2026 Maria Dornelas: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	49	3978	3837	440	422	127	12118

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

1667
Citations
Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

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

1475
Citations
Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

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

784
Citations
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

615
Citations
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

482
Citations
Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

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

347
Citations
Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

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

290
Citations
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

283
Citations
Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

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

262
Citations
A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene.

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

258
Citations
Rapid biotic homogenization of marine fish assemblages

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

246
Citations
Species richness change across spatial scales

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

240
Citations
Disturbance and change in biodiversity

Maria Dornelas

211
Citations
Mechanical vulnerability explains size‐dependent mortality of reef corals

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

205
Citations
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

187
Citations
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

177
Citations
Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change

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

164
Citations
Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines.

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

154
Citations
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Unknown

151
Citations
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

151
Citations
Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny.

Mark Vellend;Maria Dornelas;Lander Baeten;Robin Beauséjour

142
Citations
Biological diversity in a changing world

Anne E. Magurran;Maria Dornelas;Maria Dornelas

124
Citations
Erratum: Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity

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

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews

Joshua S. Madin University of Hawaii at Manoa

Brian J. McGill University of Maine

Sean R. Connolly James Cook University

Andrew H. Baird James Cook University

Amanda E. Bates Memorial University of Newfoundland

Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh

Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke

Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont

Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg

External Links

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