Luis Cayuela

Departamental II – DI. 210
Area of Biodiversity and Conservation
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
c/ Tulipán, s/n.
E-28933 Móstoles (Madrid)
Spain
Phone: +34 91 488 7035
Fax: +34 91 664 7490
E-mail: luis.cayuela at urjc.es
Research group: http://www.grupoecologiatropical.com/
Blog: http://www.luiscayuela.blogspot.com/
1995-1999 Bsc Environmental Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2001-2002 MSc in Conservation, University College of London (UK)
2002-2006 PhD Thesis, Universidad de Alcalá
2006-2007 Post-doc researcher (REMEDINAL), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2007-2008 Post-doc researcher, Universidad de Alcalá
2008-2010 Post-doc researcher (Juan de la Cierva), CEAMA-Universidad de Granada
2010-2011 Lecturer, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Associate professor (senior lecturer).
I teach Conservation Biology in the degree of Biology and Experimental Design and Data Analysis, Statistical Techniques and Tropical Ecology and Conservation at the master level.
Effects of deforestation and habitat fragmentation on plant diversity
Spatial and temporal patterns in changes of land use
Magagement of Mediterranean forests: forest decay and pest management (processionary, mistletoe)
Patterns and causal factors of alpha and beta diversity at a regional scale
Prioritization of conservation areas
Community ecology
Ecoinformatics
Cayuela, L. (2022). Computer-based activity to engage students in exploring biodiversity decline and extinction. The American Biology Teacher 84: 24-29. PDF
Hernández-Agüero, J. A.; Ruiz-Tapiador, I.; Cayuela, L. (2022). What feeds on Quercus ilex L.? A biogeographical approach to studying trophic interactions in a Mediterranean keystone species. Diversity and Distributions 28: 4-24. PDF
Matas-Granados, L.; Pizarro, M.; Cayuela, L.; Domingo, D.; Gómez, D.; García, M. B. (2022). Long-term monitoring of NDVI changes by remote sensing to assess the vulnerability of threatened plants. Biological Conservation 265: 109428. PDF
Albuquerque, F.S.; Bateman, H.L.; Boehme, C.; Allen, D.C.; Cayuela, L. (2021). Vegetation in temperature, precipitation, and vegetation greenness drive changes in seasonal variation of avian diversity in an urban desert landscape. Land 10: 480. PDF
de Aledo, J. G.; Bongers, F.; Cayuela, L.; Macía, M. J. (2021). Connecting indigenous and scientific ecological knowledge in the Madidi National Park, Bolivia. Environmental Sciences Proceedings 3: 63. PDF
ForestPlots.net; Blundo, C.; Carrilla, J.; Grau, R.; Malizia, A.; …; Cayuela, L.; …; Tran, H. D. [including more than 500 authors]. (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation 260: 108849. PDF
Hódar, J. A.; Cayuela, L.; Heras, D.; Pérez-Luque, A. J.; Torres-Muros, L. (2021). Expansion of elevational range in a forest pest: Can parasitoids track their hosts? Ecosphere 12(4): e03476. PDF
Sabatini, F. M.; Lenori, J.; Hattab, T.; Arnst, E. A.; Chytrý, M.; …; Cayuela, L.; …; Bruelheide, H. [including more than 100 authors]. (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1740-1764. PDF
Altamirano, A.; Miranda, A.; Aplin, P.; Carrasco, J.; Catalan, G.; Cayuela, L.; Fuentes-Castillo, T.; Hernadez, A; Martínez-Harms, M; Peluso, F.; Prado, M.; Van Holt, T.; Reyes-Riveros, R.; Vergara, C.; Zamorano-Elgueta, C.; Di Bella, C. (2020). Natural forests loss and tree plantations: large-scale tree cover loss differentiation in a threatened biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Research Letters 15: 124055. PDF
Bañares-de-Dios, G.; Macía, M. J.; Granzow-de la Cera, I.; Arnelas, I.; de Carvalho, G. M.; Espinosa, C. I.; Salinas, N.; Swenson, N. G.; Cayuela, L. (2020). Linking patterns and processes of tree community assembly across spatial scales in tropical montane forests. Ecology 101: e03058. PDF
de la Cruz-Amo, L.; Bañares-de-Dios, G.; Cala, V.; Granzow-dela Cerda, I.; Espinosa, C. I.; Ledo, A.; Salinas, N.; Macía, M. J.; Cayuela, L. (2020). Trade-offs among aboveground, belowground, and soil organic carbon stocks along altitudinal gradients in Andean tropical montane forests. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 106. PDF
Hernández-Agüero, J. A.; Polo, V.; García, M.; Simón, D.; Ruiz-Tapiador, I.; Cayuela, L. (2020). Effects of prey colour on bird predation: an experiment in Mediterranean woodlands. Animal Behaviour 170: 89-97. PDF
