Mapping biodiversity cradles and graves

Project Information

MAPAS

Grant agreement ID: 947921

DOI

10.3030/947921

Project closed

EC signature date 29 October 2020

Start date 1 December 2020

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 923,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 923,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
Spain

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Open Research Data Pilot

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions

Author(s): Losada, M., Martínez Cortizas, A. M., Silvius, K. M., Varela, S., Raab, T. K., Fragoso, J. M. V., & Sobral, M.
Published in: IScience, Issue 23 (3), 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106088

Climate change and the increase of human population will threaten conservation of Asian cobras

Author(s): Mohammad Abdul Wahed Chowdhury, Johannes Müller, Sara Varela
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, Page(s) All of them, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97553-4

Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography

Author(s): Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Sara Varela
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17339

Macroevolution and climate changes: a global multi-family test supports the resource-use hypothesis in terrestrial mammals

Author(s): Manuel Hernández Fernández; Jonathan S. Pelegrin; Ana R. Gómez Cano; Blanca A. García Yelo; Ana Moreno-Bofarull; Noelia Sánchez-Fontela; Claudia Rodríguez-Ruiz; Alejandro Ramiro Camacho; Laura Domingo; Iris Menéndez; David M. Martín-Perea; Carla M. Bazán; Gema M. Alcalde; M. Soledad Domingo; Belén Luna; María del Mar Peinado Cortés; Antón Arias; Gabriela González Couturier; Ana Márq
Published in: Historical Biology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0891-2963
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2042807

A Phanerozoic gridded dataset for palaeogeographic reconstructions

Author(s): Lewis A. Jones, Mathew Domeier
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03468-w

palaeoverse: A community‐driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis

Author(s): Lewis A. Jones; William Gearty; Bethany J. Allen; Kilian Eichenseer; Christopher D. Dean; Sofía Galván; Miranta Kouvari; Pedro L. Godoy; Cecily S. C. Nicholl; Lucas Buffan; Erin M. Dillon; Joseph T. Flannery‐Sutherland; Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.14099

wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions

Author(s): Kass J.M., Pinilla-Buitrago G.E., Paz, A., Johnson B.A., Grisales-Betancur V., Meenan S.I., Attali D., Broennimann O., Galante P.J., Maitner B.S., Owens H.L., Varela S., Aiello-Lammens M.E., Merow C., Blair M.E., Anderson R.P.
Published in: Ecography, Issue e06547, 2023, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06547

C₄ photosynthesis provided an immediate demographic advantage to populations of the grass <i>Alloteropsis semialata</i>

Author(s): Graciela Sotelo, Sara Gamboa, Luke T. Dunning, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, Sara Varela
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 242, 2025, Page(s) 774-785, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19606

The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes

Author(s): Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Mar Sobral, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Sara Varela
Published in: Ecography, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ecog.07660

100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world

Author(s): Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Amy M. Waterson, Daniela N. Schmidt Valdes, Paul J., Chris Yesson, Patricia A. Holroyd, Margaret E. Collinson, Alexander Farnsworth, David B. Nicholson, Sara Varela, Paul M. Barrett
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 23 (1), 2023, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.056

Mammal traits and soil biogeochemistry: Functional diversity relates to composition of soil organic matter

Author(s): Losada M., Sobral M., Silvius K.M., Varela S., Martínez Cortizas A.M., Fragoso J.M.V.
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 13 (8), 2023, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10392

Future climate change will impact the migration of New World migrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Author(s): Maraísa Resende Braga, Leonardo Ré Jorge, Alex E. Jahn, Rafael Loyola & Sara Varela
Published in: Ornithology Research, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 63–74, ISSN 2662-673X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s43388-022-00081-6

Acynodon adriaticus from Villaggio del Pescatore (Campanian of Italy): anatomical and chronostratigraphic integration improves phylogenetic resolution in Hylaeochampsidae (Eusuchia)

Author(s): Marco M., Chiarenza A.A., Delfino M,. Fabbri M., Milocco K., Fanti F.
Published in: Cretaceous Research, Issue 151, 2023, ISSN 0195-6671
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105631

Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs

Author(s): Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Juan L. Cantalapiedra, Lewis A. Jones, Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Alexander J. Farnsworth, Paul J. Valdes, Graciela Sotelo, Sara Varela
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 2517-2527.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.051

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness

Author(s): Sofía Galván, Sara Varela, Sara Gamboa
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 52, 2025, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.15126

No Bird Database is Perfect: Citizen Science and Professional Datasets Contain Different and Complementary Biodiversity Information

Author(s): Sofía Galván , Rafael Barrientos, Sara Varela
Published in: Ardeola, Issue 69 (1), 2021, Page(s) 97-114, ISSN 0570-7358
Publisher: Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia
DOI: 10.13157/arla.69.1.2022.ra6

Birds adapted to cold conditions show greater changes in range size related to past climatic oscillations than temperate birds

Author(s): Lisa Carrera, Marco Pavia & Sara Varela
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, Article number: 10813, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14972-7

rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes

Author(s): Gearty W., Jones L.A
Published in: METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Issue vol. 14, issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 2700-2708, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.14221

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialisation and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

Author(s): Sara Gamboa, Fabien L. Condamine,J uan L. Cantalapiedra, Sara Varela, Jonathan Pelegrín, Iris Menéndez, Fernando Blanco, Manuel Hernández Fernández
Published in: Global change biology, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 5901-5913, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16344

Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species

Author(s): Emma V. Curran; Matilda S. Scott; Jill K. Olofsson; Florence Nyirenda; Graciela Sotelo; Matheus E. Bianconi; Sophie Manzi; Guillaume Besnard; Lara Pereira; Pascal-Antoine Christin
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue Volume 289, 2022, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2491

Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep‐time palaeobiological studies

Author(s): Buffan L., Jones L.A., Domeier M., Scotese C.R., Zahirovic S., Varela S.
Published in: METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 3007-3019, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.14204

Bayesian multi-proxy reconstruction of early Eocene latitudinal temperature gradients

Author(s): Kilian Eichenseer, Lewis A. Jones
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 349-362, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/cp-20-349-2024

Uneven spatial sampling distorts reconstructions of Phanerozoic seawater temperature

Author(s): Lewis A. Jones , Kilian Eichenseer
Published in: Geology, Issue 50 (2), 2021, Page(s) 238–242, ISSN 0091-7613
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g49132.1

An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution

Author(s): Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Matteo Fabbri, Lorenzo Consorti, Marco Muscioni, David C. Evans, Juan L. Cantalapiedra & Federico Fanti
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11 Article number: 23295, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02490-x

Silent past: Biogeographic gaps in the Cenozoic fossil archive

Author(s): Marta Matamala-Pagès, Oskar Hagen, Adrián Castro-Insua, Adriana Oliver, Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, Graciela Sotelo, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Sara Gamboa, Sofía Galván, Sara Varela
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Issue 679, 2025, Page(s) 113296, ISSN 0031-0182
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113296

Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous

Author(s): Jorge García-Girón, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Janne Alahuhta, David G. DeMar, Jani Heino Mannion, Philip D., Thomas E. Williamson, Gregory P. Wilson Mantilla, Brusatte Stephen L.
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8, eadd504, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add5040

Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs

Author(s): Lewis A. Jones , Philip D. Mannion , Alexander Farnsworth , Fran Bragg & Daniel J. Lunt
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, Article number: 3120, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30793-8

Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs

Author(s): Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Philip D.Mannion, Alex Farnsworth, Matthew T.Carrano, Sara Varela
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 32(3) 570-585.e3, 2022, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.061

Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient

Author(s): Sofía Galván, Sara Gamboa, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Filippo Maria Rotatori, Adriana Oliver, Sara Varela
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 34, 2025, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.70075

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Dinosaurs, climate and extinction

Author(s): Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
Published in: Geologicamente, Issue volume 5, 2021, Page(s) 36, ISSN 2705-0149
Publisher: Società Geologica Italiana
DOI: 10.3301/gm.2021.05