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Ainara Cortés-Avizanda

Ainara Cortés-Avizanda

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4045
World Ranking
7444
National Ranking
267

Overview

Ainara Cortés-Avizanda is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their work primarily concentrates on Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and its related subfields. The sub-disciplines within ecology they explore include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research covers several interrelated topics, with extensive publications on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

Among the recent papers authored by or including Ainara Cortés-Avizanda are the following:

  • "Presumed killers? Vultures, stakeholders, misperceptions, and fake news" (2021) published in Conservation Science and Practice
  • "Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications" (2020) published in Ecography
  • "Landscape anthropization shapes the survival of a top avian scavenger" (2020) published in Biodiversity and Conservation
  • "Apex scavengers from different European populations converge at threatened savannah landscapes" (2022) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Functional traits driving species role in the structure of terrestrial vertebrate scavenger networks" (2021) published in Ecology

Ainara Cortés-Avizanda collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include José A. Donázar, Eneko Arrondo, José A. Sánchez-Zapata, Olga Ceballos, and Juan Manuel Pérez-García.

The research outputs are often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Reports, Ecological Indicators, Ecology and Evolution, and Biodiversity and Conservation. These venues represent a variety of formats and audiences within environmental and ecological sciences.

Best Publications

  • Rewilding complex ecosystems.

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández

  • Roles of Raptors in a Changing World: From Flagships to Providers of Key Ecosystem Services

    José A. Donázar;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Juan A. Fargallo;Antoni Margalida

  • Supplementary feeding and endangered avian scavengers: benefits, caveats, and controversies

    Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda;Guillermo Blanco;Travis L DeVault;Anil Markandya

  • Resource unpredictability promotes species diversity and coexistence in an avian scavenger guild: a field experiment

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Roger Jovani;Martina Carrete;Martina Carrete;José A. Donázar

  • Managing supplementary feeding for avian scavengers: Guidelines for optimal design using ecological criteria

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Martina Carrete;José Antonio Donázar

  • Dietary shifts in two vultures after the demise of supplementary feeding stations: consequences of the EU sanitary legislation

    José A. Donázar;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Martina Carrete

  • Human-carnivore relations: A systematic review

    Jorge Lozano;Agnieszka Olszańska;Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Antonio A. Castro

  • Bird sky networks: How do avian scavengers use social information to find carrion?

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Roger Jovani;José Antonio Donázar;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm

  • Effects of carrion resources on herbivore spatial distribution are mediated by facultative scavengers

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Nuria Selva;Martina Carrete;José A. Donázar

  • Carcasses increase the probability of predation of ground-nesting birds: a caveat regarding the conservation value of vulture restaurants

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Martina Carrete;David Serrano;José A. Donázar

  • Scavenging in the Anthropocene: Human impact drives vertebrate scavenger species richness at a global scale.

    Esther Sebastián‐González;Jomar Magalhães Barbosa;Juan M. Pérez‐García;Juan M. Pérez‐García;Zebensui Morales‐Reyes

  • Factors influencing the breeding density of Bearded Vultures, Egyptian Vultures and Eurasian Griffon Vultures in Catalonia (NE Spain): management implications

    Antoni Margalida;Diego García;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda

  • Spatial heterogeneity in resource distribution promotes facultative sociality in two trans-Saharan migratory birds.

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Pablo Almaraz;Martina Carrete;Martina Carrete;José A. Sánchez-Zapata

  • Invisible barriers: Differential sanitary regulations constrain vulture movements across country borders

    Eneko Arrondo;Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;José Jiménez

  • Apex scavengers from different European populations converge at threatened savannah landscapes

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  • Mast pulses shape trophic interactions between fluctuating rodent populations in a primeval forest.

    Nuria Selva;Keith A. Hobson;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Andrzej Zalewski

  • Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region

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  • Presumed killers? Vultures, stakeholders, misperceptions, and fake news

    Sergio A. Lambertucci;Antoni Margalida;Karina L. Speziale;Arjun Amar

  • Evaluation of the network of protection areas for the feeding of scavengers in Spain: from biodiversity conservation to greenhouse gas emission savings

    Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Juan M. Pérez-García;Marcos Moleón;Francisco Botella

  • Network Structure of Vertebrate Scavenger Assemblages at the Global Scale: Drivers and Ecosystem Functioning Implications

    Esther Sebastian-Gonzalez;Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Francisco Botella;Lara Naves-Alegre

  • Landscape anthropization shapes the survival of a top avian scavenger

    Eneko Arrondo;Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Juan Manuel Pérez-García;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda

  • Stakeholders perceptions of the endangered Egyptian vulture: Insights for conservation

    Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Berta Martín-López;Olga Ceballos;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira

  • Sex- and age-dependent patterns of survival and breeding success in a long-lived endangered avian scavenger

    Ana Sanz-Aguilar;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;David Serrano;Guillermo Blanco

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Donázar
José A. Donázar Spanish National Research Council
José A. Sánchez-Zapata
José A. Sánchez-Zapata Miguel Hernandez University
Marcos Moleón
Marcos Moleón University of Granada
Nuria Selva
Nuria Selva Polish Academy of Sciences
Martina Carrete
Martina Carrete Pablo de Olavide University
Antoni Margalida
Antoni Margalida Spanish National Research Council
Henrique M. Pereira
Henrique M. Pereira Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Guillermo Blanco
Guillermo Blanco Spanish National Research Council
David Serrano
David Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Travis L. DeVault
Travis L. DeVault University of Georgia

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