Ortega, M. A., Cayuela, L., Griffith, D. M., Camacho, A., Coronado, I. M., del Castillo, R. F., ... & Muñoz, J. (2024). Climate change increases threat to plant diversity in tropical forests of Central America and southern Mexico. Plos one, 19(2), e0297840.

de los Santos Reyes, E.; del Castillo, R. F.; Röss, M., and Bray, D. B. 2023. Contrasting patterns of land-cover change between early and late successional forests in a tropical montane cloud forest area managed under the milpa system. Forest Ecology and Management 549:121469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121469

Álvarez-Lopeztello, J. and del Castillo, R. F. 2023. Pine plantations in savanna areas can alter vegetation dynamics facilitating tropical rainforest regeneration at the expense of savannas: a case study in Southeast Mexico. Plant Ecology 224: 943–952 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01349-7.

Álvarez-Lopeztello, J.; Robles, C.; Hernández-Cuevas, L. V.; del Castillo, R. F.; Tejocote-Pérez, M., and Rivera-Becerril, F. 2023, Checklist of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of Oaxaca, an important hotspot of biodiversity in Mexico.  Botanical Sciences.101:699-712. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.3238,  

Ortiz-Martínez, L. E., del Castillo, R. F., & Mandujano, M. C. 2022. Variability in mating strategies in a widespread cactus in the Chihuahuan Desert. Nordic Journal of Botany, e03806.  https://doi: 10.1111/njb.03806

del Castillo, R.F., Trujillo-Argueta, S. 2022. Heterospecific pollen transfer, self-assurance, and the distribution of dioecy and hermaphroditism in a single species: the importance of pollen landscapes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 183(8), 664-673. https://doi.org/10.1086/721652

Trujillo-Argueta S, del Castillo RF, Velasco-Murguía A. 2022. Testing the effectiveness of rbcLa DNA-barcoding for species discrimination in tropical montane cloud forest vascular plants (Oaxaca, Mexico) using BLAST, genetic distance, and tree-based methods. PeerJ 10:e13771 https://doi.org/10.7717

del Castillo, R.F., R. Rivera-García. 2022. Biophysical and Biocultural Upheavals in Mesoamerica, a Conservation Perspective: Mountains, Maize-Milpa, and Globalization. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change 6: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.763009. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafael-Del-Castillo-2/publication/3...

Trujillo-Argueta , S., R. F. del Castillo, Tejero D.D., C. A. Matías-Cervantes, and A. Velasco-Murguía. 2021. DNA barcoding ferns in an unexplored tropical montane cloud forest area of southeast Oaxaca, Mexico. Scientific Reports 11:22837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02237-8

Velasco-Murguía, A., R. F. del Castillo, M. Rös, and R. Rivera-García. 2021.  Successional pathways of post-milpa fallows in Oaxaca, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 500:119644. /doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119644.

Alvarez-Lopeztello. J., R. F. Del Castillo, C. Robles, and L. V. Hernández-Cuevas. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve the growth of pioneer tree species of tropical forests on savanna and tropical rainforest soils under nursery conditions. ScientiaFungorum 51:e1296. DOI: 10.33885/sf.2021.51.1296

Álvarez-Lopeztello, J., Robles, C., & del Castillo, R. F. 2021. Microplastic pollution in neotropical rainforest, savanna, pine plantations, and pasture soils in lowland areas of Oaxaca, Mexico: Preliminary results. Ecological Indicators, 121:107084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107084

del Castillo, R. F., Terrazas, T., Trujillo-Argueta , S., & Rivera-García, R. 2020. Use of remote sensing and anatomical evidence at contrasting elevations to infer climate change sensitivity: preliminary results in Pinus patula. Botanical Sciences, 98(2), 248-263. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.2425.    ISSN 2007-4476

Alvarez-Lopeztello. J., R. F. del Castillo, C. Robles, and L. V. Hernández-Cuevas. 2019. Spore diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in human-modified neotropical ecosystems. Ecological Research 34:  394-405. DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12004. ISSN: 0912-3814 (Print) 1440-1703 (Online)

