Baldwin J., Garcia-Porta J.* & Botero C. 2023. Complementarity in Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules among birds. Nature Communications. Accepted.
* Shared 1st authorship.
Garcia-Porta J., Sol D., Pennell W. M., Sayol F., Kaliontzopoulou A. & Botero C. 2022. Niche expansion and adaptive divergence drives the global radiation of crows and ravens. Nature Communications. 13:2086.
Sol D., Garcia-Porta J*., González-Lagos C., Pigot A.L., Trisos C. & Tobias J. A. 2022. A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in presence of close relatives. Ecology Letters. 25 (3): 661-672.
* Shared 1st authorship.
Sol D., Olkowicz S., Sayol F., Kocourek M., Zhang Y., Marhounov L., Osadnik C., Corssmit E., Garcia-Porta J., Martin T. E., Lefebvre L. & Němec P. 2022. Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6: 1381–1389.
Baldwin J., Garcia-Porta J. & Botero C. 2022. Phenotypic responses to climate change are significantly dampened in big-brained birds. Ecology Letters. 25(4):939-947.
Scheibel J., Garcia-Porta J., Quezada G. & Ibáñez A. 2022. Phylogeography and Prevalence of Haemoparasites (Apicomplexa: Eucoccidiorida) in Galápagos Marine Iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Reptilia: Iguanidae). Animals. 12(9): 1142.
San Mauro D., Agorreta A & Garcia-Porta J. 2022. Origin, evolution, and diversification of extant amphibians. In: Moreno-Rueda G. & Comas M. (Eds.), Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians. CRC press. In press.
Wollenberg-Valero K. C., Garcia-Porta J., Irisarri I., Feugere L., Bates A., Kirchhof S., Glavaš O. J., Pafilis P., Samuel S. F., Müller J., Vences M., Turner A. P., Beltran-Alvarez P. & Storey K. 2021. Abiotic environmental adaptation in vertebrates is characterized by functional genomic constraint. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(6): 1163-1179.
Fernández-Martínez M., Preece C., Corbera J., Cano O., Garcia-Porta J., Sardans J., Janssens I., Sabater F., Peñuelas J. 2021. Bryophyte C:N:P stoichiometry, biogeochemical niches, and elementome plasticity driven by environment and coexistence. Ecology Letters. 24 (7): 1375-1386. [pdf]
Lapiedra O., Sayol F., Garcia-Porta J., Sol D. 2021. Niche shifts after island colonization spurred adaptive diversification and speciation in a cosmopolitan bird clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288: 20211022. [pdf]
Fernández-Martínez M., Preece C., Corbera J., Cano O., Garcia-Porta J., Bogdziewicz M., Sardans J., Janssens I., Sabater F., Peñuelas J. 2021. Nutrients control reproductive traits of hygrophytic bryophytes. Freshwater Biology. 66 (7): 1436-1446. [pdf]
Rodríguez A., Rodríguez B., Montelongo T., Garcia-Porta J., Pipa T., Carty M., Danielsen J., Nunes J., Silva C., Geraldes P., Medina F. M. & Illera J. C. 2020. Cryptic differentiation in the Manx Shearwater hinders the identification of a new endemic subspecies. Journal of Avian Biology. 51 (11). [pdf]
Sayol F., Collado M. A., Garcia-Porta J., Seid M. A., Gibbs J., Agorreta A., San Mauro D., Raemakers I., Sol D. & Bartomeus I. 2020. Feeding specialisation and longer generation time are associated with relatively larger brains in bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287(1935), 20200762. [pdf]
Prieto-Marquez A., Garcia-Porta J., Shantanu J., Norell M. & Makovicky P. 2020. Modularity and heterochrony in the evolution of the ceratopsian dinosaur frill. Ecology and Evolution, 10:6288–6309. [pdf]
Ord T., Garcia-Porta J., Querejeta M. & Collar D. 2020. Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation. The American Naturalist. 195 (2): 1-66. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Irisarri I., Kirchner M., Rodríguez A., .... Müller J., Vences M. & Wollenberg Valero K. C. 2019. Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards. Nature Communications. 10: 4077. [pdf] Click here to download phylogenetic tree of Lacertidae
Fernández-Martínez M., Berloso F., Corbera J., Garcia-Porta J., Sayol F., Preece C. & Sabater F. 2019. Towards a moss sclerophylly continuum: evolutionary history, water chemistry and climate control traits of hygrophytic mosses. Functional Ecology. 33 (12) 2273-2289. [pdf]
Tamar K., Simó-Riudalbas M., Garcia-Porta J., Santos X., Llorente G., Vasconcelos R. & Carranza S. 2019. An integrative study of island diversification: Insights from the endemic Haemodracon geckos of the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 133: 166-175 [pdf].
