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Ecology and Evolution
Mexico
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
15244
World Ranking
1962
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Juan J. Morrone is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the agricultural, biological, earth, and planetary sciences, with a primary focus on ecological and biogeographical studies. Their scholarly output includes substantial work in ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and paleontology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies

Their recent notable papers include the following:

  • Biogeographic regionalization of the Neotropical region: New map and shapefile, 2022, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
  • Toward a terrestrial biogeographical regionalisation of the world: historical notes, characterisation and area nomenclature, 2022, Australian Systematic Botany
  • Why biogeographical transition zones matter, 2023, Journal of Biogeography

Juan J. Morrone frequently publishes with several co-authors, among them:

  • Viridiana Vega-Badillo
  • Santiago Zaragoza-Caballero
  • Rudolf Meier
  • James M. Carpenter
  • Ian J. Kitching

The scientist has contributed to various academic journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cladistics
  • Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
  • Zootaxa
  • Australian Systematic Botany

Best Publications

  • Biogeographical regionalisation of the Neotropical region

    Juan J Morrone

  • Biogeographic areas and transition zones of Latin America and the Caribbean islands based on panbiogeographic and cladistic analyses of the entomofauna.

    Juan José Morrone

  • HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY: Introduction to Methods

    Juan J. Morrone;Jorge V. Crisci

  • On the Identification of Areas of Endemism

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach with Case Studies

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Panbiogeografía, componentes bióticos y zonas de transición

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Biogeographic regionalization of the Neotropical region: New map and shapefile.

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  • Mexican biogeographic provinces: Map and shapefiles.

    Juan J. Morrone;Tania Escalante;Gerardo Rodríguez-Tapia

  • Biogeographical regionalisation of the Andean region.

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Historical biogeography of southern South America

    Jorge V. Crisci;María Marta Cigliano;Juan J. Morrone;Sergio Roig-Junent

  • Halffter's Mexican Transition zone, beetle generalized tracks, and geographical homology

    Juan J. Morrone;Juan Márquez

  • Homology, biogeography and areas of endemism

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Historical relationships of the Mexican cloud forests: a preliminary vicariance model applying Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity to vascular plant taxa

    Isolda Luna Vega;Othón Alcántara Ayala;David Espinosa Organista;Juan J. Morrone

  • Cladistic biogeography of the Neotropical region: identifying the main events in the diversification of the terrestrial biota.

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Fundamental biogeographic patterns across the Mexican Transition Zone: an evolutionary approach

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos de México: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Volumen II

    Jorge Enrique Llorente Bousquets;O Yáñez;Isabel Vargas Fernández;Juan José Morrone

  • Track analysis and conservation priorities in the cloud forests of Hidalgo, Mexico

    Isolda Luna Vega;Othón Alcántara Ayala;JuaN. J. Morrone;David Espinosa Organista

  • Biogeographical regionalisation of the world: a reappraisal

    Juan J. Morrone

  • Mexican biogeographic provinces: preliminary scheme, general characterizations, and synonymies

    Juan J. Morrone;David Espinosa Organista;Jorge Llorente Bousquets

  • An analytical review of Halffter's Mexican transition zone, and its relevance for evolutionary biogeography, ecology and biogeographical regionalization.

    Gonzalo Halffter;Juan J. Morrone

  • Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) of Mexican terrestrial mammals at different area units: when size matters

    Juan J. Morrone;T. Escalante

  • DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERNS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF BOECKELLA (COPEPODA: CENTROPAGIDAE): A TRACK ANALYSIS

    Silvina Menu-Marque;Juan J. Morrone;Cecilia Locascio de Mitrovich

  • The diversification of Nearctic mammals in the Mexican transition zone

    Tania Escalante;Gerardo Rodríguez;Juan J. Morrone

Frequent Co-Authors

Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza
Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza National Autonomous University of Mexico
Víctor Sánchez-Cordero
Víctor Sánchez-Cordero National Autonomous University of Mexico
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León National Autonomous University of Mexico
Martín García-Varela
Martín García-Varela National Autonomous University of Mexico
Isabel Sanmartín
Isabel Sanmartín Spanish National Research Council
Juan Francisco Ornelas
Juan Francisco Ornelas Instituto de Ecología
Luis E. Eguiarte
Luis E. Eguiarte National Autonomous University of Mexico
David C. Cannatella
David C. Cannatella The University of Texas at Austin
José Luis Prado
José Luis Prado Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha Universidade de São Paulo

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