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Eduardo S. Brondizio

Eduardo S. Brondizio

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
29236
World Ranking
1402
National Ranking
514

Eduardo S. Brondizio 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 Eduardo S. Brondizio sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 189 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eduardo S. Brondizio 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 Eduardo S. Brondizio sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eduardo S. Brondizio is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and primarily works in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Ecology, History, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work encompasses various topics, notably Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development; Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Sustainability and Climate Change Governance; Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond; and Forest Management and Policy.

Brondizio has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Importance of Indigenous Peoples' lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact people on river deltas, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability, 2020, People and Nature
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems, 2021, Journal of Ethnobiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Zsolt Molnár, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Victoria Reyes-García, Stephen T. Garnett, and Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas.

Their research findings have been published in a variety of venues, with multiple contributions to Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, AMBIO, Journal of Applied Ecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Nature.

In addition to journal articles, Brondizio has also published books. One such publication is "Consideraciones sobre la gobernanza y la restauración del paisaje forestal: Retos y oportunidades para la presente década," published in 2020 by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks.

Brondizio has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach

    Maria Tengö;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Thomas Elmqvist;Pernilla Malmer

  • A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

    Stephen T. Garnett;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Julia E. Fa;Julia E. Fa;Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares

  • Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Social Capital

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Elinor Ostrom;Oran R. Young

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

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

  • INTEGRATING AMAZONIAN VEGETATION, LAND-USE, AND SATELLITE DATA

    Emilio F. Moran;Eduardo Brondizio;Paul Mausel;You Wu

  • Relationships between forest stand parameters and Landsat TM spectral responses in the Brazilian Amazon Basin

    Dengsheng Lu;Paul Mausel;Eduardo Brondı́zio;Emilio Moran

  • Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda

    Xuemei Bai;Sander van der Leeuw;Karen O’Brien;Frans Berkhout

  • The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability

    Harini Nagendra;Xuemei Bai;Xuemei Bai;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Shuaib Lwasa

  • Assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat TM data applicable to Amazon basin LBA research

    D. Lu;P. Mausel;E. Brondizio;E. Moran

  • Effects of soil fertility and land-use on forest succession in Amazônia

    Emilio F. Moran;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Joanna M. Tucker;Maria Clara da Silva-Forsberg

  • Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia

    Christine Padoch;Eduardo Brondizio;Sandra Costa;Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

  • Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures

    Melissa Leach;Belinda Reyers;Xuemei Bai;Eduardo S. Brondizio

  • Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Karen O'Brien;Xuemei Bai;Frank Biermann

  • Importance of Indigenous peoples' lands for the conservation of intact forest landscapes

    Julia E Fa;Julia E Fa;James Em Watson;James Em Watson;Ian Leiper;Peter Potapov

  • Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

    Eduardo S. Brondízio;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas;Peter Bates;Joji Carino

  • Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact people on river deltas.

    Douglas A. Edmonds;Rebecca L. Caldwell;Rebecca L. Caldwell;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Sacha M. O. Siani

  • The global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services: Summary for policy makers

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo Brondízio;Hien Ngo

  • Colonist Household Decisionmaking and Land-Use Change in the Amazon Rainforest: An Agent-Based Simulation:

    Peter Deadman;Derek Robinson;Emilio Moran;Eduardo Brondizio

  • Environmental governance for all

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Francois-Michel Le Tourneau

  • Insight, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia

    Christine Padoch;Eduardo Brondizio;Sandra Costa;Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Zsolt Molnár
Zsolt Molnár Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares Autonomous University of Barcelona
Belinda Reyers
Belinda Reyers University of Pretoria
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Rinku Roy Chowdhury Clark University
Xuemei Bai
Xuemei Bai Australian National University

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