Miguel Berdugo

12.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
71 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Miguel Berdugo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Miguel Berdugo has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 22 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Miguel Berdugo's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (19 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers). Miguel Berdugo is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (19 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers). Miguel Berdugo collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Switzerland and France. Miguel Berdugo's co-authors include Fernando T. Maestre, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Juan Gaitán, Santiago Soliveres, Brajesh K. Singh, Nicolas Gross, Thomas C. Jeffries, Colin D. Campbell, Peter B. Reich and Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Miguel Berdugo

69 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestr... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2020 2016 2017 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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. Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems
    2016 1.7k citations Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Fernando T. Maestre et al. profile →
  2. Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity
    2020 771 citations Miguel Berdugo, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Science profile →
  3. Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World
    2016 386 citations Fernando T. Maestre, David J. Eldridge et al. profile →
  4. Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality
    2017 367 citations Nicolas Gross, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  5. Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality
    2019 275 citations Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Santiago Soliveres et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Biogeography of global drylands
    2021 224 citations Fernando T. Maestre, Blas M. Benito et al. New Phytologist profile →
  7. Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide
    2023 93 citations Matthias C. Rillig, Miguel Berdugo et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions
    2023 62 citations Youzhi Feng, Fernando T. Maestre et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Miguel Berdugo Spain 28 1.9k 1.7k 1.5k 1.5k 1.3k 71 5.6k
Pablo García‐Palacios Spain 37 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 2.3k 1.6× 989 0.8× 78 5.1k
Juan Gaitán Argentina 19 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 965 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 611 0.5× 43 3.9k
Ingo Schöning Germany 38 1.9k 1.0× 660 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 996 0.8× 79 4.8k
Kanehiro Kitayama Japan 45 2.0k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 3.0k 2.0× 2.7k 1.8× 1.1k 0.9× 167 6.9k
Loretta C. Johnson United States 31 2.7k 1.4× 1.4k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 791 0.6× 75 5.2k
Jacqueline E. Mohan United States 24 2.1k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 748 0.6× 44 5.1k
Alexei V. Tiunov Russia 31 2.4k 1.2× 675 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 175 4.9k
Xinquan Zhao China 44 2.5k 1.3× 2.2k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 559 0.4× 155 6.6k
María Teresa Fernández Piedade Brazil 37 2.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.7× 750 0.5× 922 0.7× 203 5.7k
Jan Frouz Czechia 47 3.1k 1.6× 1.0k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 3.6k 2.4× 1.8k 1.4× 289 8.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miguel Berdugo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Miguel Berdugo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Miguel Berdugo 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 Miguel Berdugo. Miguel Berdugo 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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Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Ricard V. Solé, Sonia Kéfi, et al.. (2025). Causes and consequences of disordered hyperuniformity in global drylands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(41). e2504496122–e2504496122. 1 indexed citations
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Berdugo, Miguel, Tadeo Sáez‐Sandino, Tingting Ren, et al.. (2025). Temperature thresholds induce abrupt shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem services in montane ecosystems worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2413981122–e2413981122. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanchuang, Sonia Kéfi, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2025). The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(8).
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Abel, Christin, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2024). Vegetation resistance to increasing aridity when crossing thresholds depends on local environmental conditions in global drylands. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 18 indexed citations
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Picard, Émilie, Alejandra Daruich, Patricia Crisanti, et al.. (2024). Glyburide confers neuroprotection against age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Translational research. 272. 81–94. 4 indexed citations
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Sáez‐Sandino, Tadeo, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2024). Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide. Nature Climate Change. 14(7). 740–745. 21 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Takehiro, et al.. (2024). Aridity‐dependent shifts in biodiversity–stability relationships but not in underlying mechanisms. Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17365–e17365. 7 indexed citations
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Zhou, Guiyao, Nico Eisenhauer, César Terrer, et al.. (2024). Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors. Nature Geoscience. 17(9). 882–888. 27 indexed citations
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Hernández‐Clemente, Rocío, A. Hornero, V. González-Dugo, et al.. (2023). Global monitoring of soil multifunctionality in drylands using satellite imagery and field data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(6). 743–758. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hailing, César Terrer, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass. National Science Review. 10(11). nwad242–nwad242. 19 indexed citations
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Miranda, Alejandro, Alexandra D. Syphard, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2023). Widespread synchronous decline of Mediterranean-type forest driven by accelerated aridity. Nature Plants. 9(11). 1810–1817. 23 indexed citations
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Feng, Youzhi, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2023). Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(7). 1002–1011. 62 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berdugo, Miguel, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Andreu Bonet, et al.. (2023). On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems. Journal of Ecology. 111(7). 1455–1467. 7 indexed citations
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Feng, Youzhi, Miguel Berdugo, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2022). Temperature thresholds drive the global distribution of soil fungal decomposers. Global Change Biology. 28(8). 2779–2789. 53 indexed citations
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Egidi, Eleonora, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2022). UV index and climate seasonality explain fungal community turnover in global drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(1). 132–144. 9 indexed citations
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Maestre, Fernando T., Blas M. Benito, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2021). Biogeography of global drylands. New Phytologist. 231(2). 540–558. 224 indexed citations breakdown →
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Conde–Pueyo, Núria, Blai Vidiella, Josep Sardanyés, et al.. (2020). Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome. Life. 10(2). 14–14. 31 indexed citations
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Berdugo, Miguel, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Santiago Soliveres, et al.. (2020). Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity. Science. 367(6479). 787–790. 771 indexed citations breakdown →
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Esteve‐Codina, Anna, Jèssica Gómez‐Garrido, Marco Brustolin, et al.. (2020). Alteration in the Culex pipiens transcriptome reveals diverse mechanisms of the mosquito immune system implicated upon Rift Valley fever phlebovirus exposure. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(12). e0008870–e0008870. 6 indexed citations

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