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Jochen Schöngart is a researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on the intersections of ecological and climatic processes in tropical environments.

Their research covers a variety of specialized subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science. Within these areas, Schöngart has made contributions to several main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-Ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Frequent publication venues for Schöngart include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Among their recent significant papers are:

  • "Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "The new record of drought and warmth in the Amazon in 2023 related to regional and global climatic features," 2024, Scientific Reports
  • "Global tree-ring analysis reveals rapid decrease in tropical tree longevity with temperature," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of floods," 2021, Weather and Climate Extremes

Schöngart often collaborates with several researchers who frequently co-author publications with them. These co-authors include María Teresa Fernández Piedade, Florian Wittmann, Layon Oreste Demarchi, Adriano Costa Quaresma, and Aline Lopes.

The research interests, collaborative network, and publication history of Jochen Schöngart reflect an active involvement in studying the dynamics of tropical forests, climatic impacts on tree growth and longevity, and the broader ecological and environmental changes occurring in the Amazon region.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade;Jochen Schöngart;Mario Cohn-Haft

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

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

  • Brazilian wetlands: their definition, delineation, and classification for research, sustainable management, and protection

    W. J. Junk;M. T. F. Piedade;R. Lourival;F. Wittmann

  • Intensification of the Amazon hydrological cycle over the last two decades

    M. Gloor;R. J. W. Brienen;D. Galbraith;T. R. Feldpausch

  • Tree species composition and diversity gradients in white‐water forests across the Amazon Basin

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Juan Carlos Montero;Thomas Motzer

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • Phenology and stem-growth periodicity of tree species in Amazonian floodplain forests

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Sabine Ludwigshausen;Viviana Horna

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Recent intensification of Amazon flooding extremes driven by strengthened Walker circulation

    Jonathan Barichivich;Emanuel Gloor;Philippe Peylin;Roel J. W. Brienen

  • The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;M. O. Andreae;O. C. Acevedo;A. Araùjo;P. Artaxo

  • Teleconnection between tree growth in the Amazonian floodplains and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation effect.

    Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;José Marcio Ayres

  • Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs.

    R. J. W. Brienen;L. Caldwell;L. Duchesne;S. Voelker

  • Phytogeography, Species Diversity, Community Structure and Dynamics of Central Amazonian Floodplain Forests

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • Tree Rings in the Tropics: Insights into the Ecology and Climate Sensitivity of Tropical Trees

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Jochen Schöngart;Pieter A. Zuidema

  • 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

  • Wood growth patterns of Macrolobium acaciifolium (Benth.) Benth. (Fabaceae) in Amazonian black-water and white-water floodplain forests.

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • A classification of the major habitats of Amazonian black-water river floodplains and a comparison with their white-water counterparts

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Maria T. F. Piedade

  • 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

  • Growth-Oriented Logging (GOL): A new concept towards sustainable forest management in Central Amazonian várzea floodplains

    Jochen Schöngart

  • Amazonian Floodplain Forests. Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria T. F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart

  • Forecasting the flood-pulse in Central Amazonia by ENSO-indices

    Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade National Institute of Amazonian Research
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
Pia Parolin
Pia Parolin Universität Hamburg
Roel J. W. Brienen
Roel J. W. Brienen University of Leeds
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Juliana Schietti
Juliana Schietti Federal University of Amazonas
Martin Worbes
Martin Worbes University of Göttingen

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