Álvaro Duque

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Álvaro Duque is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Álvaro Duque has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Álvaro Duque's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Álvaro Duque is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Álvaro Duque collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United States and Netherlands. Álvaro Duque's co-authors include Kenneth J. Feeley, Patricio von Hildebrand, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Jérôme Chave, Pablo R. Stevenson, Jaime Cavelier, Daniel Sabatier, Oliver L. Phillips, Nigel C. A. Pitman and Jean‐François Molino and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Álvaro Duque

60 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

2006 516 citations Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Álvaro Duque Colombia	21	1.3k	801	653	426	398	62	2.1k
Rolando Pérez United States	17	1.6k 1.2×	927 1.2×	534 0.8×	313 0.7×	442 1.1×	28	2.1k
Abel Monteagudo United Kingdom	17	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	457 0.7×	250 0.6×	432 1.1×	23	2.3k
Julio Calvo‐Alvarado Costa Rica	23	991 0.7×	965 1.2×	459 0.7×	313 0.7×	825 2.1×	47	2.2k
J. W. Ferry Slik Netherlands	28	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	823 1.3×	496 1.2×	650 1.6×	50	2.9k
Adeline Fayolle Belgium	28	1.6k 1.2×	1000 1.2×	608 0.9×	287 0.7×	520 1.3×	99	2.5k
Robert John India	14	1.2k 0.9×	549 0.7×	680 1.0×	414 1.0×	495 1.2×	33	1.8k
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento Brazil	25	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	916 1.4×	298 0.7×	676 1.7×	53	2.9k
Xiaojuan Liu China	24	1.4k 1.0×	777 1.0×	575 0.9×	281 0.7×	496 1.2×	68	2.1k
Alexandre A. Oliveira Brazil	22	1.4k 1.1×	882 1.1×	746 1.1×	251 0.6×	444 1.1×	50	2.2k
Zuoqiang Yuan China	26	1.3k 1.0×	776 1.0×	411 0.6×	217 0.5×	505 1.3×	86	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Álvaro Duque

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Álvaro Duque. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Álvaro Duque based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Álvaro Duque. Álvaro Duque is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Jaramillo, Patricia, Sabrina E. Russo, Álvaro Duque, Nicolás Castaño, & Daniel Zuleta. (2025). Marked tree demographic variation along subtle elevation differences partially explains species' habitat associations in an Amazonian forest. Journal of Ecology. 113(10). 2860–2874. 1 indexed citations

Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Jérôme Chave, Sebastian González‐Caro, et al.. (2025). Stem taper and volume across biogeographic regions of Colombia. Forest Ecology and Management. 595. 123046–123046.

Castaño, Nicolás, Sebastian González‐Caro, Ana M. Aldana, et al.. (2024). Contrasting drivers of aboveground woody biomass and aboveground woody productivity in lowland forests of Colombia. Ecography. 2024(4). 2 indexed citations

Duque, Álvaro, et al.. (2024). What makes each of us unique? The nine-banded armadillo as a model to study individuality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1 indexed citations

Durán, Sandra M., et al.. (2023). Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(1). 85–99. 6 indexed citations

Zuleta, Daniel, Gabriel Arellano, Sean M. McMahon, et al.. (2023). Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical forests. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3409–3420. 14 indexed citations

Idárraga, Álvaro, Sebastian González‐Caro, Álvaro Duque, et al.. (2022). Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia. Journal of Vegetation Science. 33(2). 4 indexed citations

González‐Caro, Sebastian, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Henrik Balslev, et al.. (2020). Scale‐dependent drivers of the phylogenetic structure and similarity of tree communities in northwestern Amazonia. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 888–899. 12 indexed citations

González‐Caro, Sebastian, et al.. (2020). The importance of grain and cut-off size in shaping tree beta diversity along an elevational gradient in the northwest of Colombia. Forest Ecosystems. 7(1). 6 indexed citations

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Wayson, Craig, et al.. (2019). Differences in carbon stocks along an elevational gradient in tropical mountain forests of Colombia. Biotropica. 51(4). 490–499. 27 indexed citations

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Meyer, Victoria, Sassan Saatchi, António Ferraz, et al.. (2019). Forest degradation and biomass loss along the Chocó region of Colombia. Carbon Balance and Management. 14(1). 2–2. 30 indexed citations

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Ellison, Aaron M., Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, et al.. (2019). Species Diversity Associated with Foundation Species in Temperate and Tropical Forests. Forests. 10(2). 128–128. 23 indexed citations

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Selemon, Lynn D. & Álvaro Duque. (2019). MacBrainResource: Virtual access to decades-old primate brains. 94–97. 1 indexed citations

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Feeley, Kenneth J., et al.. (2018). Effects of endogenous and exogenous processes on aboveground biomass stocks and dynamics in Andean forests. Plant Ecology. 219(12). 1481–1492. 21 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Dairón, Sebastian González‐Caro, Joost F. Duivenvoorden, Kenneth J. Feeley, & Álvaro Duque. (2017). Asymmetrical niche determinism across geological units shapes phylogenetic tree communities in the Colombian Amazonia. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 28. 1–9. 8 indexed citations

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Navarrete, Diego, Stephen Sitch, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Lucio Pedroni, & Álvaro Duque. (2016). Conversion from forests to pastures in the Colombian Amazon leads to differences in dead wood dynamics depending on land management practices. Journal of Environmental Management. 171. 42–51. 18 indexed citations

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Duque, Álvaro, et al.. (2013). Patterns of stocks of aboveground tree biomass, dynamics, and their determinants in secondary Andean forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 302. 54–61. 17 indexed citations

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Asner, Gregory P., J. K. Clark, Joseph Mascaro, et al.. (2012). High-resolution mapping of forest carbon stocks in the Colombian Amazon. Biogeosciences. 9(7). 2683–2696. 105 indexed citations

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Steege, Hans ter, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Oliver L. Phillips, et al.. (2006). Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia. Nature. 443(7110). 444–447. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Duque, Álvaro, Dairón Cárdenas, & Nelly Rodríguez. (2003). DOMINANCIA FLORÍSTICA Y VARIABILIDAD ESTRUCTURAL EN BOSQUES DE TIERRA FIRME EN EL NOROCCIDENTE DE LA AMAZONÍA COLOMBIANA. Caldasia. 25(1). 139–152. 7 indexed citations

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