Ricardo M. Holdø

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ricardo M. Holdø is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricardo M. Holdø has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ricardo M. Holdø's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers). Ricardo M. Holdø is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers). Ricardo M. Holdø collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Ricardo M. Holdø's co-authors include Robert D. Holt, John M. Fryxell, Jesse B. Nippert, Lee Russell McDowell, T. Michael Anderson, A. R. E. Sinclair, Thomas A. Morrison, Mark E. Ritchie, Andrew P. Dobson and Michelle C. Mack and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Ricardo M. Holdø

62 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa's Vultures Collapsing toward Extinction

2015 292 citations Ricardo M. Holdø, A. R. E. Sinclair et al. profile →
Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

2023 104 citations Robert M. Pringle, T. Michael Anderson et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ricardo M. Holdø United States	27	1.4k	1.3k	893	541	317	65	2.6k
Corinna Riginos United States	27	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	672 0.8×	709 1.3×	532 1.7×	68	2.6k
Gunnar Austrheim Norway	32	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	796 0.9×	491 0.9×	393 1.2×	93	2.8k
Michael Mühlenberg Germany	26	965 0.7×	916 0.7×	447 0.5×	661 1.2×	160 0.5×	60	2.0k
Stein R. Moe Norway	32	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	878 1.6×	837 2.6×	121	3.7k
Aaron B. Shiels United States	26	1.0k 0.8×	860 0.7×	496 0.6×	454 0.8×	160 0.5×	92	2.0k
Roger Bergström Sweden	36	1.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	451 0.8×	266 0.8×	87	3.0k
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt Sweden	34	2.4k 1.8×	1.3k 1.0×	716 0.8×	438 0.8×	446 1.4×	106	3.4k
W. R. J. Dean South Africa	23	859 0.6×	998 0.8×	449 0.5×	616 1.1×	243 0.8×	93	1.9k
Lauren M. Porensky United States	27	1.3k 1.0×	933 0.7×	704 0.8×	270 0.5×	632 2.0×	90	2.2k
Dries P. J. Kuijper Poland	31	2.2k 1.6×	1000 0.8×	551 0.6×	452 0.8×	221 0.7×	89	2.9k

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McIntyre, Jennifer, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Ricardo M. Holdø, et al.. (2025). Disentangling transport and trophic effects of animal movement on environmental parasite abundance. International Journal for Parasitology. 55(13). 673–682.

Donaldson, Jason E., et al.. (2024). Time since fire interacts with herbivore intake rates to control herbivore habitat occupancy. Ecology. 106(1). e4473–e4473. 2 indexed citations

Anderson, T. Michael, Ricardo M. Holdø, Jason E. Donaldson, et al.. (2024). Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores. Science. 383(6684). 782–788. 8 indexed citations

Donaldson, Jason E., Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Thomas A. Morrison, & Ricardo M. Holdø. (2024). Effects of migratory animals on resident parasite dynamics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(7). 625–633. 3 indexed citations

Nippert, Jesse B., et al.. (2023). African savanna grasses outperform trees across the full spectrum of soil moisture availability. New Phytologist. 239(1). 66–74. 8 indexed citations

Holdø, Ricardo M. & Jesse B. Nippert. (2022). Linking resource‐ and disturbance‐based models to explain tree–grass coexistence in savannas. New Phytologist. 237(6). 1966–1979. 26 indexed citations

Donaldson, Jason E., et al.. (2022). Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna. Ecology. 103(8). e3715–e3715. 15 indexed citations

Lee, Christopher A., Ricardo M. Holdø, & Rose‐Marie Muzika. (2021). Feedbacks between forest structure and an opportunistic fungal pathogen. Journal of Ecology. 109(12). 4092–4102. 6 indexed citations

Case, Madelon F., Jesse B. Nippert, Ricardo M. Holdø, & A. Carla Staver. (2020). Root‐niche separation between savanna trees and grasses is greater on sandier soils. Journal of Ecology. 108(6). 2298–2308. 53 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M., et al.. (2019). Spatial transitions in tree cover are associated with soil hydrology, but not with grass biomass, fire frequency, or herbivore biomass in Serengeti savannahs. Journal of Ecology. 108(2). 586–597. 12 indexed citations

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Luhring, Thomas M. & Ricardo M. Holdø. (2015). Trade-offs between growth and maturation: the cost of reproduction for surviving environmental extremes. Oecologia. 178(3). 723–732. 17 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M. & Jesse B. Nippert. (2015). Transpiration dynamics support resource partitioning in African savanna trees and grasses. Ecology. 96(6). 1466–1472. 26 indexed citations

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Morrison, Thomas A., Ricardo M. Holdø, & T. Michael Anderson. (2015). Elephant damage, not fire or rainfall, explains mortality of overstorey trees in Serengeti. Journal of Ecology. 104(2). 409–418. 54 indexed citations

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Nippert, Jesse B. & Ricardo M. Holdø. (2014). Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas. Functional Ecology. 29(6). 739–745. 79 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M., et al.. (2011). Tree canopies explain fire effects on soil nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in a savanna ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. 23(2). 352–360. 29 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M., Robert D. Holt, & John M. Fryxell. (2009). Opposing Rainfall and Plant Nutritional Gradients Best Explain the Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti. The American Naturalist. 173(4). 431–445. 186 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M., A. R. E. Sinclair, Andrew P. Dobson, et al.. (2009). A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C. PLoS Biology. 7(9). e1000210–e1000210. 188 indexed citations

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Chamaillé‐Jammes, Simon, Hervé Fritz, & Ricardo M. Holdø. (2007). Spatial relationship between elephant and sodium concentration of water disappears as density increases in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 23(6). 725–728. 11 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M.. (2007). ELEPHANTS, FIRE, AND FROST CAN DETERMINE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION IN KALAHARI WOODLANDS. Ecological Applications. 17(2). 558–568. 87 indexed citations

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Holdø, Ricardo M., Joseph P. Dudley, & Lee Russell McDowell. (2002). GEOPHAGY IN THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT IN RELATION TO AVAILABILITY OF DIETARY SODIUM. Journal of Mammalogy. 83(3). 652–664. 101 indexed citations

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