José M. Montoya

16.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
81 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

José M. Montoya is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, José M. Montoya has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in José M. Montoya's work include Plant and animal studies (29 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers). José M. Montoya is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (29 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers). José M. Montoya collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United Kingdom. José M. Montoya's co-authors include Ricard V. Solé, Guy Woodward, Stuart L. Pimm, Mark Emmerson, Miguel Lurgi, Mark Trimmer, Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher, Bo Ebenman, J. Iwan Jones and Ian Donohue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

José M. Montoya

80 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

Ecological networks and their fragility 2001 2026 2009 2017 2006 2005 2008 2001 2004 250 500 750
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.

  1. Ecological networks and their fragility
    2006 960 citations José M. Montoya, Stuart L. Pimm et al. profile →
  2. Body size in ecological networks
    2005 882 citations Mark Emmerson, José M. Montoya et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  3. Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs
    2008 630 citations José M. Montoya, Jordi Bascompte et al. profile →
  4. Complexity and fragility in ecological networks
    2001 565 citations Ricard V. Solé, José M. Montoya Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  5. Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities
    2004 559 citations Mark Emmerson, José M. Montoya et al. profile →
  6. Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research
    2009 433 citations José M. Montoya et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  7. Navigating the complexity of ecological stability
    2016 431 citations Ian Donohue, José M. Montoya et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  8. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research
    2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  9. Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application
    2021 173 citations Michel Loreau, Matthieu Barbier et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
José M. Montoya Spain 42 4.6k 3.4k 3.1k 2.4k 1.6k 81 10.4k
Kevin S. McCann Canada 49 6.9k 1.5× 4.5k 1.3× 3.6k 1.2× 3.3k 1.4× 1.4k 0.9× 157 12.8k
Eric L. Berlow United States 24 5.7k 1.2× 4.8k 1.4× 3.3k 1.0× 3.1k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 40 11.6k
Marcel Holyoak United States 36 6.9k 1.5× 5.0k 1.5× 3.9k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 908 0.6× 125 11.9k
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland 54 6.7k 1.4× 6.5k 1.9× 4.6k 1.5× 3.9k 1.6× 1.4k 0.9× 146 14.4k
Ulrich Brose Germany 56 6.7k 1.4× 4.9k 1.4× 4.7k 1.5× 2.6k 1.1× 891 0.6× 140 12.2k
Dominique Gravel Canada 56 4.2k 0.9× 4.7k 1.4× 4.0k 1.3× 2.1k 0.9× 547 0.3× 188 10.1k
Pablo A. Marquet Chile 55 6.7k 1.5× 4.8k 1.4× 3.9k 1.2× 3.6k 1.5× 1.0k 0.6× 211 14.4k
Pablo Inchausti France 29 6.0k 1.3× 6.0k 1.7× 3.3k 1.0× 3.9k 1.6× 1.4k 0.9× 61 12.6k
Neo D. Martinez United States 40 4.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 4.3k 1.4× 1.4k 0.6× 651 0.4× 62 9.6k
Jennifer A. Dunne United States 33 3.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.7× 3.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.7× 497 0.3× 60 8.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by José M. Montoya

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José M. Montoya

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Núria Galiana, Dominique Gravel, et al.. (2025). Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(9). 840–851. 1 indexed citations
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Montoya, José M., et al.. (2024). A mechanistic framework for complex microbe-host symbioses. Trends in Microbiology. 33(1). 96–111. 5 indexed citations
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Richard, Murielle, Alexandre Garreau, Elvire Bestion, et al.. (2024). The Aquatic Metatron: A large‐scale experimental facility to study the combined effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on aquatic meta‐ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(1). 57–65. 1 indexed citations
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Peroux, Tiphaine, José M. Montoya, Simon Blanchet, et al.. (2024). Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction. Oikos. 2024(10). 4 indexed citations
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Galiana, Núria, Miguel Lurgi, José M. Montoya, Miguel B. Araújo, & Eric D. Galbraith. (2023). Climate or diet? The importance of biotic interactions in determining species range size. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(7). 1178–1188. 10 indexed citations
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Larrañaga, Aitor, et al.. (2023). Land Use Drives Detritivore Size Structure and Decomposition Through Shifts in Resource Quality and Quantity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Moorsel, Sofia J. van, Élisa Thébault, Viktoriia Radchuk, et al.. (2022). Predicting effects of multiple interacting global change drivers across trophic levels. Global Change Biology. 29(5). 1223–1238. 21 indexed citations
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Haegeman, Bart, et al.. (2021). Theory of temperature‐dependent consumer–resource interactions. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1539–1555. 16 indexed citations
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Galiana, Núria, Ceres Barros, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, et al.. (2021). The spatial scaling of food web structure across European biogeographical regions. Ecography. 44(5). 653–664. 16 indexed citations
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Loreau, Michel, Matthieu Barbier, Élise Filotas, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(5). 2333–2354. 173 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sentis, Arnaud, José M. Montoya, & Miguel Lurgi. (2021). Warming indirectly increases invasion success in food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1947). 20202622–20202622. 22 indexed citations
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Raffard, Allan, Julien Cucherousset, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2021). Intraspecific diversity loss in a predator species alters prey community structure and ecosystem functions. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001145–e3001145. 20 indexed citations
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Dee, Laura E., et al.. (2020). Temperature variability alters the stability and thresholds for collapse of interacting species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1814). 20190457–20190457. 26 indexed citations
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Gonzalez, Andrew, Rachel M. Germain, Diane S. Srivastava, et al.. (2020). Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 757–776. 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lurgi, Miguel, Torsten Thomas, Bernd Wemheuer, Nicole S. Webster, & José M. Montoya. (2019). Modularity and predicted functions of the global sponge-microbiome network. Nature Communications. 10(1). 992–992. 94 indexed citations
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McWilliams, Chris, Miguel Lurgi, José M. Montoya, Alix Sauve, & Daniel Montoya. (2019). The stability of multitrophic communities under habitat loss. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2322–2322. 46 indexed citations
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Galiana, Núria, Miguel Lurgi, Marie‐Josée Fortin, et al.. (2018). The spatial scaling of species interaction networks. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 782–790. 68 indexed citations
18.
Donohue, Ian, Owen L. Petchey, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2013). On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 421–429. 311 indexed citations
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Joppa, Lucas, Jordi Bascompte, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2009). Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks. Ecology Letters. 12(9). 961–969. 30 indexed citations
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Montoya, José M. & Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher. (2007). Ecological Networks: Information Theory Meets Darwin's Entangled Bank. Current Biology. 17(4). R128–R130. 5 indexed citations

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