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Ignacio Ribera was affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council. Their research spanned various domains within environmental and biological sciences, with a focus on biodiversity, taxonomy, and ecological systems.

Their main fields of study included:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

In subfields, Ignacio Ribera contributed to areas such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Paleontology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Genetics

Their research covered key topics including:

  • Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Ignacio Ribera published multiple papers with notable recent works such as:

  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Loss of heat acclimation capacity could leave subterranean specialists highly sensitive to climate change, 2020, Animal Conservation
  • Smelling in the dark: Phylogenomic insights into the chemosensory system of a subterranean beetle, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Habitat preference and diversification rates in a speciose lineage of diving beetles, 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • The neglected diversity of the Ochthebius fauna from Eastern Atlantic and Central and Western Mediterranean coastal rockpools (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), 2020, Organisms Diversity & Evolution

Their frequent publication venues included:

  • Scientific Data
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Organisms Diversity & Evolution
  • Zootaxa
  • Animal Conservation

They collaborated regularly with researchers such as:

  • Pau Balart-García
  • Adrián Villastrigo
  • David T. Bilton
  • Javier Fresneda
  • Andrés Millán

Ignacio Ribera's work contributed to advances in understanding biodiversity patterns, taxonomy of beetles, and ecological adaptations especially in subterranean and marine environments. Their multidisciplinary approach encompassed genetic, ecological, and systematic perspectives within their studies.

Best Publications

  • A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation

    Toby Hunt;Johannes Bergsten;Zuzana Levkanicova;Anna Papadopoulou

  • The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding

    Johannes Bergsten;David T. Bilton;Tomochika Fujisawa;Miranda Elliott

  • Effect of land disturbance and stress on species traits of ground beetle assemblages

    Ignacio Ribera;Sylvain Dolédec;Iain S. Downie;Garth N. Foster

  • Ancient origin of a Western Mediterranean radiation of subterranean beetles

    Ignacio Ribera;Javier Fresneda;Ruxandra Bucur;Ruxandra Bucur;Ana Izquierdo

  • Nucleotide substitution rates for the full set of mitochondrial protein-coding genes in Coleoptera

    Joan Pons;Ignacio Ribera;Jaume Bertranpetit;Jaume Bertranpetit;Michael Balke

  • Speciation of Iberian diving beetles in Pleistocene refugia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

    Ignacio Ribera;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Habitat type as a determinant of species range sizes: the example of lotic–lentic differences in aquatic Coleoptera

    Ignacio Ribera;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Does habitat use explain large scale species richness patterns of aquatic beetles in Europe

    Ignacio Ribera;Garth N. Foster;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Biogeography and conservation of Iberian water beetles

    Ignacio Ribera;Ignacio Ribera

  • Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

    Paula Arribas;Josefa Velasco;Pedro Abellán;David Sánchez-Fernández

  • Mitochondrial Cox1 Sequence Data Reliably Uncover Patterns of Insect Diversity But Suffer from High Lineage-Idiosyncratic Error Rates

    Lars Hendrich;Joan Pons;Ignacio Ribera;Michael Balke

  • A molecular phylogeny shows the single origin of the Pyrenean subterranean Trechini ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    Arnaud Faille;Ignacio Ribera;L. Deharveng;Charles Bourdeau

  • Phylogeny of hydradephagan water beetles inferred from 18S rRNA sequences.

    Ignacio Ribera;James E Hogan;James E Hogan;Alfried P Vogler;Alfried P Vogler

  • Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera

    I. Ribera;R. G. Beutel;M. Balke;A. P. Vogler;A. P. Vogler

  • Are the endemic water beetles of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands effectively protected

    David Sánchez-Fernández;David T. Bilton;Pedro Abellán;Pedro Abellán;Ignacio Ribera

  • Phylogeny and diversification of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Ignacio Ribera;Alfried P. Vogler;Alfried P. Vogler;Michael Balke

  • The effect of habitat type on speciation rates and range movements in aquatic beetles: inferences from species‐level phylogenies

    I. Ribera;T. G. Barraclough;A. P. Vogler;A. P. Vogler

  • New Guinea highland origin of a widespread arthropod supertramp

    Michael Balke;Ignacio Ribera;Lars Hendrich;Michael A. Miller

  • Inferring speciation modes in a clade of Iberian chafers from rates of morphological evolution in different character systems

    Dirk Ahrens;Ignacio Ribera

  • A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE TRAITS OF SCOTTISH GROUND BEETLES (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE)

    I. Ribera;G. N. Foster;I. S. Downie;D. I. Mccracken

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sánchez-Fernández
David Sánchez-Fernández University of Murcia
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Andrés Millán
Andrés Millán University of Murcia
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
Michael Balke
Michael Balke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Josefa Velasco
Josefa Velasco University of Murcia
Paula Arribas
Paula Arribas Spanish National Research Council
Lars Hendrich
Lars Hendrich Freie Universität Berlin
Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council

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