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Overview

Xavier Santos is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science.

The research topics covered by Xavier Santos include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Recent publications by Xavier Santos reflect interests in ecology and environmental impacts, including titles such as:

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae), 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia
  • Resilience of reptiles to megafires, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Long-term trace element assessment after a mine spill: Pollution persistence and bioaccumulation in the trophic web, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • From troubles to solutions: conservation of Mediterranean tortoises under global change, 2020, Basic and Applied Herpetology

Xavier Santos frequently publishes in venues such as Basic and Applied Herpetology, Amphibia-Reptilia, The Science of The Total Environment, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Ecological Applications.

Collaborations are a notable part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Brahim Chergui, Soumía Fahd, Juli G. Pausas, Josabel Belliure, and Juan M. Pleguezuelos.

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

  • Unravelling biodiversity, evolution and threats to conservation in the Sahara‐Sahel

    José C. Brito;Raquel Godinho;Fernando Martínez-Freiría;Juan M. Pleguezuelos

  • Inferring habitat-suitability areas with ecological modelling techniques and GIS: A contribution to assess the conservation status of Vipera latastei

    Xavier Santos;Xavier Santos;José C. Brito;Neftalí Sillero;Juan M. Pleguezuelos

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Are protected areas truly protected? The impact of road traffic on vertebrate fauna

    Núria Garriga;Xavier Santos;Xavier Santos;Albert Montori;Alex Richter-Boix

  • Socioeconomic Factors Drive Fire-Regime Variability in the Mediterranean Basin

    Brahim Chergui;Soumia Fahd;Xavier Santos;Juli G. Pausas

  • Biodiversity and Land uses at a regional scale: Is agriculture the biggest threat for reptile assemblages?

    Raquel Ribeiro;Xavier Santos;Neftali Sillero;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Seasonal variation in vertebrate traffic casualties and its implications for mitigation measures

    Núria Garriga;Marc Franch;Xavier Santos;Xavier Santos;Albert Montori

  • Schoolchildren and one of the most unpopular animals: are they ready to protect snakes?

    Jean-Marie Ballouard;Rastko Ajtic;José C. Brito;Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic

  • Taxonomic and functional response of a Mediterranean reptile assemblage to a repeated fire regime

    Xavier Santos;Marc Cheylan

  • Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae)

    Inês Freitas;Sylvain Ursenbacher;Konrad Mebert;Oleksandr Zinenko

  • Evaluating factors affecting amphibian mortality on roads: the case of the Common Toad Bufo bufo, near a breeding place

    X. Santos;G. A. Llorente;Albert Montori;M. A. Carretero

  • Ecological succession and habitat attributes affect the postfire response of a Mediterranean reptile community

    Xavier Santos;José Manuel Poquet

  • Setting conservation priorities for the Moroccan herpetofauna: the utility of regional red lists.

    Juan M. Pleguezuelos;José C. Brito;Soumía Fahd;Mónica Feriche

  • The diet of the brown trout Salmo trutta (L.) during the reproductive period : Size-related and sexual effects

    Albert Montori;J. Manuel Tierno De Figueroa;Xavier Santos

  • Habitat suitability, threats and conservation of isolated populations of the smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) in the southern Iberian Peninsula

    Xavier Santos;José C. Brito;Jesús Caro;Antonio J. Abril

  • Variation in the diet of the viperine snake Natrix maura in relation to prey availability

    Xavier Santos;Jacob González-Solis;Gustavo A. Llorente

  • Conservation Biogeography of the Sahara-Sahel: additional protected areas are needed to secure unique biodiversity

    José C. Brito;Pedro Tarroso;Cândida G. Vale;Fernando Martínez-Freiría

  • Inferring evolutionary scenarios with geostatistics and geographical information systems for the viperid snakes Vipera latastei and Vipera monticola

    José C. Brito;Xavier Santos;Juan M. Pleguezuelos;Neftalí Sillero

  • Is response to fire influenced by dietary specialization and mobility? A comparative study with multiple animal assemblages.

    Xavier Santos;Eduardo Mateos;Vicenç Bros;Lluís Brotons

  • Taxonomic and Functional Responses to Fire and Post-Fire Management of a Mediterranean Hymenoptera Community

    Eduardo Mateos;Xavier Santos;Juli Pujade-Villar

  • Specialist and generalist species in habitat use: Implications for conservation assessment in snakes

    Carmen Segura;Mónica Feriche;Juan M. Pleguezuelos;Xavier Santos

  • Deep evolutionary lineages in a Western Mediterranean snake (Vipera latastei/monticola group) and high genetic structuring in Southern Iberian populations.

    G. Velo-Antón;R. Godinho;D.J. Harris;X. Santos

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan M. Pleguezuelos
Juan M. Pleguezuelos University of Granada
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
Salvador Carranza
Salvador Carranza Pompeu Fabra University
Miguel A. Carretero
Miguel A. Carretero University of Porto
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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