Madrigal-González, J.; Calatayud, J.; Balleseros-Cánovas, J. A.; Escudero, A.; Cayuela, L.; Rueda, M.; Ruiz-Benito, P.; Herrero, A.; Aponte, C.; Sagardia, R.; Plumptre, A. J.; Dupire, S.; Espinosa, C. I.; Tutubalina, O.; Myint, M.; Pataro, L.; López-Sáez, J.; Macía, M. J.; Abegg, M.; Zavala, M. A.; Quesada-Román, A.; Vega-Araya, M.; Golubeva, E.; Timokhina, Y.; Stoffel, M. (2020). Climate reverses directionality in the richness-abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes. Nature Communications 11: 5635. PDF
Malizia, A.; Blundo, C.; Carrilla, J.; Osinaga Acosta, O.; Cuesta, F.; Duque, A.; Aguirre, N.; Aguirre, Z.; Ataroff, M.; Baez, S.; Calderón-Loor, M.; Cayola, L.; Cayuela, L.; Ceballos, S.; Cedillo, H.; Farfán Ríos, W.; Feely, K. J.; Fuentes, A. F.; Gámez Álvarez, L. E.; Grau, R.; Homeier, J.; Jadán, O.; Llambi, L. D.; Loza Rivera, M. I.; Macía, M. J.; Malhi, Y.; Malizia, L.; Peralvo, M.; Pinto, E.; Tello, S.; Silman, M.; Young, K. R. (2020). Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network. PLoS ONE 15: e0231553. PDF
Bruelheide, H.; Dengler, J.; Jiménez-Alfaro, B.; Purschke, O.; Hennekens, S. M.; Chytrý M.; Pillar, F. D.; Jansen, F.; Kattge, J.; Sandel, B.; Aubin, I.; Biurrun, I.; Field, R.; Hai-der, S.; Jandt, U.; Lenoir, J.; Peet, R. K.; Peyre, G.; Sabatini, F. M.; Schmidt, M.; Schrodt, F.; Win-ter, M.; Aćić, S.; Agrillo, E.; Alvarez, M.; Ambarli, D.; Angelini, P.; Apostolova, I.; Arfin Khan, M. A. S.; Arnst, E.; Attorre, F.; Baraloto, C.; Beckmann, M.; Berg, C.; Bergeron, Y.; Bergmeier, E.; Bjorkman, A. D.; Bondareva, V.; Borchardt, P.; Botta-Dukt, Z.; Boyle, B.; Breen, A.; Brisse, H.; Byun, C.; Cabido, M. R.; Casella, L.; Cayuela, L.; Černý, T.; Chepinoga, V.; Csiky, J.; Curran, M.; Ćušterevska, R.; Dajić Stevanović, Z.; De Bie, E.; De Ruffray, P.; De Sanctis, M.; Dimopoulos, P.; Dressler, S.; Ejrns, R.; Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh, M.; Enquist, B.; Ewald, J.; Fagndez, J.; Finckh, M.; Font, X.; Forey, E.; Fotiadis, G.; García-Mijangos, I.; de Gasper, A. L.; Golub, V.; Gutiérrez, A. G.; Hatim, M. Z.; He, T.; Higuchi, P.; Holubov, D.; H.lzel, N.; Homeier, J.; Indreica, A.; Isık Gürsoy, D.; Jansen, S.; Janssen, J.; Jedrzejek, B.; Jiroušek, M.; Jürgens, N.; Kącki, Z.; Kavgacı, A.; Kearsley, E.; Kessler, M.; Knollov, I.; Kolomiychuk, V.; Korolyuk, A.; Kozhevnikova, M.; Kozub, Ł.; Krstonošić, D.; Kühl, H.; Kühn, I.; Kuzemko, A.; Küzmič, F.; Landucci, F.; Lee, M. T.; Levesley, A.; Li, C.-F.; Liu, H.; López-González, G.; Lysenko, T.; Macanović, A.; Mahdavi, P.; Manning, P.; Marcen, C.; Martynenko, V.; Mencuccini, M.; Minden, V.; Moeslund, J. E.; Moretti, M.; Müller, J. V.; Munzinger, J.; Niinemets, Ü.; Nobis, M.; Noroozi, J.; Nowak, A.; Onyshchenko, V.; Overbeck, G. E.; Ozinga, W. A.; Pauchard, A.; Pedashenko, H.; Peñuelas, J.; Pérez-Haase, A.; Peterka, T.; Petřík, P.; Phillips, O. L.; Prokhorov, V.; Rašomavičius, V.; Revermann, R.; Rodwell, J.; Ruprecht, E.; Rūsiņa, S.; Samimi, C.; Schaminée, J. H. J.; Schmiedel, U.; Šibík, J.; Šilc, U.; Škvorc, Ž.; Smyth, A.; Sop, T.; Sopotlieva, D.; Sparrow, B.; Stančić, Z.; Svenning, J.-C.; Swacha, G.; Tang, Z.; Tsiripidis, I.; Turtureanu, P. D.; Ugurlu, E.; Uogintas, D.; Valachovič, M.; Vanselow, K. A.; Vashenyak, Y.; Vassilev, K.; Vélez-Martin, E.; Venanzoni, R.; Vibrans, A. C.; Violle, C.; Virtanen, R.; von Wehrden, H.; Wagner, V.; Walker, D. A.; Wana, D.; Weiher, E.; Wesche, K.; Whitfeld, T.; & Willner, W.; Wiser, S.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Yamalov, S.; Zizka, G.; Zverev, A. (2019). sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 161-186. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Gallardo, L.; Granzow-de la Cerda, I.; Méndez, M.; Grupo RedTrop. (2019). El papel de España en la investigación biológica tropical: ¿Podemos mejorar? Ecosistemas 28(3): 167-173. PDF
Chase, J. M.; Liebergesell, M.; Sagouis, A.; May, F.; Berg, Å.; Bernard, E.; Brosi, B. J.; Cadotte, M. W.; Cayuela, L.; Chiarello, A. G.; Cosson, J. F.; Cresswell, W.; Dami, F. D.; Dauber, J.; Dickman, C. R.; Didham, R. K.; Edwards, D. P.; Farneda, F. Z.; Gavish, Y.; Gonçalves-Souza, T.; Guadagnin, D. L.; Henry, M.; López-Baucells, A.; Kappes, H.; MacNally, R.; Manu, S.; Martensen, A. C.; McCollin, D.; Meyer, C. F. J.; Neckel-Oliveira, S.; Nogueira, A.; Pons, J. M.; Raheem, D. C.; Ramos, F. N.; Rocha, R.; Sam, K.; Slade, E.; Stireman III, J. O.; Struebig, M. J.; Vasconcelos, H.; Ziv, Y. (2019). FragSAD: A meta-database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragmentation studies. Ecology 100: e02861. PDF
