Publications: Dr Samuel Pironon

Antonelli A, Teisher JK, Smith RJ, Ainsworth AM, Furci G, Gaya E, Gonçalves SC, Hawksworth DL et al. ( 2024 ) . The 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting . Plants People Planet

Jago S, Elliott KFVA, Tovar C, Soto Gomez M, Starnes T, Abebe W, Alexander C, Antonelli A et al. ( 2024 ) . Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity . Nature Sustainability1 - 10 .

Ondo I, Dhanjal‐Adams KL, Pironon S, Silvestro D, Colli‐Silva M, Deklerck V, Grace OM, Monro AK et al. ( 2024 ) . Plant diversity darkspots for global collection priorities . New Phytologist vol. 244 , ( 2 ) 719 - 733 .

Pironon S, Ondo I, Diazgranados M, Allkin R, Baquero AC, Cámara-Leret R, Canteiro C, Dennehy-Carr Z et al. ( 2024 ) . Safeguard stewards of biodiversity knowledge—Response . Science vol. 385 , ( 6708 ) 506 - 506 .

Gomez MS, Brown MJM, Pironon S, Bureš P, Arregoitia LDV, Veselý P, Elliott TL, Zedek F et al. ( 2024 ) . Genome size is positively correlated with extinction risk in herbaceous angiosperms . New Phytologist vol. 243 , ( 6 ) 2470 - 2485 .

Bureš P, Elliott TL, Veselý P, Šmarda P, Forest F, Leitch IJ, Lughadha EN, Gomez MS et al. ( 2024 ) . The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate . New Phytologist vol. 242 , ( 2 ) 744 - 759 .

Pironon S, Ondo I, Diazgranados M, Allkin R, Baquero AC, Cámara-Leret R, Canteiro C, Dennehy-Carr Z et al. ( 2024 ) . The global distribution of plants used by humans . Science vol. 383 , ( 6680 ) 293 - 297 .

Rampersad C, Geto T, Samuel T, Abebe M, Gomez MS, Pironon S, Büchi L, Haggar J et al. ( 2023 ) . Indigenous crop diversity maintained despite the introduction of major global crops in an African centre of agrobiodiversity . Plants People Planet vol. 5 , ( 6 ) 985 - 996 .

Richard-Bollans A, Aitken C, Antonelli A, Bitencourt C, Goyder D, Lucas E, Ondo I, Pérez-Escobar OA et al. ( 2023 ) . Machine learning enhances prediction of plants as potential sources of antimalarials . Frontiers in Plant Science vol. 14 ,

Whittaker C, Hamlet A, Sherrard-Smith E, Winskill P, Cuomo-Dannenburg G, Walker PGT, Sinka M, Pironon S et al. ( 2023 ) . Seasonal dynamics of Anopheles stephensi and its implications for mosquito detection and emergent malaria control in the Horn of Africa . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 120 , ( 8 )

Pironon S, Cantwell-Jones A, Forest F, Ball J, Diazgranados M, Douglas R, Hawkins J, Howes M-JR et al. ( 2022 ) . Towards an action plan for characterizing food plant diversity . Nature Plants vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 34 - 35 .

Antonelli A, Smith RJ, Perrigo AL, Crottini A, Hackel J, Testo W, Farooq H, Torres Jiménez MF et al. ( 2022 ) . Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use . Science vol. 378 , ( 6623 )

Ralimanana H, Perrigo AL, Smith RJ, Borrell JS, Faurby S, Rajaonah MT, Randriamboavonjy T, Vorontsova MS et al. ( 2022 ) . Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities . Science vol. 378 , ( 6623 )

Mahaut L, Pironon S, Barnagaud J-Y, Bretagnolle F, Khoury CK, Mehrabi Z, Milla R, Phillips C et al. ( 2022 ) . Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 289 , ( 1983 )

Bellot S, Lu Y, Antonelli A, Baker WJ, Dransfield J, Forest F, Kissling WD, Leitch IJ et al. ( 2022 ) . The likely extinction of hundreds of palm species threatens their contributions to people and ecosystems . Nature Ecology & Evolution vol. 6 , ( 11 ) 1710 - 1722 .

Whittaker C, Winskill P, Sinka M, Pironon S, Massey C, Weiss DJ, Nguyen M, Gething PW et al. ( 2022 ) . A novel statistical framework for exploring the population dynamics and seasonality of mosquito populations . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 289 , ( 1972 )

Pironon S, Gómez D, Font X, García MB ( 2022 ) . Living at the limit in the Pyrenees: Peripheral and endemic plants are rare but underrepresented in protection lists . Diversity and Distributions vol. 28 , ( 5 ) 930 - 942 .

