2026 Marlies Sazima: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	57	1483	1361	20	17	184	8829
Ecology and Evolution	57	2769	2655	43	43	183	8743

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Plant Science and Agronomy

1483

1361

184

8829

Ecology and Evolution

2769

2655

183

8743

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index

Citations

8829

World Ranking

1483

National Ranking

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index

Citations

8743

World Ranking

2769

National Ranking

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

348
Citations
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

257
Citations
Avoidance of achromatic colours by bees provides a private niche for hummingbirds.

Klaus Lunau;Sarah Papiorek;Thomas Eltz;Marlies Sazima

244
Citations
Bat-pollinated Flower Assemblages and Bat Visitors at Two Atlantic Forest Sites in Brazil

Marlies Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Ivan Sazima

233
Citations
An Assemblage of Hummingbird-pollinated Flowers in a Montane Forest in Southeastern Brazil

I. Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Marlies Sazima

226
Citations
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

197
Citations
Bat Pollination of the Passion Flower, Passiflora mucronata, in Southeastern Brazil

Marlies Sazima;Ivan Sazima

189
Citations
Pollination and Reproductive Biology of Twelve Species of Neotropical Malpighiaceae: Stigma Morphology and its Implications for the Breeding System

Maria Rosângela Sigrist;Marlies Sazima

160
Citations
Plant-Pollinator Networks in the Tropics: A Review

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

159
Citations
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

157
Citations
POLLINATION BIOLOGY IN A TROPICAL HIGH-ALTITUDE GRASSLAND IN BRAZIL: INTERACTIONS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL1, 2

Leandro Freitas;Marlies Sazima

156
Citations
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

140
Citations
The perfume flowers of Cyphomandra (Solanaceae): pollination by euglossine bees, bellows mechanism, osmophores, and volatiles.

Marlies Sazima;Stefan Vogel;Andrea Cocucci;Gerlinde Hausner

136
Citations
Bat pollination of Encholirium glaziovii , a terrestrial bromeliad

Ivan Sazima;Stefan Vogel;Marlies Sazima

132
Citations
The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks

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

131
Citations
The assemblage of flowers visited by hummingbirds in the "capões" of Southern Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Andréa Cardoso Araujo;Marlies Sazima

131
Citations
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

126
Citations
Pollination Biology of Piperaceae Species in Southeastern Brazil

Rodolfo AntÔnio de Figueiredo;Marlies Sazima

124
Citations
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

118
Citations
Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

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

116
Citations
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

115
Citations
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

108
Citations