Vanessa Pontara

720 total citations
23 papers, 476 citations indexed

About

Vanessa Pontara is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Pontara has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 476 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 5 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Pontara's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (7 papers). Vanessa Pontara is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (7 papers). Vanessa Pontara collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and Belgium. Vanessa Pontara's co-authors include Marcelo Leandro Bueno, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, Danilo M. Neves, J. A. Ratter, João Augusto Alves Meira‐Neto, Luciana Hiromi Yoshino Kamino, Vanessa Leite Rezende and Gustavo Heringer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Ecology, Oecologia and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Pontara

21 papers receiving 471 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vanessa Pontara Brazil 13 304 226 118 106 103 23 476
Fernando O. G. Figueiredo Brazil 11 414 1.4× 280 1.2× 211 1.8× 144 1.4× 140 1.4× 18 628
Juliana Stropp Brazil 12 266 0.9× 193 0.9× 199 1.7× 73 0.7× 130 1.3× 24 444
Vanessa Leite Rezende Brazil 14 304 1.0× 237 1.0× 98 0.8× 84 0.8× 57 0.6× 30 441
Michal Wiezik Slovakia 7 283 0.9× 178 0.8× 68 0.6× 145 1.4× 163 1.6× 11 494
Pallieter De Smedt Belgium 12 161 0.5× 110 0.5× 67 0.6× 90 0.8× 112 1.1× 46 350
Jason Vleminckx Belgium 12 268 0.9× 145 0.6× 65 0.6× 102 1.0× 91 0.9× 24 425
Pertti Ranta Finland 8 209 0.7× 153 0.7× 48 0.4× 167 1.6× 137 1.3× 13 443
Karina García Cabrera United Kingdom 8 350 1.2× 194 0.9× 272 2.3× 168 1.6× 168 1.6× 8 546
Glenda G. Cárdenas Finland 9 256 0.8× 265 1.2× 107 0.9× 68 0.6× 113 1.1× 13 446
Nagore G. Medina Spain 14 183 0.6× 230 1.0× 96 0.8× 74 0.7× 160 1.6× 43 498

Countries citing papers authored by Vanessa Pontara

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vanessa Pontara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vanessa Pontara

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pontara, Vanessa, et al.. (2025). Disentangling the Evolutionary History of the Woody Species in Earth's Most Diverse Tropical Savanna. Journal of Biogeography. 52(8).
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Pontara, Vanessa, et al.. (2024). The bulk of a plant hotspot: composition, species richness and conservation status of the Cerrado herbaceous–subshrub flora. Folia Geobotanica. 59(1). 39–49. 3 indexed citations
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Matos, Fábio Antônio Ribeiro, et al.. (2022). Multiple drivers influence tree species diversity and above-ground carbon stock in second-growth Atlantic forests: Implications for passive restoration. Journal of Environmental Management. 318. 115588–115588. 7 indexed citations
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Mormul, Roger Paulo, Dayani Bailly, Karina Fidanza, et al.. (2022). Invasive alien species records are exponentially rising across the Earth. Biological Invasions. 24(10). 3249–3261. 33 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud, et al.. (2021). Local-scale environmental filtering shape plant taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in an isolated Amazonian tepui (Tepequém table mountain). Evolutionary Ecology. 36(1). 55–73. 4 indexed citations
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Bueno, Marcelo Leandro, Vanessa Leite Rezende, Luiza F. A. de Paula, et al.. (2021). Understanding how environmental heterogeneity and elevation drives the distribution of woody communities across vegetation types within the campo rupestre in South America. Journal of Mountain Science. 18(5). 1192–1207. 15 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud, et al.. (2021). Exploring the relationship between soil and plant evolutionary diversity in the Roraima table mountain OCBIL, Guayana Highlands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133(2). 587–603. 10 indexed citations
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Rezende, Vanessa Leite, Vanessa Pontara, Marcelo Leandro Bueno, et al.. (2020). Phylogenetic regionalization of tree assemblages reveals novel patterns of evolutionary affinities in the Atlantic Forest. Journal of Biogeography. 48(4). 798–810. 14 indexed citations
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Dexter, Kyle G., et al.. (2020). The evolutionary diversity of urban forests depends on their land-use history. Urban Ecosystems. 23(3). 631–643. 17 indexed citations
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Heringer, Gustavo, et al.. (2020). Prioritizing landscape connectivity of a tropical forest biodiversity hotspot in global change scenario. Forest Ecology and Management. 472. 118247–118247. 28 indexed citations
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Rezende, Vanessa Leite, Vanessa Pontara, Marcelo Leandro Bueno, Eduardo van den Berg, & Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho. (2019). Climate and evolutionary history define the phylogenetic diversity of vegetation types in the central region of South America. Oecologia. 192(1). 191–200. 13 indexed citations
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Meira‐Neto, João Augusto Alves, et al.. (2019). Drivers of the growth–survival trade‐off in a tropical forest. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30(6). 1184–1194. 12 indexed citations
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Pontara, Vanessa, et al.. (2019). Colonization-related functional traits of plants in a 50-hectare plot of secondary tropical forest. Acta Botanica Brasilica. 34(1). 1–8.
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Bueno, Marcelo Leandro, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, et al.. (2018). The environmental triangle of the Cerrado Domain: Ecological factors driving shifts in tree species composition between forests and savannas. Journal of Ecology. 106(5). 2109–2120. 104 indexed citations
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Bueno, Marcelo Leandro, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Vanessa Pontara, Arnildo Pott, & Geraldo Alves Damasceno‐Júnior. (2018). FLORA ARBÓREA DO CERRADO DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL. Iheringia Série Botânica. 73(Suppl). 53–64. 9 indexed citations
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Pontara, Vanessa, Marcelo Leandro Bueno, Vanessa Leite Rezende, et al.. (2018). Evolutionary history of campo rupestre: an approach for conservation of woody plant communities. Biodiversity and Conservation. 27(11). 2877–2896. 21 indexed citations
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Bueno, Marcelo Leandro, R. Toby Pennington, Kyle G. Dexter, et al.. (2016). Effects of Quaternary climatic fluctuations on the distribution of Neotropical savanna tree species. Ecography. 40(3). 403–414. 114 indexed citations
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Pontara, Vanessa, Marcelo Leandro Bueno, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, et al.. (2016). Fine-scale variation in topography and seasonality determine radial growth of an endangered tree in Brazilian Atlantic forest. Plant and Soil. 403(1-2). 115–128. 18 indexed citations
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Bueno, Marcelo Leandro, et al.. (2014). Structure of arboreal and herbaceous strata in a neotropical seasonally flooded monodominant savanna of Tabebuia aurea. Brazilian Journal of Biology. 74(2). 325–337. 12 indexed citations

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