Paloma Ruiz‐Benito

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Paloma Ruiz‐Benito is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 69 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Paloma Ruiz‐Benito's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (45 papers) and Forest ecology and management (40 papers). Paloma Ruiz‐Benito is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (45 papers) and Forest ecology and management (40 papers). Paloma Ruiz‐Benito collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and France. Paloma Ruiz‐Benito's co-authors include Miguel Á. Zavala, Lorena Gómez‐Aparicio, Jens Kattge, Alistair S. Jump, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Francisco Lloret, Sarah Greenwood, Craig D. Allen, Thomas Kitzberger and R. J. Fensham and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Paloma Ruiz‐Benito

83 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

2017 374 citations Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Alistair S. Jump et al. profile →
Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought‐induced forest dieback

2017 276 citations Alistair S. Jump, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paloma Ruiz‐Benito Spain	29	2.4k	2.3k	1.0k	516	324	90	3.3k
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Czechia	25	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	730 1.4×	174 0.5×	45	3.3k
Lluís Coll Spain	33	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	655 0.6×	563 1.1×	210 0.6×	95	3.3k
Jean‐Daniel Bontemps France	26	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	938 0.9×	322 0.6×	146 0.5×	59	2.3k
Allan Buras Germany	27	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	454 0.9×	134 0.4×	79	2.8k
Dominik Thom Germany	24	2.7k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	599 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	302 0.9×	51	3.8k
Peter Brang Switzerland	29	2.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	894 0.9×	546 1.1×	134 0.4×	141	3.3k
Christof Bigler Switzerland	32	2.9k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.8×	831 1.6×	215 0.7×	71	3.9k
Michael Maroschek Austria	8	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	474 0.5×	434 0.8×	181 0.6×	11	2.1k
Olivier Bouriaud Romania	34	3.8k 1.6×	3.4k 1.5×	2.5k 2.4×	591 1.1×	152 0.5×	90	5.0k
Jan Altman Czechia	28	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	767 0.7×	379 0.7×	219 0.7×	105	2.2k

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Künstler, Georges, Björn Reineking, Mikko Peltoniemi, et al.. (2025). Structural and Compositional Disturbance Legacies Mediate the Resistance of European Forests to Repeated Disturbances. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(9). 1 indexed citations

Baranger, Anne, Benoı̂t Courbaud, Thomas Cordonnier, et al.. (2025). Shade tolerance controls the spectrum of crown sizes and its response to local competition across European and North American tree species. Implications for light interception strategies. Oikos. 2025(8).

Cruz‐Alonso, Verónica, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Enrique Andivia, José María Rey Beñayas, & Pedro Villar‐Salvador. (2025). The effect of shrubs on tree recruitment differs between planted and secondary forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 598. 123199–123199.

Künstler, Georges, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Emil Cienciala, et al.. (2025). Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate. Journal of Ecology. 113(3). 672–688.

Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, et al.. (2024). Forest disturbance regimes and trends in continental Spain (1985–2023) using dense landsat time series. Environmental Research. 262(Pt 1). 119802–119802. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Daijun, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Nezha Acil, et al.. (2024). Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8909–8909. 3 indexed citations

Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, et al.. (2024). Historical forest use constrains tree growth responses to drought: A case study on tapped maritime pine (Pinus pinaster). Trees Forests and People. 18. 100699–100699. 3 indexed citations

Vilà‐Cabrera, Albert, et al.. (2024). Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17563–e17563. 1 indexed citations

Arenas‐Castro, Salvador, et al.. (2023). Modelling aboveground biomass and productivity and the impact of climate change in Mediterranean forests of South Spain. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 337. 109498–109498. 9 indexed citations

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Cruz‐Alonso, Verónica, Sophia Ratcliffe, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, et al.. (2023). The easyclimate R package: Easy access to high-resolution daily climate data for Europe. Environmental Modelling & Software. 161. 105627–105627. 26 indexed citations

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Barrere, Julien, Björn Reineking, Thomas Cordonnier, et al.. (2023). Functional traits and climate drive interspecific differences in disturbance‐induced tree mortality. Global Change Biology. 29(10). 2836–2851. 18 indexed citations

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Chuvieco, Emilio, et al.. (2021). Links between Climate Change Knowledge, Perception and Action: Impacts on Personal Carbon Footprint. Sustainability. 13(14). 8088–8088. 17 indexed citations

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Reineking, Björn, Jonas Dahlgren, Aleksi Lehtonen, et al.. (2021). Colonization and extinction dynamics and their link to the distribution of European trees at the continental scale. Journal of Biogeography. 49(1). 117–129. 4 indexed citations

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Künstler, Georges, Sophia Ratcliffe, Nadja Rüger, et al.. (2020). Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 1041–1054. 36 indexed citations

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Aponte, Cristina, Sabine Kasel, Craig R. Nitschke, et al.. (2020). Structural diversity underpins carbon storage in Australian temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(5). 789–802. 71 indexed citations

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Cruz‐Alonso, Verónica, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Pedro Villar‐Salvador, & José María Rey Beñayas. (2019). Long‐term recovery of multifunctionality in Mediterranean forests depends on restoration strategy and forest type. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(3). 745–757. 57 indexed citations

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Simonson, William D., Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Fernando Valladares, & David A. Coomes. (2016). Modelling above-ground carbon dynamics using multi-temporal airborne lidar: insights from a Mediterranean woodland. Biogeosciences. 13(4). 961–973. 29 indexed citations

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Madrigal‐González, Jaime, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Sophia Ratcliffe, et al.. (2016). Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32233–32233. 44 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, et al.. (2014). Crecimiento de plántulas y árboles de especies de Quercus. e_Buah. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, et al.. (2013). Aplicación de modelos ecológicos para el análisis de la estructura y dinámica de bosques Ibéricos en respuesta al cambio climático. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 77–107. 2 indexed citations

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