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List of works by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz

A global evaluation of metabolic theory as an explanation for terrestrial species richness gradients.

scientific article published in August 2007

A niche perspective on the range expansion of symbionts

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

scholarly article by Jairo Patiño et al published 20 March 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

A trait‐based framework for dung beetle functional ecology

scientific article published in 2022

Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

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An ED-based Protocol for Optimal Sampling of Biodiversity

article published in 2005

An evaluation of the influence of environment and biogeography on community structure: the case of Holarctic mammals

scholarly article by J. Rodriguez et al published February 2006 in Journal of Biogeography

Are island and mainland biotas different? Richness and level of generalism in parasitoids of a microlepidopteran in Macaronesia

scientific article published in 2011

Are species-area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands?

scientific article published in 2010

Aridity drives the loss of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity in three contrasting deserts

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing alpha and beta taxonomy in eupelmid wasps: determinants of the probability of describing good species and synonyms

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Assessing extinction risks under the combined effects of climate change and human disturbance through the analysis of life-history plasticity

scientific article published in 2012

Assessing spatial and temporal biases and gaps in the publicly available distributional information of Iberian mosses

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Assessing the areas under risk of invasion within islands through potential distribution modelling: The case of Pittosporum undulatum in São Miguel, Azores

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Assessing the functional relationship between dung beetle traits and dung removal, burial, and seedling emergence

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change

At least some protist species are not ubiquitous

scientific article

Basic questions in biogeography and the (lack of) simplicity of species distributions: Putting species distribution models in the right place

scholarly article published 2012

BtM, a Low-cost Open-source Datalogger to Estimate the Water Content of Nonvascular Cryptogams

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Building a truly diverse biodiversity science

scientific article published on 17 November 2022

Butterfly species richness in mainland Portugal: predictive models of geographic distribution patterns

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COVID-19 effective reproduction number dropped during Spain's nationwide dropdown, then spiked at lower-incidence regions

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Can Species Richness Patterns Be Interpolated From a Limited Number of Well-Known Areas? Mapping Diversity Using GLM and Kriging

Canopy height explains species richness in the largest clade of Neotropical lianas

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Challenges and perspectives for species distribution modelling in the neotropics

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Challenging Species Distribution Models: The Case ofMaculinea nausithousin the Iberian Peninsula

Chasing the ghost of infection past: identifying thresholds of change during the COVID-19 infection in Spain

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Chasing the ghost of infection past: identifying thresholds of change during the COVID-19 infection in Spain

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth

scientific article published in April 2008

Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales

Climatic niche at physiological and macroecological scales: the thermal tolerance-geographical range interface and niche dimensionality

scientific article published in 2013

Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: global congruence across mammals and amphibians

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Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

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Constraint envelope analyses of macroecological patterns reveal climatic effects on Pleistocene mammal extinctions

Contextualized niche shifts upon independent invasions by the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus

Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010.

scientific article

Current climate, but also long‐term climate changes and human impacts, determine the geographic distribution of European mammal diversity

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Deconstructing species richness–environment relationships in Neotropical lianas

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Designing bryophyte surveys for an optimal coverage of diversity gradients

Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants

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Effects of macro and micro-environmental factors on the species richness of terrestrial tardigrade assemblages in an Iberian mountain environment

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Elevational and seasonal distribution of Scarabaeinae dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera) at Itatiaia National Park (Brazil)

scientific article published in 2021

Environmental niche divergence among three dune shrub sister species with parapatric distributions

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: sensitivity to sample grain size.

scientific article published in January 2006

Evaluating the roles of connectivity and environment on faunal turnover: patterns in recent and fossil Iberian mammals

scientific article

Evidence of weak habitat specialisation in microscopic animals

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Extinction debt on oceanic islands

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Forecasting insect species richness scores in poorly surveyed territories: the case of the Portuguese dung beetles (Col. Scarabaeinae)

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Frontiers of Biogeography: taking its place as a journal of choice for the publication of high quality biogeographical research articles

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Geographic variation in the diversity of microbial communities: research directions and prospects for experimental biogeography

scholarly article

Geographical shifts in the successional dynamics of inland dune shrub communities

scientific article published in 2023

Geographical, temporal and environmental determinants of bryophyte species richness in the Macaronesian islands

scientific article

Geography and major host evolutionary transitions shape the resource use of plant parasites

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Glaciations, deciduous forests, water availability and current geographical patterns in the diversity of European Carabus species

Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

scientific article published in 2016

Historical Determinants of Mammal Diversity in Africa: Evolution of Mammalian Body Mass Distribution in Africa and South America During Neogene and Quarternary Times

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Historical bias in biodiversity inventories affects the observed environmental niche of the species

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How do different dispersal modes shape the species-area relationship? Evidence for between-group coherence in the Macaronesian flora

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How does the knowledge about the spatial distribution of Iberian dung beetle species accumulate over time?

