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Ecology and Evolution
Mexico
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
12013
World Ranking
2708
National Ranking
11

Alfonso Valiente-Banuet publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso Valiente-Banuet sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 128 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Alfonso Valiente-Banuet D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso Valiente-Banuet sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Alfonso Valiente-Banuet is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Food Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work concentrates on a range of topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Botanical Research and Applications, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Recent papers by Alfonso Valiente-Banuet include the following:

  • "Facilitation and plant phenotypic evolution," 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • "Phenotypic structure of plant facilitation networks," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Changes in bee functional traits at community and intraspecific levels along an elevational gradient in a Mexical-type scrubland," 2022, Oecologia
  • "Differences in the genomic diversity, structure, and inbreeding patterns in wild and managed populations of Agave potatorum Zucc. used in the production of Tobalá mezcal in Southern Mexico," 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "Changes in the structure and composition of the 'Mexical' scrubland bee community along an elevational gradient," 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Alfonso Valiente-Banuet include:

  • Miguel Verdú
  • José A. Navarro-Cano
  • Marta Goberna
  • Alicia Montesinos-Navarro
  • Elia Ramírez-Arriaga

Publications by Alfonso Valiente-Banuet appear in several scientific journals, with repeated contributions particularly to:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Ecology Letters
  • Oecologia
  • Plants People Planet

Best Publications

  • Beyond species loss: The extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world

    Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet;Marcelo A. Aizen;Julio M. Alcántara;Juan Arroyo

  • Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

    Richard Michalet;Robin W. Brooker;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Shade as a cause of the association between the cactus Neobuxbaumia tetetzo and the nurse plant Mimosa luisana in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico.

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Exequiel Ezcurra

  • Facilitation can increase the phylogenetic diversity of plant communities

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • In situ Management and Domestication of Plants in Mesoamerica

    Alejandro Casas;Adriana Otero-Arnaiz;Edgar Pérez-Negrón;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Evolutionary tradeoffs for nitrogen allocation to photosynthesis versus cell walls in an invasive plant

    Yu-Long Feng;Yan-Bao Lei;Rui-Fang Wang;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Biological diversity in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico

    Patricia Dávila;Maria Del Coro Arizmendi;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Jose Luis Villaseñor

  • Ecological relationships between columnar cacti and nectar-feeding bats in Mexico

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;María Del Coro Arizmendi;Alberto Rojas-Martínez;Laura Domínguez-Canseco

  • Modern quaternary plant lineages promote diversity through facilitation of ancient tertiary lineages

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Adolfo Vital Rumebe;Miguel Verdú;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Plant resources of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, Mexico

    Alejandro Casas;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Juan Luis Viveros;Javier Caballero

  • Spatial relationships between cacti and nurse shrubs in a semi‐arid environment in central Mexico

    A. Valiente‐Banuet;A. Bolongaro‐Crevenna;O. Briones;E. Ezcurra

  • Reproductive biology of Opuntia: A review

    J.A. Reyes-Agüero;A. Valiente-Banuet

  • Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between closely related taxa

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • The Nested Assembly of Plant Facilitation Networks Prevents Species Extinctions

    Miguel Verdu;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Interaction between the cactus Neobuxbaumia tetetzo and the nurse shrub Mimosa luisana

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Fernando Vite;J. Alejandro Zavala-Hurtado

  • The network structure of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

    Alicia Montesinos-Navarro;José G. Segarra-Moragues;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli, Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México

    Alejandro Casas;Alejandro Casas;Barbara Pickersgill;Javier Caballero;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Morphological variation and the process of domestication of Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae) in Central Mexico

    Alejandro Casas;Javier Caballero;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Jose Antonio Soriano

  • Integrating novel chemical weapons and evolutionarily increased competitive ability in success of a tropical invader.

    Yu‐Long Zheng;Yu‐Long Feng;Li‐Kun Zhang;Ragan M. Callaway

  • La vegetación del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Alejandro Casas;Ariel Alcántara;Patricia Dávila

  • PERSPECTIVE Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

    Richard Michalet;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Verdú
Miguel Verdú University of Valencia
Alejandro Casas
Alejandro Casas National Autonomous University of Mexico
Ragan M. Callaway
Ragan M. Callaway University of Montana
Marta Goberna
Marta Goberna Spanish National Research Council
Zaal Kikvidze
Zaal Kikvidze Ilia State University
Richard Michalet
Richard Michalet University of Bordeaux
Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi National Autonomous University of Mexico
Inderjit
Inderjit University of Delhi
Pedro J. Rey
Pedro J. Rey University of Jaén
José Ignacio Querejeta
José Ignacio Querejeta Spanish National Research Council

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Ragan M. Callaway

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Richard Michalet

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Francisco I. Pugnaire

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Christopher J. Lortie

Christopher J. Lortie

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Fernando Valladares

Fernando Valladares

Spanish National Research Council

Publications: 34

Christian Schöb

Christian Schöb

ETH Zurich

Publications: 32

Fernando T. Maestre

Fernando T. Maestre

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Publications: 31

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Miguel Verdú

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Adrián Escudero

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Marc W. Cadotte

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Santiago Soliveres

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Mark van Kleunen

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