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h-index: 58
Works: 159
Citations: 14K

Most-cited papers

Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests
W. Hubau, S. Lewis, O. Phillips, K. Affum-Baffoe +102 more
2020Nature813 citations Open access
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Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests.
N. McDowell, C. Allen, K. Anderson-Teixeira, P. Brando +33 more
2018New Phytologist511 citations Open access
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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
A. Esquível-Muelbert, T. Baker, K. Dexter, S. Lewis +100 more
2018Global Change Biology427 citations Open access
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Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
L. Mo, C. Zohner, P. Reich, Jingjing Liang +228 more
2023Nature420 citations Open access
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Recent intensification of Amazon flooding extremes driven by strengthened Walker circulation
J. Barichivich, E. Gloor, P. Peylin, R. Brienen +3 more
2018Science Advances296 citations Open access
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Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs
R. Brienen, L. Caldwell, L. Duchesne, S. Voelker +11 more
2020Nature Communications224 citations Open access
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Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data
V. F. Gomes, S. Ijff, N. Raes, I. Amaral +183 more
2018Scientific Reports192 citations Open access
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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
A. Esquível-Muelbert, O. Phillips, R. Brienen, S. Fauset +110 more
2020Nature Communications140 citations Open access
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Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa
D. Rozendaal, O. Phillips, S. Lewis, K. Affum-Baffoe +39 more
2020Ecology136 citations Open access
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Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora
H. ter Steege, P. I. Prado, Renato A. F. Lima, Edwin T. Pos +208 more
2020Scientific Reports126 citations Open access
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Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
P. Zuidema, F. Babst, P. Groenendijk, V. Trouet +96 more
2022Nature Geoscience125 citations Open access
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Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data
Daniela Requena Suarez, D. Rozendaal, V. de Sy, O. Phillips +30 more
2019Global Change Biology119 citations Open access
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Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation
Martin J. P. Sullivan, S. Lewis, W. Hubau, Lan Qie +45 more
2018Methods in Ecology and Evolution119 citations Open access
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Global tree-ring analysis reveals rapid decrease in tropical tree longevity with temperature
G. M. Locosselli, R. Brienen, Melina de Souza Leite, M. Gloor +7 more
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America115 citations Open access
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Pan‐tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees
J. Bastin, E. Rutishauser, J. Kellner, S. Saatchi +131 more
2018Global Ecology and Biogeography104 citations Open access
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Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
C. Delavaux, T. W. Crowther, C. Zohner, Niamh M Robmann +222 more
2023Nature97 citations Open access
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Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
J. Tavares, R. Oliveira, Maurizio Mencuccini, Caroline Signori-Müller +77 more
2023Nature91 citations Open access
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The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks
Li-Dong Mo, T. Crowther, D. Maynard, J. van den Hoogen +232 more
2024Nature Ecology & Evolution88 citations Open access
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Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly
A. Bennett, Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, A. Esquível-Muelbert +122 more
2023Nature Climate Change85 citations Open access
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The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass
D. Schepaschenko, J. Chave, O. Phillips, S. Lewis +139 more
2019Scientific Data76 citations Open access
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The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
Haozhi Ma, T. Crowther, L. Mo, D. Maynard +228 more
2023Nature Plants71 citations Open access
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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change.
J. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Sandra Díaz, Sami W. Rifai, J. Corral-Rivas +130 more
2025Science63 citations Open access
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Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests
Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kyle G. Dexter, O. Phillips, R. T. Pennington +71 more
2019Nature Ecology & Evolution62 citations Open access
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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
F. Draper, F. Costa, G. Arellano, O. Phillips +139 more
2021Nature Ecology & Evolution61 citations Open access
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Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests
H. ter Steege, T. Henkel, N. Helal, B. Marimon +207 more
2019Scientific Reports61 citations Open access
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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
Declan L. M. Cooper, S. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, P. I. Prado +349 more
2024Nature60 citations Open access
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Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora
H. ter Steege, N. Pitman, I. L. do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho +221 more
2023Communications Biology56 citations Open access
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Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness
Iris Hordijk, D. Maynard, Simon P. Hart, L. Mo +217 more
2023Journal of Ecology53 citations Open access
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Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests
D. Rozendaal, Daniela Requena Suarez, V. de Sy, V. Avitabile +53 more
2021Environmental Research Letters53 citations Open access
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Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests
T. Sousa, J. Schietti, I. O. Ribeiro, T. Emílio +128 more
2022Global Ecology and Biogeography43 citations Open access
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Large apparent growth increases in boreal forests inferred from tree-rings are an artefact of sampling biases
L. Duchesne, D. Houle, R. Ouimet, L. Caldwell +2 more
2019Scientific Reports43 citations Open access
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More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Vinícius Peripato, Carolina Levis, Guido A. Moreira, D. Gamerman +226 more
2023Science39 citations Open access
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Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests: The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots
P. Moonlight, Karina Banda-R, O. Phillips, Kyle G. Dexter +51 more
2020Plants, People, Planet39 citations Open access
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The pace of life for forest trees
Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, R. McElderry, A. Esquível-Muelbert, J. van den Hoogen +114 more
2024Science37 citations Open access
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Reassessment of carbon emissions from fires and a new estimate of net carbon uptake in Russian forests in 2001-2021.
A. Romanov, A. N. Tamarovskaya, E. Gloor, R. Brienen +4 more
2022Science of the Total Environment34 citations Open access
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One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
J. Householder, F. Wittmann, J. Schöngart, M. Piedade +217 more
2024Nature Ecology & Evolution33 citations Open access
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Dominant tree species drive beta diversity patterns in western Amazonia.
F. Draper, G. Asner, E. H. Honorio Coronado, T. Baker +21 more
2019Ecology33 citations Open access
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Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities
F. Draper, C. Baraloto, Philip G. Brodrick, O. Phillips +12 more
2018Journal of Ecology33 citations Open access
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The importance of tropical tree-ring chronologies for global change research
Peter Groenendijk, F. Babst, V. Trouet, Ze-Xin Fan +151 more
2025Quaternary Science Reviews30 citations Open access
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Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography
S. Fauset, M. Gloor, N. Fyllas, O. Phillips +43 more
2019Frontiers in Earth Science26 citations Open access
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Contrasting controls on tree ring isotope variation for Amazon floodplain and terra firme trees
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, M. Gloor, A. Boom, J. Schöngart +2 more
2019Tree Physiology26 citations Open access
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Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin
M. J. Marca-Zevallos, G. Moulatlet, T. Sousa, J. Schietti +114 more
2022Ecography24 citations Open access
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Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth.
P. Zuidema, Peter Groenendijk, Mizanur Rahman, V. Trouet +147 more
2025Science23 citations Open access
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Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
H. ter Steege, L. Poorter, J. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, C. Fortunel +227 more
2025Communications Biology22 citations Open access
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The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora
B. G. Luize, H. Tuomisto, Robin Ekelschot, K. Dexter +221 more
2024Communications Biology21 citations Open access
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Intra-annual oxygen isotopes in the tree rings record precipitation extremes and water reservoir levels in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, Brazil.
G. M. Locosselli, R. Brienen, Veridiana Teixeira de Souza Martins, E. Gloor +4 more
2020Science of the Total Environment20 citations Open access
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Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types
Yibiao Zou, C. Zohner, C. Averill, Haozhi Ma +237 more
2024Nature Communications19 citations Open access
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Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
Martin J. P. Sullivan, O. Phillips, D. Galbraith, Everton Almeida +166 more
2025Nature Communications18 citations Open access
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Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats
Iris Hordijk, Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, Thomas Lauber, D. Routh +219 more
2024Global Ecology and Biogeography17 citations Open access
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Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests
Iris Hordijk, L. Poorter, Jingjing Liang, P. Reich +216 more
2025Nature Communications16 citations Open access
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