Peer-reviewed scientific publications (SCI journals)
68. García-Navas, V., Martínez-Núñez, C., Christidis, L. & Ozgul, A. (2025) A stroll along Australian ecosystems: using bioclimatic transects to examine environmental drivers of community assembly in birds. Journal of Biogeography, 52: in press.
67. Ariznavarreta, S., Martín del Campo, A. & García-Navas, V. (2025) Multimodal signaling in manakins: lack of correlated evolution between acoustic, visual, and behavioral traits. Ibis, 167: in press.
66. García-Navas, V., Bliard, L. & Ozgul, A. (2024) Impact of a “reverse keystone species” on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia. Biological Conservation, 296: 110698.
65. García-Navas, V., Martínez-Núñez, C., Christidis, L. & Ozgul, A. (2024) Species turnover along the Nullarbor barrier: insights from taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity. Ecosphere, 15: e4910.
64. García-Navas, V., Stervander, M. & Alström, P.A. (2024) Diversification history and morphological evolution in larks. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 3: kzae002.
63. García-Navas, V., López-Poveda, G., Bliard, L., Christidis, L. & Ozgul, A. (2023) No country for small birds: potential positive association among medium-sized, aggressive species in Australian bird communities. Diversity and Distributions, 29: 1561-1577.
62. García-Navas, V., Feliu, N. & Blumstein, D.T. (2023) Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient. Behavioral Ecology, 34: 930-940.
61. Martínez-Núñez, C., Martínez-Prentice & García-Navas, V. (2023) Protected area coverage of vulnerable regions to conserve functional diversity of birds. Conservation Biology, 37: e14131.
60. García-Navas, V., Martínez-Núñez, C. & Christidis, L. (2023) Imprints of historical and ecological factors in the phylogenetic structure of Australian Meliphagides assemblages. Journal of Biogeography, 50: 870-883.
59. Martínez-Núñez, C., Martínez-Prentice & García-Navas, V. (2023) Land-use diversity drives regional bird taxonomic and functional richness worldwide. Nature Communications, 14: 1320.
58. Albert, E.M. & García-Navas, V. (2022) Population structure and genetic diversity of the threatened pygmy newt Triturus pygmaeus in a network of natural and artificial ponds. Conservation Genetics, 23: 575-588.
57. García-Navas, V., Martínez-Núñez, C., Tarifa, R., Manzaneda, A.J., Valera, F., Salido, T., Camacho, F.M. & Rey, P.J. (2022).
Partitioning beta diversity to untangle mechanisms underlying the assembly of bird communities in Mediterranean olive groves.
Diversity and Distributions, 28: 112-127.
56. García-Navas, V., Martínez-Núñez, C., Tarifa, R., Manzaneda, A.J., Valera, F., Salido, T., Camacho, F.M., Isla, J. & Rey, P.J. (2022). Agricultural extensification enhances functional diversity but not phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean olive groves: a case study with ant and bird communities. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 324: 107708.
55. García-Navas, V., Tobias, J.A., Schweizer, M., Wegmann, D., Schodde, R., Norman, J. & Christidis, L. (2021). Trophic niche shifts and phenotypic trait evolution are largely decoupled in Australasian parrots. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21: 212.
54. García-Navas, V., Sattler, T., Schmid, H. & Ozgul, A. (2021). Bird species co-occurrence patterns in an Alpine environment supports the stress-gradient hypothesis. Oikos, 130: 1905-1918.
53. García-Navas, V., Sattler, T., Schmid, H. & Ozgul, A. (2021). High elevation bird communities in the Swiss Alps exhibit reduced fecundity and lifespan independently of phylogenetic effects. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30. 991-1010.
52. García-Navas, V., Sattler, T., Schmid, H. & Ozgul, A. (2021). Spatial heterogeneity in temporal dynamics of Alpine bird communities along an elevational gradient. Journal of Biogeography, 48: 886-902.
51 . García-Navas, V. & Thuiller, W. (2020). Farmland bird assemblages exhibit higher functional and phylogenetic diversity than forest assemblages in France. Journal of Biogeography, 47: 2392-2404.
50. García-Navas, V., Sattler, T., Schmid, H. & Ozgul, A. (2020). Temporal homogenization of functional and beta diversity in bird communities of the Swiss Alps. Diversity and Distributions, 26: 900-911. [Featured on the cover of this issue]
49. García-Navas, V., Kear, B.P. & Westerman, M. (2020). The geography of speciation in dasyurid marsupials. Journal of Biogeography, 47: 2042-2053.
48. García-Navas, V. (2019). Phylogenetic and functional diversity of African muroid rodents at different spatial scales. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19: 637-650.
