<- Bromeliaceae Literature (most recent first) and Bio — Julian Aguirre-Santoro

Julián Aguirre-Santoro is a botanist and evolutionary biologist dedicated to studying the evolution and taxonomy of Neotropical plants, with a special focus on the family Bromeliaceae. He is currently the Curator of Vascular Plants for Latin America at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he conducts multiple projects on conservation, taxonomy, and evolution of bromeliads, as well as floristic inventories across the Neotropics.
Dr. Aguirre Santoro completed his doctoral studies at the New York Botanical Garden, his master's degree at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and served as an Associate Professor at the National University of Colombia until 2023. Over the course of his career, Dr. Aguirre Santoro has carried out botanical expeditions across the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, the Greater Antilles, and throughout northwestern South America. He has published extensively on the taxonomy, conservation, and evolution of Bromeliaceae.
  1. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2024 (2024) Phylogenomics of Puya (Bromeliaceae): Evolution in the Andean slopes and sky island ecosystems. Journal of Systematics and Evolution Online: 1-18.
  2. Veldhuisen et al. 2022 (2022) Description of Life History and Reproductive Size Thresholds in Three High Elevation Puya (Bromeliaceae). bioRxiv 2022.02.18.480924.
  3. Aguirre-Santoro & Betancur 2021 (2021) Taxonomic novelties of Ronnbergia (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from Colombia. Brittonia 20(10): 1–13 (online).
  4. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2021 (2021) A new rupicolous species of Puya (Bromeliaceae) with pendulous inflorescence from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Nordic Journal of Botany 2021 (e03239): 1-6 online.
  5. Aguirre-Santoro 2018 (2018) Taxonomic revision of the Caribbean-endemic species of Wittmackia (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 336 (2): 101–147.
  6. Aguirre-Santoro & Btetancur 2019 (2018) Taxonomic novelties in the subfamily Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) for the Colombian Amazon. Brittonia 71(1?): 1-10.
  7. Aguirre-Santoro 2017 (2017) Taxonomy of the Ronnbergia Alliance (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae): new combinations, synopsis, and new circumscriptions of Ronnbergia and the resurrected genus. Plant Systematics and Evolution 303(online): 1-26.
  8. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2016b (2016) Molecular phylogenetics of the Ronnbergia Alliance (Bromeliaceae, Bromelioideae) and insights into their morphological evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 1–20.
  9. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2015a (2015) Is Ronnbergia (Bromeliaceae, Bromelioideae) a geographically disjunct genus? Evidence from morphology and chloroplast DNA sequence data. Phytotaxa 219(3): 261–275.
  10. Aguirre-Santoro & Michelangeli 2015 (2015) Two new species of Disteganthus (Bromeliaceae) from Suriname and French Guiana. Brittonia 67(3): 233-242.
  11. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2015b (2015) Three New Additions to the Guayana Shield-endemic Steyerbromelia (Bromeliaceae) for Colombia with Comments on the Problematic Generic Delimitation within the Subfamily Navioideae. Systematic Botany 40(3): 737–745.
  12. Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2023 (2013) A new species of Tillandsia (Tillandsioidae, Bromeliaceae) from the high Andean forests near Bogotá (Colombia). Phytotaxa 607(5) : 262–272.
  13. Aguirre-Santoro & Betancur 2011 (2011) Cinco especies nuevas de Aechmea (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) para Colombia. Brittonia 63(2): 300–313.
  14. Aguirre-Santoro & Betancur 2008 (2008) Sinopsis Del Género Aechmea (Bromeliaceae) Para Colombia Synopsis of Aechmea (Bromeliaceae) for Colombia. Caldasia 30(2): 265-288.