Casanovas-Vilar I, Garcia-Porta J., Fortuny J., Sanisidro O., Prieto J., Querejeta M., Llácer S., Robles J. M., Bernardini F. & Alba. D. 2018. Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the origin of the group. eLife. [pdf]
Carranza, S., Xipell, M., Tarroso, P., Gardner, A., Arnold, E.N., Robinson, M., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Vasconcelos, R., de Pous, P., Amat, F., Šmíd, J., Sindaco, R., Metallinou, M., Els, J., Gómez-Díaz, E., Machado, L., Donaire, D., Martínez, G., Garcia-Porta, J., Mazuch, T., Wilms, T., Gebhart, J., Aznar, J., Gallego, J., Zwanzig, B-M., Fernández-Guiberteau, D., Al Saadi, S., Alghafri, A., Khalifa, S., Al Furkani, H., Samir, S., Al Adhubi, A., Al Shariani, M., Al Kiyumi, A., Nasiir Al-Rubaiey, S., Al Sariri, T., Said Al-Shukaili, A. & Bin Nasser Al Akhzami, S. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190389
Garcia-Porta J., Simó-Riudalbas M., Robinson M. & Carranza S. 2017. Diversification in arid mountains: biogeography and cryptic diversity of the semaphore gecko Pristurus r. rupestris in Arabia. Journal of Biogeography. 44: 1694–1704. [pdf] Media appearances
:Wollenberg-Valero K., Garcia-Porta J., Ariel Rodriguez A, Arias M, Shah A., Randrianiaina R. D., Brown J., Glaw F., Amat F., Künzel S., Metzler D., Isokpehi R. D. & Vences M. 2017. Transcriptomic and macroevolutionary evidence for phenotypic uncoupling between frog life history phases. Nature Communications. 8:15213 [pdf]
Rivas-Ubach A., Sardans J., Hódar, J., Garcia-Porta J., Guenther A., Pasa-Tolic L, Oravec M., Urban O. & Peñuelas, J. 2017. Close and distant: contrasting the metabolism of two closely related subspecies of Scots pine under the effects of summer drought and folivory. Ecology and Evolution. 7: 8976–8988. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Smid J., Sol D., Fasola M. & Carranza S. 2016. Testing the island effect on morphological divergence: insights from the Hemidactylus geckos of the Socotra Archipelago. Scientific Reports, 6:23729. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Morales H., Gómez-Díaz E., Sindaco R. & Carranza S. 2016. Patterns of diversification in islands: a comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98: 288-299. [pdf]
Rivas-Ubach A., Sardans J., Hódar J. A., Garcia-Porta, J., Guenther A., Oravec M., Urban O. & Peñuelas J. 2016. Similar local but different systemic metabolomic responses of closely related pine subspecies to folivory by caterpillars of the processionary moth. Plant Biology, 18(3): 484-494. [pdf]
Ord T., Klomp D. Garcia-Porta J. & Hagman M. 2015. Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards: principal origins in signal efficacy not sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28 (11): 1948–1964. [pdf]
Bellati, A., Carranza S., Garcia-Porta J., Fasola M. & Sindaco R. 2015. Cryptic diversity within the Anatololacerta species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) in the Anatolian Peninsula: evidence from a multi-locus approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82: 219-233. [pdf]
Badiane A., Garcia-Porta J.*, Cervenka J., Kratochvíl L., Sindaco R., Robinson M. D., Morales H., Mazuch T., Price T., Amat F., Shobrak M. Y., Wilms T., Simó-Riudalbas M., Ahmadzadeh F., Papenfuss T. J., Cluchier A., Viglione J & Carranza S. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships of Semaphore geckos (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae: Pristurus) with an assessment of the taxonomy of Pristurus rupestris. Zootaxa, 3835(1), 33-58 * Equal contributions with first author. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J. & Ord T. 2013. Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: a comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(12): 2662-80. [pdf]
