Pol Capdevila

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 698 citations indexed

About

Pol Capdevila is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Pol Capdevila has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 698 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Oceanography and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Pol Capdevila's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (11 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (8 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers). Pol Capdevila is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (11 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (8 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers). Pol Capdevila collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. Pol Capdevila's co-authors include Roberto Salguero‐Gómez, Maria Beger, Cristina Linares, Bernat Hereu, Eneko Aspillaga, Carlos P. Carmona, Manuela González‐Suárez, Roy González‐M., Sébastien Brosse and Aurèle Toussaint and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Pol Capdevila

28 papers receiving 687 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change

2024 36 citations Thomas F. Johnson, Andrew P. Beckerman et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pol Capdevila Spain	17	394	233	231	195	144	30	698
Roman Alther Switzerland	14	506 1.3×	246 1.1×	162 0.7×	73 0.4×	97 0.7×	32	783
Laura H. Antão Finland	14	322 0.8×	230 1.0×	235 1.0×	67 0.3×	249 1.7×	21	709
Josephine C. Iacarella Canada	15	662 1.7×	340 1.5×	325 1.4×	171 0.9×	127 0.9×	32	1.0k
Charlotte Moritz France	17	411 1.0×	176 0.8×	278 1.2×	239 1.2×	57 0.4×	27	748
Rob Cooke United Kingdom	13	494 1.3×	276 1.2×	202 0.9×	76 0.4×	264 1.8×	28	708
William V. DeLuca United States	16	616 1.6×	217 0.9×	242 1.0×	71 0.4×	246 1.7×	38	809
Jaco Barendse South Africa	17	550 1.4×	110 0.5×	147 0.6×	224 1.1×	74 0.5×	25	734
Marcin R. Penk Ireland	9	393 1.0×	237 1.0×	152 0.7×	108 0.6×	71 0.5×	25	613
Caroline H. Fox Canada	11	455 1.2×	150 0.6×	219 0.9×	130 0.7×	81 0.6×	18	725
Martin Hartvig Denmark	11	606 1.5×	370 1.6×	412 1.8×	217 1.1×	129 0.9×	14	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Pol Capdevila

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pol Capdevila

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pol Capdevila

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20 of 20 papers shown

Figuerola, Blanca, Pol Capdevila, Joaquim Garrabou, et al.. (2025). Interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming disrupt calcification and microbiome composition in bryozoans. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1135–1135. 1 indexed citations

Bellard, Céline, Nathalie Butt, José María Fernández‐Palacios, et al.. (2025). A framework to quantify the vulnerability of insular biota to global changes. Peer Community Journal. 5. 1 indexed citations

Capdevila, Pol, et al.. (2024). Worldwide diversity in mammalian life histories: Environmental realms and evolutionary adaptations. Ecology Letters. 27(5). e14445–e14445. 2 indexed citations

Capdevila, Pol, et al.. (2024). Mediterranean octocoral populations exposed to marine heatwaves are less resilient to disturbances. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(8). 1528–1541.

Johnson, Thomas F., Andrew P. Beckerman, Dylan Z. Childs, et al.. (2024). Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change. Nature. 628(8009). 788–794. 36 indexed citations breakdown →

D’Olivo, Juan Pablo, Thomas C. Brachert, Pol Capdevila, et al.. (2024). Reconstruction of long‐term sublethal effects of warming on a temperate coral in a climate change hotspot. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(1). 125–138. 4 indexed citations

Deere, Jacques A., Roberto C. Rodríguez‐Caro, Pol Capdevila, et al.. (2023). MOSAIC - A Unified Trait Database to Complement Structured Population Models. Scientific Data. 10(1). 335–335. 4 indexed citations

Casals, David, Alba Medrano, Marta Pagès‐Escolà, et al.. (2023). Marine protected areas in a changing ocean: Adaptive management can mitigate the synergistic effects of local and climate change impacts. Biological Conservation. 282. 110048–110048. 19 indexed citations

Capdevila, Pol, Iain Stott, Maria Beger, et al.. (2022). Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience. Ecology Letters. 25(6). 1566–1579. 44 indexed citations

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Neiva, João, Ricardo Bermejo, Alba Medrano, et al.. (2022). DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity, taxonomic conflicts and novel biogeographical insights inCystoseiras.l. (Phaeophyceae). European Journal of Phycology. 58(3). 351–375. 11 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, et al.. (2021). Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations. Ecology Letters. 25(1). 240–251. 27 indexed citations

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Jones, Owen R., Iain Stott, Sam Levin, et al.. (2021). Rcompadre and Rage—Two R packages to facilitate the use of the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and calculation of life‐history traits from matrix population models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(4). 770–781. 18 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, Iain Stott, Imma Oliveras Menor, et al.. (2021). Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3102–3113. 28 indexed citations

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Carmona, Carlos P., Riin Tamme, Meelis Pärtel, et al.. (2021). Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life. Science Advances. 7(13). 137 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Caro, Roberto C., Pol Capdevila, Eva Graciá, et al.. (2021). The limits of demographic buffering in coping with environmental variation. Oikos. 130(8). 1346–1358. 20 indexed citations

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McRae, Louise, et al.. (2021). Scaling the extinction vortex: Body size as a predictor of population dynamics close to extinction events. Ecology and Evolution. 11(11). 7069–7079. 8 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, et al.. (2020). Towards a Comparative Framework of Demographic Resilience. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(9). 776–786. 96 indexed citations

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Medrano, Alba, Cristina Linares, Eneko Aspillaga, et al.. (2019). No-take marine reserves control the recovery of sea urchin populations after mass mortality events. Marine Environmental Research. 145. 147–154. 21 indexed citations

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Medrano, Alba, Cristina Linares, Eneko Aspillaga, et al.. (2019). Long-term monitoring of temperate macroalgal assemblages inside and outside a No take marine reserve. Marine Environmental Research. 153. 104826–104826. 12 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, Cristina Linares, Eneko Aspillaga, Joan Lluís Riera, & Bernat Hereu. (2018). Effective dispersal and density-dependence in mesophotic macroalgal forests: Insights from the Mediterranean species Cystoseira zosteroides. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191346–e0191346. 26 indexed citations

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