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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems,Forestry |
| Keywords | plant ecology, ecological restoration, forest management, ecosystem service, natural disturbance |
| Honours and awards | 2025: Humboldt Fellowship for a Renewed Research Stay in Germany 2024: Salvador de Madariaga research stay grant 2023: Honorific Professor, University of Alcalá 2022: Chico Mendes Award, Ecological Solutions and Evidence 2022: Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral grant 2020: National Researcher, SNI, Mexico 2019: Associate Editor at Journal of Applied Ecology 2019: Best-PhD Award, University of Granada 2019: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers 2018: José Castillejo research stay grant 2018: José Castillejo research stay grant 2016: Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral grant 2011: Best-grades Award, University of Granada |
Current contact address
| Country | Spain |
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| City | Granada |
| Institution | Universidad de Granada |
| Institute | Departamento de Ecología |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Simon Thorn | Ökologische Station, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Rauhenebrach |
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| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus | Institut für Forstwissenschaften, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Peter Kriegel and Sebastian Vogel and Romain Angeleri and Petr Baldrian and Werner Borken and Christophe Bouget and Antoine Brin and Heinz Bussler and Cristiana Cocciufa and Benedikt Feldmann and Martin M. Gossner and Elena Haeler and Jonas Hagge and Sönke Hardersen and Henrik Hartmann and Joakim Hjält{\'{e}}n and Martyna M. Kotowska and Thibault Lachat and Laurent Larrieu and Alexandro B. Leverkus and Anna L. M. Macagno and Oliver Mitesser and Jörg Müller and Elisabeth Obermaier and Francesco Parisi and Stefan Pelz and Bernhard Schuldt and Sebastian Seibold and Elisa Stengel and Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Wolfgang Weisser and Simon Thorn: Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels. In: Ecology Letters, 2023, |
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| 2023 | Pausas, Juli G. and Leverkus, Alexandro B.: Disturbance ecology in human societies. In: People and Nature, 5, 2023, 1082–1093 |
| 2023 | Lázaro-González, Alba and Andivia, Enrique and Hampe, Arndt and Hasegawa, Shun and Marzano, Raffaella and Santos, Ana M.C. and Castro, Jorge and Leverkus, Alexandro B.: Revegetation through seeding or planting: A worldwide systematic map. In: Journal of Environmental Management, 337, 2023, 117713 |
| 2023 | Cours, J. and Bouget, C. and Barsoum, N. and Horák, J. and Le Souchu, E. and Leverkus, A. B. and Pincebourde, S. and Thorn, S. and Sallé, A.: Surviving in Changing Forests: Abiotic Disturbance Legacy Effects on Arthropod Communities of Temperate Forests. In: Current Forestry Reports, 9, 2023, 189–218 |
| 2022 | Molina‐Morales, Mercedes and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Albaladejo‐Robles, Gonzalo and Martínez‐Baroja, Loreto and Pérez‐Camacho, Lorenzo and Villar‐Salvador, Pedro and Rebollo, Salvador and Rey‐Benayas, José María and Castro, Jorge: Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system. In: Journal of Ecology, 111, 2022, 400–411 |
| 2021 | Martínez‐Baroja, Loreto and Pérez‐Camacho, Lorenzo and Villar‐Salvador, Pedro and Rebollo, Salvador and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Pesendorfer, Mario B. and Molina‐Morales, Mercedes and Castro, Jorge and Rey‐Benayas, José María: Caching territoriality and site preferences by a scatter‐hoarder drive the spatial pattern of seed dispersal and affect seedling emergence. In: Journal of Ecology, 109, 2021, 2342–2353 |
| 2021 | Lena Gustafsson and Victor Johansson and Alexandro B. Leverkus and Joachim Strengbom and Sofie Wikberg and Gustaf Granath: Disturbance interval modulates the starting point for vegetation succession. In: Ecology, 102, 2021, |
| 2021 | Alexandro B Leverkus and Simon Thorn and Lena Gustafsson and Reed Noss and Jörg Müller and Juli G Pausas and David B Lindenmayer: Environmental policies to cope with novel disturbance regimes{\textendash}steps to address a world scientists' warning to humanity. In: Environmental Research Letters, 16, 2021, 021003 |
