Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Echevarría, G., Lujan, N. K., Montoya, J.V., Granda, M.G., Valdivieso, J., Sánchez, F.R., Cuesta, F. & Ríos, B.  2024. Abiotic and biotic factors influencing heavy metals pollution in fisheries of the Western Amazon.  Science of the Total Environment, 908: 168506.

Ellis, L.T., Afonina, O.M., Ah-Peng, C., Álvaro Alba, W.R., Aponte Rojas, A.M., Arya, R., Bhandari, M., Burghardt, M., Callaghan, D.A., Cottet, A.C., Draper, I., Enroth, J., Etylina, A.S., Gabriel, R., Joshi, P., Kučera, J., Lara, F., Mateo Jiménez, A.L., Messuti, M.I., Mežaka, A., Montoya, J.V., Opmanis, A., Papp, B., Picanço, C.F.S., Reeb, C., Širka, P., Tewari, S.D., Tubanova, D. Ya. & Villamarín, C. 2023. New national and regional bryophyte records, 72. Journal of Bryology, 45(1): 79-84.  

López-Sánchez, B., Quintero-Torres, E., Montoya, J.V. & González, K. 2022. Ríos que desembocan al mar: biodiversidad y ecología de camarones. Acta Biologica Venezuelica, 42(2): 149-168. 

Torremorell, A., Hegoburu, C., Brandimarte, A.L., Costa Rodrigues, E.H., Pompêo, M., Cardoso da Silva, S., Moschini-Carlos, V., Caputo, L, Fierro, P., Mojica, I., Pantoja Matta, A.L., Donato, J.C., Jiménez-Pardo, P., Molinero, J., Ríos, B., Goyenola, G., Iglesias, C., López-Rodríguez, A., Meerhoff, M., Pacheco, J.P., Teixeira de Mello, F., Rodríguez-Olarte, D., Barrios Gómez, M., Montoya, J.V., López-Doval, J.C. & Navarro, E. 2021. Current and future threads for the ecological quality management of South American freshwater ecosystems. Inland Waters, 11(2): 125-140. 

Barrios, M.C. & Montoya, J.V. 2021. Biomass and instar estimation of larvae of Phylloicus cressae Prather, 2003, (Trichoptera, Calamoceratidae) in a montane forest stream, north-central Venezuela. Aquatic Insects, 42(3-4): 216-229.

Barrios, M.C., Mendoza, M.D. & Montoya, J.V.* 2020. Description of larva and pupa of Phylloicus cressae Prather 2003 (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae) from a montane forest stream in the peri-urban area of Caracas, Venezuela. Zootaxa, 4768(4): 579-588. [*corresponding author]

Zapata, O., González, E. J., Montoya, J.V., Pérez, M. & Mendoza, M. D. 2018. Zooplancton del embalse Petaquire (Edo. Vargas): Composición, abundancia y biomasa. Memorias del Instituto de Biología Experimental, 9: 49-52.

Mendoza, M.D., Montoya, J.V.* & Pérez, B.Y. 2018. Diel periodicity of aquatic macroinvertebrate drift in a coastal stream in northern Venezuela. Neotropical Biodiversity, 4(1): 45-54. [*corresponding author]

Leal, A., Bilbao, B., Berrio, J.C., Behling, H., Montoya, J.V. & Méndez, C. 2016. Late Holocene gallery-forest retrogression in the Venezuelan Guayana: New data and implications for the conservation of a cultural landscape. The Holocene, 26(7): 1049-1063.

Montoya, J.V., Arrington, D.A. & Winemiller, K.O. 2014. Seasonal and diel variation of shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda) on sandbanks of a tropical floodplain river. Journal of Natural History 48(9-10): 557-574.

Winemiller, K.O., Montaña, C., Roelke, D.L., Cotner, J.B., Montoya, J.V., Sánchez, L., Castillo, M.M. & Layman, C. 2014. Pulsing hydrology determines top-down control of basal resources in a tropical river-floodplain ecosystem. Ecological Monographs 84(4): 621-635. 

Montoya, J.V., Pérez, B. & Mendoza, M.D. 2013. Primer registro para Venezuela de Asthenopus angelae (De Souza & Molineri 2012) (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae) y características de su hábitat. Entomotropica 28(1): 51-60. 

Montoya, J.V., Castillo, M.M. & Sánchez, L. 2011. La importancia de las inundaciones periódicas para el funcionamiento y conservación de los ecosistemas inundables de grandes ríos tropicales: Estudios en la cuenca del Orinoco. Interciencia 36(12): 900-907. 

Roelke, D.L., Zohary, T., Hambright, K.D. & Montoya, J.V. 2007. Alternative states in the phytoplankton of Lake Kinneret, Israel (Sea of Galilee). Freshwater Biology 52(3): 399-411. 

Winemiller, K.O., Montoya, J.V., Roelke, D.L., Layman, C.A. & Cotner, J.B. 2006. Seasonally varying impact of detritivorous fishes on the benthic ecology of a tropical floodplain river. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1): 250-262. 

