Nacho Villar

722 total citations
20 papers, 359 citations indexed

About

Nacho Villar is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nacho Villar has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 359 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nacho Villar's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (8 papers). Nacho Villar is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (8 papers). Nacho Villar collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Netherlands. Nacho Villar's co-authors include Mauro Galetti, Stephen M. Redpath, Darren M. Evans, Robin J. Pakeman, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Sharon A. Evans, Nick A. Littlewood, John Skartveit, Peter Dennis and Edson F. Abreu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Ecology and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Nacho Villar

18 papers receiving 356 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nacho Villar Brazil	12	243	183	87	77	68	20	359
Harald Beck United States	7	248 1.0×	133 0.7×	83 1.0×	43 0.6×	57 0.8×	11	347
Paulo Rubim Brazil	8	249 1.0×	225 1.2×	157 1.8×	88 1.1×	88 1.3×	12	435
María Luisa S. P. Jorge United States	11	375 1.5×	162 0.9×	94 1.1×	77 1.0×	95 1.4×	23	482
Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício Brazil	10	248 1.0×	175 1.0×	106 1.2×	77 1.0×	87 1.3×	26	426
Marcelo Magioli Brazil	13	492 2.0×	194 1.1×	93 1.1×	87 1.1×	137 2.0×	34	594
José Fernando Pacheco Brazil	11	250 1.0×	230 1.3×	139 1.6×	70 0.9×	123 1.8×	45	482
Giovany Guevara Colombia	9	181 0.7×	105 0.6×	138 1.6×	64 0.8×	65 1.0×	44	380
Júlia Emi de Faria Oshima Brazil	11	232 1.0×	95 0.5×	72 0.8×	90 1.2×	57 0.8×	22	366
Leonardo Carreira Trevelin Brazil	12	245 1.0×	94 0.5×	170 2.0×	73 0.9×	110 1.6×	25	432
Pedro Volkmer de Castilho Brazil	13	291 1.2×	141 0.8×	54 0.6×	54 0.7×	49 0.7×	34	399

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20 of 20 papers shown

Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2025). Belowground effects of ground‐dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Brodie, Jedediah F., Carolina Bello, Carine Emer, et al.. (2024). Defaunation impacts on the carbon balance of tropical forests. Conservation Biology. 39(1). e14414–e14414. 5 indexed citations

Emer, Carine, et al.. (2024). The interplay between defaunation and phylogenetic diversity affects leaf damage by natural enemies in tropical plants. Journal of Ecology. 112(5). 971–984. 2 indexed citations

Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2024). Communal tapir latrines are foraging sites for tropical forest vertebrates. Global Ecology and Conservation. 52. e02950–e02950.

Villar, Nacho. (2023). Trophic cascades help restore vegetation. Science. 382(6670). 516–517. 13 indexed citations

Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2022). Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology. 110(4). 845–859. 22 indexed citations

Leeuwen, Casper H. A. van, Nacho Villar, Irene Mendoza, et al.. (2022). A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism–antagonism continuum. Oikos. 2022(9). 40 indexed citations

Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2022). souzayuri/LMH_exclusion_experiment_plant_growth_forms: Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Magioli, Marcelo, Nacho Villar, María Luisa S. P. Jorge, et al.. (2021). Dietary expansion facilitates the persistence of a large frugivore in fragmented tropical forests. Animal Conservation. 25(4). 582–593. 9 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2021). Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 20(1). 45–59. 11 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho & Emília Patrícia Medici. (2021). Large wild herbivores slow down the rapid decline of plant diversity in a tropical forest biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(11). 2361–2370. 13 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2020). Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle. Functional Ecology. 35(2). 357–368. 39 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, et al.. (2020). Dominance hierarchy on palm resource partitioning among Neotropical frugivorous mammals. Journal of Mammalogy. 101(3). 697–709. 15 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, Tadeu Siqueira, Fabiano Turini Farah, et al.. (2019). The cryptic regulation of diversity by functionally complementary large tropical forest herbivores. Journal of Ecology. 108(1). 279–290. 34 indexed citations

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Bovendorp, Ricardo S., Nacho Villar, Edson F. Abreu, et al.. (2017). Atlantic small‐mammal: a dataset of communities of rodents and marsupials of the Atlantic forests of South America. Ecology. 98(8). 2226–2226. 47 indexed citations

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Evans, Darren M., Nacho Villar, Nick A. Littlewood, et al.. (2015). The cascading impacts of livestock grazing in upland ecosystems: a 10‐year experiment. Ecosphere. 6(3). 1–15. 70 indexed citations

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Losdat, Sylvain, Peter Arcese, Laura Sampson, Nacho Villar, & Jane M. Reid. (2015). Additive genetic variance and effects of inbreeding, sex and age on heterophil to lymphocyte ratio in song sparrows. Functional Ecology. 30(7). 1185–1195. 8 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, Thomas Cornulier, Darren M. Evans, et al.. (2013). Experimental evidence that livestock grazing intensity affects cyclic vole population regulation processes. Population Ecology. 56(1). 55–61. 16 indexed citations

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Villar, Nacho, Xavier Lambin, Darren M. Evans, Robin J. Pakeman, & Stephen M. Redpath. (2013). Experimental evidence that livestock grazing intensity affects the activity of a generalist predator. Acta Oecologica. 49. 12–16. 13 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Catarina, Rafael Villafuerte, Nacho Villar, et al.. (2013). Experimental study on the effect of cover and vaccination on the survival of juvenile European rabbits. Population Ecology. 56(1). 195–202. 1 indexed citations

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