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Bráulio A. Santos publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bráulio A. Santos sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 106 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Bráulio A. Santos D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bráulio A. Santos sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Bráulio A. Santos is affiliated with the Federal University of Paraíba in Brazil. Their research spans diverse aspects of ecology, conservation, and environmental sciences, with a significant focus on tropical ecosystems and biodiversity management. The scientist's work includes studies on landscape design for biodiversity conservation, forest recovery processes, and impacts of environmental disasters.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery, 2021, Science
  • Oil spill in South Atlantic (Brazil): Environmental and governmental disaster, 2020, Marine Policy
  • Why do mesophotic coral ecosystems have to be protected?, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A sustainable agricultural landscape model for tropical drylands, 2020, Land Use Policy

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including António Carlos Marques, Bárbara Ramos Pinheiro, Leila de Lourdes Longo, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, and Melina Ferreira Martello. These collaborations have produced a substantial volume of work contributing to the fields of ecology and conservation.

Common publication venues where Bráulio A. Santos has contributed include:

  • Datasets - Sistema SALVE - ICMBio
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Marine Policy

Their research engages several subfields of study, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Main topics covered in their work encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Botanical Research and Applications
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies

Best Publications

  • Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: New insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Felipe P. L. Melo;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Frans Bongers

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation.

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Lenore Fahrig;Marcelo Tabarelli;James I. Watling

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Drastic erosion in functional attributes of tree assemblages in Atlantic forest fragments of northeastern Brazil

    Bráulio A. Santos;Carlos A. Peres;Marcondes A. Oliveira;Alexandre Grillo

  • Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives the biological impoverishment of the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation

    Elâine M. S. Ribeiro;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Bráulio A. Santos;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Plant β-diversity in fragmented rain forests: testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses

    Víctor Arroyo‐Rodríguez;Matthias Rös;Federico Escobar;Felipe P. L. Melo

  • Oil spill in South Atlantic (Brazil): Environmental and governmental disaster

    Marcelo de Oliveira Soares;Marcelo de Oliveira Soares;Carlos Eduardo Peres Teixeira;Luís Ernesto Arruda Bezerra;Sandra Vieira Paiva

  • Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments

    Ariadna Valentina Lopes;Luciana Coe Girão;Bráulio Almeida Santos;Carlos A. Peres

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Phylogenetic impoverishment of plant communities following chronic human disturbances in the Brazilian Caatinga.

    Elâine M. S. Ribeiro;Bráulio A. Santos;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Edge-related loss of tree phylogenetic diversity in the severely fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest.

    Bráulio A. Santos;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Claudia E. Moreno;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Does forest fragmentation cause an increase in forest temperature

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Romeo A. Saldaña-Vázquez;Lenore Fahrig;Bráulio A. Santos

  • Maintenance of tree phylogenetic diversity in a highly fragmented rain forest

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Federico Escobar;Felipe P L Melo

  • Conserving tropical tree diversity and forest structure: the value of small rainforest patches in moderately-managed landscapes.

    Manuel A. Hernández-Ruedas;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Jorge A. Meave;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • NEOTROPICAL XENARTHRANS: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics

    Paloma Marques Santos;Adriana Bocchiglieri;Adriano Garcia Chiarello;Adriano Pereira Paglia

  • Socioeconomic differences among resident, users and neighbour populations of a protected area in the Brazilian dry forest.

    Maria Joana Specht;Bráulio Almeida Santos;Nadine Marshall;Felipe Pimentel Lopes Melo

  • Reduced availability of large seeds constrains Atlantic forest regeneration

    Janaina B.P. Costa;Felipe P.L. Melo;Bráulio A. Santos;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes

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  • Why do mesophotic coral ecosystems have to be protected

    Marcelo de Oliveira Soares;Marcelo de Oliveira Soares;Sarah Maria Cavalcante Ferreira;Bráulio Almeida Santos

  • Irreplaceable socioeconomic value of wild meat extraction to local food security in rural Amazonia

    André Valle Nunes;André Valle Nunes;Carlos A. Peres;Carlos A. Peres;Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino;Bráulio A. Santos

  • Functional diversity and composition of Caatinga woody flora are negatively impacted by chronic anthropogenic disturbance

    Elâine M. S. Ribeiro;Elâine M. S. Ribeiro;Madelon Lohbeck;Braulio A. Santos;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez

  • Taxonomic and functional divergence of tree assemblages in a fragmented tropical forest.

    Julia C. Sfair;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Bráulio A. Santos;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Urbanization effects on dung beetle assemblages in a tropical city

    Renato P. Salomão;Fredy Alvarado;Fernanda Baena-Díaz;Mario E. Favila

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Tabarelli
Marcelo Tabarelli Federal University of Pernambuco
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Felipe P. L. Melo
Felipe P. L. Melo Federal University of Pernambuco
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
Deborah Faria
Deborah Faria State University of Santa Cruz
J. W. Ferry Slik
J. W. Ferry Slik Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Lenore Fahrig
Lenore Fahrig Carleton University

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