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Miguel B. Araújo

Miguel B. Araújo

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Ecology and Evolution
Portugal
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
111
Citations
85242
World Ranking
156
National Ranking
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Miguel B. Araújo 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 Miguel B. Araújo sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 274 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Miguel B. Araújo 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 Miguel B. Araújo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Miguel B. Araújo is affiliated with the University of Évora in Portugal. Their research primarily addresses Environmental Science, with significant contributions in various subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Oceanography.

Their recent published papers cover a range of topics relevant to climate impacts on species and ecosystems. Noteworthy publications include:

  • "The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus likely constrained by climate" (2020, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Improvements in reports of species redistribution under climate change are required" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair" (2020, One Earth)

Miguel B. Araújo's research focuses heavily on major scientific topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Babak Naimi (17 joint publications)
  • Jorge Assis (11 joint publications)
  • Eliza Fragkopoulou (10 joint publications)
  • Ester Á. Serrão (10 joint publications)
  • Frederico Mestre (8 joint publications)

Several venues where Miguel B. Araújo regularly publishes include:

  • Ecography (6 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (5 publications)
  • Journal of Biogeography (4 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 publications)
  • Basic and Applied Ecology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Ensemble forecasting of species distributions

    Miguel B. Araújo;Mark New

  • Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data : a review

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jana M. McPherson;Miguel B. Araújo;Roger Bivand

  • Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

    Gretta T. Pecl;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia Blanchard

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe.

    W Thuiller;S Lavorel;M B Araujo;Martin Sykes

  • BIOMOD – a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

    Wilfried Thuiller;Bruno Lafourcade;Robin Engler;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling

    Miguel B. Araújo;Antoine Guisan

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

    Henrique M. Pereira;Paul W. Leadley;Vania Proenca;Rob Alkemade

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • Validation of species-climate impact models under climate change

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard G. Pearson;Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Markus Erhard

  • Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

    AT Peterson;J Soberon;RG Pearson;RP Anderson

  • Conservation biogeography: assessment and prospect

    Robert J. Whittaker;Miguel B. Araújo;Paul Jepson;Richard J. Ladle

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

    Ben G. Holt;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;Susanne A. Fritz

  • The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species distributions under climate change

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miska Luoto

  • Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe

    M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;W. Thuiller;W. Thuiller;R. G. Pearson;R. G. Pearson

  • Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;A. Townsend Peterson

  • Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change

    Risto K. Heikkinen;Miska Luoto;Miguel B. Araújo;Raimo Virkkala

  • Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction

    Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Enrique Martinez-Meyer

  • An evaluation of methods for modelling species distributions

    Pedro Segurado;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Presence-absence versus presence-only modelling methods for predicting bird habitat suitability

    Lluís Brotons;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Alexandre H. Hirzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Richard G. Pearson
Richard G. Pearson University College London
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
David Nogués-Bravo
David Nogués-Bravo University of Copenhagen
Mar Cabeza
Mar Cabeza University of Helsinki
Enrique Martínez-Meyer
Enrique Martínez-Meyer National Autonomous University of Mexico
Robert P. Anderson
Robert P. Anderson City College of New York
A. Townsend Peterson
A. Townsend Peterson University of Kansas
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Paul H. Williams
Paul H. Williams Natural History Museum

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