Rebollo, S.; Rey-Benayas, J. M.; Villar-Salvador, S.; Pérez-Camacho, L.; Castro, J.; Molina-Morales, M.; Leverkus, A. B.; Baz, A.; Martínez-Baroja, L.; Quiles, P.; Gómez-Sánchez, D.; Fernández-Pereira, J. M.; Meltzer, J.; Monteagudo, N.; Ballesteros, L.; Cayuela, L.; de las Heras, D.; García Salgado, G.; Martínez-HesterKamp, S. (2019). Servicios de la avifauna (high mobile link species) en mosaicos agroforestales: regeneración forestal y regulación de plagas. Ecosistemas 28 (2): 32-41. PDF
Vega-Álvarez, J.; García Rodríguez, J. A.; Cayuela, L. (2019). Facilitation beyond species richness. Journal of Ecology 107: 722-734. PDF
Bruelheide, H.; Dengler, J.; Purschke, O.; Lenoir, J.; Jiménez-Alfaro, B.; Hennekens, S. M.; Botta-Dukát, Z.; Chytrý, M.; Field, R.; Jansen, F.; Kattge, J.; Pillar, V. D.; Schrodt, F.; Mahecha, M. D.; Peet, R. K.; Sandel, B.; van Bodegom, P.; Altman, J.; Alvarez Davila, E.; Arfin Khan, M. A. S.; Attorre, F.; Aubin, I.; Baraloto, C.; Barroso, J. G.; Bauters, M.; Bergmeier, E.; Biurrun, I.; Bjorkman, A. D.; Blonder, B.; Čarni, A.; Cayuela, L.; Černý, T.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Craven, D.; Dainese, M.; Derroire, G.; De Sanctis, M.; Díaz, S.; Doležal, J.; Farfan-Rios, W.; Feldpausch, T. R.; Fenton, N. J.; Garnier, E.; Guerin, G. R.; Gutiérrez, A. G.; Haider, S.; Hattab, T.; Henry, G.; Hérault, B.; Higuchi, P.; Hölzel, N.; Homeier, J.; Jentsch, A.; Jürgens, N.; Kącki, Z.; Karger, D. N.; Kessler, M.; Kleyer, M.; Knollová, I.; Korolyuk, A. Y.; Kühn, I.; Laughlin, D. C.; Lens, F.; Loos, J.; Louault, F.; Lyubenova, M. I.; Malhi, Y.; Marcenò, C.; Mencuccini, M.; Müller, J. V.; Munzinger, J.; Myers-Smith, I. H.; Neill, D. A.; Niinemets, Ü.; Orwin, K. H.; Ozinga, W. A.; Peñuelas, J.; Pérez-Haase, A.; Petřík, P.; Phillips, O. L.; Pärtel, M.; Reich, P. B.; Römermann, C.; Rodrigues, A. V.; Sabatini, F. M.; Sardans, J.; Schmidt, M.; Seidler, G.; Silva Espejo, J. E.; Silveira, M.; Smyth, A.; Sporbert, M.; Svenning, J.; Tang, Z.; Thomas, R.; Tsiripidis, I.; Vassilev, K.; Violle, C.; Virtanen, R.; Weiher, E.; Welk, E.; Wesche, K.; Winter, M.; Wirth, C.; Jandt, U. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1906-1917. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Granzow de la Cerda, I.; Méndez, M. (2018). The state of European research in tropical biology. Biotropica 50: 202-207. PDF
Karp, D. S.; Chaplin-Kramer, R.; Meehan, T. D.; Martin, E. A.; DeClerck, F.; Grab, H.; Gratton, C.; Hunt, L.; Larsen, A. E.; Martínez-Salinas, A.; O’Rourke, M. E.; Rusch, A.; Poveda, K.; Jonsson, M.; Rosenheim, J. A.; Schellhorn, N. A.; Tscharntke, T.; Wratten, S. D.; Zhang, W.; Iverson, A. L.; Adler, L. S.; Albrecht, M.; Alignier, A.,; Angelella, G. M.; Anjum, M. Z.; Avelino, J.; Batáry, P.; Baveco, J. M.; Bianchi, F. J. J. A.; Birkhofer, K.; Bohnenblust, K. W.; Bommarco, R.; Brewer, M. J.; Caballero-López, B.; Carrière, Y.; Carvalheiro, L. G.; Cayuela, L.; Centrella, M.; Ćetković, A.; Henri, D. C.; Chabert, A.; Costamagna, A. C.; De la Mora, A.; de Kraker, J.; Desneux, N.; Diehl, E.; Diekötter, T.; Dormann, C. F.; Eckberg, J. O.; Entling, M. H.; Fiedler, D.; Franck, P.; Frank van Veen, F. J.; Frank, T.; Gagic, V.; Garratt, M. P. D.; Getachew, A.; Gonthier, D .J.; Goodell, P. B.; Graziosi, I.; Groves, R. L.; Gurr, G. M.; Hajian-Forooshani, Z.; Heimpel, G. E.; Herrmann, J. D.; Huseth, A. S.; Inclán, D. J.; Ingrao, A. J.; Iv, P.; Jacot, L.; Johnson, G. A.; Jones, L.; Kaiser, M.; Kaser, J. M.; Keasar, T.; Kim, T. N.; Kishinevsky, M.; Landis, D. A.; Lavandero, B.; Lavigne, C.; Le Ralec, A.; Lemessa, D.; Letourneau, D. K.; Liere, H.; Lu, Y.; Lubin, Y.; Luttermoser, T.; Maas, B.; Mace, K.; Madeira, F.; Mader, V.; Cortesero, A. M.; Marini, L.; Martinez, E.; Martinson, H. M.; Menozzi, P.; Mitchell, M. G. E.; Miyashita, T.; Molina, G. A. R.; Molina-Montenegro, M. A.; O’Neal, M. E.; Opatovsky, I.; Ortiz-Martinez, S.; Nash, M.; Östman, Ö.; Ouin, A.; Pak, D.; Paredes, D.; Parsa, S.; Parry, H.; Perez-Alvarez, R.; J. Perović, D.; Peterson, J. A.; Petit, S.; Philpott, S. M.; Plantegenest, M.; Plećaš, M.; Pluess, T.; Pons, X.; Potts, S. G.; Pywell, R. F.; Ragsdale, D. W.; Rand, T. A.; Raymond, L.; Ricci, B.; Sargent, C.; Sarthou, J. P.; Saulais, J.; Schäckermann, J.; Schmidt, N. P.; Schneider, G.; Schüepp, C.; Sivakoff, F. S.; Smith, H. G.; Stack Whitney, K.; Stutz, S.; Szendrei, Z.; Takada, M. B.; Taki, H.; Tamburini, G.; Thomson, L. J.; Tricault, Y.; Tsafack, N.; Tschumi, M.; Valantin-Morison, M.; Van Trinh, M.; van der Werf, W.; Vierling, K. T.; Werling, B. P.; Wickens, J. B.; Wickens, V. J.; Woodcock, B. A.; Wyckhuys, K.; Xiao, H.; Yasuda, M.; Yoshioka, A.; Zou, Y. (2018). Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115: 7863-7870. PDF
Martínez-Camilo, R.; González-Espinosa, M.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Cayuela, L.; Pérez-Ferrera, M. A. (2018). Tropical tree species diversity in a mountain system in southern Mexico: local and regional patterns and determinant factors. Biotropica 50: 499-509. PDF
Pfeifer, M.; Gonsamo, A.; Woodgate, W.; Cayuela, L.; Marshall, A. R.; Ledo, A.; Paine, T. C. E.; Marchant, R.; Burt, A.; Calders, K.; Courtney-Mustaphi, C.; Cuni-Sánchez, A.; Deere, N. J.; Denu, D.; González de Tánago, J.; Hayward, R.; Lau, A.; Macía, M. J.; Olivier, P. I.; Pellikka, P.; Seki, H.; Shirima, D.; Trevithick, R.; Wedeux, B.; Wheeler, C.; Munishi, P. K. T.; Martin, T.; Mustari, A.; Platts, P. J. (2018). Tropical forest canopies and their relationships with climate and disturbance: results from a global dataset of consistent field-based measurements. Forest Ecosystems 5: 7. PDF
Sanaei, A.; Granzow-de la Cerda, Í.; Cayuela, L. (2018). Grain size affects the relationship between species richness and above-ground biomass in semi-arid rangelands. Plant Ecology and Diversity 11: 489-499. PDF
Álvarez-Dávila, E.; Cayuela, L.; González-Caro, S.; Aldana, A. M.; Stevenson, P.; Phillips, O.; Peñuela, M. C.; von Hildebrand, P.; Jiménez, E.; Melo, O.; Londoño-Vega, A. C.; Mendoza, I.; Velasquez, O.; Fernández, F.; Velasquez-Rua, C.; Sema, M.; Rey-Benayas, J. M. (2017). Forest biomass density across large climate gradients in Northern South America is related to water availability but not with temperature. PLoS ONE 12: e0171072. PDF
De la Cruz, M.; Quintana-Ascencio, P. F.; Cayuela, L.; Espinosa, C. I.; Escudero, A. (2017). Comment on «The extent of forest in dryland biomes». Science 358: eaao0369. PDF
Granado-Yela, C.; Balaguer, L.; Cayuela, L.; Méndez, M. (2017). Relative role of resource competition, architectural constraints and inhibition by the apical flower in the unusual positional effects on flower sex in an andromonoecious tree. American Journal of Botany 104: 608-615. PDF
Miranda, A.; Altamirano, A.; Cayuela, L.; Lara, A.; González, M. (2017). Native forest loss in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot: revealing the evidence. Regional Environmental Change 17: 285-297. PDF
Paredes, D.; Cayuela, L.; Campos, M. (2017). Potential of ecological infrastructures to restore conservation biological control: Case study in Spanish Olive Groves. In: Santos, A. P. (ed.) Natural enemies: Identification, protection strategies and ecological impacts: 1-20. Nova Science Publishing, New York. PDF
Rey Benayas, J. M.; Meltzer, J.; de las Heras-Bravo, D.; Cayuela, L. (2017). Potential of pest regulation by insectivorous birds in Mediterranean woody crops. PLoS ONE 12: e0180702. PDF
De Miguel, R.; Gálvez-Bravo, L.; Oliva-Paterna, F.; Cayuela, L.; Fernández-Delgado, C. (2016). Recolonization process and fish assemblage dynamics in the Guadiamar River (SW Spain) after the Aznalcóllar mine toxic spill. River Research and Applications 32: 1196-1206. PDF
Ferrari, M.; Geneletti, D.; Cayuela, L.; Orsi, F.; Rey-Benayas, J. M. (2016). Analyses of bundles and drivers of change of multiple ecosystem services in an Alpine region. Journal of Enviromental Assessment Policy and Management 18 (4): 1-26. PDF
Albuquerque, F. S.; Benito, B.; Beier, P.; Assunçao-Albuquerque, M.; Cayuela, L. (2015). Supporting underrepresented forests in Mesoamerica. Natureza & Conservaçao 13: 152-158. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Gotelli, N. J.; Colwell, R. K. (2015). Ecological and biogeographical null hypotheses for comparing rarefaction curves. Ecological Monographs 85: 437-455. PDF
Espinosa, C.; Cayuela, L. (2015). Biodiversidad escondida. Investigación y Ciencia 466 (julio): 52-53. PDF
