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D-Index
67
Citations
20890
World Ranking
1570
National Ranking
19

Valério D. Pillar 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 Valério D. Pillar sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 218 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Valério D. Pillar 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 Valério D. Pillar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Valério D. Pillar is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively with 111 and 65 publications respectively in these areas.

Their subfields of study include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology. Within these areas, their work covers several main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Forest ecology and management.

Valério D. Pillar has contributed to multiple prominent publication venues. These include:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, with multiple joint publications involving:

  • Gerhard E. Overbeck
  • Milan Chytrý
  • Jens Kattge
  • Ülo Niinemets
  • Ênio Sosinski

Among Valério D. Pillar's recent papers are:

  • "Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Plant functional groups associate with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Global relationships in tree functional traits," 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Brazil's neglected biome: The South Brazilian Campos

    Gerhard E. Overbeck;Sandra C. Müller;Alessandra Fidelis;Jörg Pfadenhauer

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Plant traits and functional types in response to reduced disturbance in a semi‐natural grassland

    F. Louault;V.D. Pillar;J. Aufrère;E. Garnier

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Late Quaternary Araucaria forest, grassland (Campos), fire and climate dynamics, studied by high-resolution pollen, charcoal and multivariate analysis of the Cambará do Sul core in southern Brazil

    Hermann Behling;Valerio DePatta Pillar;László Orlóci;Soraia Girardi Bauermann

  • A critical analysis of the Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil (2012): updates and ongoing initiatives

    Pedro H.S. Brancalion;Letícia C. Garcia;Rafael Loyola;Ricardo R. Rodrigues

  • Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems

    Gerhard E. Overbeck;Eduardo Vélez‐Martin;Fabio R. Scarano;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • On randomization testing in vegetation science: multifactor comparisons of relevé groups

    Valério De Patta Pillar;László Orlóci

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

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  • Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities

    Valério D. Pillar;Carolina C. Blanco;Sandra C. Müller;Enio E. Sosinski

  • A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure.

    Valério D. Pillar;Leandro d. S. Duarte

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Late Quaternary vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on the southern Brazilian highland and their implication for conservation and management of modern Araucaria forest and grassland ecosystems

    Hermann Behling;Valério DePatta Pillar

  • Discriminating trait‐convergence and trait‐divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

    Valério D. Pillar;Leandro da S. Duarte;Enio E. Sosinski;Fernando Joner

  • SYNCSA—R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components

    Vanderlei J. Debastiani;Valério D. Pillar

  • Grassland degradation and restoration: a conceptual framework of stages and thresholds illustrated by southern Brazilian grasslands

    Bianca O. Andrade;Christiane Koch;Christiane Koch;Ilsi I. Boldrini;Eduardo Vélez-Martin

  • Late Quaternary grassland (Campos), gallery forest, fire and climate dynamics, studied by pollen, charcoal and multivariate analysis of the Sao Francisco de Assis core in western Rio Grande do Sul (southern Brazil)

    Hermann Behling;Valerio DePatta Pillar;Soraia Girardi Bauermann

  • Vegetation dynamics on mosaics of Camposand Araucaria forest between 1974 and 1999 in Southern Brazil

    J.M. Oliveira;V.D. Pillar

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard E. Overbeck
Gerhard E. Overbeck Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Leandro da Silva Duarte
Leandro da Silva Duarte Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand University of Guelph
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC

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