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50
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11388
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3795
National Ranking
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Overview

Flávia R. C. Costa is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Flávia R. C. Costa has contributed to several recent academic papers, including:

  • "Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests," 2020, Science
  • "Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large-scale hydrological refugia from drought?," 2022, New Phytologist
  • "The global abundance of tree palms," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology

They collaborate frequently with co-authors such as:

  • Juliana Schietti
  • Carolina V. Castilho
  • José Luís Camargo
  • Ted R. Feldpausch
  • Oliver L. Phillips

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • RAPELD: A MODIFICATION OF THE GENTRY METHOD FOR BIODIVERSITY SURVEYS IN LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH SITES.

    William E. Magnusson;Albertina P. Lima;Regina Luizão;Flávio Luizão

  • 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

  • How people domesticated Amazonian forests

    Carolina Levis;Carolina Levis;Bernardo M. Flores;Priscila A. Moreira;Bruno G. Luize

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Mesoscale distribution patterns of Amazonian understorey herbs in relation to topography, soil and watersheds

    Flávia R. C. Costa;William E. Magnusson;Regina C. Luizao

  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

    Scott C Stark;Veronika Leitold;Jin L Wu;Maria O Hunter

  • Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

    Izabela Aleixo;Izabela Aleixo;Darren Norris;Darren Norris;Lia Hemerik;Antenor Barbosa

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro-topographic gradients

    Rafael S. Oliveira;Flavia R.C. Costa;Emma van Baalen;Emma van Baalen;Arjen de Jonge;Arjen de Jonge

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Vertical distance from drainage drives floristic composition changes in an Amazonian rainforest

    Juliana Schietti;Thaise Emilio;Camilo D. Rennó;Debora P. Drucker

  • Gradients within gradients: The mesoscale distribution patterns of palms in a central Amazonian forest

    Flávia R.C. Costa;Jean-Louis Guillaumet;Albertina P. Lima;Ocirio S. Pereira

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Biochemical and immunological characterization of p190-calmodulin complex from vertebrate brain: a novel calmodulin-binding myosin.

    Foued S. Espindola;Enilza M. Espreafico;Milton V. Coelho;Antonio R. Martins

  • Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest.

    Lourens Poorter;Lourens Poorter;Carolina V. Castilho;Juliana Schietti;Rafael S. Oliveira

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Historical human footprint on modern tree species composition in the Purus-Madeira interfluve, central Amazonia.

    Carolina Levis;Priscila Figueira de Souza;Juliana Schietti;Thaise Emilio

  • How wide is the riparian zone of small streams in tropical forests? A test with terrestrial herbs

    Debora Pignatari Drucker;Flávia Regina Capellotto Costa;William E. Magnusson

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliana Schietti
Juliana Schietti Federal University of Amazonas
William E. Magnusson
William E. Magnusson National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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