Barnabas H. Daru

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Barnabas H. Daru is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Barnabas H. Daru has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Barnabas H. Daru's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). Barnabas H. Daru is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). Barnabas H. Daru collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Canada. Barnabas H. Daru's co-authors include T. Jonathan Davies, Michelle van der Bank, Kowiyou Yessoufou, Olivier Maurin, Emily K. Meineke, Charles C. Davis, Daniel Park, A. Muthama Muasya, J.S. Boatwright and Charles G. Willis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Barnabas H. Daru

56 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large‐scale digitization

2017 277 citations Barnabas H. Daru, Daniel Park et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barnabas H. Daru South Africa	26	1.0k	1.0k	762	586	522	57	2.3k
Jens Mutke Germany	18	1.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	924 1.2×	841 1.4×	601 1.2×	25	3.0k
Marc S.M. Sosef Belgium	17	863 0.8×	599 0.6×	680 0.9×	405 0.7×	391 0.7×	51	1.8k
Neil Brummitt United Kingdom	23	948 0.9×	979 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	763 1.3×	362 0.7×	45	2.3k
Jan J. Wieringa Netherlands	23	1.2k 1.2×	680 0.7×	743 1.0×	511 0.9×	513 1.0×	84	2.3k
Peter M. Jørgensen United States	24	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	855 1.1×	664 1.1×	517 1.0×	49	2.6k
Kyle G. Dexter United Kingdom	31	1.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.8×	542 0.7×	564 1.0×	553 1.1×	90	3.1k
Steven P. Bachman United Kingdom	22	2.0k 2.0×	886 0.9×	861 1.1×	478 0.8×	708 1.4×	37	3.0k
Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez Spain	17	634 0.6×	803 0.8×	707 0.9×	569 1.0×	507 1.0×	37	2.0k
Ferry Slik Brunei	25	760 0.7×	617 0.6×	292 0.4×	453 0.8×	356 0.7×	63	1.8k
Antonio González‐Rodríguez Mexico	27	906 0.9×	760 0.8×	308 0.4×	383 0.7×	858 1.6×	144	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Daru, Barnabas H.. (2025). Tracking hidden dimensions of plant biogeography from herbaria. New Phytologist. 246(1). 61–77. 4 indexed citations

Daru, Barnabas H., et al.. (2025). Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections. 1(10). 627–643.

Daru, Barnabas H., et al.. (2024). Climate change alters the future of natural floristic regions of deep evolutionary origins. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9474–9474. 4 indexed citations

Daru, Barnabas H.. (2024). Predicting undetected native vascular plant diversity at a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(34). e2319989121–e2319989121. 6 indexed citations

Gumbs, Rikki, Abhishek Chaudhary, Barnabas H. Daru, et al.. (2023). Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life. Conservation Biology. 37(6). e14138–e14138. 9 indexed citations

Daru, Barnabas H., et al.. (2023). Reorganization of seagrass communities in a changing climate. Nature Plants. 9(7). 1034–1043. 28 indexed citations

Daru, Barnabas H., et al.. (2023). Mass production of unvouchered records fails to represent global biodiversity patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(6). 816–831. 43 indexed citations

Daru, Barnabas H., T. Jonathan Davies, Charles G. Willis, et al.. (2021). Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6983–6983. 100 indexed citations

Meineke, Emily K. & Barnabas H. Daru. (2021). Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(12). 1071–1082. 45 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H., Piyal Karunarathne, & Klaus Schliep. (2020). phyloregion: R package for biogeographical regionalization and macroecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(11). 1483–1491. 91 indexed citations

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Roux, Peter C. le, et al.. (2019). Invasive species differ in key functional traits from native and non‐invasive alien plant species. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30(5). 994–1006. 93 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H., et al.. (2019). Spatial overlaps between the global protected areas network and terrestrial hotspots of evolutionary diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(6). 757–766. 56 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H., Daniel Park, Richard B. Primack, et al.. (2017). Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large‐scale digitization. New Phytologist. 217(2). 939–955. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yessoufou, Kowiyou, et al.. (2017). Integrating biogeography, threat and evolutionary data to explore extinction crisis in the taxonomic group of cycads. Ecology and Evolution. 7(8). 2735–2746. 32 indexed citations

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Bezeng, Bezeng S., Ignacio Morales‐Castilla, Michelle van der Bank, et al.. (2017). Climate change may reduce the spread of non‐native species. Ecosphere. 8(3). 61 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H., Ben G. Holt, J. LESSARD, Kowiyou Yessoufou, & T. Jonathan Davies. (2016). Phylogenetic regionalization of marine plants reveals close evolutionary affinities among disjunct temperate assemblages. Biological Conservation. 213. 351–356. 19 indexed citations

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Bank, Michelle van der, et al.. (2016). Ten years of plant DNA barcoding at the African Centre for DNABarcoding. South African Journal of Botany. 103. 304–304. 2 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H. & Peter C. le Roux. (2015). Marine protected areas are insufficient to conserve global marine plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(3). 324–334. 17 indexed citations

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Yessoufou, Kowiyou, et al.. (2013). Incorporating trnH-psbA to the core DNA barcodes improves significantly species discrimination within southern African Combretaceae. ZooKeys. 365(365). 129–147. 28 indexed citations

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Greenfield, Richard, et al.. (2012). DNA barcoding reveals micro-evolutionary changes and river system-level phylogeographic resolution of African silver catfish, Schilbe intermedius (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Schilbeidae) from seven populations across different African river systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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