Mara Baudena

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mara Baudena is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mara Baudena has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Mara Baudena's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers). Mara Baudena is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers). Mara Baudena collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Spain. Mara Baudena's co-authors include Max Rietkerk, Antonello Provenzale, Fabio D’Andrea, Maarten B. Eppinga, Jost von Hardenberg, Arjen Doelman, Johan van de Koppel, Robbin Bastiaansen, Rubén Díaz‐Sierra and Víctor Resco de Dios and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Scientific Reports and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Mara Baudena

41 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Evasion of tipping in complex systems through spatial pattern formation

2021 182 citations Max Rietkerk, Robbin Bastiaansen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mara Baudena Netherlands	22	932	571	290	231	178	44	1.3k
Przemyslaw Zelazowski United Kingdom	13	1.1k 1.2×	539 0.9×	496 1.7×	250 1.1×	149 0.8×	18	1.7k
Martin Macek Czechia	21	586 0.6×	595 1.0×	349 1.2×	412 1.8×	281 1.6×	49	1.5k
Dirk R. Schmatz Switzerland	15	697 0.7×	665 1.2×	421 1.5×	218 0.9×	134 0.8×	23	1.5k
Peter R. Long United Kingdom	11	803 0.9×	332 0.6×	553 1.9×	276 1.2×	93 0.5×	28	1.3k
Alan Swanson United States	14	811 0.9×	501 0.9×	528 1.8×	270 1.2×	76 0.4×	24	1.5k
Geertje van der Heijden United Kingdom	18	1.1k 1.2×	862 1.5×	421 1.5×	265 1.1×	263 1.5×	30	1.9k
Nadja Rüger Germany	19	656 0.7×	915 1.6×	241 0.8×	160 0.7×	123 0.7×	35	1.3k
Robinson Negrón‐Juárez United States	25	1.0k 1.1×	694 1.2×	416 1.4×	289 1.3×	185 1.0×	57	1.6k
Becky K. Kerns United States	19	844 0.9×	491 0.9×	560 1.9×	156 0.7×	141 0.8×	53	1.2k
Andreas Fischlin Switzerland	18	635 0.7×	406 0.7×	230 0.8×	266 1.2×	141 0.8×	39	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Mara Baudena

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Mara Baudena's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Mara Baudena with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Mara Baudena more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Mara Baudena

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mara Baudena. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mara Baudena. The network helps show where Mara Baudena may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mara Baudena

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Baudena, Mara, et al.. (2025). Rethinking Tipping Points in Spatial Ecosystems. The American Naturalist. 207(4). 483–502.

Baudena, Mara, et al.. (2025). Vegetation patterning can both impede and trigger critical transitions from savanna to grassland. Environmental Research Letters. 20(9). 94052–94052.

Bal, Michèlle, Mara Baudena, Karlijn L. van den Broek, et al.. (2025). Transdisciplinary complexity science: deepening system understanding for sustainability. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).

Higgins, Steven I., Mara Baudena, David M. J. S. Bowman, et al.. (2024). Reassessing the alternative ecosystem states proposition in the African savanna‐forest domain. New Phytologist. 243(5). 1660–1669. 5 indexed citations

Díaz‐Sierra, Rubén, et al.. (2024). Facilitation and competition deconstructed: a mechanistic modelling approach to the stress gradient hypothesis applied to drylands. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2205–2205. 2 indexed citations

Díaz‐Sierra, Rubén, et al.. (2023). Fire Responses Shape Plant Communities in a Minimal Model for Fire Ecosystems across the World. The American Naturalist. 202(3). E83–E103. 3 indexed citations

Baudena, Mara, et al.. (2023). Travelling waves due to negative plant–soil feedbacks in a model including tree life-stages. Mathematical Biosciences. 368. 109128–109128. 3 indexed citations

Makarieva, Anastassia M., A. V. Nefiodov, Antônio Donato Nobre, et al.. (2023). The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence. Global Change Biology. 29(9). 2536–2556. 26 indexed citations

Baudena, Mara, et al.. (2023). Impact of different destocking strategies on the resilience of dry rangelands. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). e10102–e10102. 3 indexed citations

10.

Abbott, Karen C., Maarten B. Eppinga, James Umbanhowar, Mara Baudena, & James D. Bever. (2021). Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory. Ecology Letters. 24(12). 2796–2811. 27 indexed citations

11.

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

12.

Dekker, Mark, et al.. (2021). Correspondence analysis, spectral clustering and graph embedding: applications to ecology and economic complexity. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 8926–8926. 21 indexed citations

13.

Hardenberg, Jost von, et al.. (2019). Grass and tree cover responses to intra-seasonal rainfall variability vary along a rainfall gradient in African tropical grassy biomes. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2334–2334. 20 indexed citations

14.

Baudena, Mara, Víctor M. Santana, Jaime Baeza, et al.. (2019). Increased aridity drives post‐fire recovery of Mediterranean forests towards open shrublands. New Phytologist. 225(4). 1500–1515. 54 indexed citations

15.

Hardenberg, Jost von, et al.. (2018). Not only trees: Grasses determine African tropical biome distributions via water limitation and fire. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(6). 714–725. 29 indexed citations

16.

Eppinga, Maarten B., Mara Baudena, Daniel J. Johnson, et al.. (2018). Frequency-dependent feedback constrains plant community coexistence. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(9). 1403–1407. 64 indexed citations

17.

Baudena, Mara, Stefan C. Dekker, Peter M. van Bodegom, et al.. (2015). Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. Biogeosciences. 12(6). 1833–1848. 97 indexed citations

18.

Baudena, Mara, Ángel Sánchez, Co-Pierre Georg, et al.. (2015). Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11561–11561. 10 indexed citations

19.

Baudena, Mara, Fabio D’Andrea, & Antonello Provenzale. (2009). An idealized model for tree–grass coexistence in savannas: the role of life stage structure and fire disturbances. Journal of Ecology. 98(1). 74–80. 70 indexed citations

20.

Baudena, Mara & Antonello Provenzale. (2008). Rainfall intermittency and vegetation feedbacks in drylands. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 12(2). 679–689. 29 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact