2026

 

• Morris, J. R., de la Fuente Ramírez, F., Morris, S. K., Li, K., Benítez, M. & Perfecto, I. Agricultural intensification associated with significant reduction in epiphyte diversity on coffee plants. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 401, 110249 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2026.110249.

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• Benítez, M. In the Spotlight—Established Researcher. JEZ B Molecular and Developmental Evolution 346, 89–90 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1002/jezb.70002

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2025

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• Lotero‑Velásquez, E., Casas, A., Benítez, M. et al. Integration to markets in a heterogeneous landscape in Coyomeapan, Central Mexico. J Land Use Sci 20, 289–305 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2025.2598697

 

• Carcelle, S., Benítez, M. Articulação: The ecological networking of the Brazilian agroecological movement. Rethinking Networks in Times of Transition: Ecological, Energy and Social Issues, Dobigny, L., Robyns, B. (eds.) 245–255 (Wiley‑ISTE, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394427550.ch14

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• Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., Li, K., Hajian-Forooshani, Z. et al. Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection.​ Theor Ecol 18, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-025-00609-8

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2023

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• Van Cauwelaert, E. M., Boyer, D., Jimenez-Soto, E., González, C. G., y Benítez, M. (2023). Spatial trajectories of coffee harvesting in large-scale plantations: ecological and management drivers and implications. bioRxiv, 2023-10.

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• González - González, C. (2023). Evolution of the concept of ecological integrity and its study through networks. Ecological Modelling, 476, 110224.

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• Rodríguez-Bustos, L., Galicia, L., Benítez, M., Palacios-Rojas, N., y Ramos, I. (2023). Implementing the nature's contributions framework: A case study based on farm typologies in small-scale agroecosystems from the Mexico highlands.

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• Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., González - González, C., Boyer, D., Hajian-Forooshani, Z., Vandermeer, J., y Benítez, M. (2023). Dispersal and plant arrangement condition the timing and magnitude of coffee rust infection. Ecological Modelling, 475, 110206.

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2022

• Carrasco-Espinosa, K., Avitia, M., Barrón-Sandoval, A., Fernanda Abbruzzini, T., Salazar Cabrera, U.I., Arroyo-Lambaer, D., Uscanga, A., Campo, C., Benítez, M., Wegier, A., Rosell, J.A., Reverchon, F., Hernández, G., Boege, K., Escalante, A.E. (2022). Land use change and management intensification is associated with shifts in composition of soil microbial communities and its functional diversity in coffee agroecosystems. Microorganisms, 10(9), 1763.

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• Rivera Núñez, T., García-Barrios, L., Benítez, M., Rosell, J., García-Herrera, R., Estrada-Lugo, E. (2022). Unravelling the Paradoxical Seasonal Food Scarcity in a Peasant Microregion of Mexico. Sustainability, 14(11), 6751.

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• Benítez, M., Rosell, J.A., Perfecto, I. Mathematical Modeling and Complex Systems in Agroecology. (2022). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6:829551

2021

• Bracamontes Nájera, L. y  Benítez, M. (2021). Transformar para resistir: resiliencia de redes alimentarias alternativas ante la emergencia de covid-19 en la Ciudad de México.  Acta Sociológica, Num. 83 (Septiembre-Diciembre de 2020), pp. 37-65. 

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• Abbruzzini, T.F., Avitia, M., Carrasco-Espinosa, K., Peña, V., Barrón-Sandoval, A., Salazar Cabrera, U.I., Cruz-Ortega, R., Benítez, M., Escalante, A. E., Rosell, J.A., Wegier, A. y Campo, J. (2021). Precipitation Controls on Soil Biogeochemical and Microbial Community Composition in Rainfed Agricultural Systems in Tropical Drylands. Sustainability 13 (21). 

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• González - González, C., Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., Boyer, D., Perfecto, I., Vandermeer, J., Benítez, M. (2021). High-order interactions maintain or enhance structural robustness of a coffee agroecosystem network. Ecological Complexity 47: 100951.
   

• Avitia M, Barrón-Sandoval A, Hernández-Terán A, Benítez M, A Barron-Gafford G, Dontsova K, A Pavao-Zuckerman M, E Escalante A. Soil microbial composition and carbon mineralization are associated with vegetation type and temperature regime in mesocosms of a semiarid ecosystem. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2021 Mar 3;368(4):fnab012. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnab012. PMID: 33547887.

