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Alejandro Martínez Abraín


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  • Martínez-Abraín, A. 2014. Subjetivism as an unavoidable feature of ecological statistics. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation.in press
  • Pagel, J., Martínez-Abraín, A., Gómez, J.A., Jiménez, J., Oro, D. 2014. A long-term macroecological analysis of the recovery of a waterbird metacommunity after site protectio. PLoS ONE 9:e105202.
  • Martínez-Abraín, A. 2014. El detective ecológico: reflexiones sobre historia natural. Ediciones Rodeno
  • Martínez-Abraín, A. 2014. Is the "n=30 rule of thumb" of ecological fields studies reliable? A call for greater attention to the variability in our data. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 37 (Fórum)
  • Daniel Oro, Meritxell Genovart, Giacomo Tavecchia, Mike Fowler & Alejandro Martínez-Abraín. 2013. Ecological implications of food subsidies from humans  Ecology Letters 16: 1501-1514
  • Martínez-Abraín, A.; Viedma, C., Gómez, J.A., Bartolomé, M.A., Jiménez, J., Genovart, M., Tenan, S. 2013. Assessing the effectiveness of a hunting moratorium on target and non-target species. Biological Conservation 165: 171-178
  • Martínez-Abraín, A. 2013. Why do ecologists aim to get positive results? Negative results are needed for knowledge accumulation. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 36: 33-36
  • Martínez-Abraín, A., Oro, D. 2012. Preventing the development of dogmatic approaches in conservation biology: A review. Biological Conservation 159: 539-547
  • Martínez-Abraín, A., Crespo, J., Berdugo, M., Gutiérrez, L., Lafuente, A., Mañas, A. & de Miguel. J.M. 2012. Causes of human impact to protected vertebrate wildlife parallel long-term socio-economical changes in Spain. Animal Conservation.1 6: 286-294
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., TAVECCHIA, G., REGAN H., JIMÉNEZ, J., SURROCA, M. & ORO, D. 2012. Effects of wind farms and food scarcity on a large scavenging bird species following an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopaty. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:109-117.
  • FERNÁNDEZ-OLALLA M, MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., CANUT, J., GARCÍA, D., AFONSO, I. AND GONZÁLEZ, L.M. 2012. Assessing different management scenarios to reverse the declining trend of a relict capercaillie population: a modelling approach within an adaptive framework. Biological Conservation 148:79-87.
  • R. LEWISON, D. ORO, B. GODLEY, L. UNDERHILL, S. BEARHOP, R. WILSON, D. AINLEY, J. M. ARCOS, P. D. BOERSMA, P. BORBOROGLU, T. BOULINIER, M. FREDERIKSEN, M. GENOVART, J. GONZÁLEZ-SOLÍS, J. A. GREEN, D. GRÉMILLET, K. C. HAMER, G.M. HILTON, K. D. HYRENBACH, A. MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, W. A. MONTEVECCHI, R. A. PHILLIPS, P. G. RYAN, P. SAGAR, W. J. SYDEMAN, P. YORIO, S. WANLESS,Y. WATANUKI, H. WEIMERSKIRCH. 2012. Research priorities for seabirds: Improving seabird conservation and management in the 21st century. Endangered Species Research 17:93-121
  • PADRÓN, B., M. NOGALES, A. TRAVESET, M. VILÀ, A. MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, D. P. PADILLA & P. MARRERO. 2011. Integration of invasive Opuntia spp. by native and alien seed dispersers in the Mediterranean area and the Canary Islands. Biological Invasions 13: 831-844
  • ORO, D., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., VILLUENDAS, E., SARZO, B., MÍNGUEZ E., CARDA, J., GENOVART, M. 2011. Lessons from a failed translocation program with a seabird species: determinants of success and conservation value. Biological Conservation 144: 851-858
  • KÄKELÄ, R., KÄKELÄ A.,MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., SARZO, B., LOUZAO, M, GERIQUE,C., VILLUENDAS, E., STRANDBERG, U., FURNESS, R.W & ORO,D. 2010. Fatty acid signature analysis confirms foraging resources of a globally endangered Mediterranean seabird species: calibration test and application to the wild. Marine Ecology Progress Series 398: 245-258
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A. & ORO, D. 2010. Applied conservation services of the evolutionary theory. Evolutionary Ecology 6: 1381-1392
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., JIMENEZ, J., STEWART, G., & PULLIN, A. 2010. A systematic review on the effects of recreational activities on birds of prey. Basic and Applied Ecology 11:312-319
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 2010. Imaginary populations. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 33: 117
