Alejandro Lopera-Toro

419 total citations
16 papers, 316 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Lopera-Toro is a scholar working on Paleontology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Lopera-Toro has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 316 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Paleontology, 8 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Lopera-Toro's work include Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (11 papers), Plant and soil sciences (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Alejandro Lopera-Toro is often cited by papers focused on Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (11 papers), Plant and soil sciences (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Alejandro Lopera-Toro collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United States and Peru. Alejandro Lopera-Toro's co-authors include Trond H. Larsen, Adrián Forsyth, François Génier, Claudia A. Medina, Renato Portela Salomão, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Felipe Yon, Alexander Keller, Marcell K. Peters and Cláudia M. Vega and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Lopera-Toro

13 papers receiving 304 citations

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alejandro Lopera-Toro Colombia 5 205 134 122 120 65 16 316
Hans Huijbregts Netherlands 3 224 1.1× 115 0.9× 107 0.9× 109 0.9× 72 1.1× 4 324
Enio B. Cano Guatemala 10 168 0.8× 165 1.2× 127 1.0× 229 1.9× 58 0.9× 26 410
Ángel Solís Costa Rica 10 105 0.5× 142 1.1× 64 0.5× 180 1.5× 37 0.6× 32 294
Marco Dellacasa Italy 9 124 0.6× 163 1.2× 61 0.5× 161 1.3× 73 1.1× 46 320
J. du G. Harrison South Africa 12 59 0.3× 96 0.7× 83 0.7× 112 0.9× 52 0.8× 24 260
Jorge D. Mercado‐Gómez Colombia 9 76 0.4× 81 0.6× 73 0.6× 168 1.4× 24 0.4× 40 313
Fernando A. B. Silva Brazil 11 141 0.7× 266 2.0× 54 0.4× 179 1.5× 28 0.4× 45 366
Viviane Jerez Chile 13 96 0.5× 90 0.7× 117 1.0× 156 1.3× 56 0.9× 38 332
Othón Alcántara Ayala Mexico 8 99 0.5× 208 1.6× 49 0.4× 246 2.0× 9 0.1× 12 373
Enrique González‐Soriano Mexico 10 55 0.3× 60 0.4× 210 1.7× 205 1.7× 51 0.8× 33 331

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Lopera-Toro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Lopera-Toro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Lopera-Toro

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Yon, Felipe, Alejandro Lopera-Toro, Gunnar Brehm, et al.. (2025). Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Amazonian rainforests. Ecology. 106(3). e70059–e70059. 2 indexed citations
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Salomão, Renato Portela, et al.. (2023). Habitat type affects the diversity of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) assemblages in a neotropical mountainous region of Colombia. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. 43(3). 793–803. 4 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). High levels of mercury contamination in a necrophage dung beetle of the Amazon rainforest (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Biotropica. 55(6). 1081–1086. 1 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). On the Presence of Ataenius crenulatus Schmidt, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Colombia. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 77(2). 1 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). Detecting functional rarity in a hyperdiverse Amazonian dung beetle assemblage. Ecological Indicators. 154. 110917–110917. 1 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2022). Diversidad de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) en tres zonas urbanizadas del Caribe colombiano. Revista Peruana de Biología. 29(1). e20887–e20887. 1 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2021). A new species and distribution records of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Colombia. Zootaxa. 4942(2). zootaxa.4942.2.3–zootaxa.4942.2.3. 6 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2020). Review of Scatimus Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Colombia with the description of a new species. Zootaxa. 4890(4). zootaxa.4890.4.5–zootaxa.4890.4.5. 3 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2020). Ateuchus tona (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), a New Dung Beetle Species from the Colombian Andes and New Species Records for the Country. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 57(1-6). 59–59. 4 indexed citations
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Lopera-Toro, Alejandro, et al.. (2014). Escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) de los páramos del departamento de Nariño, Colombia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Larsen, Trond H., Alejandro Lopera-Toro, Adrián Forsyth, & François Génier. (2009). From coprophagy to predation: a dung beetle that kills millipedes. Biology Letters. 5(2). 152–155. 49 indexed citations
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Larsen, Trond H., Alejandro Lopera-Toro, & Adrián Forsyth. (2008). Understanding Trait‐Dependent Community Disassembly: Dung Beetles, Density Functions, and Forest Fragmentation. Conservation Biology. 22(5). 1288–1298. 117 indexed citations
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Larsen, Trond H., Alejandro Lopera-Toro, & Adrián Forsyth. (2006). Extreme Trophic and Habitat Specialization by Peruvian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin. 60(4). 315–324. 122 indexed citations

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