Horacio Paz

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Horacio Paz is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Horacio Paz has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 24 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Horacio Paz's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Plant and animal studies (20 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers). Horacio Paz is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Plant and animal studies (20 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers). Horacio Paz collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Netherlands. Horacio Paz's co-authors include Lourens Poorter, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Frans Bongers, Susan J. Mazer, Fernando Pineda‐García, Lars Markesteijn, Lawren Sack, Guillermo Ibarra‐Manríquez, Frederick C. Meinzer and Helene C. Muller‐Landau and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Horacio Paz

53 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

2008 593 citations Lourens Poorter, S. Joseph Wright‬ et al. Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Horacio Paz Mexico	25	2.5k	1.6k	1.1k	745	500	54	3.3k
Georges Künstler France	29	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	913 0.8×	532 0.7×	343 0.7×	72	3.0k
Noriyuki Osada Japan	19	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	291 0.6×	44	3.8k
J. W. Ferry Slik Netherlands	28	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	823 0.8×	492 0.7×	190 0.4×	50	2.9k
Christophe Andalo France	19	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	635 0.6×	536 0.7×	191 0.4×	31	3.6k
Ned Fetcher United States	28	1.3k 0.5×	996 0.6×	750 0.7×	834 1.1×	668 1.3×	70	2.9k
Susan Cordell United States	32	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	839 0.8×	704 0.9×	265 0.5×	87	2.9k
Kihachiro Kikuzawa Japan	36	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	297 0.6×	104	3.8k
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Thailand	26	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	574 0.5×	312 0.4×	499 1.0×	55	2.2k
Pierre Liancourt Germany	31	2.1k 0.9×	856 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	932 1.3×	298 0.6×	67	3.0k
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento Brazil	25	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	916 0.8×	349 0.5×	147 0.3×	53	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Horacio Paz

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Navarro‐Sigüenza, Adolfo G., et al.. (2024). Habitat fragmentation erodes taxonomic and functional diversity of waterbird communities of the South Pacific coast of Mexico. 32(2). 124–134. 5 indexed citations

Campo, Julio, et al.. (2022). Patterns of leaf trait variation underlie ecological differences among sympatric tree species of Damburneya in a tropical rainforest. American Journal of Botany. 109(9). 1394–1409. 4 indexed citations

Méndez‐Alonzo, Rodrigo, Mark E. Olson, Horacio Paz, et al.. (2022). Studies of plant hydraulics and water relations in Mexican environments: adaptation, physiology, and applications. Botanical Sciences. 100(Special). S325–S345.

Sanaphre‐Villanueva, Lucía, et al.. (2022). Above- and below-ground trait coordination in tree seedlings depend on the most limiting resource: a test comparing a wet and a dry tropical forest in Mexico. PeerJ. 10. e13458–e13458. 8 indexed citations

Paz, Horacio, et al.. (2021). Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 20(2). 117–125. 6 indexed citations

Martínez‐Ramos, Miguel, Felipe Barragán, Francisco Mora, et al.. (2020). Differential ecological filtering across life cycle stages drive old-field succession in a neotropical dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 482. 118810–118810. 18 indexed citations

García‐Valdés, Raúl, et al.. (2020). Distribution and conservation of species is misestimated if biotic interactions are ignored: the case of the orchid Laelia speciosa. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9542–9542. 19 indexed citations

Toledo‐Aceves, Tarin, et al.. (2019). Leaf functional traits predict cloud forest tree seedling survival along an elevation gradient. Annals of Forest Science. 76(4). 12 indexed citations

Paz, Horacio, et al.. (2019). Seasonal variation in native hydraulic conductivity between two deciduous oak species. Journal of Plant Ecology. 13(1). 78–86. 4 indexed citations

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Paz, Horacio, et al.. (2015). Root depth and morphology in response to soil drought: comparing ecological groups along the secondary succession in a tropical dry forest. Oecologia. 179(2). 551–561. 64 indexed citations

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Pineda‐García, Fernando, Horacio Paz, Frederick C. Meinzer, & Guillermo Ángeles. (2015). Exploiting water versus tolerating drought: water-use strategies of trees in a secondary successional tropical dry forest. Tree Physiology. 36(2). tpv124–tpv124. 68 indexed citations

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Méndez‐Alonzo, Rodrigo, et al.. (2012). Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees. Ecology. 93(11). 2397–2406. 164 indexed citations

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Pineda‐García, Fernando, Horacio Paz, & Frederick C. Meinzer. (2012). Drought resistance in early and late secondary successional species from a tropical dry forest: the interplay between xylem resistance to embolism, sapwood water storage and leaf shedding. Plant Cell & Environment. 36(2). 405–418. 150 indexed citations

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Pineda‐García, Fernando, Horacio Paz, & Clara Tinoco‐Ojanguren. (2011). Morphological and physiological differentiation of seedlings between dry and wet habitats in a tropical dry forest. Plant Cell & Environment. 34(9). 1536–1547. 51 indexed citations

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Markesteijn, Lars, Lourens Poorter, Frans Bongers, Horacio Paz, & Lawren Sack. (2011). Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance. New Phytologist. 191(2). 480–495. 231 indexed citations

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Poorter, Lourens, S. Joseph Wright‬, Horacio Paz, et al.. (2008). ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS. Ecology. 89(7). 1908–1920. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Delesalle, Véronique A., Susan J. Mazer, & Horacio Paz. (2007). Temporal variation in the pollen:ovule ratios of Clarkia (Onagraceae) taxa with contrasting mating systems: field populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(1). 310–323. 35 indexed citations

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Mazer, Susan J., Véronique A. Delesalle, & Horacio Paz. (2007). EVOLUTION OF MATING SYSTEM AND THE GENETIC COVARIANCE BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE INVESTMENT IN CLARKIA (ONAGRACEAE): SELFING OPPOSES THE EVOLUTION OF TRADE-OFFS. Evolution. 61(1). 83–98. 22 indexed citations

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Wright, Ian J., David D. Ackerly, Frans Bongers, et al.. (2006). Relationships Among Ecologically Important Dimensions of Plant Trait Variation in Seven Neotropical Forests. Annals of Botany. 99(5). 1003–1015. 320 indexed citations

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Mazer, Susan J., Horacio Paz, & Michael D. Bell. (2004). Life history, floral development, and mating system in Clarkia xantiana (Onagraceae): do floral and whole‐plant rates of development evolve independently?. American Journal of Botany. 91(12). 2041–2050. 42 indexed citations

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