Fabio Andrés Ávila

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Fabio Andrés Ávila Castillo (Andrés) is a Colombian forest engineer and third-year PhD student in the Biology-Plant Sciences program at CUNY-NYBG. His research interests are in systematics and biogeography of neotropical vascular plants, particularly in the Northern South American Compositae (daisy family), Proteales (Sabiaceae and Proteaceae [macadamia nut family]), and cultivated cocas in Colombia.

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gh-PhXwAAAAJ&hl=es&citsig=AMD79oojQVTC1ToThlkZk9zK_AQndZa32Q

Selected publications:

• • Ruiz-Molina, D., F.A. Ávila & R. Cortés-B. 2024. Two new species of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) from the Eastern Cordillera in Colombia. Phytotaxa 666 (2):107-120. DOI: 10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.666.2.2
  • Aguilar-Cano, J. & F.A. Ávila. 2024. Una nueva especie de Ageratina (Subg. Andinia, Eupatorieae, Compositae) para Bogotá y novedades taxonómicas en A. gynoxoides (Wedd.) R.M. King & H. Rob. Rev. Acad. Col. Cie. Ex. Nat. 48(188): 537-550. https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.2562
  • Moreira-Muñoz, A., M. Monge, M.A. Grossi, F.A. Ávila, V. Morales-Fierro, G. Heiden, B. Britto, S. Beck, J.Nakajima, V.G. Salgado, J.F. Rodríguez-Cravero, D.G. Rodríguez. 2024. South America holds the greatest diversity of native daisies (Asteraceae) in the world: an updated catalogue supporting continental-scale conservation. Frontiers in Plant Sciences. 15:1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1393241
  • Przelomska, N.A.S., R.A. Díaz, F.A. Ávila, G.A. Ballén, R. Cortés-B., L. Kistler, D.H. Chitwood, M. Charitonidou, S.S. Renner, O.A. Pérez-Escobar, A. Antonelli. 2024. Morphometrics and phylogenomics of coca (Erythroxylum spp.) illuminate its reticulate evolution, with implications for taxonomy. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(7) msae114. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae114