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John A. Parrotta

John A. Parrotta

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Ecology and Evolution

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45
Citations
14201
World Ranking
4738
National Ranking
1642

Overview

John A. Parrotta is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research is positioned within the broad field of Environmental Science, with specific focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Insect Science.

The main topics of their work center on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Forest Management and Policy, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis, and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond.

John A. Parrotta has contributed to multiple publications across notable scientific venues. These publication outlets include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Ecosystems and People
  • Plant and Soil
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by John A. Parrotta demonstrate the range and focus of their research:

  • How to halt the global decline of lands (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
  • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2023), published in Ecosystems and People
  • Site and plant community parameters drive the effect of vegetation on litterfall and nutrient inputs in restored tropical forests (2021), published in Plant and Soil
  • Assessing the contribution of land and water management approaches to sustainable land management and achieving land degradation neutrality (2024), published in Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ram Pandit, David Ganz, William A. Gould, Nora L. Álvarez-Berríos, and Kathleen McGinley.

Best Publications

  • Restoration of Degraded Tropical Forest Landscapes

    David Lamb;David Lamb;Peter D. Erskine;Peter D. Erskine;John A. Parrotta;John A. Parrotta

  • Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity

    Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Hervé Jactel;John A. Parrotta;Christopher P. Quine

  • Healing plants of peninsular India.

    John A. Parrotta

  • CATALYZING NATIVE FOREST REGENERATION ON DEGRADED TROPICAL LANDS

    John A Parrotta;John W Turnbull;Norman Jones

  • Planted forests and biodiversity.

    Jean-Michel Carnus;John Parrotta;Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Michel Arbez

  • The role of plantation forests in rehabilitating degraded tropical ecosystems

    John A. Parrotta

  • Productivity, nutrient cycling, and succession in single- and mixed-species plantations of Casuarina equisetifolia, Eucalyptus robusta, and Leucaena leucocephala in Puerto Rico

    John A Parrotta

  • Greater Soil Carbon Sequestration under Nitrogen-fixing Trees Compared with Eucalyptus Species

    Sigrid C. Resh;Dan Binkley;John A. Parrotta

  • Influence of overstory composition on understory colonization by native species in plantations on a degraded tropical site

    John A. Parrotta

  • Development of floristic diversity in 10-year-old restoration forests on a bauxite mined site in Amazonia

    John A Parrotta;Oliver Henry Knowles;Joseph M Wunderle

  • Role of eucalypt and other planted forests in biodiversity conservation and the provision of biodiversity-related ecosystem services

    Eckehard G Brockerhoff;Hervé Jactel;Hervé Jactel;John A Parrotta;Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz

  • Plantation forests, climate change and biodiversity

    S. M. Pawson;A. Brin;E. G. Brockerhoff;D. Lamb

  • Restoration of Tropical Moist Forests on Bauxite‐Mined Lands in the Brazilian Amazon

    John A. Parrotta;Oliver H. Knowles

  • An evaluation of direct seeding for reforestation of degraded lands in central São Paulo State, Brazil

    Vera Lex Engel;John A Parrotta

  • Loss in species caused by tropical deforestation and their recovery through management

    Ariel E. Lugo;John A. Parrotta;Sandra Brown

  • Forest Biodiversity and the Delivery of Ecosystem Goods and Services: Translating Science into Policy

    Ian D. Thompson;Kimiko Okabe;Jason M. Tylianakis;Pushpam Kumar

  • Energy Partitioning in Largemouth Bass under Conditions of Seasonally Fluctuating Prey Availability

    S. Marshall Adams;R. B. McLean;J. A. Parrotta

  • Definindo a restauração ecológica: tendências e perspectivas mundiais

    Vera L. Engel;John A. Parrotta

  • Nitrogen immobilization by decomposing woody debris and the recovery of tropical wet forest from hurricane disturbance

    Jess K. Zimmerman;William M. Pulliam;D. Jean Lodge;Vanessa Quinones-Orfila

  • