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33
Citations
3377
World Ranking
7960
National Ranking
293

Overview

Raúl Bonal is affiliated with the University of Extremadura in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research is primarily focused on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, evolution and systematics, and global and planetary change.

Their work covers several key topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Raúl Bonal has published numerous scientific papers in reputable journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Flowering synchrony drives reproductive success in a wind-pollinated tree (2020), Ecology Letters
  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery (2022), Nature Communications
  • DNA Barcoding and geographical scale effect: The problems of undersampling genetic diversity hotspots (2020), Ecology and Evolution
  • What drives phenological synchrony? Warm springs advance and desynchronize flowering in oaks (2020), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Their publishing record shows frequent contributions to key venues, including:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Diversity
  • Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Raúl Bonal has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors such as:

  • Tara Canelo
  • Michał Bogdziewicz
  • Carlos Pérez-Izquierdo
  • Josep María Espelta
  • Álvaro Gaytán

Best Publications

  • Effect of Weekend Road Traffic on the Use of Space by Raptors

    Luis M. Bautista;Jesús T. García;Ricardo G. Calmaestra;Carlos Palacín

  • Satiation of predispersal seed predators: the importance of considering both plant and seed levels

    Raul Bonal;Raul Bonal;Alberto Muñoz;Mario Díaz

  • Are you strong enough to carry that seed? Seed size/body size ratios influence seed choices by rodents

    Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal

  • Ungulates, rodents, shrubs: interactions in a diverse Mediterranean ecosystem

    Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal;Mario Díaz

  • Cattle grazing, raptor abundance and small mammal communities in Mediterranean grasslands

    Ignacio Torre;Mario Díaz;Jesús Martínez-Padilla;Raúl Bonal;Raúl Bonal

  • Linking seed dispersal to cache protection strategies.

    Alberto Muñoz;Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal;Raúl Bonal

  • Pre-dispersal acorn predation in mixed oak forests: interspecific differences are driven by the interplay among seed phenology, seed size and predator size

    Josep M. Espelta;Raúl Bonal;Belén Sánchez-Humanes

  • Rodents change acorn dispersal behaviour in response to ungulate presence

    Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal

  • Genetic Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation in Long-Lived Tree Species: The Case of the Mediterranean Holm Oak (Quercus ilex, L.)

    Joaquín Ortego;Raúl Bonal;Alberto Muñoz

  • The ecology of seed dispersal by small rodents: a role for predator and conspecific scents

    Pau Sunyer;Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal;Raúl Bonal;Josep M. Espelta

  • Multi-trophic effects of ungulate intraguild predation on acorn weevils.

    Raúl Bonal;Alberto Muñoz

  • Seed choice by rodents: learning or inheritance?

    Alberto Muñoz;Raúl Bonal;Raúl Bonal

  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

    Tong Qiu;Marie-Claire Aravena;Robert Andrus;Davide Ascoli

  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery

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  • EFFECTS OF FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION AND HABITAT SELECTION ON TIMING OF LESSER KESTREL BREEDING

    José Miguel Aparicio;Raúl Bonal

  • Evidence of prey depletion around lesser kestrel Falco naumanni colonies and its short term negative consequences

    Raul Bonal;José M. Aparicio

  • Experimental test on public information use in the colonial Lesser Kestrel

    José Miguel Aparicio;Raúl Bonal;Alberto Muñoz

  • The Moran effect and environmental vetoes: phenological synchrony and drought drive seed production in a Mediterranean oak

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Marcos Fernández-Martínez;Raul Bonal;Jordina Belmonte

  • Flowering synchrony drives reproductive success in a wind-pollinated tree.

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Mario Pesendorfer;Elizabeth E. Crone;Carlos Pérez‐Izquierdo

  • Effectiveness of predator satiation in masting oaks is negatively affected by conspecific density

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Josep Maria Espelta;Alberto Muñoz;José Miguel Aparicio

  • Seed growth suppression constrains the growth of seed parasites: premature acorn abscission reduces Curculio elephas larval size

    Raúl Bonal;Alberto Muñoz

  • Rapid aggregative and reproductive responses of weevils to masting of North American oaks counteract predator satiation.

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Shealyn Marino;Raul Bonal;Raul Bonal;Rafał Zwolak

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Maria Espelta
Josep Maria Espelta Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alberto Muñoz
Alberto Muñoz Complutense University of Madrid
Michał Bogdziewicz
Michał Bogdziewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Mario Díaz
Mario Díaz Spanish National Research Council
Joan Pino
Joan Pino Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alberto Muñoz
Alberto Muñoz Spanish National Research Council
Johannes Bergsten
Johannes Bergsten Swedish Museum of Natural History
Javier Viñuela
Javier Viñuela University of Castilla-La Mancha
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura

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