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2025|Article

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness

Sofía Galván, Sara Varela, Sara Gamboa
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2025|Article

Silent past: Biogeographic gaps in the Cenozoic fossil archive

Marta Matamala-Pagès ,Oskar Hagen, Adrián Castro-Insua, Adriana Oliver, Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Graciela Sotelo, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Sara Varela
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2025|Article

The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes

Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Mar Sobral, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Sara Varela
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2025|Article

Blood, Sweat, and Research: Menstruation’s Impact on Fieldwork in Natural Science

Gamboa, S., Cuesta, E., Domínguez-García, V., García-Muñoz, A., Gómez Cano, A.R., López-Guerrero, P., Menéndez, I., Oliver, A., Velado-Alonso, E., Carro-Rodríguez, P.M., Sanz-Pérez, D.
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2025|Article

Future palaeontologists will detect current mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient

Galván, S., Gamboa, S., Chiarenza, A.A., Rotatori, F.M., Oliver, A., Varela, S.
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2025|Congress paper

Small mammals as palaeoecological proxies: ecological specialization and evolutionary trends

Rey-Rodríguez, I., Sotelo, G., Oliver, A., Castro-Insua, A., Galván, S., Gamboa, S., Matamala-Pagès, M., Sillero, N., Varela, S.
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2025|Congress paper

Some, but not all processes biasing the fossil record decrease functional and taxonomic space

Castro-Insua, A., Galván, S., Sotelo, G., Gamboa, S., Matamala-Pagès, M., Oliver, A., Rey-Rodríguez, I., Varela, S.
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2025|Congress paper

Information loss in the fossil record

Matamala-Pagès, M., Castro-Insua, A., Oliver, A., Méndez-Quintas, E., Sotelo, G., Rey-Rodríguez, I., Galván, S., Gamboa, S., Varela, S.
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2025|Congress paper

Blood Work: Exploring Menstruation’s Impact on Natural Science Fieldwork

Gamboa, S., Cuesta, E., Domínguez-García, V., García-Muñoz, A., Gómez Cano, A.R., López-Guerrero, P., Menéndez, I., Oliver, A., Velado-Alonso, E., Carro-Rodríguez, P.M., Sanz-Pérez, D.
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2025|Congress paper

European palaeobiogeography of the cricetid Megacricetodon (Mammalia, Rodentia)

Oliver, A. ISBN 978-84-09-71275-5.
2025|Congress paper

Palaeobiology, taphonomy and geological context of the middle Pleistocene fossil assemblage from the Santa Isabel de Ranero cave site (Karrantza, Northern Iberian Peninsula)

A. Gómez-Olivencia, M. Arriolabengoa, N. Sala, A. Pablos, V. Martínez-Pillado, P. López-Guerrero, A. Oliver, H. Eguiraun, L. García Boullosa, J. Moreno, A. Neila, J. Ortiz, M. Villalba de Alvarado, M. Arleg. ISBN 978-84-09-71275-5.
2024|Article

Climatic variability in the Armenian Highlands as the backdrop to hominin population dynamics 50–25 ka

Rey-Rodríguez, I., Gamarra, B., Arnaud, J., Golovanov, S.,Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Wilkinson, K.N., Adler, D.S., Weissbrod, L.
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2024|Article

An integrated mapping approach highlights extended distribution and high environmental status of Irish seagrass meadows

Beca-Carretero, P., Varela, S., Rossiter, T., Wilkes, R., Julia-Miralles, M., Stengel, D.B.
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2024|Article

Macroevolutionary processes in turtles (Testudines): a view from biiomic specialization and historical climatic changes

Thomas, J.S., Gamboa, S., Hernández Fernández, M., Murillo, O., Pelegrin, J.S.
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2024|Congress paper

Paleontología en el aula a través de un proyecto divulgativo: Resultados y aplicaciones

Oliver, A., Gallego, T., de Iriarte, R., Urra Sánchez, O., & Gómez-Cano, A. R. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-64828-3.
2024|Congress paper

Paleobiogeografía de los ctenodactílidos (Mammalia, Rodentia): una nueva aproximación de su trayectoria evolutiva

Oliver, A., Carro-Rodríguez, P. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-64828-3.
2024|Article

Apreciación de una salida extraescolar por el alumnado del grado de Maestro de Educación Primaria

B. A. García Yelo, A. Oliver Pérez, P. López Guerrero,E. García García.
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2024|Congress paper

Salidas de campo en Geología y la menstruación. ¿Cómo afecta al estudiantado?

