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D-Index
70
Citations
21392
World Ranking
1355
National Ranking
15

Overview

Carlos A. Quesada is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

The main subfields of study include global and planetary change, soil science, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecology. The scientist's work addresses several critical topics such as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, soil management and crop yield, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity (2022, Nature)
  • Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon (2023, Science)
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage (2020, Scientific Reports)

The professor has frequently published in several journals, including Biogeochemistry, Plant and Soil, Global Change Biology, Earth System Science Data, and Nature.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Lucia Fuchslueger
  • Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
  • Axa Emanuelle Simões Figueiredo
  • Karst J. Schaap
  • Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • 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

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

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

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Soils of Amazonia with particular reference to the RAINFOR sites

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;L. O. Anderson;N. M. Fyllas

  • Variations in chemical and physical properties of Amazon forest soils in relation to their genesis

    C. A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;S. Patiño;S. Patiño

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

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

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Romilda Paiva

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate.

    N. M. Fyllas;S. Patiño;S. Patiño;T. R. Baker;G. Bielefeld Nardoto

  • 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

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;M. O. Andreae;O. C. Acevedo;A. Araùjo;P. Artaxo

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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