2026 Breno Magalhães Freitas: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	34	5237	4906	114	109	162	11308
Ecology and Evolution	35	7240	7000	135	135	158	11298

Overview

Breno Magalhães Freitas is an active researcher affiliated with the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil. Their work primarily falls within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics include:

Plant and animal studies
Insect and Pesticide Research
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Plant Parasitism and Resistance
Bee Products Chemical Analysis
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Frequent publication venues where Breno's work appears include:

Apidologie
Sociobiology
Ciência Agronômica/Revista ciência agronômica
Ecology
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Among their recent papers are:

"A method for mining combined data from in-hive sensors, weather and apiary inspections to forecast the health status of honey bee colonies" (2020) in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
"Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities" (2021) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees?" (2021) in Ecology
"CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination" (2021) in Ecology
"Don't stay out too long! Thermal tolerance of the stingless bees Melipona subnitida decreases with increasing exposure time to elevated temperatures" (2020) in Apidologie

Frequent collaborators include:

Lucas A. Garibaldi
Blandina Felipe Viana
Cláudia Inês da Silva
Antônio Diego M. Bezerra
Luísa G. Carvalheiro

The scope of their work explores various aspects of insect ecology and behavior, particularly focusing on pollinator dynamics, thermal tolerance of bees, and the impacts of invasive species on native bee communities. The interdisciplinary nature of their research integrates data mining techniques from sensor technologies with ecological and agricultural studies, reflecting a convergence of computational and biological sciences.

Best Publications

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

Lucas A Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Rachael Winfree;Marcelo A Aizen

2999
Citations
Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

Romina Rader;Ignasi Bartomeus;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Michael P.D. Garratt

1056
Citations
A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

946
Citations
Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms

Lucas A. Garibaldi;Luísa G. Carvalheiro;Bernard E. Vaissière;Barbara Gemmill-Herren

568
Citations
Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production

Simon G. Potts;Vera Imperatriz Fonseca;Hien T. Ngo;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

497
Citations
A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

431
Citations
Diversity, threats and conservation of native bees in the Neotropics.

Breno M. Freitas;Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca;Luis M. Medina;Astrid de Matos Peixoto Kleinert

398
Citations
The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil.

T C Giannini;G. D Cordeiro;B. M Freitas;Antonio Mauro Saraiva

374
Citations
Chemical composition and free radical scavenging activity of pollen loads from stingless bee Melipona subnitida Ducke

Tania Maria Sarmento Silva;Celso Amorim Camara;Antonio Claudio da Silva Lins;José Maria Barbosa-Filho

258
Citations
Standard methods for pollination research with Apis mellifera

Keith S Delaplane;Arnon Dag;Robert G Danka;Breno M Freitas

258
Citations
Bees for development: Brazilian survey reveals how to optimize stingless beekeeping

Rodolfo Jaffé;Nathaniel Pope;Airton Torres Carvalho;Ulysses Madureira Maia

231
Citations
A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

Mark J. F. Brown;Lynn V. Dicks;Robert J. Paxton;Katherine C R Baldock

201
Citations
Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity

Lucas A. Garibaldi;Ignasi Bartomeus;Riccardo Bommarco;Alexandra M. Klein

201
Citations
A comparison of two pollinators : the introduced honey bee Apis mellifera and an indigenous bee Centris tarsata on cashew Anacardium occidentale in its native range of NE Brazil

Breno M. Freitas;Robert J. Paxton

189
Citations
Higher soybean production using honeybee and wild pollinators, a sustainable alternative to pesticides and autopollination

Marcelo de O. Milfont;Epifania Emanuela M. Rocha;Afonso Odério N. Lima;Breno M. Freitas

132
Citations
Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects

Liam L.K. Kendall;Liam L.K. Kendall;Romina Rader;Vesna Gagic;Daniel D.P. Cariveau

125
Citations
Pollination efficiency of the stingless bee Melipona subnitida on greenhouse sweet pepper

Darci de Oliveira Cruz;Breno Magalhães Freitas;Luis Antônio da Silva;Eva Mônica Sarmento da Silva

116
Citations
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities

Deepa Senapathi;Jochen Fründ;Matthias Albrecht;Michael P.D. Garratt

102
Citations
A method for mining combined data from in-hive sensors, weather and apiary inspections to forecast the health status of honey bee colonies

Antonio Rafael Braga;Antonio Rafael Braga;Danielo G. Gomes;Richard Rogers;Richard Rogers;Edgar E. Hassler

101
Citations
The role of wind and insects in cashew (Anacardium occidentale) pollination in NE Brazil.

B. M. Freitas;R. J. Paxton

92
Citations
Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees

Karina O Cham;Roberta C F Nocelli;Leandro O Borges;Flávia Elizabeth C Viana-Silva

91
Citations
Chemical composition, botanical evaluation and screening of radical scavenging activity of collected pollen by the stingless bees Melipona rufiventris (Uruçu-amarela)

Tania M.S. Silva;Celso A. Camara;Antonio C.S. Lins;Maria De Fátima Agra

84
Citations