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Marlies Sazima publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marlies Sazima sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 184 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Marlies Sazima D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marlies Sazima sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marlies Sazima is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Within these broad fields, their work spans various subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to plant and animal studies, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant diversity and evolution, wildlife ecology and conservation, insect and pesticide research, and plant and fungal species descriptions.

Frequently publishing in several scientific venues, their most common publication outlets include:

  • Flora
  • Food Webs
  • Oecologia
  • Functional Ecology
  • Die Naturwissenschaften

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marlies Sazima include:

  • "Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes" (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait-matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird-plant networks" (2021) published in Functional Ecology
  • "Pollinator-mediated facilitation is associated with floral abundance, trait similarity and enhanced community-level fitness" (2020) published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Effect of heterospecific pollen deposition on pollen tube growth depends on the phylogenetic relatedness between donor and recipient" (2020) published in AoB Plants
  • "Pollination generalization and reproductive assurance by selfing in a tropical montane ecosystem" (2021) published in Die Naturwissenschaften

Collaborations form a significant part of their scientific output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Iván Sazima
  • Pedro Joaquim Bergamo
  • Marina Wolowski
  • Pietro K. Maruyama
  • Andréa Cardoso Araujo

Best Publications

  • Hummingbird-Pollinated Floras at Three Atlantic Forest Sites1

    Silvana Buzato;Marlies Sazima;Ivan Sazima

  • Processes entangling interactions in communities: forbidden links are more important than abundance in a hummingbird-plant network.

    Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni;Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama;Marlies Sazima

  • Avoidance of achromatic colours by bees provides a private niche for hummingbirds.

    Klaus Lunau;Sarah Papiorek;Thomas Eltz;Marlies Sazima

  • Bat-pollinated Flower Assemblages and Bat Visitors at Two Atlantic Forest Sites in Brazil

    Marlies Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Ivan Sazima

  • An Assemblage of Hummingbird-pollinated Flowers in a Montane Forest in Southeastern Brazil

    I. Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Marlies Sazima

  • Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

    Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Else Magård;Jon Fjeldså;Ana M. Martín González

  • Bat Pollination of the Passion Flower, Passiflora mucronata, in Southeastern Brazil

    Marlies Sazima;Ivan Sazima

  • Pollination and Reproductive Biology of Twelve Species of Neotropical Malpighiaceae: Stigma Morphology and its Implications for the Breeding System

    Maria Rosângela Sigrist;Marlies Sazima

  • Plant-Pollinator Networks in the Tropics: A Review

    Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni;Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama;Camila Silveira de Souza;Jeff Ollerton

  • Bees, birds and yellow flowers: pollinator-dependent convergent evolution of UV patterns

    S. Papiorek;R. R. Junker;I. Alves-dos-Santos;G. A. R. Melo

  • POLLINATION BIOLOGY IN A TROPICAL HIGH-ALTITUDE GRASSLAND IN BRAZIL: INTERACTIONS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL1, 2

    Leandro Freitas;Marlies Sazima

  • The role of nectar production, flower pigments and odour in the pollination of four species of Passiflora (Passifloraceae) in south-eastern Brazil

    Isabela Galarda Varassin;José Roberto Trigo;Marlies Sazima

  • The perfume flowers of Cyphomandra (Solanaceae): pollination by euglossine bees, bellows mechanism, osmophores, and volatiles.

    Marlies Sazima;Stefan Vogel;Andrea Cocucci;Gerlinde Hausner

  • Bat pollination of Encholirium glaziovii , a terrestrial bromeliad

    Ivan Sazima;Stefan Vogel;Marlies Sazima

  • The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks

    Ana M. Martín González;Bo Dalsgaard;David Nogués-Bravo;Catherine H. Graham

  • The assemblage of flowers visited by hummingbirds in the "capões" of Southern Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Andréa Cardoso Araujo;Marlies Sazima

  • Beyond the pollination syndrome: nectar ecology and the role of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators in the reproductive success of Inga sessilis (Fabaceae).

    F. W. Amorim;Leonardo Galetto;M. Sazima

  • Pollination Biology of Piperaceae Species in Southeastern Brazil

    Rodolfo AntÔnio de Figueiredo;Marlies Sazima

  • Beyond neutral and forbidden links: morphological matches and the assembly of mutualistic hawkmoth-plant networks

    Federico D. Sazatornil;Marcela Moré;Santiago Benitez-Vieyra;Andrea A. Cocucci

  • Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

    Thais B. Zanata;Thais B. Zanata;Bo Dalsgaard;Fernando C. Passos;Peter A. Cotton

  • 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

  • Plant sexual systems and a review of the breeding system studies in the Caatinga, a Brazilian tropical dry forest.

    Isabel Cristina Machado;Ariadna Valentina Lopes;Marlies Sazima

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Sazima
Ivan Sazima State University of Campinas
Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira
Paulo Eugênio Oliveira Federal University of Uberlândia
Isabel Cristina Machado
Isabel Cristina Machado Federal University of Pernambuco
Jeff Ollerton
Jeff Ollerton University of Northampton
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Peter A. Cotton
Peter A. Cotton Plymouth University
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Andrea A. Cocucci
Andrea A. Cocucci National University of Córdoba
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato Sao Paulo State University

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