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Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

University of Central Florida
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4932
World Ranking
7818
National Ranking
2614

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio 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 Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 123 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio 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 Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Eric S. Menges
  • Ian Biazzo
  • David G. Jenkins
  • Elizabeth H. Boughton
  • Diego Vélez-Mora

They have published multiple papers in notable venues, including Scientific Reports, Ecosphere, Conservation Science and Practice, BioScience, and the Forest Service Research Data Archive.

Recent publications by Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio include:

  • "A solution to minimum sample size for regressions," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Pasture management, grazing, and fire interact to determine wetland provisioning in a subtropical agroecosystem," 2020, Ecosphere
  • "Demographic effects of interacting species: exploring stable coexistence under increased climatic variability in a semiarid shrub community," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Incorporating distance metrics and temporal trends to refine mixed stock analysis," 2022, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

    Owen Jones;Alexander Scheuerlein;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Carlo Giovanni Camarda

  • How do plant ecologists use matrix population models

    Elizabeth E. Crone;Eric S. Menges;Martha M. Ellis;Timothy Bell

  • Secondary succession in disturbed Pinus-Quercus forests in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

    Mario González‐Espinosa;Pedro F. Quintana‐Ascencio;Neptalí Ramírez‐Marcial;Patricia Gaytán‐Guzmán

  • Soil seed banks and regeneration of tropical rain forest from milpa fields at the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico

    Pedro Francisco Quintana-Ascencio;Mario Gonzalez-Espinosa;Neptali Ramirez-Marcial;Gabriela Dominguez-Vazquez

  • Inferring Metapopulation Dynamics from Patch-Level Incidence of Florida Scrub Plants

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Eric S. Menges

  • Tree composition and structure in disturbed stands with varying dominance by Pinus spp. in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

    Luis Galindo-Jaimes;Mario González-Espinosa;Pedro Quintana-Ascencio;Luis García-Barrios

  • Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations.

    Elizabeth E. Crone;Martha M. Ellis;William F. Morris;Amanda Stanley

  • POPULATION VIABILITY WITH FIRE IN ERYNGIUM CUNEIFOLIUM: DECIPHERING A DECADE OF DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

    Eric S. Menges;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

  • A fire-explicit population viability analysis of Hypericum cumulicola in Florida rosemary scrub

    Pedro Francisco Quintana-Ascencio;Eric S. Menges;Carl W. Weekley

  • Using population viability analysis to predict the effects of climate change on the extinction risk of an endangered limestone endemic shrub, Arizona cliffrose.

    Joyce Maschinski;Joanne E. Baggs;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Eric S. Menges

  • Acorn Removal, Seedling Survivorship, and Seedlings Growth of Quercus crispipilis in Successional Forests of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Mario Gonzalez-Espinosa;Neptali Ramirez-Marcial

  • Fire-mediated effects of shrubs, lichens and herbs on the demography of Hypericum cumulicola in patchy Florida scrub.

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Marina Morales-Hernández

  • Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals

    Mario González-Espinosa;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

  • POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSES OF CHAMAECRISTA KEYENSIS: EFFECTS OF FIRE SEASON AND FREQUENCY

    Hong Liu;Eric S. Menges;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

  • Competitive abilities of three narrowly endemic plant species in experimental neighborhoods along a fire gradient.

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Eric S. Menges

  • Hypericum cumulicola demography in unoccupied and occupied Florida scrub patches with different time-since-fire

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Rebecca W. Dolan;Eric S. Menges

  • Land-use and isolation interact to affect wetland plant assemblages

    Elizabeth H. Boughton;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Patrick J. Bohlen;David G. Jenkins

  • Isolated Wetland Loss and Degradation Over Two Decades in an Increasingly Urbanized Landscape

    Lisa A. McCauley;Lisa A. McCauley;David G. Jenkins;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

  • Association of ecotones with relative elevation and fire in an upland Florida landscape

    E.A. Boughton;E.A. Boughton;P.F. Quintana-Ascencio;P.F. Quintana-Ascencio;E.S. Menges;R.K. Boughton

  • Comparative demography of a rare species in Florida scrub and road habitats

    Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio;Carl W. Weekley;Eric S. Menges

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric S. Menges
Eric S. Menges Archbold Biological Station
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
David G. Jenkins
David G. Jenkins University of Central Florida
Patrick J. Bohlen
Patrick J. Bohlen University of Central Florida
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University
Adrián Escudero
Adrián Escudero King Juan Carlos University
José Miguel Olano
José Miguel Olano University of Valladolid
Tamara Ticktin
Tamara Ticktin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Elizabeth E. Crone
Elizabeth E. Crone Tufts University
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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