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Emili García-Berthou

Emili García-Berthou

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
18198
World Ranking
2037
National Ranking
54

Overview

Emili García-Berthou is affiliated with the University of Girona in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Aquatic Science, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work addresses a range of ecological and biological topics. Main topics covered include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Emili García-Berthou has contributed to various scientific publications with recent papers highlighting key areas of interest:

  • "The economic costs of biological invasions around the world" (2021) in NeoBiota
  • "Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science" (2024) in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Key factors explaining critical swimming speed in freshwater fish: a review and statistical analysis for Iberian species" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems" (2020) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "A workflow for standardising and integrating alien species distribution data" (2020) in NeoBiota

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emili García-Berthou include:

  • Carlos Cano-Barbacil
  • Franz Essl
  • Johannes Radinger
  • David Almeida
  • Carlos Fernández-Delgado

The scientist regularly publishes in several key venues of their field, including:

  • NeoBiota
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Freshwater Biology

Emili García-Berthou has also contributed to book publications. One listed title is Lista de especies exóticas acuáticas de la Península Ibérica (2020), published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

    Daniel Simberloff;Jean Louis Martin;Piero Genovesi;Virginie Maris

  • Invasive species are a leading cause of animal extinctions.

    Miguel Clavero;Emili García-Berthou

  • On the misuse of residuals in ecology: testing regression residuals vs. the analysis of covariance

    Emili García‐Berthou

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

    Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

  • Conservation biogeography of freshwater fishes: recent progress and future challenges

    Julian D. Olden;Mark James Kennard;Fabien Leprieur;Pablo A. Tedesco

  • Introduction pathways and establishment rates of invasive aquatic species in Europe

    E García-Berthou;C Alcaraz;Q Pou-Rovira;L Zamora

  • The characteristics of invasive fishes: what has been learned so far?

    Emili García-Berthou

  • Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

    Franz Essl;Sven Bacher;Tim M. Blackburn;Olaf Booy

  • Voracious invader or benign feline? A review of the environmental biology of European catfish Silurus glanis in its native and introduced ranges

    Gordon H Copp;Gordon H Copp;J Robert Britton;Julien Cucherousset;Julien Cucherousset;Emili García-Berthou

  • Homogenization Dynamics and Introduction Routes of Invasive Freshwater Fish in the Iberian Peninsula

    Miguel Clavero;Emili García-Berthou

  • Incongruence between test statistics and P values in medical papers

    Emili García-Berthou;Carles Alcaraz

  • Trace metal concentration and fish size: variation among fish species in a Mediterranean river.

    Roberto Merciai;Helena Guasch;Awadhesh Kumar;Sergi Sabater

  • Food of introduced mosquitofish: ontogenetic diet shift and prey selection

    E. Garcia-Berthou

  • Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the European Union

    Helen E. Roy;Sven Bacher;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Tim Adriaens

  • Salinity mediates the competitive interactions between invasive mosquitofish and an endangered fish.

    Carles Alcaraz;Angelo Bisazza;Emili García-Berthou

  • Food of introduced pumpkinseed sunfish: ontogenetic diet shift and seasonal variation.

    E. García-Berthou;R. Moreno-Amich

  • Size- and depth-dependent variation in habitat and diet of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

    Emili García-Berthou

  • Assessing effects of water abstraction on fish assemblages in Mediterranean streams

    Lluis Benejam;Lluis Benejam;Paul L. Angermeier;Antoni Munné;Emili García-Berthou

  • Effective monitoring of freshwater fish

    Johannes Radinger;J. Robert Britton;Stephanie M. Carlson;Anne E. Magurran

  • Life-history traits of invasive fish in small Mediterranean streams.

    Anna Vila-Gispert;Carles Alcaraz;Emili García-Berthou

  • Density Dependent Growth and Size Specific Competitive Interactions in Young Fish

    Par Bystrom;Emili Garcia-Berthou

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergi Sabater
Sergi Sabater University of Girona
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Montserrat Vilà
Montserrat Vilà Spanish National Research Council
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Pablo A. Tedesco
Pablo A. Tedesco Paul Sabatier University
Angelo Antonio Agostinho
Angelo Antonio Agostinho State University of Maringa
Wolfgang Nentwig
Wolfgang Nentwig University of Bern
Gordon H. Copp
Gordon H. Copp Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria

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