Alvarez-Lopeztello. J., L. V. Hernández-Cuevas, R. F. del Castillo, and C. Robles. 2019. Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Brachiaria brizantha pastures in lowlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. Grassland Science 65:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/grs.12224,  ISSN:1744-697X

del Castillo, R.F., Trujillo-Argueta, S. 2018.On the possible role of non-reproductive traits for the evolution of unisexuality: life-history variation among males, females and hermaphrodites in Opuntia robusta (cactaceae). Ecology and Evolution 00:1-14 issn: 2045-7758 https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.4217

Pérez-García, O., and R. F. del Castillo. 2017. Shifts in swidden agriculture alter the diversity of young fallows: Is the regeneration of cloud forest at stake in southern Mexico? Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment  284c: 162-174  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880916302377

Pérez-García, O., and R. F. del Castillo. 2016. The decline of the itinerant milpa and the maintenance of traditional agrobiodiversity: crops and weeds coexistence in a tropical cloud forest area in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 228:30-37 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880916302377

Vázquez-Mendoza, S, R. Valenzuela, R.F. del Castillo. 2016.  Macromicetes lignícolas de la Sierra Norte de  Puebla con notas sobre su distribución altitudinal. Acta Botánica Mexicana 114: 1-14, http://actabotanicamexicana.blogspot.mx/2016/01/macromicetos-lignicolas-de-la-sierra.html

Aguilar Santelises, R., R.F. del Castillo  2015. Demographic and socio-economic attributes as determinants of traditional plant knowledge among the Mixtecs of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico.  Human Ecology  DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9772-y

del Castillo, R. F. 2015. A conceptual framework to describe the ecology of fragmented landscapes and implications for conservation and management. Ecological Applications, 25(6), 1447–1455.

Uribe, D., D. Geneletti R. F. del Castillo, F. Orsi. 2014.  Integrating Stakeholder Preferences and GIS-Based Multicriteria Analysis to Identify Forest Landscape Restoration Priorities. Sustainability 6, 935-951 http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/2/935/ doi:10.3390/su6020935 ISSN 2071-1050

del Castillo, R. F., A. S. Trujillo, R. Rivera García., Z. Gómez-Ocampo, and D. Mondragón Chaparro. 2013.  Possible combined effects of climate change, deforestation, and harvesting on the epiphyte Catopsis compacta: a multidisciplinary approach. Ecology & Evolution. 3:3935-3946. ISSN: 2045-7758

Aguilar Santelises, R., and R. F. del Castillo  2013. Factors affecting woody plant diversity in fragmented seasonally dry oak forests of the Mixteca Alta in Oaxaca, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 84: 575-590. 

Trujillo-Argueta, S. y R.F. del Castillo. 2013. Fenología reproductiva de Echinocactus platyacanthus una biznaga común de las zonas semiáridas de México.  Pp. 74-86. In: M. Briones-Salas, G. González Pérez y G. Manzanero Medina (eds), Ecología y conservación en zonas áridas de Oaxaca. Carteles Editores P.G.O. Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, México

Bautista-Cruz, M.A., R. F. del Castillo, J. D. Etchevers-Barra, M. C. Gutiérrez-Castorena, A. Baez, 2012. Selection and interpretation of soil quality indicators for forest recovery after clearing of a tropical montane cloud forest in Mexico.  Forest Ecology and Management 277:74-80

Newton, A.C., del Castillo, R.F., Echeverría, C., Geneletti, D., González-Espinosa, M., Malizia, L., Premoli, A.C., Rey Benayas, J.M., Smith-Ramírez, C., Williams-Linera, G. 2012. Forest landscape restoration in the drylands of Latin America. Ecology and Society 17: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/art21/1-27

