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68

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Joaquín Hortal is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences with extensive work in several subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and genetics.

Their research topics cover a broad range including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, lichen and fungal ecology, bryophyte studies and records, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Joaquín Hortal illustrate their research interests and publication record. These include:

  • "Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function," 2021, Biotropica
  • "A trait-based framework for dung beetle functional ecology," 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Macroecological links between the Linnean, Wallacean, and Darwinian shortfalls," 2023, Frontiers of Biogeography
  • "Using maps of biogeographical ignorance to reveal the uncertainty in distributional data hidden in species distribution models," 2021, Ecography
  • "Assessing the functional relationship between dung beetle traits and dung removal, burial, and seedling emergence," 2020, Ecology

Joaquín Hortal frequently collaborates with several researchers. Their most frequent coauthors include Cristina Ronquillo (13 collaborations), Juliana Stropp (12 collaborations), Richard J. Ladle (11 collaborations), Ana M. C. Santos (10 collaborations), and José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho (10 collaborations).

They frequently publish in several venues such as the Journal of Biogeography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Peer Community In Ecology, and npj Biodiversity.

Best Publications

  • Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

    Joaquín Hortal;Francesco de Bello;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • Not as good as they seem: the importance of concepts in species distribution modelling

    Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Jorge M. Lobo;Joaquín Hortal

  • The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling

    Jorge M. Lobo;Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Joaquín Hortal

  • Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: sensitivity to sample grain size.

    Joaquín Hortal;Joaquín Hortal;Paulo A. V. Borges;Clara Gaspar;Clara Gaspar

  • Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

    Duccio Rocchini;Joaquín Hortal;Szabolcs Lengyel;Jorge M. Lobo

  • Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

    Marco Moretti;André T. C. Dias;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Historical bias in biodiversity inventories affects the observed environmental niche of the species

    Joaquín Hortal;Alberto Jiménez‐Valverde;José F. Gómez;Jorge M. Lobo

  • Las curvas de acumulación de especies y la necesidad de evaluar la calidad de los inventarios biológicos

    Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Joaquín Hortal

  • Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

    Jorge Ari Noriega;Joaquín Hortal;Joaquín Hortal;Francisco M. Azcárate;Matty P. Berg

  • Climate change, humans, and the extinction of the woolly mammoth.

    David Nogués-Bravo;Jesús Rodríguez;Joaquín Hortal;Persaram Batra

  • Limitations of Biodiversity Databases: Case Study on Seed‐Plant Diversity in Tenerife, Canary Islands

    Joaquín Hortal;Joaquín Hortal;Joaquín Hortal;Jorge M. Lobo;Alberto Jiménez‐Valverde

  • Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity

    Joaquín Hortal;Kostas A. Triantis;Shai Meiri;Elisa Thébault

  • Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • Extinction debt on oceanic islands

    Kostas A. Triantis;Paulo A. V. Borges;Richard J. Ladle;Joaquín Hortal

  • Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

    Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;F. Diniz-Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Thiago Fernando Rangel

  • Potential distribution modelling, niche characterization and conservation status assessment using GIS tools: A case study of Iberian Copris species

    Rosa M. Chefaoui;Joaquín Hortal;Jorge M. Lobo

  • A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;Paulo A.V. Borges;José María Fernández-Palacios

  • Understanding (insect) species distributions across spatial scales

    Joaquín Hortal;Núria Roura-Pascual;Nathan J. Sanders;Carsten Rahbek

  • An ED-based protocol for optimal sampling of biodiversity

    Jorge M. Lobo

  • Using ATLANTIS-Tierra 2.0 and GIS environmental information to predict the spatial distribution and habitat suitability of endemic species

    Joaquín Hortal;Paulo Av Borges;Francisco Dinis;Alberto Jiménez-Valverde

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Henrik Enghoff
Henrik Enghoff University of Copenhagen
Kostas A. Triantis
Kostas A. Triantis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho Universidade Federal de Goiás
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde University of Alcalá
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
Michael N Dawson
Michael N Dawson University of California, Merced

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