JORGE GARCIA MOLINOS

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University

Degree: PhD, Zoology(University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland)
Postgraduate Diploma, Statistics(University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland)
MSc Aquatic Ecosystem Management(School of Life Sciences, Napier University, UK)
BSc Forestry(Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201601009104068783
researchmap Member ID: B000253881

External link: http://garciamj.wix.com/jorgegarciamolinos

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Feb, 2016 - Present

Assistant Professor, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Jul, 2015 - Dec, 2015

Research Associate, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Apr, 2013 - Oct, 2015

Research Associate in Climate Change Ecology, Ecology Department, Scottish Association for Marine Science
Oct, 2014 - Mar, 2015

Visiting researcher, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Aug, 2011 - Feb, 2013

Research Associate, Ecology Department, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Sep, 2005 - Sep, 2006

Forestry Engineer, Wildlife Division, Environment Protection Agency (Zamora, Spain)
Jul, 2001 - Feb, 2003

Forestry engineer, Estudios y Proyectos Linea (Environment Consultancy)
Apr, 2000 - Jul, 2000

Assistant curator, National Botanic Gardens

Education

Sep, 2006 - Jul, 2010

PhD, Zoology, University of Dublin, Trinity College
2008 - 2008

Postgraduate Diploma, Statistics, University of Dublin, Trinity Col lege
Sep, 2003 - Sep, 2004

MSc Aquatic Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences, Napier University
Sep, 1999 - Jul, 2003

Ingeniero Superior de Montes (BSc Forestry Engineer), Escuela Universitaria Politecnica Agraria, Universidad de Valladolid
2002 - 2003

Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Universidad de Valladolid
Sep, 1994 - Sep, 1998

Ingeniero Tecnico Forestal (Diploma Forestry Engineer), Escuela Universitaria Politecnica Agraria, Universidad de Valladolid

Committee Memberships

Jan, 2019 - Present

Associate Editor Limnology (Springer)
Aug, 2018 - Present

Board Member, Ecofortitude NGO

Awards

Karen Fretwell Memorial award by Napier University, Best student of 2003-2004 MSc Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Napier University, Edinburgh, U.K.

JORGE GARCIA MOLINOS

Papers

Estimating global artisanal fishing fleet responses in an era of rapid climate and economic change

Alex N. Tidd, Vasquez Caballero, Elena Ojea, Reg A. Watson, Jorge García Molinos

Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Mar 17, 2023
Geology‐Climate Interactions are Key Determinants of Climate‐Change Refugia in Japanese Mountain Streams

Nobuo Ishiyama, Masanao Sueyoshi, Jorge García Molinos, Kenta Iwasaki, Junjiro N. Negishi, Itsuro Koizumi, Shigeya Nagayama, Akiko Nagasaka, Yu Nagasaka, Futoshi Nakamura

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Mar 15, 2023
Pan-Arctic marine biodiversity and species co-occurrence patterns under recent climate

Irene D. Alabia, Jorge García Molinos, Takafumi Hirata, Franz J. Mueter, Carmen L. David

Scientific Reports, 13(1), Mar 11, 2023
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams

Nobuo Ishiyama, Masanao Sueyoshi, Jorge García Molinos, Kenta Iwasaki, Junjiro N. Negishi, Itsuro Koizumi, Shigeya Nagayama, Akiko Nagasaka, Yu Nagasaka, Futoshi Nakamura

Ecological Monographs, Feb 16, 2023
Climate, currents and species traits contribute to early stages of marine species redistribution

Jorge García Molinos, Heather L. Hunt, Madeline E. Green, Curtis Champion, Jason R. Hartog, Gretta T. Pecl

Communications Biology, 5 1329, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Timescale mediates the effects of environmental controls on water temperature in mid- to low-order streams

Jorge García Molinos, Ishiyama Nobuo, Masanao Sueyoshi, Futoshi Nakamura

Scientific Reports, Dec, 2022
A meta-analysis of environmental responses to freshwater ecosystem restoration in China (1987–2018)

