Alberto Jiménez Valverde
Juan de la Cierva researcher in the University of Málaga (Málaga, Spain) with Raimundo Real (May 2010 - )
Postdoctoral researcher in the University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas, USA) with A. Townsend Peterson (May 2008 - April 2010)
Associate researcher in the Azorean Biodiversity Group (University of Azores, Portugal) with Paulo. A. V. Borges
and in Jorge M. Lobo´s lab (Museo Nacional
de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, Spain)
Contact address:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
email: alberto.jimenez.valverde@gmail.com
RESEARCH
I am interested in understanding the relative importance of environmental, biotic and contingent factors on determining geographic ranges: why species occur where they do and anywhere else? As a result, I am concern with methodological and conceptual issues of distribution predictive models, such as the meaning of probability of presence or the evaluation of the models. The sources and quantification of bias in the biological data, which may impact the results of the models, have also received part of my attention.
I am particularly interested in arthropods, mainly spiders. I also center my attention on the ecology and biogeography of the endangered Iberian spider Macrothele calpeiana.
Macrothele calpeiana and its potential distribution in the Mediterranean area (see ref. 21)
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FOUNDED PROJECTS
MEDMYGALE
The ecosystem
watchers: Mygalomorph spiders as bioindicators for monitoring
ecological changes and evolutionary potential of terrestrial
ecosystems. Leaded by Miquel A. Arnedo
Study of the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum in Levante
(East Spain): habitat of relict fauna and of special interest for the
conservation of epigean and stenoic species. Leaded by Vicente
M.
Ortuño
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SOUNDING PAPERS
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., LOBO, J. M. & HORTAL, J. (2008) Not as good as they seem: the importance of concepts in species distribution modelling. Diversity and Distributions, 14: 885-890. Among the most read articles in D&D in 2008
LOBO, J. M., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & REAL, R.
(2008) AUC: a misleading measure of the performance of
predictive distribution models. Global Ecology and
Biogeography, 17: 145-151.
Most cited paper published in GEB in 2008 (cited up until April 2009)
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PUBLICATIONS
Submitted
2011
50. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., DECAE, A. & ARNEDO, M. A. (2011) Environmental suitability of new reported localities of the funnelweb spider Macrothele calpeiana: an assessment using potential distribution modelling with presence-only techniques. Journal of Biogeography, in press.
49. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., LIRA-NORIEGA, A., BARVE, N., MAHER, S. P., NAKAZAWA, Y., PAPES, M., SOBERÓN, J., SUKUMARAN, J. & PETERSON, A. T. (2011) Dominant climate influences on North American birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20: 114-118.
48. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE,
A. & LOBO, J. M. (2011) Tolerance Limits, Animal. In: Encyclopedia
of Biological Invasions. (D.
Simberloff & M.
Rejmánek, editors), pp. 661-663. University of
California Press, CA. [book chapter]
2010
47. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE,
A., LIRA-NORIEGA,
A., PETERSON, A. T. & SOBERÓN, J. (2010) Marshalling
existing
biodiversity data to evaluate biodiversity
status and trends in planning exercises.
Ecological Research, 25: 947-957.
46. ORTUÑO, V. M.
& JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A.
(2010) Taxonomic
notes
on
Trechini
and
description
of
a
new hypogean species
from the Iberian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Annales de la
Société Entomologique de France, in press.
45. ROCCHINI, D., HORTAL, J., LENGYEL, S., LOBO, J. M., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., RICOTTA, C., BACARO, G. & CHIARUCCI, A. (2010) Uncertainty in species distribution mapping and the need for maps of ignorance. Progress in Physical Geography, in press.
44. LOBO, J. M., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & HORTAL, J. (2010) The uncertain nature of absences: implications in species distribution modelling. Ecography, 33: 103-114.
43. HORTAL, J., BORGES, P. A. V., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., AZEVEDO, E. B & SILVA, L. (2010) Assessing the areas under risk of invasion within islands through potential distribution modelling: the case of Pittosporum undulatum in São Miguel, Azores. Journal for Nature Conservation, 18: 247-257.