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2020

• Urrutia, A. L., González-González, C., Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., Rosell, J. A., Barrios, L. G., & Benítez, M. (2020). Landscape heterogeneity of peasant-managed agricultural matrices. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 292, 106797.

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• Beaupré, A., Vega, J. R., Castañeda, H. E., Benítez, M., Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., y González-González, C. Pertinence of exotic and local green manures for sustainable maize polyculture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1, 12.

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• Rivera-Núñez, T., Estrada-Lugo, E. I., García-Barrios, L., Lazos, E., Gracia, M. A., Benítez, M., ... y García-Herrera, R. (2020). Peasant micropower in an agrifood supply system of the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Rural Studies, 78, 185-198.

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• García-Jácome LG, García-Frapolli E, Bonilla-Moheno M, Rangel-Rivera CE, Benítez M and Ramos-Fernández G (2020). Multiple Resource Use Strategies and Resilience of a Socio-Ecosystem in a Natural Protected Area in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4:522657.

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• González-González, C., Lara Garcia, T., Jardón-Barbolla, L., y Benítez, M. (2020). Linking Coleopteran Diversity With Agricultural Management of Maize-Based Agroecosystems in Oaxaca, Mexico. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, 590720.

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• Arroyo-Lambaer, D., Uscanga, A., Pina Tejeda, V. M., Vázquez-Barrios, V., Reverchon, F., Rosell, J. A., ... y Wegier, A. (2021). Cognitive maps across multiple social sectors: shared and unique perceptions on the quality of agricultural soils in Mexico. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, 522661.

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2019

• Hernández-Terán, A., Wegier, A., Benítez, M., Lira, R., Sosa Fuentes, T. G., y Escalante, A. E. (2019). In vitro performance in cotton plants with different genetic backgrounds: the case of Gossypium hirsutum in Mexico, and its implications for germplasm conservation. PeerJ, 7, e7017.

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2018

• Ramos, I., González-González, C., Urrutia, A. L., Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., y Benítez, M. (2018). Combined effect of matrix quality and spatial heterogeneity on biodiversity decline. Ecological complexity, 36, 261-267.

 

• Benítez, M. (2018). Ecological evolutionary developmental biology in dialogue with agroecology: The milpa as model system. INTERdisciplina. 6(14):69-87.

 

2017

• Terán A. H., Wegier, A., Benítez, M., Lira, R., Escalante, A. E. (2017). Domesticated, genetically engineered and wild plant relatives exhibit unintended phenotypic differences: a comparative meta-analysis profiling rice, canola, maize, sunflower and pumpkin. Frontiers in Plant Science 8, 2030

 

• González-González, C., Fernández, A., Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., Betancourt de la Parra, M., Uscanga, A., Benítez, M. (2017). Modos de producción agrícola y conservación de la biodiversidad en México. Revista Biodiversidas, CONABIO.

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• Cuevas-­Yáñez, K., Benítez, M., Rocha M., Córdoba-­Aguilar A. (2017). Large-­scale human environmental intervention is related o a richness reduction in Mexican odonates.  Revista  Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 88 (3), 664-­673.

 

2016

 

• González-González C, López-Martínez R, Hernández-López, M. Benítez. (2016). A dynamical model to study the effect of landscape agricultural management on the conservation of native ecological networks. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2016.

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2015

• Benítez, M., Jardón-Barbolla, L. (2015). Agroecología y sostenibilidad: crear conocimiento desde el campo y la academia.   Revista Oikos del Instituto de Ecología de la UNAM.

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• Escalante, A. E., Rebolleda-Gómez, M., Benítez, M., Travisano, M. (2015). Ecological Perspectives on Synthetic Biology: Insights from Microbial Population Biology.  Frontiers in Microbial Biology 6, 143

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 2014   

 

• Benítez M. y Fornoni, J. (2014). La milpa como modelo en agroecología: nuevas perspectivas hacia la seguridad alimentaria y el desarrollo sostenible. Oikos, (9), 5-9.

 

• Benítez, M., Fornoni, J., García-Barrios, L., López Martínez, R. (2014). Networks in agroecology. Frontiers in Ecology, Evolution and Complexity.  Editorial Copit – Arxives. ISBN: 9781938128059.

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