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Carlos Clemente Cerri

Carlos Clemente Cerri

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Brazil
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
97
Citations
26861
World Ranking
192
National Ranking
1

Carlos Clemente Cerri publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carlos Clemente Cerri sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 401 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Carlos Clemente Cerri D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carlos Clemente Cerri sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

His primary areas of investigation include Soil water, Agronomy, Pasture, Soil organic matter and Ecology. Carlos Clemente Cerri interconnects Hydrology, Dry season and Total organic carbon in the investigation of issues within Soil water. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Organic matter, Soil carbon, Soil type, Soil fertility and Chronosequence.

His Soil carbon study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Carbon sequestration, Agroforestry, Forestry and Bulk density. His Soil organic matter study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Humus, Isotopes of carbon, Soil management, No-till farming and Tillage. His Ecology research includes themes of Nitrification and Nitrogen cycle.

His most cited work include:

  • Wavelet analysis of MODIS time series to detect expansion and intensification of row-crop agriculture in Brazil (300 citations)
  • Soil properties under Amazon forest and changes due to pasture installation in Rondônia, Brazil (277 citations)
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following forest clearing for pasture in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon (237 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Carlos Clemente Cerri mostly deals with Agronomy, Soil water, Soil organic matter, Pasture and Soil carbon. Carlos Clemente Cerri combines subjects such as Soil classification, Organic matter, Soil fertility and Greenhouse gas with his study of Agronomy. His Soil water course of study focuses on Hydrology and Dry season.

His study on Soil organic matter also encompasses disciplines like

  • Agroforestry that intertwine with fields like Land use,
  • No-till farming which connect with Soil management. His research investigates the connection with Pasture and areas like Amazon rainforest which intersect with concerns in Deforestation and Physical geography. His Soil carbon research focuses on Carbon sequestration and how it relates to Carbon cycle.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (42.11%)
  • Soil water (31.95%)
  • Soil organic matter (27.07%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2020)?

  • Agronomy (42.11%)
  • Straw (6.39%)
  • Bioenergy (8.27%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Agronomy, Straw, Bioenergy, Soil organic matter and Soil quality are his primary areas of study. The various areas that he examines in his Agronomy study include Soil structure, Soil carbon, Soil water and Soil fertility. His Soil carbon research integrates issues from Carbon sequestration, Organic matter and Land use, land-use change and forestry.

His Soil organic matter research is within the category of Ecology. His Soil quality study also includes fields such as

  • Ultisol that intertwine with fields like Oxisol,

  • Nutrient, which have a strong connection to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Canopy. His Pasture research also works with subjects such as

  • Vegetation and related Soil horizon,

  • Land use which is related to area like Agriculture and Abundance.

Between 2015 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Crop residue harvest for bioenergy production and its implications on soil functioning and plant growth: A review (79 citations)
  • Low-carbon agriculture in South America to mitigate global climate change and advance food security. (78 citations)
  • Soil physical quality response to sugarcane expansion in Brazil (65 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

His main research concerns Agronomy, Soil fertility, Soil quality, Soil organic matter and Soil water. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Raw material and Bioenergy. His study looks at the relationship between Soil fertility and topics such as Soil retrogression and degradation, which overlap with Histosol, Deforestation and Agroforestry.

Carlos Clemente Cerri has included themes like No-till farming and Soil carbon in his Soil organic matter study. His study in Soil water is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Pasture and Vegetation. As a member of one scientific family, Carlos Clemente Cerri mostly works in the field of Vegetation, focusing on Soil management and, on occasion, Land use.

Best Publications

  • Grassland management impacts on soil carbon stocks: a new synthesis.

    Richard Conant;Richard Conant;Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri;Brooke Osborne;Keith Paustian

  • Wavelet analysis of MODIS time series to detect expansion and intensification of row-crop agriculture in Brazil

    Gillian L. Galford;John F. Mustard;Jerry Melillo;Aline Gendrin

  • A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

    Erika Berenguer;Joice Ferreira;Toby Alan Gardner;Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz Aragão

  • Soil properties under Amazon forest and changes due to pasture installation in Rondônia, Brazil

    Jener F.L. de Moraes;B. Volkoff;Carlos C. Cerri;M. Bernoux

  • The use of stable carbon isotopes for estimating soil organic matter turnover rates

    Martial Bernoux;Carlos C Cerri;Christopher Neill;Jener F.L de Moraes

  • Brazil's Soil Carbon Stocks

    Martial Bernoux;Maria da Conceição Santana Carvalho;Boris Volkoff;Carlos Clemente Cerri

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following forest clearing for pasture in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon

    Christopher Neill;Jerry M. Melillo;Paul A. Steudler;Carlos C. Cerri

  • Soil carbon dynamics in the humid tropical forest zone

    Meine van Noordwijk;Carlos Cerri;Paul L. Woomer;Kusumo Nugroho

  • Agricultural options for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions

    V. Cole;C. Cerri;K. Minami;A. Mosier

  • Nitrous oxide emissions in agricultural soils: a review

    Diana Signor;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri

  • Tropical agriculture and global warming: impacts and mitigation options

    Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri;Gerd Sparovek;Martial Bernoux;Willian E. Easterling

  • Potencial de sequestro de carbono em diferentes biomas do Brasil

    João Luis Nunes Carvalho;Junior Cesar Avanzi;Marx Leandro Naves Silva;Carlos Rogério de Mello

