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39
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10735
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6252
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211

Cristina Armas 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 Cristina Armas sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 84 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cristina Armas 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 Cristina Armas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Cristina Armas is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their academic work is concentrated primarily within the realms of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial output in subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Plant Science; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology; and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics addressed by Cristina Armas include a range of specialized areas:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems

Their scholarly publications have appeared in multiple scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • New Phytologist
  • Neurology Perspectives
  • Nature Communications
  • Plant and Soil
  • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Representative recent papers include:

  • Higher leaf nitrogen content is linked to tighter stomatal regulation of transpiration and more efficient water use across dryland trees, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Within-individual phenotypic plasticity in flowers fosters pollination niche shift, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Complementarity in nurse plant systems: soil drives community composition while microclimate enhances productivity and diversity, 2020, Plant and Soil
  • Species identity improves soil respiration predictions in a semiarid scrubland, 2020, Geoderma
  • Warming enhances growth but does not affect plant interactions in an alpine cushion species, 2020, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Cristina Armas has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Francisco I. Pugnaire, José M. Gómez, Francisco Perfectti, Adela González-Megías, and Luis Navarro. These frequent collaborations suggest a well-established network in the scientific community within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress.

    Ragan M. Callaway;R. W. Brooker;Philippe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

    Rob W. Brooker;Fernando T. Maestre;Ragan M. Callaway;Christopher L. Lortie

  • MEASURING PLANT INTERACTIONS: A NEW COMPARATIVE INDEX

    Cristina Armas;Ramón Ordiales;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level.

    Iván Prieto;Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi‐arid plant community

    Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Soil as a mediator in plant-plant interactions in a semi-arid community

    Francisco I. Pugnaire;Cristina Armas;Fernando Valladares

  • Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

    Christian Schöb;Cristina Armas;Manuela Guler;Iván Prieto

  • Soil as a mediator in plant‐plant interactions in a semi‐arid community

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  • Climatic change and rainfall patterns: Effects on semi-arid plant communities of the Iberian Southeast

    J.D. Miranda;C. Armas;F.M. Padilla;F.I. Pugnaire

  • A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient

    Cristina Armas;Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Interactions among soil, plants, and microorganisms drive secondary succession in a dry environment

    Yudi M. Lozano;Sara Hortal;Sara Hortal;Cristina Armas;Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function

    F.I. Pugnaire;C. Armas;F.T. Maestre

  • Soil microbial community under a nurse-plant species changes in composition, biomass and activity as the nurse grows

    Sara Hortal;Felipe Bastida;Cristina Armas;Y. M Lozano

  • Ecophysiological significance of chlorophyll loss and reduced photochemical efficiency under extreme aridity in Stipa tenacissima L.

    L. Balaguer;F. I. Pugnaire;E. Martínez-Ferri;C. Armas

  • Shrubs influence arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities in a semi-arid environment

    Laura B. Martínez-García;Cristina Armas;Juan de Dios Miranda;Francisco M. Padilla

  • Ontogenetic shifts in interactions of two dominant shrub species in a semi‐arid coastal sand dune system

    Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Direct and indirect interactions co‐determine species composition in nurse plant systems

    Christian Schöb;Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • Higher leaf nitrogen content is linked to tighter stomatal regulation of transpiration and more efficient water use across dryland trees

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  • Hydraulic lift and tolerance to salinity of semiarid species: consequences for species interactions.

    Cristina Armas;Francisco M. Padilla;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Robert B. Jackson

  • Colonization processes in semi-arid Mediterranean old-fields

    F.I. Pugnaire;M.T. Luque;C. Armas;L. Gutiérrez

  • The role of hydraulic lift on seedling establishment under a nurse plant species in a semi-arid environment

    Iván Prieto;Francisco M. Padilla;Cristina Armas;Francisco I. Pugnaire

  • A role for below-ground biota in plant–plant facilitation

    Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría;Cristina Armas;Nuria Pistón;Sara Hortal

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco I. Pugnaire
Francisco I. Pugnaire Spanish National Research Council
Julio R. Gutiérrez
Julio R. Gutiérrez University of La Serena
Iván Prieto
Iván Prieto University of Leon
Zaal Kikvidze
Zaal Kikvidze Ilia State University
Douglas A. Kelt
Douglas A. Kelt University of California, Davis
Francisco M. Padilla
Francisco M. Padilla University of Almería
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría University of Coimbra
Peter L. Meserve
Peter L. Meserve University of Idaho
José M. Gómez
José M. Gómez Spanish National Research Council

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