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Paulo R. Guimarães

Paulo R. Guimarães

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Ecology and Evolution
Brazil
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
17215
World Ranking
1774
National Ranking
23

Paulo R. Guimarães 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 Paulo R. Guimarães sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 163 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paulo R. Guimarães 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 Paulo R. Guimarães sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Paulo R. Guimarães is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. The core of their research lies within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science fields, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. They explore multiple subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers various interconnected topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Their recent notable papers include:
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
The indirect paths to cascading effects of extinctions in mutualistic networks (2020) in Ecology
Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering can stabilize community assembly (2020) in Nature Communications
Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks (2021) in Journal of Applied Ecology
Macroevolutionary stability predicts interaction patterns of species in seed dispersal networks (2021) in Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paulo R. Guimarães include:

  • Mathias M. Pires
  • Ana Paula A. Assis
  • Fredric M. Windsor
  • Julia Tavella
  • Débora Cristina Rother

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oikos, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Applied Ecology, and Ecology Letters. Their publication record indicates a strong presence in pre-print repositories and peer-reviewed journals related to ecology and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement

    Mário Almeida-Neto;Paulo Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Rafael D. Loyola

  • Functional extinction of birds drives rapid evolutionary changes in seed size

    Mauro Galetti;Roger Guevara;Marina C. Côrtes;Rodrigo Fadini

  • Non-random coextinctions in phylogenetically structured mutualistic networks.

    Enrico L. Rezende;Jessica E. Lavabre;Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Pedro Jordano

  • Analysing ecological networks of species interactions.

    Eva Delmas;Eva Delmas;Mathilde Besson;Mathilde Besson;Marie Hélène Brice;Marie Hélène Brice;Laura A Burkle

  • Improving the analyses of nestedness for large sets of matrices

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo Guimarães

  • Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world

    Melanie Hagen;W. Daniel Kissling;Claus Rasmussen;Marcus A. M. De Aguiar

  • Seed dispersal anachronisms: rethinking the fruits extinct megafauna ate.

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Mauro Galetti;Pedro Jordano

  • The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks

    Colin Fontaine;Paulo R. Guimarães;Sonia Kéfi;Nicolas Loeuille;Nicolas Loeuille

  • The dimensionality of ecological networks

    Anna Eklöf;Ute Jacob;Jason Kopp;Jordi Bosch

  • Seed survival and dispersal of an endemic Atlantic forest palm: the combined effects of defaunation and forest fragmentation

    Mauro Galetti;Camila I. Donatti;Camila I. Donatti;Alexandra S. Pires;Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães

  • Network analysis reveals contrasting effects of intraspecific competition on individual vs. population diets.

    Márcio S. Araújo;Paulo R. Guimarães;Richard Svanbäck;Aluisio Pinheiro

  • Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Pedro Jordano;John N. Thompson

  • Analysis of a hyper-diverse seed dispersal network: modularity and underlying mechanisms

    Camila I. Donatti;Paulo R. Guimaraes;Mauro Galetti;Marco Aurellio Pizo

  • Ecological And Evolutionary Legacy Of Megafauna Extinctions

    Mauro Galetti;Mauro Galetti;Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;Pedro Jordano;Mathias M. Pires

  • Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Mathias M. Pires;Pedro Jordano;Jordi Bascompte

  • Interaction intimacy affects structure and coevolutionary dynamics in mutualistic networks.

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Victor Rico-Gray;Paulo S. Oliveira;Thiago J. Izzo

  • Asymmetries in specialization in ant-plant mutualistic networks

    Paulo R Guimarães;Victor Rico-Gray;Sérgio Furtado dos Reis;John N Thompson

  • A neutral-niche theory of nestedness in mutualistic networks

    Abhay Krishna;Paulo R. Guimarães;Pedro Jordano;Jordi Bascompte

  • The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization

    Paulo R. Guimarães

  • Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters

    M. Tim Tinker;Paulo R. Guimarães;Mark Novak;Mark Novak;Flavia Maria Darcie Marquitti

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
John N. Thompson
John N. Thompson University of California, Santa Cruz
Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
Victor Rico-Gray
Victor Rico-Gray Universidad Veracruzana
Laura A. Burkle
Laura A. Burkle Montana State University
Jens M. Olesen
Jens M. Olesen Aarhus University
Jordi Bascompte
Jordi Bascompte University of Zurich
Marco Aurélio Pizo
Marco Aurélio Pizo Sao Paulo State University
Glauco Machado
Glauco Machado Universidade de São Paulo

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