Juana María Mirón Gatón

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Predoctoral researcher (FPU-MCIU fellowship)
Dept. Ecology & Hidrology, University of Murcia

  • M.Sc. in Protected Areas, Natural Resources and Biodiversity, 2018. University of Murcia, Spain
  • B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, 2017. University of Murcia, Spain

email: juanamaria.miron@um.es
Research lines:
  • Ecology and ecophysiology of aquatic insects
  • Tolerance to multiple stressors in aquatic and subterranean macroinvertebrates
Career history:
  • 2019-present. Predoctoral researcher (FPU-MCIU fellowship). Aquatic Ecology Research Group. Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia (Spain)
  • 2018-2019. Project staff in macroinvertebrate metacommunities dynamics in supralittoral rockpools (CGL2017-84157-P). Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia (Spain)
Master and degree thesis:
  • MIRÓN-GATON J.M. (2018). Thermal tolerance of the aquatic beetles of rockpools Ochthebius quadricollis and Ochthebius subinteger under highly changing environmental conditions. Master's thesis. University of Murcia.
  • MIRÓN-GATÓN J.M. (2017). El paraíso microbiano de los desastres naturales: el cólera. Degree's thesis. University of Murcia.
Publications:

Mirón-Gatón JM, Botella-Cruz M, García-Meseguer AJ, Millán A & Velasco J (2022). Discordant pattern between realised and fundamental saline niches in two supralittoral Ochthebius species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Ecological Entomology, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13220 [PDF]

Velasco J, Mirón-Gatón JM, García-Meseguer AJ & Botella-Cruz M (2022). Life cycle differences between two coexisting species of supratidal rockpools: Ochthebius quadricollis Mulsant, 1844 and Ochthebius lejolisii Mulsant & Rey, 1861 (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Suplementos del Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 4: 131-136. [PDF]

Mirón-Gatón JM, Botella-Cruz M, García-Meseguer AJ, Millán A, Velasco J (2022). Thermal tolerance differs between co-occurring congeneric beetle species in marine supratidal rockpools. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 681: 185-196. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13916

Millán A, Botella-Cruz M, García-Meseguer AJ, Mirón-Gatón JM & Velasco J (2021). El hemíptero acuático invasor Trichocorixa verticalis verticalis (Fieber, 1851) (Hemiptera: Corixidae) llega a la costa de Murcia (España). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), 69: 241–242. [PDF]

Colado R, García-Meseguer AJ, Mirón-Gatón JM, Botella-Cruz M, Pallarés S & Sánchez-Fernández D (2021). Thermal tolerance and vulnerability to climate change in subterranean species: a case study using an Iberian endemic pseudoscorpion. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 15: 181–190. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12541 [PDF]

Pallarés S, Millán A, Mirón JM, Velasco J, Sánchez-Fernández D , Botella-Cruz M & Abellán P (2020). Assesing the capacity of endemic alpine water beetles to face climate change. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13: 271-282.