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Miguel Delibes is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Ecology, with additional interests in Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their work spans several main topics concentrated mainly on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, as well as Geographies of human-animal interactions. Further interests include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Emerging laws must not protect stray cats and their impacts, 2022, Conservation Science and Practice
  • A 16th-century biodiversity and crop inventory, 2022, Ecology
  • Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) diet as an early indicator of recovery in defaunated river communities, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) as sentinel species for the long-term biomonitoring of the Guadiamar River after the Aznalcóllar mine spill, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hyaenids, felids and canids as bone accumulators: Does the natural history of extant species support zooarchaeological inferences?, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews (3 publications)
  • Conservation Science and Practice (2 publications)
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Collaborations have frequently involved several coauthors, among them Miguel Clavero, Javier Calzada, Francisco Blanco-Garrido, Jacinto Román, and Alberto Fernández-Gil, reflecting an active network within their research domains.

Best Publications

  • The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication

    Carlos A. Driscoll;Marilyn Menotti-Raymond;Alfred L. Roca;Karsten Hupe

  • Effects of an attractive sink leading into maladaptive habitat selection.

    Miguel Delibes;Pilar Gaona;Pablo Ferreras

  • Key Role of European Rabbits in the Conservation of the Western Mediterranean Basin Hotspot

    Miguel Delibes-Mateos;Miguel Delibes-Mateos;Miguel Delibes;Pablo Ferreras;Rafael Villafuerte

  • Positive Effects on Game Species of Top Predators by Controlling Smaller Predator Populations: An Example with Lynx, Mongooses, and Rabbits

    Francisco Palomares;P. Gaona;Pablo Ferreras;M. Delibes

  • Niche relations among three sympatric Mediterranean carnivores

    Jose M. Fedriani;Francisco Palomares;Miguel Delibes

  • Predators or prey? Spatio-temporal discrimination of human-derived risk by brown bears

    Andrés Ordiz;Ole-Gunnar Støen;Ole-Gunnar Støen;Miguel Delibes;Jon E. Swenson

  • Use of Non-Wildlife Passages Across a High Speed Railway by Terrestrial Vertebrates

    Alejandro Rodriguez;Giulia Crema;Miguel Delibes

  • Spatial Relationships Between Iberian Lynx and Other Carnivores in an Area of South-Western Spain

    Francisco Palomares;Pablo Ferreras;José M. Fedriani;M. Delibes

  • Trophic diversity of the otter (Lutra lutra L.) in temperate and Mediterranean freshwater habitats

    Miguel Clavero;Miguel Clavero;José Prenda;Miguel Delibes

  • Effects of Matrix Heterogeneity on Animal Dispersal: From Individual Behavior to Metapopulation-Level Parameters

    Eloy Revilla;Thorsten Wiegand;Francisco Palomares;Pablo Ferreras

  • Rates and causes of mortality in a fragmented population of Iberian lynx Felis pardina Temminck, 1824

    Pablo Ferreras;Juan J. Aldama;Juan F. Beltrán;M. Delibes

  • Spatial ecology of Iberian lynx and abundance of European rabbits in southwestern Spain

    Francisco Palomares;Miguel Delibes;Eloy Revilla;Javier Calzada

  • Do bears know they are being hunted

    Andrés Ordiz;Andrés Ordiz;Ole-Gunnar Støen;Ole-Gunnar Støen;Solve Sæbø;Jonas Kindberg

  • Endangered Species Constrained by Natural and Human Factors: the Case of Brown Bears in Northern Spain

    Javier Naves;Thorsten Wiegand;Eloy Revilla;Eloy Revilla;Miguel Delibes

  • Iberian Lynx in a Fragmented Landscape: Predispersal, Dispersal, and Postdispersal Habitats

    Francisco Palomares;M. Delibes;Pablo Ferreras;José M. Fedriani

  • DYNAMICS AND VIABILITY OF A METAPOPULATION OF THE ENDANGERED IBERIAN LYNX (LYNX PARDINUS)

    Pilar Gaona;Pablo Ferreras;Miguel Delibes

  • The ecosystem functioning dimension in conservation: insights from remote sensing

    Javier Cabello;Néstor Fernández;Néstor Fernández;Domingo Alcaraz-Segura;Cecilio Oyonarte

  • Cover is safe during the day but dangerous at night: the use of vegetation by European wild rabbits

    Sacramento Moreno;Rafael Villafuerte;Miguel Delibes

  • Spatial organization and land tenure system of the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

    Pablo Ferreras;Juan F. Beltrán;Juan J. Aldama;M. Delibes

  • Food habits of the otter (Lutra lutra) in two habitats of the Doñana National Park, SW Spain

    M. I. Adrian;M. Delibes

Frequent Co-Authors

José M. Fedriani
José M. Fedriani Spanish National Research Council
Pablo Ferreras
Pablo Ferreras University of Castilla-La Mancha
Alejandro Rodríguez
Alejandro Rodríguez Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Hiraldo
Fernando Hiraldo Spanish National Research Council
Eloy Revilla
Eloy Revilla Spanish National Research Council
Miguel Clavero
Miguel Clavero Spanish National Research Council
Néstor Fernández
Néstor Fernández Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
José A. Godoy
José A. Godoy Spanish National Research Council
Andrés Ordiz
Andrés Ordiz Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Carlos F. Ibáñez
Carlos F. Ibáñez Karolinska Institute

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