Hong Fu, Jun Xu, Huan Zhang, Jorge García Molinos, Min Zhang, Megan Klaar, Lee E. Brown

Environmental Pollution, 120589-120589, Nov, 2022
Stronger adaptive response among small-scale fishers experiencing greater climate change hazard exposure

Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay, Jorge García Molinos, Elena Ojea

Communications Earth & Environment, Oct 20, 2022
Need to shift in river-lake connection scheme under the “ten-year fishing ban” in the Yangtze River, China

Ruilong Wang, Yi Han, Fei Fan, Jorge García Molinos, Jun Xu, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang, Zhigang Mei

Ecological Indicators, 143 109434-109434, Oct, 2022
Faster ocean warming threatens richest areas of marine biodiversity

Stuart C. Brown, Camille Mellin, Jorge García Molinos, Eline D. Lorenzen, Damien A. Fordham

Global Change Biology, Oct, 2022
Climate change and fishing are pulling the functional diversity of the world's largest marine fisheries to opposite extremes

Kangshun Zhao, Steven D. Gaines, Jorge García Molinos, Min Zhang, Jun Xu

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(8) 1616-1629, Aug, 2022
Biological traits, geographic distributions, and species conservation in aquatic ecosystems

Yun‐Wei Dong, Jorge García Molinos, Eric R. Larson, Qiang Lin, Xuan Liu, Gianluca Sarà, Qing‐Hua Cai, Zhixin Zhang, Brian Helmuth, Amanda Bates

Diversity and Distributions, Aug, 2022
Study protocol: International joint research project ‘climate change resilience of Indigenous socioecological systemsʼ (RISE)

Jorge García Molinos, Gideon Kruseman, Tuyara Gavrilyeva, Pattamaporn Joompa, Daiju Narita, Sinee Chotiboriboon, Varvara Parilova, Solot Sirisai, Innokentiy Okhlopkov, Zhixin Zhang, Natalia Yakovleva, Prapa Kongpunya, Sueppong Gowachirapant, Viacheslav Gabyshev, Wantanee Kriengsinyos

PLOS ONE, 17(7) e0271792-e0271792, Jul 21, 2022
Expanding ocean food production under climate change

Christopher M. Free, Reniel B. Cabral, Halley E. Froehlich, Willow Battista, Elena Ojea, Erin O’Reilly, James E. Palardy, Jorge García Molinos, Katherine J. Siegel, Ragnar Arnason, Marie Antonette Juinio-Meñez, Katharina Fabricius, Carol Turley, Steven D. Gaines

Nature, 605(7910) 490-496, May 19, 2022
The role of geology in creating stream climate-change refugia along climate gradients

Nobuo Ishiyama, Masanao Sueyoshi, García Molinos Jorge, Kenta Iwasaki, N Junjiro Negishi, Itsuro Koizumi, Shigeya Nagayama, Akiko Nagasaka, Yu Nagasaka, Futoshi Nakamura

May 4, 2022
Towards climate-smart, three-dimensional protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the high seas

Isaac Brito-Morales, David S. Schoeman, Jason D. Everett, Carissa J. Klein, Daniel C. Dunn, Jorge García Molinos, Michael T. Burrows, Kristine Camille V. Buenafe, Rosa Mar Dominguez, Hugh P. Possingham, Anthony J. Richardson

Nature Climate Change, 12(4) 402-407, Apr, 2022
Plasticity in rotifer morphology induced by conflicting threats from multiple predators

Huan Zhang, Yuhan He, Liang He, Kangshun Zhao, Jorge García Molinos, Lars‐Anders Hansson, Jun Xu

Freshwater Biology, 67(3) 498-507, Mar, 2022
Predators mitigate the destabilising effects of heatwaves on multitrophic stream communities

Samuel R. P.‐J. Ross, Jorge García Molinos, Atsushi Okuda, Jackson Johnstone, Keisuke Atsumi, Ryo Futamura, Maureen A. Williams, Yuichi Matsuoka, Jiro Uchida, Shoji Kumikawa, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Osamu Kishida, Ian Donohue

Global Change Biology, 28(2) 403-416, Jan, 2022
Mitigation of urbanization effects on aquatic ecosystems by synchronous ecological restoration.