Ledo, A.; Cayuela, L.; Manso, R.; Condés, S. (2015). Recruitment patterns and potential mechanisms of community assembly in an Andean Cloud Forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 876-888. PDF
Miranda, A.; Altamirano, A.; Cayuela, L.; Pincheira, F.; Lara, A. (2015) Different times, same history: native forest loss and landscape homogenization in three physiographical areas of south-central Chile. Applied Geography 60: 20-28. PDF
Newton, A. C.; Oldfield, S.; Rivers, M.; Mark, J.; Schatz, G.; Tejedor-Garavito, N.; Cantarello, E.; Golicher, D.; Cayuela, L.; Miles, L. (2015). Towards a global tree assessment. Oryx 49: 410-415. PDF
Paredes, D.; Cayuela, L.; Gurr, G. M.; Campos, M. (2015). Is ground cover vegetation an effective biological control enhancement strategy against olive pests? PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117265. PDF
Paredes, D.; Cayuela, L.; Gurr, G. M.; Campos, M. (2015). Single best species or natural enemy assemblages? A correlational approach to investigating ecosystem function. BioControl 60: 37-45. PDF
Zamorano-Elgueta, C.; Rey-Benayas, J. M.; Cayuela, L.; Hantson, S.; Armenteras, D. (2015). Native forest replacement by exotic plantations in southern Chile (1985-2011) and partial compensation by natural regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management 345: 10-20. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Hernández, R.; Hódar, J. A.; Sánchez, G.; Zamora, R. (2014). Tree damage and population density relationships for the pine processionary moth: prospects for ecological research and pest management. Forest Ecology and Management 328: 319-325. PDF
Garibaldi, C.; Nieto-Ariza, B.; Macía, M.; Cayuela, L. (2014). Soil and geographical distance as determinants of floristic composition in the Azuero peninsula. Biotropica 46(6): 687-695. PDF
Zamorano-Elgueta, C.; Cayuela, L.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Donoso, P.J.; Geneletti, D.; Hobbs, R.J. (2014). The differential influences of human-induced disturbances on tree regeneration community: a landscape approach. Ecosphere 5(7): 90. PDF
Albuquerque, F.S.; Assunçao-Albuquerque, M.J.T.; Cayuela, L.; Zamora, R.; Benito, B.M. (2013). European bird distribution is «well» represented by special protected areas: mission accomplished? Biological Conservation 159: 45-50. PDF
Altamirano, A.; Aplin, P.; Miranda, A.; Cayuela, L.; Algar, A.; Field, R. (2013). High rates of forest loss and turnover obscured by classical landscape measures. Applied Geography 40: 199-211. PDF
Benito, B.M.; Cayuela, L.; Albuquerque, F.S. (2013). The impact of modeling choices in the predictive performance of diversity maps derived from species distribution models: guidelines to build better models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 327-335. PDF
Gómez-Aparicio, L.; Ávila, J.M.; Cayuela, L. (2013). Métodos de máxima verosimilitud en ecología y su aplicación en modelos de vecindad. Ecosistemas 22(3): 12-20. PDF
Paredes, D.; Cayuela, L.; Campos, M. (2013). Synergistic effects of ground cover and adjacent vegetation on natural enemies of olive insect pests. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 173: 72-80. PDF
Paredes, D.; Cayuela, L.; Gurr, G.M.,; Campos, M. (2013). Effect of non-crop vegetation types on conservation biological controlof pests in olive groves. PeerJ: e116. PDF
Paredes, D.; Campos, M.; Cayuela, L. (2013). El control biológico de plagas de artrópodos por conservación: técnicas y estado del arte. Ecosistemas 22(1): 56-61. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Granzow-de la Cerda, I.; Albuquerque, F.S.; Golicher, D.J. (2012). Taxonstand: An R package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3(6): 1078-1083. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Gálvez-Bravo, L.; Albuquerque, F.S.; Golicher, D.J.; González-Espinosa, M.