Rui B. Elias

1.8k total citations
60 papers, 831 citations indexed

About

Rui B. Elias is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui B. Elias has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 831 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 15 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Rui B. Elias's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Rui B. Elias is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Rui B. Elias collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and France. Rui B. Elias's co-authors include Eduardo Días, Luís Silva, Eduardo Brito de Azevedo, Paulo A. V. Borges, José María Fernández‐Palacios, Rosalina Gabriel, Artur Gil, Beatriz Rumeu, Manuel Nogales and Maria Teresa Ferreira and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Rui B. Elias

57 papers receiving 807 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui B. Elias Portugal	17	309	271	187	185	184	60	831
Aud H. Halbritter Norway	13	336 1.1×	249 0.9×	204 1.1×	210 1.1×	189 1.0×	26	768
Katrin Rudmann-Maurer Switzerland	11	361 1.2×	275 1.0×	208 1.1×	194 1.0×	174 0.9×	13	741
Katsuhiro Nakao Japan	18	288 0.9×	194 0.7×	233 1.2×	318 1.7×	123 0.7×	38	790
Marie‐Hélène Brice Canada	10	284 0.9×	233 0.9×	138 0.7×	138 0.7×	189 1.0×	14	670
Sami Aikio Finland	16	473 1.5×	384 1.4×	283 1.5×	222 1.2×	162 0.9×	37	965
Günther Klonner Austria	8	485 1.6×	299 1.1×	174 0.9×	390 2.1×	169 0.9×	9	798
Rafael Molina‐Venegas Spain	17	462 1.5×	400 1.5×	246 1.3×	312 1.7×	187 1.0×	42	997
Hanne De Kort Belgium	14	349 1.1×	340 1.3×	281 1.5×	243 1.3×	166 0.9×	29	990
Greg R. Guerin Australia	19	506 1.6×	342 1.3×	258 1.4×	358 1.9×	253 1.4×	66	1.0k
Laura K. Gray Canada	11	497 1.6×	148 0.5×	151 0.8×	240 1.3×	400 2.2×	12	978

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Guerrero‐Ramírez, Nathaly R., Claudine Ah‐Peng, Paulo A. V. Borges, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (BioMonI). GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 8.

García‐Cervigón, Ana I., Rui B. Elias, José María Fernández‐Palacios, et al.. (2025). Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climate and Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region. Journal of Biogeography. 52(4). 1 indexed citations

Borges, Paulo A. V., Rosalina Gabriel, Rui B. Elias, et al.. (2025). Integrating plot-based methods for monitoring biodiversity in island habitats under the scope of BIODIVERSA + project BioMonI: Tree monitoring in Terceira, Tenerife and Réunion Islands. Biodiversity Data Journal. 13. e158423–e158423.

Fernández‐Palacios, José María, Rüdiger Otto, Jorge Capelo, et al.. (2024). In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical region. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(6). 2060–2081. 10 indexed citations

Jevšenak, Jernej, et al.. (2023). Climate–Growth Relationships in Laurus azorica—A Dominant Tree in the Azorean Laurel Forest. Forests. 14(2). 166–166. 7 indexed citations

Madeira, Patrícia, et al.. (2023). Vascular plant taxa occurrences in exotic woodland and in natural and production forests on the Islands of São Miguel, Terceira and Pico (Azores). ZooKeys. 11. e109082–e109082. 3 indexed citations

Melo, Catarina, et al.. (2023). Assessing the effects of climate change on arthropod abundance in Azorean pastures: PASTURCLIM project's baseline monitoring data. ZooKeys. 11. e103723–e103723. 3 indexed citations

Tsafack, Noëlline, et al.. (2023). Effects of a short-term temperature increase on arthropod communities associated with pastures. ZooKeys. 11. e107385–e107385. 2 indexed citations

Tsafack, Noëlline, Rosalina Gabriel, Rui B. Elias, et al.. (2022). Arthropods and other biota associated with the Azorean trees and shrubs: Laurus azorica (Seub) Franco (Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, Laurales, Lauraceae). ZooKeys. 10. e80088–e80088. 7 indexed citations

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Elias, Rui B., et al.. (2021). Modelling invasive alien plant distribution: A literature review of concepts and bibliometric analysis. Environmental Modelling & Software. 145. 105203–105203. 14 indexed citations

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Norder, Sietze J., Ricardo F. de Lima, Lea de Nascimento, et al.. (2020). Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands. Anthropocene. 30. 100242–100242. 45 indexed citations

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Rull, Valentı́, Simon Connor, & Rui B. Elias. (2017). Potential natural vegetation and pre‐anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context. Journal of Biogeography. 44(11). 2437–2440. 5 indexed citations

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Alves, Mário, et al.. (2017). Comparison ofT-Square, Point Centered Quarter, andN-Tree Sampling Methods inPittosporum undulatumInvaded Woodlands. International Journal of Forestry Research. 2017. 1–13. 10 indexed citations

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Steinbauer, Manuel J., Richard Field, John‐Arvid Grytnes, et al.. (2016). Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (Forthcoming). Global Ecology and Biogeography. 3 indexed citations

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Elias, Rui B., Jürgen Kluge, Fernando Pereira, et al.. (2016). Long-term monitoring across elevational gradients (II) : vascular plants on Pico Island (Azores) transect. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 33. 21–44. 3 indexed citations

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Barreiros, João P., Rui B. Elias, Rosalina Gabriel, et al.. (2014). The Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae) in the Azores and Madeira Archipelagos: a new species for the Western Palearctic. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 31. 37–43. 1 indexed citations

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Elias, Rui B. & Eduardo Días. (2014). The recognition of infraspecific taxa in Juniperus brevifolia (Cupressaceae). Phytotaxa. 188(5). 4 indexed citations

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Barreiros, João P., Rui B. Elias, Joana Lourenço, Eduardo Días, & Paulo A. V. Borges. (2010). First records of Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia; Gekkonidae) in the Azores. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 73–75. 5 indexed citations

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Soares, António O., Rui B. Elias, & H. Schanderl. (1999). Dinámica de población de Icerya purchasi Maskell (Hom ; Margarodidae) y Todolia cardinalis Mulsant (Col ; Coccinellidae) en dos huertos de cítricos de la isla de Sao Miguel (Azores) = Population dynamics of Icerya purchasi MASKELL (Hom; Margarodidae) and Rodolia cardinalis MULSANT (Col; Coccinellidae) in two citrus orchards of Sao Miguel island (Azores). Hispana. 25(4). 459–467. 3 indexed citations

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Soares, António O., Rui B. Elias, & H. Schanderl. (1997). Encarsia citrina (Crawford) (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae), a parasitoid of Unaspis citri (Comstock) and Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman) (Homoptera, Diaspididae) in citrus orchards of Sao Miguel island (Azores). Hispana. 23(3). 449–456. 4 indexed citations

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