Hugo Sáiz

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Hugo Sáiz is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugo Sáiz has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Hugo Sáiz's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers), Plant and animal studies (18 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (10 papers). Hugo Sáiz is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers), Plant and animal studies (18 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (10 papers). Hugo Sáiz collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and Switzerland. Hugo Sáiz's co-authors include Fernando T. Maestre, Concepción L. Alados, Nicolas Gross, Vincent Maire, Juan Gaitán, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Yanchuang Zhao, Matthias C. Rillig, Santiago Soliveres and Anika Lehmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hugo Sáiz

40 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

2020 771 citations Miguel Berdugo, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hugo Sáiz Spain	19	639	610	469	414	396	44	1.6k
Thomas Spiegelberger France	22	620 1.0×	446 0.7×	443 0.9×	312 0.8×	329 0.8×	49	1.4k
Kimberly J. La Pierre United States	21	842 1.3×	772 1.3×	648 1.4×	329 0.8×	386 1.0×	24	1.8k
Elise S. Gornish United States	25	829 1.3×	574 0.9×	868 1.9×	360 0.9×	430 1.1×	91	1.8k
Rainer Waldhardt Germany	20	572 0.9×	585 1.0×	500 1.1×	315 0.8×	411 1.0×	42	1.4k
G.W.W. Wamelink Netherlands	20	611 1.0×	474 0.8×	619 1.3×	369 0.9×	578 1.5×	92	1.8k
Yolanda Pueyo Spain	23	1.0k 1.6×	1.2k 2.0×	583 1.2×	406 1.0×	295 0.7×	64	2.2k
Simona Maccherini Italy	22	677 1.1×	411 0.7×	485 1.0×	307 0.7×	405 1.0×	93	1.4k
Angelina Martínez‐Yrizar Mexico	25	884 1.4×	925 1.5×	635 1.4×	351 0.8×	297 0.8×	54	2.0k
Britta Tietjen Germany	26	616 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	616 1.3×	385 0.9×	284 0.7×	73	2.0k
Csaba Tölgyesi Hungary	24	826 1.3×	455 0.7×	435 0.9×	406 1.0×	500 1.3×	90	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Hugo Sáiz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugo Sáiz

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Yanchuang, Sonia Kéfi, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2025). The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(8).

Kéfi, Sonia, Isabelle Gounand, Nicolas Gross, et al.. (2025). Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation. Global Change Biology. 31(7). e70345–e70345.

Bagousse‐Pinguet, Yoann Le, Pierre Liancourt, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2025). Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(7). 1224–1233. 1 indexed citations

Allan, Eric, et al.. (2024). Fast–slow traits predict competition network structure and its response to resources and enemies. Ecology Letters. 27(4). e14425–e14425. 4 indexed citations

Sanaei, Anvar, Emma J. Sayer, Zuoqiang Yuan, et al.. (2023). Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients. Functional Ecology. 37(3). 703–718. 12 indexed citations

Sáiz, Hugo, Marie‐Lise Benot, Florian Mermillod‐Blondin, et al.. (2023). Functional characteristics rather than co‐occurrences determine the outcome of interactions between neighbouring plants in sub‐Antarctic ponds: Consequences for macrophyte community biomass. Freshwater Biology. 68(4). 561–576. 3 indexed citations

Mony, Cendrine, et al.. (2022). Investigating the effect of habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity on the gamma functional diversity of grassland and hedgerow plants. Journal of Ecology. 110(8). 1871–1882. 7 indexed citations

Arroyo, Antonio I., Yolanda Pueyo, Hugo Sáiz, & Concepción L. Alados. (2021). Plant–plant interactions and local patterns of diversity from semi-arid to subalpine Mediterranean plant communities. Biodiversity and Conservation. 30(12). 3481–3508. 3 indexed citations

Boch, Steffen, Hugo Sáiz, Eric Allan, et al.. (2021). Direct and Indirect Effects of Management Intensity and Environmental Factors on the Functional Diversity of Lichens in Central European Forests. Microorganisms. 9(2). 463–463. 8 indexed citations

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Gross, Nicolas, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Pierre Liancourt, et al.. (2021). Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1668–1680. 24 indexed citations

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Berdugo, Miguel, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Santiago Soliveres, et al.. (2020). Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity. Science. 367(6479). 787–790. 771 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sáiz, Hugo, Matteo Dainese, Alessandro Chiarucci, & Juri Nascimbene. (2020). Networks of epiphytic lichens and host trees along elevation gradients: Climate change implications in mountain ranges. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1122–1132. 18 indexed citations

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Sáiz, Hugo, et al.. (2018). The structure of plant spatial association networks is linked to plant diversity in global drylands. Journal of Ecology. 106(4). 1443–1453. 32 indexed citations

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Bittebière, Anne-Kristel, Hugo Sáiz, & Cendrine Mony. (2018). New insights from multidimensional trait space responses to competition in two clonal plant species. Functional Ecology. 33(2). 297–307. 31 indexed citations

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Pueyo, Yolanda, et al.. (2018). The role of nurse shrubs on the spatial patterning of plant establishment in semi-arid gypsum plant communities. Journal of Arid Environments. 160. 82–90. 20 indexed citations

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Arroyo, Antonio I., et al.. (2018). Evidence for chemical interference effect of an allelopathic plant on neighboring plant species: A field study. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0193421–e0193421. 13 indexed citations

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Pueyo, Yolanda, et al.. (2014). Spatio-temporal dynamics of soil water in a semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystem: implications for plant dynamics and spatial pattern.. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 6667. 1 indexed citations

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Sáiz, Hugo, Concepción L. Alados, & Yolanda Pueyo. (2014). Plant–plant spatial association networks in gypsophilous communities: the influence of aridity and grazing and the role of gypsophytes in its structure. Web Ecology. 14(1). 39–49. 16 indexed citations

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Alados, Concepción L., María Paz Errea Abad, Maite Gartzia, Hugo Sáiz, & J. Escós. (2014). Positive and Negative Feedbacks and Free-Scale Pattern Distribution in Rural-Population Dynamics. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e114561–e114561. 30 indexed citations

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Sáiz, Hugo & Concepción L. Alados. (2012). Changes in Semi-Arid Plant Species Associations along a Livestock Grazing Gradient. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40551–e40551. 61 indexed citations

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