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I am a biologist interested in insect ecology and conservation. In 2020 I became a PhD student at University of the Azores where I am conducting my research about the effect of nutrient addition on plant-pollinator interactions. I have participated in projects regarding butterfly monitoring (Autonomous University of Madrid) and butterfly responses to climate change (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Juan Pablo Cancela Vallejo

Citation names

  • Juan Pablo Cancela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A113-0733-6BB6
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3357-3820

Email addresses

  • jpcancelav@gmail.com (Professional)
  • jpcancela@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Entomology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/02/01 - 2023
Ongoing
Doutoramento en Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2015/07/12
Concluded
MSc in Conservation Biology (Master)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"Preliminar study of the phenology and diversity of butterfly communities (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in three ecosystems based on BMS España methodology" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
15
2013/07/24
Concluded
Licenciatura en Biología (Licence)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
"Morphological characters and phylogeny of the Iberian Lycaenids (Lycaenidae)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/06/01 - 2025/04/30 Research Assistant (Research) Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/02/01 - Current PhD student (SFRH/BD/145175/2019) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2019/02/28 Predoctoral researcher at Zoology department. Database management, data digitization, BMS España network expansion and report production. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2014/03/01 - 2018/09/30 Assistant researcher of Butterfly Monitoring Scheme España, 2014-2018. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2017/05/16 - 2017/09/16 Assistant researcher in the project "The role of fine resolution topographic heterogeneity in providing refugia from climate change: distribution and conservation of the butterflies of the S. de Guada Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2016/08/05 - 2016/08/21 Field technician in the project "Understanding responses of species’ elevational ranges to c. change. Information on the effects of climate on phenology, population dynamics and morphology, using the University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2013/07/01 - 2013/07/15 Field technician in the framework of the project "Species Recovery Program (SRP) for 4 of the 15 threatened endemic species of butterflies in continental Europe - phase 1", funded by MAVA Fondation po Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2012/07/01 - 2012/07/15 Field technician in the framework of the project "Species Recovery Program (SRP) for 4 of the 15 threatened endemic species of butterflies in continental Europe - phase 1", funded by MAVA Fondation po Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/02/01 - 2024/03/30 Arthropod assemblage response to nitrogen pollution in Mediterranean shrublands Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current European Pollinator Identification Courses–Butterfly (Papilionoidea) EPIC-Butterfly
EC-ENV/2024/OP/0009
Project officer
Ongoing
2022/08 - 2022/12 RESICLIM- RESilience of Insects and ecosystem functioning to CLIMatic changes
FCT-20191360996P
PhD Student Fellow
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30 Efeitos da eutrofização e clima nos polinizadores e provisão de serviços dos ecossistemas
PTDC/BIA-ECO/28360/2017
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019 - 2021/12/31 Effect of EUtrophication and CLimate on POllinators and ecosystem service provision (EUCLIPO)
LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER- 028360
PhD Student Fellow
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2019 - 2019 PROSPECCIÓN DE POBLACIONES DE VARIAS ESPECIES DE LEPIDÓPTEROS EN LA PROVINCIA DE TERUEL 2018-GUDAR JAVALAMBRE
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Gobierno de Aragón, Spain
Gobierno de Aragón
Concluded
2018 - 2018 PROSPECCIÓN DE POBLACIONES DE VARIAS ESPECIES DE LEPIDÓPTEROS EN LA PROVINCIA DE TERUEL 2018-SIERRA DE ALBARRACÍN
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Researcher
Gobierno de Aragón, Spain
Gobierno de Aragón
Concluded
2017/05 - 2017/09 “The role of fine-resolution topographic heterogeneity in providing refugia from climate change: distribution and conservation of the butterflies of the Sierra de Guadarrama”
2016-T3/AMB-1073
Research Technician Fellow
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Guim Ursul; Mario Mingarro; Juan Pablo Cancela; Romo Helena; Robert J. Wilson. "Refugia from climate change, and their influence on the diversity and conservation of insects". 2024.
    10.1093/oso/9780192864161.003.0016
Conference poster
  1. Juan Pablo Cancela. "Five years of BMS España: Past, present and future". Paper presented in XXI European Congress of Lepidopterology Campobasso, Italy, 2019.
  2. Juan Pablo Cancela. "Butterfly richness in the Iberian Peninsula and Global Warming: the short-term future". Paper presented in 9th Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society, 2019.
  3. Juan Pablo Cancela. "Preliminary results on the butterfly community of the Sierra de Guadarrama between 2004 and 2017". Paper presented in XXXIII JORNADAS DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ENTOMOLOGÍA, 2017.
  4. Juan Pablo Cancela. "“Predictability of taxonomic diversity and originality in Iberian Papilionoid taxocenoses (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea)”". Paper presented in XVII Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia, 2016.
