Moisés Aguilera

Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas mención Ecología

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FACULTAD DE ARTES LIBERALES

CHILE

Stgo, A, 244

Email: [email protected]

Moisés Aguilera

Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas mención Ecología

Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas Mención Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2010.
Magíster en Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007.
Biólogo Marino, Licenciado en Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile, 2003.

Mi trayectoria académica se ha desarrollado principalmente en el marco de mi línea de investigación en Ecología Urbana Costera, especialmente en el estudio de los impactos de la construcción de estructuras artificiales sobre la composición de comunidades ecológicas y la biodiversidad costera. En este contexto, mi investigación ha incorporado también los enfoques de la Ingeniería Ecológica que considera el re-diseño de infraestructura urbana para la restauración/rehabilitación de ecosistemas costeros degradados por la urbanización. En este ámbito de investigación, y mediante la ejecución de estudios experimentales de campo, he colaborado con investigadores del Reino Unido, Australia e Italia, para proponer medidas efectivas de rehabilitación ecológica en puertos y otros sistemas urbanos-industriales. Actualmente, en mi laboratorio, y mediante aproximaciones experimentales y análisis espaciales, estudiamos los procesos que influencian la configuración de las interfaces urbana-natural, y el rol de las actividades humanas en la creación de nuevos ecosistemas. Así, nuestro interés en investigación se centra en comprender los efectos de la expansión urbana sobre la conectividad estructural y funcional entre hábitats naturales terrestres y acuáticos, y artificiales para generar propuestas concretas de manejo y planificación de la expansión urbana en la costa.

Proyectos de investigación con financiamiento nacional e internacional:

2023-2027: PROYECTO FONDECYT REGULAR #1230286: “How deterministic and stochastic processes drive ecological stability across spatial scales?” CO-INVESTIGADOR.
2021-2025: PROYECTO FONDECYT REGULAR # 1210146: Interactive Effects of Urban Drivers on Herbivore-Alga Interaction Strength Determines Novel Functional Structure in coastal Ecosystems. INVESTIGADOR PRINCIPAL.
2019-2023: PROYECTO FONDECYT REGULAR #1190954: “Tide pools as indicators of Climate Change for species invasions”. CO-INVESTIGADOR.
2016-2021: WORLD HARBOUR PROJECT(WHP): “BUILDING RESILIENT URBAN PORTS AND HARBOURS THROUGH GLOBALLY INTEGRATED RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT”. http://www.worldharbourproject.org. Workgroup #2 “Green Engineering”. Initiated by Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS). Australia. ASSOCIATED RESEARCHER.
2016-2020: PROYECTO FONDECYT REGULAR # 1160223: Does spatial structure determines functional structure and diversity in urbanized coastal ecosystems? The role of habitat heterogeneity in providing resilience. INVESTIGADOR PRINCIPAL.

WEBSITE RESEARCH GATE

Light pollution by coastal streetlights affects intertidal grazers and biofilm differentially in natural rocky habitats and breakwaters</>

Aguilera, M., Pastén, V. & Thiel, M., jul. 2026, In: Environmental Pollution, 400.

Species Removal Dampens the Scale Dependency of Ecological Determinism and Stochasticity in Coastal Communities</>

Valdivia, N., Catalán, A., López, D., Aguilera, M., Betancourtt, C., Fica-Rojas, E. & Broitman, B., jun. 2025, In: Ecology Letters, 28, 6.

Neglected supralittoral habitats on coastal artificial structures</>

Bulleri, F., Aguilera, M. & Thiel, M., abr. 2025, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40, 4, p. 323-326.

Rehabilitation of intertidal biodiversity on breakwaters could be compromised by grazing pressure and environmental context</>

Aguilera, M., Rojas, A., Manzur, T., Bulleri, F. & Thiel, M., feb. 2025, In: Ecological Engineering, 212.

Neglected supralittoral habitats on coastal artificial structures</>

Bulleri, F., Aguilera, M. & Thiel, M., 2025, In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 40, 4, p. 323-326.

Non-indigenous species and their realized niche in tidepools along the South-East Pacific coast</>

Jofré-Madariaga, D., Aguilera Moya, M., Alves-de-Souza, C., Arias, R., Gutow, L., Jeldres Polanco, R., Macaya, E., Kappes, M., Ortiz Arancibia, L., Pino, O., Rech, S., Rothäusler, E., Harrod, C. & Thiel, M., jul. 2024, In: Marine Environmental Research, 199.

Spatial distribution of microplastics in a coastal upwelling region</>

Amenábar, M., Aguilera, M., Gallardo, C., Moore, C., De Vine, R., Lattin, G., Gamba, A., Luna-Acosta, A. & Thiel, M., feb. 2024, In: Environmental Pollution, 343.

