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Ecology and Evolution
Greece
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
8576
World Ranking
5033
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Greece Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Kostas A. Triantis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions to the fields of agricultural and biological sciences.

The main areas of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad fields, they have specialized in various subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Kostas A. Triantis has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Nature
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Folia Malacologica

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Species-area relationships on small islands differ among plant growth forms" (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity" (2022, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Unravelling the small-island effect through phylogenetic community ecology" (2020, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Island biogeography" (2021, Current Biology)
  • "Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Thomas J. Matthews
  • Robert J. Whittaker
  • François Rigal
  • Κωνσταντίνος Πρόιος
  • Panayiotis Trigas

Kostas A. Triantis was recognized with membership in the Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

    Robert J. Whittaker;Kostas A. Triantis;Richard J. Ladle

  • Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories

    Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;José María Fernández-Palacios;Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Michael K. Borregaard

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • The island species–area relationship: biology and statistics

    Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • A model for the species–area–habitat relationship

    K. A. Triantis;K. A. Triantis;M. Mylonas;M. Mylonas;K. Lika;K. Vardinoyannis

  • Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity

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

  • Adapting the IUCN Red List criteria for invertebrates

    Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Paulo A.V. Borges;Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Miguel A. Ferrández

  • Extinction debt on oceanic islands

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

  • 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

  • Drivers of diversity in Macaronesian spiders and the role of species extinctions

    Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Miquel A. Arnedo;Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Paulo A. V. Borges

  • Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge

    David E.V. Harter;Severin D.H. Irl;Bumsuk Seo;Manuel J. Steinbauer

  • On the form of species–area relationships in habitat islands and true islands

    Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Michael K. Borregaard

  • Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores

    Robert J. Whittaker;François Rigal;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso

  • Re-approaching the small island effect

    K. A. Triantis;K. A. Triantis;K. Vardinoyannis;E. P. Tsolaki;I. Botsaris

  • Patterns of species richness on very small islands : the plants of the Aegean archipelago

    Maria Panitsa;Dimitrios Tzanoudakis;Kostas A. Triantis;Spyros Sfenthourakis

  • Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles

    Sofia Terzopoulou;François Rigal;Robert J. Whittaker;Paulo A. V. Borges

  • Island biogeography

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  • Habitat diversity, ecological requirements of species and the Small Island Effect

    Spyros Sfenthourakis;Kostas A. Triantis

  • A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands

    Robert J. Whittaker;Kostas A. Triantis;Richard J. Ladle

  • sars: an R package for fitting, evaluating and comparing species–area relationship models

    Thomas J. Matthews;Thomas J. Matthews;Kostas A. Triantis;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;François Guilhaumon

  • Diversity regulation at macro-scales: species richness on oceanic archipelagos

    Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Evan P. Economo;Evan P. Economo;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Species richness, environmental heterogeneity and area: a case study based on land snails in Skyros archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)

    K. A. Triantis;K. A. Triantis;M. Mylonas;M. Mylonas;M. D. Weiser;K. Lika

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
François Guilhaumon
François Guilhaumon University of Montpellier
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Richard J. Ladle
Richard J. Ladle Federal University of Alagoas
Michael K. Borregaard
Michael K. Borregaard University of Copenhagen
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología

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