Montoya, J.V., Roelke, D.L., Winemiller, K.O., Cotner, J.B. & Snider, J. 2006. Hydrological seasonality and benthic algal biomass in a Neotropical floodplain river. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1): 157-170. 

Cotner, J.B., Montoya, J.V., Roelke, D.L. & Winemiller, K.O. 2006. Seasonally variable riverine production in the Venezuelan llanos. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1): 171-184. 

Roelke, D.L., Cotner, J.B., Montoya, J.V., Del Castillo, C., Davis, S., Snider, J., Gable, G. & Winemiller, K.O. 2006. Optically determined sources of allochthonous organic matter and systems characterizations in a tropical oligotrophic river and associated lagoon. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(1): 185-197. 

Montoya, J.V. 2003. Freshwater shrimps of the genus Macrobrachium associated with roots of Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) in the Orinoco Delta (Venezuela). Caribbean Journal of Science 39(1): 155-159

Peer-reviewed books and book chapters

Rodríguez-Olarte, D., Barrios, M., Caputo, L., Fierro, P., Jiménez-Prado, P., Navarro, E., Macchi, P., Mojica. J. I., Molinero, J., Montoya, J.V., Pantoja, A., Pompêo, M., Ríos, B., Teixeira de Mello, F., Tobón, F., Torremorell, A., Villalba, A., Villamarín, C. 2020. Criterios para la evaluación de estresores y parámetros en la estimación del estado ecológico de ríos en Suramérica. Serie Publicaciones Especiales. Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA). Barquisimeto, Lara. Venezuela. 68 pp. ISBN 978-980-320-146-3

Montoya, J.V., Osío, A.M., Pérez, M.C. & Pineda, V.. 2017. Capítulo 4: Los ríos de los llanos de Apure. pp. 75-107. En: Rodríguez-Olarte, D. (Ed.). Ríos en Riesgo de Venezuela, Volumen I. Colección Recursos Hidrobiológicos de Venezuela. Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA). Barquisimeto, Lara. Venezuela. ISBN 978-980-12-9274-6. [PDF]

Méndez, C., Moreno, M.C., Montoya, J.V., Felicien, A., Nikonova, N. & Buendía, C. 2017. Capítulo 8: Escenarios de cambio climático y la conservación de los ríos en Venezuela. pp. 173-188. En: Rodríguez-Olarte, D. (Ed.). Ríos en Riesgo de Venezuela, Volumen I. Colección Recursos Hidrobiológicos de Venezuela. Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA). Barquisimeto, Lara. Venezuela. ISBN 978-980-12-9274-6. [PDF]

Submitted, in revision

Moreno, M.T., Montoya, J.V.*, Quintero-Torres, E., López-Sánchez, B. & Carmona, C. Reproductive biology of of two species of semiterrestrial crabs of the genus Armases (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) living in sympatry in a southern Caribbean coastal stream. Submitted to Crustaceana  [*corresponding author].

Sánchez, L.S., Sánchez, F.R., Ríos, B. & Montoya, J. V.* Desmids (Desmidiaceae, Zygnematophyceae) from lowland rivers and floodplain lakes of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Submitted to Cryptogamie Algologie [*corresponding author].

González, E.J., López, C., Paolini, J., Soto, L.M., Gordon-Colon, E., Rincón, J.E.,  Barrios M., Castillo, M.M., Cressa, C., Montoya, J.V., Rodríguez-Olarte, D., Sánchez, L., Segnini, S. & Scott-Frías, J. Current and future research on lakes and reservoirs in Venezuela. Submitted to Inland Waters.

Segnini, S., Cressa, C., Rincón, J.E., Montoya, J.V., Castillo, M.M., Barrios, M., Rodríguez-Olarte, D., Sánchez, L., Gordon-Colon, E., Soto, L.M., González, E., López, C., Paolini, J. & Scott-Frías, J. Biodiversity and ecological processes in Venezuelan running waters. Submitted to Inland Waters.

Working papers

Montoya J.V., Sanchez F., Proaño A., Tejera E., Lujan N., Jimenes, K., Sánchez L., Cuesta F. & Ríos, B. Seasonal variation and risk assessment of metals in water and sediments of lowland aquatic ecosystems of the north-western Amazon Basin

Montoya, J.V., Jijón-Nemalceff, M.G., Villamarín, C. & Ríos, B. Leaflitter decomposition and macroinvertebrate colonization along an agricultural-cattle ranching mosaic gradient in high-altitude tropical Andean streams.

Sánchez, L. & Montoya, J.V. Benthic desmids (Desmidiales, Zygnematophyceae) from main channel and floodplain lakes of a tropical river in the Orinoco Llanos. 

Piedra, S.D., Tränckner, J., Hidalgo, D. & Montoya, J.V. Heterotrophic Yield Coefficient assessment for wastewater based on respirometry and COD fractioning. 

Carmona, C., López-Sánchez, B., Moreno, M.T., Quintero-Torres E. & J.V. Montoya*. Population dynamics of two species of semiterrestrial crabs: Armases americanum and A. roberti (Brachyura: Sesarmidae) living in sympatry in a southern Caribbean coastal stream.  [*corresponding author].