Nerea Abrego

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Nerea Abrego is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nerea Abrego has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Plant Science, 34 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 34 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Nerea Abrego's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (38 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (32 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (22 papers). Nerea Abrego is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (38 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (32 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (22 papers). Nerea Abrego collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Nerea Abrego's co-authors include Otso Ovaskainen, Gleb Tikhonov, David B. Dunson, Tomas Roslin, Anna Norberg, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Leo L. Duan, Isabel Salcedo, Panu Halme and Aleksi Lehikoinen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Nerea Abrego

63 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software

2017 636 citations Otso Ovaskainen, Gleb Tikhonov et al. profile →
Joint species distribution modelling with ther‐package Hmsc

2019 320 citations Gleb Tikhonov, Nerea Abrego et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nerea Abrego Finland	28	1.2k	936	934	864	791	65	2.8k
Joanne Clavel France	13	1.4k 1.2×	566 0.6×	897 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	228 0.3×	30	2.8k
Elizabeth L. Sander United States	5	1.2k 1.0×	445 0.5×	984 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	430 0.5×	6	2.9k
Agathe Leriche France	20	694 0.6×	498 0.5×	383 0.4×	426 0.5×	512 0.6×	37	1.8k
Roger D. Magarey United States	27	759 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	548 0.6×	315 0.4×	726 0.9×	59	2.4k
Laure Gallien France	24	1.5k 1.3×	608 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	260 0.3×	43	3.1k
Andrew W. Claridge Australia	24	1.3k 1.1×	521 0.6×	447 0.5×	389 0.5×	365 0.5×	77	2.1k
Gina M. Wimp United States	25	1.1k 1.0×	798 0.9×	1.7k 1.8×	1.3k 1.5×	817 1.0×	52	3.2k
Ian S. Pearse United States	33	1.8k 1.5×	833 0.9×	1.9k 2.0×	1.7k 2.0×	897 1.1×	126	3.7k
Noboru Ota Australia	17	509 0.4×	672 0.7×	401 0.4×	306 0.4×	581 0.7×	41	1.7k
Katrina M. Dlugosch United States	17	1.0k 0.9×	783 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	882 1.0×	511 0.6×	36	2.8k

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Ovaskainen, Otso, Brendan Furneaux, Janne Purhonen, et al.. (2025). Wind Is a Primary Driver of Fungal Dispersal Across a Mainland‐Island System. Molecular Ecology. 34(5). e17675–e17675.

Penttilä, Reijo, Tadashi Fukami, Brendan Furneaux, et al.. (2025). Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities. Ecology. 106(2). e70013–e70013. 2 indexed citations

Abrego, Nerea, Reijo Penttilä, Brendan Furneaux, et al.. (2025). The role of stochasticity in fungal community assembly: explaining apparent stochasticity with field experiments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2040). 20242416–20242416. 2 indexed citations

Ovaskainen, Otso, et al.. (2024). Experimental evidence that root‐associated fungi improve plant growth at high altitude. Molecular Ecology. 33(12). e17376–e17376. 2 indexed citations

Elo, Merja, Santtu Kareksela, Otso Ovaskainen, et al.. (2024). Restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems can effectively stop and reverse ecosystem degradation. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 680–680. 4 indexed citations

Abrego, Nerea, et al.. (2023). Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured. Ecography. 2023(10). 1 indexed citations

Wirta, Helena, Mirkka M. Jones, Juan Camilo Chacón-Duque, et al.. (2023). The role of seasonality in shaping the interactions of honeybees with other taxa. Ecology and Evolution. 13(10). e10580–e10580. 3 indexed citations

Härtig, Florian, Nerea Abrego, Alex Bush, et al.. (2023). Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(3). 280–293. 38 indexed citations

Abrego, Nerea & Otso Ovaskainen. (2023). Evaluating the predictive performance of presence–absence models: Why can the same model appear excellent or poor?. Ecology and Evolution. 13(12). e10784–e10784. 11 indexed citations

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Penttilä, Reijo, et al.. (2023). Natural deadwood hosts more diverse pioneering wood‐inhabiting fungal communities than restored deadwood. Restoration Ecology. 32(1). 6 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, Claus Bässler, Morten Christensen, & Jacob Heilmann‐Clausen. (2022). Traits and phylogenies modulate the environmental responses of wood‐inhabiting fungal communities across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. 110(4). 784–798. 8 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, et al.. (2022). Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities. Ecological Monographs. 92(3). 5 indexed citations

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Wirta, Helena, et al.. (2021). DNA traces the origin of honey by identifying plants, bacteria and fungi. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4798–4798. 42 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, Atte Komonen, Seppo Huhtinen, et al.. (2021). Wood-inhabiting fungal responses to forest naturalness vary among morpho-groups. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14585–14585. 8 indexed citations

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Kankaanpää, Tuomas, Nerea Abrego, Eero J. Vesterinen, & Tomas Roslin. (2020). Data for: Microclimate structures communities, predation and herbivory in the High Arctic. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, Tea Huotari, Ayco J. M. Tack, et al.. (2020). Higher host plant specialization of root‐associated endophytes than mycorrhizal fungi along an arctic elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution. 10(16). 8989–9002. 16 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, et al.. (2018). Habitat quality is more important than matrix quality for bird communities in protected areas. Ecology and Evolution. 8(8). 4019–4030. 18 indexed citations

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Roslin, Tomas, et al.. (2018). Finding flies in the mushroom soup: Host specificity of fungus‐associated communities revisited with a novel molecular method. Molecular Ecology. 28(2). 190–202. 17 indexed citations

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Abarenkov, Kessy, Panu Somervuo, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2018). Data from: PROTAX-fungi: a web-based tool for probabilistic taxonomic placement of fungal ITS sequences. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Abrego, Nerea, Gonzalo García‐Baquero, Panu Halme, Otso Ovaskainen, & Isabel Salcedo. (2014). Community Turnover of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi across Hierarchical Spatial Scales. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103416–e103416. 23 indexed citations

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