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Overview

Santiago Saura is a researcher affiliated with the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. Their work spans environmental science with a focus on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in Saura's research include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Saura has published extensively with notable papers in various academic journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Habitat Amount Hypothesis implies negative effects of habitat fragmentation on species richness, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Importance of spatio-temporal connectivity to maintain species experiencing range shifts, 2020, Ecography
  • The habitat amount hypothesis predicts that fragmentation poses a threat to biodiversity: A reply to Fahrig, 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • Much more than forest loss: four decades of habitat connectivity decline for Atlantic Forest jaguars, 2022, Landscape Ecology

The publication venues where Saura frequently contributes include:

  • Journal of Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecography
  • Landscape Ecology

Frequent co-authors associated with Saura's research are:

  • Aitor Gastón
  • Michelle Ward
  • Brooke Williams
  • Juan Pablo Ramírez-Delgado
  • Nur Arafeh-Dalmau

Best Publications

  • A new habitat availability index to integrate connectivity in landscape conservation planning : Comparison with existing indices and application to a case study

    Santiago Saura;Lucía Pascual-Hortal

  • Comparison and development of new graph-based landscape connectivity indices: towards the priorization of habitat patches and corridors for conservation

    Lucía Pascual-Hortal;Santiago Saura

  • Short communication: Conefor Sensinode 2.2: A software package for quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity

    Santiago Saura;Josep Torné

  • A common currency for the different ways in which patches and links can contribute to habitat availability and connectivity in the landscape

    Santiago Saura;Lidón Rubio

  • EDITOR'S CHOICE: Stepping stones are crucial for species' long‐distance dispersal and range expansion through habitat networks

    Santiago Saura;Örjan Bodin;Marie-Josée Fortin

  • Network analysis to assess landscape connectivity trends: application to European forests (1990–2000)

    Santiago Saura;Christine Estreguil;Coralie Mouton;Mónica Rodríguez-Freire

  • Ranking individual habitat patches as connectivity providers: Integrating network analysis and patch removal experiments

    Örjan Bodin;Örjan Bodin;Santiago Saura

  • Contribution of habitat patches to network connectivity: Redundancy and uniqueness of topological indices

    Gabriella Baranyi;Santiago Saura;János Podani;Ferenc Jordán

  • Protected area connectivity: Shortfalls in global targets and country-level priorities.

    Santiago Saura;Bastian Bertzky;Lucy Bastin;Luca Battistella

  • Key structural forest connectors can be identified by combining landscape spatial pattern and network analyses.

    Santiago Saura;Peter Vogt;Javier Velázquez;Ana Hernando

  • Protected areas in the world's ecoregions: how well connected are they?

    Santiago Saura;Lucy Bastin;Luca Battistella;Andrea Mandrici

  • Effects of remote sensor spatial resolution and data aggregation on selected fragmentation indices

    Santiago Saura

  • Sensitivity of landscape pattern metrics to map spatial extent

    Santiago Saura;Javier Martinez-Millan

  • European atlas of forest tree species

    Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz;Daniele de Rigo;Giovanni Caudullo;Tracy Houston Durrant

  • Effects of forest composition and structure on bird species richness in a Mediterranean context: Implications for forest ecosystem management

    A. Gil-Tena;S. Saura;L. Brotons

  • Effects of minimum mapping unit on land cover data spatial configuration and composition

    S. Saura

  • Landscape patterns simulation with a modified random clusters method

    Santiago Saura;Javier Martínez-Millán

  • Key connectors in protected forest area networks and the impact of highways: A transnational case study from the Cantabrian Range to the Western Alps (SW Europe)

    Mikel Gurrutxaga;Lidón Rubio;Santiago Saura

  • Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land.

    Michelle Ward;Santiago Saura;Brooke Williams;Juan Pablo Ramírez-Delgado

  • Impact of spatial scale on the identification of critical habitat patches for the maintenance of landscape connectivity

    Lucía Pascual-Hortal;Santiago Saura

  • Landscape connectivity analysis for conservation: insights from combining new methods with ecological and genetic data

    Sandra Luque;Santiago Saura;Marie-Josée Fortin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluís Brotons
Lluís Brotons Spanish National Research Council
Marie-Josée Fortin
Marie-Josée Fortin University of Toronto
Anna Loy
Anna Loy University of Molise
Örjan Bodin
Örjan Bodin Stockholm University
Maria Laura Carranza
Maria Laura Carranza University of Molise
Samuel A. Cushman
Samuel A. Cushman University of Oxford
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Carlo Rondinini
Carlo Rondinini Sapienza University of Rome
Luca Santini
Luca Santini Sapienza University of Rome
Ferenc Jordán
Ferenc Jordán University of Parma

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