Cayuela, L., Gálvez-Bravo. L., Pérez Pérez, R., de Albuquerque, F. S., Golicher, D. J., Zahawi, R. A., Ramírez-Marcial, N., Garibaldi, C., Field, R., Rey Benayas, J. M., González-Espinosa, M., Balvanera, P., Castillo, M. Á., Figueroa-Rangel, B. L., Griffith, D. M., Islebe, G. A. Kelly, D. L., Olvera-Vargas, M., Schnitzer, S. A., Velázquez, E., Williams-Linera, G., Brewer, S. W., Camacho-Cruz, A., Coronado, I., de Jong, B., del Castillo R. F., de la Cerda, Í., Fernández J., Fonseca, W., Galindo-Jaimes, L., Gillespie, T. W., González-Rivas, B., Gordon, J. E., Hurtado J., Linares, J., Letcher, S. G., Mangan, S., Meave, J. A., Méndez, E. V., Meza, V. Ochoa-Gaona, S., Peterson, C. J., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Snarr, K. A., Dzul, F. T., Valdez-Hernández, M., Viergever, K. M., White, D. A., Williams, J. N., Bonet, F. J., and Zamora, R. 2012. The Tree Biodiversity Network (BIOTREE-NET): Prospects for biodiversity research and conservation in the Neotropics. Biodiversity and Ecology 4: 211-224.

del Castillo, R.F., Trujillo Argueta, S. Sánchez-Vargas, N. Newton, A.C. 2011. Genetic factors associated with population size may increase extinction risks and decrease colonization potential in a keystone tropical pine. Evolutionary Applications 4: 574-588  DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00177.x, 4:574-588 ISSN 1752 4571

del Castillo, R.F.,  R. Aguilar-Santelises, C. Echeverría, E. Ianni, M. Mattenet, G. Montoya Gómez, L. Nahuelhual, L. R. Malizia, N. Ramírez Marcial, I. Schiappacasse, C. Smith Ramírez, A. Suárez , G. Williams-Linera. 2011. Socio-Economic Valuation of dryland forest resources in dry areas of Argentina, Chile and Mexico. in A. C.  Newton and N. Tejedor, eds. Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration, case studies from the drylands of Latin America. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.183-204 http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/?7698/Principles-and-practice-of-forest-landscape-restoration--case-studies-from-the-drylands-of-Latin-America

Williams-Linera, G., C. Alvarez-Aquino, A. Suárez, C. Blundo, C. Smith, C. Echeverria, E. Cruz-Cruz, G. Bolados, J. J. Armesto, K. Heinemann, L. Malizia, P. Becerra, R. F. del Castillo, and R. Urrutia. 2011. Experimental analysis of dryland forest restoration techniques . in A. C. Newton and N. Tejedor, eds. Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration, case studies from the drylands of Latin America. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 131-181.

Smith-Ramírez, C., G. Williams-Linera, R. F. del Castillo, N. Ramírez-Marcial, R. Aguilar, N. Taylor, D. Golicher, P. Becerra, J. L. Celis-Diez, and J. J. Armesto. 2011. Fragmentation and altitudinal effects on tree diversity in seasonally dry forests of Mexico and Chile. in A. C. Newton and N. Tejedor, eds. Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration, case studies from the drylands of Latin America. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 103-130.

Rey Benayas, J.M., L. Cristóbal, T. Kitzberger, R. Manson, F. López-Barrera, J. Schulz, R. Vaca, L. Cayuela, R. Rivera, L. Malizia, D. Golicher, C. Echeverría, R. F. del Castillo, J. Salas. 2011. Assessing the current extent and recent loss of dryland forest ecosystems . in A. C. Newton and N. Tejedor, ed. Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration, case studies from the drylands of Latin America. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 23-63.

Premoli, A.C., C.P. Souto, S. Trujillo A., R.F. del Castillo, P. Quiroga, T. Kitzberger, Z. Gomez Ocampo, M. Arbetman, L. Malizia, A. Grau, R. Rivera García, A.C. Newton. 2011. Impacts of forest fragmentation and degradation on patterns of genetic variation and its implications for forest restoration.In: Newton, A.C. y Tejedor, N. (Eds.) Principles and practice of forest landscape restoration, case studies from the drylands of Latin America. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.pp. 205-228.