Beukema W., De Pous P., Donaire-Barroso D., Bogaerts S., Garcia-Porta J, Escoriza D, Arribas OJ, El Mouden EH & Carranza S. 2013. Review of the systematics, distribution, biogeography and natural history of Moroccan amphibians. Zootaxa, 3661 (1): 1-60. [pdf]
Ord, T. & Garcia-Porta J. 2012. Is social complexity required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, 316: 1811-1828. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J. , Litvinchuk S., Crochet PA, Romano A., Geniez P., Lo-Valvo M, Lymberakis P, Carranza S. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the west-palearctic common toads (Bufo bufo species complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (1): 113-130. [pdf]
Richter-Boix A., Llorente G. A., Montori A. & Garcia J. 2007. Tadpole diet selection varies with the ecological context in predictable ways. Basic and Applied Ecology, 8: 464-474. [pdf]
Bailon, S., Quintana, J., Garcia-Porta, J., 2005. Primer registro fósil de las familias Gekkonidae (Lacertilia) y Colubridae (Serpentes) en el Plioceno de Punta Nati (Menorca, Islas Baleares). In: Alcover, J.A., Bover, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium Insular Vertebrate Evolution: The Palaeontological Approach, Monografies de la Societat d’Historia Natural de les Balears, vol. 12. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, pp. 27–32. [pdf]
Barrio-Amorós C. & Garcia-Porta J. 2003. Herpetological Report: Colostethus humilis. Herpetological Review, 34 (4):380.
Bailon S., Garcia-Porta J. & Quintana-Cardona J. 2002. First record of viperid snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from the Balearic Islands (Spain): fossils from the Neogene, with description of a new species from the Pliocene. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciencies de Paris (paleoevolution), 1: 227-234. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Quintana J., Bailon S. 2002. First record de Blanus sp from the balear Neogene. Revista Española de Herpetologia, 16:19-27. [pdf]
Barrio C. L., Garcia-Porta J. & Filella-Subirà E. 2001. Données écologiques sur une population de Testudo ibera (Pallas 1814) dans le sud-ouest de la Turquie. Manouria, 4 (10): 12-20.
Garcia-Porta J. & Casanovas-Vilar I. 2001. Noves localitats de Amphisbaenia fòssils i comentaris sobre el grup en el Miocè Peninsular. Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d’Herpetologia, 15: 91-98
Rivera X., Garcia-Porta J. & Bargalló F. 2001. Nueva localidad en el norte de la península Ibérica con ejemplares de Podarcis hispanica (Steindachner, 1870) de coloración dorsal verde. Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d’Herpetologia, 15: 124-128
Garcia-Porta J., Bargalló F., Fernández M., Filella E. & Rivera X. 2001. Nueva Población introducida de Podarcis pityusensis en la península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetologica Española, 12(2): 59-62
Filella-Subirà E., Gàsser-Casanovas Z. Garcia-Porta J. & Ferrer-Ferrer J. A. 1999. Una puesta fósil de tortuga terrestre en el Pleistoceno de Formentera (Islas Pitiusas, archipiélago Balear). Treballs del Museu de Zoologia de Barcelona, 8: 67-84. [pdf]
* Shared 1st authorship.
