Alberto Búrquez
National Autonomous University of Mexico
79 Papers
560 Citations
Alberto Búrquez is an academic researcher from National Autonomous University of Mexico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biology. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 72 publications. Previous affiliations of Alberto Búrquez include Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
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Papers
Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees
Jérôme Chave,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Alberto Búrquez,E. N. Chidumayo,Matthew S. Colgan,Welington Braz Carvalho Delitti,Alvaro Duque,Tron Eid,Philip M. Fearnside,Rosa C. Goodman,Matieu Henry,Angelina Martínez-Yrízar,Wilson A. Mugasha,Helene C. Muller-Landau,Maurizio Mencuccini,Bruce Walker Nelson,Alfred Ngomanda,Euler Melo Nogueira,Edgar Ortiz-Malavassi,Raphaël Pélissier,Pierre Ploton,Casey M. Ryan,Juan Saldarriaga,Ghislain Vieilledent +23 more
TL;DR: This work analyzed a global database of directly harvested trees at 58 sites, spanning a wide range of climatic conditions and vegetation types, and found a pantropical model incorporating wood density, trunk diameter, and the variable E outperformed previously published models without height.
Ecosystem Services of Tropical Dry Forests: Insights from Long-term Ecological and Social Research on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
J. Manuel Maass,Patricia Balvanera,Alicia Castillo,Gretchen C. Daily,Harold A. Mooney,Paul R. Ehrlich,Mauricio Quesada,Alvaro Miranda,Víctor J. Jaramillo,Felipe García-Oliva,Angelina Martínez-Yrízar,Helena Cotler,Jorge López-Blanco,Alfredo Pérez-Jiménez,Alberto Búrquez,Clara Tinoco,Gerardo Ceballos,Laura Barraza,Ricardo Ayala,José Sarukhán +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the services delivered by a tropical dry forest (TDF) ecosystem in the Chamela Region, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, using the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) conceptual framework as a guide.
High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction
Bárbara Goettsch,Craig Hilton-Taylor,Gabriela Cruz-Piñón,James P. Duffy,Anne Frances,Héctor M. Hernández,Richard Inger,Caroline M. Pollock,Jan Schipper,Mariella Superina,Nigel P. Taylor,Marcelo F. Tognelli,Agustin Manuel Abba,Salvador Arias,Hilda Julieta Arreola-Nava,Marc A. Baker,Rolando T. Bárcenas,Duniel Barrios,Pierre Braun,Charles A. Butterworth,Alberto Búrquez,Fátima Caceres,Miguel Cházaro-Basáñez,Rafael Corral-Díaz,Mario Del Valle Perea,Pablo H. Demaio,Williams A. Duarte De Barros,Rafael Durán,Luis Faúndez Yancas,Richard S. Felger,Betty Fitz-Maurice,Walter A. Fitz-Maurice,George D. Gann,Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa,Luis R. Gonzales-Torres,M. Patrick Griffith,Pablo C. Guerrero,Pablo C. Guerrero,Barry E. Hammel,Kenneth D. Heil,José Guadalupe Hernández-Oria,Michael R. Hoffmann,Michael R. Hoffmann,Mario Ishiki Ishihara,Roberto Kiesling,João Larocca,José Luis León de la Luz,R S Christian Loaiza,Martin Lowry,Marlon C. Machado,Lucas C. Majure,Lucas C. Majure,José Guadalupe Martínez Avalos,Carlos Martorell,Joyce Maschinski,Eduardo Méndez,Russell A. Mittermeier,Jafet M. Nassar,Vivian Negrón-Ortiz,Vivian Negrón-Ortiz,Luis Jorge Oakley,Pablo Ortega-Baes,Ana Beatriz Pin Ferreira,Donald J. Pinkava,J. Mark Porter,Raul Puente-Martinez,José Eduardo Roque Gamarra,Patricio Saldivia Pérez,Emiliano Sánchez Martínez,Martin Smith,Simon N. Stuart,José Luis Tapia Muñoz,Teresa Terrazas,Martin Terry,Marcelo Trevisson,Teresa Valverde,Thomas R. Van Devender,Mario Esteban Véliz-Pérez,Helmut Walter,Sarah A. Wyatt,Daniela C. Zappi,J. Alejandro Zavala-Hurtado,Kevin J. Gaston +82 more
TL;DR: It is shown that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed to date, with 31% of the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity in arid lands.
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The Ecology of Seed Heteromorphism in Heterosperma Pinnatum in Central Mexico
TL;DR: The results of these experiments suggest that a achene behavior ranges from "low—risk" (peripheral achenes) to "high— risk" (central achene) within the progeny of a single individual, while individuals and populations vary in the proportion of offspring exhibiting each type of behavior.
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Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti
Dario Copetti,Dario Copetti,Alberto Búrquez,Enriquena Bustamante,Joseph L.M. Charboneau,Kevin L. Childs,Luis E. Eguiarte,Seunghee Lee,Tiffany L. Liu,Michelle M. McMahon,Noah K. Whiteman,Rod A. Wing,Rod A. Wing,Martin F. Wojciechowski,Michael J. Sanderson +14 more
TL;DR: It is found that 60% of the amino acid sites in proteins exhibiting homoplasy do so because of conflicts between gene genealogies and species histories, which is likely a consequence of the unusually long generation time of cacti.
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