Fábio Rúbio Scarano

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Fábio Rúbio Scarano is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Fábio Rúbio Scarano has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Fábio Rúbio Scarano's work include Plant and animal studies (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers) and Fern and Epiphyte Biology (33 papers). Fábio Rúbio Scarano is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers) and Fern and Epiphyte Biology (33 papers). Fábio Rúbio Scarano collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Germany and United States. Fábio Rúbio Scarano's co-authors include Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Camila Linhares De Rezende, Augusto C. Franco, Ulrich Lüttge, Kátia Torres Ribeiro, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Marcelo Tabarelli, Eduardo Delgado Assad, Rafael Loyola and Jean Paul Metzger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Fábio Rúbio Scarano

134 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 200 400 600
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.

  1. Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot
    2017 695 citations Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Fábio Rúbio Scarano et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  2. From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
    2018 533 citations Fábio Rúbio Scarano et al. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fábio Rúbio Scarano Brazil 36 2.2k 1.9k 1.6k 1.2k 1.2k 140 5.3k
Carlos Alfredo Joly Brazil 37 1.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 126 5.2k
José Sarukhán Mexico 36 1.5k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 2.2k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 72 5.4k
Karsten Wesche Germany 38 1.4k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 909 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 167 4.4k
Fernando Casanoves Costa Rica 28 1.3k 0.6× 2.4k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 117 4.6k
Grégory Mahy Belgium 35 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 858 0.5× 1.6k 1.4× 761 0.7× 190 4.1k
Exequiel Ezcurra Mexico 40 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.3× 2.3k 2.0× 169 5.6k
Dan F. B. Flynn United States 28 1.5k 0.7× 2.7k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.6× 58 5.2k
Ben A. Woodcock United Kingdom 41 3.7k 1.6× 2.7k 1.4× 1.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.5× 125 7.0k
Yann Hautier Netherlands 26 1.3k 0.6× 2.1k 1.1× 911 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 72 3.9k
N. D. Boatman United Kingdom 23 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 924 0.6× 1.6k 1.4× 1.4k 1.2× 136 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Fábio Rúbio Scarano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fábio Rúbio Scarano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fábio Rúbio Scarano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fábio Rúbio Scarano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fábio Rúbio Scarano 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 Fábio Rúbio Scarano. Fábio Rúbio Scarano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, et al.. (2025). Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 23(2). 70–76.
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, Ebba Brink, Agnieszka E. Latawiec, et al.. (2024). Sustainability dialogues in Brazil: implications for boundary-spanning science and education. Global Sustainability. 7. 1 indexed citations
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Callado, Cátia Henriques, et al.. (2024). Gelatinous fibretracheids as an escape mechanism for the physiological drought phenomenon. Rodriguésia. 75. 1 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, et al.. (2024). Plant-life vocabulary as metaphors for post-normal planetary challenges. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology. 36(3). 399–409.
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Silva, José Maria Cardoso da, et al.. (2022). Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 20(3). 216–222. 10 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, Aline F., Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Brian J. Reid, et al.. (2021). Systematic review of soil ecosystem services in tropical regions. Royal Society Open Science. 8(3). 201584–201584. 25 indexed citations
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Winther, Jan‐Gunnar, Minhan Dai, Alf Håkon Hoel, et al.. (2020). Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(11). 1451–1458. 126 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, et al.. (2016). CLIMATE CHANGE AND “CAMPOS DE ALTITUDE”: FORECASTS, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION GAPS IN BRAZIL. Oecologia Australis. 20(2). 139–144. 8 indexed citations
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Garbin, Mário Luís, Andrea Sánchez‐Tapia, Tatiana Tavares Carrijo, Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero, & Fábio Rúbio Scarano. (2013). Functional traits behind the association between climbers and subordinate woody species. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25(3). 715–723. 14 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio & Paulo Eugênio Oliveira. (2011). Sobre a importância da criação de mestrados profissionais na área de ecologia e meio ambiente. Americanae (AECID Library). 3 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio. (2011). A expansão e as perspectivas da pós-graduação em Ecologia no Brasil. Americanae (AECID Library). 2 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio & Augusto C. Franco. (2009). PREFACE: Oecologia Brasiliensis - Ecophysiological strategies of xerophytic and amphibious plants in the neotropics. Oecologia Australis. 4(1). 1 indexed citations
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Sampaio, Michelle Cristina, F. Xavier Picó, & Fábio Rúbio Scarano. (2005). Ramet demography of a nurse bromeliad in Brazilian restingas. American Journal of Botany. 92(4). 674–681. 41 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio. (2002). Structure, Function and Floristic Relationships of Plant Communities in Stressful Habitats Marginal to the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. Annals of Botany. 90(4). 517–524. 491 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio. (2001). Four sites with contrasting environmental stress in southeastern Brazil: relations of species, life form diversity, and geographic distribution to ecophysiological parameters. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 136(4). 345–364. 17 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, Heitor Monteiro Duarte, Kátia Torres Ribeiro, et al.. (2001). Four sites with contrasting environmental stress in southeastern Brazil: relations of species, life form diversity, and geographic distribution to ecophysiological parameters. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 136(4). 345–364. 96 indexed citations
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Scarano, Fábio Rúbio & Augusto C. Franco. (1998). Ecophysiological Strategies of Xerophytic and Amphibious Plants in the Neotropics. Oecologia Australis. 4(1). 52 indexed citations

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