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7031
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6068
National Ranking
196

Overview

Luis Cayuela is affiliated with King Juan Carlos University in Spain and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

Their research covers a range of main topics, with a focus on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Forest Management and Policy, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Luis Cayuela include:

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Trade-Offs Among Aboveground, Belowground, and Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Along Altitudinal Gradients in Andean Tropical Montane Forests, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Long-term monitoring of NDVI changes by remote sensing to assess the vulnerability of threatened plants, 2021, Biological Conservation

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Manuel J. Macía, Norma Salinas, Guillermo Bañares-de-Dios, Carlos Iván Espinosa, and Laura Matas-Granados.

Luis Cayuela's works often appear in a select group of publication venues. These include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Animal Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • Monitoring land cover change of the dryland forest landscape of Central Chile (1975-2008).

    Jennifer J. Schulz;Luis Cayuela;Cristian Echeverria;Javier Salas

  • Native forest loss in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot: revealing the evidence

    Alejandro Miranda;Alejandro Miranda;Alejandro Miranda;Adison Altamirano;Luis Cayuela;Antonio Lara;Antonio Lara

  • Clearance and fragmentation of tropical montane forests in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico (1975-2000)

    Luis Cayuela;José María Rey Benayas;Cristian Echeverría

  • taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

    Luis Cayuela;Íñigo Granzow-de la Cerda;Fabio S. Albuquerque;Duncan J. Golicher

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Species Distribution Modeling in the Tropics: Problems, Potentialities, and the Role of Biological Data for Effective Species Conservation:

    L. Cayuela;D. J. Golicher;A. C. Newton;M. Kolb

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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  • Remote sensing and the future of landscape ecology

    Adrian C. Newton;Ross A. Hill;Cristian Echeverría;Duncan Golicher

  • Fragmentation, disturbance and tree diversity conservation in tropical montane forests

    Luis Cayuela;Duncan J. Golicher;José María Rey Benayas;Mario González-Espinosa

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Different times, same story: Native forest loss and landscape homogenization in three physiographical areas of south-central of Chile

    Alejandro Miranda;Alejandro Miranda;Adison Altamirano;Luis Cayuela;Francoise Pincheira

  • Synergistic effects of ground cover and adjacent vegetation on natural enemies of olive insect pests

    Daniel Paredes;Luis Cayuela;Mercedes Campos

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • Forest biomass density across large climate gradients in northern South America is related to water availability but not with temperature

    Esteban Álvarez-Dávila;Luis Cayuela;Sebastián González-Caro;Ana M. Aldana

  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network.

    Agustina Malizia;Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Oriana Osinaga Acosta

  • Native forest replacement by exotic plantations in southern Chile (1985-2011) and partial compensation by natural regeneration

    Carlos Zamorano-Elgueta;José María Rey Benayas;Luis Cayuela;Stijn Hantson

  • Modelling tree diversity in a highly fragmented tropical montane landscape

    Luis Cayuela;José María Rey Benayas;Ana Justel;Javier Salas-Rey

  • The Extent, Distribution, and Fragmentation of Vanishing Montane Cloud Forest in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

    Luis Cayuela;Duncan J. Golicher;Jose Maria Rey-Benayas

  • Factors influencing vegetation cover change in Mediterranean Central Chile (1975–2008)

    Jennifer J. Schulz;Luis Cayuela;José M. Rey-Benayas;Boris Schröder

  • The impact of modelling choices in the predictive performance of richness maps derived from species-distribution models: guidelines to build better diversity models

    Blas M. Benito;Luis Cayuela;Fabio S. Albuquerque

Frequent Co-Authors

José María Rey Benayas
José María Rey Benayas University of Alcalá
Adrian C. Newton
Adrian C. Newton James Hutton Institute
Antonio Lara
Antonio Lara Austral University of Chile
Manuel J. Macía
Manuel J. Macía Autonomous University of Madrid
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría University of Coimbra
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo

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