Garcia-Porta J., Sol D., Pennell W. M., Sayol F., Kaliontzopoulou A. & Botero C. 2022. Niche expansion and adaptive divergence drives the global radiation of crows and ravens. Nature Communications. 13:2086.
Sol D., Garcia-Porta J*., González-Lagos C., Pigot A.L., Trisos C. & Tobias J. A. 2022. A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in presence of close relatives. Ecology Letters. 25 (3): 661-672.
* Shared 1st authorship.
Sol D., Olkowicz S., Sayol F., Kocourek M., Zhang Y., Marhounov L., Osadnik C., Corssmit E., Garcia-Porta J., Martin T. E., Lefebvre L. & Němec P. 2022. Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6: 1381–1389.
Baldwin J., Garcia-Porta J. & Botero C. 2022. Phenotypic responses to climate change are significantly dampened in big-brained birds. Ecology Letters. 25(4):939-947.
Scheibel J., Garcia-Porta J., Quezada G. & Ibáñez A. 2022. Phylogeography and Prevalence of Haemoparasites (Apicomplexa: Eucoccidiorida) in Galápagos Marine Iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Reptilia: Iguanidae). Animals. 12(9): 1142.
San Mauro D., Agorreta A & Garcia-Porta J. 2022. Origin, evolution, and diversification of extant amphibians. In: Moreno-Rueda G. & Comas M. (Eds.), Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians. CRC press. In press.
Wollenberg-Valero K. C., Garcia-Porta J., Irisarri I., Feugere L., Bates A., Kirchhof S., Glavaš O. J., Pafilis P., Samuel S. F., Müller J., Vences M., Turner A. P., Beltran-Alvarez P. & Storey K. 2021. Abiotic environmental adaptation in vertebrates is characterized by functional genomic constraint. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(6): 1163-1179.
Fernández-Martínez M., Preece C., Corbera J., Cano O., Garcia-Porta J., Sardans J., Janssens I., Sabater F., Peñuelas J. 2021. Bryophyte C:N:P stoichiometry, biogeochemical niches, and elementome plasticity driven by environment and coexistence. Ecology Letters. 24 (7): 1375-1386. [pdf]
Lapiedra O., Sayol F., Garcia-Porta J., Sol D. 2021. Niche shifts after island colonization spurred adaptive diversification and speciation in a cosmopolitan bird clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288: 20211022. [pdf]
Fernández-Martínez M., Preece C., Corbera J., Cano O., Garcia-Porta J., Bogdziewicz M., Sardans J., Janssens I., Sabater F., Peñuelas J. 2021. Nutrients control reproductive traits of hygrophytic bryophytes. Freshwater Biology. 66 (7): 1436-1446. [pdf]
Rodríguez A., Rodríguez B., Montelongo T., Garcia-Porta J., Pipa T., Carty M., Danielsen J., Nunes J., Silva C., Geraldes P., Medina F. M. & Illera J. C. 2020. Cryptic differentiation in the Manx Shearwater hinders the identification of a new endemic subspecies. Journal of Avian Biology. 51 (11). [pdf]
Sayol F., Collado M. A., Garcia-Porta J., Seid M. A., Gibbs J., Agorreta A., San Mauro D., Raemakers I., Sol D. & Bartomeus I. 2020. Feeding specialisation and longer generation time are associated with relatively larger brains in bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287(1935), 20200762. [pdf]
Prieto-Marquez A., Garcia-Porta J., Shantanu J., Norell M. & Makovicky P. 2020. Modularity and heterochrony in the evolution of the ceratopsian dinosaur frill. Ecology and Evolution, 10:6288–6309. [pdf]
Ord T., Garcia-Porta J., Querejeta M. & Collar D. 2020. Gliding dragons and flying squirrels: diversifying versus stabilizing selection on morphology following the evolution of an innovation. The American Naturalist. 195 (2): 1-66. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Irisarri I., Kirchner M., Rodríguez A., .... Müller J., Vences M. & Wollenberg Valero K. C. 2019. Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards. Nature Communications. 10: 4077. [pdf] Click here to download phylogenetic tree of Lacertidae
Fernández-Martínez M., Berloso F., Corbera J., Garcia-Porta J., Sayol F., Preece C. & Sabater F. 2019. Towards a moss sclerophylly continuum: evolutionary history, water chemistry and climate control traits of hygrophytic mosses. Functional Ecology. 33 (12) 2273-2289. [pdf]
Tamar K., Simó-Riudalbas M., Garcia-Porta J., Santos X., Llorente G., Vasconcelos R. & Carranza S. 2019. An integrative study of island diversification: Insights from the endemic Haemodracon geckos of the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 133: 166-175 [pdf].
