Joaquín Hortal

Biogeographer and community ecologist

Joaquín Hortal

My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages.

Currently I am a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also a Collaborating Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and an Associate Researcher of both the Azorean Biodiversity Group – CITA A of the University of the Azores and the Centre for Environmental Biology (CBA) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

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Scientific Journals

I am Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Biogeography – the official journal of the International Biogeography Society (IBS) – and Subject Editor of Ecography. Apart from the IBS, where I’m part of the Subcommittee on Advertising and Outreach, I am also member of the British Ecological Society (BES), the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) and the Aragonian Entomological Society (SEA).

Ecography
PCI_Ecol
PCI_Evol_Biol
Animal Biodiversity Conservation
PCI_Evol_Biol
Animal Biodiversity Conservation

research training

After my research training and PhD at the Natural History Museum in Madrid (1996-2004), I worked as a postdoc at the Azorean Biodiversity Group in Terceira, Azores (2004-2005) and the Center for Macroecology of the University of Copenhagen (2006). From 2007 to 2010 I was as a Research Associate at the NERC Centre for Population Biology of the Imperial College London at Silwood Park. Finally, in May 2010 I moved back to the MNCN, first as a JAE-Doc Research Associate, until the start of my current position in December 2010. During 2012-2012 I was also a Visiting Researcher at the Departamento de Ecologia of the UFG. See a recent version of my CV for more detailed information.