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Rey Benayas, J.M.; Zahawi, R.A.; Meave, J.A.; Benito, B.M.; Garibaldi, C.; Chan, I.; Pérez Pérez, R.; Field, R.; Balvanera, P.: Castillo, M.A.: Figueroa-Rangel, B.L.: Griffith, D.M.; Islebe, G.A.; Kelly, D.A.; Olvera-Vargas, M.; Schnitzer, S.A.; Velázquez, E.; Williams-Linera, G.; Brewer, S.W.; Camacho-Cruz, A.; Coronado, I.; de Jong, B.; del Castillo, R.; de la Cerda, I., Fernández, J.; Fonseca, W.G.; Galindo-Jaimes, L.; Gillespie, T.W.; González-Rivas, B.; Gordon, J.E.; Hurtado, J.; Linares, J.; Letcher, S.G.; Mangan, S.C.; Meave, J.A.; Méndez, E.V.; Meza, V.; Ochoa-Gaona, S.; Peterson, C.J.; Ruiz-Gutierrez, V.; Snarr, K.A.; Tun Dzul, F.; Viergever, K.M.; White, D.A.; Williams, J.N.; Bonet, F.J.; Zamora, R. (2012).La Red Internacional de Inventarios Forestales (BIOTREE-NET) en Mesoamérica: avances, retos y perspectivas futuras. Ecosistemas 21(1-2): 126-135. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Gálvez-Bravo, L.; Pérez Pérez, R.; Albuquerque, F.S.; Golicher, D.J.; Zahawi, R.A.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Garibaldi, C.; Field, R.; Rey Benayas, J.M.; González-Espinosa, M.; Balvanera, P.; Castillo, M.A.; Figueroa-Rangel, B.L.; Griffith, D.M.; Islebe, G.A.; Kelly, D.L.; Olvera-Vargas, M.; Schnitzer, S.A.; Velázquez, E.; Williams-Linera, G.; Brewer, S.W., Camacho-Cruz, A.; Coronado, I.; de Jong, B.; del Castillo, R.; Granzow-de la Cerda, I.; Fernández, J.; Fonseca, W.; Galindo-Jaimes, L.; Gillespie, T.W., González-Rivas, B.; Gordon, J.E.; Hurtado, J.; Linares, J.; Letcher, S.G.; Mangan, S.A.; Meave, J.A.; Méndez, V.E.; Meza, V.; Ochoa-Gaona, S.; Peterson, C.J.; Ruiz-Gutierrez, V.; Snarr, K.A.; Tun Dzul, F.; Valdez-Hernández, M.; Viergever, K.M.; White, D.A.; Williams, J.N.; Bonet, F.J.; Zamora, R. (2012). The Tree Biodiversity Network (BIOTREE-NET): Prospects for biodiversity research and conservation in the Neotropics. Biodiversity and Ecology 4: 211-224. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Hódar, J.A.; Zamora, R. (2012). Control biológico de la procesionaria. Investigación y Ciencia 425 (febrero): 14-15. PDF
Carrascal, L.M.; Cayuela, L.; Palomino, D.; Seoane, J. (2012). What species-specific traits make a bird a better surrogate of native species richness? A test with insular avifauna. Biological Conservation.152: 204-211. PDF
Golicher, D.J.; Cayuela, L., Newton, A.C. (2012). Effects of climate change on the potential species richness of Meso-American forests. Biotropica 44(3): 284-293. PDF
Golicher, J.D.; Ford, A.; Cayuela, L.; Newton, A.C. (2012). Pseudo-absences, pseudo-models and pseudo-niches: Pitfalls of model selection based on the area under the curve. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 26(11): 2049-2063. PDF
Hódar, J.A.; Torres-Muros, L.; Senhadji, K.; Cayuela, L.; Zamora, R. (2012). Interacción planta-herbívoro y dinámica poblacional de la procesionaria del pino en el Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada en el marco del cambio global. En: Proyectos de investigación en Parques Nacionales: 2008-2011: 387-406. Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales. EGRAFSA, Madrid. PDF
Hódar, J.A.; Zamora, R.; Cayuela, L. (2012). Climate change and the incidence of a forest pest in Mediterranean ecosystems: can the North Atlantic Oscillation be used as a predictor? Climatic Change 113: 699-711. PDF
Hódar, J.A.; Zamora, R.; Cayuela, L. (2012), Cambio climático y plagas: algo más que el clima. Ecosistemas 21(3): 73-78. PDF
Vaca, R.; Golicher, J.D.; Cayuela, L., Hewson, J.; Steininger, M. (2012). Evidence of incipient forest transition in southern Mexico. PlosONE 7(8): e42309. PDF
Zamorano-Elgueta, C.; Cayuela, L.; González-Espinosa, M.; Lara, A.; Parra-Vázquez, M. (2012). Impacts of cattle on the South American temperate forests: challenges for the conservation of the endangered monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) in Chile. Biological Conservation 152: 110-118. PDF
Albuquerque, F.S.; Castro-Díez, P.; Rodríguez, M.A.; Cayuela, L. (2011). Assessing the influence of environmental and human factors on native and exotic species richness. Acta Oecologica 37: 51-57. PDF
Albuquerque, F.S.; Assunçao-Albuquerque, M.J.T.; Gálvez-Bravo, L.; Cayuela, L.; Rueda, M.; Rey Benayas, J.M. (2011). Identification of critical areas for mammal conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve. Natureza & Conservaçao 9: 73-78. PDF