Casanovas-Vilar I, Garcia-Porta J., Fortuny J., Sanisidro O., Prieto J., Querejeta M., Llácer S., Robles J. M., Bernardini F. & Alba. D. 2018. Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the origin of the group. eLife. [pdf]
Carranza, S., Xipell, M., Tarroso, P., Gardner, A., Arnold, E.N., Robinson, M., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Vasconcelos, R., de Pous, P., Amat, F., Šmíd, J., Sindaco, R., Metallinou, M., Els, J., Gómez-Díaz, E., Machado, L., Donaire, D., Martínez, G., Garcia-Porta, J., Mazuch, T., Wilms, T., Gebhart, J., Aznar, J., Gallego, J., Zwanzig, B-M., Fernández-Guiberteau, D., Al Saadi, S., Alghafri, A., Khalifa, S., Al Furkani, H., Samir, S., Al Adhubi, A., Al Shariani, M., Al Kiyumi, A., Nasiir Al-Rubaiey, S., Al Sariri, T., Said Al-Shukaili, A. & Bin Nasser Al Akhzami, S. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190389
Garcia-Porta J., Simó-Riudalbas M., Robinson M. & Carranza S. 2017. Diversification in arid mountains: biogeography and cryptic diversity of the semaphore gecko Pristurus r. rupestris in Arabia. Journal of Biogeography. 44: 1694–1704. [pdf] Media appearances
:Wollenberg-Valero K., Garcia-Porta J., Ariel Rodriguez A, Arias M, Shah A., Randrianiaina R. D., Brown J., Glaw F., Amat F., Künzel S., Metzler D., Isokpehi R. D. & Vences M. 2017. Transcriptomic and macroevolutionary evidence for phenotypic uncoupling between frog life history phases. Nature Communications. 8:15213 [pdf]
Rivas-Ubach A., Sardans J., Hódar, J., Garcia-Porta J., Guenther A., Pasa-Tolic L, Oravec M., Urban O. & Peñuelas, J. 2017. Close and distant: contrasting the metabolism of two closely related subspecies of Scots pine under the effects of summer drought and folivory. Ecology and Evolution. 7: 8976–8988. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Smid J., Sol D., Fasola M. & Carranza S. 2016. Testing the island effect on morphological divergence: insights from the Hemidactylus geckos of the Socotra Archipelago. Scientific Reports, 6:23729. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Morales H., Gómez-Díaz E., Sindaco R. & Carranza S. 2016. Patterns of diversification in islands: a comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98: 288-299. [pdf]
Rivas-Ubach A., Sardans J., Hódar J. A., Garcia-Porta, J., Guenther A., Oravec M., Urban O. & Peñuelas J. 2016. Similar local but different systemic metabolomic responses of closely related pine subspecies to folivory by caterpillars of the processionary moth. Plant Biology, 18(3): 484-494. [pdf]
Ord T., Klomp D. Garcia-Porta J. & Hagman M. 2015. Repeated evolution of exaggerated dewlaps and other throat morphology in lizards: principal origins in signal efficacy not sexual selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28 (11): 1948–1964. [pdf]
Bellati, A., Carranza S., Garcia-Porta J., Fasola M. & Sindaco R. 2015. Cryptic diversity within the Anatololacerta species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) in the Anatolian Peninsula: evidence from a multi-locus approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82: 219-233. [pdf]
