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Daniel Pincheira-Donoso is affiliated with Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends," 2023, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science," 2024, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Biological invasions are a population-level rather than a species-level phenomenon," 2024, Global Change Biology

Daniel Pincheira-Donoso has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Shai Meiri
  • Jack V. Johnson
  • Uri Roll
  • Florencia Grattarola
  • Ross N. Cuthbert

Their publications often appear in notable venues dedicated to ecological and evolutionary research. Frequent publication sources include:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Best Publications

  • The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

    Uri Roll;Uri Roll;Anat Feldman;Maria Novosolov;Allen Allison

  • Global taxonomic diversity of living reptiles.

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Aaron M. Bauer;Shai Meiri;Peter Uetz

  • The evolution of body size under environmental gradients in ectotherms: why should Bergmann's rule apply to lizards?

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;David J Hodgson;Tom Tregenza

  • Fecundity selection theory: concepts and evidence

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;John Hunt

  • Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

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  • Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

    Shai Meiri;Aaron M. Bauer;Laurent Chirio;Guarino R. Colli

  • More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

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  • A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania)

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;J. Alejandro Scolaro;Piotra Sura

  • Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science

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  • Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

    Shai Meiri;Shai Meiri;Aaron M. Bauer;Allen Allison;Fernando Castro-Herrera

  • The evolution of viviparity opens opportunities for lizard radiation but drives it into a climatic cul‐de‐sac

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Tom Tregenza;Matthew J. Witt;David J. Hodgson

  • Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

    Inon Scharf;Anat Feldman;Maria Novosolov;Daniel Pincheira-Donoso

  • Fecundity Selection and the Evolution of Reproductive Output and Sex-Specific Body Size in the Liolaemus Lizard Adaptive Radiation

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Tom Tregenza

  • What defines an adaptive radiation? Macroevolutionary diversification dynamics of an exceptionally species-rich continental lizard radiation

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Lilly P. Harvey;Marcello Ruta

  • The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes

    Shai Meiri;Luciano Avila;Aaron M. Bauer;David G. Chapple

  • An Intercontinental Analysis of Climate-Driven Body Size Clines in Reptiles: No Support for Patterns, No Signals of Processes

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Shai Meiri

  • Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate

    Alex Slavenko;Anat Feldman;Allen Allison;Aaron M. Bauer

  • Body size evolution in South American Liolaemus lizards of the boulengeri clade: a contrasting reassessment.

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;Tom Tregenza;D. J. Hodgson

  • Biological invasions are a population‐level rather than a species‐level phenomenon

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  • A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates

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  • The limits of polymorphism in Liolaemus rothi: molecular and phenotypic evidence for a new species of the Liolaemus boulengeri clade (Iguanidae, Liolaemini) from boreal Patagonia of Chile

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;J. Alejandro Scolaro;James A. Schulte

  • The balance between predictions and evidence and the search for universal macroecological patterns: taking Bergmann's rule back to its endothermic origin

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso

  • A phylogenetic analysis of sex-specific evolution of ecological morphology in Liolaemus lizards

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso;David J. Hodgson;Jan Stipala;Tom Tregenza

  • Testing the Accuracy of Fecal-Based Analyses in Studies of Trophic Ecology in Lizards

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso

  • Lizards in an evolutionary tree: ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles

    Daniel Pincheira-Donoso

Frequent Co-Authors

Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Uri Roll
Uri Roll Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Aaron M. Bauer
Aaron M. Bauer Villanova University
Tom Tregenza
Tom Tregenza University of Exeter
Peter Uetz
Peter Uetz Virginia Commonwealth University
David J. Hodgson
David J. Hodgson University of Exeter
Guarino R. Colli
Guarino R. Colli University of Brasília
Fred Kraus
Fred Kraus University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
L. Lee Grismer
L. Lee Grismer La Sierra University
Jean-François Trape
Jean-François Trape Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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