Sanz-Pérez, D., Oliver, A., Gamboa, S., Menéndez, I., Gómez Cano, A.R., Carro-Rodríguez. ISSN: 1576-5172.
2024|Congress paper

“Mujeres con los pies en la Tierra”, un espacio para científicas

D. Sanz-Pérez, P. M. Carro-Rodríguez, A. Oliver, I. Menéndez, E. Cuesta, S. Gamboa, A. R. Gómez Cano; P. López-Guerrero. ISSN: 1576-5172.
2024|Congress paper

Percepciones y contribuciones de las paleontólogas en el congreso de la Asociación Europea de Paleontología de Vertebrados del 2023

P.M. Carro-Rodríguez, I. Menéndez, A. Oliver, A.R. Gómez Cano, S. Gamboa, P. López-Guerrero, D. Sanz-Pérez. ISSN: 1576-5172.
2024|Congress paper

Un yacimiento de preservación excepcional: El Cerro de los Batallones

P.M. Carro-Rodríguez, M.S. Domingo, J. Abella, Ó. Caballero-Chordá, J.L. Cantalapiedra, L. Domingo, S. Fraile, B.A. García Yelo, A.R. Gómez Cano, E. Galli, V. Hernández-Ballarín, D. Hontecillas, R. López-Antoñanzas, P. López-Guerrero, D.M. Martín-Perea, I. Menéndez, A. Oliver, A. Quesada, M. Ríos, Ó. Sanisidro, D. Sanz-Pérez, L.R. Sualdea, A. Valenciano, E. Cantero, M. Hernández Fernández, M.Á. Álvarez-Sierra, P. Peláez-Campomanes, J. Morales. ISSN: 1576-5172.
2024|Article

Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography

Gamboa, S., Galván, S., & Varela, S. (2024). Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography. Global Change Biology, 30, e17339. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17339
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2024|Article

Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs

Chiarenza, A.A., Cantalapiedra, J.L., Jones, L.A., Gamboa, S., Galván, S., Farnsworth, A.J., Valdes, P.J., Sotelo, G. & Varela, S. (2024). Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs, Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.051
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2024|Article

Evaluating the impact of historical climate and early human groups in the Araucaria Forest of Eastern South America

Vasconcellos, M. M., Varela, S., Reginato, M., Gehara, M., Carnaval, A. C., & Michelangeli, F. A. (2024). Evaluating the impact of historical climate and early human groups in the Araucaria Forest of eastern South America. Ecography, e06756. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06756
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2024|Article

C4 photosynthesis provided an immediate demographic advantage to populations of the grass Alloteropsis semialata

Sotelo, G., Gamboa, S., Dunning, L. T., Christin, P., & Varela, S. (2024). C 4 photosynthesis provided an immediate demographic advantage to populations of the grass Alloteropsis semialata. New Phytologist, 242(2), 774-785. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19606
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2023|Book chapter

Dinosaurs, Extinction Theories for

Chiarenza, A. A., & Brusatte, S. L. (2024). Dinosaurs, Extinction Theories for. En Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (pp. 298-309). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00108-0
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2023|Article

Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep-time palaeobiological studies

Buffan, L., Jones, L. A., Domeier, M., Scotese, C. R., Zahirovic, S., & Varela, S. (2023). Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep‐time palaeobiological studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), 3007-3019. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14204
2023|Article

Acynodon adriaticus from Villaggio del Pescatore (Campanian of Italy): Anatomical and chronostratigraphic integration improves phylogenetic resolution in Hylaeochampsidae (Eusuchia)

Marco, M., Chiarenza, A. A., Delfino, M., Fabbri, M., Milocco, K., & Fanti, F. (2023). Acynodon adriaticus from Villaggio del Pescatore (Campanian of Italy): Anatomical and chronostratigraphic integration improves phylogenetic resolution in Hylaeochampsidae (Eusuchia). Cretaceous Research, 151, 105631.
2023|Article

rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes

Gearty, W., & Jones, L. A. (2023). rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(11), 2700-2708. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14221
2023|Article

Mammal traits and soil biogeochemistry: Functional diversity relates to composition of soil organic matter

Losada, M., Sobral, M., Silvius, K. M., Varela, S., Martínez Cortizas, A. M., & Fragoso, J. M. V. (2023). Mammal traits and soil biogeochemistry: Functional diversity relates to composition of soil organic matter. Ecology and Evolution, 13(8), e10392. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10392
2023|Article

Palaeoverse: A community driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis

Jones, L. A., Gearty, W., Allen, B. J., Eichenseer, K., Dean, C. D., Galván, S., Kouvari, M., Godoy, P. L., Nicholl, C. S. C., Buffan, L., Dillon, E. M., Flannery‐Sutherland, J. T., & Chiarenza, A. A. (2023). palaeoverse: A community‐driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(9), 2205-2215.
2023|Article

Mammal and tree diversity accumulate different types of soil organic matter in the northern amazon

Losada, M., Martínez Cortizas, A. M., Silvius, K. M., Varela, S., Raab, T. K., Fragoso, J. M. V., & Sobral, M. (2023). Mammal and tree diversity accumulate different types of soil organic matter in the northern Amazon. iScience, 26(3), 106088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106088
2023|Article

Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development.

