Faculty
Exequiel Ezcurra
Director of UCMexus/Professor of Ecology (Ph.D., University College of North Wales, Bangor)
UC Mexus Office: 3324 Olmstead Hall
Mexus Office Phone: (951) 827-3519
BPS Office: 3125 Batchelor Hall
BPS Lab Phone: (951) 827-2869
Email: exequiel@ucr.edu
Dr. Ezcurra has recently accepted the position of full-time Director for the University of California Institute For Mexico and the United States (UC Mexus). In addition, he has joined the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences as a Professor of Ecology and will be furthering his research in the areas of conservation science, the ecology and biogeography of coastal deserts, land-ocean interactions and their impact on both marine and terrestrial environments, the application of mathematical modeling in ecology and conservation, and the management of natural resources in areas under traditional use.
Some Representative Publications:
Riemann, H. and E. Ezcurra. 2007. Endemic regions of the vascular flora of the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Vegetation Science 18:327–336.
Martorell, C., and E. Ezcurra. 2007. The narrow-leaf syndrome: a functional and evolutionary approach to the form of fog-harvesting rosette plants. Oecologia [doi 10.1007/s00442-006-0614-x].
Martorell, C., E. Vega, and E. Ezcurra. 2006. Morphological consequences of the trade-off between growth and reproduction in a columnar cactus (Lophocereus schottii). Plant Ecology 183(1): 125–131.
Ortiz-García, S., E. Ezcurra, B. Schoel, F. Acevedo, J. Soberón, and A.A. Snow. 2006. Transgenic Maize in Mexico. BioScience 56(9): 709.
Ortiz-García, S., E. Ezcurra, B. Schoel, F. Acevedo, J. Soberón, and A.A. Snow. 2005. Reply to Cleveland et al.’s “Detecting (trans)gene flow to landraces in centers of crop origin: Lessons from the case of maize in Mexico.” Environmental Biosafety Research 4: 209–215.
Ortiz-García, S., E. Ezcurra, B. Schoel, F. Acevedo, J. Soberón, and A.A. Snow. 2005. Absence of detectable transgenes in local landraces of maize in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003–2004). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(35): 12338–12343.
Perea, M.C., E. Ezcurra, and J.L. León de la Luz. 2005. Functional morphology of a sarcocaulescent desert scrub in the bay of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Journal of Arid Environments 62(2): 413–426.
Riemann, H., and E. Ezcurra. 2005. Plant endemism and natural protected areas in the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico. Biological Conservation 122: 141–150.
Velarde, E., E. Ezcurra, M.A. Cisneros-Mata, and Miguel F. Lavín. 2004. Seabird ecology, El Niño anomalies, and prediction of sardine fisheries in the Gulf of California. Ecological Applications 14(2): 607–615.
Garcillán, P.P., and E. Ezcurra. 2003. Biogeographic regions and beta-diversity of woody dryland legumes in the Baja California peninsula. Journal of Vegetation Science 14(6): 859–868.