Dr F. Javier González Barrios
Lancaster University
Email: j.gonzalezbarrios@lancaster.ac.uk
Javier was an ENVISION DTP NERC funded PhD student at Lancaster Environment Centre, supervised by Prof Nick Graham, Dr Sally Keith, Dr Gareth Williams (Bangor University) and Prof Joshua Cinner (James Cook University). His research focused on understanding how the predictive ability of classic theories of latitudinal diversity gradients have changed, and developed new theory by embedding social and environmental characteristics at the heart of ecological prediction.
What’s next?
Selected Publications
- Alvarez-Filip, L., González-Barrios, F. J., Pérez-Cervantes, E., Molina-Hernandez, A., & Estrada-Saldívar, N. (in press). Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality. Communications Biology.
- Melo‐Merino, S. M., Lira‐Noriega, A., González‐Barrios, F. J., Reyes‐Bonilla, H., & Álvarez‐Filip, L. (2022). Functional divergence from ecological baselines on Caribbean coral reefs. Ecography, 2022(3), e05811.
- González‐Barrios, F. J., Cabral‐Tena, R. A., & Alvarez‐Filip, L. (2021). Recovery disparity between coral cover and the physical functionality of reefs with impaired coral assemblages. Global Change Biology, 27(3), 640-651.
- Molina-Hernández, A., González-Barrios, F. J., Perry, C. T., & Álvarez-Filip, L. (2020). Two decades of carbonate budget change on shifted coral reef assemblages: are these reefs being locked into low net budget states?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1940), 20202305.
- Cabral-Tena, R. A., López-Pérez, A., Alvarez-Filip, L., González-Barrios, F. J., Calderon-Aguilera, L. E., & Aparicio-Cid, C. (2020). Functional potential of coral assemblages along a typical Eastern Tropical Pacific reef tract. Ecological Indicators, 119, 106795.
- Estrada-Saldívar, N., Molina-Hernández, A., Pérez-Cervantes, E., Medellín-Maldonado, F., González-Barrios, F. J., & Alvarez-Filip, L. (2020). Reef-scale impacts of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak. Coral Reefs, 39(4), 861-866.
- Alvarez-Filip, L., Estrada-Saldívar, N., Pérez-Cervantes, E., Molina-Hernández, A., & González-Barrios, F. J. (2019). A rapid spread of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak in the Mexican Caribbean. PeerJ, 7, e8069.
- González-Barrios, F. J., & Álvarez-Filip, L. (2018). A framework for measuring coral species-specific contribution to reef functioning in the Caribbean. Ecological Indicators, 95, 877-886.