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Jairo Patiño is affiliated with the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología in Spain. Their research spans multiple disciplines within agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. They have contributed notably to subfields such as plant science, ecological modeling, ecology, and genetics.

The main topics of Jairo Patiño's work include:

  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Lichen and Fungal Ecology
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Jairo Patiño has published research in several frequent venues, highlighting ongoing engagement with the ecology and biodiversity research communities. These journals and repositories include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Journal of Bryology
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Molecular Ecology

Their recent papers demonstrate a variety of research interests and collaboration with different groups in the ecological and evolutionary sciences. Notable recent publications are:

  • "Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations," 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities," 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Spatial resolution impacts projected plant responses to climate change on topographically complex islands," 2023, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Unveiling the nature of a miniature world: a horizon scan of fundamental questions in bryology," 2022, Journal of Bryology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their academic work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alain Vanderpoorten
  • Manuela Sim-Sim
  • Brent C. Emerson
  • Flavien Collart
  • Anabela Martins

Best Publications

  • A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;Paulo A.V. Borges;José María Fernández-Palacios

  • Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

    B. Laenen;B. Laenen;B. Shaw;H. Schneider;B. Goffinet

  • Bryophyte Biogeography

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  • Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long‐term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

    Paulo A. V. Borges;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Holger Kreft;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

    Margarita Florencio;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Sandra Nogué;Anna Traveset

  • Approximate Bayesian Computation Reveals the Crucial Role of Oceanic Islands for the Assembly of Continental Biodiversity

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Mark Carine;Patrick Mardulyn;Nicolas Devos

  • Baker’s law and the island syndromes in bryophytes

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Irene Bisang;Lars Hedenäs;Gerard Dirkse

  • Accounting for data heterogeneity in patterns of biodiversity: an application of linear mixed effect models to the oceanic island biogeography of spore-producing plants

    Jairo Patiño;François Guilhaumon;Robert J. Whittaker;Kostas A. Triantis

  • The anagenetic world of spore‐producing land plants

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Mark Carine;José María Fernández-Palacios;Rüdiger Otto

  • Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations.

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  • Unifying macroecology and macroevolution to answer fundamental questions about biodiversity

    Brian J. McGill;Jonathan M. Chase;Joaquín Hortal;Isaac Overcast

  • Geographical range in liverworts: does sex really matter?

    Benjamin Laenen;Benjamin Laenen;Antonin Machac;S. Robbert Gradstein;Blanka Shaw

  • Climate threat on the Macaronesian endemic bryophyte flora

    Jairo Patiño;Rubén G. Mateo;Florian Zanatta;Adrien Marquet

  • Three species for the price of one within the moss Homalothecium sericeum s.l.

    Lars Hedenäs;Aurélie Désamoré;Benjamin Laenen;Beata Papp

  • Differences in species–area relationships among the major lineages of land plants: a macroecological perspective

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Patrick Weigelt;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Holger Kreft

  • Climate drives community‐wide divergence within species over a limited spatial scale: evidence from an oceanic island

    Antonia Salces-Castellano;Antonia Salces-Castellano;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Nadir Alvarez;Carmelo Andújar

  • Bryophyte flora of the Canary Islands : an updated compilation of the species list with an analysis of distribution patterns in the context of the Macaronesian Region

    Juana M. Gonzalez-Mancebo;Francisco Romaguera;Rosa M. Ros;Jairo Patino

  • The cosmopolitan moss Bryum argenteum in Antarctica: recent colonisation or in situ survival?

    S. Pisa;E.M. Biersma;E.M. Biersma;P. Convey;P. Convey;J. Patino;J. Patino

  • Geographical, temporal and environmental determinants of bryophyte species richness in the Macaronesian islands.

    Silvia C. Aranda;Silvia C. Aranda;Rosalina Gabriel;Paulo A. V. Borges;Ana M. C. Santos;Ana M. C. Santos;Ana M. C. Santos

  • Anagenesis, Cladogenesis, and Speciation on Islands

    Brent C. Emerson;Brent C. Emerson;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño

  • Evidence for mega-landslides as drivers of island colonization

    Víctor García‐Olivares;Víctor García‐Olivares;Heriberto López;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Nadir Alvarez

  • Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species

    Matt Renner;Nicolas Devos;Jairo Patino;Elizabeth Brown

  • Floristic and structural recovery of a laurel forest community after clear-cutting: A 60 years chronosequence on La Palma (Canary Islands)

    Alfredo Manuel Bermúdez;José María Fernández-Palacios;Juana María González-Mancebo;Jairo Patiño

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Vanderpoorten
Alain Vanderpoorten University of Liège
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council
Michael J. Hickerson
Michael J. Hickerson City University of New York
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Lars Hedenäs
Lars Hedenäs Swedish Museum of Natural History
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Hanno Schaefer
Hanno Schaefer Technical University of Munich

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