Lara Souza

3.1k total citations
51 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Lara Souza is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lara Souza has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lara Souza's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers), Plant and animal studies (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers). Lara Souza is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers), Plant and animal studies (20 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers). Lara Souza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Lara Souza's co-authors include Aimée T. Classen, Nathan J. Sanders, Paul Kardol, Jake F. Weltzin, Gregory M. Crutsinger, Richard J. Norby, Windy A. Bunn, Yiqi Luo, Daniel Simberloff and Junyi Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Lara Souza

50 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers

Lara Souza

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ECOLO

EEBS

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Meredith Thomsen United States

Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann Germany

Jan Plue Sweden

J. Hans C. Cornelissen Netherlands

Dylan Craven Germany

Chengjin Chu China

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers United States

Márcia C. M. Marques Brazil

Bogdan Jaroszewicz Poland

Emily C. Farrer United States

Meredith Thomsen United States

Lara Souza

796 ×0.8

NLC

757 ×1.2

ECOLO

458 ×0.7

EEBS

486 ×0.8

511 ×1.0

GPC

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Countries citing papers authored by Lara Souza

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lara Souza

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lara Souza

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20 of 20 papers shown

Souza, Lara, et al.. (2025). How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(2). 1 indexed citations

Hewins, Charlotte R., et al.. (2023). Warming‐induced functional shifts in the decomposer community interact with plant community compositional shifts to impact litter decomposition. Functional Ecology. 37(10). 2583–2597. 7 indexed citations

Avolio, Meghan L., Kimberly J. Komatsu, Sally E. Koerner, et al.. (2022). Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere. 13(10). 3 indexed citations

Chong, Kwek Yan, Richard T. Corlett, Martín A. Núñez, et al.. (2021). Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics?. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations

Chong, Kwek Yan, Richard T. Corlett, Martín A. Núñez, et al.. (2021). Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics?. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 52(1). 291–314. 32 indexed citations

Souza, Lara, et al.. (2021). Fire promotes functional plant diversity and modifies soil carbon dynamics in tropical savanna. The Science of The Total Environment. 812. 152317–152317. 26 indexed citations

Siler, Cameron D., et al.. (2020). Development and validation of four environmental DNA assays for species of conservation concern in the South-Central United States. Conservation Genetics Resources. 13(1). 35–40. 1 indexed citations

Kaspari, Michael, et al.. (2020). Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(12). 2273–2288. 24 indexed citations

Wilcox, Kevin R., et al.. (2020). Drought mildly reduces plant dominance in a temperate prairie ecosystem across years. Ecology and Evolution. 10(13). 6702–6713. 13 indexed citations

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Damasceno, Gabriella, et al.. (2018). Impact of invasive grasses on Cerrado under natural regeneration. Biological Invasions. 20(12). 3621–3629. 56 indexed citations

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Souza, Lara, et al.. (2018). Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites. PeerJ. 6. e5619–e5619. 5 indexed citations

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Shi, Zheng, Yang Lin, Kevin R. Wilcox, et al.. (2018). Successional change in species composition alters climate sensitivity of grassland productivity. Global Change Biology. 24(10). 4993–5003. 23 indexed citations

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Liang, Junyi, Qi Xuan, Lara Souza, & Yiqi Luo. (2016). Processes regulating progressive nitrogen limitation under elevated carbon dioxide: a meta-analysis. Biogeosciences. 13(9). 2689–2699. 69 indexed citations

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Zelikova, Tamara J., Dana M. Blumenthal, David G. Williams, et al.. (2014). Long-term exposure to elevated CO ₂ enhances plant community stability by suppressing dominant plant species in a mixed-grass prairie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43). 15456–15461. 76 indexed citations

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Souza, Lara, et al.. (2011). The variable effects of soil nitrogen availability and insect herbivory on aboveground and belowground plant biomass in an old-field ecosystem. Oecologia. 167(3). 771–780. 29 indexed citations

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Souza, Lara, R. Travis Belote, Paul Kardol, Jake F. Weltzin, & Richard J. Norby. (2010). CO2 enrichment accelerates successional development of an understory plant community. Journal of Plant Ecology. 3(1). 33–39. 30 indexed citations

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Souza, Lara, Jake F. Weltzin, & Nathan J. Sanders. (2010). Differential effects of two dominant plant species on community structure and invasibility in an old-field ecosystem. Journal of Plant Ecology. 4(3). 123–131. 31 indexed citations

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Crutsinger, Gregory M., Lara Souza, & Nathan J. Sanders. (2007). Intraspecific diversity and dominant genotypes resist plant invasions. Ecology Letters. 11(1). 16–23. 161 indexed citations

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Vasconcellos, Alexandre, Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida, & Lara Souza. (2006). Onychophora in humid forests of northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology. 66(1a). 187–189. 5 indexed citations

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Burkey, Kent O., Howard S. Neufeld, Lara Souza, Arthur H. Chappelka, & Alan W. Davison. (2006). Seasonal profiles of leaf ascorbic acid content and redox state in ozone-sensitive wildflowers. Environmental Pollution. 143(3). 427–434. 65 indexed citations

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