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Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
59
Citations
12959
World Ranking
2431
National Ranking
35

Overview

Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil and contributes extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics in environmental and ecological studies, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ecology.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Environmental Science

Their work also spans several important subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Water Science and Technology

Key topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • How sustainable is the nitrogen management in Brazil? A sustainability assessment using the Entropy Weight Method, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Large-scale variations in the dynamics of Amazon forest canopy gaps from airborne lidar data and opportunities for tree mortality estimates, 2021, Scientific Reports

Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Mauro Assis
  • Eric Bastos Görgens
  • Francisca Rocha de Souza Pereira
  • Roberta Cantinho
  • Michael Keller

Their work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

    David M. Lapola;Luiz A. Martinelli;Carlos A. Peres;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • Recuperation of nitrogen cycling in Amazonian forests following agricultural abandonment

    Eric A. Davidson;Cláudio J. Reis de Carvalho;Adelaine Michela Figueira;Françoise Yoko Ishida

  • CO2 efflux from Amazonian headwater streams represents a significant fate for deep soil respiration

    Mark Scott Johnson;Mark Scott Johnson;Johannes Lehmann;Susan J Riha;Alex Vladimir Krusche

  • Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Iris Roitman;T. Mitchell Aide;Ane Alencar

  • Effects of Urban Sewage on Dissolved Oxygen, Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Carbon, and Electrical Conductivity of Small Streams along a Gradient of Urbanization in the Piracicaba River Basin

    Mariely H. B. Daniel;Alexandra A. Montebelo;Marcelo C. Bernardes;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • The stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of vegetation in tropical forests of the Amazon Basin, Brazil

    Jean P. H. B. Ometto;James R. Ehleringer;Tomas F. Domingues;Joseph A. Berry

  • Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raising in Brazil

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Carlos A. Nobre;Roberto Smeraldi;Ana P. D. Aguiar

  • Caatinga, the Brazilian dry tropical forest: can it tolerate climate changes?

    Mauro G. Santos;Marciel T. Oliveira;Karla V. Figueiredo;Hiram M. Falcão

  • Land use change emission scenarios: anticipating a forest transition process in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar;Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira;Talita Oliveira Assis;Eloi L Dalla‐Nora

  • Geographical patterns of human diet derived from stable-isotope analysis of fingernails.

    G B Nardoto;S Silva;C Kendall;J R Ehleringer

  • Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change.

    Kelly Ribeiro;Felipe Siqueira Pacheco;José Willian Ferreira;Eráclito Rodrigues de Sousa‐Neto

  • Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories

    Stephen Michael Ogle;Werner Alexander Kurz;Carly Green;Andrea Brandon

  • Dominance of legume trees alters nutrient relations in mixed species forest restoration plantings within seven years

    Ilyas Siddique;Vera Lex Engel;John A. Parrotta;David Lamb

  • Combining LiDAR and hyperspectral data for aboveground biomass modeling in the Brazilian Amazon using different regression algorithms

    Catherine Torres de Almeida;Lênio Soares Galvão;Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira Cruz e Aragão;Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira Cruz e Aragão;Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Variability of carbon dioxide flux from tropical (Cerrado) hydroelectric reservoirs

    Fábio Roland;Luciana O. Vidal;Felipe S. Pacheco;Nathan O. Barros

  • Modeling the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of deforestation‐driven carbon emissions: the INPE‐EM framework applied to the Brazilian Amazon

    Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar;Jean Pierre Ometto;Carlos Nobre;David Montenegro Lapola

  • Stable isotopes of bulk organic matter to trace carbon and nitrogen dynamics in an estuarine ecosystem in Babitonga Bay (Santa Catarina, Brazil).

    Grace Virgínia Barros;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Therezinha M. Oliveira Novais;Jean Pierre H.B. Ometto

  • Amazonia and the modern carbon cycle: lessons learned.

    Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto;Antonio D. Nobre;Humberto R. Rocha;Paulo Artaxo

  • Carbon isotope discrimination in forest and pasture ecosystems of the Amazon Basin, Brazil

    Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto;Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto;L. B. Flanagan;L. B. Flanagan;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira

Frequent Co-Authors

Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante University of Brasília
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira Universidade de São Paulo
David M. Lapola
David M. Lapola State University of Campinas
Tomas F. Domingues
Tomas F. Domingues Universidade de São Paulo
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos A. Nobre Universidade de São Paulo
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research

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