Cayuela, L.; de la Cruz, M.; Ruokolainen, K. (2011). A method to incorporate the effect of taxonomic uncertainty on multivariate analyses of ecological data. Ecography 34: 94-102. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Gálvez-Bravo, L.; Carrascal, L.M.; Albuquerque, F.S. (2011). Comments on Bartolino et al. (2011): Limits of cumulative relative frequency distribution curves for hotspot identification. Population Ecology 53: 597-601. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Hódar, J.A.; Zamora, R. (2011). Is insecticide spraying a viable and cost-efficient management practice to control pine processionary moth in Mediterranean pine woodlands? Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1732-1737. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Ruiz-Arriaga, S.; Ozers, C.P. (2011). Honeybees increase fruit set in native plant species important for wildlife conservation. Environmental Management 48: 910-919. PDF
de la Montaña, E.; Rey Benayas, J.M.; Vasques, A.; Razola, I.; Cayuela, L. (2011). Conservation planning of vertebrate diversity in a Mediterranean agricultural-dominant landscape. Biological Conservation 144: 2468-2478. PDF
Moreno-Mateos, D.; Rey Benayas, J.M., Pérez-Camacho, L.; de la Montaña, E.; Rebollo, S.; Cayuela, L. (2011). Effects of land use type on a Mediterranean nocturnal bird community. Acta Ornithologica 46(2): 173-182. PDF
Rey Benayas, J.M.; Cristóbal, L.; Kitzberger, T.; Manson, R.; López-Barrera, F.; Schulz, J.; Vaca, R.; Cayuela, L.; Rivera, R.; Malizia, L.; Golicher, D.; Echeverría, C.; del Castillo, R.; Salas, J. (2011). Assessing the current extent and recent loss of dryland forest ecosystems. En: Newton, A.C.; Tejedor, N. (eds.) Principles and Practice of Forest Landscape Restoration: Case Studies from the Drylands of Latin America: 21-62. International Union for Nature Conservation, Gland, Switzerland. PDF
Schulz, J.J.; Cayuela, L.; Rey Benayas, J.M.; Schröder, B. (2011). Factors influencing vegetation cover change in Mediterranean Central Chile (1975-2008). Applied Vegetation Science 14: 571-582. PDF
Vaca, R.; Golicher, J.D.; Cayuela, L. (2011). Using climatically-based decision tree forest to downscale coarse-grained potential natural vegetation maps in tropical Mexico. Applied Vegetation Science 14: 388-401. PDF
Altamirano, A.; Field, R.; Cayuela, L.; Aplin, P.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Lara, A. (2010). Woody species diversity in temperate Andean forests: the need for new conservation strategies. Biological Conservation 143: 2080-2091. PDF
Pacheco, S.; Malizia, L.R.; Cayuela, L. (2010). Effects of climate change on subtropical forests of South America. Tropical Conservation Science 3: 423-437. PDF
Schulz, J.; Cayuela, L.; Echeverría, C.; Salas, J.; Rey-Benayas, J.M. (2010). Land cover dynamics in the dryland Mediterranean forest landscape of Central Chile. Applied Geography 30: 346-447. PDF
2009
Cayuela, L. (2009). Fragmentation. En: Gillespie, R.; Clague, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of islands: 328-330. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Murcia, C.; Hawk, A.A.; Fernández-Vega, J.; Oviedo-Brenes, F. (2009). Tree responses to edge effects and canopy openness in a tropical montane forest fragment in southern Costa Rica. Tropical Conservation Science 2: 425-436. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Golicher, D.J.; Newton, A.; Kolb, M.; de Alburquerque, F.S.; Arets, E.J.M.M.; Alkemade, R.M.; Pérez, A.M. (2009). Species distribution modelling in the tropics: Problems, potentialities, and the role of biological data for species conservation. Tropical Conservation Science 2: 319-352. PDF
González-Espinosa, M.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Galindo-Jaimes, L.; Camacho-Cruz, A.; Golicher, D.; Cayuela, L.; Rey-Benayas, J.M. (2009). Tendencias y proyecciones del uso del suelo y la diversidad florística en Los Altos de Chiapas, México. Investigación Ambiental. Ciencia y Política Pública 1: 40-53. PDF
Newton, A.C.; Cayuela, L.; Echeverría, C.; Armesto, J.J.; Del Castillo, R.F.; Golicher, D.; González-Espinosa, M.; Huth, A.; Lara, A.; López-Barrera, F.; Manson, R.; Negrete-Yankelevich, S.; Premoli, A.C.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Rüger, N.; Smith-Ramírez, C.; Williams-Linera, G. (2009). Toward integrated analysis of human impacts on forest biodiversity: Lessons from Latin America. Ecology and Society 14: 2. PDF
Newton, A.C.; Hill, R. A.; Echeverría, C.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Golicher, D. J.; Cayuela, L.; Hinsley, S. (2009). Remote sensing and the future of landscape ecology. Progress in Physical Geography 33: 528-546. PDF
