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2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
8096
World Ranking
5503
National Ranking
2

Norma Salinas 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 Norma Salinas sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 91 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Norma Salinas 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 Norma Salinas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Peru Leader Award

Overview

Norma Salinas is affiliated with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Peru. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Recent publications by Norma Salinas include the following papers:

  • Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests (2023, Nature)

Norma Salinas has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, with the most common being Eric G. Cosio and Yadvinder Malhi, each with 20 joint works, followed by William Farfán-Ríos with 15, Alex Nina with 12, and Ben Hur Marimon with 11 co-publications.

The scientist has often published in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)

Norma Salinas has also contributed to book publications. One such book is Tropical Montane Forests in a Changing Environment, published by Frontiers Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

    Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

  • Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

    Yan Shih Lin;Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes.

    C. A. J. Girardin;Y. Malhi;L. E. O. C. Aragão;M. Mamani

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils

    L. E. O. C. Aragão;L. E. O. C. Aragão;Y. Malhi;D. B. Metcalfe;D. B. Metcalfe;J. E. Silva-Espejo

  • Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

    Yadvinder Malhi;Miles R Silman;N Salinas;M Bush

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Microbes Follow Humboldt: Temperature Drives Plant and Soil Microbial Diversity Patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

    Andrew T. Nottingham;Andrew T. Nottingham;Noah Fierer;Benjamin L. Turner;Jeanette Whitaker

  • The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large‐scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests

    N. Salinas;N. Salinas;Yadvinder Malhi;Patrick Meir;M. Silman

  • Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevation gradient

    Jeanette Whitaker;Nicholas J. Ostle;Andrew T. Nottingham;Adan Ccahuana

  • The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile A. J. Girardin;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Adaptation of soil microbial growth to temperature: Using a tropical elevation gradient to predict future changes.

    Andrew T. Nottingham;Andrew T. Nottingham;Erland Bååth;Stephanie Reischke;Norma Salinas

  • Spatial patterns of above-ground structure, biomass and composition in a network of six Andean elevation transects

    Cécile A.J. Girardin;William Farfan-Rios;Karina Garcia;Keneth J. Feeley

  • Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient

    Nikolaos M. Fyllas;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alexander Shenkin;Gregory P. Asner

  • Leaf‐level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high‐elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru

    Nur H. A. Bahar;F. Yoko Ishida;Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Rossella Guerrieri;Rossella Guerrieri

  • Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon.

    Sarah J. Feakins;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Norma Salinas;Alexander Shenkin

  • Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests.

    Caroline Signori-Müller;Caroline Signori-Müller;Rafael S Oliveira;Fernanda de Vasconcellos Barros;Fernanda de Vasconcellos Barros;Julia Valentim Tavares

  • The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru

    Yadvinder Malhi;Filio Farfán Amézquita;Christopher E. Doughty;Javier E. Silva-Espejo

  • Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes

    Andrew T. Nottingham;Jeanette Whitaker;Benjamin L. Turner;Norma Salinas

  • Carbon and nitrogen inputs differentially affect priming of soil organic matter in tropical lowland and montane soils

    Lettice C. Hicks;Patrick Meir;Patrick Meir;Andrew T. Nottingham;Dave S. Reay

  • Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect

    Sarah J. Feakins;Tom Peters;Mong Sin Wu;Alexander Shenkin

  • Soil microbial nutrient constraints along a tropical forest elevation gradient: a belowground test of a biogeochemical paradigm

    Andrew Nottingham;Benjamin L. Turner;Jeanette Whitaker;Nicholas John Ostle

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Miles R. Silman
Miles R. Silman Wake Forest University
Alexander Shenkin
Alexander Shenkin Northern Arizona University
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Roberta E. Martin
Roberta E. Martin Arizona State University
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley

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