42. BASELGA, A., LOBO, J. M.,
HORTAL, J., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A.
& GÓMEZ, J. F. (2010) Assessing alpha and beta taxonomy
in Eupelmid wasps: determinants of the probability of describing good
species and synonyms. Journal of Zoological Systematics and
Evolutionary Research, 48: 40-49.
41. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., BASELGA, A., MELIC, A. & TXASKO, N. (2010) Climate and regional beta-diversity gradients in spiders: dispersal capacity has nothing to say? Insect Conservation and Diversity, 3: 51-60.
2009
40. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., NAKAZAWA, Y., LIRA-NORIEGA, A. & PETERSON, A. T. (2009) Environmental correlation structure and ecological niche model projections. Biodiversity Informatics, 6: 28-35.
39. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2009) Absence points of Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Araneae, Hexathelidae) in Morocco (North Africa). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 44: 559-561.
38. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., LOBO, J. M. & HORTAL, J. (2009) The effect of prevalence and its interaction with sample size on the reliability of species distribution models. Community Ecology, 10(2): 196-205.
37. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., DINIZ, F., AZEVEDO, E. B. & BORGES, P. A. V. (2009) Species distribution models do not account for abundance: the case of arthropods in Terceira Island. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 46: 451-464.
36. PETERSON, A. T., BARVE, N., BINI, L. M., DINIZ-FILHO, J. A., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., LIRA-NORIEGA, A., LOBO, J. M., MAHER, S., DE MARCO JÚNIOR, P., MARTÍNEZ-MEYER, E., NAKAZAWA, Y. & SOBERÓN, J. (2009) The climate envelope may not be empty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(16): E47.
35. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., LOBO, J. M. & HORTAL, J. (2008) Not as good as they seem: the importance of concepts in species distribution modelling. Diversity and Distributions, 14: 885-890.
34. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., HORTAL, J., LOBO, J. M., BORGES, P. A. V., ABREU, C., AGUIAR, A. F., BOIEIRO, M., FONTINHA, S., JARDIM, R., OLIVEIRA, P., SÉRGIO, C., SERRANO, A., SIM-SIM, M., NUNES, D. & AZEVEDO, E. B. (2008) Using predictive models of species distribution to validate biodiversity data: case studies form Madeira Island. In: A list of the terrestrial fungi, flora and fauna of Madeira and Selvagens archipelagos. (P.A.V. Borges, C. Abreu, A.M.F. Aguiar, P. Carvalho, S. Fontinha, R. Jardim, I. Melo, P. Oliveira, A.R.M. Serrano & P. Vieira, editors), pp. 27-56. Direcção Regional do Ambiente da Madeira and Universidade dos Açores, Funchal and Angra do Heroísmo. [book chapter]
33. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2008) Arañas saltadoras, grandes cazadoras bajo la lupa [Jumping spiders, great hunters under the lens]. Quercus, 266 (April): 26-31. [divulgation] (available upon request)
32. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., GÓMEZ, J. F., LOBO, J. M., BASELGA, A. & HORTAL, J. (2008) Challenging distribution models: the case of Maculinea nausithous (Bergsträsser, 1779) in the Iberian Peninsula. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 45 (3): 200-210.
31. LOBO, J. M., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & REAL, R. (2008) AUC: a misleading measure of the performance of predictive distribution models. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17: 145-151.
30. HORTAL, J., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., GÓMEZ, J. F., LOBO, J. M. & BASELGA, A. (2008) Historical bias in biodiversity inventories affects the observed niche of the species. Oikos, 117: 847-858.
2007
29. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2007) Determinants of local spider (Araneidae & Thomisidae) species richness on a regional scale: climate and altitude vs. habitat structure. Ecological Entomology, 32: 113-122.
28. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & ORTUÑO, V. M. (2007) The history of endemic Iberian ground beetle description (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae): which species were described first? Acta Oecologica, 31: 13-31.
27. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., ORTUÑO, V. M. & LOBO, J. M. (2007) Exploring the distribution of Sterocorax Ortuño, 1990 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) species in the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Biogeography, 34: 1426-1438.