Merow, C., Boyle, B., Enquist, B. J., Feng, X., Kass, J. M., Maitner, B. S., McGill, B., Owens, H., Park, D. S., Paz, A., Pinilla-Buitrago, G. E., Urban, M. C., Varela, S., & Wilson, A. M. (2023). Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(5), 626-627.
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2023|Article

Wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions.

Kass, J. M., Pinilla‐Buitrago, G. E., Paz, A., Johnson, B. A., Grisales‐Betancur, V., Meenan, S. I., Attali, D., Broennimann, O., Galante, P. J., Maitner, B. S., Owens, H. L., Varela, S., Aiello‐Lammens, M. E., Merow, C., Blair, M. E., & Anderson, R. P. (2023). wallace 2: A shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions. Ecography, 2023(3), e06547. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06547
2023|Article

100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world

Chiarenza, A. A., Waterson, A. M., Schmidt, D. N., Valdes, P. J., Yesson, C., Holroyd, P. A., Collinson, M. E., Farnsworth, A., Nicholson, D. B., Varela, S., & Barrett, P. M. (2023). 100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world. Current Biology, 33(1), 109-121.e3.
2023|Book

Study of the impact of social learning and gamification methodologies on learning results in higher education

Sousa-Vieira, María E., López-Ardao, Jose C., Fernández-Veiga, M., & Rodríguez-Rubio, Raúl F. (2023). Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 31(1), 131-153.
2023|Article

Parabolic reflectarray antenna to generate multiple beams for geostationary high throughput satellites in Ka-band

Martinez-De-Rioja, D., Martinez-De-Rioja, E., Rodriguez-Vaqueiro, Y., Encinar, J. A., Pino, A., Arias, M., Arrebola, M., & Toso, G. (2023). International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 15(1), 15-24.
2023|Article

Vehicular Communications in the B5G Era

Azpilicueta, L., Vargas-Rosales, C., Alejos, A. V., & Falcone, F. (2023). En Signals and Communication Technology (pp. 187-205). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
2023|Congress paper

Paleo en el Barrio: ciencia de proximidad. Resultados y aplicaciones

Oliver, A., Gallego, T. & de Iriarte, R. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-53731-0.
2023|Congress paper

Motivación y género en la carrera investigadora. Resultados preliminares en Paleontología en España.

Menéndez, I., Medina-García, P., Carro-Rodríguez, P. M., Gamboa, S., Gómez Cano, A. R., Oliver, A., Cuesta, E., Sanz-Pérez, D. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-53731-0.
2023|Congress paper

Los yacimientos paleontológicos de Somosaguas: 25 años de ciencia, educación y divulgación en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ana Rosa Gómez-Cano, M. Soledad Domingo, Laura Domingo, Paloma López-Guerrero, Blanca García Yelo, Dánae Sanz-Pérez, Patricia Carro-Rodríguez, Iris Menéndez, Sara Gamboa, Manuel, Hernández Fernández & Adriana Oliver. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-53731-0.
2023|Congress paper

Hipsodoncia y lofodoncia en Cricetodontinae y su relación con la expansión de las praderas

Carro-Rodríguez, P., Sanz-Pérez, D., Menéndez, I., Oliver, A; Gómez Cano, A. R., López-Guerrero, P; Álvarez-Sierra, M.A; Peláez-Campomanes. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-53731-0.
2022|Article

Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous

García-Girón, J., Chiarenza, A. A., Alahuhta, J., DeMar, D. G., Heino, J., Mannion, P. D., Williamson, T. E., Wilson Mantilla, G. P., & Brusatte, S. L. (2022). Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous. Science Advances, 8(49), eadd5040. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add5040
2022|Article

Phylogenetic biome conservatism as a key concept for an integrative understanding of evolutionary history: Galliformes and Falconiformes as study cases

Pelegrin, J. S., Cantalapiedra, J. L., Gamboa, S., Menéndez, I., & Hernández Fernández, M. (2023). Phylogenetic biome conservatism as a key concept for an integrative understanding of evolutionary history: Galliformes and Falconiformes as study cases. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 198(1), 47-71.
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2022|Article

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialisation and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

Gamboa, S., Condamine, F. L., Cantalapiedra, J. L., Varela, S., Pelegrín, J. S., Menéndez, I., Blanco, F., & Hernández Fernández, M. (2022). A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies. Global Change Biology, 28(20), 5901-5913. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16344
2022|Article

