Alejandro Casas

Research interests

Publications

• Traditional Fermented Beverages of Mexico: A Biocultural Unseen Foodscape

  Foods · 2021 · 10.3390/foods10102390

• Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

  Quaternary · 2021 · 10.3390/quat4010004

• Manejo de la vegetación, domesticación de plantas y origen de la agricultura en Mesoamérica

  Botanical Sciences · 2017 · 10.17129/botsci.1537

• Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico

  Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine · 2016 · 10.1186/s13002-016-0101-3

• Ecological and socio-cultural factors influencing plant management in Náhuatl communities of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico

  Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine · 2013 · 10.1186/1746-4269-9-39

• Traditional agroforestry systems of multi-crop “milpa” and “chichipera” cactus forest in the arid Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: their management and role in people’s subsistence

  Agroforestry Systems · 2011 · 10.1007/s10457-011-9460-x

• Evolution under domestication: ongoing artificial selection and divergence of wild and managed Stenocereus pruinosus (Cactaceae) populations in the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico

  Annals of Botany · 2010 · 10.1093/aob/mcq143

• Plant Management in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico1

  Economic Botany · 2010 · 10.1007/s12231-010-9133-0

• Agroforestry systems and biodiversity conservation in arid zones: the case of the Tehuacán Valley, Central México

  Agroforestry Systems · 2010 · 10.1007/s10457-010-9349-0

• Traditional Knowledge and Useful Plant Richness in the Tehuacán–Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico

  Economic Botany · 2009 · 10.1007/s12231-009-9075-6

• Pollinator-dependent food production in Mexico

  Biological Conservation · 2009 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.016

• The Opuntia (Cactaceae) and Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) in Mexico: a historical perspective of use, interaction and distribution

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2009 · 10.1007/s10531-009-9647-x

• In situ Management and Domestication of Plants in Mesoamerica

  Annals of Botany · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcm126

• Knowledge and Use Value of Plant Species in a Rarámuri Community: A Gender Perspective for Conservation

  Human Ecology · 2007 · 10.1007/s10745-007-9152-3

• Genetic variation and evolution of Polaskia chichipe (Cactaceae) under domestication in the Tehuacán Valley, central Mexico

  Molecular Ecology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02494.x

• Maintenance of Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity in Managed Populations of Stenocereus Stellatus (Cactaceae) by Indigenous Peoples in Central Mexico

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2005 · 10.1007/s10531-004-2934-7

• Biological diversity in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2002 · 10.1023/a:1014888822920

• Mesoamerican Domestication and Diffusion

  · 2002 · 10.1525/california/9780520231573.003.0009

• Plant resources of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, Mexico

  Economic Botany · 2001 · 10.1007/bf02864551

• Seed germination of wild and cultivated Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae) from the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Central México

  Journal of Arid Environments · 2001 · 10.1006/jare.2001.0789

• La vegetación del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán

  Botanical Sciences · 2000 · 10.17129/botsci.1625

• Reproductive biology and the process of domestication of the columnar cactus Stenocereus Stellatus in Central Mexico

  American Journal of Botany · 1999 · 10.2307/2656814

• Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli,Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México

  Economic Botany · 1997 · 10.1007/bf02862097

• Pollination biology of two winter-blooming giant columnar cacti in the Tehuacán Valley, central Mexico

  Journal of Arid Environments · 1997 · 10.1006/jare.1997.0267

• Plant management among the Nahua and the Mixtec in the Balsas River Basin, Mexico: An ethnobotanical approach to the study of plant domestication

  Human Ecology · 1996 · 10.1007/bf02168862

Current projects

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