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Ecology and Evolution
Chile
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
73
Citations
29468
World Ranking
1158
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Pablo A. Marquet is affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Chile. Their research spans primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics that characterize their work are:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Pablo A. Marquet has contributed to multiple high-profile publication venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science

Recent papers include:

  • Socioeconomic status determines COVID-19 incidence and related mortality in Santiago, Chile (2021), Science
  • Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50% (2020), Ecography
  • Present-day and future climate over central and South America according to CMIP5/CMIP6 models (2021), International Journal of Climatology
  • How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co-benefit biodiversity? (2021), Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • José Ignacio Arroyo
  • Brian J. Enquist
  • Lee Hannah
  • Patrick R. Roehrdanz
  • Derek Corcoran

The scientist's work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to environmental challenges, integrating ecological, genetic, and sociopolitical perspectives. Their contributions address important global issues such as biodiversity conservation, climate change impacts, and the socioecological dynamics influencing species and ecosystems.

Recognition for Pablo A. Marquet includes multiple fellowships and memberships, notably:

  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) (2013)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2006)

Best Publications

  • A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

    J. Lenoir;J. C. Gégout;P. A. Marquet;P. de Ruffray

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity

    Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Sandy J. Andelman;Mohamed I. Bakarr;Luigi Boitani

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

    Kevin D. Lafferty;Stefano Allesina;Matias Arim;Cherie J. Briggs

  • Climate change, wine, and conservation

    Lee Hannah;Lee Hannah;Patrick R. Roehrdanz;Makihiko Ikegami;Anderson V. Shepard

  • Heat freezes niche evolution

    Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Francisco Ferri-Yanez;Francisco Bozinovic;Pablo Marquet;Pablo Marquet

  • Global Gap Analysis: Priority Regions for Expanding the Global Protected-Area Network

    Ana S. L. Rodrigues;H. Resit Akçakaya;Sandy J. Andelman;Mohamed I. Bakarr

  • Evolution of Body Size: Consequences of an Energetic Definition of Fitness

    James H. Brown;Pablo A. Marquet;Mark L. Taper

  • Intraguild predation: a widespread interaction related to species biology

    Matías Arim;Matías Arim;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Body mass of late Quaternary mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Kate E. Jones

  • Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when.

    Kerrie A Wilson;Emma C Underwood;Scott A Morrison;Kirk R Klausmeyer

  • Scaling and power-laws in ecological systems.

    Pablo A. Marquet;Pablo A. Marquet;Renato A. Quiñones;Sebastián R. Abades;Fabio A. Labra

  • Extinction Thresholds and Metapopulation Persistence in Dynamic Landscapes

    Juan E. Keymer;Pablo A. Marquet;Jorge X. Velasco‐Hernández;Simon A. Levin

  • Socioeconomic status determines COVID-19 incidence and related mortality in Santiago, Chile.

    Gonzalo E. Mena;Pamela P. Martinez;Ayesha S. Mahmud;Ayesha S. Mahmud;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Species co-occurrence networks: Can they reveal trophic and non-trophic interactions in ecological communities?

    Mara A. Freilich;Mara A. Freilich;Mara A. Freilich;Evie Wieters;Bernardo R. Broitman;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Spread dynamics of invasive species

    Matías Arim;Sebastián R. Abades;Paula E. Neill;Mauricio Lima

  • Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

    Martin Jung;Andy Arnell;Xavier de Lamo;Shaenandhoa García-Rangel

  • The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Xiao Feng;Brad Boyle;Brian Maitner

  • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: A historical framework for land cover change in southwestern South America in the past 15,000 years

    Juan J. Armesto;Daniela Manuschevich;Alejandra Mora;Cecilia Smith-Ramirez

  • On Theory in Ecology

    Pablo A. Marquet;Andrew P. Allen;James H. Brown;Jennifer A. Dunne

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabian M. Jaksic
Fabian M. Jaksic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Juan J. Armesto
Juan J. Armesto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
David Storch
David Storch Charles University
Francisco Bozinovic
Francisco Bozinovic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Sergio A. Navarrete
Sergio A. Navarrete Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah Conservation International
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Michael E. Hochberg
Michael E. Hochberg University of Montpellier

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