Favourable climatic niche in low elevations outside the flood zone characterises the distribution pattern of venomous snakes in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, M. A. W., Varela, S., Roy, S., Rahman, Md. M., Noman, M., Haidar, I. K. A., & Müller, J. (2022). Favourable climatic niche in low elevations outside the flood zone characterises the distribution pattern of venomous snakes in Bangladesh. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 38(6), 437-450. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467422000359
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2022|Article

Birds adapted to cold conditions show greater changes in range size related to past climatic oscillations than temperate birds

Carrera, L., Pavia, M., & Varela, S. (2022). Birds adapted to cold conditions show greater changes in range size related to past climatic oscillations than temperate birds. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 10813. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14972-7
2022|Article

Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs

Jones, L. A., Mannion, P. D., Farnsworth, A., Bragg, F., & Lunt, D. J. (2022). Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs. Nature Communications, 13(1), 3120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30793-8
2022|Article

Permian lobed Zoophycos as the product of the terrestrialization process: Behavioral innovation in the Tahkandit Limestone (Yukon River, Alaska, USA),

Fiorillo, A. R., Fanti, F., Baucon, A., & Chiarenza, A. A. (2022). Permian lobed Zoophycos as the product of the terrestrialization process: Behavioral innovation in the Tahkandit Limestone (Yukon River, Alaska, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 593, 110931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110931
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2022|Article

Future climate change will impact the migration of New World migrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Resende Braga, M., Jorge, L. R., Jahn, A. E., Loyola, R., & Varela, S. (2022). Future climate change will impact the migration of New World migrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae). Ornithology Research, 30(1), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43388-022-00081-6
2022|Article

ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species’ Niches and Distributions

Peterson, A. T., Aiello-Lammens, M., Amatulli, G., Anderson, R., Cobos, M., Diniz-Filho, J. A., Escobar, L., Feng, X., Franklin, J., Gadelha, L., Georges, D., Guéguen, M., Gueta, T., Ingenloff, K., Jarvie, S., Jiménez, L., Karger, D., Kass, J., Kearney, M., … Zurell, D. (2022). ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species’ Niches and Distributions. Biodiversity Informatics, 17. https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v17i.15016
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2022|Article

Macroevolution and climate changes: a global multi-family test supports the resource-use hypothesis in terrestrial mammals

Hernández Fernández, M., Pelegrin, J. S., Gómez Cano, A. R., García Yelo, B. A., Moreno-Bofarull, A., Sánchez-Fontela, N., Rodríguez-Ruiz, C., Ramiro Camacho, A., Domingo, L., Menéndez, I., Martín-Perea, D. M., Bazán, C. M., Alcalde, G. M., Domingo, M. S., Luna, B., Peinado Cortés, M. D. M., Arias, A., González Couturier, G., Márquez Villena, A., … Cantalapiedra, J. L. (2022). Macroevolution and climate changes: A global multi-family test supports the resource-use hypothesis in terrestrial mammals. Historical Biology, 34(8), 1471-1479. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2042807
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2022|Article

Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs

Chiarenza, A. A., Mannion, P. D., Farnsworth, A., Carrano, M. T., & Varela, S. (2022). Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Current Biology, 32(3), 570-585.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.061
2022|Article

Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species

Curran, E. V., Scott, M. S., Olofsson, J. K., Nyirenda, F., Sotelo, G., Bianconi, M. E., Manzi, S., Besnard, G., Pereira, L., & Christin, P.-A. (2022). Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1967), 20212491. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2491
2022|Article

No Bird Database is Perfect: Citizen Science and Professional Datasets Contain Different and Complementary Biodiversity Information

Galván, S., Barrientos, R., & Varela, S. (2021). No Bird Database is Perfect: Citizen Science and Professional Datasets Contain Different and Complementary Biodiversity Information. Ardeola, 69(1). https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.69.1.2022.ra6
2021|Article

An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution

Chiarenza, A. A., Fabbri, M., Consorti, L., Muscioni, M., Evans, D. C., Cantalapiedra, J. L., & Fanti, F. (2021). An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02490-x
2021|Article

Uneven spatial sampling distorts reconstructions of Phanerozoic seawater temperature

Jones, L. A., & Eichenseer, K. (2022). Uneven spatial sampling distorts reconstructions of Phanerozoic seawater temperature. Geology, 50(2), 238-242. https://doi.org/10.1130/G49132.1
2021|Article

Climate change and the increase of human population will threaten conservation of Asian cobras

Chowdhury, M. A. W., Müller, J., & Varela, S. (2021). Climate change and the increase of human population will threaten conservation of Asian cobras. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 18113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97553-4