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Victoria Reyes-García

Victoria Reyes-García

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Spain
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
83
Citations
21559
World Ranking
315
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Victoria Reyes-García is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • AMBIO
  • PLoS ONE
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Ethnobiology

Victoria Reyes-García's recent published papers include:

  • Recognizing Indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda, 2021, AMBIO
  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems, 2021, Journal of Ethnobiology
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
  • Petra Benyei
  • Anna Porcuna-Ferrer
  • David García-del-Amo
  • Laura Calvet-Mir

Best Publications

  • Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

    Luciana Porter-Bolland;Edward A. Ellis;Manuel R. Guariguata;Isabel Ruiz-Mallén

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change: Research findings and policy implications.

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Esteve Corbera;Victoria Reyes-García

  • THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES

    Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-García;Elizabeth Byron;William R. Leonard

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

    Sandra Díaz;Noelia Zafra-Calvo;Andy Purvis;Peter H. Verburg

  • Knowledge and use value of plant species in a Rarámuri community: a gender perspective for conservation.

    Andrés Camou-Guerrero;Victoria Reyes-García;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Alejandro Casas

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge Trends in the Transition to a Market Economy: Empirical Study in the Doñana Natural Areas

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Sara Mingorría;Victoria Reyes-García;Laura Calvet

  • CULTURAL, PRACTICAL, AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILD PLANTS: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON

    Victoria Reyes-García;Tomás Huanca;Vincent Vadez;William Leonard

  • Beyond food production : home gardens as biocultural conservation agents : a case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, northeastern Spain

    Laura Calvet-Mir;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Victoria Reyes-García

  • Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana, SW Spain

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Victoria Reyes-García;Per Olsson;Carlos Montes

  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

    Eduardo S. Brondízio;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Peter Bates;Joji Carino

  • Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest

    Kris N Kirby;Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-Garcı́a;Elizabeth Byron

  • Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society

    Victoria Reyes-García;Maximilien Guèze;Ana C. Luz;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez

  • The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Pamela McElwee;Zsolt Molnár

  • Challenging Perceptions about Men, Women, and Forest Product Use: A Global Comparative Study

    Terry Sunderland;Ramadhani Achdiawan;Arild Angelsen;Arild Angelsen;Ronnie Babigumira;Ronnie Babigumira

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

    Alvaro Fernandez-Llamazares Onrubia;Dana Lepofsky;Ken Lertzman Lertzman;Chelsey Geralda Denise Armstrong

  • Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: an empirical analysis from an Amerindian society☆

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;James Broesch;Laura Calvet-Mir;Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

  • Reinterpreting change in traditional ecological knowledge.

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Victoria Reyes-García

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon

    Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;P. Blackinton;S. Tanner

  • Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

    Hans Otto-Portner;Bob Scholes;John Agard;Emma Archer

  • Maintenance versus Growth : Investigating the Costs of Immune Activation Among Children in Lowland Bolivia

    Thomas W. McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;S. Tanner;T. Huanca

  • Local indicators of climate change: The potential contribution of local knowledge to climate research.

    Victoria Reyes-García;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares;Maximilien Guèze;Ariadna Garcés

  • Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Ricardo Ontillera-Sánchez;Pau Sanosa;Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Leonard
William R. Leonard Northwestern University
Tomás Huanca
Tomás Huanca Brandeis University
Ricardo Godoy
Ricardo Godoy Brandeis University
Vincent Vadez
Vincent Vadez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Esteve Corbera
Esteve Corbera Autonomous University of Barcelona
Marco Madella
Marco Madella Pompeu Fabra University
Eric D. Galbraith
Eric D. Galbraith McGill University
Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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