Hong Fu, Pierre Gaüzère, Jorge García Molinos, Peiyu Zhang, Huan Zhang, Min Zhang, Yuan Niu, Hui Yu, Lee E Brown, Jun Xu

Water research, 204 117587-117587, Oct 1, 2021
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator‐prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface

Huan Zhang, Peiyu Zhang, Huan Wang, Jorge Garc{\'{\i } }a Molinos, Lars-Anders Hansson, Liang He, Min Zhang, Jun Xu

Global Change Biology, 27(22) 5907-5919, Aug 14, 2021

Misc.

Chapter 3: Oceans and Coastal Ecosystems and their Services

Sarah Cooley, David Schoeman, Laurent Bopp, Philip Boyd, Simon Donner, Shin-ichi Ito, Wolfgang Kiessling, Paulina Martinetto, Elena Ojea, Marie-Fanny Racault, Bjoern Rost, Mette Skern-Mauritzen, Dawit Yemane Ghebrehiwet, Johann D Bell, Julia Blanchard, Jessica Bolin, William WL Cheung, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Sam Dupont, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Thomas Frölicher, Juan-Diego Gaitán-Espitia, Jorge García Molinos, Helen Gurney-Smith, Stephanie Henson, Manuel Hidalgo, Elisabeth Holland, Robert Kopp, Rebecca Kordas, Lester Kwiatkowski, Nadine Le Bris, Salvador E Lluch-Cota, Cheryl Logan, Felix Christopher Mark, Yunus Mgaya, Coleen Moloney, Norma Patricia, Muñoz Sevilla, Gregoire Randin, Nussaibah B Raja, Anusha Rajkaran, Anthony Richardson, Stephanie Roe, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Diana Salili, Jean-Baptise Sallée, Kylie Scales, Michelle Scobie, Craig T Simmons, Olivier Torres, Andrew Yool

IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report, Feb, 2022
The Expected Impacts of Climate Change on the Ocean Economy

S. Gaines, R. Cabral, C. Free, Y. Golbuu, R. Arnason, W. Battista, D. Bradley, W. Cheung, K. Fabricius, O. Huegh-Guldberg, M. A. Juinio-Meñez, J. García, Molinos, E. Ojea, E. O’Reilly, C. Turley

Blue Paper Series. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute., Dec 6, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

Jorge García Molinos, Contributing Author, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, William W, L. Cheung, James G. Kairo, Coordinating Lead Authors

IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Sep 24, 2019 Peer-reviewed
VoCC: The Velocity of Climate Change and related climatic metrics

J. García Molinos, D. S. Schoeman, C. J. Brown, M. T. Burrows

R package version 1.0.0., Jul, 2019
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Marine climate change impacts: implications for the implementation of marine biodiversity legislation

J. García, Molinos, co

MCCIP, Lowestoft, -16 pp. doi:10.14465/2015.mbl00, 2015 Invited

Books and Other Publications

Chapter 10: Marine Biogeography. In Biogeography: An Integrative Approach of the Evolution of Living. pp 245-273

Jorge García Molinos, Irene D. Alabia (Role: Joint author)

ISTE, Nov, 2021 (ISBN: 9781789450606)
Biogeographical Shifts and Climate Change

García Molinos, J, E.S. Poloczanska, J. Olden, J. Lawler, M.T. Burrows (Role: Joint author, In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. D. DellaSala, and M. Goldstein (Eds). ISBN 978-0-128-09665-9. Vol. 3, pp. 217-228)

Elsevier (Oxford), Nov, 2017
Biodiversity and Climate Change in the Oceans

Booth, D, E.S. Poloczanska, J. Donelson, J. García Molinos, M.T. Burrows (Role: Joint author, In The Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture. B.F Phillips and M. Pérez-Ramírez (Eds). ISBN 978-1-119-15404-4. pp. 63-91.)