47. Rey, C*., Noguerales, V. & García-Navas, V. (2019). Ecological and phenotypic divergence in Iberian shrews (Soricidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 57: 642-661. (*) MSc student
46. García-Navas, V. & Rodríguez-Rey, M. (2019). The evolution of climatic niches and its role in shaping diversity patterns in diprotodontid marsupials. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 26: 479-492.
45. García-Navas, V. & Westerman, M. (2018). Niche conservatism and phylogenetic clustering in a tribe of arid-adapted marsupial mice, the Sminthopsini. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31: 1204-1215.
44. García-Navas, V., Rodríguez-Rey, M. & Westerman, M. (2018). Bursts of morphological and lineage diversification in modern dasyurids, a “classic” adaptive radiation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123: 782-795.
43. García-Navas, V., Rodríguez-Rey, M., Marki, P.Z. & Christidis, L. (2018). Environmental determinism, and not interspecific competition, drive morphological variability in Australasian warblers (Acanthizidae). Ecology and Evolution, 8: 3871–3882.
42. García-Navas, V., Rodríguez-Rey, M. & Christidis, L. (2018). Ecological opportunity and ecomorphological convergence in Australasian robins (Petroicidae). Journal of Avian Biology, 49: jav-01552.
41. García-Navas, V., Noguerales, V., Cordero, P.J. & Ortego, J. (2017). Ecological drivers of body size evolution and sexual size dimorphism in short-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30: 1592-1608.
40. García-Navas, V., Noguerales, V., Cordero, P.J. & Ortego, J. (2017). Phenotypic disparity in Iberian short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididae): the role of ecology and phylogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17: 109.
39. Ferrer, E.S., García-Navas, V., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2017). The strength of the association between heterozygosity and probability of inter-annual local recruitment increases with environmental harshness in blue tits. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 8857-8869. [Featured on the cover of this issue]
38. García-Navas, V. (2017). Lack of evolution of sexual size dimorphism in Heteromyidae (Rodentia): the influence of resource defense and the trade-off between pre- and post-copulatory trait investment. Evolutionary Biology, 44: 56-68.
37. Noguerales, V., García-Navas, V., Cordero, P.J. & Ortego, J. (2016). The role of environment and core-margin effects on range-wide phenotypic variation of a montane grasshopper. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29: 2129-2142.
36. García-Navas, V., Bonnet, T., Waldvogel, D., Camenisch, G. & Postma, E. (2016). Consequences of natal philopatry for reproductive success and mate choice in an Alpine rodent. Behavioral Ecology, 27: 1158-1166.
35. García-Navas, V. & Blumstein, D.T. (2016). The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118: 745-751.
34. García-Navas, V., Bonnet, T., Bonal, R. & Postma, E. (2016). The role of fecundity and sexual selection in the evolution of size and sexual size dimorphism in New World and Old World voles (Rodentia: Arvicolinae). Oikos, 125: 1250-1260.
33. Ferrer, E.S., García-Navas, V., Bueno-Enciso, J., Barrientos, R., Serrano-Davies, E., Cáliz-Campal, C., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2016). The influence of landscape configuration and environment on population genetic structure in a sedentary passerine: insights from loci located in different genomic regions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29: 205-219.
32. Ortego, J., García-Navas, V., Noguerales, V. & Cordero, P.J. (2016). Discordant patterns of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in five grasshopper species co-distributed across a microreserve network. Molecular Ecology, 24: 5796-5812.
31. García-Navas, V., Bonnet, T., Waldvogel, D., Wandeler, P., Camenisch, G. & Postma, E. (2015). Gene flow counteracts the effect of drift in a Swiss population of snow voles fluctuating in size. Biological Conservation, 191: 168-177.
30. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S., Cáliz-Campal, C., Bueno-Enciso, J., Barrientos, R., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2015). Spatiotemporal and genetic contingency of extra-pair behaviour in a songbird. Animal Behaviour, 106: 157-169.
29. Ferrer, E.S., García-Navas, V., Bueno-Enciso, J., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2015). Multiple sexual ornaments signal heterozygosity in male blue tits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114: 362-375.
28. García-Navas, V., Valera, F. & Griggio, M. (2015). Nest decorations: an "extended" female badge of status? Animal Behaviour, 99: 95-107. [Covered by Scientific American and NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands)]
27. García-Navas, V., Cáliz-Campal, C., Ferrer, E.S., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2014). Heterozygosity at a single locus explains a large proportion of variation in two fitness-related traits in great tits: a general or a local effect? Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 2807-2819.
26. Ferrer, E.S., García-Navas, V., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2014). Individual genetic diversity and probability of infection by avian malaria parasites in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 2468-2482.
25. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2014). The role of immigration and local adaptation on fine-scale genotypic and phenotypic divergence in a less mobile passerine. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 1590-1603.
24. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S. & Serrano-Davies, E. (2014). Experimental evidence for parental, but not parentally biased, favouritism in relation to offspring size in Blue Tits. Ibis, 156: 404-414.
23. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S., Bueno-Enciso, J., Barrientos, R., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2014). Extra-pair paternity in Mediterranean blue tits: socio-ecological factors and the opportunity for sexual selection. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 228-238.
22. García-Navas, V., García del Rincón, A., Ferrer, E.S. & Fathi, H. (2013). Mating strategies, parental investment and mutual ornamentation in Iberian Rock Sparrows Petronia petronia. Behaviour, 150: 1641-1663.
21. García-Navas, V., Ortego, J., Ferrer, E.S. & Sanz, J.J. (2013). Feathers, suspicions and infidelities: an experimental study on certainty of paternity and parental care in the blue tit. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109: 552-561.
20. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S. & Sanz, J.J. (2013). Prey choice, provisioning behaviour and effects of early nutrition on nestling phenotype of titmice. Écoscience, 20: 9-18.
19. Ferrer, E.S., García-Navas, V., Sanz, J.J. & Ortego, J. (2012). Molecular characterization of avian malaria parasites in three Mediterranean blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) populations. Parasitology Research, 111: 2137-2142.
18. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2012). Yearly and seasonal variation of breeding parameters in a declining multi-brooded passerine, the tree sparrow. Ardea, 100: 79-88.
17. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2012). Environmental and within-nest factors influencing nestling feeding patterns in Mediterranean Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). Condor, 114: 612-620.
16. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S. & Sanz, J.J. (2012). Prey selectivity and parental feeding rates of Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus in relation to nestling age. Bird Study, 59: 236-242.
15. García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S. & Sanz, J.J. (2012). Plumage yellowness predicts foraging ability in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 106: 418-429.
14. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2011). Females call the shots: Breeding dispersal and divorce in blue tits. Behavioral Ecology, 22: 932-939.
13. Ortego, J., García-Navas, V., Ferrer, E.S. & Sanz, J.J. (2011). Genetic structure reflects natal dispersal movements at different spatial scales in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Animal Behaviour, 82: 131-137.
12. Sanz, J.J. & García-Navas, V. (2011). Nest ornamentation in blue tits: Is feather carrying ability a male status signal? Behavioral Ecology, 22: 240-247. [Featured on the cover of this issue]
11. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2011). The importance of a main dish: Nestling diet and foraging behaviour in Mediterranean blue tits in relation to prey phenology. Oecologia, 165: 639-649.
10. García-Navas, V., Sanz, J.J., Merino, S., Martínez-de la Puente, J., Lobato, E., del Cerro, S., Rivero, J., Ruiz de Castañeda, R. & Moreno, J. (2011). Experimental evidence for the role of calcium in eggshell pigmentation pattern and breeding performance in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Journal of Ornithology, 152: 71-82.
9. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2011). Seasonal decline in provisioning effort and nestling mass of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus: Experimental support for the parent quality hypothesis. Ibis, 153: 59-69.
8. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2011). Short-term alterations in songbird breeding schedule lead to better synchronization with food availability. Auk, 128: 146-155.
7. García-Navas, V. & Sanz, J.J. (2010). Flexibility in the foraging behavior of blue tits in response to short-term manipulations of brood size. Ethology, 116: 744-754.
6. Sanz, J.J., García-Navas, V. & Ruiz-Peinado, J.V. (2010). Effect of habitat type and nest-site characteristics on the breeding performance of great and blue tits (Parus major and P. caeruleus) in a Mediterranean landscape. Ornis Fennica, 87: 41-51.
5. García-Navas, V., Arroyo, L. & Sanz, J.J. (2010). Woodcrete nestboxes: Are they adequate for multibrooded species? Ardeola, 57: 159-166.
4. García-Navas, V., Ortego, J. & Sanz, J.J. (2009). Heterozygosity-based assortative mating in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): Implications for the evolution of mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 276: 2931-2940.
3. Sanz, J.J. & García-Navas, V. (2009). Eggshell pigmentation pattern in relation to breeding performance of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78: 31-41.
2. García-Navas, V., Arroyo, L. & Sanz, J.J. (2008). Nestbox use and reproductive parameters of tree sparrows Passer montanus: Are they affected by the presence of old nests? Acta Ornithologica, 43: 32-42.
1. García-Navas, V., Arroyo, L., Sanz, J.J. & Díaz, M. (2008). Effect of nestbox type on occupancy and breeding biology of tree sparrows Passer montanus in central Spain. Ibis, 150: 356-364.
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