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D-Index
37
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9063
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6757
National Ranking
120

Felipe P. L. Melo 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 Felipe P. L. Melo sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 78 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Felipe P. L. Melo 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 Felipe P. L. Melo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Felipe P. L. Melo is affiliated with the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable contributions spanning various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics covered in their body of work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Policy, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Land Degradation and Development
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • npj Biodiversity

Among their recent papers are:

  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery (2021, Science)
  • Understanding Brazil's catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies (2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation)
  • Adding forests to the water-energy-food nexus (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Winner-Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

Felipe collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Marcelo Tabarelli, Bráulio Almeida Santos, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Bruno X. Pinho, and Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity

    Robert J. Fletcher;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Cristina Banks-Leite;Jos Barlow

  • 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

  • A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

    Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

  • On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes.

    Felipe P.L. Melo;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Lenore Fahrig;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • 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

  • Ecologia e conservação da caatinga

    Felipe Fernando da Silva Siqueira;Fernanda Maria Pereira de Oliveira;José Domingos Ribeiro Neto;Maria Fabíola Barros

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Carlos A. Peres;Felipe P.L. Melo

  • Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization

    Diele Lôbo;Tarciso Leão;Felipe P. L. Melo;André M. M. Santos

  • Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies

    Vânia R. Pivello;Ima Vieira;Alexander V. Christianini;Danilo Bandini Ribeiro

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

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

  • Priority setting for scaling-up tropical forest restoration projects: Early lessons from the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact

    Felipe P. L Melo;Severino R. R Pinto;Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion;Pedro S Castro

  • Burning biodiversity: Fuelwood harvesting causes forest degradation in human-dominated tropical landscapes

    Maria Joana Specht;Severino Rodrigo Ribeiro Pinto;Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Biased seed rain in forest edges: Evidence from the Brazilian Atlantic forest

    Felipe Pimentel Lopes de Melo;Rodolfo Dirzo;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

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

  • Governing and Delivering a Biome-Wide Restoration Initiative: The Case of Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil

    Severino R Pinto;Felipe Melo;Marcelo Tabarelli;Aurélio Padovesi

  • Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

    Felipe P. L. Melo;Luke Parry;Pedro H. S. Brancalion;Severino R. R. Pinto

  • Winner–loser species replacements in human-modified landscapes

    Bruno K.C. Filgueiras;Carlos A. Peres;Felipe P.L. Melo;Inara R. Leal

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

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

  • Small Tent‐Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large‐Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest

    Felipe P. L. Melo;Bernal Rodriguez-Herrera;Robin L. Chazdon;Rodrigo A. Medellin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Tabarelli
Marcelo Tabarelli Federal University of Pernambuco
Bráulio A. Santos
Bráulio A. Santos Federal University of Paraíba
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Pedro H. S. Brancalion Universidade de São Paulo
Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
J. W. Ferry Slik
J. W. Ferry Slik Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Deborah Faria
Deborah Faria State University of Santa Cruz
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Lenore Fahrig
Lenore Fahrig Carleton University

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