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Overview

Abel Monteagudo is affiliated with the Missouri Botanical Garden in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with an emphasis on forest ecology, conservation, and remote sensing technologies. Their work contributes to understanding forest ecosystems, vegetation dynamics, and carbon cycles across tropical and subtropical regions.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

They have several subfields of focus, namely:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Major topics covered in their research are:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Abel Monteagudo has published research in several scientific journals, often focusing on environmental monitoring, forest biomass, and biodiversity assessment. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Q EUÑA
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Plants People Planet
  • Quaternary

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Evaluating the potential of full-waveform lidar for mapping pan-tropical tree species richness," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests: The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots," 2020, Plants People Planet
  • "Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests," 2023, Quaternary

Among co-authors frequently collaborating with Monteagudo are:

  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Ted R. Feldpausch
  • Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Habitat association among Amazonian tree species: a landscape‐scale approach

    Oliver L. Phillips;Percy Núñez Vargas;Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo;Antonio Peña Cruz

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils

    L. E. O. C. Aragão;L. E. O. C. Aragão;Y. Malhi;D. B. Metcalfe;D. B. Metcalfe;J. E. Silva-Espejo

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Douglas Sheil;Barbara Vinceti

  • Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez;Percy Núñez Vargas;Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo

  • Amazon palm biomass and allometry

    Rosa C. Goodman;Oliver L. Phillips;Dennis del Castillo Torres;Luis Freitas

  • Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

    Kuo-Jung Chao;Oliver L. Phillips;Emanuel Gloor;Abel Monteagudo

  • Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

    C.A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;T.R. Baker

  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

    Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Luzmila Arroyo
Luzmila Arroyo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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