2026 José Miguel Olano: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	40	3943	3689	179	176	120	5980
Ecology and Evolution	40	6140	5922	199	196	126	6035

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

501
Citations
Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

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

451
Citations
Sex-specific, age-dependent sensitivity of tree-ring growth to climate in the dioecious tree Juniperus thurifera

Vicente Rozas;Lucía DeSoto;José Miguel Olano

224
Citations
Regenerative role of seed banks following an intense soil disturbance

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

207
Citations
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

197
Citations
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

189
Citations
Factors controlling the establishment of Helianthemum squamatum, an endemic gypsophile of semi-arid Spain

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

183
Citations
Factors affecting establishment of a gypsophyte: the case of Lepidium subulatum (Brassicaceae).

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

143
Citations
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

123
Citations
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

121
Citations
The operation of the lutein epoxide cycle correlates with energy dissipation

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

117
Citations
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

114
Citations
Seed bank spatial structure in semi-arid environments: beyond the patch-bare area dichotomy

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

109
Citations
Seed bank spatial pattern in a temperate secondary forest

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

106
Citations
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

105
Citations
Seed bank structure along a semi-arid gypsum gradient in Central Spain

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

98
Citations
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

98
Citations
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

97
Citations
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

94
Citations
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

85
Citations
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

82
Citations
Carbohydrate storage in five resprouting Florida scrub plants across a fire chronosequence

J. M. Olano;E. S. Menges;E. Martínez

72
Citations
A model for small-scale seed bank and standing vegetation connection along time

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

71
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