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33
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7121
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7764
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153

Leandro da Silva Duarte 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 Leandro da Silva Duarte sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 119 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leandro da Silva Duarte 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 Leandro da Silva Duarte sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Leandro da Silva Duarte is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and paleontology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of ecological and biological themes, such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, evolution and paleontology studies, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal ecology and behavior studies, and bat biology and ecology studies.

They have published numerous papers, with notable recent works that include:

  • "Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers" (2023, npj Biodiversity)
  • "A multifaceted approach to analyzing taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic β diversity" (2020, Ecology)
  • "Experimental optimisation of the pitching structural parameters of a fully passive flapping foil turbine" (2021, Renewable Energy)
  • "Elevational shifts in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm trees across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest" (2020, Austral Ecology)
  • "Potential mammalian species for investigating the past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest" (2021, PLoS ONE)

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Leandro da Silva Duarte, including Gabriel Nakamura, Renan Maestri, Arielli Fabrício Machado, María João Ramos Pereira, and Arthur Vinícius Rodrigues.

Their scientific contributions have appeared repeatedly in various publication venues. Frequent venues include the Journal of Biogeography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, npj Biodiversity, and Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • 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 global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

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  • Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities

    Valério D. Pillar;Carolina C. Blanco;Sandra C. Müller;Enio E. Sosinski

  • A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure.

    Valério D. Pillar;Leandro d. S. Duarte

  • Discriminating trait‐convergence and trait‐divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

    Valério D. Pillar;Leandro da S. Duarte;Enio E. Sosinski;Fernando Joner

  • Role of nurse plants in Araucaria Forest expansion over grassland in south Brazil

    Leandro Da S. Duarte;Melina M. G. Dos‐Santos;Sandra M. Hartz;Valério Depatta Pillar

  • Clade-specific consequences of climate change to amphibians in Atlantic Forest protected areas

    Rafael D. Loyola;Priscila Lemes;Fernanda T. Brum;Diogo B. Provete

  • Phylogenetic habitat filtering influences forest nucleation in grasslands

    Leandro da Silva Duarte

  • Influences of sampling effort on detected patterns and structuring processes of a Neotropical plant–hummingbird network

    Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni;Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni;Pietro K. Maruyama;Vanderlei J. Debastiani;L. da S. Duarte

  • Bivalve distribution in hydrographic regions in South America: historical overview and conservation

    Daniel Pereira;Maria Cristina Dreher Mansur;Leandro D. S. Duarte;Arthur Schramm de Oliveira

  • Phylobetadiversity among Forest Types in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Complex

    Leandro Da Silva Duarte;Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin;Vinícius Marcilio-Silva;Guilherme Dubal Dos Santos Seger

  • Assessing spatial and environmental drivers of phylogenetic structure in Brazilian Araucaria forests

    Leandro D. S. Duarte;Pablo V. Prieto;Valério D. Pillar

  • Assessing the role of light availability in the regeneration of Araucaria angustifolia (Araucariaceae)

    L. S. Duarte;L. R. Dillenburg;L. M. G. Rosa

  • Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches

    Marcos B. Carlucci;Vanderlei J. Debastiani;Valério D. Pillar;Leandro D. S. Duarte

  • What saplings can tell us about forest expansion over natural grasslands

    Leandro da S. Duarte;Rafael E. Machado;Sandra M. Hartz;Valério D. Pillar

  • Nurse rocks influence forest expansion over native grassland in southern Brazil

    Marcos B. Carlucci;Leandro da S. Duarte;Valério D. Pillar

  • Ecophysiological responses of Araucaria angustifoliaseedlings to different irradiance levels.

    Leandro da S. Duarte;Lúcia R. Dillenburg

  • Dissecting phylogenetic fuzzy weighting: theory and application in metacommunity phylogenetics

    Leandro D. S. Duarte;Vanderlei J. Debastiani;André V. L. Freitas;Valério D. Pillar

  • Plant dispersal strategies and the colonization of Araucaria forest patches in a grassland-forest mosaic

    Leandro da S. Duarte;Marcos B. Carlucci;Sandra M. Hartz;Valério D. Pillar

  • Analyzing community-weighted trait means across environmental gradients: should phylogeny stay or should it go?

    Leandro D. S. Duarte;Vanderlei Julio Debastiani;Marcos Bergmann Carlucci;José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho

  • How urbanization affects multiple dimensions of biodiversity in tropical butterfly assemblages

    Cristiano Agra Iserhard;Leandro Duarte;Noemy Seraphim;Noemy Seraphim;André Victor Lucci Freitas

Frequent Co-Authors

Valério D. Pillar
Valério D. Pillar Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Grégoire T. Freschet
Grégoire T. Freschet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Bill Shipley
Bill Shipley Université de Sherbrooke
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nicolas Gross
Nicolas Gross University of Clermont Auvergne
Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand University of Guelph
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Norman W. H. Mason
Norman W. H. Mason Landcare Research

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