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Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function

scientific article published in 2021

Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

scientific article

Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias.

scientific article

Integrating biogeographical processes and local community assembly

scholarly article by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz et al published 2 February 2012 in Journal of Biogeography

Invasive exotic aoudad (Ammotragus lervia) as a major threat to native Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica): a habitat suitability model approach

scientific article published in 2007

Island species richness increases with habitat diversity

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KnowBR : An application to map the geographical variation of survey effort and identify well-surveyed areas from biodiversity databases

scientific article published in 2018

Knowledge gaps hamper understanding the relationship between fragmentation and biodiversity loss: the case of Atlantic Forest fruit-feeding butterflies

scientific article

Limitations of biodiversity databases: case study on seed-plant diversity in Tenerife, Canary Islands

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Local and regional-scale factors drive xerophytic shrub community dynamics on Mediterranean stabilized dunes

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Lost in space? Searching for directions in the spatial modelling of individuals, populations and species ranges

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Mapping ignorance: 300 years of collecting flowering plants in Africa

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Measurements of area and the (island) species-area relationship: new directions for an old pattern

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Metabolic theory and diversity gradients: where do we go from here?

scientific article published in August 2007

Metacommunity patterns of Amazonian Odonata: the role of environmental gradients and major rivers

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Moss establishment success is determined by the interaction between propagule size and species identity

scientific article published in 2022

New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Nonstationary effects of productivity, seasonality, and historical climate changes on global amphibian diversity

scientific article published in 2012

Not as good as they seem: the importance of concepts in species distribution modelling

scientific article published in 2008

On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

scholarly article by Francesco de Bello et al published 5 October 2015 in Folia Geobotanica

Perspectives on the use of lakes and ponds as model systems for macroecological research

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Pleistocene climate change and the formation of regional species pools

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Potential distribution modelling, niche characterization and conservation status assessment using GIS tools: a case study of Iberian Copris species

Predicted insect diversity declines under climate change in an already impoverished region

article by Dirk Maes et al published 24 February 2010 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Prospects for population expansion of the exotic aoudad (Ammotragus lervia; Bovidae) in the Iberian Peninsula: clues from habitat suitability modelling

scientific article published in 2006

Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Regional and environmental effects on the species richness of mammal assemblages

Regional and local influence of grazing activity on the diversity of a semi-arid dung beetle community

scientific article published in 2006

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

scholarly article by Jorge Ari Noriega et al published February 2018 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Resolving the Azorean knot: a response to Carine & Schaefer (2010)

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Rethinking extinctions that arise from habitat loss

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates

scientific article published in 2024

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2015

Shifts in the importance of the species pool and environmental controls of epiphytic bryophyte richness across multiple scales

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Short- and long-term temporal changes in the assemblage structure of Amazonian dung beetles

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

Species pool structure determines the level of generalism of island parasitoid faunas

Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Species richness estimation: Estimator performance and the influence of rare species

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Species richness of epiphytic bryophytes: drivers across scales on the edge of the Mediterranean

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Temporal degradation of data limits biodiversity research

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Testing the effectiveness of discrete and continuous environmental diversity as a surrogate for species diversity

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The Evolutionary Legacy of Diversification Predicts Ecosystem Function

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

The effect of prevalence and its interaction with sample size on the reliability of species distribution models

The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling

scientific article published in 2010

Time, area and isolation: factors driving the diversification of Azorean arthropods

Trait dynamics of Mediterranean xerophytic shrub communities growing on stabilised inland dunes respond to nutrient and aridity gradients

scientific article published in 2017

Uncertainty and the measurement of terrestrial biodiversity gradients

Uncertainty associated with survey design in Species Distribution Models

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Understanding (insect) species distributions across spatial scales

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Uneven abundances determine nestedness in climbing plant-host interaction networks

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Unifying macroecology and macroevolution to answer fundamental questions about biodiversity

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Using maps of biogeographical ignorance to reveal the uncertainty in distributional data hidden in species distribution models

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Using niche models of indicator species to predict the distribution of xerophytic shrub dune communities

scientific article published in 2016

Using species distribution models in paleobiogeography: A matter of data, predictors and concepts

scientific article published in 2011

Which leaf beetles have not yet been described? Determinants of the description of Western Palaearctic Aphthona species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

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Would species richness estimators change the observed species area relationship?

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