Néstor Fernández

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Néstor Fernández is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Néstor Fernández has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Ecological Modeling and 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Néstor Fernández's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (36 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (14 papers). Néstor Fernández is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (36 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (14 papers). Néstor Fernández collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Portugal. Néstor Fernández's co-authors include Francisço Palomares, Miguel Delibes, Henrique M. Pereira, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Laetitia M. Navarro, Eloy Revilla, Sacramento Moreno, Thorsten Wiegand, José M. Paruelo and Jens‐Christian Svenning and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Néstor Fernández

65 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Rewilding complex ecosystems 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. Rewilding complex ecosystems
    2019 408 citations Andrea Perino, Henrique M. Pereira et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Néstor Fernández Spain 29 1.6k 740 689 547 290 67 2.5k
Christopher E. Moorman United States 30 2.1k 1.3× 903 1.2× 1.3k 1.8× 314 0.6× 376 1.3× 171 2.9k
Nuria Selva Poland 32 2.6k 1.6× 726 1.0× 658 1.0× 488 0.9× 551 1.9× 85 3.5k
Navinder J. Singh Sweden 27 1.8k 1.1× 537 0.7× 565 0.8× 431 0.8× 374 1.3× 97 2.8k
William F. Porter United States 28 1.9k 1.2× 638 0.9× 412 0.6× 489 0.9× 304 1.0× 100 2.4k
John A. Bissonette United States 32 3.1k 1.9× 958 1.3× 1.0k 1.5× 393 0.7× 365 1.3× 121 3.9k
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt Sweden 34 2.4k 1.5× 1.3k 1.8× 716 1.0× 534 1.0× 438 1.5× 106 3.4k
Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda Spain 28 1.9k 1.2× 623 0.8× 445 0.6× 340 0.6× 460 1.6× 62 2.5k
Joseph M. Northrup Canada 23 2.2k 1.4× 470 0.6× 511 0.7× 471 0.9× 304 1.0× 57 2.6k
Robert W. Klaver United States 23 1.4k 0.9× 363 0.5× 626 0.9× 408 0.7× 300 1.0× 94 2.2k
Curtice R. Griffin United States 28 1.6k 1.0× 631 0.9× 501 0.7× 261 0.5× 305 1.1× 67 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Néstor Fernández

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Fields of papers citing papers by Néstor Fernández

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Néstor Fernández. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Néstor Fernández. The network helps show where Néstor Fernández may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Néstor Fernández

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Néstor Fernández. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Néstor Fernández 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 Néstor Fernández. Néstor Fernández 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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Lumbierres, María, Pedro Beja, Aletta Bonn, et al.. (2025). Towards implementing workflows for essential biodiversity variables at a European scale. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03699–e03699. 1 indexed citations
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Fernández, Néstor, Piero Visconti, Maria Hällfors, et al.. (2025). Narratives for Positive Nature Futures in Europe. Environmental Management. 75(5). 1071–1083. 2 indexed citations
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Renaud, Julien, Luca Santini, Luigi Maiorano, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive framework to assess multi‐species landscape connectivity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). 2385–2399. 5 indexed citations
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Giergiczny, Marek, et al.. (2024). Public preference for the rewilding framework: A choice experiment in the Oder Delta. People and Nature. 6(2). 610–626. 8 indexed citations
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Capinha, César, Ana Ceia‐Hasse, Sergio de‐Miguel, et al.. (2024). Using citizen science data for predicting the timing of ecological phenomena across regions. BioScience. 74(6). 383–392. 7 indexed citations
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Pereira, Henrique M., Jes Hines, & Néstor Fernández. (2024). Conservation: Meeting biodiversity targets through rewilding. Current Biology. 34(20). R918–R921. 1 indexed citations
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Fernández, Néstor, et al.. (2023). Addressing challenges for large-scale trophic rewilding. Journal for Nature Conservation. 73. 126382–126382. 7 indexed citations
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Konopiński, Maciej K., Kamil A. Bartoń, Carlos Bautista, et al.. (2023). Individuality matters in human–wildlife conflicts: Patterns and fraction of damage‐making brown bears in the north‐eastern Carpathians. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(6). 1127–1138. 11 indexed citations
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Calzada, Javier, Miguel Clavero, Miguel Delibes, & Néstor Fernández. (2022). Human pressures constrain Eurasian otter occurrence in semiarid Northern Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(5-6). 1519–1533. 4 indexed citations
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Navarro, Laetitia M., et al.. (2022). Participatory scenarios for restoring European landscapes show a plurality of nature values. Ecography. 2022(4). 18 indexed citations
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Bautista, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Spatial ecology of conflicts: unravelling patterns of wildlife damage at multiple scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1958). 20211394–20211394. 21 indexed citations
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Perino, Andrea, Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro, et al.. (2019). Rewilding complex ecosystems. Science. 364(6438). 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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Torres, Aurora, Néstor Fernández, Sophus zu Ermgassen, et al.. (2018). Measuring rewilding progress. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1761). 20170433–20170433. 67 indexed citations
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Scharf, Anne K. & Néstor Fernández. (2018). Up‐scaling local‐habitat models for large‐scale conservation: Assessing suitable areas for the brown bear comeback in Europe. Diversity and Distributions. 24(11). 1573–1582. 15 indexed citations
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García, Mónica, et al.. (2018). Vegetation Water Use Based on a Thermal and Optical Remote Sensing Model in the Mediterranean Region of Doñana. Remote Sensing. 10(7). 1105–1105. 17 indexed citations
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Fernández, Néstor, Jacinto Román, & Miguel Delibes. (2016). Variability in primary productivity determines metapopulation dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1828). 20152998–20152998. 20 indexed citations
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Fernández, Néstor, Elena Albanell, Jordi Bartolomé, et al.. (2015). The Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) as a proxy for diet quality and composition in a mountain ungulate. Ecological Indicators. 61. 658–666. 63 indexed citations
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Palomares, Francisço, et al.. (2014). Predator identification methods in diet studies: uncertain assignment produces biased results?. Ecography. 38(9). 922–929. 17 indexed citations
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Fernández, Néstor & Gervasio Piñeiro. (2008). La caracterización de la heterogeneidad espacial de los ecosistemas: el uso de atributos funcionales derivados de datos espectrales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Alban, Lis, Tommy Asferg, Anette Boklund, et al.. (2005). Risk assessment for introduction of wild boar (Sus scrofa) to Denmark.. 79–90. 1 indexed citations

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