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Published books

• Propuesta de Áreas Claves para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (KBA) en la Provincia de Corrientes, República Argentina. (2022). Di Giacomo A.S.D., Cirignoli S., Bosso A., Gangenova E., Giraudo A., Varela D., Zurita A.G., Gil G., Minoli I., Zurano J.P., Insaurralde J.A., Solari A. & Lozano D. Aves Argentinas Aop, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 196 p.
  
  

Published book chapters
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• Biogeography, Ecology and Spatial Patterns of Patagonian Lizards. (2020). Minoli I., Pérez C.H.F., Morando M. & Avila L.J., p 189-216 in: Lizards of Patagonia: Diversity, Systematics, Biogeography and Biology of the Reptiles at the End of the World. Eds. Mariana Morando & Luciano Javier Avila. Life Sciences Series, Springer International Publishing AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42752-8_8
  
  
• Conservation concerns about the southernmost lizards of the World. (2020). Kacoliris F.P, Minoli I., Kass C., & Di Pietro D.O., p 407-422 in: Lizards of Patagonia: Diversity, Systematics, Biogeography and Biology of the Reptiles at the End of the World. Eds. Mariana Morando & Luciano Javier Avila. Life Sciences Series, Springer International Publishing AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42752-8_14
  
  
• Diversification and evolutionary histories of Patagonian steppe lizards (2020). Morando M., Medina C.D., Minoli, I., Pérez C.H.F., Sites Jr, J.W. & Avila L.J., p 217-254 in: Lizards of Patagonia: Diversity, Systematics, Biogeography and Biology of the Reptiles at the End of the World. Eds. Mariana Morando & Luciano Javier Avila. Life Sciences Series, Springer International Publishing AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42752-8_9
  
  

Some of my top published research papers
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• Trumper, A., Montti, L., Wesz Junior, V.J., Szinwelski, N., von Below, J., Eleuterio, A.A., Zarbá, L., Yanosky, A., Gasparri, I., Anticoli, A., Zurita, G.A., Vazquez, F.P., Oliveira-Costa, J.L., Minoli, I., Amarilla Rodríguez, S.M., Trumper, J., Roberti Vera Monge, V., de Carvalho, F.G., Villagra, R., Lowenberg-Neto, P., Amicone, C., Braga Junqueira, A., & Piquer-Rodríguez, M. (2026) Spatial Social-ecological land systems of the Alto Paraná triple-frontier in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Ecology and Society, 31 (2), :38. doi: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-17392-310238
  
  
• Gómez‑Cifuentes, A., Varela, D., Zurano, J., Munévar, A., Minoli, I., Gómez, V.C.G., Insaurralde, A. & Zurita, G. (2025) Dung beetle functional diversity in agricultural landscapes of the southern Atlantic forest: the role of landscape structure and mammal activity. Journal of Insect Conservation, 29 (58), 29:58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-025-00694-4
  
  
• Velazco, S.J.E., Rose, M.B., de Andrade, J.F.A., Minoli, I. & Franklin, J. (2022) flexsdm: An R package for supporting a comprehensive and flexible species distribution modeling workflow. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, early view. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13874
  
  
• Minoli, I., Cacciali, P., Morando, M. & Avila, L.J. (2019) Predicting spatial and temporal effects of climate change on the South American lizard genus Teius (Squamata: Teiidae). Amphibia-Reptilia, 40: 313–326. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-20181070
  
  
• Avila L.J., Pérez C.H.F., Minoli I., Medina C.D., Sites Jr. J.W., Morando M. (2017) New species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Squamata) of the Liolaemus donosobarrosi clade (Squamata, Liolaemini) from northwestern patagonia, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 4362, 535–563. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4362.4.4
  
  
• Minoli I., Avila L.J. (2017) Assessing habitat use, effects of future climate change and conservation areas in two Pristidactylus lizards from Argentina. Zootaxa 4237: 91-111. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.5
  
  
• Minoli I., Morando M., Avila L.J. (2016) Sexual dimorphism and interspecific head variation in Liolaemus melanops complex (Squamata: Liolaemini) based on geometric morphometrics. The Herpetological Journal 26: 225-237. link: https://is.gd/WciYbQ
  
  
• González Marín A., Pérez C.H.F., Minoli I., Morando M. & Avila L.J. (2016) A new lizard species of the Phymaturus patagonicus group (Squamata: Liolaemini) from northern Patagonia, Neuquén, Argentina. Zootaxa 4121: 412–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4121.4.3
  
  
• Escudero PC, Minoli I., González Marín MA, Morando M, Avila LJ (2016) Melanism and ontogeny: a study case in lizards of the Liolaemus fitzingerii group (Squamata: Liolaemini). Canadian Journal of Zoology 94: 199–206. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2015-0112
  
  
• Minoli I., Morando M., Avila L.J. (2015) Reptiles of Chubut province, Argentina: richness, diversity, conservation status and geographic distribution maps. ZooKeys 498: 103–126. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.498.7476
  
  
• Minoli I., Morando M., Avila L.J. (2014) Integrative taxonomy in the Liolaemus fitzingerii complex (Squamata: Liolaemini) based on morphological analyses and niche modeling. Zootaxa 3856: 501–528. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.3
  
  
• Avila L.J., Pérez C.H.F., Minoli I, Morando M. (2014) A new lizard of the Phymaturus genus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from Sierra Grande, northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 3793: 99–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.4
  
  
• Avila L.J., Pérez C.H.F., Minoli I., Morando M. (2012) A new species of Homonota (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Ventania mountain range, Southeastern Pampas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 3431: 19–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3431.1.2
  
  

Some of my technical reports
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• 2020 “BC AR Biodiversity baseline study” Informe 1 - Etapa 1. Technical Report for Massalin Particulares S.R.L. Ariel Insaurralde, Diego Varela, Gustavo Zurita, Elena Gangenova, Juan Pablo Zurano & Ignacio Minoli.
  
  
• 2020 to 2021 “Áreas Claves para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad en la Provincia de Corrientes”. Andrés Bosso, Gustavo Zurita, Adrián Di Giacomo, Juan Pablo Zurano, Ignacio Minoli, Ariel Insaurralde, Elena Gangenova, Sebastián Cirignoli, Alejandro Giraudo, Agustín Solari, Rubén Delacassa, Guillermo Gil, Gustavo Marino, Rocío Lapido, Diego Varela, Rodrigo Fariña & Delfina Ackerman.
  
  
• 2020 to 2021 “Identificación de Vacíos de Conservación Ecorregionales”. Jesica María Murray, Silvia Inés Quinzio, Marissa Fabrezi, Carlos Luis Bianchi, Gustavo Andrés Zurita, Juan Pablo Zurano, Ignacio Minoli, Juan Ariel Insaurralde, Sebastián Cirignoli, Diego Varela, Félix Ignacio Contreras, Adrián Santiago Di Giacomo, Alejandro R. Giraudo, Viviana Solís Neffa, Gisela Mariel Via do Pico, Roberto Manuel Salas, Walter Adrián Medina, Pablo Aceñolaza, Antonio Esteban Frutos, Adriana Silvina Manzano, Carlos I. Piña, Melina Soledad Simoncini, Walter Fabian Sione, Pablo Eugenio Villagra, Bertilde Elda Rossi, Sergio Roig Juñent, Rodolfo Carrara, Valeria Elizabeth Corbalán, Ricardo Jorge Casaux, Valeria Falabella, Maricel Del Luján Giaccardi, María Inés García Betoño & Thais Ham.