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Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
6991
World Ranking
6563
National Ranking
223

Overview

Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their primary research contributions lie within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work spans multiple important topics, such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and beyond, Animal and Plant Science Education, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

Among recent significant publications by Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares are:

  • "Importance of Indigenous Peoples' lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature," 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems," 2021, Journal of Ethnobiology
  • "Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Recognizing Indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda," 2021, AMBIO

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares include:

  • Victoria Reyes-García
  • Stephen T. Garnett
  • Zsolt Molnár
  • Mar Cabeza
  • Eduardo S. Brondízio

The main venues in which Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares has published are characterized by a focus on ecology, ethnobiology, and sustainability:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Ethnobiology
  • People and Nature
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • AMBIO

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to the academic book landscape with a publication through Cambridge University Press. The book titled Resilience Through Knowledge Co-Production was published in 2022 and focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge integration and resilience, reflecting their interest in collaborative sustainability science.

Best Publications

  • A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

    Stephen T. Garnett;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Julia E. Fa;Julia E. Fa;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

  • Importance of Indigenous peoples' lands for the conservation of intact forest landscapes

    Julia E Fa;Julia E Fa;James Em Watson;James Em Watson;Ian Leiper;Peter Potapov

  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

    Eduardo S. Brondízio;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Peter Bates;Joji Carino

  • The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Pamela McElwee;Zsolt Molnár

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

    Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares Onrubia;Dana Lepofsky;Ken Lertzman Lertzman;Chelsey Geralda Denise Armstrong

  • Rediscovering the Potential of Indigenous Storytelling for Conservation Practice

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Mar Cabeza

  • Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

    Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Jona Razzaque;Pamela McElwee;Esther Turnhout

  • Local indicators of climate change: The potential contribution of local knowledge to climate research.

    Victoria Reyes-García;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Maximilien Guèze;Ariadna Garcés

  • Recognizing Indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda.

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Petra Benyei

  • Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge.

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Isabel Díaz-Reviriego;Ana C. Luz;Mar Cabeza

  • Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

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  • Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large‐scale ecological assessments: Reviewing the experience of the IPBES Global Assessment

    Pamela McElwee;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Dániel Babai

  • A State-of-the-Art Review of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Pollution.

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;María Garteizgogeascoa;María Garteizgogeascoa;Niladri Basu;Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio

  • The importance of indigenous peoples’ lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals

    Christopher J. O'Bryan;Stephen T. Garnett;John E. Fa;John E. Fa;Ian Leiper

  • Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism

    Pablo Manzano;Daniel Burgas;Luis Cadahía;Jussi T. Eronen

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

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

  • The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

    Jeremy Koster;Jeremy Koster;Richard McElreath;Richard McElreath;Kim Hill;Douglas Yu;Douglas Yu;Douglas Yu

  • A collaborative approach to bring insights from local observations of climate change impacts into global climate change research

    Victoria Reyes-Garcia;Victoria Reyes-Garcia;David Garcia-del-Amo;Petra Benyei;Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares

  • Local perceptions as a guide for the sustainable management of natural resources: empirical evidence from a small-scale society in Bolivian Amazonia.

    Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares;Isabel Díaz-Reviriego;Maximilien Guèze;Maria Cabeza

  • Multiple conceptualizations of nature are key to inclusivity and legitimacy in global environmental governance

    Luca Coscieme;Håkon da Silva Hyldmo;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Ignacio Palomo

  • Social organization influences the exchange and species richness of medicinal plants in Amazonian homegardens

    Isabel Díaz-Reviriego;Lara González-Segura;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Patricia L. Howard

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Mar Cabeza
Mar Cabeza University of Helsinki
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University
Zsolt Molnár
Zsolt Molnár Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Adrià López-Baucells
Adrià López-Baucells Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Catherine J. Robinson
Catherine J. Robinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Kerstin K. Zander
Kerstin K. Zander Charles Darwin University
Ignacio Palomo
Ignacio Palomo Grenoble Alpes University

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