Filipe França

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Filipe França is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Filipe França has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Filipe França's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers) and Plant and animal studies (7 papers). Filipe França is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers) and Plant and animal studies (7 papers). Filipe França collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and United States. Filipe França's co-authors include Jos Barlow, Júlio Louzada, Érika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Alexander Charles Lees, Gareth D. Lennox, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Toby Gardner, Vanesca Korasaki and Paul J. Young and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Filipe França

37 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018 436 citations Jos Barlow, Filipe França et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Filipe França Brazil	18	665	593	548	267	175	38	1.3k
Brian M. Starzomski Canada	19	398 0.6×	519 0.9×	704 1.3×	311 1.2×	233 1.3×	62	1.3k
Robert Buitenwerf Denmark	18	693 1.0×	637 1.1×	682 1.2×	257 1.0×	267 1.5×	52	1.5k
Carlos Iván Espinosa Ecuador	19	555 0.8×	692 1.2×	369 0.7×	403 1.5×	233 1.3×	79	1.3k
Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago Brazil	20	685 1.0×	994 1.7×	430 0.8×	453 1.7×	225 1.3×	44	1.6k
Ian May United Kingdom	5	447 0.7×	485 0.8×	334 0.6×	300 1.1×	174 1.0×	7	1.1k
Claudia L. Gray United Kingdom	13	537 0.8×	500 0.8×	609 1.1×	253 0.9×	373 2.1×	17	1.3k
Mário Santos Portugal	19	310 0.5×	353 0.6×	416 0.8×	227 0.9×	218 1.2×	77	977
Fabiola López‐Barrera Mexico	23	544 0.8×	650 1.1×	400 0.7×	287 1.1×	178 1.0×	59	1.2k
Shane A. Blowes Germany	20	575 0.9×	730 1.2×	931 1.7×	363 1.4×	455 2.6×	38	1.7k
Patricio Pliscoff Chile	18	369 0.6×	354 0.6×	374 0.7×	310 1.2×	309 1.8×	58	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Filipe França

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Fields of papers citing papers by Filipe França

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Filipe França

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

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Brasil, Leandro Schlemmer, Divino Vicente Silvério, Walter Souza Santos, et al.. (2025). Potential geographic displacement of Chagas disease vectors under climate change. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 39(4). 709–717. 2 indexed citations

Bonebrake, Timothy C., Filipe França, R. L. Kitching, et al.. (2025). Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests. 1(5). 315–331. 3 indexed citations

França, Filipe, Wallace Beiroz, Christian Borges Andretti, et al.. (2024). Selective logging intensity and time since logging drive tropical bird and dung beetle diversity: a case study from Amazonia. Environmental Conservation. 51(2). 112–121. 4 indexed citations

Saranholi, Bruno H., Filipe França, Alfried P. Vogler, et al.. (2024). Testing and optimizing metabarcoding of iDNA from dung beetles to sample mammals in the hyperdiverse Neotropics. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(5). e13961–e13961. 2 indexed citations

Carmenta, Rachel, Jos Barlow, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, et al.. (2023). Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world. Biological Conservation. 282. 110047–110047. 25 indexed citations

Vaz‐de‐Mello, Fernando Zagury, et al.. (2023). Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon. ZooKeys. 11. e96101–e96101. 2 indexed citations

Metcalf, Oliver C., Jos Barlow, Yves Bas, et al.. (2022). Detecting and reducing heterogeneity of error in acoustic classification. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2559–2571. 5 indexed citations

França, Filipe, et al.. (2022). Edge effects from exotic tree plantations and environmental context drive dung beetle assemblages within Amazonian undisturbed forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 520. 120277–120277. 3 indexed citations

Berenguer, Érika, Gareth D. Lennox, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2021). Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 77 indexed citations

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Nunes, Cássio Alencar, Jos Barlow, Filipe França, et al.. (2021). Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance. Biotropica. 53(6). 1510–1521. 11 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, et al.. (2021). Reassessing the role of cattle and pasture in Brazil's deforestation: A response to “Fire, deforestation, and livestock: When the smoke clears”. Land Use Policy. 108. 105195–105195. 23 indexed citations

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Waller, Lauren P., Warwick J. Allen, B.I.P. Barratt, et al.. (2020). Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders. Science. 368(6494). 967–972. 67 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, Joice Ferreira, Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello, et al.. (2020). El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes. Biotropica. 52(2). 252–262. 26 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, et al.. (2019). Do community and food-web metrics temporally change in tropical systems? Responses from a four-trophic level food web. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 13(6). 895–903. 6 indexed citations

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Barlow, Jos, Filipe França, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2018). The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems. Nature. 559(7715). 517–526. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hethcoat, Matthew G., David P. Edwards, João M. B. Carreiras, et al.. (2018). A machine learning approach to map tropical selective logging. Remote Sensing of Environment. 221. 569–582. 56 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, Vanesca Korasaki, Júlio Louzada, & Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello. (2016). Primeiro registro de besouros rola-bosta em savanas intra-amazônicas de Roraima, Brasil. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 2 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, Vanesca Korasaki, Júlio Louzada, & Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello. (2016). First report on dung beetles in intra-Amazonian savannahs in Roraima, Brazil. Biota Neopropica. 16(1). 6 indexed citations

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França, Filipe, Júlio Louzada, Vanesca Korasaki, et al.. (2016). Do space‐for‐time assessments underestimate the impacts of logging on tropical biodiversity? An Amazonian case study using dung beetles. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53(4). 1098–1105. 100 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Hannah M., Júlio Louzada, Richard D. Bardgett, et al.. (2014). Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle‐mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment. Ecology. 96(6). 1607–1619. 67 indexed citations

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