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186

Overview

Andrés Baselga is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and specializes in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

They have contributed to various main research topics, specifically:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Among recent publications, Andrés Baselga has authored and co-authored several papers that focus on ecological patterns and biodiversity. These include:

  • "Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Joint analysis of species and genetic variation to quantify the role of dispersal and environmental constraints in community turnover" (2022) published in Ecography
  • "Assessing the equilibrium between assemblage composition and climate: A directional distance-decay approach" (2021) published in Journal of Animal Ecology

Other recent works by frequent collaborators include:

  • "Assessing the nonlinear decay of community similarity: Permutation and site-block resampling significance tests" (2022) in Journal of Biogeography
  • "Current and historical factors drive variation of reproductive traits in unisexual mosses in Europe: A case study" (2022) in Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Frequent co-authors who have worked alongside Andrés Baselga include Carola Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramiro Martín-Devasa, Sara Martínez-Santalla, Adriana De Palma, and Andy Purvis.

Their publications are frequently found in scientific journals and venues such as Ecography, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Diversity and Distributions, and the Natural History Museum, London.

In addition to journal articles, Andrés Baselga has contributed to books published by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico eBooks, including:

  • "Láminas. Taxonomía integrativa de las babosas del género Arion (Gastropoda: Arionidae) de la Península Ibérica" (2025)
  • "Diversidad e importancia de los insectos: Guía docente" (2025)

Best Publications

  • Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

    Andrés Baselga

  • Betapart an R package for the study of beta diversity

    Andrés Baselga;C. David L. Orme

  • The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

    Andrés Baselga

  • Separating the two components of abundance-based dissimilarity: balanced changes in abundance vs. abundance gradients

    Andrés Baselga

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

    Joaquín Hortal;Alberto Jiménez‐Valverde;José F. Gómez;Jorge M. Lobo

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

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • Partitioning abundance‐based multiple‐site dissimilarity into components: balanced variation in abundance and abundance gradients

    Andrés Baselga

  • Comparing methods to separate components of beta diversity

    Andrés Baselga;Fabien Leprieur

  • A multiple-site similarity measure independent of richness

    Andrés Baselga;Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Gilles Niccolini

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

    Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;F. Diniz-Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Thiago Fernando Rangel

  • Partitioning Beta Diversity into Turnover and Nestedness Components [R package betapart version 1.5.2]

    Andres Baselga;David Orme;Sebastien Villeger;Julien De Bortoli

  • Multiple site dissimilarity quantifies compositional heterogeneity among several sites, while average pairwise dissimilarity may be misleading

    Andrés Baselga

  • Historical legacies in world amphibian diversity revealed by the turnover and nestedness components of Beta diversity.

    Andrés Baselga;Carola Gómez-Rodríguez;Jorge M. Lobo

  • Climate, history and neutrality as drivers of mammal beta diversity in Europe: insights from multiscale deconstruction.

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Camilla Fløjgaard;Andrés Baselga

  • Selective extinction drives taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversities in island bird assemblages

    Xingfeng Si;Andrés Baselga;Fabien Leprieur;Xiao Song

  • Determinants of species richness, endemism and turnover in European longhorn beetles

    Andrés Baselga

  • Revealing Beta-Diversity Patterns of Breeding Bird and Lizard Communities on Inundated Land-Bridge Islands by Separating the Turnover and Nestedness Components

    Xingfeng Si;Andrés Baselga;Ping Ding

  • Individualistic vs community modelling of species distributions under climate change.

    Andrés Baselga;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Functional and phylogenetic structure of island bird communities

    Xingfeng Si;Xingfeng Si;Marc W. Cadotte;Di Zeng;Andrés Baselga

  • Multiplicative partition of true diversity yields independent alpha and beta components; additive partition does not

    Andrés Baselga

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde University of Alcalá
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Yasuhiro Kubota
Yasuhiro Kubota University of the Ryukyus
Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Sébastien Villéger
Sébastien Villéger Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham

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