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Maria Dornelas

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
12118
World Ranking
3974
National Ranking
440

Maria Dornelas publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria Dornelas 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 Maria Dornelas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria Dornelas is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with extensive work in ecology and related subfields.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Subfields of study associated with their work include:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The scientist's research topics cover a range of issues in biodiversity, marine ecosystems, and conservation:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Frequent publication venues include a mix of preprint platforms and prestigious journals:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes" (2020, People and Nature)
  • "Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines" (2020, Nature)
  • "Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change" (2020, Science)
  • "Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization" (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)

Collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with several researchers, notably:

  • Joshua S. Madin
  • Anne E. Magurran
  • Shane A. Blowes
  • Viviana Brambilla
  • Brian J. McGill

Best Publications

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

    Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Brian McGill;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu

  • Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

    Brian J. McGill;Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anne E. Magurran

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

    Maria Dornelas;Sean R. Connolly;Terrence P. Hughes

  • Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

    Maria Dornelas;Anne Magurran;Stephen Terrence Buckland;Anne Chao

  • Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems.

    Laura H Antão;Laura H Antão;Amanda E Bates;Shane A Blowes;Conor Waldock;Conor Waldock

  • Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

    Diana E. Bowler;Anne D. Bjorkman;Maria Dornelas;Isla H. Myers-Smith

  • A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene.

    Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Faye Moyes

  • Rapid biotic homogenization of marine fish assemblages

    Anne Magurran;Maria Dornelas;Faye Helen Moyes;Nicholas J Gotelli

  • Species richness change across spatial scales

    Jonathan M. Chase;Brian J. Mcgill;Patrick L. Thompson;Laura H. Antão

  • Disturbance and change in biodiversity

    Maria Dornelas

  • Mechanical vulnerability explains size‐dependent mortality of reef corals

    Joshua S. Madin;Andrew H. Baird;Maria Dornelas;Sean R. Connolly

  • More is less: net gain in species richness, but biotic homogenization over 140 years.

    Tora Finderup Nielsen;Kaj Sand‐Jensen;Maria Dornelas;Hans Henrik Bruun

  • Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change

    Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Mark J. Costello;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira

  • Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change

    Gergana Nikolaeva Daskalova;Isla Myers-Smith;Anne Bjorkman;Shane A. Blowes

  • Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines.

    Brian Leung;Anna L. Hargreaves;Dan A. Greenberg;Brian McGill

  • A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

    Unknown

  • Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization

    Anne Chao;Peter A. Henderson;Chun-Huo Chiu;Faye Moyes

  • Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny.

    Mark Vellend;Maria Dornelas;Lander Baeten;Robin Beauséjour

  • Biological diversity in a changing world

    Anne E. Magurran;Maria Dornelas;Maria Dornelas

  • Erratum: Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

    Maria Dornelas;Sean R. Connolly;Terence P. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
Joshua S. Madin
Joshua S. Madin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Sean R. Connolly
Sean R. Connolly James Cook University
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
Amanda E. Bates
Amanda E. Bates Memorial University of Newfoundland
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Mark Vellend
Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg

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