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Marcos Moleón

Marcos Moleón

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
6041
World Ranking
5165
National Ranking
168

Overview

Marcos Moleón is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and has a strong focus in the field of Environmental Science, with a significant portion of their work concentrated on Ecology. Their subfields of study extend to Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research explores a broad range of topics including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, as well as Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies. Additional areas of focus include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Marcos Moleón has published research in multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biological Conservation
  • Diversity

Selected recent papers illustrate the range and relevance of their work:

  • Usually hated, sometimes loved: A review of wild ungulates' contributions to people (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Rethinking megafauna (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Integrating vulture social behavior into conservation practice (2020, Ornithological Applications)
  • Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications (2020, Ecography)
  • Role of scavengers in providing non-material contributions to people (2020, Ecological Indicators)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • José A. Sánchez-Zapata (28 joint publications)
  • Zebensui Morales-Reyes (14 joint publications)
  • Esther Sebastián-González (14 joint publications)
  • José María Gil-Sánchez (14 joint publications)
  • José A. Donázar (13 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Ecological And Evolutionary Legacy Of Megafauna Extinctions

    Mauro Galetti;Mauro Galetti;Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;Pedro Jordano;Mathias M. Pires

  • Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services

    Marcos Moleón;José A. Sánchez-Zapata;Antoni Margalida;Martina Carrete

  • Roles of Raptors in a Changing World: From Flagships to Providers of Key Ecosystem Services

    José A. Donázar;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Ainara Cortés-Avizanda;Juan A. Fargallo;Antoni Margalida

  • Surveying carnivores at large spatial scales: a comparison of four broad-applied methods

    José Miguel Barea-Azcón;Emilio Virgós;Elena Ballesteros-Duperón;Marcos Moleón

  • Facultative predation and scavenging by mammalian carnivores: seasonal, regional and intra-guild comparisons

    Laura M. Pereira;Norman Owen-Smith;Marcos Moleón

  • Inter-specific interactions linking predation and scavenging in terrestrial vertebrate assemblages.

    Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;José A. Sánchez-Zapata;Nuria Selva;José A. Donázar

  • Carcass size shapes the structure and functioning of an African scavenging assemblage

    Marcos Moleón;José A. Sánchez‐Zapata;Esther Sebastián‐González;Norman Owen‐Smith

  • From regional to global patterns in vertebrate scavenger communities subsidized by big game hunting

    Patricia Mateo‐Tomás;Pedro P. Olea;Pedro P. Olea;Marcos Moleón;Joaquín Vicente

  • A global analysis of terrestrial plant litter dynamics in non-perennial waterways

    T. Datry;A. Foulquier;R. Corti;D. von Schiller

  • Biogeographical patterns in the diet of the wildcat, Felis silvestris Schreber, in Eurasia: factors affecting the trophic diversity

    Jorge Lozano;Marcos Moleón;Emilio Virgós

  • Human-carnivore relations: A systematic review

    Jorge Lozano;Agnieszka Olszańska;Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Antonio A. Castro

  • Components of breeding performance in two competing species: habitat heterogeneity, individual quality and density‐dependence

    Martina Carrete;José A. Sánchez‐Zapata;José L. Tella;José M. Gil‐Sánchez

  • Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: A global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter

    Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Thibault Datry;Daniel von Schiller

  • Farmer Perceptions of the Ecosystem Services Provided by Scavengers: What, Who, and to Whom

    Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Berta Martín-López;Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;Patricia Mateo-Tomás

  • A nine-year study of successful breeding in a Bonelli’s eagle population in southeast Spain: a basis for conservation

    José M. Gil-Sánchez;Marcos Moleón;Manuel Otero;Jesús Bautista

  • Supplanting ecosystem services provided by scavengers raises greenhouse gas emissions

    Zebensui Morales-Reyes;Juan M. Pérez-García;Marcos Moleón;Francisco Botella

  • From local monitoring to a broad-scale viability assessment: a case study for the Bonelli’s Eagle in western Europe

    Antonio Hernández-Matías;Joan Real;Marcos Moleón;Luis Palma

  • Scavenging in the Anthropocene: Human impact drives vertebrate scavenger species richness at a global scale.

    Esther Sebastián‐González;Jomar Magalhães Barbosa;Juan M. Pérez‐García;Juan M. Pérez‐García;Zebensui Morales‐Reyes

  • Large‐scale spatio‐temporal shifts in the diet of a predator mediated by an emerging infectious disease of its main prey

    Marcos Moleón;José Antonio Sánchez‐Zapata;Joan Real;José Antonio García‐Charton

  • Rethinking megafauna

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  • The Living Dead: Time to Integrate Scavenging into Ecological Teaching

    Marcos Moleón;José A. Sánchez-Zapata

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Sánchez-Zapata
José A. Sánchez-Zapata Miguel Hernandez University
Antoni Margalida
Antoni Margalida Spanish National Research Council
José A. Donázar
José A. Donázar Spanish National Research Council
Ainara Cortés-Avizanda
Ainara Cortés-Avizanda Spanish National Research Council
Dominik Zak
Dominik Zak Aarhus University
Martina Carrete
Martina Carrete Pablo de Olavide University
Nuria Selva
Nuria Selva Polish Academy of Sciences
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg

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