Juli G. Pausas

45.4k total citations · 13 hit papers
241 papers, 23.0k citations indexed

About

Juli G. Pausas is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Juli G. Pausas has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 23.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 150 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 72 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Juli G. Pausas's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (142 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (122 papers) and Plant and animal studies (59 papers). Juli G. Pausas is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (142 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (122 papers) and Plant and animal studies (59 papers). Juli G. Pausas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Australia. Juli G. Pausas's co-authors include Jon E. Keeley, Ross A. Bradstock, William J. Bond, Susana Paula, Miguel Verdú, Sandra Lavorel, Philip W. Rundel, Byron B. Lamont, V. Ramón Vallejo and Éric Garnier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Juli G. Pausas

233 papers receiving 22.3k citations

Hit Papers

A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measure... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2009 2011 2008 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide
    2003 3.1k citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  2. A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life
    2009 821 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  3. Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits
    2011 788 citations Juli G. Pausas, William J. Bond et al. profile →
  4. Are wildfires a disaster in the Mediterranean basin? – A review
    2008 647 citations Juli G. Pausas, Anselm Rodrigo et al. International Journal of Wildland Fire profile →
  5. Changes in Fire and Climate in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula (Mediterranean Basin)
    2004 629 citations Juli G. Pausas profile →
  6. Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime
    2011 590 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  7. PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO FIRE IN CROWN-FIRE ECOSYSTEMS
    2004 532 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. Ecology profile →
  8. Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire‐prone ecosystems
    2014 446 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  9. Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity
    2019 376 citations Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont et al. profile →
  10. Wildfires and global change
    2021 316 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  11. Unearthing belowground bud banks in fire‐prone ecosystems
    2018 271 citations Juli G. Pausas, Byron B. Lamont et al. profile →
  12. Wildfires as an ecosystem service
    2019 258 citations Juli G. Pausas et al. profile →
  13. Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle
    2021 167 citations Juli G. Pausas, Miguel Verdú et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Juli G. Pausas Spain 78 14.1k 13.2k 6.8k 5.8k 5.1k 241 23.0k
Scott L. Collins United States 81 9.7k 0.7× 12.9k 1.0× 11.1k 1.6× 4.8k 0.8× 4.9k 1.0× 325 24.3k
Jon E. Keeley United States 81 18.1k 1.3× 11.4k 0.9× 10.8k 1.6× 5.4k 0.9× 3.5k 0.7× 287 25.4k
Melinda D. Smith United States 64 8.4k 0.6× 8.3k 0.6× 6.5k 1.0× 3.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.7× 199 17.7k
William J. Bond South Africa 86 18.1k 1.3× 20.3k 1.5× 12.2k 1.8× 6.4k 1.1× 7.5k 1.5× 342 34.1k
Andy Hector United Kingdom 50 8.3k 0.6× 14.1k 1.1× 9.1k 1.3× 5.1k 0.9× 7.2k 1.4× 105 26.1k
Frans Bongers Netherlands 75 7.8k 0.6× 11.3k 0.9× 3.1k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 5.0k 1.0× 253 17.3k
David A. Coomes United Kingdom 70 8.7k 0.6× 11.6k 0.9× 6.0k 0.9× 2.7k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 248 19.4k
Alan K. Knapp United States 84 15.6k 1.1× 12.3k 0.9× 11.4k 1.7× 7.0k 1.2× 4.0k 0.8× 303 29.1k
Katharine N. Suding United States 59 5.0k 0.4× 9.4k 0.7× 6.4k 1.0× 4.8k 0.8× 4.4k 0.9× 193 16.6k
Martin T. Sykes Sweden 56 8.0k 0.6× 10.3k 0.8× 8.0k 1.2× 3.3k 0.6× 4.8k 0.9× 102 21.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moreira, Bruno, et al.. (2025). Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(18). 5559–5572. 1 indexed citations
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Vargas, Pablo, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomic Evidence of Fire Regime Changes: The Case of a Resprouting Juniper. Ecology Letters. 28(7). e70169–e70169. 1 indexed citations
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Ojeda, Fernando, et al.. (2025). The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(11). 3156–3168.
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Soltani, Elias, Carol C. Baskin, Juli G. Pausas, et al.. (2024). Fire and seed dormancy: a global meta-analysis. Annals of Botany. 135(6). 1059–1074.
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Kobziar, Leda N., J. Kevin Hiers, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2024). Principles of fire ecology. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 12 indexed citations
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Moreira, Bruno, et al.. (2024). Global plant responses to intensified fire regimes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(8). 21 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G., Joaquín Bedia, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, et al.. (2024). The Interannual Variability of Global Burned Area Is Mostly Explained by Climatic Drivers. Earth s Future. 12(7). 11 indexed citations
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Budde, Katharina B., Christian Rellstab, Myriam Heuertz, et al.. (2023). Divergent selection in a Mediterranean pine on local spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. 112(2). 278–290. 5 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G., et al.. (2022). Wildfire response of GPS-tracked Bonelli’s eagles in eastern Spain. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31(9). 901–908. 2 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G. & William J. Bond. (2021). Alternative biome states challenge the modelling of species' niche shifts under climate change. Journal of Ecology. 109(12). 3962–3971. 21 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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Zupo, Talita, L. Felipe Daibes, Juli G. Pausas, & Alessandra Fidélis. (2020). Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(1). 52 indexed citations
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Lamont, Byron B., Juli G. Pausas, Tianhua He, E.T.F. Witkowski, & Mick E. Hanley. (2020). Fire as a Selective Agent for both Serotiny and Nonserotiny Over Space and Time. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 39(2). 140–172. 74 indexed citations
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Gil‐Romera, Graciela, Lynne J. Quick, Michael E. Meadows, et al.. (2016). Towards a multidisciplinary approach to long-term ecology of climate-–plant-–fire interactions across the Mediterranean Biome. Quaternary International. 404. 212–212. 1 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G.. (2011). Incendis necessaris. El foc en els ecosistemes terrestres: ara i sempre. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 58–65. 1 indexed citations
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Paula, Susana, Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου, Dimitris Kazanis, et al.. (2009). Fire‐related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology. 90(5). 1420–1420. 227 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G., et al.. (2006). Regeneration of a marginal Quercus suber forest in the eastern Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vegetation Science. 17(6). 729–738. 34 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G., Teresa E. Gimeno, V. Ramón Vallejo, & D. X. Viegas. (2002). Fire severity and pine regeneration in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula.. 14 indexed citations
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Pausas, Juli G.. (1996). Relació entre la vegetació i els paràmetres ambientals als boscos pirinencs de pi roig (Pinus sylvestris L.). LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 11(11). 117–131. 3 indexed citations

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