coexistence
CGL2016-78070-P
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
2020/04/01 - 2023/12/31 DeWood: Understanding biotic and abiotic controls of woody debris decomposition and its contribution to carbon budgets in old-growth forests
Research Fellow
Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov, Romania
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
Ongoing
2020/06 - 2023/05 Descrifrando las relaciones entre nicho fundamental y coexistencia de plantas a través de las escalas
PID2019-106840GA-C22
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
2018/01 - 2021/12 NIDEVA: El papel de la diferenciación de nicho en la evolución de las Araliaceas: análisis macro- y micro-evolutivos
CGL2017-87198-P
Research Fellow
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Ongoing
2019 - 2020 SoilSkin - La Piel Viva del Suelo: Un programa de ciencia ciudadana para evaluar la vulnerabilidad de losecosistemas y sus funciones frente al cambio global
FCT-18-13511
Principal investigator
Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
Ongoing
2008/09 - 2011/12 Formación de Profesorado Universitario
CGL2017-87198-P
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
2008/09 - 2011/12 Formación de Profesorado Universitario
AP2007-00905
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Medina, N.G.; Draper, I.; Lara, F.; Nagore G. Medina; Isabel Draper; Francisco Lara; Diego Fontaneto. Biogeography of mosses and allies: Does size matter?. 2011.
    10.1017/cbo9780511974878.012
Journal article
  1. "Competition-induced transgenerational plasticity influences competitive interactions and leaf decomposition of offspring". New Phytologist 229 6 (2021): 3497-3507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17037.
    10.1111/nph.17037
  2. "Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old-field succession". Journal of Vegetation Science 32 2 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12986.
    10.1111/jvs.12986
  3. "Assessing spatial and temporal biases and gaps in the publicly available distributional information of Iberian mosses". Biodiversity Data Journal 8 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.8.e53474.
    10.3897/bdj.8.e53474
  4. Calatayud, J.; Andivia, E.; Escudero, A.; Melián, C.J.; Bernardo-Madrid, R.; Stoffel, M.; Aponte, C.; et al. "Positive associations among rare species and their persistence in ecological assemblages". Nature Ecology and Evolution 4 1 (2020): 40-45. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85076882338&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41559-019-1053-5
  5. Elvira, N.J.; Medina, N.G.; Leo, M.; Cala, V.; Estébanez, B.. "Copper Content and Resistance Mechanisms in the Terrestrial Moss Ptychostomum capillare: A Case Study in an Abandoned Copper Mine in Central Spain". Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 79 1 (2020): 49-59. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084500164&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00244-020-00739-6
  6. Santos, A.M.C.; Cianciaruso, M.V.; Barbosa, A.M.; Bini, L.M.; Diniz-Filho, J.A.F.; Faleiro, F.V.; Gouveia, S.F.; et al. "Current climate, but also long-term climate changes and human impacts, determine the geographic distribution of European mammal diversity". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85087766508&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/geb.13148
  7. Arellano, G.; Medina, N.G.; Tan, S.; Mohamad, M.; Davies, S.J.. "Crown damage and the mortality of tropical trees". New Phytologist 221 1 (2019): 169-179. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052449090&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/nph.15381
  8. Leo, M.; Calleja, J.A.; Lara, F.; Garilleti, R.; Medina, N.G.. "Drivers of plant richness patterns of Mediterranean riparian forests at local and regional scales have bottom-up and top-down effects". Journal of Vegetation Science 30 3 (2019): 485-497. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065409919&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jvs.12728
  9. Medina, N.G.; Bowker, M.A.; Hortal, J.; Mazimpaka, V.; Lara, F.. "Shifts in the importance of the species pool and environmental controls of epiphytic bryophyte richness across multiple scales". Oecologia 186 3 (2018): 805-816. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040785675&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00442-018-4066-x
  10. Alves-Martins, F.; Calatayud, J.; Medina, N.G.; De Marco, P.; Juen, L.; Hortal, J.. "Drivers of regional and local diversity of Amazonian stream Odonata". Insect Conservation and Diversity (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054492806&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/icad.12327
  11. Estébanez, B.; Medina, N.G.; Caparrós, R.; Monforte, L.; Del-Castillo-Alonso, M.-Á.; Martínez-Abaigar, J.; Núñez-Olivera, E.. "Spores potentially dispersed to longer distances are more tolerant to ultraviolet radiation: A case study in the moss genus Orthotrichum". American Journal of Botany 105 6 (2018): 996-1008. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050033286&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/ajb2.1118
  12. Medina, Nagore. "Effects of grazing abandonment on soil multifunctionality: The role of plant functional traits". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 249 (2017): 215-225. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880917303638.
