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Alejandro Ordonez

Alejandro Ordonez

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
4336
World Ranking
7641
National Ranking
101

Overview

Alejandro Ordonez is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's studies extensively cover topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Alejandro Ordonez has contributed to several research papers published in reputable venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The effects of defaunation on plants' capacity to track climate change, 2022, Science
  • A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: Summary for Policymakers, 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaborations have been documented with frequent co-authors, including Jens-Christian Svenning, Mélodie A. McGeoch, Laura A. Meyerson, Philip E. Hulme, and Felix Riede. These co-authors reflect a network of scientific partnerships across related environmental and ecological research areas.

The venues where Alejandro Ordonez has frequently published research encompass:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

    Vincent Maire;Ian J. Wright;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Niels H. Batjes

  • The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change

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  • The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Signe Normand;Alejandro Ordonez

  • Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison

    Alejandro Ordonez;Ian J. Wright;Han Olff

  • Litter quality and environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition

    G. F. (Ciska) Veen;Grégoire T. Freschet;Grégoire T. Freschet;Alejandro Ordonez;David A. Wardle

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Human activities have opposing effects on distributions of narrow-ranged and widespread plant species in China

    Wu-Bing Xu;Jens-Christian Svenning;Guo-Ke Chen;Ming-Gang Zhang

  • Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

    William K. Cornwell;William K. Cornwell;Mark Westoby;Daniel S. Falster;Richard G. FitzJohn;Richard G. FitzJohn

  • Do alien plant species profit more from high resource supply than natives? A trait‐based analysis

    Alejandro Ordonez;Alejandro Ordonez;Han Olff

  • Climatic and biotic velocities for woody taxa distributions over the last 16 000 years in eastern North America

    Alejandro Ordonez;John W. Williams

  • Climate‐driven extinctions shape the phylogenetic structure of temperate tree floras

    Wolf L Eiserhardt;Wolf L Eiserhardt;Finn Borchsenius;Christoffer M Plum;Alejandro Ordonez

  • A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change.

    John W Williams;Alejandro Ordonez;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Effects of sampling scale on patterns of habitat association in tropical trees

    Carol X. Garzon-Lopez;Patrick A. Jansen;Patrick A. Jansen;Patrick A. Jansen;Stephanie A. Bohlman;Stephanie A. Bohlman;Alejandro Ordonez

  • Combined speeds of climate and land-use change of the conterminous US until 2050

    Alejandro Ordonez;Alejandro Ordonez;Sebastián Martinuzzi;Volker C. Radeloff;John W. Williams

  • Mapping climatic mechanisms likely to favour the emergence of novel communities

    Alejandro Ordonez;John W. Williams;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Predictability in community dynamics.

    Benjamin Blonder;Derek E. Moulton;Jessica Blois;Brian J. Enquist

  • Functional and phylogenetic similarity of alien plants to co-occurring natives.

    Alejandro Ordonez;Alejandro Ordonez;Alejandro Ordonez

  • Geographic patterns in functional diversity deficits are linked to glacial-interglacial climate stability and accessibility

    Alejandro Ordonez;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Mycorrhizal strategies of tree species correlate with trailing range edge responses to current and past climate change

    Richard A. Lankau;Kai Zhu;Kai Zhu;Alejandro Ordonez

  • Projected climate reshuffling based on multivariate climate-availability, climate-analog, and climate-velocity analyses: Implications for community disaggregation

    Alejandro Ordonez;John W. Williams

  • Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition

    Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Bente J. Graae;Jens Kattge

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
John W. Williams
John W. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Stephanie A. Bohlman
Stephanie A. Bohlman University of Florida
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University

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