2008
Cayuela, L.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Maestre, F.T.; Escudero, A. (2008). Early environments drive diversity and floristic composition in Mediterranean old fields: Insights from a long-term experiment. Acta Oecologica 34: 311-321. PDF
Golicher, J.D.; Cayuela, L.; Alkemade, R.; González-Espinosa, M.; Ramírez-Marcial, N. (2008). Applying climatically associated species pools to modelling compositional change in tropical montane forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 262-273. PDF
2007
Echeverría, C.; Cayuela, L.; Manson, R.; Coomes, D.A.; Lara, A.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Newton, A.C. (2007). Spatial and temporal patterns of forest loss and fragmentation in Mexico and Chile. En: Newton, A. (ed.) Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes: the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America: 14-42. CAB International, UK. PDF
Miles, L.; Newton, A.C.; Alvarez-Aquino, C.; Armesto, J.J.; Del Castillo, R.F.; Cayuela, L.; Echeverría, C.; González-Espinosa, M.; Lara, A.; López, R. A.; López-Barrera, F.; Manson, R.; Montoya-Gómez, G.; Muñiz-Castro, M.A.; Núñez-Ávila, M.C.; Pedraza, R.A.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Rovere, A.E.; Rüger, N.; Smith-Ramírez, C.; Souto, C.; Williams-Linera, G. (2007). Future scenarios for tropical montane and south temperate forest biodiversity in Latin America. En: Newton, A. (ed.) Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes: the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America: 370-397. CAB International, UK. PDF
Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Cayuela, L.; González-Espinosa, M.; Echeverría, C.; Manson, R.H.; Williams-Linera, G.; Del Castillo, R.F.; Ramírez-Marcial, N.; Muñiz-Castro, M.A.; Blanco-Macías, A.; Lara, A.; Newton, A.C. (2007). Plant diversity in highly fragmented forest landscapes in Mexico and Chile: Implications for conservation. En: Newton, A. (ed.) Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes: the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America: 43-68. CAB International, UK. PDF
2006
Cayuela, L.; Golicher, J.D.; Rey-Benayas, J.M. (2006). The extent, distribution, and fragmentation of montane cloud forest in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica 38: 544-554. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Echeverría, C. (2006). Clearance and fragmentation of tropical montane forests in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico (1975-2000). Forest Ecology and Management 226: 208-218. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Golicher, J.D.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; González-Espinosa, M.; Ramírez-Marcial, N. (2006). Effects of fragmentation and disturbance on tree diversity in tropical montane forests.Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 1172-1182. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Golicher, J.D.; Salas Rey, J.; Rey-Benayas, J.M. (2006). Classification of a complex landscape using Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27: 1951-1971. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Rey-Benayas, J.M.; Justel, A.; Salas Rey, J. (2006). Modelling tree diversity in a highly fragmented tropical montane landscape. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 602-613. PDF
Golicher, J.D.; O’Hara, B.R.; Ruiz-Montoya, L.; Cayuela, L. (2006). Lifting a veil on biodiversity: A Bayesian approach to fitting relative abundance models. Ecological Applications 16: 202-212. PDF
2004
Cayuela, L. (2004). Habitat evaluation for the Iberian wolf Canis lupus in Picos de Europa National Park, Spain. Applied Geography 24: 199-215. PDF
Cayuela, L.; Stein, A.; Oksanen, J. (2017). Taxonstand: Taxonomic standardisation of plant species names. R package version 2.0. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Taxonstand
Cayuela, L.; Gotelli, N.J. (2014). rareNMtests: Ecological and biogeographical null model tests for comparing rarefaction curves.. R package version 1.0. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rareNMtests.
Cayuela, L.; de la Cruz, M. (2012). betaper: Functions to incorporate taxonomic uncertainty on multivariate analyses of ecological data. R package version 1.1-0. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=betaper.