Researcher at University of Seville (Spain)

• PhD in Ecology and Animal Biology, 2006. University of Murcia, Spain. PhD thesis: Conservation of freshwater biodiversity in southeastern Spain: methods and approaches from water beetle data. (Awarded as the best Thesis in Biology, University of Murcia, 2006-07)
• M.Sc. in “Animal Biology and Ecology: Environmental Perspectives”, 2001. University of Murcia, Spain.
• B.Sc. in Biology, 2000. University of Murcia, Spain.

Personal website

email: pabellan@us.es

Current position:
Researcher at University of Seville (Spain)

Previous positions (postdoc):
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid (Spain). 2007-2008
- Instituto de Biología Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona (Spain). 2008-2010
- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, (Denmark). 2010-2012
- Queens College, City University of New York (US). 2014-2017

Research interest:
– Effects of current and past climate change on species distributions and genetic diversity.
– Understanding the factors that contribute to the introduction and establishment success of non-native species.
– Biogeography and ecology of aquatic insects.
– Efectiveness of protected areas in conserving freshwater biodiversity.
– Setting conservation priorities for species and areas.

Main research stays:
- Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Sao Leopoldo (Brasil). 2001. 8 weeks.
- School of Biological Sciences. University of Plymouth, Plymouth (UK). 2005. 12 weeks.
- Museum of Natural History of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California (USA). 2008. 4 weeks.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Google Scholar profile):

Pallarés S, Millán A, Mirón JM, Velasco J, Sánchez-Fernández D, Botella-Cruz M, Abellán P. 2019. Assessing the capacity of endemic alpine water beetles to face climate change. Insect Conservation and Diversity, doi: 10.1111/icad.12394. 

Cardador L, Tella JL, Anadón JD, Abellán P, Carrete M. 2019. The European trade ban on wild birds drastically reduced invasion risks. Conservation Letters, e12631. 

Pallarés S, Lai M, Abellán P, Ribera I, Sánchez-Fernández D. 2018. An interspecific test of Bergmann’s rule reveals inconsistent body size patterns across several lineages of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Ecological Entomology, 44, 249–254.

Sánchez-Fernández D, Abellán P, Aragón P, Varela S, Cabeza M. 2018. Matches and mismatches between conservation investments and biodiversity values in the European Union. Conservation Biology 32: 109-115. 

Abellán P, Tella JL, Carrete M, Cardador L, Anadón JD. 2017. Climate matching drives spread rate but not establishment success in recent unintentional bird introductions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114: 9385-9390. 

Abellán P, Ribera I. 2017. Using phylogenies to trace the geographical signal of diversification. Journal of Biogeography 44: 2236–2246. 

Arribas P, Abellán P, Velasco J, Millán A, Sánchez-Fernández D. 2017. Conservation of insects in the face of global climate change. In: Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates (Eds. Johnson SN, Jones TH), pp. 349-367. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (UK). 

Abellán P, Carrete M, Anadón JD, Cardador L, Tella JL. 2016. Non-random patterns and temporal trends (1912-2012) in the transport, introduction and establishment of exotic birds in Spain and Portugal. Diversity and Distributions 22: 263-273. 

Guareschi S, Bilton DT, Velasco J, Millán A, Abellán P. 2015. How well do protected area networks support taxonomic and functional diversity in non-target taxa? The case of Iberian freshwaters. Biological Conservation 187: 134–144. 

Abellán P, Sánchez-Fernández D. 2015. A gap analysis comparing the effectiveness of Natura 2000 and national protected area networks in representing European amphibians and reptiles. Biodiversity and Conservation 24: 1377-1390. 

Guareschi S, Abellán P, Laini A, Green AJ, Sánchez-Zapata JA, Velasco J, Millán A. 2015. Cross-taxon congruence in wetlands: assessing the value of waterbirds as surrogates of macroinvertebrate biodiversity in Mediterranean Ramsar sites. Ecological Indicators 49: 204–215. 

Abellán P, Svenning JC. 2014. Refugia within refugia– patterns in endemism and genetic divergence are linked to Late Quaternary climate stability in the Iberian Peninsula. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 13–28. 

Arribas P, Andújar C, Abellán P, Velasco J, Millán A, Ribera I. 2014. Tempo and mode of the multiple origins of salinity tolerance in a water beetle lineage. Molecular Ecology 23: 360–373. 

Abellán P, Sánchez-Fernández D, Picazo F, Millán A, Lobo JM, Ribera I. 2013. Preserving the evolutionary history of freshwater biota in Iberian National Parks. Biological Conservation 162: 116–126. 

Abellán P, Arribas P, Svenning JC. 2012. Geological habitat template overrides late Quaternary climate change as a determinant of range dynamics and phylogeography in some habitat–specialist water beetles. Journal of Biogeography 39: 970–983. 

Arribas P, Abellán P, Velasco J, Bilton DT, Millán A, Sánchez-Fernández D. 2012. Evaluating drivers of vulnerability to climate change: a guide for insect conservation strategies. Global Change Biology 18: 2135–2146. 

Abellán P, Benetti CJ, Angus RB, Ribera I. 2011.  A review of Quaternary range shifts in European aquatic Coleoptera. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 87–100. 

Abellán P, Millán A, Ribera I. 2009. Parallel habitat–driven differences in the phylogeographic structure of two independent lineages of Mediterranean saline water beetles. Molecular Ecology 18: 3885–3902.