| 2020 | Gustafsson, Lena and Granath, Gustaf and Nohrstedt, Hans‐Örjan and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Johansson, Victor: Burn severity and soil chemistry are weak drivers of early vegetation succession following a boreal mega‐fire in a production forest landscape. In: Journal of Vegetation Science, 32, 2020, |
| 2020 | Alexandro Leverkus, Lena Gustafsson, David Lindenmayer, Jorge Castro, José Rey Benayas, Thomas Ranius, Simon Thorn: Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads. In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2020, |
| 2020 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Crawley, Michael J.: Temporal variation in effect sizes in a long‐term, split‐plot field experiment. In: Ecology, 101, 2020, |
| 2020 | Simon Thorn and Sebastian Seibold and Alexandro B Leverkus and Thomas Michler and Jörg Müller and Reed F Noss and Nigel Stork and Sebastian Vogel and David B Lindenmayer: The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation. In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2020, |
| 2019 | Simon Thorn and Alexandro B. Leverkus and Christine J. Thorn and Burkhard Beudert: Education and knowledge determine preference for bark beetle control measures in El Salvador. In: Journal of Environmental Management, 232, 2019, 138--144 |
| 2019 | Castro, Jorge and Leverkus, Alexandro B.: Effect of Herbaceous Layer Interference on the Post-Fire Regeneration of a Serotinous Pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) across Two Seedling Ages. In: Forests, 10, 2019, 74 |
| 2019 | Jorge Castro, Alexandro B. Leverkus: Effect of herbaceous layer interference on the post-fire regeneration of a serotinous pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) across two seedling ages. In: Forests, 2019, 74 |
| 2019 | Carlos R. Molinas-Gonz{\'{a}}lez and Jorge Castro and Adela Gonz{\'{a}}lez-Meg{\'{\i}}as and Alexandro B. Leverkus: Effects of Post-Fire Deadwood Management on Soil Macroarthropod Communities. In: Forests, 10, 2019, 1046 |
| 2019 | Martínez‐Baroja, Loreto and Pérez‐Camacho, Lorenzo and Villar‐Salvador, Pedro and Rebollo, Salvador and Quiles, Pablo and Gómez‐Sánchez, Daniel and Molina‐Morales, Mercedes and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Castro, Jorge and Rey‐Benayas, José María: Massive and effective acorn dispersal into agroforestry systems by an overlooked vector, the Eurasian magpie (Pica pica). In: Ecosphere, 10, 2019, |
| 2019 | Rebollo, Salvador and Rey-Benayas, José María and Villar-Salvador, Pedro and Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo and Castro, Jorge and Molina-Morales, Mercedes and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Baz, Arturo and Martínez-Baroja, Loreto and Quiles, Pablo and Gómez-Sánchez, Daniel and Fernández-Pereira, José Manuel and Meltzer, Jorge and Monteagudo, Navila and Ballesteros, Luis and Cayuela, Luis and de las Heras, Daniel and García-Salgado, Gonzalo and Martínez-Hesterkamp, Sara: Services provided by birds (high-mobile link species) in farmland and forest mosaics: forest regeneration and plague regulation. In: Ecosistemas, 28, 2019, 32–41 |
| 2019 | Rebollo, S., Rey-Benayas, J.M., Villar-Salvador, P., Pérez-Camacho, L., Castro, J., Molina-Morales, M., Leverkus, A.B., Baz, A., Martínez-Baroja, L., Quiles, P., Gómez-Sánchez, D., Fernández-Pereira, J.M., Meltzer, J., Monteagudo, N., Ballesteros, L., Cayuela, L., De las Heras, D., García-Salgado, G. & Martínez-Hesterkamp, S. Servicios de la avifauna (high mobile link species) en mosaicos agroforestales: regeneración forestal y regulación de plagas. In: Ecosistemas, 2019, 32-41 |
| 2019 | M. Löf, J. Castro, M. Engman, A.B. Leverkus, P. Madsen, J.A. Reque, A. Villalobos & E.S. Gardiner: Tamm Review: Direct seeding to restore oak (Quercus spp.) forests and woodlands. In: Forest Ecology and Management, 2019, 474-489 |
| 2019 | Löf, Magnus and Castro, Jorge and Engman, Mattias and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Madsen, Palle and Reque, Jose A. and Villalobos, Adrian and Gardiner, Emile S.: Tamm Review: Direct seeding to restore oak (Quercus spp.) forests and woodlands. In: Forest Ecology and Management, 448, 2019, 474–489 |
| 2019 | A.B. Leverkus, P. García Murillo, V. Jurado Doña, J. García Pausas: Wildfire: Opportunity for restoration? . In: Science, 2019, 134-135 |
| 2019 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Murillo, Pablo García and Doña, Vicente Jurado and Pausas, Juli G.: Wildfires: Opportunity for restoration?. In: Science, 363, 2019, 134–135 |
