German Vargas G.

656 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 430 citations indexed

About

German Vargas G. is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, German Vargas G. has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 430 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in German Vargas G.'s work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). German Vargas G. is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). German Vargas G. collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Mexico. German Vargas G.'s co-authors include Jennifer S. Powers, David Medvigy, Leland K. Werden, Daniel Peréz‐Aviles, Justin M. Becknell, Naomi B. Schwartz, Roberto A. Cordero, Timothy J. Brodribb, Julio Calvo‐Alvarado and Xiangtao Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Gut and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

German Vargas G.

22 papers receiving 426 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.

Diverging responses of terrestrial ecosystems to water stress after disturbances

2025 15 citations Meng Liu, Josep Peñuelas et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
German Vargas G. United States	11	261	233	107	98	64	24	430
Fernando Elias Brazil	13	232 0.9×	223 1.0×	34 0.3×	25 0.3×	72 1.1×	33	388
Alicia Forner Spain	11	388 1.5×	190 0.8×	144 1.3×	198 2.0×	79 1.2×	14	501
Kate George United States	4	186 0.7×	80 0.3×	161 1.5×	50 0.5×	54 0.8×	6	326
Alejandro Velázquez‐Martínez Mexico	12	312 1.2×	365 1.6×	86 0.8×	173 1.8×	48 0.8×	74	542
Elisabeth Pötzelsberger Austria	14	350 1.3×	297 1.3×	111 1.0×	125 1.3×	99 1.5×	17	536
Antonín Kusbach Czechia	10	170 0.7×	226 1.0×	99 0.9×	95 1.0×	82 1.3×	28	385
Chris M. Smith‐Martin United States	10	278 1.1×	197 0.8×	108 1.0×	115 1.2×	51 0.8×	13	354
Carla Nogueira Portugal	10	228 0.9×	187 0.8×	119 1.1×	80 0.8×	142 2.2×	17	435
Alan Pantoja Braga Brazil	7	341 1.3×	236 1.0×	97 0.9×	101 1.0×	109 1.7×	7	484
Xavier Lecomte Portugal	10	215 0.8×	240 1.0×	97 0.9×	59 0.6×	146 2.3×	16	426

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anderegg, William R. L., Anna T. Trugman, German Vargas G., Chao Wu, & Linqing Yang. (2025). Current Forest Carbon Offset Buffer Pool Contributions Do Not Adequately Insure Against Disturbance‐Driven Carbon Losses. Global Change Biology. 31(6). e70251–e70251. 3 indexed citations

Bloem, Skip J. Van, et al.. (2025). Fast‐risky versus slow‐safe life histories mediate resprouting among Caribbean tropical dry forest trees. Functional Ecology. 39(6). 1579–1593.

Liu, Meng, Josep Peñuelas, Anna T. Trugman, et al.. (2025). Diverging responses of terrestrial ecosystems to water stress after disturbances. Nature Climate Change. 15(1). 73–79. 15 indexed citations breakdown →

G., German Vargas, Humfredo Marcano‐Vega, Tana E. Wood, et al.. (2024). Aridity and forest age mediate landscape scale patterns of tropical forest resistance to cyclonic storms. Journal of Ecology. 113(1). 53–67. 3 indexed citations

G., German Vargas, Daniel Peréz‐Aviles, David Medvigy, et al.. (2023). Throughfall exclusion and fertilization effects on tropical dry forest tree plantations, a large-scale experiment. Biogeosciences. 20(11). 2143–2160. 7 indexed citations

Smith‐Martin, Chris M., Robert Muscarella, William M. Hammond, et al.. (2023). Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability. Ecology Letters. 26(11). 1829–1839. 10 indexed citations

Beidler, Katilyn V., Jennifer S. Powers, Juan Manuel Dupuy, et al.. (2023). Seasonality regulates the structure and biogeochemical impact of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities across environmentally divergent neotropical dry forests. Journal of Ecology. 111(8). 1598–1613. 7 indexed citations

Toro, Laura, Daniel Peréz‐Aviles, German Vargas G., et al.. (2022). Phosphorus limitation of early growth differs between nitrogen‐fixing and nonfixing dry tropical forest tree species. New Phytologist. 237(3). 766–779. 23 indexed citations

Becknell, Justin M., et al.. (2022). Increasing Liana Abundance and Associated Reductions in Tree Growth in Secondary Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 7 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Naomi B., David Medvigy, Daniel Peréz‐Aviles, et al.. (2022). Intra-annual variation in microclimatic conditions in relation to vegetation type and structure in two tropical dry forests undergoing secondary succession. Forest Ecology and Management. 511. 120132–120132. 14 indexed citations

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Verbeeck, Hans, Jennifer S. Powers, German Vargas G., et al.. (2022). Two Co-occurring Liana Species Strongly Differ in Their Hydraulic Traits in a Water-Limited Neotropical Forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 2 indexed citations

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G., German Vargas, Timothy J. Brodribb, Juan Manuel Dupuy, et al.. (2021). Beyond leaf habit: generalities in plant function across 97 tropical dry forest tree species. New Phytologist. 232(1). 148–161. 41 indexed citations

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Powers, Jennifer S., Natalia Norden, Beatriz Salgado‐Negret, et al.. (2021). Discovering the forest in plain sight: a pop‐up Symposium focusing on seasonally dry tropical forests. New Phytologist. 233(1). 62–65. 1 indexed citations

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Waring, Bonnie G., Juan Manuel Dupuy, Jessica Gutknecht, et al.. (2021). Soil biogeochemistry across Central and South American tropical dry forests. Ecological Monographs. 91(3). 22 indexed citations

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Powers, Jennifer S., German Vargas G., Timothy J. Brodribb, et al.. (2020). A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species. Global Change Biology. 26(5). 3122–3133. 141 indexed citations

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Kandlikar, Gaurav S., Marcel C. Vaz, Ricardo Kriebel, et al.. (2018). Contrasting patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional variation along a Costa Rican altitudinal gradient in the plant family Melastomataceae. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 34(3). 204–208. 6 indexed citations

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G., German Vargas, Leland K. Werden, & Jennifer S. Powers. (2015). Explaining Legume Success in Tropical Dry Forests Based on Seed Germination Niches: A New Hypothesis. Biotropica. 47(3). 277–280. 33 indexed citations

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G., German Vargas, et al.. (2013). Sucesión de un bosque tropical seco en la Isla San Lucas, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 261–269. 1 indexed citations

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G., German Vargas & Roberto A. Cordero. (2013). Photosynthetic responses to temperature of two tropical rainforest tree species from Costa Rica. Trees. 27(5). 1261–1270. 23 indexed citations

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Gilman, Robert H., Alberto Ramírez‐Ramos, William M. Spira, et al.. (1992). Ecology of Helicobacter pylori in Peru: infection rates in coastal, high altitude, and jungle communities. The Gastrointestinal Physiology Working Group of the Cayetano Heredia and the Johns Hopkins University.. Gut. 33(5). 604–605. 24 indexed citations

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