Chair Professor of Ecology
Full Professor of Ecology at the University of Granada (2003). My teaching includes courses of Concepts of Biology, Ecology of Populations and Communities, and System Ecology in the Degree in Biology, as well as the course of Biological invasions in the Master in Biodiversity Conservation, Management and Restoration. In recent years my research work has focused on the biology and ecology of defoliating lepidopterans, with special attention to the pine processionary moth, its ecology, population dynamics, interaction with trees and predators, parasites and parasitoids. My research areas include the Mediterranean mountains and the arid basins of southeastern Spain. I'm author or coauthor of more than 100 research papers and 20 book chapters, most of them in international journals of general and applied ecology. I attended more than 40 national and international scientific congresses, and 45 courses and conferences by invitation. Supervisor of 6 PhD (currently another two) and participated in more than 20 projects of competitive calls. Currently I take part in 2 European projects 1 National Plan project.
Research group.
Terrestial Ecology.
Research interest.
- Plant-animal interactions.
- Trophic relationships: food selection, herbivory and predation.
- Long-term population dynamics of defoliating forest Lepidoptera.
- Effects of global change in ecological relationships.
- Conservation and regeneration of Mediterranean ecosystems.
Publications.
- Tikkanen OP, Kilpeläinen J, Mellado A, Hämäläinen A, Hódar JA, Jaroszewicz B, Luoto M, Repo T, Rigling A, Wang A, Li MH, Lehto T. 2021. Freezing tolerance of seeds can explain differences in the distribution of two widespread mistletoe subspecies in Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 482:118806.
- Lázaro-González A, Hódar JA, Zamora R. 2020. Ecological assembly rules on arthropod community inhabiting mistletoes. Ecological Entomology 45:1088-1098.
- Suárez-Muñoz M, Bonet-García FJ, Hódar JA, Herrero J, Tanase M, Torres-Muros L. 2019. INSTAR: An Agent-Based Model that integrates existing knowledge to simulate the population dynamics of a forest pest. Ecological Modelling 411:108764.
- Lázaro-González A, Hódar JA, Zamora R. 2019. Mistletoe generates non-trophic and trait-mediated indirect interactions through a shared host of herbivore consumers. Ecosphere 10(3): e02564.
- Salman MHR, Bonsignore P, El Fels MAEA, Giomi F, Hódar JA, Laparie M, Marini L, Merel C, Zalucki M, Zamoum M, Battisti A. 2019. Winter temperature predicts prolonged diapause rate in pine processionary moth across its geographic range. PeerJ 7:e6530.
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