Coastal greening of grey infrastructure</>

Firth, L., Bone, J., Bartholomew, A., Bishop, M., Bugnot, A., Bulleri, F., Chee, S., Claassens, L., Dafforn, K., Fairchild, T., Hall, A., Hanley, M., Komyakova, V., Lemasson, A., Loke, L., Mayer-Pinto, M., Morris, R., Naylor, L., Perkins, M., Pioch, S., Porri, F., O'Shaughnessy, K., Schaefer, N., Strain, E., Toft, J., Waltham, N., Aguilera, M., Airoldi, L., Bauer, F., Brooks, P., Burt, J., Clubley, C., Cordell, J., Espinosa, F., Evans, A., Farrugia-Drakard, V., Froneman, W., Griffin, J., Hawkins, S., Heery, E., Herbert, R., Jones, E., Leung, K., Moore, P., Sempere-Valverde, J., Sengupta, D., Sheaves, M., Swearer, S., Thompson, R., Todd, P. & Knights, A., 2024, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering, 177, 2, p. 35-67.

Roadsides and gardens facilitate the expansion of non-native clonal succulent plants to wetlands in the coastal fringe of the Atacama Desert</>

Aguilera, M., Pastén, V. & Espinoza, F., oct. 2023, In: Global Ecology and Conservation, 46.

Designing urban ports for improved coastal ecosystem services</>

Aguilera, M., Araya, A., Rojas, A., Ortiz, L. & Strain, E., jun. 2023, In: Regional Studies in Marine Science, 60.

Fast accumulation of anthropogenic litter on upgraded breakwaters</>

Aguilera, M., Castro, A. & Thiel, M., mar. 2023, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin, 188.

Breakwaters as habitats for synanthropes</>

Aguilera, M., Rojas, A., Bulleri, F. & Thiel, M., mar. 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment, 862.

Urban infrastructure expansion and artificial light pollution degrade coastal ecosystems, increasing natural-to-urban structural connectivity</>

Aguilera, M. & González, M., ene. 2023, In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 229.

Herbivore and predator pressure in tidepools along an intertidal gradient</>

Rothäusler, E., Aguilera, M., Arias, R., Jofré-Madariaga, D., Pino, O., Rech, S. & Thiel, M., oct. 2022, In: Marine Biology, 169, 10.

Human-derived effects and failure in management drive coastal urban foredune degradation and novel vegetation structure</>

Aguilera, M., Pacheco, S. & Manzur, T., jun. 2022, In: Journal of Environmental Management, 311.

Weak effects of age but important role of microhabitats in community differences between breakwaters and natural rocky shores across a latitudinal gradient</>

Aguilera, M., Bulleri, F. & Thiel, M., 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 11, p. 2368-2380.

Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs</>

Ibáñez, C., Carter, M., Aguilera, M., Pardo-Gandarillas, M. & Rezende, E., sep. 2021, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 9, p. 1781-1795.

Stability of rocky intertidal communities, in response to species removal, varies across spatial scales</>

Valdivia, N., López, D., Fica-Rojas, E., Catalán, A., Aguilera, M., Araya, M., Betancourtt, C., Burgos-Andrade, K., Carvajal-Baldeon, T., Escares, V., Gartenstein, S., Grossmann, M., Gutiérrez, B., Kotta, J., Morales-Torres, D., Riedemann-Saldivia, B., Rodríguez, S., Velasco-Charpentier, C., Villalobos, V. & Broitman, B., ago. 2021, In: Oikos, 130, 8, p. 1385-1398.

A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures</>

Strain, E., Steinberg, P., Vozzo, M., Johnston, E., Abbiati, M., Aguilera, M., Airoldi, L., Aguirre, J., Ashton, G., Bernardi, M., Brooks, P., Chan, B., Cheah, C., Chee, S., Coutinho, R., Crowe, T., Davey, A., Firth, L., Fraser, C., Hanley, M., Hawkins, S., Knick, K., Lau, E., Leung, K., McKenzie, C., Macleod, C., Mafanya, S., Mancuso, F., Messano, L., Naval-Xavier, L., Ng, T., O'Shaughnessy, K., Pattrick, P., Perkins, M., Perkol-Finkel, S., Porri, F., Ross, D., Ruiz, G., Sella, I., Seitz, R., Shirazi, R., Thiel, M., Thompson, R., Yee, J., Zabin, C. & Bishop, M., ene. 2021, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 1, p. 140-153.

High Dimensionality of the Stability of a Marine Benthic Ecosystem</>

Valdivia, N., Aguilera, M. & Broitman, B., ene. 2021, In: Frontiers in Marine Science, 7.

Grazer commensalism varies across the species range edge</>

Ibáñez, C., Bravo, J., Carrasco, S., Carter, M. & Aguilera, M., 2021, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 674, p. 131-141.

Loss of coastal ecosystem spatial connectivity and services by urbanization</>

Aguilera, M., Tapia, J., Gallardo, C., Núñez, P. & Varas-Belemmi, K., dic. 2020, In: Journal of Environmental Management, 276.

