Wesley Dáttilo

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
180 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Wesley Dáttilo is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Dáttilo has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 92 papers in Genetics and 65 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Wesley Dáttilo's work include Plant and animal studies (136 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (89 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (64 papers). Wesley Dáttilo is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (136 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (89 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (64 papers). Wesley Dáttilo collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, Brazil and United States. Wesley Dáttilo's co-authors include Víctor Rico‐Gray, Thiago J. Izzo, Kleber Del‐Claro, Fabricio Villalobos, Daniel González‐Tokman, Paulo R. Guimarães, Andrés Lira‐Noriega, Denise Lange, Alex Córdoba‐Aguilar and Rosa Ana Sánchez‐Guillén and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Dáttilo

160 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolu... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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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. Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world
    2020 360 citations Daniel González‐Tokman, Wesley Dáttilo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wesley Dáttilo Mexico 29 2.3k 1.5k 1.1k 937 687 180 3.0k
Frederico S. Neves Brazil 28 1.9k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 567 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 639 0.9× 102 2.7k
Jochen Fründ Germany 17 3.5k 1.5× 704 0.5× 2.1k 1.9× 2.0k 2.1× 1.0k 1.5× 28 4.3k
Leonardo Dapporto Italy 36 2.4k 1.0× 2.0k 1.3× 466 0.4× 963 1.0× 1.0k 1.5× 164 3.7k
Philip J. Lester New Zealand 30 1.8k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 485 0.4× 351 0.4× 1.9k 2.8× 180 3.4k
Niklas Janz Sweden 31 2.3k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 949 0.8× 881 0.9× 1.4k 2.0× 70 3.4k
Pierre Rasmont Belgium 39 4.2k 1.8× 2.7k 1.8× 1.1k 1.0× 684 0.7× 3.1k 4.4× 171 4.8k
Rodrigo Medel Chile 29 2.3k 1.0× 465 0.3× 1.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 593 0.9× 86 3.2k
H. C. J. Godfray United Kingdom 34 2.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 840 0.7× 696 0.7× 1.8k 2.6× 62 3.7k
Virginie Ravigné France 26 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 622 0.7× 521 0.8× 59 3.6k
Thiago J. Izzo Brazil 23 1.1k 0.5× 822 0.5× 500 0.4× 362 0.4× 298 0.4× 78 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wesley Dáttilo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wesley Dáttilo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Dáttilo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2024). Seed-Bird co-occurrence networks in cocoa agroforests: Morphological matching analysis reveals shading effects on network organization. Journal for Nature Conservation. 79. 126630–126630.
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Dáttilo, Wesley. (2024). Beyond the Bites: Rethinking seed-dispersal networks in plant-frugivore studies. Food Webs. 42. e00384–e00384. 3 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Hernani F. M., et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic impacts on plant-pollinator networks of tropical forests: implications for pollinators coextinction. Biodiversity and Conservation. 34(1). 335–354.
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MacGregor‐Fors, Ian, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the complexity of plant-bird relationships: From monolayer to multilayer network perspectives. Food Webs. 40. e00359–e00359.
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Perroni, Yareni, et al.. (2024). The landscape scale of effect on the alpha and beta diversities of woody species in a semideciduous tropical forest. Landscape Ecology. 39(2). 1 indexed citations
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2023). Invader’s success: behavioural and reproductive plasticity of interacting exotic dung beetles. Behaviour. 160(7). 593–615. 2 indexed citations
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Camarota, Flávio, Wesley Dáttilo, Pedro Giovâni da Silva, et al.. (2023). The spatial distribution of insect communities of a mountaintop forest archipelago is not correlated with landscape structure: A multitaxa approach. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 16(6). 790–800. 4 indexed citations
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González‐Tokman, Daniel, Rogério Rosa da Silva, Jorge Valenzuela, et al.. (2022). Forest cover modulates diversity and morphological traits of ants in highly fragmented tropical forest landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(8-9). 2097–2117. 4 indexed citations
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Prieto‐Torres, David A., et al.. (2022). Together forever? Hummingbird-plant relationships in the face of climate warming. Climatic Change. 175(1-2). 10 indexed citations
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Teixido, Alberto L., Luís G. Quintanilla, Wesley Dáttilo, et al.. (2021). A meta‐analysis of the effects of fragmentation on the megadiverse herpetofauna of Brazil. Biotropica. 53(3). 726–737. 6 indexed citations
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2021). Biological Aspects and Movements of Neotropical Fruit-Feeding Butterflies. Neotropical Entomology. 51(1). 43–53. 4 indexed citations
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2020). Potential distribution and predator-prey interactions with terrestrial vertebrates of four pet commercialized exotic snakes in Mexico. Acta Oecologica. 103. 103526–103526. 3 indexed citations
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Messeder, João Vitor S., Tadeu J. Guerra, Wesley Dáttilo, & Fernando A. O. Silveira. (2020). Searching for keystone plant resources in fruit‐frugivore interaction networks across the Neotropics. Biotropica. 52(5). 857–870. 38 indexed citations
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2019). Ecological interactions among insect herbivores, ants and the host plant Baccharis dracunculifolia in a Brazilian mountain ecosystem. Austral Ecology. 45(2). 158–167. 9 indexed citations
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Luna, Pedro, et al.. (2019). Temporal shifts in butterfly diversity: responses to natural and anthropic forest transitions. Journal of Insect Conservation. 24(2). 353–363. 11 indexed citations
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Dáttilo, Wesley, et al.. (2019). Equal but different: Natural ecotones are dissimilar to anthropic edges. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0213008–e0213008. 34 indexed citations
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Guerra, Tadeu J., Roberta L. C. Dayrell, André Jardim Arruda, et al.. (2017). Intraspecific variation in fruit–frugivore interactions: effects of fruiting neighborhood and consequences for seed dispersal. Oecologia. 185(2). 233–243. 34 indexed citations

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