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2025

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
92
Citations
43525
World Ranking
534
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Santiago Beguería is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily covers Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work spans various topics including Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tree-ring climate responses, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Beguería has contributed to several notable publication venues, frequently publishing in the International Journal of Climatology, The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and Earth System Science Data.

Recent research papers by Santiago Beguería include:

  • Global drought trends and future projections, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Long-term thinning effects on tree growth, drought response and water use efficiency at two Aleppo pine plantations in Spain, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Transhumance and long-term deforestation in the subalpine belt of the central Spanish Pyrenees: An interdisciplinary approach, 2020, CATENA
  • Long-term sustainability of large water resource systems under climate change: A cascade modeling approach, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Beguería include:

  • Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
  • Dhais Peña-Angulo
  • José Carlos González Hidalgo
  • Miquel Tomàs-Burguera
  • Ahmed El Kenawy

Best Publications

  • A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Juan I. López-Moreno

  • Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

    Santiago Beguería;Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano;Fergus Reig;Borja Latorre

  • Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Célia Gouveia;Célia Gouveia;Jesús Julio Camarero;Santiago Beguería

  • Mediterranean water resources in a global change scenario

    José M. García-Ruiz;J. Ignacio López-Moreno;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Teodoro Lasanta–Martínez

  • Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz;Jesús Julio Camarero

  • The effects of land uses on soil erosion in Spain: A review

    José María García-Ruiz

  • Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe

    Sergio M Vicente-Serrano;Juan-I Lopez-Moreno;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz

  • Beyond Wnt inhibition: new functions of secreted Frizzled-related proteins in development and disease.

    Paola Bovolenta;Pilar Esteve;Pilar Esteve;Jose Maria Ruiz;Jose Maria Ruiz;Elsa Cisneros;Elsa Cisneros

  • A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

    S. M. Vicente-Serrano;S. Beguería;J. I. López-Moreno;M. Angulo

  • Rainfall Erosivity in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Christiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Accurate Computation of a Streamflow Drought Index

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Juan I. López-Moreno;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz

  • A meta-analysis of soil erosion rates across the world

    José M. García-Ruiz;Santiago Beguería;Estela Nadal-Romero;José C. González-Hidalgo

  • Validation and Evaluation of Predictive Models in Hazard Assessment and Risk Management

    Santiago Beguería

  • Hydrological and erosive consequences of farmland abandonment in Europe, with special reference to the Mediterranean region – A review

    José María García-Ruiz;Noemí Lana-Renault;Noemí Lana-Renault

  • The impact of droughts and water management on various hydrological systems in the headwaters of the Tagus River (central Spain)

    J. Lorenzo-Lacruz;S.M. Vicente-Serrano;J.I. López-Moreno;S. Beguería

  • A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts

    Santiago Beguería;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Marta Angulo-Martínez

  • Erosion in Mediterranean landscapes: Changes and future challenges

    José María García-Ruiz;Estela Nadal-Romero;Noemí Lana-Renault;Santiago Beguería

  • Catchment soil moisture and rainfall characteristics as determinant factors for discharge/suspended sediment hysteretic loops in a small headwater catchment in the Spanish pyrenees

    M Seeger;M.-P Errea;S Beguerı́a;J Arnáez

  • Contribution of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration to drought indices under different climates

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Gerard Van der Schrier;Santiago Beguería;Cesar Azorin-Molina

  • Land-use changes and sustainable development in mountain areas: a case study in the Spanish Pyrenees

    José M. García-Ruiz;Teodora Lasanta;Purificación Ruiz-Flano;Luis Ortigosa

Frequent Co-Authors

José María García-Ruiz
José María García-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Ahmed El Kenawy
Ahmed El Kenawy Mansoura University
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Martin de Luis
Martin de Luis University of Zaragoza
José Carlos González-Hidalgo
José Carlos González-Hidalgo University of Zaragoza
Enrique Morán-Tejeda
Enrique Morán-Tejeda University of the Balearic Islands
Estela Nadal-Romero
Estela Nadal-Romero Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana

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