Francesc Murria I Farnos

Lecturer Professor

Scopus Author ID: 24342061100

Researcher ID: L-4620-2013

Knowledge area: Ecologia

Research group: GRC Sistemàtica i Evolució Zoològica (ZooSysEvo)

Teaching Innovation Groups: Grup d'Innovació Docent d'Ecologia i Canvi Global (GIDEC)

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Av. Diagonal, 643, 5è pis
934031189
cmurria(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Community ecology and population genètics. Evolutionary Biology

Academic Training

Llicenciat . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 19/09/2001 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor . Universitat de Barcelona . 27/07/2009 . (Ph.D.)

DEA i altres titulacions de postgrau . Universitat de Barcelona . 26/09/2003 . (Official Master)

Research interests

My research lines are: (i) Determinants of genetic diversity. (ii) Biogeography of traits. (iii) Species diversity- Genetic diversity correlations using a whole-community DNA-barcoding (iv) Ecological and evolutionary drivers of community structure (v) Link global change and conservation phylogeography

Climate change and conservation biology

Limnology, stream ecology

Projects

Las libélulas, un barómetro del cambio climático en nuestros Parques Nacionales . 2024 - 2027 . Ref.3276/2024 . Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico . PI: Francesc Murria i Farnos

Patrones de abundancia y riqueza de insectos acuáticos en un amplio gradiente latitudinal: de las comunidades a las poblaciones (proyecto RICHABUN) . 2007 - 2010 . Ref.CGL2007- 60163/BOS . Dirección General de Investigación. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia . PI: Carmen Zamora-Muñoz

Molecular diversity patterns of caddisflies (genus Hydropsyche) in the western Mediterranean Basin . 2006 - 2006 . Ref.GB-TAF-1797 . SYNTHESYS: Synthesis of Systematics Resources, The European Union . PI: Cesc Múrria i Farnós

The relationship between species and genetic diversity as a framework to detect underlying processes that drive biodiversity patterns . 2013 - 2015 . Ref.2011 BP-A 0017 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Cesc Múrria i Farnós

Disentangling the adaptive capacity of vulnerable species to climate change across Mediterranean ecosystems (THERMADAPT) . 2021 - 2022 . Ref.2021 UBIRB 00001 . Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBIO) de la Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Francesc Murria i Farnos; Maria Cinta Pegueroles Queralt

Journal Publications

Múrria, C.; Rugenski, A.T.; Whiles, M.R.; Vogler, A.P. (2015). Long-term isolation and endemicity of Neotropical aquatic insects limit the community responses to recent amphibian decline. Diversity and Distributions, 21(8), pp. 938 - 949 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12343 . ISSN: 1366-9516

Múrria, C.; Bonada, N.; Vellend, M.; Zamora-Muñoz, C.; Alba-Tercedor, J.; Sainz-Cantero, C. E.; Garrido, J.; Acosta, R.; El Alami, M.; Barquín, J.; Derka, T.; Álvarez-Cabria, M.; Sáinz-Bariain, M.; Filipe, A. F.; Vogler, A. P. (2017). Local environment rather than past climate determines community composition of mountain stream macroinvertebrates across Europe. Molecular Ecology, 26(21), pp. 6085 - 6099 . https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14346 . ISSN: 0962-1083

Múrria, C.; Dolédec, S.; Papadopoulou, A.; Vogler, A.P.; Bonada, N. (2018). Ecological constraints from incumbent clades drive trait evolution across the tree-of-life of freshwater macroinvertebrates. Ecography, 41(7), pp. 1049 - 1063 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0906-7590

Múrria, C.; Sáinz-Bariáin, M.; Vogler, A. P.; Viza, Aida; González, M.; Zamora-Muñoz, C. (2020). Vulnerability to climate change for two endemic high-elevation, low-dispersive Annitella species (Trichoptera) in Sierra Nevada, the southernmost high mountain in Europe. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13(3), pp. 283 - 295 . https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12387 . ISSN: 1752-458X

Múrria, C., Iturrarte, G., & Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, C. (2020). A trait space at an overarching scale yields more conclusive macroecological patterns of functional diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), pp. 1729 - 1742 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13146 . ISSN: 1466-822X

Salinas‐Ivanenko, S.; Múrria, C. (2021). Macroecological trend of increasing values of intraspecific genetic diversity and population structure from temperate to tropical streams. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(8), pp. 1685 - 1697 . https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13344 . ISSN: 1466-822X

Grigoropoulou, A.; Schmidt‐Kloiber, A.; Múrria, C. (2022). Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography, pp. 1006 - 1020 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1466-822X

Aida Viza; Aina Garcia‐Raventós; Joan Ll. Riera; Xavier Maynou; Ricard Martín; Florent Prunier; Mohamed El Haissoufi; Cesc Múrria (2023). Species-specific functional traits rather than phylogeneticrelatedness better predict future range-shift responsesof odonates. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 16(5), pp. 574 - 587 . https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12647 . ISSN: 1752-458X

Múrria, C.; Wangensteen, O.S.; Somma, S.; Väisänen, L.; Fortuño, P.; Arnedo, M.A.; Prat, N. (2024). Taxonomic accuracy and complementarity between bulk and eDNA metabarcoding provides an alternative to morphology for biological assessment of freshwater macroinvertebrates. Science of the Total Environment, 935 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173243 . ISSN: 0048-9697

García-Girón, J.; Múrria, C.; Arnedo, M.A.; Bonada, N.; Cañedo-Argüelles, M.; Derka, T.; Fernández-Calero. J.M.; Li, Z.; Tierno De Figueroa, J.M.; Xie, Z.; Heino, J. (2024). A time-calibrated « Tree of Life » of aquatic insects for knitting historial patterns of evolution and measuring extant phylogenetic biodiversity across the world. Earth-Science Reviews . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104767 . ISSN: 0012-8252

Others Publications

Zamora-Muñoz, C.; Sáinz-Bariáin, M.; Múrria, C.; Bonada, N.; Sáinz-Cantero, C.E.; González, M.; Alba-Tercedor, J.; Tierno de Figueroa, J.M. (2012). Diversidad, estrategias vitales y filogeografía de especies sensibles al cambio climático: Tricópteros en el Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada . In Ramírez, L.; Asensio, B. (eds.). Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: 2008-2011. . (pp. 355 - 385) . Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. Organismo autónomo de Parques Nacionales . ISBN: 978-84-8014-834-4 .