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  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Exequiel Ezcurra is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad fields, their work notably covers subfields such as Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Ezcurra has published in several academic venues with multiple works appearing in:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • AMBIO
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Arid Environments
  • Plants People Planet

Recent publications include:

  • Functional variants of DOG1 control seed chilling responses and variation in seasonal life-history strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • An Aridamerican model for agriculture in a hotter, water scarce world, 2020, Plants People Planet
  • Identity and pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae and Diaporthaceae from Juglans regia in Chile, 2022, Phytopathologia Mediterranea
  • Relict inland mangrove ecosystem reveals Last Interglacial sea levels, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Prioritizing mangrove conservation across Mexico to facilitate 2020 NDC ambition, 2020, AMBIO

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
  • Paula Ezcurra
  • Israel Jiménez Luna
  • Philippe E. Rolshausen
  • Sula Vanderplank

In recognition of their contributions, Exequiel Ezcurra was named Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Mangroves in the Gulf of California increase fishery yields

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Exequiel Ezcurra;Gustavo Danemann;Víctor Valdez

  • Shade as a cause of the association between the cactus Neobuxbaumia tetetzo and the nurse plant Mimosa luisana in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico.

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • El Niño effects on the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems.

    Milena Holmgren;Marten Scheffer;Exequiel Ezcurra;Julio R. Gutiérrez

  • Large recovery of fish biomass in a no-take marine reserve.

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Brad Erisman;Grantly R. Galland;Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio

  • GIS-based approach for participatory decision making and land suitability assessment

    Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia;Salomón Diaz-Mondragón;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Spatial relationships between cacti and nurse shrubs in a semi‐arid environment in central Mexico

    A. Valiente‐Banuet;A. Bolongaro‐Crevenna;O. Briones;E. Ezcurra

  • Absence of detectable transgenes in local landraces of maize in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003-2004).

    S. Ortiz-García;E. Ezcurra;B. Schoel;F. Acevedo

  • Los manglares de México: una revisión

    Jorge López Portillo;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • A new island biogeography of the sea of Cortés

    Ted J. Case;Martin L. Cody;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Propagation mechanisms in Agave macroacantha (Agavaceae), a tropical arid-land succulent rosette

    Santiago Arizaga;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Coastal landforms and accumulation of mangrove peat increase carbon sequestration and storage

    Paula Ezcurra;Exequiel Ezcurra;Pedro P. Garcillán;Matthew T. Costa

  • Plant endemism and natural protected areas in the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico

    Hugo Riemann;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Identifying Conservation Priorities in Mexico Through Geographic Information Systems and Modeling

    Luis A. Bojorquez-Tapia;Ivan Azuara;Exequiel Ezcurra;Oscar Flores-Villela

  • Nurse rocks are more important than nurse plants in determining the distribution and establishment of globose cacti (Mammillaria) in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico

    E.M. Peters;C. Martorell;E. Ezcurra

  • SEABIRD ECOLOGY, EL NINO ANOMALIES, AND PREDICTION OF SARDINE FISHERIES IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA

    Enriqueta Velarde;Exequiel Ezcurra;Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata;Miguel F. LavÍn

  • Global deserts outlook

    Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Oceanographic anomalies and sea-level rise drive mangroves inland in the Pacific coast of Mexico

    Xavier López-Medellín;Exequiel Ezcurra;Charlotte González-Abraham;Jon Hak

  • Architecture, Light Interception, and Distribution of Larrea Species in the Monte Desert, Argentina

    Exequiel Ezcurra;Carlos Montana;Santiago Arizaga

  • Effect of Neobuxbaumia tetetzo on growth and fecundity of its nurse plant Mimosa luisana

    Arturo Flores-Martinez;Exequiel Ezcurra;Salvador Sanchez-Colon

  • The narrow-leaf syndrome : A functional and evolutionary approach to the form of fog-harvesting rosette plants

    Carlos Martorell;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Competition intensity as a function of resource availability in a semiarid ecosystem.

    O Briones;C Montaña;E Ezcurra

  • Coastal Landforms and Accumulation of Mangrove Peat Increase Carbon Sequestration and Storage

    M. T. Costa;P. Excurra;E. Ezcurra;P. P. Garcillan

Frequent Co-Authors

Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza University of California, San Diego
Jorge Soberón
Jorge Soberón University of Kansas
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Daniel W. Anderson
Daniel W. Anderson University of California, Davis
Louis S. Santiago
Louis S. Santiago University of California, Riverside
Allison A. Snow
Allison A. Snow The Ohio State University
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson American Museum of Natural History
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet National Autonomous University of Mexico
Janet Franklin
Janet Franklin San Diego State University
Miguel F. Lavín
Miguel F. Lavín Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada

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