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Juan Carranza is affiliated with the University of Córdoba in Spain and has conducted research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans into subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Carranza's research focus on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Carranza has published multiple papers, with several key recent works including:

  • Ungulate management in European national parks: Why a more integrated European policy is needed (2020), Journal of Environmental Management
  • Social environment modulates investment in sex trait versus lifespan: red deer produce bigger antlers when facing more rivalry (2020), Scientific Reports
  • Immune challenge of mating effort: steroid hormone profile, dark ventral patch and parasite burden in relation to intrasexual competition in male Iberian red deer (2020), Integrative Zoology
  • Comparative Analysis of Microsatellite and SNP Markers for Genetic Management of Red Deer (2023), Animals
  • Testosterone and the dark ventral patch of male red deer: the role of the social environment (2020), Die Naturwissenschaften

Their frequent coauthors include Eva de la Peña, Javier Pérez-González, A. Membrillo, Camilla Broggini, and Giovanni Vedel. This collaborative network has contributed to various studies within related fields.

Carranza's research is often published in journals such as Animals, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Mammalian Biology, and European Journal of Wildlife Research.

Best Publications

  • Territoriality as a mating strategy in red deer

    Juan Carranza;Fernando Alvarez;Tomás Redondo

  • Disposable-soma senescence mediated by sexual selection in an ungulate

    Juan Carranza;Susana Alarcos;Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto;Juliana Valencia

  • Space use by red deer in a Mediterranean ecosystem as determined by radio-tracking

    Juan Carranza;Sebastián J. Hidalgo de Trucios;Rosario Medina;Juliana Valencia

  • Phylogeography of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations: the effects of historical genetic subdivisions and recent nonequilibrium dynamics

    E. Randi;P. C. Alves;J. Carranza;S. Milošević-Zlatanović

  • Offspring reproductive value and nest defense in the magpie (Pica pica)

    Tomas Redondo;Juan Carranza

  • Genetic variation of red deer populations under hunting exploitation in Southwestern Spain.

    J. G. Martínez;J. Carranza;J. L. Fernández-García;C. B. Sánchez-Prieto

  • An epizootiological study of avian mycoplasmas in southern Spain.

    J B Poveda;J Carranza;A Miranda;A Garrido

  • SEXUAL SELECTION FOR MALE BODY MASS AND THE EVOLUTION OF LITTER SIZE IN MAMMALS

    Juan Carranza

  • Sex allocation in a polygynous mammal with large litters: the wild boar.

    Pedro FernáNdez-Llario;Juan Carranza;Patricio Mateos-Quesada

  • Red deer females collect on male clumps at mating areas

    Juan Carranza;Juliana Valencia

  • Defining sexual selection as sex-dependent selection

    Juan Carranza

  • Experimental shifting from harem defence to territoriality in rutting red deer

    Juan Carranza;Antonio J. Garcia-Muñoz;Juan deDIOS Vargas

  • Female attraction by males versus sites in territorial rutting red deer

    Juan Carranza

  • Female-biased dispersal under conditions of low male mating competition in a polygynous mammal.

    J. Pérez-González;J. Carranza

  • Effects of male dominance and courtship display on female choice in the ring-necked pheasant

    Concha Mateos;Juan Carranza

  • Correlates of Territoriality in Rutting Red Deer

    Juan Carranza;Juan Carranza;Pedro Fernandez-Llario;Pedro Fernandez-Llario;Montserrat Gomendio;Montserrat Gomendio

  • Reproductive performance of the wild boar in a Mediterranean ecosystem under drought conditions.

    P. Fernández-Llario;J. Carranza

  • Female choice for morphological features of male ring-necked pheasants

    Concha Mateos;Juan Carranza

  • Signals in intra-sexual competition between ring-necked pheasant males ☆ ☆☆

    Concha Mateos;Juan Carranza

  • The role of bright plumage in male-male interactions in the ring-necked pheasant

    Concha Mateos;Juan Carranza

  • The tragedy of the commons: unsustainable population structure of Iberian red deer in hunting estates

    Jerónimo Torres-Porras;Juan Carranza;Javier Pérez-González;Concha Mateos

  • What did Trivers and Willard really predict

    Juan Carranza

  • Parents increase their parental effort when aided by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird

    Juliana Valencia;Carlos De La Cruz;Juan Carranza;Concha Mateos

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Fernández
Antonio Fernández University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
José Martín
José Martín Spanish National Research Council
Carlos Romero
Carlos Romero Technical University of Madrid
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council
Gregorio Montero
Gregorio Montero Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Spanish National Research Council
Mario Díaz
Mario Díaz Spanish National Research Council
Albano Beja-Pereira
Albano Beja-Pereira University of Porto
F. J. Perez-Barberia
F. J. Perez-Barberia University of Oviedo

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