Rúben Heleno

4.5k total citations
99 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Rúben Heleno is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rúben Heleno has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 41 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rúben Heleno's work include Plant and animal studies (67 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (27 papers). Rúben Heleno is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (67 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (27 papers). Rúben Heleno collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Denmark. Rúben Heleno's co-authors include Pablo Vargas, Anna Traveset, Manuel Nogales, Jaime A. Ramos, Jens M. Olesen, Jane Memmott, Susana Rodríguez‐Echeverría, Luís P. da Silva, Sérgio Timóteo and Marta Correia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rúben Heleno

92 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rúben Heleno Portugal 32 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 639 390 99 2.5k
Julio M. Alcántara Spain 23 1.5k 0.9× 1.7k 1.3× 891 0.8× 848 1.3× 329 0.8× 69 2.6k
Joyce Maschinski United States 20 1.0k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 896 0.8× 650 1.0× 231 0.6× 58 2.1k
José L. Hierro Argentina 24 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 662 1.0× 196 0.5× 58 2.5k
Dennis M. Hansen Switzerland 27 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 906 0.8× 869 1.4× 412 1.1× 56 3.0k
Lars Götzenberger Czechia 29 1.6k 1.0× 2.4k 1.8× 943 0.9× 897 1.4× 844 2.2× 65 3.3k
Ernesto I. Badano Mexico 26 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 864 0.8× 773 1.2× 479 1.2× 91 2.6k
Karl Hülber Austria 30 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 992 0.9× 582 0.9× 856 2.2× 79 2.7k
Şerban Procheş South Africa 29 1.8k 1.1× 1.9k 1.4× 807 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 916 2.3× 94 3.6k
Gerard J. Allan United States 28 925 0.6× 832 0.6× 730 0.7× 558 0.9× 401 1.0× 64 2.3k
Luis Navarro Spain 29 2.2k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.4× 421 0.7× 267 0.7× 89 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rúben Heleno

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rúben Heleno

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Olesen, Jens M., et al.. (2025). Urbanization of seed dispersal networks. Conservation Biology. 39(6). e70097–e70097.
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González‐García, Fernando, Christine C. Rega‐Brodsky, Michelle García‐Arroyo, et al.. (2025). Chirping across continents: variation in urban house sparrow (Passer domesticus) vocalizations across North America and Europe. Biological Invasions. 27(2).
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Costa, José Miguel, Rúben Heleno, Jaime A. Ramos, et al.. (2025). Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting and seeding during post-fire regeneration. Annals of Botany. 137(2). 405–414.
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Nogales, Manuel, Anna Traveset, Heriberto López, et al.. (2025). Disentangling small‐island multilayer networks: Underlying ecological and evolutionary patterns. Ecology. 106(4). e70058–e70058. 2 indexed citations
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Nogales, Manuel, Pablo Vargas, Jens M. Olesen, et al.. (2024). Climb forest, climb: diverse disperser communities are key to assist plants tracking climate change on altitudinal gradients. New Phytologist. 245(3). 1315–1329. 2 indexed citations
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Hervías‐Parejo, Sandra, Lucas Lacasa, Anna Traveset, et al.. (2024). On the structure of species-function participation in multilayer ecological networks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8910–8910. 6 indexed citations
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Nogales, Manuel, Kim R. McConkey, Tomás A. Carlo, et al.. (2024). A Review on the State of the Art in Frugivory and Seed Dispersal on Islands and the Implications of Global Change. The Botanical Review. 90(2). 160–185. 8 indexed citations
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Benedicto, J., José Miguel Costa, Rúben Heleno, et al.. (2023). What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?. Conservation Letters. 17(1). 8 indexed citations
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Heleno, Rúben, et al.. (2023). Impacts of invasive ants on pollination of native plants are similar in invaded and restored plant communities. Global Ecology and Conservation. 42. e02413–e02413. 4 indexed citations
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Herrera, José M., Pedro Sousa, Miguel Porto, et al.. (2022). Canopy arthropod declines along a gradient of olive farming intensification. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17273–17273. 11 indexed citations
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Costa, José Miguel, Jaime A. Ramos, Sérgio Timóteo, et al.. (2020). Species temporal persistence promotes the stability of fruit–frugivore interactions across a 5‐year multilayer network. Journal of Ecology. 108(5). 1888–1898. 22 indexed citations
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Silva, Luís P. da, Rúben Heleno, José Miguel Costa, et al.. (2019). Natural woodlands hold more diverse, abundant, and unique biota than novel anthropogenic forests: a multi-group assessment. European Journal of Forest Research. 138(3). 461–472. 53 indexed citations
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Costa, José Miguel, Jaime A. Ramos, Luís P. da Silva, et al.. (2018). Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unexpected network configurations. Basic and Applied Ecology. 30. 11–22. 24 indexed citations
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Timóteo, Sérgio, Marta Correia, Susana Rodríguez‐Echeverría, Helena Freitas, & Rúben Heleno. (2018). Multilayer networks reveal the spatial structure of seed-dispersal interactions across the Great Rift landscapes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 140–140. 64 indexed citations
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Guzmán, Beatriz, et al.. (2016). Evolutionary history of the endangered shrub snapdragon (Galvezia leucantha) of the Galápagos Islands. Diversity and Distributions. 23(3). 247–260. 5 indexed citations
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Traveset, Anna, Jens M. Olesen, Manuel Nogales, et al.. (2015). Bird–flower visitation networks in the Galápagos unveil a widespread interaction release. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6376–6376. 70 indexed citations
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Heleno, Rúben, Stephen Blake, Patricia Jaramillo, et al.. (2011). Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Galápagos: what is the state of the art?. Integrative Zoology. 6(2). 110–129. 39 indexed citations
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Ramos, Jaime A., et al.. (2009). Fern feeding ecology of the Azores bullfinch "Pyrrhula murina": the selection of fern species and the influence of nutritional composition in fern choice. Ardeola. 56(1). 71–84. 10 indexed citations
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Heleno, Rúben, Ricardo S. Ceia, Jaime A. Ramos, & Jane Memmott. (2008). Effects of Alien Plants on Insect Abundance and Biomass: a Food‐Web Approach. Conservation Biology. 23(2). 410–419. 82 indexed citations

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