María D. López-Rodríguez, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, Enrica Garau, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Juan Miguel Requena-Mullor, Lena Rölfer, María Mancilla García, & Antonio J. Castro (2026). A Methodological Pathway for Supporting the Transition From Theory to Practice in Action-­Oriented Research for Transformative Change. Sustainable Development, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.71108

Quintas-Soriano, C., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Garau, E., & Castro, A. J. (2026). El análisis de la diversidad biocultural para el diagnóstico y mitigación del abandono rural. Ecosistemas, 35(1), 3035. https://doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.3035

González-Mon, B., Cabello, V., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Mancilla-García, M., Castro, A. J., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Moore, M. L., & Schluter, M. (2026). Unstable bridges-exploring the possibilities for "in between" spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance. Sustainability Science, 21(3), 917-936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01772-x

Quintas-Soriano, C., Requena-Mullor, J. M., López-Rodríguez, M. D. , Garau, E., López-Zayas, C., Latorre-Andrés, A. I., Recalde, C., Otamendi-Urroz, I., Alba-Patiño, D., El Ghafraoui, Y., & Castro, A. J. (2026). Rural areas as biocultural diversity refugia: examples of cultural landscapes from South of Spain. Ecosistemas, 35(1), 3034. https://doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.3034

Topp, E., Quintas-Soriano, C., Cicek, H., Dhraief, M. Z., El Azhari, M., El Gharras, O., El Hantaoui, N., Puig-Roca, J., Rueda, L., Sakouili, A., Oueslati-Zlaoui, M., & Plieninger, T. (2026). Photo-sorting reveals diverging preferences for soil conservation and land-use intensification among Mediterranean farmers. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2703208. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2026.2703208

Salazar-Gálvez, B., Quintas-Soriano, C., Piedra-Muñoz, L., & Aguilera, P. A. (2026). Insects contribution to people: functional diversity and social welfare in regenerative agriculture social-ecological systems. Ecosystems and People, 22(1), 2604339. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2604339

Turkelboom, F., Nishi, M., Locatelli, B., Andersson, E., Vercruysse, L., Garau, E., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Noël, C., Dendoncker, N., Plieninger, T., Desair, J., Albert, C., Barnaud, C., Jacobs, S., Castro, A. J., Oteros-Rozas, E., Heck, A., & Torralba, M. (2026). Why do we work together? Motivations for collaboration in multifunctional conservation-oriented landscapes. Ecology and Society, 31(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-17029-310129

Garau, E., Gahmig, G., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Martínez-Valderrama, J., & Castro, A. J. (2026). When urban nature does not feel like nature: imaginaries and connectedness to nature in a semi-arid city. Preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7350556

Moreno-Ostos, E., Carrillo, P., Castro, A. J., De Vicente, I., Expósito-Granados, M., Gisbert-Gallego, J., Medina-Sánchez, J. M., Molina-Pardo, J. L., Paracuellos, M., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Rubio-Ríos, J., Ruíz-Nieto, M., Santa, M., Sola, F., Vallejos, A., Villanueva, E., Warren-Jiménez, P., Casas, J. J., & Lacerot, G. (2026). The Albuferas de Adra in crisis: a comprehensive review demanding urgent conservation action. Ecosistemas, 35(3), 3191. https://doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.3191

Alba-Patiño, D., Martinez-Jauregui, M., Vaquerizas, P. H., Morales-Reyes, Z., Glikman, J. A., Villafuerte, R., Garrido, F. E., Castro, A. J., Requena-Mullor, J. M., & Delibes-Mateos, M. (2026). Leverage ranger’s knowledge to assess wild boar contributions to people in Spain. Ecosystems and People, 22(1), 2624443. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2026.2624443

Pérez-Ramírez, I., Garau, E., Schütze, N., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Peláez-Pérez, A., De Abreu, G., Castro, A. J., & Crisol-Martínez, E. (2026). Scaling native hedgerows in Mediterranean greenhouse horticulture requires alignment of farm design, learning, and governance. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10606359/v1