    10.1016/j.agee.2017.08.013
  13. Zulema Varela Río; Silvia Calvo Aranda; Belén Estébanez Pérez; Nagore García Medina; Teresa Boquete Seoane. "Empleo de criptógamas como herramienta ecológica de biomonitorización de nitrógeno en la península ibérica". Ecosistemas 26 1 (2017): 45-54. https://doi.org/10.7818%2Fecos.2017.26-1.07.
    10.7818/ecos.2017.26-1.07
  14. Varela, Z.; Aranda, S.C.; Estébanez Pérez, B.; Medina, N.G.; Boquete, M.T.. "The use of cryptogams as an ecological tool for nitrogen deposition biomonitoring in the Iberian Peninsula,Empleo de criptógamas como herramienta ecológica de biomonitorización del depósito de nitrógeno en la península ibérica". Ecosistemas 26 1 (2017): 45-54. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019142872&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.7818/ECOS.2017.26-1.07
  15. Hudson, L.N.; Newbold, T.; Contu, S.; Hill, S.L.L.; Lysenko, I.; De Palma, A.; Phillips, H.R.P.; et al. "The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project". Ecology and Evolution 7 1 (2017): 145-188. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85006925546&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/ece3.2579
  16. Cogolludo, J.; Estébanez, B.; Medina, N.G.. "The effects of experimentally supplied lead nitrate on three common Mediterranean moss species". Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24 34 (2017): 26194-26205. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019575903&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11356-017-9220-1
  17. Valcárcel, V.; Guzmán, B.; Medina, N.G.; Vargas, P.; Wen, J.. "Phylogenetic and paleobotanical evidence for late Miocene diversification of the Tertiary subtropical lineage of ivies (Hedera L., Araliaceae)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 1 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85021078330&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12862-017-0984-1
  18. Calatayud, J.; Hortal, J.; Medina, N.G.; Turin, H.; Bernard, R.; Casale, A.; Ortuño, V.M.; Penev, L.; Rodríguez, M.Á.. "Glaciations, deciduous forests, water availability and current geographical patterns in the diversity of European Carabus species". Journal of Biogeography 43 12 (2016): 2343-2353. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84979220464&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jbi.12811
  19. Nagore G. Medina; Belén Estébanez; Manuel Reigosa. "Does Spore Ultrastructure Mirror Different Dispersal Strategies in Mosses? A Study of Seven Iberian Orthotrichum Species". PLoS ONE 9 11 (2014): e112867-e112867. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112867.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0112867
  20. Nagore G. Medina; Belén Albertos; Francisco Lara; Vicente Mazimpaka; Ricardo Garilleti; David Draper; Joaquín Hortal. "Species richness of epiphytic bryophytes: drivers across scales on the edge of the Mediterranean". Ecography 37 1 (2014): 80-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00095.x.
    10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00095.x
  21. Medina, N.G.; Lara, F.; Mazimpaka, V.; Hortal, J.. "Designing bryophyte surveys for an optimal coverage of diversity gradients". Biodiversity and Conservation 22 13-14 (2013): 3121-3139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84888303717&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10531-013-0574-5
  22. V. Mazimpaka; N. G. Medina; R. Lo Giudice; R. Garilleti; F. Lara. "Tree age-dependent changes among epiphytic bryophyte communities in Mediterranean environments. A case study from Sicily (Italy)". Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 144 1 (2010): 241-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263500903561080.
    10.1080/11263500903561080
  23. V. Mazimpaka; N. G. Medina; I. Draper; F. Lara. "Epiphytic bryophyte flora in dry environments from the Western Mediterranean: The special case of Sierra Alhamilla (Almería, South-eastern Spain)". Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 143 sup1 (2009): S113-S125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263500903220224.
    10.1080/11263500903220224
  24. Medina, N.G.; Estébanez, B.; Lara, F.; Mazimpaka, V.; Nagore G. Medina. "On the presence of dimorphic spores in Orthotrichum affine (Bryopsida, Orthotrichaceae)". Journal of Bryology 31 2 (2009): 124-126. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70350164251&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1179/174328209X415086

Other

Dataset
  1. IberBryo - iberian mosses occurrences dataset.
    10.20350/DIGITALCSIC/12494