Francisca C. Aguiar

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Francisca C. Aguiar is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Francisca C. Aguiar has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Francisca C. Aguiar's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (26 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers). Francisca C. Aguiar is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (26 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers). Francisca C. Aguiar collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom. Francisca C. Aguiar's co-authors include María Teresa Ferreira, María Rosário Fernandes, Maria João Martins, Teresa Albuquerque, María Dolores Bejarano, João M. N. Silva, Patricia María Rodríguez‐González, Maria João Feio, Christer Nilsson and Filipe Duarte Santos and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

Francisca C. Aguiar

58 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Global Overview of Ecosystem Services Provided by Riparian Vegetation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francisca C. Aguiar Portugal	28	1.3k	698	606	533	383	60	2.2k
M. Siobhan Fennessy United States	27	1.8k 1.4×	659 0.9×	962 1.6×	406 0.8×	405 1.1×	68	3.1k
Neil E. Pettit Australia	30	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 2.0×	779 1.3×	516 1.0×	583 1.5×	67	2.7k
Jiangling Zhu China	26	610 0.5×	593 0.8×	799 1.3×	644 1.2×	185 0.5×	66	2.2k
Gerald Jurasinski Germany	25	1.4k 1.1×	499 0.7×	677 1.1×	315 0.6×	109 0.3×	85	2.4k
Brij Gopal India	26	1.6k 1.2×	591 0.8×	810 1.3×	194 0.4×	369 1.0×	79	3.0k
Samantha J. Capon Australia	27	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	903 1.5×	452 0.8×	761 2.0×	73	2.8k
Douglas Schaefer China	29	742 0.6×	494 0.7×	723 1.2×	819 1.5×	188 0.5×	75	2.5k
José Manuel Nicolau Ibarra Spain	21	733 0.6×	475 0.7×	877 1.4×	863 1.6×	255 0.7×	56	2.1k
Karin Hansen Denmark	21	589 0.5×	529 0.8×	637 1.1×	720 1.4×	145 0.4×	51	1.8k
Keming Ma China	22	639 0.5×	465 0.7×	584 1.0×	520 1.0×	199 0.5×	131	2.3k

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Jiang, Xiaoming, Jorge García‐Girón, Francisca C. Aguiar, et al.. (2025). Environmental heterogeneity governing river macrophyte beta diversity in Europe is scale- and context-dependent. Landscape Ecology. 40(10).

Gebler, Daniel, Pedro Segurado, María Teresa Ferreira, & Francisca C. Aguiar. (2024). Predicting freshwater biological quality using macrophytes: A comparison of empirical modelling approaches. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(56). 65092–65108.

Wood, Kevin A., Francisca C. Aguiar, Alexandra Collins, et al.. (2024). A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands. Ecosystem Services. 70. 101673–101673. 15 indexed citations

Costa, J.M., et al.. (2023). The role of soil temperature in mediterranean vineyards in a climate change context. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1145137–1145137. 23 indexed citations

Aguiar, Francisca C., et al.. (2021). Riparian Ecological Infrastructures: Potential for Biodiversity-Related Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean Human-Dominated Landscapes. Sustainability. 13(19). 10508–10508. 13 indexed citations

Rivaes, Rui, Maria João Feio, Salomé F.P. Almeida, et al.. (2021). River ecosystem endangerment from climate change-driven regulated flow regimes. The Science of The Total Environment. 818. 151857–151857. 22 indexed citations

Rivaes, Rui, et al.. (2020). Streamflow regulation effects in the Mediterranean rivers: How far and to what extent are aquatic and riparian communities affected?. The Science of The Total Environment. 749. 141616–141616. 17 indexed citations

Bejarano, María Dolores, et al.. (2020). Functional Diversity of Riparian Woody Vegetation Is Less Affected by River Regulation in the Mediterranean Than Boreal Region. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 857–857. 14 indexed citations

Aguiar, Francisca C., María Rosário Fernandes, Maria João Martins, & María Teresa Ferreira. (2019). Effects of a Large Irrigation Reservoir on Aquatic and Riparian Plants: A History of Survival and Loss. Water. 11(11). 2379–2379. 13 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., et al.. (2018). Addressing bioassessment of tropical rivers using macrophytes: The case of Itanhaém Basin, São Paulo, Brazil. Aquatic Botany. 150. 53–63. 10 indexed citations

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Ferreira, María Teresa, et al.. (2018). Limited resilience in hotspots of functional richness: the Mediterranean riparian shrublands. Aquatic Sciences. 80(3). 7 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C. & María Teresa Ferreira. (2013). Plant invasions in the rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, south-western Europe: A review. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 147(4). 1107–1119. 58 indexed citations

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Vieira, Cristiana, Francisca C. Aguiar, & María Teresa Ferreira. (2013). The relevance of bryophytes in the macrophyte-based reference conditions in Portuguese rivers. Hydrobiologia. 737(1). 245–264. 12 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., Pedro Segurado, Gorazd Urbanič, et al.. (2013). Comparability of river quality assessment using macrophytes: A multi-step procedure to overcome biogeographical differences. The Science of The Total Environment. 476-477. 757–767. 48 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., Jorge Orestes Cerdeira, Maria João Martins, & María Teresa Ferreira. (2012). Riparian forests of Southwest Europe: are functional trait and species composition assemblages constrained by environment?. Journal of Vegetation Science. 24(4). 628–638. 28 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., et al.. (2011). Measuring ecological change of aquatic macrophytes in Mediterranean rivers. Limnologica. 42(2). 95–107. 26 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., María Teresa Ferreira, & Pedro Segurado. (2009). Structural and functional responses of riparian vegetation to human disturbance: performance and spatial scale-dependence. Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie. 175(3). 249–267. 38 indexed citations

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Duarte, María Cristina, Francisca C. Aguiar, María Teresa Ferreira, & Teresa Albuquerque. (2007). Pode a Vegetação das Galerias Ribeirinhas Reflectir as Perturbações Resultantes da Actividade Humana. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 15(2). 257–276. 3 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C. & María Teresa Ferreira. (2005). Human-disturbed landscapes: effects on composition and integrity of riparian woody vegetation in the Tagus River basin, Portugal. Environmental Conservation. 32(1). 30–41. 85 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Francisca C., María Teresa Ferreira, Teresa Albuquerque, et al.. (2000). Riparian types on a Mediterranean basin.. Aspects of applied biology. 221–232. 10 indexed citations

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