Wiley, Nov, 2017
Stream Habitat Fragmentation Caused by Road Networks in Spanish Low-order Forest Catchments

García Molinos, J

Springer Netherlands, 2012
Identification guide of freshwater macroinvertebrates of Spain

García Molinos, J (Role: Contributor, Freshwater Ecology)

Springer Science & Business Media, Jun, 2011

Presentations

Improved fisheries management could offset many negative effects of climate change

Gaines, S, C. Costello, B. Owashi, T. Mangin, J. Bone, J. García Molinos, M. Burden, H. Dennis, B. Halpern, C. Kappel, K. Kleisner, D. Ovando

Climate Change and Fisheries International Workshop —Challenges and Solutions for China and the World, Qingdao, China, Nov, 2018 Invited
VoCC: A new R package for calculating the Velocity of Climate Change and related landscape climatic metrics.

García Molinos, J, D.S. Schoeman, C.J. Brown, N.H. Kumagai, M.T. Burrows

PICES Annual Meeting: Towards integrated understanding of ecosystem variability in the North Pacific, Yokohama, Japan, Nov, 2018
Ocean currents and herbivory drive macroalgae-to-coral community shift under climate warming

Kumagai, N.H, J. García, Molinos, N, H. Yamano, S. Takao, M. Fujii, Y. Yamanaka

4th International Symposium on the Effect of Climate Change on the World's Oceans, Washington, Jun, 2018 Invited
Predicting the effects of climate change on stream water temperatures across pan-Arctic river networks: a conservation perspective.

García Molinos, J, K. Christoffersen, J. Culp

ISAR-5, Fifth International Symposium on Arctic Research, Tokyo, Jan, 2018
Improving the interpretability of climate landscape metrics: an ecological risk analysis of Japan’s Marine Protected Areas

García Molinos, J, S. Takao, N.H. Kumagai, E.S. Poloczanska, M.T. Burrows, M. Fujii, H. Yamano

British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Ghent, Dec, 2017
Ocean currents modify the coupling between climate change and biogeographical shifts

García Molinos, J, E.S. Poloczanska, M.T. Burrows

64th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Mar, 2017
Going with the flow: ocean currents modify the coupling between climate change and biogeographical shifts

García Molinos, J, E.S. Poloczanska, M.T. Burrows

North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting, Nov, 2016
Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity

García Molinos, J, B. S. Halpern, D. S. Schoeman, C. J. Brown, W. Kiessling, P. J. Moore, J. M, Pandolfi, E. S. Poloczanska, A. J. Richardson, M. T. Burrows

Species on the Move. Hobart, Australia, Feb, 2016
Adapting on the move: anticipating the effects of a shifting climate on biodiversity

García Molinos, J

1st Joint Lectures on Ecosystem Services and Water Resources Management. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Mar, 2015 Invited
An assessment of the ecological coherency of the global marine protected area network under future climate change

García Molinos, J, D. Schoeman, B. S. Halpern, E. Poloczanska, C. J. Brown, A. Richardson, M. T. Burrows

IUCN World Parks Congress, Sydney, Australia, Nov, 2014 Invited
The velocity of climate change and the future global distribution of marine biodiversity

García Molinos, J, M. T. Burrows

JAMSTEC International Workshop on Risk Information on Climate Change. Yokohama, Japan, Nov, 2014 Invited
Disturbances in a changing environment: does the pattern matter?

JORGE GARCIA MOLINOS

Seminar series, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University. Fukuoka, Japan, Nov, 2012
Effects of global climatic drivers and local settings on wáter level regimes of non-regulated Irish lakes

JORGE GARCIA MOLINOS

ASLO summer meeting, Otsu, Japan, Jul, 2012

Teaching Experience

2018 - Present

Global Environmental Management (GEM) master program (Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University)
2006 - 2009

Fundamentals of Ecology (demonstrator for BSc) (The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland)
Jul, 2008

Summer course on river restoration "Curso de Restauracion de Rios y Riberas" (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Jul, 2006

