Josep M. Serra‐Diaz

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Josep M. Serra‐Diaz is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecological Modeling, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Josep M. Serra‐Diaz's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (34 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Josep M. Serra‐Diaz is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (34 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Josep M. Serra‐Diaz collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Josep M. Serra‐Diaz's co-authors include Janet Franklin, Alexandra D. Syphard, Helen M. Regan, Miquel Ninyerola, Francisco Lloret, Trevor F. Keenan, Santiago Sabaté, Frank W. Davis, Jonathan R. Thompson and Jens‐Christian Svenning and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Josep M. Serra‐Diaz

45 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

2016 306 citations Janet Franklin, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

2024 37 citations Coline C. F. Boonman, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josep M. Serra‐Diaz United States	23	885	763	708	543	312	49	1.7k
Daniel J. McGlinn United States	21	800 0.9×	510 0.7×	449 0.6×	590 1.1×	383 1.2×	44	1.6k
Nicholas A. Fisichelli United States	19	578 0.7×	693 0.9×	312 0.4×	383 0.7×	220 0.7×	38	1.4k
Norbert Jürgens Germany	20	674 0.8×	534 0.7×	410 0.6×	648 1.2×	402 1.3×	59	1.7k
Michael B. Ashcroft Australia	22	771 0.9×	523 0.7×	996 1.4×	803 1.5×	518 1.7×	45	2.0k
Jianmeng Feng China	15	476 0.5×	542 0.7×	399 0.6×	628 1.2×	268 0.9×	53	1.4k
James Paterson United Kingdom	12	655 0.7×	519 0.7×	644 0.9×	410 0.8×	332 1.1×	26	1.4k
Dylan Keon United States	7	816 0.9×	694 0.9×	334 0.5×	731 1.3×	385 1.2×	12	1.7k
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Thailand	26	1.5k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	360 0.5×	462 0.9×	574 1.8×	55	2.2k
Carlos Iván Espinosa Ecuador	19	692 0.8×	555 0.7×	233 0.3×	369 0.7×	403 1.3×	79	1.3k
Carolyn A. F. Enquist United States	18	476 0.5×	785 1.0×	655 0.9×	663 1.2×	322 1.0×	30	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Josep M. Serra‐Diaz

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Lombaerde, Emiel De, Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, et al.. (2025). Cool topoclimates promote cold-adapted plant diversity in temperate mountain forests. Peer Community Journal. 5.

Boonman, Coline C. F., Selwyn Hoeks, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, et al.. (2025). High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26). e2420059122–e2420059122. 2 indexed citations

Lloret, Francisco, et al.. (2025). Post-fire recovery is modulated by the position in the realized climatic niche in three Mediterranean tree species. Forest Ecology and Management. 600. 123301–123301.

Merow, Cory, Brian Maitner, Andreas L. S. Meyer, et al.. (2025). Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(35). e2504945122–e2504945122.

Boonman, Coline C. F., Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Selwyn Hoeks, et al.. (2024). More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications. 15(1). 166–166. 37 indexed citations breakdown →

Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., et al.. (2024). Incorporating Climatic Extremes Using the GEV Distribution Improves SDM Range Edge Performance. Journal of Biogeography. 52(3). 780–791.

Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., Brian Maitner, Coline C. F. Boonman, et al.. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(7). 2 indexed citations

Mahaut, Lucie, Philippe Choler, Pierre Denelle, et al.. (2023). Trade‐offs and synergies between ecosystem productivity and stability in temperate grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(4). 561–572. 14 indexed citations

Merow, Cory, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Brian J. Enquist, & Adam M. Wilson. (2023). AI chatbots can boost scientific coding. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(7). 960–962. 31 indexed citations

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Mencuccini, Maurizio, Raúl García‐Valdés, William M. Hammond, et al.. (2023). Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(10). 1620–1632. 22 indexed citations

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Morente‐López, Javier, Jamie M. Kass, Carlos Lara‐Romero, et al.. (2022). Linking ecological niche models and common garden experiments to predict phenotypic differentiation in stressful environments: Assessing the adaptive value of marginal populations in an alpine plant. Global Change Biology. 28(13). 4143–4162. 13 indexed citations

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Swanson, Heather Anne, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Robert Muscarella, et al.. (2021). History as grounds for interdisciplinarity: promoting sustainable woodlands via an integrative ecological and socio-cultural perspective. One Earth. 4(2). 226–237. 18 indexed citations

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Ahmadi, Kourosh, et al.. (2020). Patterns of density and structure of natural populations of Taxus baccata in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran. Nordic Journal of Botany. 38(3). 25 indexed citations

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Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., et al.. (2020). Co‐designed management scenarios shape the responses of seasonally dry forests to changing climate and fire regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(7). 1328–1340. 10 indexed citations

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Alavi, Seyed Jalil, et al.. (2020). Assessing the dominant height of oriental beech (Fagus orientalis L.) in relation to edaphic and physiographic variables in the Hyrcanian Forests of Iran. BASE. 262–273. 6 indexed citations

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Sapes, Gerard, et al.. (2018). Climatic Suitability Derived from Species Distribution Models Captures Community Responses to an Extreme Drought Episode. Ecosystems. 22(1). 77–90. 28 indexed citations

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Liang, Yu, Matthew J. Duveneck, Eric J. Gustafson, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, & Jonathan R. Thompson. (2017). How disturbance, competition, and dispersal interact to prevent tree range boundaries from keeping pace with climate change. Global Change Biology. 24(1). e335–e351. 110 indexed citations

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Franklin, Janet, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Alexandra D. Syphard, & Helen M. Regan. (2016). Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(14). 3725–3734. 306 indexed citations breakdown →

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Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., et al.. (2015). California forests show early indications of both range shifts and local persistence under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(2). 164–175. 25 indexed citations

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Serra‐Diaz, Josep M., Albert Pèlachs Mañosa, Miquel Ninyerola, et al.. (2008). EL GTP COM A MÈTODE PER AL DISSENY D'UNITATS DE PAISATGE. Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografía. 155–167. 1 indexed citations

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