Research
Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur
(Leader of the research group)
Research interest:
- Plant defense against herbivores.
- Costs of sexual forms in plants (especially in Opuntia robusta).
- Optimal energy allocation models.
- Interaction between plant and bird communities.
- The effect of deforestation on plant communities.
- The effect of deforestation on bird parasites.
Publications of Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur
Our main research topics:
Plant defense against herbivores
Costs of different sexual forms in plants
Effect of deforestation on plant and on bird communities
More detailed topics of our research are:
- Costs of different sexual forms in dioecious and trioecios plant species.
- Plant-herbivore interaction.
- Physical and chemical defense in plants.
- Plant-ant interaction mediated by extraflorar nectaries.
- Plant-mycorrhizal fungi interaction in different sexual forms.
- Physiology and ecological importance of plants’ secondary metabolites.
- Bird-parasite interaction.
- Bird wing morphometry and its relationship with migratory distance and with habitat disturbance.
- Conservation of birds and their habitat.
- The effect of deforestation and reforestation on bird communities.
Evolution of defense against herbivores in plants: an optimal allocation model and field study.
CONACyT 180694 to Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur; 2014-2018; Managed by Secretaría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados de la UAEM.
The effect of reforestation on the specific richness, physical condition, moulting dynamics, parasite load, and biodiversity in a bird community of the forest zone of Nevado de Toluca, Mexico State.
UAEMex 3679/2014/CID to Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur; 2014-2016; Granted and managed by Secretaría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados de la UAEM (finished).
The effect of disturbance of Abies forest on the floristic and avifaunistic diversity in Nevado de Toluca.
UAEMex 4333/2017/CI to Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur, co-responsibles Irma Victoria Rivas Manzano and Luis Isaac Aguilera Gómez. 2017-2018.
Granted and managed by Secretaría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados de la UAEM.
Morphological and ultrastructural characterization of extrafloral nectaries from two cacti in Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, México. Research grant from Cactus & Succulent Society of America.
Personal grant to Mario Alberto Sandoval Molina (MASM), mentored by Mariusz K. Janczur and Hilda Araceli Zavaleta Mancera.
Managed by MASM.
Research Group

Irma Victoria Rivas Manzano (UAEMex)
Research interest:
- Plant defense against herbivores
- Interaction between plant and bird communities
- The effect of deforestation on plant communities
- Floristics
- Plant community ecology
- Population ecology
- Conservation ecology of Micrathene whitneyi

Luis Isaac Aguilera Gómez (UAEMex)
Research interest:
- Plant taxonomy
- The effect of deforestation on plant communities
- Floristics
- Plant community ecology
- Plant physiology

Carlos Antonio Flores Dimas (M.Sc. Student)
Research interest:
- The effect of habitat disturbance on bird communities
- Bird community ecology
- Interaction between plant and bird communities

Bernardo Rafael Lugo García (B.A. Student)
Research interest:
- Interaction between plant and bird communities
- The effect of habitat disturbance on bird communities
- Bird community ecology
- Bird migrations
- The effect of habitat disturbance on bird wing and tail shape
- Bird ringing certificate

Alan Daniel Mendóza Mendóza
Research interest:
- Bird community ecology
- Bird migrations
- Sexual selection in hummingbirds