Novel co-occurrence of functionally redundant consumers induced by range expansion alters community structure</>

Aguilera, M., Valdivia, N., Broitman, B., Jenkins, S. & Navarrete, S., nov. 2020, In: Ecology, 101, 11.

Mapping microhabitat thermal patterns in artificial breakwaters</>

Aguilera, M., Arias, R. & Manzur, T., nov. 2019, In: Ecology and Evolution, 9, 22, p. 12915-12927.

Similarity in predator-specific anti-predator behavior in ecologically distinct limpet species, Scurria viridula (Lottiidae) and Fissurella latimarginata (Fissurellidae)</>

Aguilera, M., Weiß, M. & Thiel, M., abr. 2019, In: Marine Biology, 166, 4.

Asymmetric competitive effects during species range expansion</>

Aguilera, M., Valdivia, N., Jenkins, S., Navarrete, S. & Broitman, B., feb. 2019, In: Journal of Animal Ecology, 88, 2, p. 277-289.

Consumer-Resource Interactions on an Environmental Mosaic</>

Aguilera, M., Broitman, B., Vásquez, J. & Camus, P., ene. 2019.

Phenotypic plasticity at the edge</>

Broitman, B., Aguilera, M., Lagos, N. & Lardies, M., oct. 2018, In: Journal of Biogeography, 45, 10, p. 2314-2325.

Artificial defences in coastal marine ecosystems in Chile</>

Aguilera, M., sep. 2018, In: Ecological Engineering, 120, p. 601-610.

Chile</>

Aguilera, M., Aburto, J., Bravo, L., Broitman, B., García, R., Gaymer, C., Gelcich, S., López, B., Montecino, V., Pauchard, A., Ramos, M., Rutllant, J., Sáez, C., Valdivia, N. & Thiel, M., ene. 2018.

Heterogeneity of ecological patterns, processes, and funding of marine manipulative field experiments conducted in Southeastern Pacific coastal ecosystems</>

Aguilera, M., Dobringer, J. & Petit, I., 2018, In: International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 17, 3, p. 8627-8638.

Selective byssus attachment behavior of mytilid mussels from hard- and soft-bottom coastal systems</>

Aguilera, M., Thiel, M., Ullrich, N., Luna-Jorquera, G. & Buschbaum, C., dic. 2017, In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 497, p. 61-70.

Interactions between kelp spores and encrusting and articulated corallines</>

Parada, G., Martínez, E., Aguilera, M., Oróstica, M. & Broitman, B., nov. 2017, In: Botanica Marina, 60, 6, p. 619-625.

Context-dependent functional dispersion across similar ranges of trait space covered by intertidal rocky shore communities</>

Valdivia, N., Segovia-Rivera, V., Fica, E., Bonta, C., Aguilera, M. & Broitman, B., mar. 2017, In: Ecology and Evolution, 7, 6, p. 1882-1891.

Artificial breakwaters as garbage bins</>

Aguilera, M., Broitman, B. & Thiel, M., jul. 2016, In: Environmental Pollution, 214, p. 737-747.

Erratum</>

Aguilera, M., Valdivia, N. & Broitman, B., feb. 2016, In: PLoS ONE, 11, 2.

Facilitative effect of a generalist herbivore on the recovery of a perennial alga</>

Aguilera, M., Valdivia, N. & Broitman, B., dic. 2015, In: PLoS ONE, 10, 12.

Disentangling the effects of propagule supply and environmental filtering on the spatial structure of a rocky shore metacommunity</>

Valdivia, N., Aguilera, M., Navarrete, S. & Broitman, B., oct. 2015, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 538, p. 67-79.

Functional identity and functional structure change through succession in a rocky intertidal marine herbivore assemblage</>

Aguilera, M. & Navarrete, S., ene. 2012, In: Ecology, 93, 1, p. 75-89.

Distribution and activity patterns in an intertidal grazer assemblage</>

Aguilera, M. & Navarrete, S., jun. 2011, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 431, p. 119-136.

The functional roles of herbivores in the rocky intertidal systems in Chile</>

Aguilera, M., jun. 2011, In: Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 84, 2, p. 241-261.

Effects of Chiton granosus (Frembly, 1827) and other molluscan grazers on algal succession in wave exposed mid-intertidal rocky shores of central Chile</>

Aguilera, M. & Navarrete, S., sep. 2007, In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 349, 1, p. 84-98.

Cirripedios en la dieta del molusco herbívoro Chiton granosus Frembly, 1827 (Mollusca, Placophora) presente en el intermareal rocoso de Iquique, norte de Chile</>

Aguilera, M., 2005, In: Investigaciones Marinas, 33, 1, p. 109-113.

Consideraciones taxonómicas de Callistochiton pulchellus (Gray, 1828) (Mollusca, Placophora) en Iquique, norte de Chile</>

Aguilera, M., 2005, In: Investigaciones Marinas, 33, 2, p. 207-210.