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José Miguel Olano

José Miguel Olano

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
40
Citations
5980
World Ranking
3943
National Ranking
178

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
6035
World Ranking
6136
National Ranking
199

José Miguel Olano 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 José Miguel Olano sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 120 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

José Miguel Olano 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 José Miguel Olano 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

José Miguel Olano is affiliated with the University of Valladolid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences with significant attention to specific subfields that include global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, tree root and stability studies, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, as well as forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Miguel García-Hidalgo, Vicente Rozas, Ana I. García-Cervigón, and Héctor Hernández-Alonso.

José Miguel Olano has published in several notable academic venues multiple times. These venues include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Dendrochronologia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Representative publications in their career include the following recent papers:

  • Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability (2020) - Journal of Ecology
  • Warmer springs have increased the frequency and extension of late-frost defoliations in southern European beech forests (2021) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climate warming and introduced herbivores disrupt alpine plant community of an oceanic island (Tenerife, Canary Islands) (2020) - Plant Ecology
  • Xylem anatomy needs to change, so that conductivity can stay the same: xylem adjustments across elevation and latitude in Nothofagus pumilio (2020) - Annals of Botany
  • Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine-oak ecotone (2020) - Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Plastic bimodal xylogenesis in conifers from continental Mediterranean climates.

    Jesús Julio Camarero;José Miguel Olano;Alfonso Parras

  • Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

    Antonio Gazol;Jesus Julio Camarero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero

  • Sex-specific, age-dependent sensitivity of tree-ring growth to climate in the dioecious tree Juniperus thurifera

    Vicente Rozas;Lucía DeSoto;José Miguel Olano

  • Regenerative role of seed banks following an intense soil disturbance

    Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga;Adrián Escudero;José Miguel Olano;Javier Loidi

  • Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;J. Julio Camarero;José M. Olano;Natalia Martín-Hernández

  • Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation

    S. Soliveres;S. Soliveres;L. DeSoto;F.T. Maestre;J.M. Olano

  • Factors controlling the establishment of Helianthemum squamatum, an endemic gypsophile of semi-arid Spain

    Adrián Escudero;Roberto C. Somolinos;José. M. Olano;Agustín Rubio

  • Factors affecting establishment of a gypsophyte: the case of Lepidium subulatum (Brassicaceae).

    Adrián Escudero;José M. Iriondo;José M. Olano;Agustín Rubio

  • Quantitative Tracheid Anatomy Reveals a Complex Environmental Control of Wood Structure in Continental Mediterranean Climate

    José M. Olano;Màrcia Eugenio;Ana I. García-Cervigón;Maika Folch

  • Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster.

    Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;J. Julio Camarero;Vicente Rozas;Mar Génova

  • The operation of the lutein epoxide cycle correlates with energy dissipation

    José I García-Plazaola;Antonio Hernández;José M Olano;José M Becerril

  • Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability

    Antonio Gazol;Jesús Julio Camarero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Seed bank spatial structure in semi-arid environments: beyond the patch-bare area dichotomy

    Idoia Caballero;José Miguel Olano;Adrián Escudero;Javier Loidi

  • Seed bank spatial pattern in a temperate secondary forest

    J.M. Olano;I. Caballero;N.A. Laskurain;J. Loidi

  • Native Plant Communities in an Abandoned Pb-Zn Mining Area of Northern Spain: Implications for Phytoremediation and Germplasm Preservation

    O Barrutia;U Artetxe;A Hernández;J M Olano

  • Seed bank structure along a semi-arid gypsum gradient in Central Spain

    I. Caballero;J.M. Olano;J. Loidi;A. Escudero

  • Responses of sapwood ray parenchyma and non‐structural carbohydrates of Pinus sylvestris to drought and long‐term irrigation

    Georg von Arx;Alberto Arzac;Alberto Arzac;Patrick Fonti;David Frank;David Frank

  • New star on the stage: amount of ray parenchyma in tree rings shows a link to climate.

    José Miguel Olano;Alberto Arzac;Ana I. García-Cervigón;Georg von Arx

  • Especies nativas de suelos contaminados por metales: aspectos ecofisiológicos y su uso en fitorremediación

    J.M. Becerril;O. Barrutia;J.I. García Plazaola;A. Hernández

  • Intraspecific competition replaces interspecific facilitation as abiotic stress decreases: The shifting nature of plant-plant interactions

    Ana I. García-Cervigón;Antonio Gazol;Virginia Sanz;J. Julio Camarero;J. Julio Camarero

  • Stand age and sampling year effect on the fungal fruit body community in Pinus pinaster forests in central Spain

    L. M. Fernandez-Toiran;T. Agreda;J. M. Olano

  • Carbohydrate storage in five resprouting Florida scrub plants across a fire chronosequence

    J. M. Olano;E. S. Menges;E. Martínez

  • A model for small-scale seed bank and standing vegetation connection along time

    Idoia Caballero;José M. Olano;Javier Loidi;Adrián Escudero

Frequent Co-Authors

Vicente Rozas
Vicente Rozas University of Valladolid
Adrián Escudero
Adrián Escudero King Juan Carlos University
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Juan Carlos Linares
Juan Carlos Linares Pablo de Olavide University
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero Pablo de Olavide University
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda University of Valladolid
Martin de Luis
Martin de Luis University of Zaragoza
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
José Ignacio García-Plazaola
José Ignacio García-Plazaola University of the Basque Country
Antonio Gazol
Antonio Gazol Spanish National Research Council

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