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Florencia Montagnini

Florencia Montagnini

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
6884
World Ranking
7119
National Ranking
2537

Florencia Montagnini publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florencia Montagnini sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 107 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Florencia Montagnini D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florencia Montagnini sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Florencia Montagnini is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Horticulture.

Their main research topics include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; Forest ecology and management; Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems; African Botany and Ecology Studies; Agriculture and Rural Development Research; and Forest Management and Policy.

Florencia Montagnini has contributed to the scientific community through publications in various journals, including:

  • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Restoration plantings of non-pioneer tree species in open fields, young secondary forests, and rubber plantations in Bahia, Brazil, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Nearby mature forest distance and regenerating forest age influence tree species composition in the Atlantic forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil, 2021, Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Agroforestry: a key land use system for sustainable food production and public health, 2025, Trees Forests and People
  • Novel growth models for three Brazilian native timber species and their applications for timber production and carbon stock assessment, 2025, Restoration Ecology

The frequent coauthors associated with Montagnini's work include:

  • Daniel Piotto
  • Beatriz Eibl
  • Sara del Fierro
  • Lucas N. López
  • Mark S. Ashton

Their research has been published across a range of venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Trees Forests and People
  • Restoration Ecology

The body of work offered by Florencia Montagnini addresses themes from species diversity impacts on ecosystem productivity to applied forestry and agroforestry systems. Their work integrates ecological patterns and conservation strategies, often focusing on tropical forest landscapes and sustainable land use.

Best Publications

  • Carbon sequestration: An underexploited environmental benefit of agroforestry systems

    F. Montagnini;P. K. R. Nair

  • Early Woody Invasion Under Tree Plantations in Costa Rica: Implications for Forest Restoration

    Manuel R. Guariguata;Richard Rheingans;Florencia Montagnini

  • Facilitating regeneration of secondary forests with the use of mixed and pure plantations of indigenous tree species.

    Nélida J Carnevale;Florencia Montagnini

  • The role of native species plantations in recovery of understory woody diversity in degraded pasturelands of Costa Rica.

    Daniela Cusack;Florencia Montagnini

  • Accumulation in above-ground biomass and soil storage of mineral nutrients in pure and mixed plantations in a humid tropical lowland

    Florencia Montagnini

  • Mixed and pure forest plantations in the humid neotropics: a comparison of early growth, pest damage and establishment costs

    F. Montagnini;E. Gonzalez;C. Porras;R. Rheingans

  • Pure and mixed forest plantations with native species of the dry tropics of Costa Rica: a comparison of growth and productivity

    Daniel Piotto;Edgar Vı́quez;Florencia Montagnini;Markku Kanninen

  • Evaluating the Role of Plantations as Carbon Sinks: An Example of an Integrative Approach from the Humid Tropics

    Florencia Montagnini;Carlos Porras

  • Growth, productivity, aboveground biomass, and carbon sequestration of pure and mixed native tree plantations in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica

    Alvaro Redondo-Brenes;Florencia Montagnini

  • Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems.

    Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramirez;Dylan Craven;Peter B Reich;Peter B Reich;John J Ewel

  • Performance of forest plantations in small and medium-sized farms in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica

    Daniel Piotto;Florencia Montagnini;Luis Ugalde;Markku Kanninen

  • Biomass and nutrient accumulation in pure and mixed plantations of indigenous tree species grown on poor soils in the humid tropics of Costa Rica

    William G Stanley;Florencia Montagnini

  • The economic value of managing the açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in the floodplains of the Amazon estuary, Pará, Brazil

    Nuria Muñiz-Miret;Robert Vamos;Mario Hiraoka;Florencia Montagnini

  • Homegardens of Mesoamerica: Biodiversity, food security, and nutrient management

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  • Growth and effects of thinning of mixed and pure plantations with native trees in humid tropical Costa Rica

    Daniel Piotto;Florencia Montagnini;Luis Ugalde;Markku Kanninen

  • Enrichment planting in overexploited subtropical forests of the Paranaense region of Misiones, Argentina

    Florencia Montagnini;Beatriz Eibl;Luis Grance;Domingo Maiocco

  • Silvicultural and economic aspects of pure and mixed native tree species plantations on degraded pasturelands in humid Costa Rica

    Daniel Piotto;Dylan Craven;Florencia Montagnini;Federico Alice

  • Growth in pure and mixed plantations of tree species used in reforesting rural areas of the humid region of Costa Rica, Central America

    Bryan Petit;Florencia Montagnini

  • Impacts of native trees on tropical soils: a study in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica

    F. Montagnini;F. Sancho

  • Strategies for the recovery of degraded ecosystems: experiences from latin america

    Florencia Montagnini

  • Shifting Agriculture and Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Study from North-eastern India, by P.S. Ramakrishnan. (Man and the Biosphere Series, Volume 10.) UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris, France, and Parthenon, New Jersey, USA, and Carnforth, England, UK: xvii + 424 pp., illustr., tables, 24 × 16 × 3.5 cm, hardback, £48 or 480 French francs, 1992.

    Florencia Montagnini

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Kanninen
Markku Kanninen University of Helsinki
Mark S. Ashton
Mark S. Ashton Yale University
John A. Parrotta
John A. Parrotta US Forest Service
Benjamin Cashore
Benjamin Cashore National University of Singapore
René I. Alfaro
René I. Alfaro Canadian Forest Service
Bruce C.V. Campbell
Bruce C.V. Campbell Royal Melbourne Hospital
Catherine Potvin
Catherine Potvin McGill University
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Jeremy Rayner
Jeremy Rayner University of Saskatchewan
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota

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