| 2018 | Müller, Jörg and Noss, Reed F. and Thorn, Simon and Bässler, Claus and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Lindenmayer, David: Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest. In: Conservation Letters, 12, 2018, |
| 2018 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Rey Benayas, José María and Castro, Jorge and Boucher, Dominique and Brewer, Stephen and Collins, Brandon M. and Donato, Daniel and Fraver, Shawn and Kishchuk, Barbara E. and Lee, Eun-Jae and Lindenmayer, David B. and Lingua, Emanuele and Macdonald, Ellen and Marzano, Raffaella and Rhoades, Charles C. and Royo, Alejandro and Thorn, Simon and Wagenbrenner, Joseph W. and Waldron, Kaysandra and Wohlgemuth, Thomas and Gustafsson, Lena: Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services — a systematic map. In: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 48, 2018, 983–1000 |
| 2017 | Molinas-González, Carlos and Castro, Jorge and Leverkus, Alexandro: Deadwood Decay in a Burnt Mediterranean Pine Reforestation. In: Forests, 8, 2017, 158 |
| 2017 | Castro, Jorge and Molina-Morales, Mercedes and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Martínez-Baroja, Loreto and Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo and Villar-Salvador, Pedro and Rebollo, Salvador and Rey-Benayas, José M.: Effective nut dispersal by magpies (Pica pica L.) in a Mediterranean agroecosystem. In: Oecologia, 184, 2017, 183–192 |
| 2017 | Thorn, Simon and Bässler, Claus and Brandl, Roland and Burton, Philip J. and Cahall, Rebecca and Campbell, John L. and Castro, Jorge and Choi, Chang‐Yong and Cobb, Tyler and Donato, Daniel C. and Durska, Ewa and Fontaine, Joseph B. and Gauthier, Sylvie and Hebert, Christian and Hothorn, Torsten and Hutto, Richard L. and Lee, Eun‐Jae and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Lindenmayer, David B. and Obrist, Martin K. and Rost, Josep and Seibold, Sebastian and Seidl, Rupert and Thom, Dominik and Waldron, Kaysandra and Wermelinger, Beat and Winter, Maria‐Barbara and Zmihorski, Michal and Müller, Jörg: Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis. In: Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, 2017, 279–289 |
| 2017 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Jaramillo-López, Pablo F. and Brower, Lincoln P. and Lindenmayer, David B. and Williams, Ernest H.: Mexico’s logging threatens butterflies. In: Science, 358, 2017, 1008–1008 |
| 2016 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Rey Benayas, José María and Castro, Jorge: Shifting demographic conflicts across recruitment cohorts in a dynamic post‐disturbance landscape. In: Ecology, 97, 2016, 2628–2639 |
| 2015 | Castro, Jorge and Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Fuster, Francisco: A new device to foster oak forest restoration via seed sowing. In: New Forests, 46, 2015, 919–929 |
| 2015 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Rojo, Manuel and Castro, Jorge: Habitat complexity and individual acorn protectors enhance the post-fire restoration of oak forests via seed sowing. In: Ecological Engineering, 83, 2015, 276–280 |
| 2014 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Lorite, Juan and Navarro, Francisco B. and Sánchez-Cañete, Enrique P. and Castro, Jorge: Post-fire salvage logging alters species composition and reduces cover, richness, and diversity in Mediterranean plant communities. In: Journal of Environmental Management, 133, 2014, 323–331 |
| 2013 | Leverkus, A.B. and Castro, J. and Puerta-Piñero, C. and Rey Benayas, J.M.: Suitability of the management of habitat complexity, acorn burial depth, and a chemical repellent for post-fire reforestation of oaks. In: Ecological Engineering, 53, 2013, 15–22 |
| 2012 | Leverkus, Alexandro B. and Puerta-Piñero, Carolina and Guzmán-Álvarez, José Ramón and Navarro, Javier and Castro, Jorge: Post-fire salvage logging increases restoration costs in a Mediterranean mountain ecosystem. In: New Forests, 43, 2012, 601–613 |
| 2012 | Castro, J. and Puerta-Piñero, C. and Leverkus, A. B. and Moreno-Rueda, G. and Sánchez-Miranda, A.: Post‐fire salvage logging alters a key plant‐animal interaction for forest regeneration. In: Ecosphere, 3, 2012, 1–12 |
| 2010 | Puerta-Piñero, C. and Sánchez-Miranda, A. and Leverkus, A. and Castro, J.: Management of burnt wood after fire affects post-dispersal acorn predation. In: Forest Ecology and Management, 260, 2010, 345–352 |