  • Organic carbon and 13C contents in soils and soil size-fractions, and their changes due to deforestation and pasture installation in eastern Amazonia

    Thierry Desjardins;F. Andreux;Boris Volkoff;C.C. Cerri

  • Soil carbon stocks under burned and unburned sugarcane in Brazil

    M. V. Galdos;Carlos Clemente Cerri;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri

  • Organic Matter and Natural Carbon‐13 Distribution in Forested and Cultivated Oxisols

    Victor Alexandre Vitorello;Carlos Clemente Cerri;F G Andreux;C Feller

  • Low-carbon agriculture in South America to mitigate global climate change and advance food security

    João Carlos de Moraes Sá;Rattan Lal;Carlos Clemente Cerri;Klaus Lorenz

  • Crop residue harvest for bioenergy production and its implications on soil functioning and plant growth: A review

    Maurício Roberto Cherubin;Dener Márcio da Silva Oliveira;Brigitte Josefine Feigl;Laisa Gouveia Pimentel

  • DEFORESTATION FOR PASTURE ALTERS NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS IN SMALL AMAZONIAN STREAMS

    Christopher Neill;Linda A. Deegan;Suzanne M. Thomas;Carlos C. Cerri

  • Bulk Densities of Brazilian Amazon Soils Related to Other Soil Properties

    Martial Bernoux;Dominique Arrouays;Carlos Clemente Cerri;Boris Volkoff

  • Soil carbon stocks of the Brazilian Amazon Basin

    Jener L. Moraes;Carlos C. Cerri;Jerry M. Melillo;David Kicklighter

  • Effect of grassland management on soil carbon sequestration in Rondônia and Mato Grosso states, Brazil

    Stoécio M.F. Maia;Stephen M. Ogle;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri;Carlos Clemente Cerri

  • Impact of pasture, agriculture and crop-livestock systems on soil C stocks in Brazil

    João Luís Nunes Carvalho;Guilherme Silva Raucci;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri;Martial Bernoux

  • Cropping systems, carbon sequestration and erosion in Brazil, a review

    Martial Bernoux;Carlos C. Cerri;Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri;Marcos Siqueira Neto

  • Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils in the Cerrado region of the Brazilian Amazon

    J. L. N. Carvalho;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri;Brigitte Josefine Feigl;Marisa de Cassia Piccolo

  • Brazilian greenhouse gas emissions: the importance of agriculture and livestock

    Carlos Clemente Cerri;Stoecio Malta Ferreira Maia;Marcelo Valadares Galdos;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri

  • Predicted soil organic carbon stocks and changes in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2030

    C.E.P. Cerri;M. Easter;K. Paustian;K. Killian

  • Soil physical quality response to sugarcane expansion in Brazil

    Mauricio Roberto Cherubin;Douglas L Karlen;André Luis Custódio Franco;Cássio Antonio Tormena

  • Soil Quality Indexing Strategies for Evaluating Sugarcane Expansion in Brazil.

    Mauricio Roberto Cherubin;Douglas L Karlen;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri;André Luiz C Franco

  • Effect of sugarcane harvesting systems on soil carbon stocks in Brazil: an examination of existing data

    C. C. Cerri;M. V. Galdos;S. M. F. Maia;Martial Bernoux

  • Modeling changes in soil organic matter in Amazon forest to pasture conversion with the Century model

    Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri;Keith Paustian;Martial Bernoux;Reynaldo L. Victoria

  • Changes in soil organic carbon storage under different agricultural management systems in the Southwest Amazon Region of Brazil

    Stoécio Malta Ferreira Maia;Stephen M. Ogle;Carlos Clemente Cerri;Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri

  • Simulating SOC changes in 11 land use change chronosequences from the Brazilian Amazon with RothC and Century models

    Carlos E.P. Cerri;Mark Easter;Keith Paustian;Kendrick Killian

  • Modeling Soil Carbon from Forest and Pasture Ecosystems of Amazon, Brazil

    C.E.P. Cerri;K. Coleman;D.S. Jenkinson;Martial Bernoux

  • Carbon dioxide emissions under different soil tillage systems in mechanically harvested sugarcane

    A M Silva-Olaya;C E P Cerri;N La Scala;C T S Dias

  • Payback time for soil carbon and sugar-cane ethanol

    Francisco F. C. Mello;Francisco F. C. Mello;Carlos E. P. Cerri;Christian A. Davies;N. Michele Holbrook

  • Changes in Organic Matter in an Oxisol from the Central Amazonian Forest During Eight Years as Pasture, Determined by 13C Isotopic Composition

    T. Choné;F. Andreux;J.C. Correa;C.C. Cerri

  • National and sub-national assessments of soil organic carbon stocks and changes: The GEFSOC modelling system

    E. Milne;R. Al Adamat;N.H. Batjes;M. Bernoux

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri
Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri Universidade de São Paulo
Brigitte Josefine Feigl
Brigitte Josefine Feigl Universidade de São Paulo
Martial Bernoux
Martial Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo Universidade de São Paulo
Paul A. Steudler
Paul A. Steudler Marine Biological Laboratory
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal The Ohio State University
Christopher Neill
Christopher Neill Woods Hole Research Center
Keith Paustian
Keith Paustian Colorado State University
João Luís Nunes Carvalho
João Luís Nunes Carvalho State University of Campinas

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