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Fernando Ojeda

Fernando Ojeda

Overview

Fernando Ojeda is affiliated with the University of Cádiz in Spain. Their research spans across the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of interconnected topics such as Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Fire effects on ecosystems, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Ojeda has contributed to multiple publications, including these recent papers:

  • "Moving towards the ecological intensification of tree plantations" (2022) published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "Pine afforestation, herriza and wildfire: a tale of soil erosion and biodiversity loss in the Mediterranean region" (2020) published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • "An enigmatic carnivorous plant: ancient divergence of Drosophyllaceae but recent differentiation of Drosophyllum lusitanicum across the Strait of Gibraltar" (2020) published in Systematics and Biodiversity
  • "Tracing 40,000 years of vegetation change in the Baetic-Rifan biodiversity hotspot" (2024) published in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • "Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds May Help Reduce Pollinator-Prey Overlap in the Carnivorous Plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Drosophyllaceae)" (2021) published in Journal of Chemical Ecology

Fernando Ojeda often publishes in the following venues:

  • Trends in Plant Science
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Global Ecology and Conservation

Frequent collaborators in Ojeda's work include:

  • Susana Gómez-González
  • Maria Paniw
  • Óscar Godoy
  • Ana I. García-Cervigón
  • Álvaro Pérez-Gómez

Best Publications

  • Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

    P.J. Clarke;M.J. Lawes;J.J Midgley;B.B. Lamont;B.B. Lamont

  • Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

    S. Paula;M. Arianoutsou;D. Kazanis;Ç Tavsanoglu

  • Rainfall reliability, a neglected factor in explaining convergence and divergence of plant traits in fire-prone mediterranean-climate ecosystems

    Richard M. Cowling;Fernando Ojeda;Byron B. Lamont;Phillip W. Rundel

  • The Strait of Gibraltar as a melting pot for plant biodiversity

    Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Rocío Pérez-Barrales;Fernando Ojeda;Pablo Vargas

  • Seagull influence on soil properties, chenopod shrub distribution, and leaf nutrient status in semi-arid Mediterranean islands

    Luis V. García;Teodoro Marañón;Fernando Ojeda;Luis Clemente

  • Plant diversity patterns in the Aljibe Mountains (S. Spain): a comprehensive account

    F. Ojeda;T. Marañón;J. Arroyo

  • Variation in plant diversity in mediterranean-climate ecosystems: The role of climatic and topographical stability

    Richard M. Cowling;Alastair J. Potts;Peter L. Bradshaw;Jonathan Colville

  • Underground starch storage in Erica species of the Cape Floristic Region – differences between seeders and resprouters

    Tina L. Bell;Fernando Ojeda

  • Portugal and Chile: Longing for sustainable forestry while rising from the ashes

    Susana Gómez-González;Fernando Ojeda;Paulo Alexandre Martins Fernandes

  • Biodiversity of woody species in oak woodlands of southern Spain and northern Morocco

    T Marañón;R Ajbilou;F Ojeda;J Arroyo

  • Biodiversity components and conservation of mediterranean healthlands in Southern Spain

    F. Ojeda;J. Arroyo;T. Marañón;T. Marañón

  • Biogeography of seeder and resprouter Erica species in the Cape Floristic Region—Where are the resprouters?

    Fernando Ojeda

  • Postfire regeneration of a mediterranean heathland in Southern Spain

    F Ojeda;T Maranon;J Arroyo;J Arroyo;J Arroyo

  • Reproductive ecology of Rhododendron ponticum (Ericaceae) in relict Mediterranean populations

    José A. Mejías;Juan Arroyo;Fernando Ojeda

  • Effects of afforestation with pines on woody plant diversity of Mediterranean heathlands in southern Spain

    Cristina Andrés;Fernando Ojeda

  • Fire, rain and the selection of seeder and resprouter life‐histories in fire‐recruiting, woody plants

    Fernando Ojeda;Fernando G. Brun;Juan J. Vergara

  • Patterns of ecological, chorological and taxonomic diversity at both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar

    F. Ojeda;T. Marañón;J. Arroyo

  • Soil shapes community structure through fire.

    Fernando Ojeda;Juli G. Pausas;Miguel Verdú

  • Belowground starch consumption after recurrent severe disturbance in three resprouter species of the genus Erica

    Susana PaulaS. Paula;Fernando OjedaF. Ojeda

  • Rainfall Reliability, a Neglected Factor in Explaining Convergence and Divergence of Plant Traits in Fire-prone Mediterranean-climate Ecosystems

    R.F Cowling;Ojeda F;Lamont B. B;P W Rundel

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Arroyo
Juan Arroyo University of Seville
Teodoro Marañón
Teodoro Marañón Spanish National Research Council
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Stephen D. Hopper
Stephen D. Hopper University of Western Australia
Margarita Arianoutsou
Margarita Arianoutsou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kingsley W. Dixon
Kingsley W. Dixon Curtin University
Jeremy J. Midgley
Jeremy J. Midgley University of Cape Town
Byron B. Lamont
Byron B. Lamont Curtin University
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia

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