Giacomo Tavecchia

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Giacomo Tavecchia is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giacomo Tavecchia has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Giacomo Tavecchia's work include Avian ecology and behavior (70 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (59 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers). Giacomo Tavecchia is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (70 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (59 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers). Giacomo Tavecchia collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and France. Giacomo Tavecchia's co-authors include Daniel Oró, Meritxell Genovart, Alejandro Martínez‐Abraín, Roger Pradel, Mike S. Fowler, Fabrizio Sergio, José Manuel Igual, Tim Coulson, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar and Alessandro Tanferna and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Giacomo Tavecchia

117 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidie... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans
    2013 596 citations Daniel Oró, Meritxell Genovart et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Giacomo Tavecchia Spain 40 3.6k 1.2k 958 784 641 119 4.3k
Joël Bêty Canada 40 3.7k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 717 0.7× 686 0.9× 838 1.3× 123 4.5k
Frank Adriaensen Belgium 30 3.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 968 1.0× 901 1.1× 679 1.1× 66 4.1k
Beatriz Arroyo Spain 36 4.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 591 0.8× 976 1.5× 206 5.0k
Geoff M. Hilton United Kingdom 34 2.9k 0.8× 867 0.7× 863 0.9× 583 0.7× 667 1.0× 121 3.5k
Brett K. Sandercock United States 40 3.5k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 708 0.9× 672 1.0× 154 4.4k
Keith L. Bildstein United States 35 3.7k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 886 0.9× 796 1.0× 861 1.3× 157 4.4k
Philip W. Atkinson United Kingdom 32 3.1k 0.9× 866 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 842 1.1× 828 1.3× 111 4.3k
John M. Eadie United States 36 2.7k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 586 0.7× 435 0.7× 118 3.7k
Toni Laaksonen Finland 32 2.8k 0.8× 2.1k 1.7× 700 0.7× 470 0.6× 818 1.3× 158 4.0k
Fabrizio Sergio Spain 42 4.4k 1.2× 1.8k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 575 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 103 5.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giacomo Tavecchia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giacomo Tavecchia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giacomo Tavecchia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giacomo Tavecchia based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Giacomo Tavecchia. Giacomo Tavecchia is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bustamante, Paco, Karen D. McCoy, Gaël Guillou, et al.. (2024). Spatial variation of mercury contamination in yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) in the Western Mediterranean. Environmental Pollution. 362. 124992–124992. 3 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo, et al.. (2024). Immigration hides the decline caused by an anthropogenic trap and drives the spectacular increase of a mobile predator. Oecologia. 207(1). 15–15. 2 indexed citations
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Rotger, Andreu, Andrea Santangeli, Giacomo Tavecchia, et al.. (2024). Coping with ocean dynamics: Foraging strategy and implications for conservation of a small petrel. Biological Conservation. 302. 110913–110913. 2 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo, José Manuel Igual, Carlos Alonso‐Álvarez, et al.. (2023). Yellow-Legged Gulls from the Mediterranean are Not Only Larger But Also Allometrically Longer-Winged Than Those from the Cantabrian-Atlantic. Ardeola. 70(2). 1 indexed citations
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Baldo, Laura, Giacomo Tavecchia, Andreu Rotger, José Manuel Igual, & Joan Lluís Riera. (2023). Insular holobionts: persistence and seasonal plasticity of the Balearic wall lizard ( Podarcis lilfordi) gut microbiota. PeerJ. 11. e14511–e14511. 7 indexed citations
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Valsecchi, Elena, Giacomo Tavecchia, Ginevra Boldrocchi, et al.. (2023). Playing “hide and seek” with the Mediterranean monk seal: a citizen science dataset reveals its distribution from molecular traces (eDNA). Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2610–2610. 18 indexed citations
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Bertolero, Albert, José Manuel Igual, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar, et al.. (2022). It’s not all abundance: Detectability and accessibility of food also explain breeding investment in long-lived marine animals. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0273615–e0273615. 1 indexed citations
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Payo‐Payo, Ana, José Manuel Igual, Ana Sanz‐Aguilar, et al.. (2022). Interspecific synchrony on breeding performance and the role of anthropogenic food subsidies. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0275569–e0275569.
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Tiberti, Rocco, Teresa Buchaca, Daniel M. Boiano, et al.. (2021). Alien fish eradication from high mountain lakes by multiple removal methods: Estimating residual abundance and eradication probability in open populations. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(5). 1055–1068. 8 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo, et al.. (2018). Discard-ban policies can help improve our understanding of the ecological role of food availability to seabirds. Scientia Marina. 82(S1). 115–120. 7 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo, et al.. (2017). Surviving at high elevations: an inter- and intra-specific analysis in a mountain bird community. Oecologia. 184(2). 293–303. 11 indexed citations
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Ramı́rez, Francisco, Isabel Afán, Giacomo Tavecchia, et al.. (2016). Oceanographic drivers and mistiming processes shape breeding success in a seabird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1826). 20152287–20152287. 29 indexed citations
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Ballerini, Tosca, et al.. (2015). Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. 21 indexed citations
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Sergio, Fabrizio, Alessandro Tanferna, Renaud de Stephanis, et al.. (2014). Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance. Nature. 515(7527). 410–413. 257 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Jauregui, María, et al.. (2012). Population resilience of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus at Cabo Blanco peninsula. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 461. 273–281. 25 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Abraín, Alejandro, et al.. (2011). Effects of wind farms and food scarcity on a large scavenging bird species following an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Journal of Applied Ecology. 49(1). 109–117. 73 indexed citations
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Igual, José Manuel, Manuela G. Forero, Giacomo Tavecchia, et al.. (2004). Short-term effects of data-loggers on Cory?s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea). Marine Biology. 146(3). 619–624. 74 indexed citations
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Griggio, Matteo, Frances Hamerstrom, Robert N. Rosenfield, & Giacomo Tavecchia. (2002). SEASONAL VARIATION IN SEX RATIO OF FLEDGLING AMERICAN KESTRELS: A LONG TERM STUDY. The Wilson Bulletin. 114(4). 474–478. 19 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo, et al.. (2002). Sex-biased survival and breeding dispersal probability in a patchy population of the Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations
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Tavecchia, Giacomo. (1995). Data on urban badger activity in south Wales: a brief study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations

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