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Priscilla Muriel

Country of origin: Ecuador Currently in: Ecuador, Quito General field of specialization: Biological Systems and Organisms
Academic Background

Degrees

2004 Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Biological Systems and Organisms

Research in Botany, Ecology of Páramo vegetation, and Plant Systematics (Taxonomy).


Publications resulting from Research: 


1. Tovar, C., Hudson, L., Cuesta, F., Meneses, R. I., Muriel, P., Hidalgo, O., Palazzesi, L., Suarez Ballesteros, C., Hammond Hunt, E., Diazgranados, M., Hind, D. J. N., Forest, F., Halloy, S., Aguirre, N., Baker, W. J., Beck, S., Carilla, J., Eguiguren, P., Françoso, E., … Viruel, J. (2023). Strategies of diaspore dispersal investment in Compositae: the case of the Andean highlands. Annals of Botany, 132(2), 255–267. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad099.
2. Cuesta, F., Carilla, J., Llambí, L. D., Muriel, P., Lencinas, M. V., Meneses, R. I., Feeley, K. J., Pauli, H., Aguirre, N., Beck, S., Bernardi, A., Cuello, S., Duchicela, S. A., Eguiguren, P., Gamez, L. E., Halloy, S., Hudson, L., Jaramillo, R., Peri, P. L., … Tovar, C. (2023). Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography: A Journal of Macroecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13721
3. Duchicela, S. A., Cuesta, F., Tovar, C., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R., Salazar, E., & Pinto, E. (2021). Microclimatic warming leads to a decrease in species and growth form diversity: insights from a tropical alpine grassland. Frontiers in ecology and the environment, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.673655
4. Moret, P., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R., Bernardi, A., Romoleroux, K., Barragán, Á., Pruna, W., & Sklenář, P. (2021). Resurvey of vascular plants and soil arthropods on the summit of Mount Corazón (Andes of Ecuador) after 140 years. Neotropical Biodiversity, 7(1), 238–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2021.1940056
5. Rosero, P., Crespo-Pérez, V., Espinosa, R., Andino, P., Barragán, Á., Moret, P., Gobbi, M., Ficetola, G. F., Jaramillo, R., Muriel, P., Anthelme, F., Jacobsen, D., Dangles, O., Condom, T., Gielly, L., Poulenard, J., Rabatel, A., Basantes, R., Cáceres Correa, B., & Cauvy-Fraunié, S. (2021). Multi‐taxa colonisation along the foreland of a vanishing equatorial glacier. Ecography, ecog.05478. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05478
6. Sklenář, P., Romoleroux, K., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R., Bernardi, A., Diazgranados, M., & Moret, P. (2021). Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880. Alpine Botany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-021-00270-x
7. Tovar, C., Melcher, I., Kusumoto, B., Cuesta, F., Cleef, A., Meneses, R.I., Halloy, S., Llambí, L.D., Beck, S., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R., Jácome, J. & Carrila, J. (2020) Plant dispersal strategies of high tropical alpine communities across the Andes, Journal of Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13416.
10. Cuesta, F., Tovar, C., Llambí, L.D., Gosling, W.D., Halloy, S., Carilla, J., Muriel, P., Rosa I. Meneses, R.I., Beck, S., Ulloa Ulloa, C., Yager, K., Aguirre, N., Viñas, P., Jácome, J., Suárez, D., Buytaert, W., Pauli, H. (2019). Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming. J Biogeogr. 00: 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13759
8. Moret, P., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R., & Dangles, O. (2019). Humboldt’s Tableau Physique revisited. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(26), 12889-12894.
9. Cuesta, F., Llambí, L. D., Huggel, C., Drenkhan, F., Gosling, W. D., Muriel, P., Jaramillo, R. & Tovar, C. (2019). New land in the Neotropics: a review of biotic community, ecosystem, and landscape transformations in the face of climate and glacier change. Regional environmental change, 1-20.
10. Cuesta, F., Muriel, P., Llambí, L. D., Halloy, S., Aguirre, N., Beck, S., Carilla, J., Meneses, R. I., Cuello, S., Grau, A., Gámez, L. E., Irazábal, J., Jácome, J., Jaramillo, R., Ramírez, L., Samaniego, N., Suárez-Duque, D., Thompson, N., Tupayachi, A., Viñas, P., Yager, K., Becerra, M. T., Pauli, H. and Gosling, W. D. (2017), Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.02567
11. Jaramillo, T. S., Muriel, P., & Balslev, H. (2004) Myristicaceae. En: Harling, G. and Andersson, L. (eds.). Flora of Ecuador 72, pp. 1–110.
12. Jaramillo, T. S., Muriel, P., Rodrigues, W. & Balslev, H. (2000) Myristicaceae novelties from Ecuador. Nord. J. Bot. 20: 443–447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.2000.tb01586.x.




Current profession

Current professional activities type: 
Research
Administration
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Associate professor and researcher, QCA herbarium director.

Affiliations

IAPT

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