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Ivan Gomez-Mestre is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research focuses on a range of topics within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on amphibian and reptile biology as well as animal behavior and reproduction.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of their research cover:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Pollution

The primary topics addressed in their work consist of:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Recent publications by Ivan Gomez-Mestre include:

  • The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in amphibians, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Life in plastic, it's not fantastic: Sublethal effects of polyethylene microplastics ingestion throughout amphibian metamorphosis, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Groundwater Abstraction has Caused Extensive Ecological Damage to the Doñana World Heritage Site, Spain, 2024, Wetlands
  • The invasive aquatic fern Azolla filiculoides negatively impacts water quality, aquatic vegetation and amphibian larvae in Mediterranean environments, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Opposite and synergistic physiological responses to water acidity and predator cues in spadefoot toad tadpoles, 2020, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology

They have frequently published in several scientific journals, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Oikos
  • Evolution
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Amphibia-Reptilia

Ivan Gomez-Mestre has collaborated often with other researchers, with frequent co-authors such as:

  • H. Christoph Liedtke
  • Carmen Díaz-Paniagua
  • Pablo Burraco
  • Katharina Ruthsatz
  • María Jesús Pinero-Rodríguez

Best Publications

  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Robert Alexander Pyron;John J. Wiens

  • Preservation of RNA and DNA from mammal samples under field conditions.

    Miguel Camacho‐Sanchez;Pablo Burraco;Ivan Gomez‐Mestre;Jennifer A. Leonard

  • Developmental plasticity mirrors differences among taxa in spadefoot toads linking plasticity and diversity.

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Daniel R. Buchholz

  • Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology

    Dalia A Conde;Johanna Staerk;Johanna Staerk;Fernando Colchero;Rita da Silva

  • Local adaptation of an anuran amphibian to osmotically stressful environments

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Miguel Tejedo

  • Contrasting effects of environmental factors during larval stage on morphological plasticity in post-metamorphic frogs

    Miguel Tejedo;Federico Marangoni;Cino Pertoldi;Alex Richter-Boix

  • Mechanisms and consequences of developmental acceleration in tadpoles responding to pond drying.

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Saurabh Kulkarni;Daniel R. Buchholz

  • Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes and the role of life history and climate

    H. Christoph Liedtke;David J. Gower;Mark Wilkinson;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • Should I Change or Should I Go? Phenotypic Plasticity and Matching Habitat Choice in the Adaptation to Environmental Heterogeneity.

    Pim Edelaar;Roger Jovani;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • The shape of things to come: linking developmental plasticity to post‐metamorphic morphology in anurans

    I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;V. L. Saccoccio;T. Iijima;E. M. Collins

  • Developmental Alterations and Osmoregulatory Physiology of a Larval Anuran under Osmotic Stress

    Iván Gómez-Mestre;Miguel Tejedo;E Ramayo;J. Estepa

  • A heuristic model on the role of plasticity in adaptive evolution: plasticity increases adaptation, population viability and genetic variation

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Roger Jovani

  • EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY: RISK‐SENSITIVE HATCHING IN NEOTROPICAL LEAF‐BREEDING TREEFROGS

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;John J. Wiens;Karen M. Warkentin

  • The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in amphibians

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  • Comparisons between QST and FST—how wrong have we been?

    Pim Edelaar;Pablo Burraco;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • Amphibian embryo and parental defenses and a larval predator reduce egg mortality from water mold.

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Justin C. Touchon;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Invasive predatory crayfish do not trigger inducible defences in tadpoles

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Carmen Díaz-Paniagua

  • CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF QUANTITATIVE AND NEUTRAL GENETIC VARIATION IN LOCALLY ADAPTED POPULATIONS OF THE NATTERJACK TOAD, BUFO CALAMITA

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Miguel Tejedo

  • Hatching plasticity in two temperate anurans: responses to a pathogen and predation cues

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  • Different effects of accelerated development and enhanced growth on oxidative stress and telomere shortening in amphibian larvae.

    Pablo Burraco;Carmen Díaz-Paniagua;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • Learned recognition of introduced predators determines survival of tadpole prey

    Nuria Polo-Cavia;Nuria Polo-Cavia;Ivan Gomez-Mestre

  • CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF QUANTITATIVE AND NEUTRAL GENETIC VARIATION IN LOCALLY ADAPTED POPULATIONS OF THE NATTERJACK TOAD

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Miguel Tejedo;Pabellon del Perti

Frequent Co-Authors

Carmen Díaz-Paniagua
Carmen Díaz-Paniagua Estación Biológica de Doñana
Karen M. Warkentin
Karen M. Warkentin Boston University
Miguel Tejedo
Miguel Tejedo Spanish National Research Council
John J. Wiens
John J. Wiens University of Arizona
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Julia E. Fa
Julia E. Fa Manchester Metropolitan University
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Eelke Jongejans
Eelke Jongejans Radboud University
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford

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