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Juan Francisco Ornelas

Juan Francisco Ornelas

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
4940
World Ranking
6698
National Ranking
27

Juan Francisco Ornelas publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juan Francisco Ornelas sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 150 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Juan Francisco Ornelas D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juan Francisco Ornelas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Juan Francisco Ornelas is affiliated with the Instituto de Ecología in Mexico and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

The main topics explored in their research encompass Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Plant Reproductive Biology.

Ornelas has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Antonio Acini Vásquez-Aguilar, Carlos Lara, Saddan Morales-Saldaña, Santiago Ramírez-Barahona, and Yuyini Licona-Vera.

Their research has been published predominantly in key venues, with multiple publications in Functional Ecology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Flora, The Auk, and Tropical Conservation Science.

Recent papers by Juan Francisco Ornelas include:

  • The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait-matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird-plant networks (2021, Functional Ecology)
  • Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future (2023, Ornithological applications)
  • Multinational evaluation of genetic diversity indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2024, Ecology Letters)
  • Macroevolution of the plant-hummingbird pollination system (2024, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Pollinator divergence and pollination isolation between hybrids with different floral color and morphology in two sympatric Penstemon species (2020, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Hummingbirds and Their Floral Resources in a Tropical Dry Forest in Mexico

    M. Del Coro Arizmendi;J. F. Ornelas

  • Comparative Phylogeographic Analyses Illustrate the Complex Evolutionary History of Threatened Cloud Forests of Northern Mesoamerica

    Juan Francisco Ornelas;Victoria Sosa;Douglas E. Soltis;Juan M. Daza

  • Forecasting cloud forest in eastern and southern Mexico: conservation insights under future climate change scenarios

    Octavio R. Rojas-Soto;Victoria Sosa;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Preferential nectar robbing of flowers with long corollas: experimental studies of two hummingbird species visiting three plant species.

    Carlos Lara;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks

    Ana M. Martín González;Bo Dalsgaard;David Nogués-Bravo;Catherine H. Graham

  • Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

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

  • Phylogenetic analysis of interspecific variation in nectar of hummingbird-visited plants.

    J. F. Ornelas;M. Ordano;A. J. De-Nova;M. E. Quintero

  • Selection and geographic isolation influence hummingbird speciation: genetic, acoustic and morphological divergence in the wedge-tailed sabrewing (Campylopterus curvipennis)

    Clementina González;Juan Francisco Ornelas;Carla Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

  • Phylogeography of Podocarpus matudae (Podocarpaceae): pre‐Quaternary relicts in northern Mesoamerican cloud forests

    Juan Francisco Ornelas;Eduardo Ruiz‐Sánchez;Victoria Sosa

  • Host compatibility of the cloud forest mistletoe Psittacanthus schiedeanus (Loranthaceae) in Central Veracruz, Mexico.

    Lorena López de Buen;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Mistletoe infection of trees located at fragmented forest edges in the cloud forests of Central Veracruz, Mexico

    Lorena López de Buen;Juan Francisco Ornelas;José Guadalupe Garcı́a-Franco

  • Frugivorous birds, host selection and the mistletoe Psittacanthus schiedeanus, in central Veracruz, Mexico

    Lorena López-de Buen;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Chloroplast DNA phylogeography of a distylous shrub (Palicourea padifolia, Rubiaceae) reveals past fragmentation and demographic expansion in Mexican cloud forests

    Carla Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;Juan Francisco Ornelas;Flor Rodríguez-Gómez

  • Development of microsatellite markers for the orange coral Astroides calycularis (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae). Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 August 2009–30 September 2009

    Doukari Abdoullaye;Iván Acevedo;P. Casado-Amezúa;Ricardo García Jiménez

  • Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

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  • Generous-like flowers: nectar production in two epiphytic bromeliads and a meta-analysis of removal effects

    Mariano Ordano;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Reproductive ecology of distylous Palicourea padifolia (Rubiaceae) in a tropical montane cloud forest. I. Hummingbirds' effectiveness as pollen vectors

    Juan Francisco Ornelas;Leonor Jiménez;Clementina González;Angélica Hernández

  • The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait‐matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird–plant networks

    Bo Dalsgaard;Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama;Jesper Sonne;Katrine Hansen

  • Uncorrelated evolution between vocal and plumage coloration traits in the trogons: a comparative study.

    J. F. Ornelas;C. González;A. Espinosa De Los Monteros

  • Seed Dispersal of the Mistletoe Psittacanthus schiedeanus by Birds in Central Veracruz, Mexico1

    Lorena López de Buen;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Phylogeography of Liquidambar styraciflua (Altingiaceae) in Mesoamerica: survivors of a Neogene widespread temperate forest (or cloud forest) in North America?

    Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Genetic, phenotypic and ecological divergence with gene flow at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: the case of the azure‐crowned hummingbird (Amazilia cyanocephala)

    Flor Rodríguez-Gómez;Carla Gutiérrez-Rodríguez;Juan Francisco Ornelas

  • Characterization of microsatellite loci for the Mediterranean red gorgonian, Paramuricea clavata

    K. Mokhtar-Jamai;L. Bottin;A. Chaix;D. Aurelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Stefan Abrahamczyk
Stefan Abrahamczyk University of Bonn
Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Matthias Schleuning
Matthias Schleuning Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira Federal University of Uberlândia
Peter A. Cotton
Peter A. Cotton Plymouth University
Marlies Sazima
Marlies Sazima State University of Campinas
Zhiheng Wang
Zhiheng Wang Peking University
Doyle McKey
Doyle McKey University of Montpellier
Allan Timmermann
Allan Timmermann University of California, San Diego

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