Scientific publications
Most recent works
The hidden dimension of poaching: a novel survey method shows that local demand for pets largely outnumbers domestic and international trade of Neotropical parrots
2025 - Romero-Vidal, P., Rojas, A., Herrera, M., Hiraldo, F., Díaz, J.A., Blanco, G., Carrete, M., Tella, J.L
Biological Conservation 303, 111029
Illegal and legal trade, Research methods
Ecology and conservation of parrots in their native and non-native ranges
2022 - Tella, J.L., Blanco, G., Carrete, M. (Eds.)
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 431 pp
Ecological functions, Illegal and legal trade, Habitat challenges, Other conservation threats, Non-native populations, Breeding and population ecology, Population genetics, Physiology and diseases, Research methods
Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do not inform population sizes
2022 - Robinson, O.J., Socolar, J.B., Stuber, E.F., Auer, T., Berryman, A.J., Boersch-Supan, P.H., Brightsmith, D.J., Burbidge, A.H., Butchart, S.H., Davis, C.L. Dokter, A.M., Di Giacomo, A. S., Farnsworth, A., Fink, F., Hochachka, W.M., Howell, P.E., La Sorte, F.A., Lees, A.C., Marsden, S., Martin, R., Martin, R.O., Masello, J.F., Miller, E.T., Moodley, Y., Musgrove, A., Noble, D.G., Ojeda, V., Quillfeldt, P., Royle, J.A., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Tella, J.L., Yorio, P., Youngflesh, C., and Johnston, A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(10), p.e2113862119
Breeding and population ecology, Research methods
Annual Censuses and Citizen Science Data Show Rapid Population Increases and Range Expansion of Invasive Rose-Ringed and Monk Parakeets in Seville, Spain
2022 - Hernández-Brito, D., Carrete, M., and Tella, J.L
Animals, 12:677
Non-native populations, Breeding and population ecology, Research methods
Roadside car surveys: methodological constraints and solutions for estimating parrot abundances across the world
2021 - Tella, J.L., Romero-Vidal, P., Dènes , F.V., Hiraldo, F., Toledo-González, B., Rossetto, F., Blanco, G., Hernández-Brito, D., Pacífico, E., Díaz, J.A., Rojas, A., Bermúdez-Cavero, A., Luna, A., Barbosa, J.M., & Carrete, M
Diversity 13: 300
Research methods
Opportunistic or Non-random Wildlife Crime?
2020 - Romero-Vidal, P., Hiraldo, F., Rosetto, F., Blanco, G., Carrete, M. and Tella, J.L
Attractiveness rather than Abundances in the Wild Leads to Selective Parrot Poaching. Diversity 12, 314
Illegal and legal trade, Research methods
Revisiting methods for estimating parrot abundance and population size
2018 - Dénes, F. Tella, J.L., Beissinger, S.R
Emu 118: 67-79
Research methods
Validation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for fast and portable sex determination across the phylogeny of birds
2018 - Centeno-Cuadros, A., Tella, J.L., Delibes, M., Edelaar, P., Carrete, M
Molecular Ecology Resources 18: 251-263
Research methods