Badiane A., Garcia-Porta J.*, Cervenka J., Kratochvíl L., Sindaco R., Robinson M. D., Morales H., Mazuch T., Price T., Amat F., Shobrak M. Y., Wilms T., Simó-Riudalbas M., Ahmadzadeh F., Papenfuss T. J., Cluchier A., Viglione J & Carranza S. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships of Semaphore geckos (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae: Pristurus) with an assessment of the taxonomy of Pristurus rupestris. Zootaxa, 3835(1), 33-58 * Equal contributions with first author. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J. & Ord T. 2013. Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: a comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(12): 2662-80. [pdf]
Beukema W., De Pous P., Donaire-Barroso D., Bogaerts S., Garcia-Porta J, Escoriza D, Arribas OJ, El Mouden EH & Carranza S. 2013. Review of the systematics, distribution, biogeography and natural history of Moroccan amphibians. Zootaxa, 3661 (1): 1-60. [pdf]
Ord, T. & Garcia-Porta J. 2012. Is social complexity required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, 316: 1811-1828. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J. , Litvinchuk S., Crochet PA, Romano A., Geniez P., Lo-Valvo M, Lymberakis P, Carranza S. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the west-palearctic common toads (Bufo bufo species complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (1): 113-130. [pdf]
Richter-Boix A., Llorente G. A., Montori A. & Garcia J. 2007. Tadpole diet selection varies with the ecological context in predictable ways. Basic and Applied Ecology, 8: 464-474. [pdf]
Bailon, S., Quintana, J., Garcia-Porta, J., 2005. Primer registro fósil de las familias Gekkonidae (Lacertilia) y Colubridae (Serpentes) en el Plioceno de Punta Nati (Menorca, Islas Baleares). In: Alcover, J.A., Bover, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium Insular Vertebrate Evolution: The Palaeontological Approach, Monografies de la Societat d’Historia Natural de les Balears, vol. 12. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, pp. 27–32. [pdf]
Barrio-Amorós C. & Garcia-Porta J. 2003. Herpetological Report: Colostethus humilis. Herpetological Review, 34 (4):380.
Bailon S., Garcia-Porta J. & Quintana-Cardona J. 2002. First record of viperid snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from the Balearic Islands (Spain): fossils from the Neogene, with description of a new species from the Pliocene. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciencies de Paris (paleoevolution), 1: 227-234. [pdf]
Garcia-Porta J., Quintana J., Bailon S. 2002. First record de Blanus sp from the balear Neogene. Revista Española de Herpetologia, 16:19-27. [pdf]
Barrio C. L., Garcia-Porta J. & Filella-Subirà E. 2001. Données écologiques sur une population de Testudo ibera (Pallas 1814) dans le sud-ouest de la Turquie. Manouria, 4 (10): 12-20.
Garcia-Porta J. & Casanovas-Vilar I. 2001. Noves localitats de Amphisbaenia fòssils i comentaris sobre el grup en el Miocè Peninsular. Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d’Herpetologia, 15: 91-98
Rivera X., Garcia-Porta J. & Bargalló F. 2001. Nueva localidad en el norte de la península Ibérica con ejemplares de Podarcis hispanica (Steindachner, 1870) de coloración dorsal verde. Butlletí de la Societat Catalana d’Herpetologia, 15: 124-128
Garcia-Porta J., Bargalló F., Fernández M., Filella E. & Rivera X. 2001. Nueva Población introducida de Podarcis pityusensis en la península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetologica Española, 12(2): 59-62
Filella-Subirà E., Gàsser-Casanovas Z. Garcia-Porta J. & Ferrer-Ferrer J. A. 1999. Una puesta fósil de tortuga terrestre en el Pleistoceno de Formentera (Islas Pitiusas, archipiélago Balear). Treballs del Museu de Zoologia de Barcelona, 8: 67-84. [pdf]