Pedro R. Peres‐Neto

21.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
110 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

Pedro R. Peres‐Neto is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 41 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Pedro R. Peres‐Neto's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (24 papers). Pedro R. Peres‐Neto is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (33 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (24 papers). Pedro R. Peres‐Neto collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Pedro R. Peres‐Neto's co-authors include Pierre Legendre, Donald A. Jackson, Stéphane Dray, Daniel Borcard, Julian D. Olden, Keith M. Somers, Daniel A. Griffith, Jinlong Zhang, Yi Zou and Jiangshan Lai and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Pedro R. Peres‐Neto

109 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the ana... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2007 2006 2006 2005 2001 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review
    2007 2.6k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  2. VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS
    2006 1.9k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Stéphane Dray et al. Ecology profile →
  3. Spatial modelling: a comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour matrices (PCNM)
    2006 1.5k citations Stéphane Dray, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  4. ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA
    2005 1.0k citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  5. What controls who is where in freshwater fish communities the roles of biotic, abiotic, and spatial factors
    2001 892 citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  6. Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package
    2022 786 citations Jiangshan Lai, Yi Zou et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
  7. How well do multivariate data sets match? The advantages of a Procrustean superimposition approach over the Mantel test
    2001 785 citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  8. How many principal components? stopping rules for determining the number of non-trivial axes revisited
    2004 626 citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  9. Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis
    2012 519 citations Stéphane Dray, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. profile →
  10. SPATIAL MODELING IN ECOLOGY: THE FLEXIBILITY OF EIGENFUNCTION SPATIAL ANALYSES
    2006 517 citations Pedro R. Peres‐Neto et al. Ecology profile →
  11. Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation
    2013 448 citations Stéphane Dray, Philippe Choler et al. Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pedro R. Peres‐Neto Canada 44 8.2k 8.1k 3.4k 3.3k 3.0k 110 16.8k
Daniel Borcard Canada 29 8.2k 1.0× 7.5k 0.9× 3.6k 1.1× 2.4k 0.7× 3.0k 1.0× 50 16.1k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.2k 0.9× 7.0k 0.9× 4.5k 1.3× 2.5k 0.8× 4.1k 1.4× 116 16.3k
Stéphane Dray France 45 6.5k 0.8× 6.0k 0.7× 4.3k 1.3× 2.4k 0.7× 2.5k 0.8× 90 15.5k
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland 54 6.7k 0.8× 6.5k 0.8× 4.6k 1.4× 2.8k 0.8× 3.9k 1.3× 146 14.4k
William F. Fagan United States 64 8.5k 1.0× 5.8k 0.7× 4.0k 1.2× 2.0k 0.6× 3.7k 1.2× 270 16.5k
Mark Vellend Canada 52 7.1k 0.9× 8.5k 1.0× 5.6k 1.7× 3.5k 1.1× 3.3k 1.1× 132 16.2k
Brian J. McGill United States 52 7.0k 0.9× 9.3k 1.1× 5.9k 1.8× 5.3k 1.6× 4.1k 1.4× 122 16.7k
Michael R. Willig United States 59 7.8k 1.0× 6.0k 0.7× 5.8k 1.7× 4.0k 1.2× 2.8k 0.9× 222 16.7k
Marcel Holyoak United States 36 6.9k 0.8× 5.0k 0.6× 3.9k 1.2× 1.9k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 125 11.9k
Sébastien Villéger France 46 7.4k 0.9× 7.9k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 4.1k 1.4× 113 13.5k

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All Works

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Yates, Matthew C., et al.. (2025). A Framework to Unify the Relationship Between Numerical Abundance, Biomass, and Environmental DNA. Environmental DNA. 7(2). 3 indexed citations
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LESSARD, J., et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous dispersal networks to improve biodiversity science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(3). 229–238. 11 indexed citations
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Kembel, Steven W., et al.. (2023). Historical and contemporary processes drive global phylogenetic structure across geographical scales: Insights from bat communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(5). 747–765. 3 indexed citations
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Dallaire, Camille Ouellet, Bernhard Lehner, & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2023). River reach types as large-scale biodiversity proxies for management: The case of the Greater Mekong Region. Ecological Indicators. 146. 109907–109907. 5 indexed citations
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Lai, Jiangshan, Yi Zou, Jinlong Zhang, & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2022). Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(4). 782–788. 786 indexed citations breakdown →
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R., Andreu Castillo‐Escrivà, Fabián Bonilla, et al.. (2022). Inconsistent response of taxonomic groups to space and environment in mediterranean and tropical pond metacommunities. Ecology. 104(1). e3835–e3835. 12 indexed citations
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Barfield, Michael, et al.. (2021). Disturbance‐induced emigration: an overlooked mechanism that reduces metapopulation extinction risk. Ecology. 102(8). e03423–e03423. 1 indexed citations
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Braak, Cajo J. F. ter, Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, & Stéphane Dray. (2017). A critical issue in model-based inference for studying trait-based community assembly and a solution. PeerJ. 5. e2885–e2885. 33 indexed citations
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Lee, Who‐Seung, Marc Mangel, & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2016). Environmental integration: patterns of correlation between environmental factors, early life decisions, and their long-term consequences. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(1). 1–19. 9 indexed citations
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R., et al.. (2015). Seasonal modulation of landscape effects on predatory beetle assemblage.. Bulletin of insectology. 68(2). 181–191. 2 indexed citations
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Devillers, Rodolphe, et al.. (2015). Delineating marine ecological units: a novel approach for deciding which taxonomic group to use and which taxonomic resolution to choose. Diversity and Distributions. 21(10). 1167–1180. 10 indexed citations
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Dray, Stéphane, Philippe Choler, Sylvain Dolédec, et al.. (2013). Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation. Ecology. 95(1). 14–21. 448 indexed citations breakdown →
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Colborne, Scott F., Pedro R. Peres‐Neto, Fred J. Longstaffe, & Bryan D. Neff. (2013). Effects of foraging and sexual selection on ecomorphology of a fish with alternative reproductive tactics. Behavioral Ecology. 24(6). 1339–1347. 7 indexed citations
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Henriques‐Silva, Renato, Zoë Lindo, & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2012). A community of metacommunities: exploring patterns in species distributions across large geographical areas. Ecology. 94(3). 627–639. 98 indexed citations
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Beisner, Beatrix E., et al.. (2010). Meso-scale distributions of lake zooplankton reveal spatially and temporally varying trophic cascades. Journal of Plankton Research. 32(10). 1369–1384. 27 indexed citations
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R., et al.. (2010). AN OVERVIEW OF SOME ASPECTS OF RIVER ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY ON FISH ASSEMBLAGES DISTRIBUTION IN AN EASTERN BRAZILIAN COASTAL RIVER. Oecologia Australis. 1(1). 317–334. 5 indexed citations
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Beisner, Beatrix E. & Pedro R. Peres‐Neto. (2009). Seasonal trophic dynamics affect zooplankton community variability. Freshwater Biology. 54(11). 2351–2363. 7 indexed citations
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R.. (2006). A UNIFIED STRATEGY FOR ESTIMATING AND CONTROLLING SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND PHYLOGENETIC AUTOCORRELATION IN ECOLOGICAL MODELS. Oecologia Australis. 10(1). 105–119. 32 indexed citations
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Peres‐Neto, Pedro R.. (1995). INTRODUÇÃO A ANÁLISES MORFOMÉTRICAS. Oecologia Brasiliensis. 2(1). 57–89. 20 indexed citations

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