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Plant Science and Agronomy

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40
Citations
6497
World Ranking
3912
National Ranking
72

Ecology and Evolution

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11093
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4364
National Ranking
75

Fabio Rubio Scarano 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 Fabio Rubio Scarano sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 115 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fabio Rubio Scarano 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 Fabio Rubio Scarano sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fabio Rubio Scarano is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in this field as well as Social Sciences. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Economics and Econometrics.

Scarano's work covers a variety of topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; Sustainability and Climate Change Governance; Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems; Environmental Education and Sustainability; and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

The scientist has published in several notable venues including Nature, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Ecosystem Services, and The Science of The Total Environment. Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Scarano include:

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration, 2020, Nature
  • Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Syntropy and innovation in agriculture, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Fire drives abandoned pastures to a savanna-like state in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, 2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Systematic review of soil ecosystem services in tropical regions, 2021, Royal Society Open Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scarano include Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Álvaro Iribarrem, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, and Aliny P. F. Pires.

Scarano has also contributed to book publications, with titles such as "Regenerative Dialogues for Sustainable Futures" published by Springer International Publishing in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot.

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Thomas Brooks;Rafael Feltran-Barbieri;Rafael Feltran-Barbieri;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

  • From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    C.L. Rezende;C.L. Rezende;F.R. Scarano;F.R. Scarano;E.D. Assad;C.A. Joly

  • Structure, function and floristic relationships of plant communities in stressful habitats marginal to the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest.

    Fabio R. Scarano

  • The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: A Shrinking Biodiversity Hotspot

    Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Jean Paul Metzger;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Brazilian Atlantic forest: impact, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change

    Fabio Rubio Scarano;Paula Ceotto

  • Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems

    Gerhard E. Overbeck;Eduardo Vélez‐Martin;Fabio R. Scarano;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem

  • Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy.

    Jan-Gunnar Winther;Minhan Dai;Therese Rist;Alf Håkon Hoel

  • Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: concept, scalability and a role for conservation science

    Fabio Rubio Scarano

  • Plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic rain forest: rare-species bias and its risks for conservation.

    Fabio Rubio Scarano

  • Four sites with contrasting environmental stress in southeastern Brazil: relations of species, life form diversity, and geographic distribution to ecophysiological parameters

    F. R. Scarano;Heitor Monteiro Duarte;K. T. Ribeiro;P. J. F. P. Rodrigues

  • What Role Should Government Regulation Play in Ecological Restoration? Ongoing Debate in São Paulo State, Brazil

    James Aronson;James Aronson;Pedro H. S. Brancalion;Giselda Durigan;Ricardo R. Rodrigues

  • Plant establishment on flooded and unflooded patches of a freshwater swamp forest in southeastern Brazil

    Fábio R. Scarano;Kátia T. Ribeiro;Luiz F. D. de Moraes;Haroldo C. de Lima

  • Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

    Camila Linhares de Rezende;Alexandre Uezu;Fabio Rubio Scarano;Dorothy Sue Dunn Araujo

  • Produção de mudas de espécies das Restingas do município do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

    Luiz Roberto Zamith;Fábio Rubio Scarano

  • Species composition and biogeographic relations of the rock outcrop flora on the high plateau of Itatiaia, SE-Brazil

    Kátia Torres Ribeiro;Kátia Torres Ribeiro;Branca Maria Opazo Medina;Fabio Rubio Scarano

  • Regeneration of an Atlantic forest formation in the understorey of a Eucalyptus grandis plantation in south-eastern Brazil

    Manoel Cláudio da Silva;Fábio Rubio Scarano;Fábio de Souza Cardel

  • High abundance of dioecious plants in a tropical coastal vegetation.

    Gloria Matallana;Tânia Wendt;Dorothy S. D. Araujo;Fábio R. Scarano

  • There is hope for achieving ambitious Atlantic Forest restoration commitments

    Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Edson Luis Santiami;Marcos Reis Rosa;Ludmila Pugliese

  • Restoration of a Restinga Sandy Coastal Plain in Brazil: Survival and Growth of Planted Woody Species

    Luiz R. Zamith;Fabio R. Scarano

  • Leaf anatomy plasticity of Alchornea triplinervia (Euphorbiaceae) under distinct light regimes in a Brazilian montane Atlantic rain forest

    Giselle Rôças;Cláudia Franca Barros;Fábio Rubio Scarano

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Lüttge
Ulrich Lüttge Technical University of Darmstadt
Augusto C. Franco
Augusto C. Franco University of Brasília
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg International Institute for Sustainability (IIS)
Rafael Loyola
Rafael Loyola Universidade Federal de Goiás
Heinz Rennenberg
Heinz Rennenberg University of Freiburg
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
José Maria Cardoso da Silva
José Maria Cardoso da Silva University of Miami
Carlos Alfredo Joly
Carlos Alfredo Joly State University of Campinas
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante University of Brasília

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