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Ecology and Evolution
Chile
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
15752
World Ranking
1326
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Francisco Bozinovic is affiliated with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Chile. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work explores diverse topics including Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Plant and animal studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Francisco Bozinovic has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications with notable papers such as:

  • "Predicting temperature mortality and selection in natural Drosophila populations" (2020), published in Science
  • "Increasing importance of heat stress for cattle farming under future global climate scenarios" (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Shrinking dinosaurs and the evolution of endothermy in birds" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Thermal effects vary predictably across levels of organization: empirical results and theoretical basis" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate forests" (2022), published in Ecology and Evolution

Their frequent coauthors include Enrico L. Rezende, Roberto F. Nespolo, Grisel Cavieres, José M. Alruiz, and Sebastián I. Martel.

Francisco Bozinovic has published multiple articles in reputable scientific venues such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science, and The Science of The Total Environment.

In 2010, the scientist received the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Heat freezes niche evolution

    Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Francisco Ferri-Yanez;Francisco Bozinovic;Pablo Marquet;Pablo Marquet

  • Physiological Correlates of Geographic Range in Animals

    Francisco Bozinovic;Piero Calosi;John I. Spicer

  • Trade-offs in thermal adaptation: the need for a molecular to ecological integration

    Hans O. Pörtner;Albert F. Bennett;Francisco Bozinovic;Andrew Clarke

  • Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability.

    Diego P. Vázquez;Diego P. Vázquez;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;William F. Morris;Francisco Bozinovic

  • The mean and variance of environmental temperature interact to determine physiological tolerance and fitness.

    Francisco Bozinovic;Daniel A. Bastías;Francisca Boher;Sabrina Clavijo-Baquet

  • Climatic adaptation and the evolution of basal and maximum rates of metabolism in rodents.

    Enrico L. Rezende;Francisco Bozinovic;Theodore Garland

  • Physiological ecology meets climate change

    Francisco Bozinovic;Hans-Otto Pörtner

  • The role of temperature variability on insect performance and population dynamics in a warming world

    Sergio A. Estay;Mauricio Lima;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Maximum metabolic rate of rodents: physiological and ecological consequences on distributional limits

    F. Bozinovic;M. Rosenmann

  • Seasonal regulation in fluctuating small mammal populations: feedback structure and climate

    Joseph F. Merritt;Mauricio Lima;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Seasonal Changes in Energy Expenditure and Digestive Tract of Abrothrix andinus (Cricetidae) in the Andes Range

    Francisco Bozinovic;F. Fernando Novoa;Claudio Veloso

  • Dietary and Digestive Constraints on Basal Energy Metabolism in a Small Herbivorous Rodent

    Claudio Veloso;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Intrapopulational variation in the standard metabolic rate of insects: repeatability, thermal dependence and sensitivity (Q10) of oxygen consumption in a cricket.

    R. F. Nespolo;R. F. Nespolo;M. A. Lardies;F. Bozinovic

  • The influence of habitat on travel speed, intermittent locomotion, and vigilance in a diurnal rodent

    Rodrigo A. Vásquez;Luis A. Ebensperger;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Mammals

    Philip C. Withers;Christine E. Cooper;Shane K. Maloney;F Bozinovic

  • On the relationship between trophic position, body mass and temperature: reformulating the energy limitation hypothesis

    Matías Arim;Francisco Bozinovic;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Thermal performance across levels of biological organization.

    Enrico L. Rezende;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Human-like rodent amyloid-β-peptide determines Alzheimer pathology in aged wild-type Octodon degu

    Nibaldo C. Inestrosa;Ariel E. Reyes;Marcelo A. Chacón;Waldo Cerpa

  • Predicting temperature mortality and selection in natural Drosophila populations.

    Enrico L. Rezende;Francisco Bozinovic;András Szilágyi;Mauro Santos

  • Passerines versus nonpasserines: so far, no statistical differences in the scaling of avian energetics.

    Enrico L. Rezende;David L. Swanson;F. Fernando Novoa;Francisco Bozinovic

  • The relationship between diet quality and basal metabolic rate in endotherms : insights from intraspecific analysis

    Ariovaldo P. Cruz‐Neto;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Effects of sugar concentration on hummingbird feeding and energy use

    M.Victoria López-Calleja;Francisco Bozinovic;Carlos Martinez del Rio

Frequent Co-Authors

Pablo Sabat
Pablo Sabat University of Chile
Marco A. Lardies
Marco A. Lardies Adolfo Ibáñez University
Enrico L. Rezende
Enrico L. Rezende Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Nibaldo C. Inestrosa
Nibaldo C. Inestrosa Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Fabian M. Jaksic
Fabian M. Jaksic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Luis A. Ebensperger
Luis A. Ebensperger Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mauricio Lima
Mauricio Lima Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Philip C. Withers
Philip C. Withers University of Western Australia
Shane K. Maloney
Shane K. Maloney University of Western Australia

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