Imma Oliveras Menor

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
92 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Imma Oliveras Menor is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Imma Oliveras Menor has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 48 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Imma Oliveras Menor's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers). Imma Oliveras Menor is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers). Imma Oliveras Menor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Brazil. Imma Oliveras Menor's co-authors include Yadvinder Malhi, Josep Piñol, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Oliver L. Phillips, Heloísa S. Miranda, Sami W. Rifai, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Sérgio Tadeu Meirelles, Elmar Veenendaal and Pilar Llorens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Imma Oliveras Menor

86 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress

2022 139 citations D.E. Bauman, Claire Fortunel et al. Nature profile →
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds

2023 123 citations Yadvinder Malhi, Imma Oliveras Menor et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Imma Oliveras Menor United Kingdom	30	1.9k	1.2k	688	521	517	92	2.7k
Edmund C. February South Africa	24	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	665 1.0×	449 0.9×	353 0.7×	71	2.2k
Lluís Coll Spain	33	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	563 0.8×	655 1.3×	859 1.7×	95	3.3k
Troy W. Ocheltree United States	25	1.2k 0.7×	884 0.8×	538 0.8×	359 0.7×	548 1.1×	51	2.1k
Katinka X. Ruthrof Australia	24	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	811 1.2×	427 0.8×	574 1.1×	85	2.6k
Sybil G. Gotsch United States	20	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	584 0.8×	380 0.7×	505 1.0×	35	2.5k
Pablo L. Peri Argentina	30	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	965 1.4×	403 0.8×	615 1.2×	232	3.5k
Susan Schwinning United States	7	1.7k 0.9×	992 0.9×	873 1.3×	406 0.8×	419 0.8×	8	2.6k
Simone Aparecida Vieira Brazil	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	729 1.1×	382 0.7×	416 0.8×	52	2.9k
Divino Vicente Silvério Brazil	22	1.6k 0.9×	939 0.8×	700 1.0×	215 0.4×	310 0.6×	54	2.3k
Heloísa S. Miranda Brazil	30	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	897 1.3×	468 0.9×	735 1.4×	65	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Imma Oliveras Menor

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Rocha, Leandro, Ben Hur Marimon, Marco Antônio Camillo de Carvalho, et al.. (2025). Fire-Induced Floristic and Structural Degradation Across a Vegetation Gradient in the Southern Amazon. Forests. 16(8). 1218–1218.

Menor, Imma Oliveras, Nicola Stevens, Robert Beyer, et al.. (2025). Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa. Nature. 649(8095). 104–112.

Menor, Imma Oliveras, et al.. (2025). Mapping the extent and exploring the drivers of cocoa agroforestry in Nigeria, insights into trends for climate change adaptation. Agroforestry Systems. 99(2). 1 indexed citations

Schwilk, Dylan W., Md Azharul Alam, Nathan S. Gill, et al.. (2025). From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies. American Journal of Botany. 112(10). e70040–e70040. 3 indexed citations

Menor, Imma Oliveras, et al.. (2025). Brazil on fire: Igniting awareness of the 2024 wildfire crisis. Journal of Environmental Management. 389. 126190–126190.

Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Sami W. Rifai, Jayashree Ratnam, et al.. (2024). The distribution and drivers of tree cover in savannas and forests across India. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Bauman, D.E., et al.. (2024). Human land occupation regulates the effect of the climate on the burned area of the Brazilian Cerrado. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 6 indexed citations

Menor, Imma Oliveras, et al.. (2024). Proximity and size of protected areas in Asian borderlands enable transboundary conservation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 2 indexed citations

Scalon, Marina Corrêa, Imma Oliveras Menor, Sami W. Rifai, et al.. (2022). Contrasting strategies of nutrient demand and use between savanna and forest ecosystems in a neotropical transition zone. Biogeosciences. 19(15). 3649–3661. 5 indexed citations

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Reis, Simone Matias, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, et al.. (2022). Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests. Journal of Ecology. 110(4). 876–888. 23 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, Iain Stott, Imma Oliveras Menor, et al.. (2021). Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3102–3113. 28 indexed citations

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Bauman, D.E., Claire Fortunel, Lucas A. Cernusak, et al.. (2021). Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits. Global Change Biology. 28(4). 1414–1432. 32 indexed citations

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Harrison, Sandy P., I. Colin Prentice, Keith J. Bloomfield, et al.. (2021). Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective. Environmental Research Letters. 16(12). 125008–125008. 62 indexed citations

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Cruz, Wesley Jonatar Alves da, et al.. (2021). Palmeiras limitam a proliferação de lianas em florestas do ecótono Amazônia-Cerrado-Pantanal. Research Society and Development. 10(3). e48310313547–e48310313547. 1 indexed citations

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Devisscher, Tahia, et al.. (2021). Participatory mapping reveals socioeconomic drivers of forest fires in protected areas of the post‐conflict Colombian Amazon. People and Nature. 3(4). 811–826. 13 indexed citations

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Matos, Ilaíne Silveira, et al.. (2020). Three eco‐physiological strategies of response to drought maintain the form and function of a tropical montane grassland. Journal of Ecology. 109(1). 327–341. 25 indexed citations

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Matos, Ilaíne Silveira, Imma Oliveras Menor, Sami W. Rifai, & Bruno H. P. Rosado. (2019). Deciphering the stability of grassland productivity in response to rainfall manipulation experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(3). 558–572. 31 indexed citations

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Menor, Imma Oliveras, et al.. (2017). No long-term effect of land-use activities on soil carbon dynamics in tropical montane grasslands. Aberdeen University Research Archive (Aberdeen University). 4 indexed citations

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Devisscher, Tahia, et al.. (2015). Understanding ecological transitions under recurrent wildfire: A case study in the seasonally dry tropical forests of the Chiquitania, Bolivia. Forest Ecology and Management. 360. 273–286. 26 indexed citations

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Llorens, Pilar, Imma Oliveras Menor, & Rafael Poyatos. (2003). Temporal variability of water fluxes in a Pinus sylvestris forest patch in Mediterranean mountain conditions (Vallcebre research catchments, Catalan Pyrenees). IAHS-AISH publication. 101–105. 6 indexed citations

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