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Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga

Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
5030
World Ranking
7344
National Ranking
262

Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 97 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga is affiliated with King Juan Carlos University in Spain and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research covers a diverse range of topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Polar Research and Ecology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Olalla-Tárraga has contributed to multiple publications, including papers in well-recognized venues. Key publications include:

  • The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The biogeography of thermal risk for terrestrial ectotherms: Scaling of thermal tolerance with body size and latitude, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Temperate species underfill their tropical thermal potentials on land, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Physical constraints on thermoregulation and flight drive morphological evolution in bats, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Changing Only Slowly: The Role of Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism in Caviidae (Rodentia) Speciation, 2020, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Frequent co-authors in their research include Pablo Ariel Martínez, Fabricio Villalobos, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Luis R. Pertierra, and Talita Ferreira Amado.

Their studies are often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Scientific Reports, Polar Biology, and Research Square (Research Square).

Best Publications

  • Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation.

    Jennifer Sunday;Joanne M Bennett;Piero Calosi;Susana Clusella-Trullas

  • Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

    Joanne M. Bennett;Jennifer Sunday;Piero Calosi;Fabricio Villalobos

  • Energy and interspecific body size patterns of amphibian faunas in Europe and North America: anurans follow Bergmann's rule, urodeles its converse

    Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga;Miguel Á. Rodríguez

  • Broad-scale patterns of body size in squamate reptiles of Europe and North America

    Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga;Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga;Miguel Á. Rodríguez;Bradford A. Hawkins

  • GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms

    Joanne M. Bennett;Piero Calosi;Susana Clusella-Trullas;Brezo Martínez

  • Bergmann's rule and the geography of mammal body size in the Western Hemisphere

    Miguel Á. Rodríguez;Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga;Bradford A. Hawkins

  • A GLOBAL EVALUATION OF METABOLIC THEORY AS AN EXPLANATION FOR TERRESTRIAL SPECIES RICHNESS GRADIENTS

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Fabio S. Albuquerque;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Jan Beck

  • Testing the climate variability hypothesis in thermal tolerance limits of tropical and temperate tadpoles

    L. M. Gutiérrez-Pesquera;M. Tejedo;M. Á. Olalla-Tárraga;H. Duarte

  • On the selection of phylogenetic eigenvectors for ecological analyses

    Jose Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Thiago Fernando Rangel;Ignacio Morales‐Castilla

  • MERRAclim, a high-resolution global dataset of remotely sensed bioclimatic variables for ecological modelling

    Greta C. Vega;Luis R. Pertierra;Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga

  • High Resolution Spatial Mapping of Human Footprint across Antarctica and Its Implications for the Strategic Conservation of Avifauna.

    Luis R. Pertierra;Kevin A. Hughes;Greta C. Vega;Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga

  • Geographic body size gradients in tropical regions: water deficit and anuran body size in the Brazilian Cerrado

    Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga;José Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho;Rogério P. Bastos;Miguel Á. Rodríguez

  • Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: global congruence across mammals and amphibians

    Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga;Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga;Lynsey McInnes;Luis M. Bini;José A. F. Diniz-Filho

  • Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule?

    Felix J. S. Whitton;Andy Purvis;C. David L. Orme;Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga

  • The contribution of contemporary climate to ectothermic and endothermic vertebrate distributions in a glacial refuge

    Pedro Aragón;Jorge M. Lobo;Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga;Miguel Á. Rodríguez

  • Climate history, human impacts and global body size of Carnivora (Mammalia: Eutheria) at multiple evolutionary scales

    Jose Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho;Miguel Angel Rodriguez;Luis Mauricio Bini;Miguel Angel Olalla-Tarraga

  • Cross-species and assemblage-based approaches to Bergmann's rule and the biogeography of body size in Plethodon salamanders of eastern North America

    Miguel Á. Olalla‐Tárraga;Luis M. Bini;José A. F. Diniz‐Filho;Miguel Á. Rodríguez

  • “Nullius in Bergmann” or the pluralistic approach to ecogeographical rules: a reply to Watt et al. (2010)

    Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga

  • Human-mediated dispersal of terrestrial species between Antarctic biogeographic regions: A preliminary risk assessment.

    Kevin A. Hughes;Peter Convey;Luis R. Pertierra;Greta C. Vega

  • Ecological and evolutionary components of body size: geographic variation of venomous snakes at the global scale

    Levi Carina Terribile;Levi Carina Terribile;Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga;José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho;Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Á. Rodríguez
Miguel Á. Rodríguez University of Alcalá
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho Universidade Federal de Goiás
Bradford A. Hawkins
Bradford A. Hawkins University of California, Irvine
Luis Mauricio Bini
Luis Mauricio Bini Universidade Federal de Goiás
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Jennifer M. Sunday
Jennifer M. Sunday McGill University
Jorge M. Lobo
Jorge M. Lobo Spanish National Research Council
Susana Clusella-Trullas
Susana Clusella-Trullas Stellenbosch University

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