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D-Index
57
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13826
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2681
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40

Thiago F. Rangel 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 Thiago F. Rangel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 147 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thiago F. Rangel 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 Thiago F. Rangel sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thiago F. Rangel is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions to various subfields including Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Paleontology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scholarly work extensively covers several main topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, including related management studies.

Among their most recent publications are:

  • The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity (2023, Nature)
  • Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • gen3sis: A general engine for eco-evolutionary simulations of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity (2021, PLoS Biology)
  • Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change (2020, One Earth)
  • A Major Change in Rate of Climate Niche Envelope Evolution during Hominid History (2020, iScience)

Thiago F. Rangel frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, Hydrobiologia, and the Journal of Biogeography.

The scientist collaborates regularly with multiple researchers. Frequent co-authors include José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Catherine H. Graham, Elisa Barreto, and Fernanda A. S. Cassemiro.

Best Publications

  • SAM: a comprehensive application for Spatial Analysis in Macroecology

    Thiago F. Rangel;Jose Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini

  • Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche

    Robert K. Colwell;Thiago F. Rangel

  • Towards an integrated computational tool for spatial analysis in macroecology and biogeography

    Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel;José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini

  • Partitioning and mapping uncertainties in ensembles of forecasts of species turnover under climate change

    JoseAlexandre F. Diniz-Filho;J. A. F. Diniz-Filho;L. M. Bini;R. D. Loyola

  • Mantel test in population genetics

    Jose Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho;Thannya Nascimento Soares;Jacqueline S Lima;Ricardo Dobrovolski

  • Challenging Wallacean and Linnean shortfalls: knowledge gradients and conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot

    Luis Mauricio Bini;José Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho;Thiago F. L. V. B. Rangel;Rogério Pereira Bastos

  • Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with spatially explicit models

    Carsten Rahbek;Nicholas J Gotelli;Robert K Colwell;Gary L Entsminger

  • Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

    Thiago F. Rangel;Neil R. Edwards;Philip B. Holden;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho

  • Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

    Diogo S. M. Samia;Shinichi Nakagawa;Fausto Nomura;Thiago F. Rangel

  • Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology

    Nicholas J. Gotelli;Marti J. Anderson;Hector T. Arita;Anne Chao

  • Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • Environmental drivers of beta‐diversity patterns in New‐World birds and mammals

    Adriano S. Melo;Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho

  • Model selection and information theory in geographical ecology

    José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho;Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel;Luis Mauricio Bini

  • Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

    Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;Joaquin Hortal;F. Diniz-Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Thiago Fernando Rangel

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Testing the Water-Energy Theory on American Palms (Arecaceae) Using Geographically Weighted Regression

    Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Stine Bjorholm;Jens-Christian Svenning;Thiago F. Rangel

  • Species Richness and Evolutionary Niche Dynamics: A Spatial Pattern–Oriented Simulation Experiment

    Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel;José Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho;Robert K. Colwell

  • Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Marta Rueda;Thiago F. Rangel;Richard Field

  • Drawbacks to palaeodistribution modelling: the case of South American seasonally dry forests

    Rosane G. Collevatti;Levi Carina Terribile;Guilherme de Oliveira;Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro

  • On the selection of phylogenetic eigenvectors for ecological analyses

    Jose Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho;Luis Mauricio Bini;Thiago Fernando Rangel;Ignacio Morales‐Castilla

  • Mapping knowledge gaps in marine diversity reveals a latitudinal gradient of missing species richness.

    André Menegotto;Thiago F. Rangel

Frequent Co-Authors

José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho Universidade Federal de Goiás
Luis Mauricio Bini
Luis Mauricio Bini Universidade Federal de Goiás
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Rafael Loyola
Rafael Loyola Universidade Federal de Goiás
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Bradford A. Hawkins
Bradford A. Hawkins University of California, Irvine
Neil R. Edwards
Neil R. Edwards The Open University

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