26. BASELGA, A., HORTAL, J., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., GÓMEZ, J. F. & LOBO, J. M. (2007) Which leaf beetles have not yet been described? Determinants of the description of Western Palaeartic Aphthona species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biodiversity and Conservation, 16(5): 1409-1421.
25. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2007) Threshold criteria for conversion of probability of species presence to either-or presence-absence. Acta Oecologica, 31: 361-369.
24. HORTAL, J., LOBO, J. M. & JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2007) Limitations of biodiversity databases: Case study on seed-plant diversity in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Conservation Biology, 21: 853-863.
23. BASELGA, A. & JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2007)
Environmental and spatial determinants of beta diversity of leaf
beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the Iberian Peninsula.
Ecological Entomology, 32: 312-318.
22. LOBO, J. M., BASELGA, A., HORTAL, J., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE,
A. & GÓMEZ, J. F. (2007) How does the knowledge
about the spatial distribution of Iberian dung beetle species
accumulates over time? Diversity and Distributions, 13(6): 772-780.
21. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2007) Potential distribution of the endangered spider Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Araneae, Hexathelidae) and the impact of climate warming. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 53: 865-876.
20. BASELGA, A., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & NICCOLINI, G. (2007) A multiple-site similarity measure independent of richness. Biology Letters, 3:642-645. [R script ]
19. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., GARCÍA-DÍEZ, T. & BOGAERTS, S. (2007) First records of the endangered spider Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Hexathelidae) in Portugal. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 41: 445-446.
2006
18. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., JIMÉNEZ MENDOZA, S., MARTÍN CANO, J. & MUNGUIRA, M. L. (2006) Comparing relative model fit of species accumulation models to local Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea butterfly inventories of Mediterranean habitats. Biodiversity and Conservation, 15: 177-190.
17. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., BARRIGA BERNAL, J. C. & MORENO, A. G. (2006) A new Parachtes Alicata, 1964 species from the Iberian Peninsula (Araneae, Dysderidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 13(7): 273-274.
16. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE,
A., LOBO, J. M. & LÓPEZ MARTOS, M. L. (2006)
Listado de especies actualizado de los araneidos y tomísidos
(Araneae, Araneidae & Thomisidae) de la Comunidad de Madrid
(España central): mapas de distribución conocida,
potencial y patrones de riqueza [Updated checklist of araneid and
tomisid (Araneae, Araneidae and Thomisidae) species of the Madrid
region: known and potencial distribution maps, and richness patterns].
Graellsia, 62: 461-481.
15. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. &
LOBO,
J.
M.
(2006)
Establishing
reliable
sampling
protocols
for
spider
(Araneae,
Araneidae
&
Thomisidae)
assemblages:
estimation
of
species
richness,
seasonal
coverage
and
effect
of
juvelines
on
species
richness
and
composition.
Acta
Oecologica,
30:
21-32.
14. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2006) The ghost of unbalanced species distribution data in geographic predictive models. Diversity and Distributions, 12: 521-524.
13. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2006) Distribution determinants of endangered Iberian spider Macrothele calpeiana (Araneae, Hexathelidae). Environmental Entomology, 35(6): 1491-1499.
12. BARRIGA, J. C., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., MORANO, E., MORENO, A. G. & MELIC, A. (2006) Arañas de la provincia de Ciudad Real (Arachnida: Araneae) (Castilla La Mancha, España) [Spiders from Ciudad Real province (Arachnida: Araneae) (Castilla La Mancha, Spain)]. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 13: 125-142.
