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Luis Santamaría is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, contributing primarily to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various interconnected subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Modeling and Simulation, and Economics and Econometrics.

The work of Luis Santamaría frequently appears in publication venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, where they have published multiple papers. Other notable venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Oikos, and Wetlands.

Their research addresses several key topics, which include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Evaluating tourist profiles and nature-based experiences in Biosphere Reserves using Flickr: Matches and mismatches between online social surveys and photo content analysis" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism-antagonism continuum" (2022, Oikos)
  • "COVID-19 effective reproduction number dropped during Spain's nationwide dropdown, then spiked at lower-incidence regions" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Digital conservation in biosphere reserves: Earth observations, social media, and nature's cultural contributions to people" (2020, Conservation Letters)
  • "Groundwater Abstraction has Caused Extensive Ecological Damage to the Doñana World Heritage Site, Spain" (2024, Wetlands)

Luis Santamaría has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Joaquín Hortal, Eloy Revilla, Andy J. Green, Javier Bustamante, and Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, reflecting a broad network in ecological and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Why are most aquatic plants widely distributed? Dispersal, clonal growth and small-scale heterogeneity in a stressful environment

    Luis Santamaría

  • Seed dispersal in changing landscapes.

    Kim R. McConkey;Soumya Prasad;Richard T. Corlett;Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz

  • A new algorithm to calculate the nestedness temperature of presence–absence matrices

    Miguel A. Rodríguez‐Gironés;Luis Santamaría

  • Contrasting effects of invasive plants in plant-pollinator networks.

    Ignasi Bartomeus;Montserrat Vilà;Luís Santamaría

  • Biotic wetland connectivity—supporting a new approach for wetland policy

    J.M. Amezaga;Luis Santamaría;Andy J. Green

  • Linkage Rules for Plant–Pollinator Networks: Trait Complementarity or Exploitation Barriers?

    Luis Santamaría;Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Gironés

  • Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective

    Elisabeth S. Bakker;Kevin A. Wood;Jordi F. Pages;G. F. (Ciska) Veen

  • Migratory Birds as Global Dispersal Vectors

    Duarte S. Viana;Luis Santamaría;Jordi Figuerola

  • Mining Impacts on the Fresh Water Environment : Technical and Managerial Guidelines for Catchment-Focused Remediation

    JM Amezaga;C Baresel;G Destouni;J Göbel

  • Why are so many bird flowers red

    Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Gironés;Luis Santamaría

  • Passive internal transport of aquatic organisms by waterfowl in Doñana, south-west Spain

    Jordi Figuerola;Andy J. Green;Luis Santamaría

  • Water flow across and sediment trapping in submerged macrophyte beds of contrasting growth form.

    J.E. Vermaat;L. Santamaria;P.J. Roos

  • PLANT PERFORMANCE ACROSS LATITUDE: THE ROLE OF PLASTICITY AND LOCAL ADAPTATION IN AN AQUATIC PLANT

    Luis Santamaría;Jordi Figuerola;J. Pilon;M. Mjelde

  • Waterbirds as endozoochorous dispersers of aquatic organisms: a review of experimental evidence

    Iris Charalambidou;Luis Santamaría

  • Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales

    Duarte S. Viana;Jordi Figuerola;K. Schwenk;M. Manca

  • Comparative dispersal effectiveness of wigeongrass seeds by waterfowl wintering in south-west Spain: quantitative and qualitative aspects

    Jordi Figuerola;Andy J. Green;Luis Santamaría

  • Clonal diversity and structure within a population of the pondweed Potamogeton pectinatus foraged by Bewick's swans.

    H. H. Hangelbroek;N. J. Ouborg;L. Santamaria;K. Schwenk

  • Effect of ingestion by five avian dispersers on the retention time, retrieval and germination of Ruppia maritima seeds

    I. Charalambidou;L. Santamaria;O. Langevoord

  • BEHAVIOR RATHER THAN DIET MEDIATES SEASONAL DIFFERENCES IN SEED DISPERSAL BY ASIAN ELEPHANTS

    Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz;Asier R. Larrinaga;Udayani R. Weerasinghe;Seiki Takatsuki

  • Modeling biomass production in seasonal wetlands using MODIS NDVI Land Surface Phenology.

    María Lumbierres;Pablo F. Méndez;Javier Bustamante;Ramón C. Soriguer

  • Space, time and complexity in plant dispersal ecology.

    Juan J Robledo-Arnuncio;Etienne K Klein;Helene C Muller-Landau;Luis Santamaría

  • Migratory strategies of waterbirds shape the continental-scale dispersal of aquatic organisms

    Duarte S. Viana;Luis Santamaría;Thomas C. Michot;Jordi Figuerola

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Paniagua
Ricardo Paniagua Kaiser Permanente
Jordi Figuerola
Jordi Figuerola Spanish National Research Council
Andy J. Green
Andy J. Green Spanish National Research Council
Stefan Schindler
Stefan Schindler Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Bart A. Nolet
Bart A. Nolet University of Amsterdam
Klaus Schwenk
Klaus Schwenk University of Koblenz and Landau
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Richard T. Corlett
Richard T. Corlett Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Marcel Klaassen
Marcel Klaassen Deakin University

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