Zacarías-Eslava, Y., R. F. del Castillo 2010. Sobre las comunidades templadas de la Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, en diferentes pisos altitudinales y posibles implicaciones ante el cambio climático . Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México, 87: 13-28

del Castillo, R. F.  S. Trujillo A. 2009. Reproductive implications of combined and separate sexes in a trioecious population of Opuntia robusta (Cactaceae).  American Journal of Botany 96: 1148-1158 DOI information:10.3732/ajb.0800301

del Castillo, R. F., S. Trujillo A. and Sáenz-Romero, C. 2009.  Genetics, Ecology and conservation of Pinus chiapensis, a keystone species. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 2201-2208 DOI information: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.004

del Castillo, R. F., S. Trujillo A. 2009. Evidence of restoration cost in the annual gynodioecious Phacelia dubia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:306-313

del Castillo, R. F., M.A. Pérez Ríos. 2008.  Changes in seed rain during secondary succession in a tropical montane cloud forest region in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 24 (4): 433-444.

del Castillo, R. F., S. Trujillo A. 2008. The effect of inbreeding depression on outcrossing estimates in populations of a tropical pine New Phytologist 177(2): 517-524. (updated version).

Syring, J., R.F. del Castillo, R. Cronn, and A. Liston. 2007. Multiple nuclear loci reveal the distinctiveness of the threatened, neotropical Pinus chiapensis. Systematic Botany 32(4):703-717.

del Castillo, R.F., A. Blanco Macias. 2007. Secondary succession under a slash-and-burn regime in a tropical montane cloud forest: soil and vegetation characteristics.  In: A.C. Newton, editor, Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes. Evidence from the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America. CAB Internacional, Wallingford, UK.  Pp. 158-180.

 Premoli, A.C., del  Castillo, R.F., Newton, A., Bekessy, S. Mathiasen, P. Martinez, C. Nuñez, M., Quiroga, P., Souto, C., Trujillo, S. 2007. Patterns of genetic variation in tree species.  In: A.C. Newton, editor, Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes. the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. Pp. 120-156.

Rey Benayas, J. M., L. Cayuela, M. González-Espinosa, C. Echeverría, R. H. Manson, G. Williams-Linera, R.F. del Castillo, N. Ramírez-Marcial, M.A. Muñiz-Castro, A. Blanco-Macías, A. Lara, A. Newton. 2007. Plant diversity in highly fragmented forest landscapes in Latin America: implications for conservation In: A.C. Newton, editor, Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes. the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.  Pp. 43-68.

Miles, L., A.C. Newton, C. Alvarez-Aquino, J.J. Armesto, R.F. Del Castillo, L. Cayuela, C.  Echeverría, M. Gonzalez-Espinosa, A. Lara, R.A. Lopez, F. Lopez-Barrera, R. Manson, G. Montoya-Gómez, M.A. Muñiz-Castro, M.C. Núñez-Avila, R.A. Pedraza, J.M. Rey-Benayas, A.E. Rovere, N. Rüger, C. Smith-Ramírez, C. Souto, and G. Williams-Linera. 2007.  Future Scenarios for Tropical Montane and South Temperate Forest Biodiversity in Latin America.  In: A.C. Newton, editor, Biodiversity loss and conservation in fragmented forest landscapes.  Evidence from the forests of montane Mexico and temperate South America. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.Pp-370-397.

Bautista-Cruz. A., and R. F. del Castillo. 2005. Soil changes during secondary succession in a tropical montane cloud forest area. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69: 906-914

Bautista-Cruz. A., Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, R. F. del Castillo y J.D. Etchevers-Barra. 2005. Cronosecuencia de un suelo y su clasificación en un área originalmente ocupada por bosque mesófilo de montaña. Terra Latinoamericana 23:147-158

del Castillo, R. F., J. A. Pérez de la Rosa, G. V. Amado, R. Rivera García. 2004. Coníferas.  En: A. García-Mendoza, M.J. Ordóñez y M.A. Briones. Editores. Biodiversidad de Oaxaca.  Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, World Wildlife Fund, pp.141-158.  México D.F., México.

