David Giralt

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 667 citations indexed

About

David Giralt is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, David Giralt has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 667 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in David Giralt's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). David Giralt is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). David Giralt collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Portugal and Sweden. David Giralt's co-authors include Gérard Bota, Juán Traba, Cristian Pérez‐Granados, Francesc Sardà‐Palomera, Julia Gómez‐Catasús, Francisco Valera, Yann Clough, Aliette Bosem Baillod, Ma Ángeles Marcos-García and Françoise Burel and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Giralt

33 papers receiving 656 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Landscape configurational heterogeneity by small-scale agriculture, not crop diversity, maintains pollinators and plant reproduction in western Europe

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Giralt Spain	16	344	220	220	135	124	33	667
Kirill Márk Orci Hungary	11	263 0.8×	351 1.6×	440 2.0×	87 0.6×	152 1.2×	28	750
Desirée L. Narango United States	14	251 0.7×	233 1.1×	282 1.3×	75 0.6×	208 1.7×	26	673
Joana Santana Portugal	16	433 1.3×	346 1.6×	258 1.2×	243 1.8×	249 2.0×	35	809
Richard K. Broughton United Kingdom	19	691 2.0×	474 2.2×	284 1.3×	220 1.6×	212 1.7×	79	1.0k
M. C. Townsend United Kingdom	7	191 0.6×	294 1.3×	337 1.5×	129 1.0×	113 0.9×	10	600
Andrew Joys United Kingdom	10	384 1.1×	305 1.4×	206 0.9×	162 1.2×	137 1.1×	11	721
Kathryn E. Lindsay Canada	14	510 1.5×	461 2.1×	291 1.3×	245 1.8×	329 2.7×	20	965
Matthew Hiron Sweden	14	272 0.8×	255 1.2×	135 0.6×	105 0.8×	139 1.1×	26	497
Nárgila Moura Brazil	13	414 1.2×	549 2.5×	252 1.1×	196 1.5×	406 3.3×	17	930
Sallie Bailey United Kingdom	15	386 1.1×	351 1.6×	284 1.3×	252 1.9×	224 1.8×	25	791

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Giralt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gorris, Philipp, Örjan Bodin, David Giralt, et al.. (2025). Social-ecological perspective on European semi-natural grassland conservation and restoration: Key challenges and future pathways. Biological Conservation. 304. 111038–111038. 1 indexed citations

Tarjuelo, Rocío, et al.. (2025). Mechanical management decreases arthropod biomass by changing vegetation structure in fallow fields of high conservation value. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 545–554. 1 indexed citations

Martín‐Vélez, Víctor, Tomás Montalvo, David Giralt, et al.. (2024). Evil and allies: Opportunistic gulls as both spreaders and sentinels of antibiotic‐resistant bacteria in human‐transformed landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(11). 2809–2821. 5 indexed citations

Ortiz‐Santaliestra, Manuel E., et al.. (2024). Dietary DNA metabarcoding reveals a trophic niche partitioning among sympatric Iberian sandgrouses and bustards. The Science of The Total Environment. 933. 172989–172989. 3 indexed citations

Concepción, Elena D., Francisco M. Azcárate, Gérard Bota, et al.. (2024). Ex ante Evaluation of a Multi-Level Governance Cap Strategic Plan for Farmland Bird Conservation. Ardeola. 72(1). 2 indexed citations

Giralt, David, et al.. (2023). Disentangling the effects of management, field characteristics of fallows, and surrounding landscape to promote steppe bird conservation. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 357. 108657–108657. 6 indexed citations

Pérez‐Granados, Cristian, Gérard Bota, Julia Gómez‐Catasús, et al.. (2023). Short-term impact of an extreme weather event on the threatened Dupont’s LarkChersophilus duponti. Bird Conservation International. 33. 3 indexed citations

Morales, Manuel B., Mario Dı́az, David Giralt, et al.. (2022). Protect European green agricultural policies for future food security. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 217–217. 18 indexed citations

Giralt, David, et al.. (2021). Landscape-Scale Effects of Irrigation on a Dry Cereal Farmland Bird Community. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 11 indexed citations

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Giralt, David, Irene Robleño, Gérard Bota, et al.. (2019). Fallow management increases habitat suitability for endangered steppe bird species through changes in vegetation structure. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(9). 2166–2175. 27 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Granados, Cristian, Gérard Bota, David Giralt, et al.. (2019). Vocal activity rate index: a useful method to infer terrestrial bird abundance with acoustic monitoring. Ibis. 161(4). 901–907. 53 indexed citations

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Gómez‐Catasús, Julia, Cristian Pérez‐Granados, Adrián Barrero, et al.. (2018). European population trends and current conservation status of an endangered steppe-bird species: the Dupont’s lark Chersophilus duponti. PeerJ. 6. e5627–e5627. 29 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Granados, Cristian, Gérard Bota, David Giralt, & Juán Traba. (2018). A cost-effective protocol for monitoring birds using autonomous recording units: a case study with a night-time singing passerine. Bird Study. 65(3). 338–345. 30 indexed citations

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Giralt, David, et al.. (2018). Manual de gestión de barbechos para la conservación de aves esteparias. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 5 indexed citations

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Giralt, David, et al.. (2016). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Pla de Lleida (Lleida, España). Revista de aracnología. 91–101. 2 indexed citations

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Robleño, Irene, Gérard Bota, David Giralt, & J. Recasens. (2016). Fallow management for steppe bird conservation: the impact of cultural practices on vegetation structure and food resources. Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(1). 133–150. 20 indexed citations

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Cardador, Laura, et al.. (2015). Conservation Traps and Long‐Term Species Persistence in Human‐Dominated Systems. Conservation Letters. 8(6). 456–462. 15 indexed citations

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Cardador, Laura, Miquel De Cáceres, Gérard Bota, et al.. (2014). A Resource-Based Modelling Framework to Assess Habitat Suitability for Steppe Birds in Semiarid Mediterranean Agricultural Systems. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92790–e92790. 22 indexed citations

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McMahon, Barry J., et al.. (2010). Identifying set‐aside features for bird conservation and management in northeast Iberian pseudo‐steppes. Bird Study. 57(3). 289–300. 24 indexed citations

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Kvist, Laura, et al.. (2010). Population decline is accompanied by loss of genetic diversity in the Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor. Ibis. 153(1). 98–109. 11 indexed citations

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