Carlos Iván Espinosa

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja — EC

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

31h-index6.0kcitations145works8.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(66), Plant and animal studies(35), Species Distribution and Climate Change(30), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(14), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(11)

Publications145 total

Habitat‐Dependent Effects of Canopy Cover on Insect Predation in a Tropical Dry Forest Landscape
Ecological Research·2025Open Access
Understanding bird diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests: The role of landscape anthropization and chronic disturbance
Forest Ecology and Management·2025
A new tree species from seasonally dry tropical forest in southern Ecuador, Spirotheca zapotillana sp. nov. (Malvaceae), resolves a putatively disjunct distribution
PhytoKeys·2025Open Access
Generalization of a state-transition model to address degradation of Ecuador's tropical dry forest at a regional scale
Trees Forests and People·2025Open Access
Seed size mediates environmental filtering of seedling recruitment in a seasonally dry tropical forest
Forest Ecology and Management·2025Open Access
Soil microbial genomic responses to aridity-driven elemental imbalance across global biomes
2025Open Access
Chronic disturbance alters seed dispersal traits and frugivores resources in a dry tropical forest
Scientific Reports·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Kinetics of element release by weathering in soils of southern Ecuador: A comparison among different climatic and land-use regimes
Geoderma·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Changes in functional traits and resources reduce the specialization of hummingbirds in fragmented landscapes
Global Ecology and Conservation·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Adaptive Seedling Strategies in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: A Comparative Study of Six Tree Species
Plants·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands
Science Advances·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world
Nature·2024· 69 citedOpen Access
Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands
Nature Climate Change·2024· 58 citedOpen Access
Environmental conditions differently shape leaf, seed and seedling trait composition between and within elevations of tropical montane forests
Oikos·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Fewer berries and more pods: losers and winners of chronic disturbance in an Ecuadorian tropical dry forest
2024Open Access
Activity patterns of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a neotropical dry forest: changes according to age, sex, and climatic season
Therya·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Effects of landscape composition and configuration on Andean birds are influenced by spatial scale
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands
Nature Plants·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands
Nature Plants·2024· 40 citedOpen Access
Systematic reduction in seed rain of large‐seeded and endozoochorous species in pastures compared to forests along a tropical elevational gradient
Applied Vegetation Science·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Adrián Escudero(15), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo(11), Matthew A. Bowker(11), David J. Eldridge(11), Rosa Mary Hernández(11), Fernando T. Maestre(10), Victoria Ochoa(10), Miguel García‐Gómez(10), Beatriz Gozalo(10), Juan Gaitán(10), Marcelino de la Cruz(10), Enrique Valencia(9), Donaldo Bran(9), Miguel Berdugo(8), Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald(8), Andrea Jara‐Guerrero(8), José L. Quero(7), Santiago Soliveres(7), Abel Augusto Conceição(7), Julio R. Gutiérrez(7)