Under review

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Chozas, S., Chefaoui, R.M., Correia, O., Santos, A.M.C., & Hortal, J. Geographical variations in xerophytic shrub community responses to environmental gradient

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Leo, M.*, Rigal, F., Ronquillo, C., Borges, P.A.V., de Azevedo, E.B., & Santos, A.M.C. The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores

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Llorente-Culebras, S.*, Ladle, R.J, & Santos, A.M.C. Publication trends in global biodiversity research on protected areas

 

 

2022

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deCastro-Arrazola, I., Andrew, N.R., Berg, M.P., Curtsdotter, A., Lumaret, J.-P., Menéndez, R., Moretti, M., Nervo, B., Nichols, E.S., Sánchez-Piñero, F., Santos, A.M.C., Sheldon, K.S., Slade, E.M., Hortal, J. (in press). A trait-based framework for dung beetle functional ecology. Journal of Animal Ecology.

 

Lhoumeau, S., Cardoso, P., Costa, R., Boieiro, M., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Amorim, I.R., Rigal, F., Santos, A.M.C., Gabriel, R., Borges, P.A.V. (2022). SLAM Project - Long term ecological study of the impacts of climate change in the natural forest of Azores: IV - The spiders of Terceira and Pico Islands (2019-2021) and general diversity patterns after ten years of sampling. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10: e96442.

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Wyckhuys, K.A.G., Sánchez García, F.J., Santos, A.M.C., Canal, N.A., Furlong, M.J., Yubak, J.C. & Pozsgai, G. (2022). Island and mountain ecosystems as testbeds for biological control in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, 10: 912628.

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2021

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Florencio, M., Patiño, J., Nogué, S., Traveset, A., Borges, P.A.V., Amorim, I.R., Arnedo, M., Ávila, S.P., Cardoso, P., de Nascimento, L., Fernández-Palacios, J. M., Gabriel, S.I., Gil, A., Gonçalves, V., Haroun, R., Illera, J.C., López-Darias, M., Martínez, A., Martins, G.M., Neto, A.I., Nogales, M., Oromí, P., Rando, J.C., Raposeiro, P. M., Rigal, F., Romeiras, M., Schaefer, H., Silva, L., Valido, A., Vanderpoorten, A., Vasconcelos, R., & Santos, A.M.C. (2021). Macaronesia as a fruitful arena for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 718169.

 

Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Meiri, S., Hortal, J., Santos, A.M.C. & Raia, P. (2021) Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons. Ecology Letters, 24, 2521–2523.

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Llorente-Culebras, S.*, Molina-Venagas, R., Barbosa, A.M., Carvalho, S.B., Rodríguez, M.A., & Santos, A.M.C. (2021). Effectiveness of protected areas in preserving functional and phylogenetic diversity of Iberian vertebrates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 634653. *paper by student

 

Leo, Maria*, Steinbauer, M., Borges, P.A.V., de Azevedo, E.B., Gabriel, R., Schaefer, H. & Santos, A.M.C. (2021). Dispersal syndromes are poorly associated with climatic niche differences in the Azorean seed plants. Journal of Biogeography, 48 (9): 2275-2285. *paper by student

 

Nogué, S.,  Santos, A.M.C., Birks, H.J.B., Björck, S., Castilla-Beltrán, A., Connor, S., de Boer, E.J., de Nascimento, L., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Froyd, C.A., Haberle, S.G., Hooghiemstra, H., Ljung, K., Norder, S.J., Peñuelas, J., Prebble, M., Stevenson, J., Whittaker, R.J., Willis, K.J., Wilmshurst, J.M. & Steinbauer, M.J. (2021). The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands. Science, 372: 488-491

 

Noriega, J.A.*, March-Salas, M., Castillo, S., García, H., Hortal, J. & Santos, A.M.C. (2021). The effect of human perturbations on dung beetle diversity reduces ecosystem functioning. Biotropica, 53: 753-766. *paper by student

 

Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Santos, A.M.C., Barreto, E., Naves, F., Santos, W., Souza, K.S., Santos-Silva, R., Dobrovolski, R., Soares, T.N., Tidon, R., Vilaça, Z.A.S., Raia, P., Hortal, J. & Jardim, L. (2021). Quantitative genetics of an extreme insular dwarfing: the case of red deer (Cervus elephus) in Jersey Island. Journal of Biogeography, 48, 1720-1730

 

Noriega, J.A.*, Santos, A.M.C., Calatayud, J., Chozas, S. Hortal, J. (2021). Short- and long-term temporal changes in the assemblage structure of Amazonian dung beetles. Oecologia, 195: 719-736. *paper by student

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2020

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Hortal, J. & Santos, A.M.C. (2020). Rethinking extinctions that arise from habitat loss. Nature, 584: 194-196. DOI:10.1038/d41586-020-02210-x.

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Santos, A.M.C., Cianciaruso, M.V., Barbosa, A.M., Bini, L.M., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Faleiro, F.V., Gouveia, S.F., Loyola, R., Medina, N.G., Rangel, T.F., Tessarolo, G. & Hortal, J. (2020). Current climate, but also long-term climate changes and human impacts, determine the geographic distribution of European mammal diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29: 1758-1769. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13148.

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2019

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Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Jardim, L., Rangel, T.F., Holden, P.B., Edwards, N.R., Hortal, J., Santos, A.M.C. & Raia, P. (2019). Quantitative genetics of body size evolution in islands: an individual-based simulation approach. Biology Letters, 15(10): 20190481. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0481

 

Hidasi-Neto, J. Bailey, R.I., Vasseur, C., Woas, S., Ulrich, W., Jambon, O., Santos, A.M.C., Cianciaruso, M.V. & Prinzing, A. (2019). A forest canopy as a living archipelago: Why phylogenetic isolation may increase and age decrease diversity. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 158-169. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13469.

 

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2018

 

Meiri, S., Raia, P. & Santos, A.M.C. (2018). Anagenesis and cladogenesis are useful island biogeography terms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33: 895-896. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.09.005

 

Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Kreft, H., Whittaker, R., Fattorini, S., Emerson, B., Gil, A., Gillespie, R., Matthews, T., Santos, A.M.C., Steinbauer, M., Thébaud, C., Ah-Peng, C., Amorim, I., Aranda, S.C., Arroz, A.M., Azevedo, J., Boieiro, M., Borda-de-Água, L., Carvalho, J., Elias, R.B., Fernánez-Palacios, J.M., Florencio, M., González-Mancebo, J.M., Heaney, L.R., Hortal, J., Kueffer, C., Lequette, B., Martín-Esquivel, J.L., López, H., Lamelas-López, L., Marcelino, J., Nunes, R., Oromí, P., Patiño, J., Pérez, A.J., Rego, C., Ribeiro, S.P., Rigal, F., Rodrigues, P., Rominger, A.J., Santos-Reis, M., Schaefer, H., Sérgio, C., Serrano, A.R.M., Sim-Sim, M., Stephenson, P.J., Soares, A.O., Strasberg, D., Vanderporten, A., Vieira, V. & Gabriel, R. (2018). A Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota. Biodiversity & Conservation, 27: 2567-2586. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-018-1553-7

 

Noriega, J.A.*, Hortal, J., Azcárate, F.M., Berg, M.P., Bonada, N., Briones, M.J.I., Del Toro, I., Goulson, D., Ibanez, S., Landis, D.A., Moretti, M., Potts, S.G., Slade, E.M., Stout, J.C., Ulyshen, M.D., Wackers, F.L., Woodcock, B.A. & Santos, A.M.C. (2018). Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects. Basic and Applied Ecology, 28: 8-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.09.006. *paper by student

 

 

2017

 

Chozas, S., Correia, O., Santos, A.M.C. & Hortal, J. (2017). Trait dynamics along successions in xerophytic shrub communities of Mediterranean stabilized dunes. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 10: 115-126. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2017.1345997

 

Borda-de-Água, L., Whittaker, R.J., Cardoso, P., Rigal, F., Santos, A.M.C., Amorim, I.R., Parmakelis, A., Triantis, K.A., Pereira, H.M. & Borges, P.A.V. (2017). Dispersal ability determines the scaling properties of species abundance distributions: a case study using arthropods from the Azores. Scientific Reports, 7: 3899. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-04126-5.

 

Patiño, J., Whittaker, R.J., Borges, P.A.V., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Ah-Peng, C., Araújo, M.B., Ávila, S.P., Cardoso, P., Cornuault, J., de Boer, E.J., de Nascimento, L., Gil, A., González-Castro, A., Gruner, D.S., Heleno, R., Hortal, J., Illera, J.C., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Matthews, T.J., Papadopoulou, A., Pettorelli, N., Price, J.P., Santos, A.M.C., Steinbauer, M.J., Triantis, K.A., Valente, L., Vargas, P., Weigelt, P. & Emerson, B.C. (2017). A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeograpy. Journal of Biogeography, 44 (5): 963-983. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12986.

 

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2016

 

Santos, A.M.C., Field, R. & Ricklefs, R.E. (2016). New directions in Island Biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25 (7): 751-768. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12477

 

Santos, A.M.C., Cianciaruso, M.V. & De Marco Jr., P. (2016). Global patterns of functional diversity and assemblage structure of island parasitoid faunas. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25 (7): 869-879. DOI:  10.1111/geb.12340. (covered by the Spanish media).

