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Ecology and Evolution
Brazil
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
78
Citations
25265
World Ranking
908
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

G. Wilson Fernandes is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The work focuses on ecological and environmental topics with a significant number of publications in related subfields.

The main subfields of study in which they have contributed include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science

The key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by G. Wilson Fernandes include:

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot, 2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Floristic and functional identity of rupestrian grasslands as a subsidy for environmental restoration and policy, 2020, Ecological Complexity

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Daniel Negreiros
  • Marcílio Fagundes
  • Pablo Cuevas-Reyes
  • Magno Augusto Zazá Borges
  • Milton Barbosa

G. Wilson Fernandes has published extensively in journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Science
  • Flora
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Best Publications

  • Adaptive Nature of Insect Galls

    Peter W. Price;Peter W. Price;G. Wilson Fernandes;Gwendolyn L. Waring

  • Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority

    Fernando A. O. Silveira;Daniel Negreiros;Newton P. U. Barbosa;Elise Buisson

  • A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

    Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

  • Biogeographical gradients in galling species richness : Tests of hypotheses.

    G. Wilson Fernandes;Peter W. Price

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • Ants on plants: a meta-analysis of the role of ants as plant biotic defenses

    Felix B. Rosumek;Fernando A. O. Silveira;Frederico de S. Neves;Newton P. de U. Barbosa

  • Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil

    Geraldo Wilson Fernandes;Geraldo Wilson Fernandes;Fernando F. Goulart;Bernardo D. Ranieri;Marcel S. Coelho;Marcel S. Coelho

  • The adaptive significance of insect gall distribution: survivorship of species in xeric and mesic habitats

    G. Wilson Fernandes;Peter W. Price

  • Caatinga: The Scientific Negligence Experienced by a Dry Tropical Forest

    Jean Carlos Santos;Inara Roberta Leal;Jarcilene Silva Almeida-Cortez;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands.

    Elise Buisson;Soizig Le Stradic;Soizig Le Stradic;Fernando A. O. Silveira;Giselda Durigan

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Global patterns in local number of insect galling species

    Peter W. Price;G. Wilson Fernandes;Angela Christina F. Lara;Jeffrey D Brawn

  • SIZE DOES MATTER: VARIATION IN HERBIVORY BETWEEN AND WITHIN PLANTS AND THE PLANT VIGOR HYPOTHESIS

    Tatiana Cornelissen;Geraldo Wilson Fernandes;João Vasconcellos‐Neto

  • Insect Herbivore Population Dynamics on Trees and Shrubs: New Approaches Relevant to Latent and Eruptive Species and Life Table Development

    Peter W. Price;Neil S Cobb;Timothy P. Craig;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Differential mechanical defense : herbivory, evapotranspiration, and leaf-hairs

    Robert L. Woodman;G. Wilson Fernandes;Depto de Biolo

  • Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

    Lourens Poorter;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;Jarcilene S. de Almeida-Cortez

  • How Many Species of Gall-Inducing Insects Are There on Earth, and Where Are They?

    M. M. Espírito-Santo;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Reproductive phenology of sympatric taxa of Chamaecrista (Leguminosae) in Serra do Cipó, Brazil

    João A. Madeira;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil

    Bruno G. Madeira;Mário M. Espírito-Santo;Santos D’Ângelo Neto;Yule R. F. Nunes

  • Plant--Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions

    L.R. Taylor;P.W. Price;T.M. Lewinsohn;G.W. Fernando

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederico de Siqueira Neves
Frederico de Siqueira Neves Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Fernando A. O. Silveira
Fernando A. O. Silveira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Elise Buisson
Elise Buisson University of Avignon
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato Sao Paulo State University
Peter W. Price
Peter W. Price Northern Arizona University
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Gerhard E. Overbeck Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta
Mauricio Quesada
Mauricio Quesada National Autonomous University of Mexico
Antonio González-Rodríguez
Antonio González-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Giselda Durigan
Giselda Durigan State University of Campinas

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