Borja Jiménez-Alfaro

Profesor Titular (UniOVI)
Vicedirector del IMIB

Dirección:
Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad
Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Mieres
Edificio de Investigación – 5ª planta
c/ Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós s/n
33600 Mieres, Asturias

Contacto:

Correo electrónico: jimenezalfaro@uniovi.es
Teléfono: +34 985 10 5934

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Líneas de investigación

He is the coordinator of the Vegetation and Biodiversity Lab, a research group focusing on plant communities and related ecosystems under three perspectives: ecological and historical biogeography of vegetation; seed regeneration of plants in structured environments; and mapping and monitoring of ecosystems and habitat types. Research tools include field work in mountain areas, analysis of vegetation databases, integration of vegetation data with remote sensing, and laboratory experiments. From 2020, Borja is the scientific director of the Jardín Botánico Atlántico de Gijón, integrating the plant biodiversity research program with the IMIB and the University of Oviedo.

Estudiantes

• Clara Espinosa del Alba, PhD, University of Oviedo.
• Víctor González García, PhD, University of Oviedo.
• Jorge González Le Barbier, PhD, University of Oviedo.
• Ángel Argüelles, PhD, University of Oviedo.

Publicaciones representativas

• Jiménez-Alfaro B, Fernández-Pascual E, Espinosa del Alba & Marcenò C (2024) Spatiotemporal patterns of microclimatic buffering in relict alpine communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 35: e13242 doi: 10.1111/jvs.13242.
• Jiménez-Alfaro B, Aunina L, Carbognani M, Michele Carbognani, Dítě D … & Hájek M (2023) Habitat-based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29: 6756-6771 doi: 10.1111/gcb.16965.
• Jiménez-Alfaro B, Frischie S, Slotz J & Gálvez C (2020) Native plants for greening Mediterranean agroecosystems. Nature Plants 6: 209-214 doi: 10.1038/s41477-020-0617-3.
• Jiménez-Alfaro B, Girardello M, Chytrý M, Svenning J-C, Willner W, Gégout J-C, et al. (2018) History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 483-490 doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0462-6.
• Jiménez-Alfaro B, Silveira F, Fidelis A, Poshchold P & Commander L (2016) Seed germination traits can contribute better to community ecology. Journal of Vegetation Science 27: 637-645 doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0462-6.