  • LANERI, K., LOUZAO, M., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ARCOS, J.M., BELDA, E.J., GUALLART, J., SÁNCHEZ, A., GIMÉNEZ, M., MAESTRE, R., D. ORO. 2010. Trawling regime influences longline seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean: new insights from a small scale fishery. Marine Ecology Progress Series 420: 241-252
  • TAVECCHIA, G., VIEDMA, C., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., BARTOLOMÉ, M.A., GÓMEZ, J.A. & ORO. D. 2009. Maximizing reintroduction success: assessing the inmediate cost of release in a threatened waterfowl. Biological Conservation 142:3005-3012
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., CRESPO, J., JIMENEZ, J., PULLIN, A., STEWART,G., ORO, D. 2008. Friend or foe: Societal shifts fron intense persecution to active conservation of top predators. Ardeola 55:111-119
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., CONESA, D., JIMENEZ, J.2008. The compromise between wildlife enjoyment and disturbance: The role of observed and observers. Environmental Conservation 35: 104-108
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A, CONESA, D. & ORO, D. 2008. Herramientas estadísticas para resolver contrastes de hipótesis con contenido biológico en ecología en el siglo XXI. Acta Zoológica Mexicana 24:201-220
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A. 2008. Statistical significance and biological relevance: A call for more cautious interpretation of results in ecology. Acta Oecologica 34:9-11
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAIN, A. 2007. Are there any differences? A nonsensical ecological question. Acta Oecologica 32:203-206
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., VIEDMA, C., BARTOLOMÉ, M.A., GÓMEZ, J.A. & ORO, D. 2007. Hunting sites as ecological traps for coots in southern Europe: implications for the conservation of a threatened species.. Endangered Species Research 3: 69-76
  • ORO, D. & MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A.. 2007 . Deconstructing myths on large gulls and their impact on threatened sympatric waterbirds. Animal Conservation 10:117-126
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A, BARTOLOMÉ, M.A., VILLUENDAS, E., SARZO,B.,GERIQUE, C. & ORO, D. 2007. Some reflections on an osmotic-stress experiment in Audouin´s gull. Dugastella 4:53-57
  • SANZ, A., MINGUEZ, E., DE LEÓN, L., MARTÍNEZ ABRAÍN, A. SARZO, B., SANTAMARÍA,J. & ORO, D. 2006. Scientifically-based management solves conflict between European storm petrels and their facultative predator at minimum cost. Ecologia Mediterranea 31:104-105
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., VELANDO, A., GENOVART, X., GERIQUE, C., BARTOLOMÉ, M.A., SARZO, B. & VILLUENDAS, E. 2006. Morphometric similarities between central and peripheral populations of the European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis. Marine Ornithology 34:21-24
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., VELANDO, A., ORO, D., GENOVART, X., GERIQUE, C., BARTOLOMÉ, M.A., VILLUENDAS, E. & SARZO, B. 2006. Sex-specific mortality of European shags during the Prestige oil spill: demographic implications for the recovery of colonies. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318:271-276
  • ORO, D., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., PARACUELLOS, M, NEVADO, J.C., GENOVART, M. 2006. Influence of density-dependence on predator-prey seabird interactions at large spatio-temporal scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B: 273: 379-383
  • RICKLEFS, R.E., SWANSON, B.L., FALLON, S.M., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., SCHEUERLEIN, A., GRAY, G .& LATTA S. C. 2005. Community relationships of avian malaria parasites in southern Missouri. Ecological Monographs 75:543-559
  • URIOS, G. & MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A. 2005.The study of nest-site preferences in Eleonora's Falcon through digital terrain models on a western Mediterranean island. Journal of Ornithology 147:13-23
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A. & ORO, D. 2005. Can biology advance as a science relying on significance testing? A review in search of a consensus. Ardeola 52:377-387
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., BELENGUER, R., FERRÍS, V. & VELASCO, R. 2005. Long-term change of species richness in a breeding bird community of a small Mediterranean archipelago. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 28:131-136.
  • IGUAL, J.M., FORERO, M.G., TAVECCHIA, G., GONZÁLEZ-SOLIS, J., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., HOBSON, K.A., RUIZ, X., ORO, D. 2005. Short-term effects of data-loggers on Cory's Shearwater. Marine Biology 146:619-624.
