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Isabel Cristina Machado

Isabel Cristina Machado

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
38
Citations
4981
World Ranking
4445
National Ranking
91

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4524
World Ranking
7404
National Ranking
140

Overview

Isabel Cristina Machado is affiliated with the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Their research centers primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Plant Science; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Molecular Biology; and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within plant and animal studies, with particular attention to plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant diversity and evolution, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and botanical research and applications.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Isabel Cristina Machado include Arthur Domingos-Melo, Paulo Milet-Pinheiro, Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz Navarro, Sinzinando Albuquerque-Lima, and Ugo Mendes Diniz.

Their publications appear recurrently in several academic venues, including Plant Species Biology, Plant Biology, Flora, Ecology, and Annals of Botany.

Recent papers that feature their contributions include:

  • Bats and hawkmoths form mixed modules with flowering plants in a nocturnal interaction network, 2020, Biotropica
  • A Semivolatile Floral Scent Marks the Shift to a Novel Pollination System in Bromeliads, 2020, Current Biology
  • Bat pollination in the Caatinga: A review of studies and peculiarities of the system in the new world's largest and most diverse seasonally dry tropical forest, 2023, Flora
  • Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions, 2022, GigaScience
  • Sexual dimorphism in floral scents of the neotropical orchid Catasetum arietinum and its possible ecological and evolutionary significance, 2020, AoB Plants

Best Publications

  • Floral Traits and Pollination Systems in the Caatinga, a Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest

    Isabel Cristina Machado;Ariadna Valentina Lopes

  • Fruiting phenology and seed dispersal syndromes in caatinga, a tropical dry forest in the northeast of Brazil

    Luciana Maria Sobral Griz;Isabel Cristina S. Machado

  • Phenology of caatinga species at Serra Talhada, PE, Northeastern Brazil.

    Isabel C. S. Machado;Luiz M. Barros;Everardo V. S. B. Sampaio

  • História natural das abelhas coletoras de óleo

    Isabel Alves-dos-Santos;Isabel Cristina Machado;Maria Cristina Gaglianone

  • Pollination of four sympatric species of Angelonia (Scrophulariaceae) by oil-collecting bees in NE. Brazil

    Stefan Vogel;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

    Thais B. Zanata;Thais B. Zanata;Bo Dalsgaard;Fernando C. Passos;Peter A. Cotton

  • SISTEMA DE POLINIZAÇÃO E REPRODUÇÃO DE BYRSONIMA SERICEA DC (MALPIGHIACEAE)

    Luciana Almeida Gomes Teixeira;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Pollination of Campanula rapunculus L. (Campanulaceae): How much pollen flows into pollination and into reproduction of oligolectic pollinators?

    C. Schlindwein;D. Wittmann;C. Feitosa Martins;A. Hamm

  • Plant sexual systems and a review of the breeding system studies in the Caatinga, a Brazilian tropical dry forest.

    Isabel Cristina Machado;Ariadna Valentina Lopes;Marlies Sazima

  • Pollination networks of oil‐flowers: a tiny world within the smallest of all worlds

    Elisagngela L. S. Bezerra;Isabel C. Machado;Marco A. R. Mello

  • The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in large plant clades: apocynaceae as a case study

    Jeff Ollerton;Sigrid Liede-Schumann;Mary E. Endress;Ulrich Meve

  • Pollination and seed dispersal of Melocactus ernestii Vaupel subsp. ernestii (Cactaceae) by lizards: an example of double mutualism.

    V. G. N. Gomes;Z. G. M. Quirino;I. C. Machado

  • Floral biology and reproductive ecology of Clusia nemorosa ( Clusiaceae ) in northeastern Brazil

    Ariadna Valentina Lopes;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Bat pollination of the terrestrial herbIrlbachia alata (Gentianaceae) in northeastern Brazil

    Isabel Cristina S. Machado;Ivan Sazima;Marlies Sazima

  • Biologia reprodutiva de duas espécies de Jatropha L. (Euphorbiaceae) em caatinga, Nordeste do Brasil

    Mary Janice Santos;Isabel Cristina Machado;Ariadna Valentina Lopes

  • Biologia floral e sistema de polinização de Solanum stramonifolium Jacq. (Solanaceae) em remanescente de Mata Atlântica, Pernambuco

    Elisangela Lúcia de S. Bezerra;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Vertebrate mixed pollination system in Encholirium spectabile: A bromeliad pollinated by bats, opossum and hummingbirds in a tropical dry forest

    J.A. Queiroz;Z.G.M. Quirino;A.V. Lopes;I.C. Machado

  • Pollination of Angelonia cornigera Hook. (Scrophulariaceae) by Long‐Legged, Oil‐Collecting Bees in NE Brazil

    I. C. Machado;S. Vogel;A. V. Lopes

  • Fly pollination and pollinator sharing in two synchronopatric species: Cordia multispicata (Boraginaceae) and Borreria alata (Rubiaceae)

    Isabel Cristina Machado;Maria Iracema Loiola

  • Secretory trichomes, a substitutive floral nectar source in Lundia A. DC. (Bignoniaceae), a genus lacking a functional disc.

    Ariadna Valentina Lopes;Stefan Vogel;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Biologia da polinizacao e sistema reprodutivo de Psychotria barbiflora DC. (Rubiaceae)

    Luciana Almeida Gomes Teixeira;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Reproductive phenology of a northeast Brazilian mangrove community: Environmental and biotic constraints

    Tarcila de Lima Nadia;Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato;Isabel Cristina Machado

  • Functional Roles of Centridini Oil Bees and Malpighiaceae Oil Flowers in Biome-wide Pollination Networks

    Marco A. R. Mello;Elisângela L. S. Bezerra;Isabel C. Machado

  • Land use, fallow period and the recovery of a Caatinga forest

    Mellissa S. Sobrinho;Marcelo Tabarelli;Isabel C. Machado;Júlia C. Sfair

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz Navarro
Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz Navarro Federal University of Pernambuco
Marlies Sazima
Marlies Sazima State University of Campinas
Marcelo Tabarelli
Marcelo Tabarelli Federal University of Pernambuco
Stefan Dötterl
Stefan Dötterl University of Salzburg
Andrea A. Cocucci
Andrea A. Cocucci National University of Córdoba
Ivan Sazima
Ivan Sazima State University of Campinas
Manfred Ayasse
Manfred Ayasse University of Ulm
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira Federal University of Uberlândia
Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
Oliver Reiser
Oliver Reiser University of Regensburg

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