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Pablo M. Vergara is affiliated with the University of Santiago Chile in Chile. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with an emphasis on multiple subfields including ecology, insect science, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

Their scholarly output encompasses a wide range of topics within these domains. Key research areas include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest insect ecology and management
  • Insect and pesticide research

Vergara has contributed to journals and venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Ecology and Conservation, Landscape Ecology, and Forest Ecology and Management. The highest number of publications has appeared in The Science of The Total Environment.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Vergara include:

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Giants are coming? Predicting the potential spread and impacts of the giant Asian hornet (Vespa mandarinia, Hymenoptera:Vespidae) in the USA, 2020, Pest Management Science
  • Increasing importance of heat stress for cattle farming under future global climate scenarios, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Defining corridors for movement of multiple species in a forest-plantation landscape, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Remote-sensing estimates of forest structure and dynamics as indicators of habitat quality for Magellanic woodpeckers, 2021, Ecological Indicators

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated on multiple projects with Vergara include Alberto J. Alaniz, Mario A. Carvajal, Darío Moreira-Arce, Andrés Fierro, and Claudia Hidalgo-Corrotea. These partnerships reflect a network of colleagues working on related subjects within ecological and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

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  • Nest‐site fidelity and breeding success in White Stork Ciconia ciconia

    Pablo Vergara;José I. Aguirre;Juan A. Fargallo;José A. Dávila

  • Responses of Chilean forest birds to anthropogenic habitat fragmentation across spatial scales

    Pablo M. Vergara;Juan J. Armesto;Juan J. Armesto

  • Kestrel-Prey Dynamic in a Mediterranean Region: The Effect of Generalist Predation and Climatic Factors

    Juan A. Fargallo;Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Javier Viñuela;Guillermo Blanco

  • Avian responses to fragmentation of the Maulino Forest in central Chile

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  • Arrival date, age and breeding success in white stork Ciconia ciconia

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  • Nest Size, Nest Building Behaviour and Breeding Success in a Species with Nest Reuse: The White Stork Ciconia ciconia

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  • Age and breeding success related to nest position in a White stork Ciconia ciconia colony

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  • Increasing importance of heat stress for cattle farming under future global climate scenarios.

    Mario A. Carvajal;Mario A. Carvajal;Alberto J. Alaniz;Alberto J. Alaniz;Constanza Gutiérrez-Gómez;Pablo M. Vergara

  • Giants are coming? Predicting the potential spread and impacts of the giant Asian hornet (Vespa mandarinia, Hymenoptera:Vespidae) in the USA.

    Alberto J Alaniz;Mario A Carvajal;Pablo M Vergara

  • Arrival date, age and breeding success in white stork Ciconia ciconia

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  • Magellanic woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) abundance and foraging in Tierra del Fuego, Chile

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  • The condition dependence of a secondary sexual trait is stronger under high parasite infection level

    Pablo Vergara;Francois Mougeot;Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Fiona Leckie

  • Mesocarnivores respond to fine-grain habitat structure in a mosaic landscape comprised by commercial forest plantations in southern Chile

    Darío Moreira-Arce;Pablo M. Vergara;Stan Boutin;Gonzalo Carrasco

  • Diurnal Human Activity and Introduced Species Affect Occurrence of Carnivores in a Human-Dominated Landscape.

    Dario Moreira-Arce;Pablo M. Vergara;Stan Boutin

  • Reaching independence: food supply, parent quality, and offspring phenotypic characters in kestrels

    Pablo Vergara;Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo;Jesus Martínez-Padilla

  • Inter-annual variation and information content of melanin-based coloration in female Eurasian kestrels

    Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo;Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Jesús A. Lemus

  • Native forest replacement by exotic plantations triggers changes in prey selection of mesocarnivores

    Darío Moreira-Arce;Darío Moreira-Arce;Pablo M. Vergara;Stan Boutin;Javier A. Simonetti

  • Trophic niche width, offspring condition and immunity in a raptor species.

    Juan Navarro-López;Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo

  • Nutrients dynamics in the main river basins of the centre-southern region of Chile.

    Jaime Pizarro;Pablo M. Vergara;José A. Rodríguez;Pedro A. Sanhueza

  • Sex, melanic coloration, and sibling competition during the postfledging dependence period

    Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo

  • Environmental heterogeneity influences the reliability of secondary sexual traits as condition indicators.

    P. Vergara;J. Martinez-Padilla;F. Mougeot;F. Leckie

  • Delayed plumage maturation in Eurasian kestrels: female mimicry, subordination signalling or both?

    Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo

  • Does egg colouration reflect male condition in birds

    Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Heather Dixon;Pablo Vergara;Pablo Vergara;Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez

  • Multiple coloured ornaments in male common kestrels: different mechanisms to convey quality

    Pablo Vergara;Pablo Vergara;Juan A. Fargallo

  • Effects of maternal carotenoid availability in relation to sex, parasite infection and health status of nestling kestrels (Falco tinnunculus).

    Liesbeth De Neve;Juan A Fargallo;Pablo Vergara;Jesús A Lemus

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University

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