2005
11. HORTAL, J., BORGES, P. A. V., DINIS, F., JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., CHEFAOUI, R. M., LOBO, J. M., JARROCA, S., BRITO DE AZEVEDO, E., RODRIGUES, C., MADRUGA, J., PINHEIRO, J., GABRIEL, R., COTA RODRIGUES, F. & PEREIRA, A. R. (2005) Using ATLANTIS - Tierra 2.0 and GIS environmental information to predict the spatial distribution and habitat suitability of endemic species. In: A list of the terrestrial fauna (Gastropoda and Arthropoda) and flora (Bryophytes and Vascular Plants) from the Azores (P. A. V. Borges, R. Cunha, R. Gabriel, A. F. Martins, L. Silva & V. Vieira, editors), pp. 69-113. Direcção Regional de Ambiente e do Mar dos Açores, Horta, Faial. [book chapter]
10. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2005) Determining a combined sampling procedure for a reliable estimation of Araneidae and Thomisidae assemblages (Arachnida: Araneae). Journal of Arachnology, 33: 33-42.
9. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & WESALOWSKA, W. (2005) Synageles albotrimaculatus (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae, Salticidae), a spider species new to Spain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 13(4): 122-124.
8. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2005) Contribución al conocimiento de los saltícidos (Araneae, Salticidae) de la Comunidad de Madrid (España Central) [Contribution to the knowledge of the salticid fauna (Araneae, Salticidae) of the Madrid region (central Spain)]. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 37: 289-296.
2004
7. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., MARTÍN CANO, J. & MUNGUIRA, M. L. (2004) Patrones de diversidad de la fauna de mariposas del Parque Nacional de Cabañeros y su entorno (Ciudad Real, España central) (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea) [Diversity patterns of the butterfly fauna of the Parque Nacional de Cabañeros and its surroundings (Ciudad Real, Central Spain) (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea)]. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 27 (2): 15-24.
6. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LOBO, J. M. (2004) Un método sencillo para seleccionar puntos de muestreo con el objeto de inventariar taxones hiperdiversos: el caso práctico de las familias Araneidae y Thomisidae (Araneae) en la Comunidad de Madrid (España) [An easy method to select sampling plots for inventoring hiperdiverse taxa: the case of Araneidae and Thomisidae (Araneae) in the Madrid region (Spain)]. Ecología, 18: 297-308.
5. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., BARRIGA BERNAL, J. C. & MORANO, E. (2004) Datos interesantes sobre la distribución de Araniella opisthographa (Kulczynski, 1905) y A. inconspicua (Simon, 1874) (Araneae: Araneidae) en la Península Ibérica [Interesting data on the distribution of Araniella opisthographa (Kulczynski, 1905) and A. inconspicua (Simon, 1874) (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Iberian peninsula]. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 9: 269-270.
2003
4. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & LÓPEZ-COLÓN, J. I. (2003) Primera cita de Menemerus taeniatus (Koch, L., 1867) (Araneae: Salticidae) para España [First record of Menemerus taeniatus (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Salticidae) in Spain]. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 7: 175-176.
3. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. & HORTAL, J. (2003) Las curvas de acumulación de especies y la necesidad de evaluar la calidad de los inventarios biológicos [Species accumulation curves and the need to evaluate the quality of biological inventories]. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 8: 151-161.
2002
2. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., MARTÍN CANO, J. & MUNGUIRA, M. L. (2002) Fauna de mariposas del Parque Nacional de Cabañeros y su entorno (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea) [The butterfly fauna of Canañeros National Park and its surroundings (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea)]. SHILAP, Revista de lepidopterología, 30 (120): 271-279.
1. JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2002) Presencia en la Comunidad de Madrid (España central) del endemismo ibérico Ozyptila umbraculorum Simon, 1832 (Araneae, Thomisidae) [Presence in the Comunidad de Madrid (central Spain) of the Iberian endemic Ozyptila umbraculorum Simon, 1932 (Araneae: Thomisidae)]. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 6: 225-227.
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I HAVE BEEN REFEREE FOR
Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Biological Conservation, Insect Conservation and Diversity,Biological Invasions, Landscape Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation, Climate Research, Environmental Entomology, Environmental Modelling & Software, Journal of Nature Conservation, European Journal of Wildlife Research, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Arachnology, Zoological Studies, Acta Zoologica Sinica, Biodiversty Informatics, Tropical Conservation Science, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, Endangered Species Research, Journal of Insect Science, Graellsia, Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, Revista Colombiana de Entomología.
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