My interests cover a wide array of issues within evolutionary ecology at several levels of organization and scales of time and space. I study interactions between individual behavior, life-history theory and population dynamics. I combine theory with long-term population monitoring data based on marked individuals. I emphasize on comparative and applied analyses of variation in life tables, including patterns of senescence, and physiological and experimental studies of growth, development, and parental care. I also investigate the development of analytical methods for pollutants behavior in the environment and the use of living organism as bioindicators.

|Ongoing projects|Students|Publications|

Ongoing projects:

2011-2011: Variation in abundance and body condition of house sparrows Passer domesticus in relation to urban development in Central Spain (GR35/10-A, BSCH-UCM, PI: José I. Aguirre).

2010-2012: Genetic and environmental control of partial migration in the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla). CGL2009-123971/MCINN (Ministry of Science and Innovation, PI: Francisco Pulido).

Students:

Selected publications:

Muñoz-Arnanz, J., Sáez, M., Aguirre, J., Hiraldo, F., Baos, R. Pacepavicius, G., Alaee, M. & Jiménez, B. 2011. Predominance of BDE-209 and other higher brominated diphenyl ethers in white stork (Ciconia ciconia) colonies from Spain. Environment International, in press.

Antonio, M. T., Hermosa, Y. & Aguirre, J. I. 2010. Does breeding status influence haematology and blood biochemistry of yellow-legged gulls? Acta Biologica Hungarica 61: 391-400. [PDF]

Aguirre, J. I., Arana, P. & Antonio, M. T. 2009. Discriminant funtions to sex yellow legged gulls Larus michahellis by external measurements. Ardeola 56: 281-286.

Laiolo, P., Banda, E., Lemus, J. A., Aguirre, J. I. & Blanco, G. 2009. Behavioural responses to the stress of capture and handling in the Red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 846-855. [PDF]

Aguirre, J. I. & Vergara, P. 2009. Census methods on White stork (Ciconia ciconia): bias in sampling effort related to the frequency and date of nests' visits. Journal of Ornithology 150: 147-153. [PDF]

Vergara, P., Aguirre, J. I.  & Fargallo, J. A. 2007. Economical versus ecological development: a case study of white Storks on a cattle farm. Ardeola 54: 217-225. [PDF]

Vergara, P., Aguirre, J. I. & Fernández-Cruz, M. 2007. Arrival date, age and breeding success in White stork Ciconia ciconia. Journal of Avian Biology 38: 573-579. [PDF]

Aguirre, J. I. & Vergara, P. 2007. Younger, weaker white stork (Ciconia ciconia) nestlings become best breeders. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 355-364. [PDF]

Vergara, P. & Aguirre, J. I. 2006. Age and breeding success related with nest position in a White stork Ciconia ciconia colony. Acta Oecologica 30: 414-418. [PDF]

Vergara, P., Aguirre, J. I., Fargallo, J. A. & Dávila, J. 2006. Nest-site fidelity and breeding success in White Stork Ciconia ciconia. Ibis 148: 672-677. [PDF]