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Juan Carlos Senar is affiliated with the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to ecology and sub-disciplines including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, parasitology, and developmental biology.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics such as animal behavior and reproduction, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, animal ecology and behavior studies, bird parasitology and diseases, as well as plant and animal studies.

Juan Carlos Senar has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following journals and publication venues:

  • Animal Biodiversity and Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

The scientist's recent papers highlight ongoing research interests and their impact on the field, including:

  • "Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Mosquitoes in an Urban Zoo: Identification of Blood Meals, Flight Distances of Engorged Females, and Avian Malaria Infections" (2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science)
  • "Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation" (2022, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators of Juan Carlos Senar include Emilio Barba, Anne Charmantier, Marcel E. Visser, Tapio Eeva, and Tomás Montalvo, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Brighter Yellow Blue Tits Make Better Parents

    J. C. Senar;J. Figuerola;J. Pascual

  • Plumage coloration and nutritional condition in the great tit Parus major: the roles of carotenoids and melanins differ

    Juan Carlos Senar;Jordi Figuerola;Jordi Domènech

  • Interactions among environmental stress, body condition, nutritional status, and dominance in great tits

    Luis M. Carrascal;Juan Carlos Senar;Ingrid Mozetich;Fransec Uribe

  • Status signalling and the ability to recognize dominants: an experiment with siskins (Carduelis spinus)

    Juan Carlos Senar;Montse Camerino

  • Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

    Pierre de Villemereuil;Anne Charmantier;Debora Arlt;Pierre Bize

  • Genetic differentiation in the urban habitat: the great tits (Parus major) of the parks of Barcelona city

    Mats Björklund;Iker Ruiz;Juan Carlos Senar

  • STATE‐SPECIFIC DETECTION PROBABILITIES AND DISEASE PREVALENCE

    Christopher S. Jennelle;Evan G. Cooch;Michael J. Conroy;Juan Carlos Senar

  • Comparing plumage colour measurements obtained directly from live birds and from collected feathers: the case of the great tit Parus major

    Javier Quesada;Juan Carlos Senar

  • Wing-shape variation between resident and transient wintering Siskins Carduelis spinus

    J. C. Senar;J. Lleonart;N. B. Metcalfe

  • Status signalling, metabolic rate and body mass in the siskin: the cost of being a subordinate

    Juan Carlos Senar;Vicente Polo;Francesc Uribe;Montse Camerino

  • Variation in Black Bib of the Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus) and Its Role as a Reliable Badge of Dominance

    J. C. Senar;M. Camerino;J. L. Copete;N. B. Metcalfe

  • Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool

    Evi Van den Steen;Rianne Pinxten;Veerle L.B. Jaspers;Adrian Covaci

  • Familiarity Breeds Tolerance: the Development of Social Stability in Flocking Siskins (Carduelis spinus)

    J. C. Senar;M. Camerino;N. B. Metcalfe

  • Shared genetic diversity across the global invasive range of the monk parakeet suggests a common restricted geographic origin and the possibility of convergent selection.

    Pim Edelaar;Pim Edelaar;Séverine Roques;Elisabeth A. Hobson;Elisabeth A. Hobson;Anders Gonçalves da Silva

  • Variation in the nomadic tendency of a wintering finch Carduelis spinus and its relationship with body condition

    J. C. Senar;P. J. K. Burton;N. B. Metcalfe

  • Combined epigenetic and intraspecific variation of the DRD4 and SERT genes influence novelty seeking behavior in great tit Parus major.

    Sepand Riyahi;Marta Sánchez-Delgado;Francesc Calafell;David Monk

  • Population differentiation and restricted gene flow in Spanish crossbills: not isolation‐by‐distance but isolation‐by‐ecology

    Pim Edelaar;Pim Edelaar;Daniel Alonso;S Lagerveld;Juan Carlos Senar

  • The role of melanin‐ and carotenoid‐based plumage coloration in nest defence in the Great Tit

    Javier Quesada;Juan Carlos Senar

  • Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe

    Pablo Salmón;Arne Jacobs;Dag Ahrén;Clotilde Biard

  • Plumage colour is related to ectosymbiont load during moult in the serin, Serinus serinus: an experimental study

    Jordi Figuerola;Jordi Domènech;Juan Carlos Senar

  • INTERACTIONS AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS, BODY CONDITION, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, AND DOMINANCE IN GREAT TITS DURING WINTER

    Luis M. Carrascal;Juan Carlos Senar;Ingrid Mozetich;Fransec Uribe

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Conroy
Michael J. Conroy University of Georgia
Jordi Figuerola
Jordi Figuerola Spanish National Research Council
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Mats Björklund
Mats Björklund Uppsala University
Markku Orell
Markku Orell University of Oulu
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Neil B. Metcalfe
Neil B. Metcalfe University of Glasgow
Frank Adriaensen
Frank Adriaensen University of Antwerp
János Török
János Török Eötvös Loránd University
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu

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