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D-Index
37
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4809
World Ranking
6928
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240

Manuel J. Macía 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 Manuel J. Macía sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 113 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Manuel J. Macía 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 Manuel J. Macía sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Manuel J. Macía is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily centers on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in the study of nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and paleontology.

Their main research topics span a variety of interconnected areas including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, plant diversity and evolution, forest ecology and management, ethnobotanical and medicinal plants studies, as well as evolution and paleontology studies.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Macía has worked notably with Gabriel Arellano, J. Sebastián Tello, Luis Cayuela, Leslie Cayola, and Guillermo Bañares-de-Dios, indicating a well-established network in ecological and biological research communities.

Macía's publication record includes papers in different renowned scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Plants
  • Journal of Ecology

Some of their recent notable publications are:

  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Trade-Offs Among Aboveground, Belowground, and Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Along Altitudinal Gradients in Andean Tropical Montane Forests, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Climate reverses directionality in the richness-abundance relationship across the World's main forest biomes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • FunAndes - A functional trait database of Andean plants, 2022, Scientific Data

The scope of Macía's research depicts an extensive engagement with biodiversity, forest ecology, and environmental factors affecting plant communities, particularly in Andean and tropical forest ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants commercialized in the markets of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia.

    Manuel J. Macía;Emilia García;Prem Jai Vidaurre

  • Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society

    Victoria Reyes-García;Maximilien Guèze;Ana C. Luz;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez

  • Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area.

    Saara J. DeWalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Jérôme Chave;Frans Bongers

  • Palm Uses in Northwestern South America: A Quantitative Review

    Manuel J. Macía;Pedro J. Armesilla;Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;Narel Paniagua-Zambrana

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Spatial patterns of above-ground structure, biomass and composition in a network of six Andean elevation transects

    Cécile A.J. Girardin;William Farfan-Rios;Karina Garcia;Keneth J. Feeley

  • Are floristic and edaphic patterns in Amazonian rain forests congruent for trees, pteridophytes and Melastomataceae?

    Kalle Ruokolainen;Hanna Tuomisto;Manuel J. Macía;Mark A. Higgins

  • Enhanced land use/cover classification of heterogeneous tropical landscapes using support vector machines and textural homogeneity

    Jaime Paneque-Gálvez;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez;Jean-François Mas;Gerard Moré;Jordi Cristóbal

  • Indigenous land reconfiguration and fragmented institutions: A historical political ecology of Tsimane' lands (Bolivian Amazon)

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez;Patrick Bottazzi;Ana C. Luz

  • Multiplicity in palm uses by the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

    Manuel J. Macía

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge is vastly under-documented in northwestern South America.

    Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana;Henrik Balslev;Manuel J. Macía

  • Oligarchic dominance in western Amazonian plant communities

    Manuel J. Macía;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network.

    Agustina Malizia;Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Oriana Osinaga Acosta

  • Elevational Gradients in β-Diversity Reflect Variation in the Strength of Local Community Assembly Mechanisms across Spatial Scales

    J. Sebastián Tello;Jonathan A. Myers;Manuel J. Macía;Alfredo F. Fuentes

  • Does participatory mapping increase conflicts? A randomized evaluation in the Bolivian Amazon

    Victoria Reyes-García;Martí Orta-Martínez;Maximilien Gueze;Ana C. Luz

  • Harvesting of Geonoma macrostachys Mart. leaves for thatch: an exploration of sustainability

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Manuel J Macı́a

  • Biogeographical Patterns of Liana Abundance and Diversity

    Saara J. Dewalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Luciana F. Alves;Frans Bongers

  • Fundamental species traits explain provisioning services of tropical American palms

    R. Cámara-Leret;S. Faurby;M.J. Macía;H. Balslev

  • Biodiversity: The benefits of traditional knowledge

    Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana;Manuel J. Macía

  • Secular trends on traditional ecological knowledge: An analysis of changes in different domains of knowledge among Tsimane' men

    Victoria Reyes-García;Ana C. Luz;Maximilien Gueze;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez

  • Determinants of tree species turnover in a southern Amazonian rain forest

    Maximilien Guèze;Jaime Paneque-Gálvez;Ana C. Luz;Joan Pino

  • Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection of introduced plants in Ecuadorian traditional medicine.

    G. Hart;Orou G. Gaoue;Lucía de la Torre;Hugo Navarrete

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Henrik Balslev
Henrik Balslev Aarhus University
Joan Pino
Joan Pino Autonomous University of Barcelona
Rainer W. Bussmann
Rainer W. Bussmann Ilia State University
Peter M. Jørgensen
Peter M. Jørgensen Missouri Botanical Garden
Luis Cayuela
Luis Cayuela King Juan Carlos University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Kenneth R. Young
Kenneth R. Young The University of Texas at Austin
Alvaro Duque
Alvaro Duque National University of Colombia
Norma Salinas
Norma Salinas Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

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