Cantwell-Jones A, Ball J, Collar D, Diazgranados M, Douglas R, Forest F, Hawkins J, Howes M-JR et al. ( 2022 ) . Global plant diversity as a reservoir of micronutrients for humanity . Nature Plants vol. 8 , ( 3 ) 225 - 232 .

Fumia N, Rubinoff D, Zenil-Ferguson R, Khoury CK, Pironon S, Gore MA, Kantar MB ( 2022 ) . Interactions between breeding system and ploidy affect niche breadth in Solanum . Royal Society Open Science vol. 9 , ( 1 )

Gutaker RM, Chater CCC, Brinton J, Castillo-Lorenzo E, Breman E, Pironon S ( 2022 ) . Scaling up neodomestication for climate-ready crops . Current Opinion in Plant Biology vol. 66 ,

Fumia N, Pironon S, Rubinoff D, Khoury CK, Gore MA, Kantar MB ( 2022 ) . Wild relatives of potato may bolster its adaptation to new niches under future climate scenarios . Food and Energy Security vol. 11 , ( 2 )

Koch O, Mengesha WA, Pironon S, Pagella T, Ondo I, Rosa I, Wilkin P, Borrell JS ( 2021 ) . Modelling potential range expansion of an underutilised food security crop in Sub-Saharan Africa . Environmental Research Letters vol. 17 , ( 1 )

Lee‐Yaw JA, McCune JL, Pironon S, Sheth SN ( 2021 ) . Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations . Ecography vol. 2022 , ( 6 )

Satori D, Tovar C, Faruk A, Hunt EH, Muller G, Cockel C, Kühn N, Leitch IJ et al. ( 2021 ) . Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change . Plants People Planet vol. 4 , ( 3 ) 269 - 282 .

Breman E, Ballesteros D, Castillo-Lorenzo E, Cockel C, Dickie J, Faruk A, O’Donnell K, Offord CA et al. ( 2021 ) . Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank . Plants vol. 10 , ( 11 )

Gonzalez O, Tovar C, Pironon S ( 2021 ) . DISTRIBUTION OF THE TUMBES TYRANT (TUMBEZIA SALVINI) WITH COMMENTS ON MARGINAL RECORDS . Ornitología Neotropical vol. 32 , ( 2 ) 131 - 140 .

Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L et al. ( 2021 ) . Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water . Nature Ecology & Evolution vol. 5 , ( 11 ) 1557 - 1557 .

Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L et al. ( 2021 ) . Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water . Nature Ecology & Evolution vol. 5 , ( 11 ) 1499 - 1509 .

Zu P, Koch H, Schwery O, Pironon S, Phillips C, Ondo I, Farrell IW, Nes WD et al. ( 2021 ) . Pollen sterols are associated with phylogeny and environment but not with pollinator guilds . New Phytologist vol. 230 , ( 3 ) 1169 - 1184 .

Pironon S, Soto Gomez M ( 2020 ) . Plant agrodiversity to the rescue . Nature Climate Change vol. 11 , ( 1 ) 6 - 8 .

Grace OM, Lovett JC, Gore CJN, Moat J, Ondo I, Pironon S, Langat MK, Pérez‐Escobar OA et al. ( 2020 ) . Plant Power: Opportunities and challenges for meeting sustainable energy needs from the plant and fungal kingdoms . Plants People Planet vol. 2 , ( 5 ) 446 - 462 .

Ulian T, Diazgranados M, Pironon S, Padulosi S, Liu U, Davies L, Howes MR, Borrell JS et al. ( 2020 ) . Unlocking plant resources to support food security and promote sustainable agriculture . Plants People Planet vol. 2 , ( 5 ) 421 - 445 .

Sinka ME, Pironon S, Massey NC, Longbottom J, Hemingway J, Moyes CL, Willis KJ ( 2020 ) . A new malaria vector in Africa: Predicting the expansion range of Anopheles stephensi and identifying the urban populations at risk . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 117 , ( 40 ) 24900 - 24908 .

Pironon S, Borrell JS, Ondo I, Douglas R, Phillips C, Khoury CK, Kantar MB, Fumia N et al. ( 2020 ) . Toward Unifying Global Hotspots of Wild and Domesticated Biodiversity . Plants vol. 9 , ( 9 )

Borrell JS, Dodsworth S, Forest F, Pérez-Escobar OA, Lee MA, Mattana E, Stevenson PC, Howes M-JR et al. ( 2020 ) . The climatic challenge: Which plants will people use in the next century? . Environmental and Experimental Botany vol. 170 ,

Chardon NI, Pironon S, Peterson ML, Doak DF ( 2019 ) . Incorporating intraspecific variation into species distribution models improves distribution predictions, but cannot predict species traits for a wide‐spread plant species . Ecography vol. 43 , ( 1 ) 60 - 74 .

