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50
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12679
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3767
National Ranking
60

Overview

Mar Cabeza is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, featuring studies on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Bat Biology and Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Animal Ecology and Behavior, and Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mar Cabeza include Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Adrià López-Baucells, Carme Tuneu-Corral, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, and Hugo Rebelo.

Their publications have appeared in a range of journals and venues, with a concentration in Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), npj Biodiversity, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and the Journal of Ethnobiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mar Cabeza include:

  • A state-of-the-art review on birds as indicators of biodiversity: Advances, challenges, and future directions (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism (2021, One Earth)
  • Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review (2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Assessing the effectiveness of a national protected area network for carnivore conservation (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review (2022, Ecology and Society)

Best Publications

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Conservation planning in a changing world

    Robert L. Pressey;Robert L. Pressey;Mar Cabeza;Matthew E. Watts;Richard M. Cowling

  • Climate change threatens European conservation areas

    Miguel B. Araújo;Diogo Alagador;Diogo Alagador;Mar Cabeza;Mar Cabeza;David Nogués-Bravo;David Nogués-Bravo

  • Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve‐selection methods

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Mar Cabeza;Wilfried Thuiller;Lee Hannah

  • Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change and Their Implications for Biodiversity

    Raquel A. Garcia;Mar Cabeza;Carsten Rahbek;Carsten Rahbek;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Design of reserve networks and the persistence of biodiversity.

    Mar Cabeza;Atte Moilanen

  • Combining probabilities of occurrence with spatial reserve design

    M. A. R. Cabeza;Miguel B. Araujo;Robert J. Wilson;Chris D. Thomas

  • A state-of-the-art review on birds as indicators of biodiversity: Advances, challenges, and future directions

    Sara Fraixedas;Andreas Lindén;Markus Piha;Mar Cabeza

  • Conservation planning with uncertain climate change projections

    Heini Kujala;Atte Moilanen;Miguel Bastos Araujo;Miguel Bastos Araujo;Miguel Bastos Araujo;Mar Cabeza

  • Rediscovering the Potential of Indigenous Storytelling for Conservation Practice

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Mar Cabeza

  • Exploring consensus in 21st century projections of climatically suitable areas for African vertebrates

    Raquel A. Garcia;Raquel A. Garcia;Raquel A. Garcia;Neil D. Burgess;Mar Cabeza;Mar Cabeza;Carsten Rahbek

  • Rapid ecosystem change challenges the adaptive capacity of Local Environmental Knowledge.

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Isabel Díaz-Reviriego;Ana C. Luz;Mar Cabeza

  • Fundamental concepts of spatial conservation prioritization

    Kerrie A. Wilson;Mar Cabeza;Carissa J. Klein

  • Site‐Selection Algorithms and Habitat Loss

    Mar Cabeza;Atte Moilanen

  • Habitat loss and connectivity of reserve networks in probability approaches to reserve design

    Mar Cabeza

  • Ensemble distribution models in conservation prioritization: From consensus predictions to consensus reserve networks

    Laura Meller;Laura Meller;Mar Cabeza;Samuel Pironon;Morgane Barbet-Massin;Morgane Barbet-Massin

  • Bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A case study from Madagascar

    James Kemp;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Adrià López-Baucells;Ricardo Rocha;Ricardo Rocha;Owen S. Wangensteen

  • Single‐species dynamic site selection

    Atte Moilanen;Mar Cabeza

  • A State-of-the-Art Review of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Pollution.

    Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;María Garteizgogeascoa;María Garteizgogeascoa;Niladri Basu;Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio

  • Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats : disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects

    Ricardo Rocha;Adrià López-Baucells;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Fábio Z. Farneda;Milou Groenenberg;Milou Groenenberg

  • Ecological-economic optimization of biodiversity conservation under climate change

    Brendan A. Wintle;Sarah A. Bekessy;David A. Keith;David A. Keith;Brian W. van Wilgen

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Adrià López-Baucells
Adrià López-Baucells Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares Autonomous University of Barcelona
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Atte Moilanen
Atte Moilanen University of Helsinki
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Jorge M. Palmeirim
Jorge M. Palmeirim University of Lisbon
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt

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