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39
Citations
12516
World Ranking
6246
National Ranking
210

Overview

Isabel Sanmartín is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's main research subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science. Their research focuses on topics such as Plant Diversity and Evolution, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent coauthors of Isabel Sanmartín include:

  • Ricarda Riina
  • Tamara Villaverde
  • Eliška Záveská
  • Božo Frajman
  • Carlos García-Verdugo

They have published extensively in well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Isabel Sanmartín include:

  • "Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020" (2021, Nature)
  • "Long-term isolation of European steppe outposts boosts the biome's conservation value" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Evaluating character partitioning and molecular models in plastid phylogenomics at low taxonomic levels: A case study using Amphilophium (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae)" (2020, Journal of Systematics and Evolution)
  • "The late Pleistocene endemicity increase hypothesis and the origins of diversity in the Canary Islands Flora" (2022, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change" (2022, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

    C. Hoorn;F. P. Wesselingh;H. ter Steege;M. A. Bermudez

  • Southern Hemisphere Biogeography Inferred by Event-Based Models: Plant versus Animal Patterns

    Isabel Sanmartín;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution

    Alexandre Antonelli;Johan A. A. Nylander;Claes Persson;Isabel Sanmartín

  • Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics

    Alexandre Antonelli;Isabel Sanmartín

  • Patterns of animal dispersal, vicariance and diversification in the Holarctic

    Isabel Sanmartín;Henrik Enghoff;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder‐event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection

    Richard H. Ree;Isabel Sanmartín

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in biogeography: A bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis of the thrushes (Aves: Turdus)

    Johan A. A. Nylander;Johan A. A. Nylander;Urban Olsson;Per Alström;Per Alström;Isabel Sanmartín

  • Inferring dispersal: a Bayesian approach to phylogeny‐based island biogeography, with special reference to the Canary Islands

    Isabel Sanmartin;Paul van der Mark;Fredrik Ronquist;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Dispersal vs. vicariance in the Mediterranean: historical biogeography of the Palearctic Pachydeminae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)

    Isabel Sanmartín

  • An evaluation of new parsimony‐based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae

    Sven Buerki;Félix Forest;Nadir Alvarez;Johan A. A. Nylander

  • Plastid and nuclear DNA markers reveal intricate relationships at subfamilial and tribal levels in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae)

    Sven Buerki;Félix Forest;Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez;Martin W. Callmander

  • Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference

    Richard H. Ree;Isabel Sanmartín

  • West Wind Drift revisited: testing for directional dispersal in the Southern Hemisphere using event‐based tree fitting

    Isabel Sanmartín;Livia Wanntorp;Richard C. Winkworth

  • Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

    Laia Barres;Isabel Sanmartín;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;Alfonso Susanna

  • Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research.

    Alexandre Antonelli;María Ariza;María Ariza;James Albert;Tobias Andermann

  • Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography to Reveal Ancient Evolutionary History: The Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

    Andrea S. Meseguer;Jorge M. Lobo;Richard Ree;David J. Beerling

  • Living on the edge: timing of Rand Flora disjunctions congruent with ongoing aridification in Africa.

    Lisa Pokorny;Ricarda Riina;Mario Mairal;Andrea S. Meseguer

  • Bayesian island biogeography in a continental setting: the Rand Flora case.

    Isabel Sanmartín;Cajsa Lisa Anderson;María Luisa Alarcón;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Bridging the micro- and macroevolutionary levels in phylogenomics: Hyb-Seq solves relationships from populations to species and above

    Tamara Villaverde;Lisa Pokorny;Sanna Olsson;Mario Rincón-Barrado

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Sven Buerki
Sven Buerki Boise State University
Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council
Myriam Heuertz
Myriam Heuertz University of Bordeaux
Pablo Vargas
Pablo Vargas Spanish National Research Council
Fabien L. Condamine
Fabien L. Condamine University of Montpellier
Fredrik Ronquist
Fredrik Ronquist Swedish Museum of Natural History
Lúcia G. Lohmann
Lúcia G. Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva
Tanja Stadler
Tanja Stadler Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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