Rabeschini, G., Castro, A. J., Chaudhary, A., Felipe-Lucia, M. R., Koellner, T., Lancker, K., Marques, A., Pfister, S., Schulp, C. J. E., Willemen, L., & Kastner, T. (2026). Mapping and quantifying nature's contributions to people underpinning international food trade: the case of the Brazilian coffee and soy supply-chains. Sustainability Science, 21(1), 1785-1803. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-026-01823-x

Louis Jochems, Requena-Mullor J.M., Jodi Brandt, Trevor T. Caughlin, Andrew Monks, Kelly Hopping, Matthew A. Williamson, & Shane C. Lishawa (2026). Assessing the environmental and dispersal‐related drivers of an invasive aquatic plant in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications, 36(2), e70206. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70206Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Juan M. Requena-Mullor, & Inés Ibáñez (2026). Linking problems with solutions: Biomass waste is where most needed to mitigate energy demand during tropical nights. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 497-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.05.030

Requena-Mullor J.M., Rodríguez E., González M., Castro A.J., Garau E., Pérez Ramírez I., Peláez Pérez A., & Barranco P. (2026). Accounting for physical barriers in insect pest modeling: A spatially explicit simulation-based approach. Ecological Informatics, 103629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103629

Otamendi-Urroz, I., Requena-Mullor, J. M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Cumming, G. S., & Castro, A. J. (2026). Mapping biocultural diversity: An integrative spatial approach to inform conservation and management decisions. Ambio, 55(1), 2480-2497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02370-6

El Ghafraoui, Y., García-Llorente, M., Alba-Patiño, D., Salazar-Gálvez, B., & Quintas-Soriano, C (2026). Nature through cultural lens: understanding cultural values toward nature in a rural case study. Ecosystems and People, 22(1), 2700219. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2026.2700219

Rodríguez-Estival, J., Acevedo, P., Ferreras, P., Gortazar, C., Mateo, R., Vicente, J., Arroyo, B., & Contributor Castro, A. J. (2025). The challenge of science in the face of polarization around recreational hunting and wildlife management. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(5), 96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-025-01983-8

Requena-Mullor J.M., Garau E., Otamendi-Urroz I., Castro A.J., & Quintas-Soriano C. (2025). Socio-ecological sampling in classroom. Designing sampling with digital twins and participatory methodologies for environmental mapping. Book, 67.

Requena-Mullor, J. M., Garau, E., Quintas-Soriano, C., López-Rodríguez, M. D., & Castro A. J. (2025). An inverse reinforcement learning approach to model health-related information popularity on X (Twitter). Computing, 107(197). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-025-01551-7

Garau, E., Piorno, V., & Soliño, M. (2025). Look at those nasty and lovely birds! Assessing preferences and emotional responses of visitors to a National Park. Biological Conservation, 313, 111528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111528

Garau, E., Requena-Mullor, J.M., Quintas-Soriano, C., de Abreu, G., Alba-Patiño, D., & Castro, A. (2025). Where nature is not so green: exploring perceptions of urban nature in a semi-arid city. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 113, 129127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129127

Alba-Patiño, D., Martín-López, B, Delibes-Mateos, M., Requena-Mullor, J. M., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Environmental justice gaps in human-wildlife conflict research from a social-ecological systems perspective. Biological Conservation, 312(111515). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111515

Garau, E., de Abreu, G., Pérez-Ramírez, I., Schütze, N., Farhat, Y., El Moussaoui, H., Loureiro, J., Mahjoub, O., Ben Slimane, A., Ben Slimane, A., Amami, H., Zairi, A., Thiel, A., & Castro, A. J. (2025). Exploring agricultural stakeholders’ mental models of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Mediterranean case studies. Environmental Science and Policy, 171(2025), 104196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104196

Garau, E., de Abreu, G., Perez-Ramirez, I., Schütze, N., Farhat, Y., Loureiro, J., El Moussaoui, H., Mahjoub, O., Amami, H., Sandri, S., Alshyab, N., Drei, P., Maistrello, G., Asmaa, A., Khouya, K., Lorenzo López, A., Casielles Restoy, R., Thiel, A., & Castro, A. (2025). Diverse values of nature can drive transformative change in the WEFE nexus governance in Mediterranean countries.. Sustainability Science, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01757-w