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Breno Magalhães Freitas

Breno Magalhães Freitas

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
34
Citations
11308
World Ranking
5237
National Ranking
114

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
11298
World Ranking
7236
National Ranking
135

Breno Magalhães Freitas publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Breno Magalhães Freitas sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 162 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Breno Magalhães Freitas D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Breno Magalhães Freitas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

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

  • Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

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

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Standard methods for pollination research with Apis mellifera

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

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

    B. M. Freitas;R. J. Paxton

  • Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
Lucas A. Garibaldi
Lucas A. Garibaldi National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca
Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca Universidade de São Paulo
Andrea Holzschuh
Andrea Holzschuh University of Würzburg
Romina Rader
Romina Rader University of New England
Ignasi Bartomeus
Ignasi Bartomeus Spanish National Research Council
Maj Rundlöf
Maj Rundlöf Lund University
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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