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Juli G. Pausas

Juli G. Pausas

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Ecology and Evolution
Spain
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
102
Citations
53417
World Ranking
247
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Juli G. Pausas is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily intersects with subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

Their work centers around several main topics, including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Pausas has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, such as William J. Bond, Luke T. Kelly, Jon E. Keeley, Josabel Belliure, and Xavier Santos. These partnerships have contributed to a body of work appearing predominantly in recognized venues.

Among the publication venues where Pausas has frequently contributed are:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • BioScience

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Pausas include:

  • Wildfires and global change, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Alternative Biome States in Terrestrial Ecosystems, 2020, Trends in Plant Science

Additional influential papers relevant to the broader research context include:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene, 2020, Science
  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

The scope of Pausas's research reflects a focus on how fire interacts with ecosystem processes and biodiversity, contributing to understanding the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems under changing environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    J. H. C. Cornelissen;S. Lavorel;E. Garnier;S. Diaz

  • New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A burning story: The role of fire in the history of life

    Juli G. Pausas;Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

    Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley;Juli G. Pausas;Philip W. Rundel;William J. Bond

  • CHANGES IN FIRE AND CLIMATE IN THE EASTERN IBERIAN PENINSULA (MEDITERRANEAN BASIN)

    Juli G. Pausas

  • Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin? – A review

    Juli G. Pausas;Joan Llovet;Anselm Rodrigo;Ramon Vallejo

  • Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

    Juli G. Pausas;Santiago Fernández-Muñoz

  • PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO FIRE IN CROWN-FIRE ECOSYSTEMS

    Juli G. Pausas;Ross A. Bradstock;David A. Keith;Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management

    Jon E. Keeley;William J. Bond;Ross A. Bradstock;Juli G. Pausas

  • Patterns of plant species richness in relation to different environments: An appraisal

    Juli G. Pausas;Mike P. Austin

  • Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

    Juli G. Pausas;Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Luke T. Kelly;Katherine M. Giljohann;Andrea Duane;Nuria Aquilue

  • Mediterranean cork oak savannas require human use to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services

    Miguel N. Bugalho;María C. Caldeira;João Santos Pereira;James Aronson

  • Plant functional types: are we getting any closer to the Holy Grail?

    Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Díaz;J. Hans C. Cornelissen;Eric Garnier

  • Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Byron B. Lamont;Juli G. Pausas

  • Wildfires and global change

    Juli G Pausas;Jon E Keeley;Jon E Keeley

  • Pines and oaks in the restoration of Mediterranean landscapes of Spain: New perspectives for an old practice — a review

    Juli G. Pausas;Alejandro Valdecantos;David Fuentes;A. Alloza

  • The role of fire in European Mediterranean ecosystems

    Juli G. Pausas;V. Ramón Vallejo

  • The global fire–productivity relationship

    Juli G. Pausas;Eloi Ribeiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Philip W. Rundel
Philip W. Rundel University of California, Los Angeles
Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong
Miguel Verdú
Miguel Verdú University of Valencia
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba

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