Bernardo M. Flores

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Bernardo M. Flores is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernardo M. Flores has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bernardo M. Flores's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (14 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers). Bernardo M. Flores is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (14 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers). Bernardo M. Flores collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Netherlands and United States. Bernardo M. Flores's co-authors include Arie Staal, Milena Holmgren, Bruce Nelson, Egbert H. van Nes, Marten Scheffer, Carolina Levis, Sebastian Bathiany, Babak M. S. Arani, Bregje van der Bolt and Catarina C. Jakovac and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Bernardo M. Flores

33 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

2018 192 citations Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores et al. profile →
Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

2024 38 citations Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernardo M. Flores Brazil	19	778	393	326	153	121	35	1.2k
Caroline Corrêa Nóbrega Brazil	11	602 0.8×	461 1.2×	405 1.2×	20 0.1×	208 1.7×	11	1.2k
Carolina Tovar United Kingdom	20	353 0.5×	378 1.0×	391 1.2×	10 0.1×	271 2.2×	36	1.2k
Colin Barr United Kingdom	17	478 0.6×	473 1.2×	528 1.6×	16 0.1×	175 1.4×	58	1.2k
Kátia Fernandes United States	20	1.1k 1.4×	180 0.5×	306 0.9×	12 0.1×	118 1.0×	29	1.4k
George Eiten Brazil	10	359 0.5×	538 1.4×	372 1.1×	58 0.4×	590 4.9×	13	1.5k
Cyril Kormos United States	13	751 1.0×	382 1.0×	471 1.4×	13 0.1×	125 1.0×	20	1.3k
Roxana Aragón Argentina	20	504 0.6×	665 1.7×	439 1.3×	12 0.1×	525 4.3×	43	1.5k
Álvaro Iribarrem Brazil	11	697 0.9×	489 1.2×	436 1.3×	11 0.1×	247 2.0×	19	1.5k
Alfred Ngomanda France	20	349 0.4×	455 1.2×	141 0.4×	18 0.1×	96 0.8×	43	1.0k
Noel Preece Australia	20	455 0.6×	422 1.1×	350 1.1×	10 0.1×	153 1.3×	49	967

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernardo M. Flores

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Sleen, Peter van der, Mathieu Decuyper, Bernardo M. Flores, John Ethan Householder, & Milena Holmgren. (2025). ENSO Wildfires Impact Amazonian Floodplains in Complex Ways. Ecosystems. 28(2). 1 indexed citations

Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga, et al.. (2025). Use of the Alternative Stable States Concept in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystem Research—A Systematic Literature Review. Biotropica. 57(2). 1 indexed citations

Trancoso, Ralph, Bernardo M. Flores, & Sarah Chapman. (2025). Deadlier natural disasters—a warning from Brazil’s 2024 floods. Environmental Research Letters. 20(4). 41001–41001. 1 indexed citations

Holmgren, Milena, et al.. (2025). Forest-savanna transitions self-reinforced by altered tree dispersal networks in burnt Amazonian floodplain forests. Environmental Research Letters. 20(3). 31004–31004.

Giles, André L., Mateus Silva, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, et al.. (2024). Fire triggers reestablishment of invasive grasses in a neotropical savanna under restoration. Restoration Ecology. 33(3).

Mazzochini, Guilherme G., Lucy Rowland, Fernanda Barros, et al.. (2024). Spectral asynchrony as a measure of ecosystem response diversity. Global Change Biology. 30(2). 2 indexed citations

Armenteras, Dolors, Alexander Charles Lees, Philip M. Fearnside, et al.. (2024). Drivers and ecological impacts of deforestation and forest degradation in the Amazon. Acta Amazonica. 54(spe1). 2 indexed citations

Mattos, Caio R. C., Marina Hirota, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2023). Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2301255120–e2301255120. 21 indexed citations

Flores, Bernardo M. & Arie Staal. (2022). Feedback in tropical forests of the Anthropocene. Global Change Biology. 28(17). 5041–5061. 25 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M. & Milena Holmgren. (2021). Why forest fails to recover after repeated wildfires in Amazonian floodplains? Experimental evidence on tree recruitment limitation. Journal of Ecology. 109(10). 3473–3486. 20 indexed citations

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Giles, André L., et al.. (2021). Thirty years of clear-cutting maintain diversity and functional composition of woody-encroached Neotropical savannas. Forest Ecology and Management. 494. 119356–119356. 8 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., Michele de Sá Dechoum, Isabel Belloni Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Tropical riparian forests in danger from large savanna wildfires. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 419–430. 33 indexed citations

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Staal, Arie, Bernardo M. Flores, Ana Paula Aguiar, et al.. (2020). Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 44024–44024. 138 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., et al.. (2019). Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0214128–e0214128. 30 indexed citations

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Nes, Egbert H. van, Arie Staal, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2018). Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191027–e0191027. 45 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., Milena Holmgren, Chi Xu, et al.. (2017). Floodplains as an Achilles’ heel of Amazonian forest resilience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(17). 4442–4446. 93 indexed citations

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Nes, Egbert H. van, Babak M. S. Arani, Arie Staal, et al.. (2016). What Do You Mean, ‘Tipping Point’?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31(12). 902–904. 173 indexed citations

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Staal, Arie & Bernardo M. Flores. (2015). Sharp ecotones spark sharp ideas: comment on "Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?" by Veenendaal et al. (2015). Biogeosciences. 12(18). 5563–5566. 31 indexed citations

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Resende, Angélica Faria de, Bruce Nelson, Bernardo M. Flores, & Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida. (2014). Fire Damage in Seasonally Flooded and Upland Forests of the Central Amazon. Biotropica. 46(6). 643–646. 30 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., C. L. Fennell, & Walter E. Stamm. (1989). Characterization of Campylobacter cinaedi and C. fennelliae Antigens and Analysis of the Human Immune Response. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 159(4). 635–640. 13 indexed citations

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