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Argentina
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
11881
World Ranking
3780
National Ranking
11

Juan Manuel Morales publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juan Manuel Morales sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 104 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Juan Manuel Morales D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juan Manuel Morales sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Juan Manuel Morales is affiliated with the National University of Comahue in Argentina. Their research spans several areas within environmental sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing particularly on ecology and conservation.

Their recent academic contributions include a number of papers with topics covering ecological dynamics, wildlife movement, and ecosystem vulnerability. Notable publications include:

  • Defining priority areas for blue whale conservation and investigating overlap with vessel traffic in Chilean Patagonia, using a fast-fitting movement model (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Projections of fire probability and ecosystem vulnerability under 21st century climate across a trans-Andean productivity gradient in Patagonia (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics (2020, The American Naturalist)
  • Forest and connectivity loss drive changes in movement behavior of bird species (2020, Ecography)
  • Hierarchical, Memory-Based Movement Models for Translocated Elk (Cervus canadensis) (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

The primary research themes include ecology, environmental science, and aspects of conservation biology. Subfields prominent in their work are ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology evolution behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, and artificial intelligence applied to ecological data.

The topics they explore cover:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Juan Manuel Morales frequently publishes in a range of scientific venues known for ecological and environmental sciences, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PeerJ
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Oikos

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Teresa Morán-López, Juan M. Gurevitz, Colin J. Torney, Iván Barberá, and Dirk Husmeier. These collaborations reflect an ongoing engagement with researchers focused on ecological modeling, conservation, and movement behavior studies.

Best Publications

  • Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

    Lucas A. Garibaldi;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Claire Kremen;Juan M. Morales

  • EXTRACTING MORE OUT OF RELOCATION DATA: BUILDING MOVEMENT MODELS AS MIXTURES OF RANDOM WALKS

    Juan Manuel Morales;Daniel T. Haydon;Jacqui Frair;Kent E. Holsinger

  • Building the bridge between animal movement and population dynamics

    Juan M. Morales;Paul R. Moorcroft;Jason Matthiopoulos;Jacqueline L. Frair

  • Invasive Mutualists Erode Native Pollination Webs

    Marcelo A Aizen;Carolina L Morales;Juan M Morales

  • Flexible and practical modeling of animal telemetry data: hidden Markov models and extensions

    Roland Langrock;Ruth King;Jason Matthiopoulos;Len Thomas

  • The interpretation of habitat preference metrics under use–availability designs

    Hawthorne L. Beyer;Daniel T. Haydon;Juan M. Morales;Jacqueline L. Frair

  • Multiple movement modes by large herbivores at multiple spatiotemporal scales

    John M. Fryxell;Megan Hazell;Luca Börger;Ben D. Dalziel

  • Stochastic modelling of animal movement

    Peter E. Smouse;Stefano Focardi;Paul R. Moorcroft;John G. Kie

  • SCALING UP ANIMAL MOVEMENTS IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEHAVIOR

    Juan Manuel Morales;Stephen P. Ellner

  • Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

    Hannah J Williams;Lucy A Taylor;Lucy A Taylor;Simon Benhamou;Allert I Bijleveld

  • Scales of movement by elk (Cervus elaphus) in response to heterogeneity in forage resources and predation risk

    Jacqueline L. Frair;Evelyn H. Merrill;Darcy R. Visscher;Daniel Fortin;Daniel Fortin

  • A general discrete‐time modeling framework for animal movement using multistate random walks

    Brett Thomas McClintock;Ruth King;Len Thomas;Jason Matthiopoulos

  • Generalist birds promote tropical forest regeneration and increase plant diversity via rare‐biased seed dispersal

    Tomás A. Carlo;Juan M. Morales

  • Inequalities in fruit-removal and seed dispersal: consequences of bird behaviour, neighbourhood density and landscape aggregation

    Tomás A. Carlo;Juan M. Morales

  • Animal Movement: Statistical Models for Telemetry Data

    Mevin B. Hooten;Devin S. Johnson;Brett T. McClintock;Juan M. Morales

  • A memory-based foraging tactic reveals an adaptive mechanism for restricted space use.

    J. A. Merkle;D. Fortin;J. M. Morales

  • Establishing the link between habitat selection and animal population dynamics

    Jason Matthiopoulos;John R Fieberg;Geert Aarts;Hawthorne L. Beyer

  • How do roads affect the habitat use of an assemblage of scavenging raptors

    Sergio A. Lambertucci;Karina L. Speziale;Thomas E. Rogers;Juan M. Morales

  • The effects of plant distribution and frugivore density on the scale and shape of dispersal kernels.

    Juan Manuel Morales;Tomás A. Carlo

  • Where do seeds go when they go far? Distance and directionality of avian seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes

    Tomás A. Carlo;Daniel García;Daniel Martínez;Jason M. Gleditsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Mevin B. Hooten
Mevin B. Hooten The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel T. Haydon
Daniel T. Haydon University of Glasgow
Hawthorne L. Beyer
Hawthorne L. Beyer University of Queensland
Sergio A. Lambertucci
Sergio A. Lambertucci National University of Comahue
Jason Matthiopoulos
Jason Matthiopoulos University of Glasgow
Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas Kitzberger National University of Comahue
Daniel Fortin
Daniel Fortin Université Laval
Daniel García
Daniel García University of Oviedo
Len Thomas
Len Thomas University of St Andrews

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