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Ecology and Evolution
Chile
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
29654
World Ranking
1094
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Chile Leader Award
  • 2021 - R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, The Ecological Society of America
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Juan J. Armesto is affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Chile. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Insect Science.

Their work addresses multiple topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Juan J. Armesto has published in several frequent venues, with notable contributions to the Journal of Arid Environments, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Journal of Hydrology, Global Change Biology, and Science Advances.

Recent papers include:

  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Freezing and water availability structure the evolutionary diversity of trees across the Americas, 2020, Science Advances
  • Soil invertebrate diversity loss and functional changes in temperate forest soils replaced by exotic pine plantations, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Lack of adequate seed supply is a major bottleneck for effective ecosystem restoration in Chile: friendly amendment to Bannister et al. (2018), 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • Forest hydrology in Chile: Past, present, and future, 2022, Journal of Hydrology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Jorge F. Pérez-Quezada, Mauricio Galleguillos, Iván A. Díaz, Juan L. Celis-Diez, and Meredith Root-Bernstein.

Awards received include the R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2021 and Fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.

    O E Sala;F S Chapin;J J Armesto;E Berlow

  • Models, mechanisms and pathways of succession

    S. T.A. Pickett;S. L. Collins;Juan J. Armesto

  • Patterns of Nutrient Loss from Unpolluted, Old‐Growth Temperate Forests: Evaluation of Biogeochemical Theory

    Lars O. Hedin;Juan J. Armesto;Arthur H. Johnson

  • The ecological concept of disturbance and its expression at various hierarchical levels

    S. T.A. Pickett;J. Kolasa;J. J. Armesto;S. L. Collins

  • COMMUNITY STUDIES IN POLLINATION ECOLOGY IN THE HIGH TEMPERATE ANDES OF CENTRAL CHILE. I. POLLINATION MECHANISMS AND ALTITUDINAL VARIATION

    Mary T. Kalin Arroyo;Richard Primack;Juan Armesto

  • Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Davide Ascoli;Hugh Safford;Mark A Adams

  • Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests

    Juan J. Armesto;R. Rozzi;C. Smith-Ramírez;Mary T. K. Arroyo

  • A hierarchical consideration of causes and mechanisms of succession

    S. T. A. Pickett;S. L. Collins;J. J. Armesto

  • Community studies in pollination ecology in the high temperate Andes of Central Chile. II: Effect of temperature on visitation rates and pollination possibilities

    Mary T. Kalin Arroyo;Juan J. Armesto;Richard B. Primack

  • Experiments on Disturbance in Old‐Field Plant Communities: Impact on Species Richness and Abundance

    J. J. Armesto;S. T. A. Pickett

  • Effects of aridity on plant diversity in the northern Chilean Andes: results of a natural experiment

    M. T. Kalin Arroyo;F. A. Squeo;J. J. Armesto;C. Villagran

  • Plant phenological patterns in the high andean cordillera of central chile

    Mary T. Kalin Arroyo;Juan J. Armesto;Carolina Villagran

  • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: A historical framework for land cover change in southwestern South America in the past 15,000 years

    Juan J. Armesto;Daniela Manuschevich;Alejandra Mora;Cecilia Smith-Ramirez

  • Linking forest structure and composition: Avian diversity in successional forests of Chiloé Island, Chile

    Iván A. Díaz;Iván A. Díaz;Juan J. Armesto;Juan J. Armesto;Sharon Reid;Kathryn E. Sieving

  • Avian Communities of Fragmented South‐Temperate Rainforests in Chile

    Mary F. Willson;Toni L. De Santo;Carlos Sabag;Juan J. Armesto

  • Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas

    Ricardo Rozzi;Juan J. Armesto;Julio R. Gutiérrez;Francisca Massardo

  • Coarse woody debris biomass in successional and primary temperate forests in Chiloé Island, Chile

    Martı́n R Carmona;Juan J Armesto;Juan C Aravena;Cecilia A Pérez

  • Relations Between Vegetation Structure and Slope Aspect in the Mediterranean Region of Chile

    Juan J. Armesto;Jose A. Martinez

  • Genetic variation in Fitzroya cupressoides (alerce), a threatened South American conifer.

    T. R. Allnutt;A. C. Newton;A. Lara;A. Premoli

  • Vegetation in a high Andean transect between Turi and Cerro León in Northern Chile

    C. Villagrán;J. J. Armesto;M. T. Kalin Arroyo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Rozzi
Ricardo Rozzi University of North Texas
Mary T. K. Arroyo
Mary T. K. Arroyo University of Chile
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Julio R. Gutiérrez
Julio R. Gutiérrez University of La Serena
Adrian C. Newton
Adrian C. Newton James Hutton Institute
Guadalupe Williams-Linera
Guadalupe Williams-Linera Instituto de Ecología
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Fabian M. Jaksic
Fabian M. Jaksic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mary F. Willson
Mary F. Willson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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