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Overview

Adrià López-Baucells is affiliated with the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers in Spain and has an extensive research record primarily focused on environmental and biological sciences. Their work spans multiple scientific fields, including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable depth in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientific topics covered in their publications emphasize bat biology and ecology, species distribution in relation to climate change, and animal vocal communication and behavior. Other significant research areas include marine animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, viral infections and vectors, and evolution and paleontology studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities, 2022, Journal of Biogeography
  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review, 2023, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19, 2020, Animal Conservation
  • Bats actively prey on mosquitoes and other deleterious insects in rice paddies: Potential impact on human health and agriculture, 2020, Pest Management Science

Adrià López-Baucells has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Ricardo Rocha, Carles Flaquer, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Maria Mas, and Christoph F. J. Meyer.

Their research has been published in various scientific venues with multiple contributions, notably in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mammal Research, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Animal Conservation, and Pest Management Science.

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Trait‐related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats

    Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Milou Groenenberg

  • Pest control service provided by bats in Mediterranean rice paddies: linking agroecosystems structure to ecological functions

    Xavier Puig-Montserrat;Ignasi Torre;Adrià López-Baucells;Emilio Guerrieri

  • Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authorities

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  • Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar

    James Kemp;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Owen S. Wangensteen

  • Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats : disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects

    Ricardo Rocha;Adrià López-Baucells;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Milou Groenenberg;Milou Groenenberg

  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences

    Alec P. Christie;David Abecasis;Mehdi Adjeroud;Juan C. Alonso

  • When bats go viral: negative framings in virological research imperil bat conservation

    Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Ricardo Rocha;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

  • Field guide to Amazonian Bats

    A. López-Baucells;R. Rocha;Ped Bobrowiec;JM Palmeirim

  • Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review

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  • Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation

    Diogo F. Ferreira;Diogo F. Ferreira;Ricardo Rocha;Adrià López-Baucells;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda

  • Aerial insectivorous bat activity in relation to moonlight intensity

    Giulliana Appel;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;William Ernest Magnusson;Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec

  • Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape.

    Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda

  • Bats actively prey on mosquitoes and other deleterious insects in rice paddies: Potential impact on human health and agriculture.

    Xavier Puig-Montserrat;Carles Flaquer;Noelia Gómez-Aguilera;Albert Burgas

  • Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19

    R. Rocha;R. Rocha;S. A. Aziz;C. E. Brook;W. D. Carvalho

  • Chromatic disorders in bats: a review of pigmentation anomalies and the misuse of terms to describe them

    Federica Lucati;Adrià López‐Baucells;Adrià López‐Baucells

  • Temperature, rainfall, and moonlight intensity effects on activity of tropical insectivorous bats

    Giulliana Appel;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;William Ernest Magnusson;Paulo Estefano D Bobrowiec

  • The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests : an assessment using autonomous recorders

    Laura Torrent;Adrià López‐Baucells;Adrià López‐Baucells;Adrià López‐Baucells;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Paulo E. D. Bobrowiec

  • Stronger together: Combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys

    Adrià López-Baucells;Laura Torrent;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Paulo E.D. Bobrowiec

  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space.

    Alienor Jeliazkov;Darko Mijatovic;Stéphane Chantepie;Nigel Andrew

  • Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession

    Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Erica M. Sampaio;Erica M. Sampaio

  • Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation

    Silvia Fraixedas Núñez;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda

  • Bat boxes and climate change: testing the risk of over-heating in the Mediterranean region

    Garazi Martin Bideguren;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Xavier Puig-Montserrat;Maria Mas

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Jorge M. Palmeirim
Jorge M. Palmeirim University of Lisbon
Mar Cabeza
Mar Cabeza University of Helsinki
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares Autonomous University of Barcelona
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Hugo Rebelo
Hugo Rebelo University of Lisbon
Owen S. Wangensteen
Owen S. Wangensteen University of Barcelona
Daniel F. R. Cleary
Daniel F. R. Cleary University of Aveiro
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle
Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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