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David Nogués-Bravo

David Nogués-Bravo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
17590
World Ranking
4323
National Ranking
55

Overview

David Nogués-Bravo is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Paleontology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics including Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic diversity and population structure, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

David Nogués-Bravo has published papers in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Ecology, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature Communications.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries, 2023, Science Advances
  • Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene, 2022, Science
  • Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change, 2020, Science
  • Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics, 2021, Nature
  • Evolutionary history and past climate change shape the distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial mammals, 2020, Nature Communications

David Nogués-Bravo frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their main co-authors include:

  • Carsten Rahbek
  • Spyros Theodoridis
  • Damien A. Fordham
  • Stuart C. Brown
  • M. Thomas P. Gilbert

Best Publications

  • An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

    Ben G. Holt;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Climate change threatens European conservation areas

    Miguel B. Araújo;Diogo Alagador;Diogo Alagador;Mar Cabeza;Mar Cabeza;David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo

  • Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

    Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Michael K. Borregaard;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Bo Dalsgaard

  • Exposure of global mountain systems to climate warming during the 21st Century

    D. Nogués-Bravo;D. Nogués-Bravo;M.B. Araújo;M.B. Araújo;M.P. Errea;J.P. Martínez-Rica

  • Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

    Eline D. Lorenzen;David Nogués-Bravo;Ludovic Orlando;Jaco Weinstock

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

    Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Michael K. Borregaard;Alexandre Antonelli;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell

  • Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients

    D. Nogués-Bravo;D. Nogués-Bravo;M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;T. Romdal;C. Rahbek

  • Predicting the past distribution of species climatic niches.

    David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo

  • The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

    Martin Sikora;Vladimir V. Pitulko;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa;Morten E. Allentoft

  • Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians

    Miguel B. Araújo;David Nogués-Bravo;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Alan M. Haywood

  • Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Camilla Fløjgaard;Katharine A. Marske;David Nógues-Bravo

  • Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth.

    David Nogués-Bravo;Jesús Rodríguez;Joaquín Hortal;Persaram Batra

  • An Anthropocene map of genetic diversity

    Andreia Miraldo;Sen Li;Michael K. Borregaard;Alexander Flórez-Rodríguez

  • Geographical gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of Hawkins et al. (2003) using European data for five taxa

    Robert J. Whittaker;David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • 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

  • Rewilding is the new Pandora’s box in conservation

    David Nogués-Bravo;Daniel Simberloff;Carsten Rahbek;Nathan James Sanders

  • Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

    Damien A. Fordham;Damien A. Fordham;Stephen T. Jackson;Stephen T. Jackson;Stuart C. Brown;Brian Huntley

  • Forest composition in Mediterranean mountains is projected to shift along the entire elevational gradient under climate change

    Diego Ruiz-Labourdette;David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo;Helios Sáinz Ollero;María F. Schmitz

  • Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

    Frederik Saltre;M Rodriguez-Rey;Barry W Brook;Christopher N Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Damien A. Fordham
Damien A. Fordham University of Adelaide
Michael K. Borregaard
Michael K. Borregaard University of Copenhagen
Zhiheng Wang
Zhiheng Wang Peking University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Vitor C. Sousa
Vitor C. Sousa University of Lisbon
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol

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