  • ESPARZA, B., MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., MERINO, S. & ORO, D. 2004. Immunocompetence and the prevalence of haematozoan parasites in two long-lived seabirds. Ornis Fennica 81.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., SARZO, B., VILLUENDAS, E., BARTOLOMÉ, M. A. & MÍNGUEZ, E. 2004. Unforeseen effects of ecosystem restoration on yellow-legged gulls in a small western Mediterranean island. Environmental Conservation 31: 1-6.
  • ORO, D., CAM, E., PRADEL, R. & MARTÍNEZ-ABRAIN, A. 2004. Influence of food availability on demography and local population dynamics in a long-lived seabird. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B 271: 387-396
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., VILLUENDAS, E., SARZO, B., CARDA, J. & ORO, D. 2004. Summarizing five years of a hacking programme for the conservation of Audouin's gull in the Valencian region. Ecologia Mediterranea 29: 255-256.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ESPARZA, B. & ORO, D. 2004. Lack of blood parasites in bird species: does absence of blood parasite vectors explain it all? Ardeola 51: 225-232.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A., GONZALEZ-SOLIS, J., PEDROCCHI, V., GENOVART, M., ABELLA, J.C., RUIZ, X., JIMÉNEZ, J. & ORO, D. 2003. Kleptoparasitism, disturbance and predation of yellow-legged gulls on Audouin's gulls in three colonies of the western Mediterranean. In: Mediterranean seabirds and their conservation (E. Mínguez, D. Oro, E. De Juana and A. Martínez-Abraín, Eds.). Scientia Marina 67: 89-94
  • MÍNGUEZ, E., D. ORO, E. DE JUANA & A. MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN. 2003. Mediterranean seabird conservation: what can we do? In: Mediterranean seabirds and their conservation (E. Mínguez, D. Oro, E. De Juana and A. Martínez-Abraín, Eds.). Scientia Marina 67: 3-6.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., IZQUIERDO, J., FERRIS, V. & BELENGUER, R. 2003. A comparison of two methods to estimate breeding productivity in a colonial ground-nesting gull species. Marine Ornithology 31: 71-74.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., ORO, D., FORERO, M. G. & CONESA, D. 2003. Modeling temporal and spatial colony-site dynamics in a long-lived seabird. Population Ecology 45: 133-139.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., MAESTRE, R. & ORO, D. 2002. Demersal trawling waste as a food source for western Mediterranean seabirds during the summer. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 59: 529-537.
    MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A., ORO, D., CARDA, J. & DEL SEÑOR, X. 2002. Movements of yellow-legged gulls Larus cachinnans michahellis from two small western Mediterranean colonies. Atlantic Seabirds 4:101-108.
    MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A., ORO, D., URIOS, G., SALES, S., TENA, V. & JIMENEZ, J. 2002. Impact of tourism on a small colony of Eleonora's Falcon Falco eleonorae in the western Mediterranean. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 47-51.
  • MARTINEZ- ABRAÍN, A. & ORO, D. 2001. The dynamics of a colonization event in the European shag: the roles of immigration and demographic stochasticity. Waterbirds 24: 97-102.
  • MARTINEZ- ABRAÍN, A., VIEDMA, C., RAMÓN, N. & ORO, D. 2001. On the potential role of philopatry and conspecific attraction as conservation tools in Audouin's gull. Bird Conservation International 11: 143-147.
  • MARTÍNEZ-ABRAÍN, A., SANCHEZ, A, & ORO, D. 2001. Atlantic Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea borealis) breeding in a colony of Mediterranean Cory's shearwaters (C.d. diomedea). Waterbirds 25: 221-224.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 1999. Patrones de asociación de anátidas durante la invernada en un dormidero del este de España. Ardeola 46: 163-169.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 1998. Asociación trófica de ardeidas en el arrozal de la Albufera de Valencia. Ardeola 45: 29-34.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 1994. Mortalidad estacional de aves en una carretera del Parque Natural de la Albufera. Doñana Acta Vertebrata 21:90-95.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 1994. Nota sobre la biología del avetorillo común Ixobrychus minutus durante el periodo reproductor en Valencia. Ardeola 41:169-171
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. & DOLZ, R. 1989. Avance del primer censo exhaustivo de aves marinas nidificantes en la Comunidad Valenciana. In: Aves Marinas: actas de la IV reunión del grupo ibérico de aves marinas, pp. 119-126. G.O.B., Palma de Mallorca.
  • MARTINEZ-ABRAIN, A. 1989. Censo del paiño común en las islas Columbretes. Medi Natural 1: 115-119.

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