Giselda Durigan

12.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
152 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Giselda Durigan is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giselda Durigan has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Giselda Durigan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (84 papers), Forest ecology and management (43 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Giselda Durigan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (84 papers), Forest ecology and management (43 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Giselda Durigan collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and France. Giselda Durigan's co-authors include Natashi A. L. Pilon, Rodolfo Cesar Real de Abreu, J. A. Ratter, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Élise Buisson, Nicola Stevens, Brett P. Murphy, Márcio Seiji Suganuma and Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giselda Durigan

144 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

2016 486 citations Giselda Durigan et al. profile →
Toward an old‐growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

2015 373 citations Joseph W. Veldman, Élise Buisson et al. profile →
Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

2015 334 citations Joseph W. Veldman, Gerhard E. Overbeck et al. profile →
The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

2017 293 citations Rodolfo Cesar Real de Abreu, William A. Hoffmann et al. Science Advances profile →
Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

2018 234 citations Élise Buisson, Giselda Durigan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giselda Durigan Brazil	41	3.6k	2.9k	1.7k	1.5k	969	152	6.0k
Gerhard E. Overbeck Brazil	34	2.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	144	4.8k
Santiago Soliveres Spain	39	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	73	6.1k
Brian J. Wilsey United States	40	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.8k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	107	6.9k
Élise Buisson France	35	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	128	4.1k
Suzanne M. Prober Australia	38	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	939 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	162	5.7k
Marcelo Sternberg Israel	32	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	94	4.4k
William A. Hoffmann United States	48	5.3k 1.5×	5.4k 1.9×	2.4k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	2.1k 2.1×	97	8.9k
Martı́n R. Aguiar Argentina	35	2.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	933 1.0×	91	4.2k
Jennifer S. Powers United States	45	3.4k 0.9×	3.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	136	7.2k
Nicolas Gross France	33	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	60	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giselda Durigan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Durigan, Giselda, et al.. (2025). Doubled density and increased resilience: Consequences of seven consecutive annual dry‐season fires to the unburned Cerrado grass layer. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(12). 3436–3455. 1 indexed citations

Hoffmann, William A., et al.. (2025). All or nothing? The importance of considering partial dieback for tree responses to fire. Trees. 39(5).

Durigan, Giselda, et al.. (2025). Bringing Fire Back: How Prescribed Fires Shape Ant Communities in a Fire-Suppressed Neotropical Savanna. Diversity. 17(4). 276–276.

Durigan, Giselda, et al.. (2024). Ecological restoration and water‐related ecosystem services, one step ahead: a reply to Dib et al. (2023). Restoration Ecology. 32(4).

Hoffmann, William A., et al.. (2024). Stem wound healing is dependent upon bark and trunk growth rates in Brazilian savanna. Trees. 38(1). 197–204. 1 indexed citations

Maracahipes‐Santos, Leonardo, Divino Vicente Silvério, Leandro Maracahipes, et al.. (2023). Intraspecific trait variability facilitates tree species persistence along riparian forest edges in Southern Amazonia. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12454–12454. 3 indexed citations

Melo, Antônio Carlos Galvão de, et al.. (2023). Thinning enhances success of enrichment planting with selected tree species under a pure stand of Leucaena leucocephala. Restoration Ecology. 32(1). 4 indexed citations

Pilon, Natashi A. L., Giselda Durigan, Mário G. B. Cava, et al.. (2023). Challenges and directions for open ecosystems biodiversity restoration: An overview of the techniques applied for Cerrado. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(5). 849–858. 16 indexed citations

Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., et al.. (2022). The Ground-Dwelling Ant Fauna from a Cerrado Reserve in Southeastern Brazil: Vegetation Heterogeneity as a Promoter of Ant Diversity. Neotropical Entomology. 52(1). 36–45. 4 indexed citations

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Abreu, Rodolfo Cesar Real de, et al.. (2020). Flammability thresholds or flammability gradients? Determinants of fire across savanna–forest transitions. New Phytologist. 228(3). 910–921. 42 indexed citations

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Romanelli, João Paulo, et al.. (2020). Root parasitism by Scybalium fungiforme Schott & Endl. is not random among host species in seasonal tropical forest. Acta Botanica Brasilica. 34(1). 149–154. 2 indexed citations

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Temperton, Vicky M., Nina Buchmann, Élise Buisson, et al.. (2019). Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: how a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration. Restoration Ecology. 27(4). 705–719. 118 indexed citations

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Cava, Mário G. B., et al.. (2019). The recovery rates of secondary savannas in abandoned pastures are poorly explained by environmental and landscape factors. Applied Vegetation Science. 23(1). 14–25. 5 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. Stephen, Flaviana Maluf Souza, Ragan M. Callaway, & Giselda Durigan. (2018). Impact of invasive slash pine (Pinus elliottii) on groundcover vegetation at home and abroad. Biological Invasions. 20(10). 2807–2820. 23 indexed citations

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Abreu, Rodolfo Cesar Real de, William A. Hoffmann, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, et al.. (2017). The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna. Science Advances. 3(8). e1701284–e1701284. 293 indexed citations breakdown →

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Durigan, Giselda, et al.. (2014). Germinação de 15 espécies vegetais do cerrado sob diferentes condições de luz. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7 indexed citations

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Dias, Luiz Eduardo, et al.. (2013). Chemical and microbiological properties of an eutrophic Oxisol under riparian forest buffer reforestation and pasture. Propriedades químicas e microbiológicas de um Latossolo Vermelho eutrófico sob reflorestamento de mata ciliar e pastagem.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Pilon, Natashi A. L. & Giselda Durigan. (2013). Criteria to indicate priority species for the restoration of cerrado vegetation. Scientia Forestalis. 41(99). 389–399. 20 indexed citations

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Poggiani, Fábio, et al.. (2010). The effectiveness of Eucalyptus barrier in containing the edge effect on a subtropical forest fragment in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.. Scientia Forestalis. 38(86). 191–203. 2 indexed citations

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Pinheiro, Eduardo da Silva, Giselda Durigan, & Joáo Roberto dos Santos. (2008). Avaliação de imagens QuickBird para estimativa de fitomassa aérea do cerrado Evaluation of QuickBird data to estimate aboveground cerrado phytomass. 4(4). 69–83. 1 indexed citations

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