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Ecology and Evolution
Argentina
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
80
Citations
59178
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

José M. Paruelo is affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantive contribution to the study of land use, ecosystem services, and ecological dynamics in various landscapes.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Land Use/Land Cover Change (2000-2014) in the Rio de la Plata Grasslands: An Analysis Based on MODIS NDVI Time Series (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • The role of social capital and collective actions in natural capital conservation and management (2020), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • Grazers and fires: Their role in shaping the structure and functioning of the Río de la Plata Grasslands (2022), published in Ecología Austral
  • Putting the Ecosystem Services idea at work: Applications on impact assessment and territorial planning (2020), published in Environmental Development
  • The law is spider's web: An assessment of illegal deforestation in the Argentine Dry Chaco ten years after the enactment of the "Forest Law" (2021), published in Environmental Development

Frequent coauthors of José M. Paruelo include:

  • Gonzalo Camba Sans
  • Pablo Baldassini
  • Federico Gallego
  • Debra P. C. Peters
  • David D. Breshears

The scientist regularly publishes in these venues:

  • Ecosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Austral Ecology
  • Agricultural Systems
  • Land Use Policy

José M. Paruelo's main field of study is Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on several subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The central topics addressed in their work span:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Best Publications

  • The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

    Robert Costanza;Rudolf de Groot;Stephen Farberk;Monica Grasso

  • The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

    Robert Costanza;Robert Costanza;Ralph d'Arge;Rudolf de Groot;Stephen Farber

  • How to evaluate models : Observed vs. predicted or predicted vs. observed?

    Gervasio Piñeiro;Susana Perelman;Juan P. Guerschman;José M. Paruelo

  • Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

    Rasmus Fensholt;Tobias Langanke;Kjeld Rasmussen;Anette Reenberg

  • The climate of Patagonia: general patterns and controls on biotic processes

    José M. Paruelo;Adriana Beltrán;Esteban Jobbágy;Osvaldo E. Sala

  • Grandes unidades de vegetación de la Patagonia extra andina

    Rolando J. C. León;Donaldo Bran;Marta Collantes;José M. Paruelo

  • ANPP ESTIMATES FROM NDVI FOR THE CENTRAL GRASSLAND REGION OF THE UNITED STATES

    José M. Paruelo;Howard E. Epstein;William K. Lauenroth;Ingrid C. Burke

  • The value of ecosystem services: putting the issues in perspective

    Robert Costanza;Ralph d’Arge;Rudolf de Groot;Stephen Farber

  • Pathways of Grazing Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen

    Gervasio Piñeiro;José M. Paruelo;Martín Oesterheld;Esteban G. Jobbágy

  • Relative Abundance of Plant Functional Types in Grasslands and Shrublands of North America

    Jose M. Paruelo;W. K. Lauenroth

  • Grassland Precipitation-Use Efficiency Varies Across a Resource Gradient

    José M. Paruelo;William K. Lauenroth;Ingrid C. Burke;Osvaldo E. Sala

  • Land-Use and Land Cover Dynamics in South American Temperate Grasslands

    Germán Baldi;José M. Paruelo

  • PATTERNS AND CONTROLS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE PATAGONIAN STEPPE: A REMOTE SENSING APPROACH†

    Esteban G. Jobbágy;Osvaldo E. Sala;José M. Paruelo

  • Land cover classification in the Argentine Pampas using multi-temporal Landsat TM data.

    J. P. Guerschman;J. M. Paruelo;C. Di Bella;M. C. Giallorenzi

  • Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

    Patricia Balvanera;María Uriarte;Lucía Almeida-Leñero;Alice Altesor

  • Land-use change and water losses: the case of grassland afforestation across a soil textural gradient in central Argentina

    Marcelo D. Nosetto;Marcelo D. Nosetto;Esteban G. Jobbágy;José M. Paruelo

  • Ecosystem services in grasslands.

    O. E. Sala;J. M. Paruelo;G. C. Daily

  • Current Distribution of Ecosystem Functional Types in Temperate South America

    José M. Paruelo;Esteban G. Jobbágy;Osvaldo E. Sala

  • Sustainability and range management in the Patagonian steppes

    Rodolfo A. Golluscio;V. Alejandro Deregibus;José M. Paruelo

  • Carbon sequestration in semi-arid rangelands: Comparison of Pinus ponderosa plantations and grazing exclusion in NW Patagonia

    M.D. Nosetto;E.G. Jobbágy;J.M. Paruelo

  • SPECIAL SECTION: FORUM ON VALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES The value of ecosystem services: putting the issues in perspective

    Robert Costanza;Rudolf de Groot;Stephen Farber;Monica Grasso

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban G. Jobbágy
Esteban G. Jobbágy National University of San Luis
Martín Oesterheld
Martín Oesterheld University of Buenos Aires
William K. Lauenroth
William K. Lauenroth Yale University
Gervasio Piñeiro
Gervasio Piñeiro University of Buenos Aires
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University
Martín R. Aguiar
Martín R. Aguiar University of Buenos Aires
Ingrid C. Burke
Ingrid C. Burke Yale University
Howard E. Epstein
Howard E. Epstein University of Virginia
Thorsten Wiegand
Thorsten Wiegand Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University

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