Summer course on river restoration "Curso de Restauracion de Rios y Riberas" (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Feb, 2003 - Apr, 2003

Biology (teaching internship) (Highschool IES La Merced, Valladolid, Spain)
Fundamental Lecture in Environmental Science (MSc, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 2018)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Development of basic technology for generalization of marine biodiversity big data and applied technology for protecting the richness of the sea

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Aug, 2021 - Mar, 2031
Climate-smart strategies to develop resilience in artisanal fisheries of Mediterranean Marine Protected areas' (CLISSARTES)

AXA Research Fund / IOC-UNESCO, Sep, 2022 - Aug, 2024

Marina Sanz-Martín (PI, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Manuel Hidalgo (Co-PI, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Marta Albo-Puigserver, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Joan Moranta, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Diego Álvarez Berastegui, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Sandra Mallol, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Asvin P. Torres, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Olga Reñones, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Patricia Puerta Ordóñez, C.O. Baleares – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Lucía López-López, C.O. Santander – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Julia Polo Sainz, C.O. Santander – IEO, CSIC, Spain, Javier Soto-Navarro (CoIlaborator, University of Malaga, Spain, Jorge García Molinos (CoIlaborator, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japa, Isaac Brito-Morales (CoIlaborator, Conservation International, USA, Kristin Kleisner, CoIlaborator, Environmental Defense Fund, USA, Nur Arafeh-Dalmau (CoIlaborator, University of, Stanford, USA
Climate change Resilience of Indigenous SocioEcological systems (RISE)

Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP) e-ASIA JRP (Advanced Fusion / Environment), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024
気候変動に伴う河川生態系のリスク評価：統計モデルとメソコスム実験の融合

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2024

G・MOLINOS JORGE, 石山信雄, 末吉正尚
Analysis and adaptation strategy on ecological and social consequences of tropicalization in coastal ecosystems

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022
Resilience of riverine ecosystem under climate change: ecosystem structure, biodiversity and ecosystem function

Kasen Sabou Gijutsu Kennkyuu Kaihatsu Koubo, Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 2018 - 2022

Nakamura F, Watanabe Y, Nakatsugawa M, Negishi J, Koizumi I, Kawamura S, Akasaka T, Uchida K, García Molinos J, Ishiyama N, Aruga N
Ecological resilience to climate change and extinctions in subarctic freshwaters (EC-51224R-18)

Early Career Grants, National Geographic Society, Apr, 2019 - Dec, 2019

S. Ross, PhD, candidate, grantee, I. Donohue, hD supervisor, J. García Molinos, o
Shifting climate as a predictor for change in marine biodiversity at local, regional and global scales (NE/J024082/1)

Standard Grant (FEC), U.K. National Environmental Research Council, Nov, 2012 - Jul, 2017

M.T. Burrows (PI, J. García Molinos, PDRA, associated to, r
Meeting quality objectives: Prediction of lake ecosystem recovery from internal and external nutrient loading (ref. 2339; grant offered but rejected by candidate)

Science, Technology, Research & Innovation for the Environment (STRIVE) Programme, Irish Environmental Protection Agency, Mar, 2013 - Apr, 2015

J. García Molinos
Climate Velocity and marine spatial planning in Japanese waters (JSPS/FF1/434)

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Oct, 2014 - Mar, 2015

J. García Molinos
DOLMANT - development targeted ecological modelling tools for lake management

European Regional Development Programme, INTERREG, European Union, 2011 - 2014

I. Donohue (co-PI, J. García, Molinos (PDRA, associated to the, project Augus, February

Social Activities

Student mentor for the Publons Academy for peer review training

Consultant

Publons, 2017 - Present
Japan-Asia Sakura Youth Exchange Programme is Science Exchange

Lecturer

Aug 6, 2018 - Aug 6, 2018

Media Coverage

Featured in issues 5 and 7 of Hokkaido University Times

Mar, 2018 Newspaper, magazine
Frontiers in Marine Science, Review Editor for the specialty section "Global Change and the Future Ocean"

2015
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, Subject Matter Editor

2014

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