Bautista C. A., J. Etchevers, B., R.F. del Castillo y C. Gutierrez. 2004. Calidad del suelo e indicadores: aspectos teóricos. Ecosistemas http://www.aeet.org/ecosistemas/documentos/Revision2.doc isbn 1697-2473

Vargas, J. A.,  and  R. F. del Castillo. 2003. Nuclear gynodioecy and androdioecy: an algebraic approach. Journal of Mathematical Biology  47:199 - 221

Newton, A. C., T. R. Allnutt, W. S. Dvorak, R. F. del Castillo, and R. A. Ennos. 2002. Patterns of Genetic Variation in Pinus chiapensis, a threatened Mexican pine, detected by RAPD and mitochondrial DNA markers. Heredity 89:191-198

del Castillo, R. F. and  S. Acosta. 2002.  Ethnobotanical Notes on Pinus strobus var. chiapensis.  Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Autónoma de México. Serie Botánica 73: 319-327.

Pimienta Barrios, E. and R. F. del Castillo. 2002. Reproductive Biology. pp. 75-90. In: Park S. Nobel, Editor. Cacti: Biology and Uses. University of California Press, Berkley and London.

Cordova J, and R.F. del Castillo 2001. Changes in epiphyte cover in three chronosequences in a tropical montane cloud forest in Mexico. Pp  79-94 In: Gottsberger, G., Liede, S., Eds. Life forms and Dynamics in Tropical Forests. Dissertationes Botanicae 346. J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin-Stuttgart.

Vargas, J. A.  and R. F. del Castillo. 2001.  Genetic associations under mixed mating systems: The Bennett-Binet effect. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology 18 (4): 327-341.

del Castillo, R. F. 1999. Composición y estructura de una nopalera bajo situaciones contrastantes de exposición de ladera y herbivoría.  Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México 65: 5-22.

Vargas, J. A., and R. F. del Castillo. 1999. Inbreeding depression in a zygotic algebra.  Communications in Algebra 27 (9): 4425 - 4432.

del Castillo, R. F. 1998. Fitness consequences of maternal and non-maternal components of inbreeding in the gynodioecious Phacelia dubia.  Evolution  52: 44-60. 

del Castillo, R.F. 1998. Hacia una estrategia para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, el caso de Oaxaca. Investigación Hoy 84: 39-41.

del Castillo, R. F. 1997. Essai sur le caractère calcicole-calcifuge des cactacées mexicaines. Succulentes (France). 20: 18 - 28.

del Castillo, R. F. y S. Trujillo A.  1997. Sobre la naturaleza calcifuga y calcicola en cactáceas II: comparaciones de germinación y establecimiento en Echinocactus platyacanthus y Ferocactus histrix. Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas 42: 51-59.

del Castillo, R. F. 1996.  Sobre la naturaleza calcícola y calcífuga en cactáceas, un ensayo.  Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas 41: 3 - 11.

del Castillo, R. F.  1994.  Factors influencing the genetic structure of Phacelia dubia, a species with a seed bank and large fluctuations in population size.  Heredity 71: 446 - 458.

del Castillo, R. F. 1994.  Polinización y otros aspectos de la biología floral de Ferocactus histrix. Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas 39: 36 - 43.

del Castillo, R. F. 1993. Consequences of male sterility in Phacelia dubia.  Evolutionary Trends in Plants 7: 15 - 22.

del Castillo, R. F. y S. Trujillo. 1991.  Ethnobotany of Ferocactus histrix and Echinocactus  platyacanthus (Cactaceae) in the semiarid Central Mexico: past, present and future.  Economic Botany 45: 495 - 592.