 

Borges, P.A.V., Gaspar, C., Crespo, L.C.F., Rigal, F., Cardoso, P., Pereira, F., Rego, C., Amorim, I.R., Melo, C., Aguiar, C., André, G., Mendonça, E., Ribeiro, S.P., Hortal, J., Santos, A.M.C., Barcelos, L., Enghoff, H., Mahnert, V., Pita, M.T., Ribes, J., Baz, A., Sousa, A.B., Vieira, V., Wunderlich, J., Parmakelis, A., Whittaker, R.J., Quartau, J.A., Serrano, A.R.M., & Triantis, K.A. (2016). New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4: e10948. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e10948.

 

Florencio, M., Rigal, F., Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Santos, A.M.C. & Lobo, J.M. (2016). The role of plant fidelity and land-use changes on island exotic and indigineous canopy spiders at local and regional scales. Biological Invasions, 18 (8): 2309-2324. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1162-x.

 

Chefaoui, R.M., Chozas, S., Correia, O., Santos, A.M.C. & Hortal, J. (2016). Using niche models of indicator species to predict the distribution of xerophytic shrub dune communities. Web Ecology, 16: 47-49. DOI: 10.5194/we-16-47-2016.

 

 

2015

 

Ladle, R.J., Malhado, A.C.M., Correia, R.A., Guedes, J. & Santos, A.M.C. (2015). Research trends in biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 42: 2270-2276. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12602.

 

Santos, A.M.C.*, Carneiro*, F. M. & Cianciaruso, M.V. (2015). Predicting productivity in tropical reservoirs: the roles of phytoplankton species richness, evenness and functional diversity (*These authors have contributed equally to this work). Ecological Indicators, 48: 428-435. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.033

 

 

2014

 

Aranda, S.C., Gabriel, R. Borges, P.A.V., Santos, A.M.C., de Azevedo, E.B., Patiño, J., Hortal, J. & Lobo, J.M. (2014). Geographical, temporal and environmental determinants of bryophyte species richness in the Macaronesian islands. PlosOne, 9 (7): e101786. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0101786

 

Hortal, J., Nabout, J.C., Calatayud, J., Carneiro, F.M., Padial, A., Santos, A.M.C., Siqueira, T., Bokma, F., Bini, L.M. & Ventura, M. (2014) Perspectives on the use of lakes as model systems for macroecological research. Journal of Limnology, 73 (S1): 46-60. DOI:10.4081/jlimnol.2014.887

 

Malhado, Ana C.M., de Azevedo, R.D.S., Todd, P.A., Santos, A.M.C., Fabré, N.N., Batista, V.S., Aguiar, L.J.G. & Ladle, R.J. (2014). Geographic and temporal trends in Amazonian knowledge production. Biotropica, 46 (1): 6-13. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12079

 

 

2013

 

Aranda, S.C., Gabriel, R. Borges, P.A.V., Santos, A.M.C., Hortal, J. & Lobo, J.M. (2013). How do different dispersal modes shape the species–area relationships? Evidence for between-group coherence in the Macaronesian flora. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 22: 483-493. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12008

 

 

2012

 

Triantis, K., Hortal, J., Amorim, I., Cardoso, P., Santos, A.M.C., Gabriel, R. & Borges, P.A.V. (2012) Resolving the Azorean knot: a response to Carine & Schaefer (2010). Journal of Biogeography, 39: 1179-1184. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02623.x

 

Hortal, J., De Marco Jr., P., Santos, A.M.C., & Diniz-Filho, J.A.F. (2012). Integrating biogeographical processes and local community assembly. Journal of Biogeography, 39: 627-928. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02684.x

 

 

2011

 

Santos, A.M.C. & Quicke, D.L.J. (2011). Large-scale diversity patterns of parasitoid insects. Entomological Science, 14: 371-382. DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2011.00481.x

 

Santos, A.M.C., Quicke, D.L.J., Borges, P.A.V. & Hortal, J. (2011). Species pool structure determines the level of generalism of island parasitoid faunas. Journal of Biogeography, 38: 1657-1667. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02521.x

 

Santos, A.M.C., Fontaine, C., Quicke, D.L.J., Borges, P.A.V. & Hortal, J. (2011). Are island and mainland biotas different? Richness and level of generalism in parasitoids of a microlepidopteran in Macaronesia. Oikos, 120 (8): 1256–1262. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19404.x

 

Santos, A.M.C. (2011). Diploma database to encourage mobility. Nature, 477: 33. DOI: 10.1038/477033

 

Santos, A.M.C., Besnard, G. & Quicke, D.L.J. (2011). Applying DNA barcoding for the study of geographical variation in host-parasitoid interactions. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11: 46-59. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02889.x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010

 

Santos, A.M.C., Jones, O.R., Quicke, D.L.J. & Hortal, J. (2010). Assessing the reliability of biodiversity databases: identifying evenly inventoried island parasitoid faunas (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) worldwide. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 3: 72–82. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00079.x

 

