Alejandro Ordóñez

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Ordóñez is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Ordóñez has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Ecological Modeling and 22 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Ordóñez's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Alejandro Ordóñez is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Alejandro Ordóñez collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Netherlands. Alejandro Ordóñez's co-authors include Jens‐Christian Svenning, Han Olff, John W. Williams, Ian J. Wright, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Signe Normand, Brody Sandel, G. F. Veen, David A. Wardle and Grégoire T. Freschet and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Ordóñez

53 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Ordóñez Denmark	28	1.6k	895	845	738	628	55	2.6k
Marko J. Spasojevic United States	26	1.6k 1.0×	970 1.1×	599 0.7×	738 1.0×	614 1.0×	61	2.4k
Catherine M. Hulshof United States	16	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	650 0.8×	673 0.9×	744 1.2×	33	2.6k
Miles R. Silman United States	21	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	847 1.0×	724 1.0×	977 1.6×	33	3.0k
Miles R. Silman United States	20	1.7k 1.1×	912 1.0×	788 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	965 1.5×	24	3.2k
Ann Milbau Belgium	28	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	904 1.1×	976 1.3×	593 0.9×	58	2.9k
Ole R. Vetaas Norway	28	2.5k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	993 1.3×	756 1.2×	86	3.7k
Anke Stein Germany	11	1.2k 0.8×	699 0.8×	596 0.7×	778 1.1×	616 1.0×	14	2.1k
Susan K. Wiser New Zealand	34	1.8k 1.2×	955 1.1×	641 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	820 1.3×	95	3.2k
José Ramón Arévalo Spain	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	726 0.9×	1.3k 1.7×	816 1.3×	160	3.7k
Vincent Jung France	13	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	615 0.7×	685 0.9×	522 0.8×	24	2.4k

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Marjakangas, Emma‐Liina, Bo Dalsgaard, & Alejandro Ordóñez. (2025). Fundamental Interaction Niches: Towards a Functional Understanding of Ecological Networks' Resilience. Ecology Letters. 28(6). e70146–e70146. 2 indexed citations

Ordóñez, Alejandro, et al.. (2025). Widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(4). 589–598. 9 indexed citations

Normand, Signe, et al.. (2025). Rebuilding ecological networks: A multi-scale approach to global restoration. Biological Conservation. 312. 111477–111477.

Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Mélodie A. McGeoch, Signe Normand, Alejandro Ordóñez, & Felix Riede. (2024). Navigating ecological novelty towards planetary stewardship: challenges and opportunities in biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1902). 20230008–20230008. 10 indexed citations

Núñez, Martín A., Tom August, Sven Bacher, et al.. (2024). Including a diverse set of voices to address biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(5). 409–412. 3 indexed citations

Xie, Zhijing, et al.. (2024). Intraspecific trait variation of carrion beetle species and communities across elevations. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 17(6). 1113–1126.

Svenning, Jens‐Christian, et al.. (2024). Defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and action. One Earth. 7(10). 1678–1681. 7 indexed citations

Šímová, Irena, Alejandro Ordóñez, & David Štorch. (2023). The dynamics of the diversity–energy relationship during the last 21,000 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(5). 707–718. 3 indexed citations

Ordóñez, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). A biogeographic–macroecological perspective on the rising novelty of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Journal of Biogeography. 51(4). 575–587. 16 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro & Felix Riede. (2022). Changes in limiting factors for forager population dynamics in Europe across the last glacial-interglacial transition. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5140–5140. 20 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Hong Qian, et al.. (2021). Regional disparity in extinction risk: Comparison of disjunct plant genera between eastern Asia and eastern North America. Global Change Biology. 27(9). 1904–1914. 13 indexed citations

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Capitán, José A., et al.. (2021). A signal of competitive dominance in mid-latitude herbaceous plant communities. Royal Society Open Science. 8(9). 201361–201361. 5 indexed citations

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Williams, John W., Alejandro Ordóñez, & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2020). A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(1). 17–26. 91 indexed citations

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Feng, Gang, Brody Sandel, Lingfeng Mao, et al.. (2019). Species and phylogenetic endemism in angiosperm trees across the Northern Hemisphere are jointly shaped by modern climate and glacial–interglacial climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(10). 1393–1402. 39 indexed citations

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Feng, Gang, Blas M. Benito, Signe Normand, et al.. (2017). Phylogenetic age differences in tree assemblages across the Northern Hemisphere increase with long‐term climate stability in unstable regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(9). 1035–1042. 15 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2017). Consistent role of Quaternary climate change in shaping current plant functional diversity patterns across European plant orders. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42988–42988. 36 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2016). Functional diversity of North American broad‐leaved trees is codetermined by past and current environmental factors. Ecosphere. 7(2). 27 indexed citations

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Garzón‐López, Carol X., Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia, Alejandro Ordóñez, et al.. (2015). Indirect interactions among tropical tree species through shared rodent seed predators: a novel mechanism of tree species coexistence. Ecology Letters. 18(8). 752–760. 40 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Volker C. Radeloff, & John W. Williams. (2014). Combined speeds of climate and land-use change of the conterminous US until 2050. Nature Climate Change. 4(9). 811–816. 75 indexed citations

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Ordóñez, Alejandro, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of Efficiency of Schoenly Trap for Collecting Adult Sarcosaprophagous Dipterans. Journal of Medical Entomology. 45(3). 522–532. 22 indexed citations

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