  5. Juan Pablo Cancela. "Estudio de la fenología y diversidad de las comunidades de mariposas diurnas (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) de tres formaciones vegetales con datos de la Red de Seguimiento de Mariposas de España". Paper presented in XXXII Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Entomología, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Guim Ursul; Mario Mingarro; Sara Castro-Cobo; Juan Pablo Cancela; Helena Romo; Robert J. Wilson. "Local Climatic Effects on Colonisation and Extinction Drive Changes in Mountain Butterfly Communities". Diversity and Distributions (2025): https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13967.
    10.1111/ddi.13967
  2. Hugo Alejandro Álvarez; Emma Walker; Mario Mingarro; Guim Ursul; Juan Pablo Cancela; Lee Bassett; Robert J. Wilson. "Heterogeneity in habitat and microclimate delay butterfly community tracking of climate change over an elevation gradient". Biological Conservation (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110389.
    10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110389
  3. Luís Palma; Raquel Godinho; Quebá Quecuta; Tomé Mereck; João Mandeck; Teli Uri Só; Juan Pablo Cancela; Pedro Beja. "African Forest elephants persist in Guinea-Bissau but require an emergency conservation plan". Oryx (2023): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323000674.
    10.1017/S0030605323000674
  4. Luís Palma; Sasha Vasconcelos; Ana Filipa Palmeirim; Juan Pablo Cancela. "History of colonisation and updated distribution of the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) and its hostplants in mainland Portugal, Azores and Madeira". Nota Lepidopterologica 46 (2023): 83-101.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.3897/nl.46.89665
  5. Enrique García-Barros; Juan Pablo Cancela; Jorge M. Lobo; Miguel L. Munguira; Helena Romo. "Forecasts of butterfly future richness change in the southwest Mediterranean. The role of sampling effort and non-climatic variables". Journal of Insect Conservation (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-022-00406-2.
    10.1007/s10841-022-00406-2
  6. "DESCRIPCIÓN DETALLADA DEL HUEVO DEL ENDEMISMO CANARIO LEPTOTES WEBBIANUS (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE)". Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.) 69 (2021): 79-82.
    Published
  7. Mario Mingarro; Juan Pablo Cancela; Ana BurÓn-Ugarte; Enrique García-Barros; Miguel L. Munguira; Helena Romo; Robert J. Wilson. "Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula". Insect Conservation and Diversity 14 5 (2021): 647-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12498.
    10.1111/icad.12498
  8. Cancela, Juan Pablo; Vasconcelos, Sasha. "Ornamental plantings of Arbutus unedo L. facilitate colonisations by Charaxes jasius (Linnaeus, 1767) in Madrid province, central Spain". Nota Lepidopterologica 42 1 (2019): 63-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.42.34620.
    Published • 10.3897/nl.42.34620
  9. MUNGUIRA, MIGUEL L.; MARTÍN, JOSÉ; GARCÍA-BARROS, ENRIQUE; SHAHBAZIAN, GAYANEH; CANCELA, JUAN PABLO. "Morphology and morphometry of Lycaenid eggs (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". Zootaxa 3937 2 (2015): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.1.
    Published • 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.1
  10. Cancela, Juan Pablo; Munguira, Miguel L.; García-Barros, Enrique. "Immature stages and adult morphology as a contribution to the phylogeny of the West Palaearctic lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 50 3-4 (2014): 418-430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2014.986258.
    Published • 10.1080/00379271.2014.986258
Magazine article
  1. Juan Pablo Cancela; Miguel López Munguira; Amparo Mora; Jose Miguel Barea-Azcón; Saba González Lorenzo. "La Red de Seguimiento de Mariposas en España cumple seis años", Quercus, 2020
Report
  1. Juan Pablo Cancela. 2020. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme España Informe anual de 2019. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338656225_Informe_anual_de_2019_Butterfly_Monitoring_Scheme_Espana.
  2. Juan Pablo Cancela. 2019. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme España Informe anual de 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331989084_Butterfly_Monitoring_Scheme_Espana_Informe_del_2018.
  3. Juan Pablo Cancela. 2019. The European Butterfly Indicator for Grassland species: 1990-2017 Technical report. https://butterfly-monitoring.net/sites/default/files/Publications/Technical%20report%20EU%20Grassland%20indicator%201990-2017%20June%202019%20v4%20(3).pdf.
  4. Juan Pablo Cancela. 2018. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme España Informe anual de 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325286160_Informe_anual_de_2017_de_Butterfly_Monitoring_Scheme_Espana.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/08 Regional temperature and soil fertility interactively affect the response of pollinators and floral resources to nutrient enrichment Frontiers in E3. 9th cE3c annual meeting
Centre for ecology, evolution and environmental changes (CE3C) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/02/10 Nutrient eutrophication effects on the floral rewards of a Mediterranean grassland plant species XX Ecoflor meeting
AEET-Asociación española de ecología terrestre (Sevilla, Spain)
2019/07/11 FIVE YEARS OF BMS ESPAÑA: RESULTS AND FUTURE ACTIONS XVIII Congreso Ibérico de Entomología
(Madrid, Spain)
2019/05/04 BMS Espanha. Resultados de 2018. Workshop Projeto Europeu ABLE ABLE Butterfly Monitoring Workshop
ABLE project (Almada, Portugal)
2017/07 "Seguimiento de mariposas - BMS España" Bioblitz 1-2 de julio 2017 Sierra de Baza: resultados e inventario de la Biodiversidad
AEA El Bosque Animado (Baza, Granada, Spain)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/23 - 2024/01/23 Guest lecture Advanced course-SOIL ECOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (Ensino básico 3º ciclo) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/07/14 - 2021/07/14 Guest lecture Speaking “Nature” methods for measuring the impact of environmental pollution Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal