Valério D. Pillar

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul — Brazil

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

65h-index19.1kcitations298works11.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(178), Plant and animal studies(87), Species Distribution and Climate Change(44), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(27), Fire effects on ecosystems(23)

Publications289 total

Natural grasslands used for grazing livestock can mitigate climate change
Science·2026
Shortcuts to degradation: environmental consequences of Brazil’s general environmental licensing law
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities
2025Open Access
Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide
Science·2025· 4 cited
Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation
Journal of Biogeography·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored
Plants People Planet·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Grazing can reduce wildfire risk amid climate change
Science·2025· 13 cited
Cross‐Citation Patterns Between the <i>Journal of Vegetation Science</i> and Other Ecological Journals
Journal of Vegetation Science·2025Open Access
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology
Applied Vegetation Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 25 citedOpen Access
Forest-biased terminology does not help to include open ecosystems in conservation policies
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Learning from a climate disaster: The catastrophic floods in southern Brazil
Science·2024· 28 cited
Aquecimento global: conta dos eventos extremos será paga pelas futuras gerações
2024
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions
Journal of Vegetation Science·2024· 5 cited
Data on soil variables (with plot IDs) and grassland species traits used for the analysis of grassland vegetation data by Pillar, V.D. (2024) Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35, e13259. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13259
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2024Open Access
Brazil’s natural grasslands under attack
Science·2024· 15 cited
Niche and neutral-based processes differ in importance for common and rare species in a metacommunity of anurans in subtropical grasslands
Hydrobiologia·2024· 3 cited
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in <i>Applied Vegetation Science</i> (1998–2023)
Applied Vegetation Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Challenges in the conservation and management of legal reserve areas in Brazilian grassland and savanna ecosystems in the face of global climate change
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research
Journal of Vegetation Science·2024· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Gerhard E. Overbeck(14), Sandra Cristina Müller(9), Jens Kattge(8), Ênio Sosinski(7), Ilsi Iob Boldrini(6), Jörg Pfadenhauer(5), Peter M. van Bodegom(5), Álvaro G. Gutiérrez(5), Ülo Niinemets(5), Leandro Duarte(5), Jürgen Dengler(4), Jonathan Lenoir(4), Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro(4), Milan Chytrý(4), Richard Field(4), Florian Jansen(4), Franziska Schrodt(4), Brody Sandel(4), Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan(4), Fabio Attorre(4)