Santos, A.M.C., Whittaker, R.J., Triantis, K.A., Borges, P.A.V., Jones, O.R., Quicke, D.L.J. & Hortal, J. (2010). Are species-area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 527–540. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00536.x

 

Triantis, K.A., Borges, P.A.V., Ladle, R.J., Hortal, J., Gaspar, C., Dinis, F., Mendonça, E., Silveira, L.M.A., Gabriel, R., Cardoso, P., Melo, C., Santos, A.M.C., Amorim, I.R., Ribeiro, S.P., Serrano, A.R.M., Quartau, J.A.& Whittaker, R.J. (2010). Extinction debt on oceanic islands. Ecography, 33: 285–294. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06203.x

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Other selected publications (not listed in the SCI)

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Martínez-Blancas, A., Bender, A., Zepeda, V., McGuire, R., Tabares, O., Amarasekare, P., Mastretta-Yanes, A., Miriti, M., Santos, A.M.C. & Vaz, M.C. (in press). Surviving racism and sexism in academia: sharing experiences, insights, and perspectives. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.

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Sanz-Cruzado, S.P.*, Santos, A.M.C., Ruiz-Benito, P. & Villén-Pérez, S. (2021). The perception of the impact of maternity and paternity in scientific careers in Life Sciences in Spain [in spanish]. Ecosistemas. In press. *paper by student

 

Borges, P.A.V., Santos, A.M.C., Elias, R.B. & Gabriel, R. (2020). The Azores Archipelago: Biodiversity Erosion and Conservation Biogeography. In: Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes -Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, pp. 1-18. Amsterdam, Netherlands. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11949-9

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Peer Mentoring Around Spain* (2020). “Si quieres triunfar en ciencia, búscate un mentor hombre”. El País, https://elpais.com/ciencia/2020-12-02/si-quieres-triunfar-en-ciencia-buscate-un-mentor-hombre.html *Signatories: Maria Almuedo, Paula Arribas, Rosa Fernández, Ana M. C. Santos, Isabel Almudi, Gloria Brea-Clavo, Elena Gómez-Díaz, Ana Riesgo, Laia Ribas, Elena Casacubierta & Esther Garcés.

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Abellán, P.R. & Santos, A.M.C. (2019). ¿Por qué estudiar los efectos del cambio climático en los escarabajos de montaña? nversation. Online magazine: https://theconversation.com/por-que-estudiar-los-efectos-del-cambio-climatico-en-los-escarabajos-de-montana-119029

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Ruiz-Benito, P., Andivia, E., Archambeaou, J., Astigarraga, J., Barrientos, R., Cruz-Alonso, V., Florencio, M., Gómez, D., Martínez-Baroja, L., Quiles, P., Rohrer, Z., Santos, A.M.C., Velado, E., Villén-Pérez, S. & Morales-Castilla, I. (2018). Ventajas de la estadística bayesiana frente a la frecuentista: ¿por qué nos resistimos a usarla? Ecosistemas, 27(2): 136-139. doi: 10.7818/ECOS.1591

 

Santos, A.M.C. (2017). Island Tales and beyond. Frontiers of Biogeography, 9 (3): e3547. doi: 10.21425/F59335473.

 

Santos A.M.C. (2012). Ecology and biogeography of island parasitoid faunas. Frontiers of Biogeography , 4 (1): 19-24. doi: 10.21425/F5FBG12551.

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Santos, A.M.C. (2011). Getting to know the IBS Early Career Members. Frontiers of Biogeography, 3 (3): 119-121. doi: 10.21425/F5FBG12433.

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Santos, A.M.C., Borges, P.A.V., Rodrigues, A.C., & Lopes, D.J.H. (2010). Lista de espécies de artrópodes associados a diferentes culturas frutícolas da Ilha Terceira (Açores). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 46: 437–447.

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Borges, P.A.V., Vieira, V., Amorim, I.R., Bicudo, N., Fritzén, N., Gaspar, C., Heleno, R., Hortal, J., Lissner, J., Logunov, D., Machado, A., Marcelino, J., Meijer, S.S., Melo, C., Mendonça, E.P., Moniz, J., Pereira, F., Santos, A.M., Torrão, E. (2010). List of arthropods (Arthropoda). In A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores (eds. P.A.V. Borges, A. Costa, R. Cunha, R. Gabriel, V. Gonçalves, A.F. Martins, I. Melo, M. Parente, P. Raposeiro, P. Rodrigues, R.S. Santos, L. Silva, P. Vieira & V. Vieira). pp. 179-246, Princípia, Cascais, 432 pp.

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Santos, A.M.C., Borges, P.A.V. & Lopes, D.J.H. (2008). Parasitoid (Hymenoptera, Parasitica) diversity in fruit orchards of Terceira Island (Azores), with new records for the Azores and Portugal. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal, 14: 139–144.

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