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h-index: 67
Works: 283
Citations: 32K

Most-cited papers

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system
B. Flores, Encarni Montoya, B. Sakschewski, Nathália Nascimento +20 more
2024Nature540 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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Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Martin J. P. Sullivan, Martin J. P. Sullivan, S. Lewis, S. Lewis +244 more
2020321 citations Open access
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The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot
Renato A. F. Lima, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Gregory Pitta, A. L. de Gasper +4 more
2020Nature Communications209 citations Open access
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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research.
R. Carvalho, A. F. Resende, J. Barlow, F. França +28 more
2023Current Biology140 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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Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
Jing-Jing Liang, Javier G. P. Gamarra, N. Picard, Mo Zhou +245 more
2022Nature Ecology & Evolution118 citations Open access
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The global abundance of tree palms
R. Muscarella, R. Muscarella, T. Emílio, T. Emílio +238 more
2020106 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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Towards a dynamic list of Amazonian tree species
H. ter Steege, Sylvia Mota de Oliveira, N. Pitman, D. Sabatier +4 more
2019Scientific Reports97 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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Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees
Renato A. F. Lima, Gilles Dauby, A. L. de Gasper, Eduardo P. Fernandez +6 more
2024Science74 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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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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Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: tree species in the Atlantic Forest hotspot
Renato A. F. Lima, V. C. Souza, M. D. de Siqueira, H. ter Steege
2020bioRxiv55 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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Climate change threatens native potential agroforestry plant species in Brazil
V. Lima, Renato A. F. Lima, Fernando Joner, Ilyas Siddique +2 more
2022Scientific Reports48 citations Open access
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
J. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Sami W. Rifai, Xiong-Jie Deng, H. ter Steege +115 more
2025Nature42 citations Open access
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Making forest data fair and open
Renato A. F. Lima, O. Phillips, Á. Duque, J. Tello +21 more
2022Nature Ecology & Evolution42 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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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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Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition
Élise Bouchard, Eric B. Searle, P. Drapeau, Jingjing Liang +99 more
2023Global Ecology and Biogeography36 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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The pitfalls of biodiversity proxies: Differences in richness patterns of birds, trees and understudied diversity across Amazonia
C. Ritter, S. Faurby, Dominic J. Bennett, L. Naka +5 more
2019Scientific Reports31 citations Open access
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Going north and south: The biogeographic history of two Malvaceae in the wake of Neogene Andean uplift and connectivity between the Americas
C. Hoorn, R. van der Ham, F. de la Parra, S. Salamanca +8 more
2019Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology31 citations Open access
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Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans
S. D. Coelho, C. Levis, F. Baccaro, F. Figueiredo +5 more
2021PLoS ONE29 citations Open access
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Soil Fungal Community Composition Correlates with Site-Specific Abiotic Factors, Tree Community Structure, and Forest Age in Regenerating Tropical Rainforests
Irene Adamo, Edgar Ortiz‐Malavasi, R. Chazdon, P. Chaverri +2 more
2021Biology28 citations Open access
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Modeling the Ecological Responses of Tree Species to the Flood Pulse of the Amazon Negro River Floodplains
J. Householder, J. Schöngart, M. T. Piedade, W. Junk +32 more
2021Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution27 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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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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Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates
N. C. Arboleda, F. Valverde, A. Alonso, F. Dallmeier +104 more
202222 citations
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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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Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale
S. B. Correa, K. V. Coronado-Franco, C. Jézéquel, Amanda Cantarute-Rodrigues +144 more
2025Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America20 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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Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities
B. G. Luize, D. Bauman, H. ter Steege, Clarisse Palma-Silva +213 more
2024Journal of Biogeography15 citations Open access
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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research.
R. Carvalho, A. F. Resende, J. Barlow, F. França +28 more
2023Current Biology15 citations Open access
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Trees of Amazonian Ecuador: a taxonomically verified species list with data on abundance and distribution.
Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, N. Pitman, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, K. Romoleroux +8 more
2019Ecology15 citations Open access
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Widespread carbon-dense peatlands in the Colombian lowlands
R. Winton, J. Benavides, E. Mendoza, A. Uhde +20 more
2025Environmental Research Letters14 citations Open access
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The Amazon Epiphyte Network: A First Glimpse Into Continental-Scale Patterns of Amazonian Vascular Epiphyte Assemblages
A. Quaresma, C. Zartman, M. T. Piedade, F. Wittmann +20 more
2022Frontiers in Forests and Global Change14 citations Open access
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Scaling issues of neutral theory reveal violations of ecological equivalence for dominant Amazonian tree species
Edwin T. Pos, J. Guevara, J. Molino, D. Sabatier +25 more
2019Ecology Letters14 citations Open access
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