Luca Santini

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Luca Santini is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Santini has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Ecology, 61 papers in Ecological Modeling and 29 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Luca Santini's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (55 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers). Luca Santini is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (55 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers). Luca Santini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Luca Santini's co-authors include Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Carlo Rondinini, Ana Benítez‐López, Moreno Di Marco, Luigi Maiorano, Aafke M. Schipper, Piero Visconti, Luigi Boitani, Santiago Saura and Daniele Baisero and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luca Santini

94 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research

2021 184 citations Luca Santini, Ana Benítez‐López et al. Diversity and Distributions profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Santini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Santini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Santini 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 Luca Santini. Luca Santini is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution 2025 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Franziska Schrodt, (unknown), (unknown), Diana E. Bowler, Colin Fontaine, Pierre Gaüzère, (unknown), Matthias Grenié, Inês S. Martins, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Luca Santini, Mickaël Hedde, (unknown), Emmanuelle Porcher, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cyrille Violle, Wilfried Thuiller	0
2	Glucocorticoid responses of wildlife to anthropogenic stressors are influenced by disturbance type and species traits 2025 ·Functional Ecology ·(unknown), Luca Santini, David Costantini, Ana Benítez‐López	2
3	Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles 2025 ·Ecography ·(unknown), Luca Santini, Victor Cazalis, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Shai Meiri, Uri Roll, (unknown), Daniel Pincheira‐Donoso, Moreno Di Marco	1
4	Traits and trails: Guild-specific effects of forest paths on bat activity 2024 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·Dario Saracino, Luca Santini, (unknown), Leonardo Ancillotto	1
5	Acoustic indices fail to represent different facets of biodiversity 2024 ·Ecological Indicators ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Luca Santini	5
6	A comprehensive framework to assess multi‐species landscape connectivity 2024 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Julien Renaud, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Luca Santini, Luigi Maiorano, Francisco Moreira, (unknown), Néstor Fernández, Wilfried Thuiller	5
7	Towards an automated protocol for wildlife density estimation using camera‐traps 2024 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Pablo Palencia, Luca Santini	2
8	TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods 2024 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Luca Santini, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Caterina Vivaldi, Ticao Zhang, Anna Zampetti, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
9	The Neglected Role of Sex‐Biased Dispersal in Range‐Shift Prediction Under Climate Change 2024 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Luca Santini, (unknown), (unknown), Moreno Di Marco	1
10	Drivers and spatial patterns of avian defaunation in tropical forests 2024 ·Diversity and Distributions ·(unknown), Luca Santini, (unknown), Cécile Richard‐Hansen, Éric Guilbert, Pierre‐Michel Forget, Marijke van Kuijk, (unknown), Carlos A. Peres, Eloy Revilla, Ana Benítez‐López	7
11	Prioritizing the reassessment of data‐deficient species on the IUCN Red List 2023 ·Conservation Biology ·Victor Cazalis, Luca Santini, Pablo M. Lucas, Manuela González‐Suárez, Michael Hoffmann, Ana Benítez‐López, Michela Pacifici, Aafke M. Schipper, Monika Böhm, Alexander Zizka, Viola Clausnitzer, Carsten Meyer, Martin Jung, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Pedro Cardoso, (unknown), H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Bruce E. Young, Guillaume Patoine, Moreno Di Marco	19
12	Synergistic effects of habitat fragmentation and hunting on the extinction risk of neotropical primates 2023 ·Biodiversity and Conservation ·(unknown), Ana Benítez‐López, Moreno Di Marco, Michela Pacifici, Carlo Rondinini, Luca Santini	8
13	The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Ana Benítez‐López, Luca Santini, Juan Gallego‐Zamorano, Borja Milá, Patrick A. Walkden, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Joseph A. Tobias	100
14	Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Yingying Wang, Kevin D. Matson, Luca Santini, Piero Visconti, Jelle P. Hilbers, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Yanjie Xu, H.H.T. Prins, Toph Allen, Zheng Y. X. Huang, Willem F. de Boer	10
15	Trait‐based projections of climate change effects on global biome distributions 2021 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Coline C. F. Boonman, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Ana Benítez‐López, Aafke M. Schipper, Wilfried Thuiller, Luca Santini	31
16	Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients 2021 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Coline C. F. Boonman, Luca Santini, Bjorn J. M. Robroek, Selwyn Hoeks, (unknown), Jürgen Dengler, Ariel Bergamini, Idoia Biurrun, María Laura Carranza, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Milan Chytrý, Ute Jandt, Tatiana Lysenko, Angela Stanisci, (unknown), Solvita Rūsiņa, Mark A. J. Huijbregts	17
17	Applying habitat and population‐density models to land‐cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments 2019 ·Conservation Biology ·Luca Santini, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Carlo Rondinini, Ana Benítez‐López, Jelle P. Hilbers, Aafke M. Schipper, Mirza Čengić, Joseph A. Tobias, Mark A. J. Huijbregts	60
18	Intact but empty forests? Patterns of hunting-induced mammal defaunation in the tropics 2019 ·PLoS Biology ·Ana Benítez‐López, Luca Santini, Aafke M. Schipper, Michela Busana, Mark A. J. Huijbregts	174
19	Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010 2016 ·Global Change Biology ·Aafke M. Schipper, Jonathan Belmaker, (unknown), Laetitia M. Navarro, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, Mark J. Costello, María Dornelas, Ruud Foppen, Joaquín Hortal, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Berta Martín‐López, Nathalie Pettorelli, Cibele Queiroz, Axel G. Rossberg, Luca Santini, Katja Schiffers, Zoran J. N. Steinmann, Piero Visconti, Carlo Rondinini, Henrique M. Pereira	75
20	Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change 2016 ·Biological Conservation ·Luca Santini, Jonathan Belmaker, Mark J. Costello, Henrique M. Pereira, Axel G. Rossberg, Aafke M. Schipper, Silvia Ceaușu, María Dornelas, Jelle P. Hilbers, Joaquín Hortal, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Laetitia M. Navarro, Katja Schiffers, Piero Visconti, Carlo Rondinini	116

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