Federico Escobar

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Federico Escobar is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Escobar has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 47 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Federico Escobar's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers), Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (29 papers) and Plant and animal studies (28 papers). Federico Escobar is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers), Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (29 papers) and Plant and animal studies (28 papers). Federico Escobar collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Colombia. Federico Escobar's co-authors include Gonzalo Halffter, Claudia E. Moreno, Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Eduardo Pineda, Adrian L. V. Davis, Elizabeth Nichols, Trond H. Larsen, Sacha Spector, Mario E. Favila and Kevina Vulinec and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Federico Escobar

111 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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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.

Global dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation: A quantitative literature review and meta-analysis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federico Escobar Mexico	32	2.2k	1.4k	1.2k	862	792	115	3.7k
Trond H. Larsen United States	19	1.9k 0.9×	979 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	790 0.9×	934 1.2×	30	3.2k
Mario E. Favila Mexico	23	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	456 0.6×	87	3.0k
Júlio Louzada Brazil	38	2.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	120	4.8k
Elizabeth Nichols United States	19	1.6k 0.7×	878 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	632 0.7×	724 0.9×	31	2.9k
Claudia E. Moreno Mexico	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	513 0.6×	566 0.7×	114	3.0k
Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello Brazil	31	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	910 0.7×	1.9k 2.2×	624 0.8×	251	3.7k
Malva Isabel Medina Hernández Brazil	29	1.4k 0.6×	763 0.6×	826 0.7×	655 0.8×	396 0.5×	84	2.3k
Eleanor M. Slade United Kingdom	34	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	292 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	94	4.0k
Guadalupe Williams‐Linera Mexico	33	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	841 0.7×	226 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	95	3.5k
Antonio Rolando Italy	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	282 0.3×	558 0.7×	148	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Escobar

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Ramírez, Alonso, Gabriela Vázquez, Vinicio J. Sosa, et al.. (2023). Stream food webs in tropical mountains rely on allochthonous carbon regardless of land use. PLoS ONE. 18(12). e0295738–e0295738. 2 indexed citations

Delabie, Jacques Hubert Charles, et al.. (2023). Biodiversity impacts of land use simplification: a case study of dung beetles in a landscape of the Brazilian Atlantic forest. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. 43(6). 2045–2056. 1 indexed citations

Córdoba‐Aguilar, Alex, et al.. (2022). Contamination effects on sexual selection in wild dung beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(7). 905–918. 4 indexed citations

González‐Tokman, Daniel, Rogério Rosa da Silva, Jorge Valenzuela, et al.. (2022). Forest cover modulates diversity and morphological traits of ants in highly fragmented tropical forest landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(8-9). 2097–2117. 4 indexed citations

Ibarra‐Juárez, Luis A., et al.. (2021). Growth temperature effect on mandibles’ ontogeny and sexual dimorphism in the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus affinis (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Arthropod Structure & Development. 61. 101029–101029. 4 indexed citations

Escobar, Federico, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal variation in Lepidochelys olivacea sea turtle nests and their influence on the abundance and reproductive phenology of the sapro-necrophagous beetle Omorgus suberosus. Die Naturwissenschaften. 107(6). 47–47. 2 indexed citations

Castelán, Francisco, et al.. (2020). Heat shock proteins and antioxidants as mechanisms of response to ivermectin in the dung beetle Euoniticellus intermedius. Chemosphere. 269. 128707–128707. 22 indexed citations

González‐Tokman, Daniel, Fernanda Baena‐Díaz, Federico Escobar, Erin K. Kuprewicz, & Carlos García‐Robledo. (2019). Energy storage, body size and immune response of herbivore beetles at two different elevations in Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical. 67(3). 608–620. 6 indexed citations

Valenzuela, Jorge, et al.. (2017). The surrounding landscape influences the diversity of leaf-litter ants in riparian cloud forest remnants. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172464–e0172464. 29 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico, et al.. (2017). Diversity and distribution of Phanaeini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Mexico. Zootaxa. 4358(2). 271–294. 10 indexed citations

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Carvajal‐Quintero, Juan D., et al.. (2015). Variation in freshwater fish assemblages along a regional elevation gradient in the northern Andes, Colombia. Ecology and Evolution. 5(13). 2608–2620. 92 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico & Patricia Chacón de Ulloa. (2015). Distribución espacial y temporal en un gradiente de sucesión de la fauna de coleópteros coprófagos (Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) en un bosque tropical montano, Nariño - Colombia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations

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Lobo, Jorge M., et al.. (2014). Completitud del inventario de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en la Ecorregión del Eje Cafetero, Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomología. 40(1). 111–119. 3 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico, et al.. (2014). Electribius relictus, a new extant species of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Veracruz, Mexico. Zootaxa. 3895(2). 292–6. 3 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico, et al.. (2011). The potential value of agroforestry to dung beetle diversity in the wet tropical forests of the Pacific lowlands of Colombia. Agroforestry Systems. 85(1). 121–131. 23 indexed citations

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Nges, Ivo Achu, Federico Escobar, Xinmei Fu, & Lovisa Björnsson. (2011). Benefits of supplementing an industrial waste anaerobic digester with energy crops for increased biogas production. Waste Management. 32(1). 53–59. 51 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Mauricio A., et al.. (2004). Manual de métodos para el desarrollo de inventarios de biodiversidad. SIE (Muisca Goddess of Water) (University of Cundinamarca). 70 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico & Patricia Chacón de Ulloa. (2000). [Space and time distribution along a succesional gradient of coprofagous coleopterans (Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) fauna in a tropical mountain forest, Nariño, Colombia].. PubMed. 48(4). 961–75. 37 indexed citations

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Castellanos, María Clara, et al.. (1999). Dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) attracted to woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha Humboldt) dung at Tinigua National Park, Colombia. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 53(2). 155–159. 10 indexed citations

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Escobar, Federico, et al.. (1999). Caracterización de la biodiversidad en áreas prioritarias de la vertiente oriental de la Cordillera Oriental. 2 indexed citations

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