Viruel J, Le Galliot N, Pironon S, Feliner GN, Suc J, Lakhal‐Mirleau F, Juin M, Selva M et al. ( 2019 ) . A strong east–west Mediterranean divergence supports a new phylogeographic history of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua, Leguminosae) and multiple domestications from native populations . Journal of Biogeography vol. 47 , ( 2 ) 460 - 471 .

Pironon S, Etherington TR, Borrell JS, Kühn N, Macias-Fauria M, Ondo I, Tovar C, Wilkin P et al. ( 2019 ) . Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change . Nature Climate Change vol. 9 , ( 10 ) 758 - 763 .

Bascompte J, García MB, Ortega R, Rezende EL, Pironon S ( 2019 ) . Mutualistic interactions reshuffle the effects of climate change on plants across the tree of life . Science Advances vol. 5 , ( 5 )

Mehrabi Z, Pironon S, Kantar M, Ramankutty N, Rieseberg L ( 2019 ) . Shifts in the abiotic and biotic environment of cultivated sunflower under future climate change☆ . OCL - Oilseeds and fats, Crops and Lipids vol. 26 ,

Gargiulo R, Pironon S, Zheleznaya E, Sanchez MD, Balázs ZR, Podar D, Wilkinson T, Jäkäläniemi A et al. ( 2019 ) . Phylogeography and post‐glacial dynamics in the clonal‐sexual orchid Cypripedium calceolus L . Journal of Biogeography vol. 46 , ( 3 ) 526 - 538 .

Santini L, Pironon S, Maiorano L, Thuiller W ( 2018 ) . Addressing common pitfalls does not provide more support to geographical and ecological abundant‐centre hypotheses . Ecography vol. 42 , ( 4 ) 696 - 705 .

Sangüesa‐Barreda G, Camarero JJ, Pironon S, Gazol A, Peguero‐Pina JJ, Gil‐Pelegrín E ( 2018 ) . Delineating limits: Confronting predicted climatic suitability to field performance in mistletoe populations . Journal of Ecology vol. 106 , ( 6 ) 2218 - 2229 .

Pironon S, Villellas J, Thuiller W, Eckhart VM, Geber MA, Moeller DA, García MB ( 2017 ) . The ‘Hutchinsonian niche’ as an assemblage of demographic niches: implications for species geographic ranges . Ecography vol. 41 , ( 7 ) 1103 - 1113 .

Pironon S, Papuga G, Villellas J, Angert AL, García MB, Thompson JD ( 2016 ) . Geographic variation in genetic and demographic performance: new insights from an old biogeographical paradigm . Biological Reviews vol. 92 , ( 4 ) 1877 - 1909 .

Papuga G, Gauthier P, Ramos J, Pons V, Pironon S, Farris E, Thompson JD ( 2015 ) . Range-Wide Variation in the Ecological Niche and Floral Polymorphism of the Western Mediterranean Geophyte Narcissus dubius Gouan . International Journal of Plant Sciences vol. 176 , ( 8 ) 724 - 738 .

Pironon S, Villellas J, Morris WF, Doak DF, García MB ( 2014 ) . Do geographic, climatic or historical ranges differentiate the performance of central versus peripheral populations? . Global Ecology and Biogeography vol. 24 , ( 6 ) 611 - 620 .

Meller L, Thuiller W, Pironon S, Barbet-Massin M, Hof A, Cabeza M ( 2014 ) . Balance between climate change mitigation benefits and land use impacts of bioenergy: conservation implications for European birds . GCB Bioenergy vol. 7 , ( 4 ) 741 - 751 .

Thuiller W, Pironon S, Psomas A, Barbet-Massin M, Jiguet F, Lavergne S, Pearman PB, Renaud J et al. ( 2014 ) . The European functional tree of bird life in the face of global change . Nature Communications vol. 5 , ( 1 )

Meller L, Cabeza M, Pironon S, Barbet-Massin M, Maiorano L, Georges D, Thuiller W ( 2013 ) . Ensemble distribution models in conservation prioritization: from consensus predictions to consensus reserve networks . Diversity and Distributions vol. 20 , ( 3 ) 309 - 321 .

Pardo I, Aranbarri J, Barreiro F, Bravo PA, Chaparro HA, Comín F, Corriá R, Español C et al. ( 2013 ) . Primeras jornadas Iperinas: presentación de nuevas líneas de investigación del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC) . Pirineos vol. 168 , ( 0 ) 139 - 154 .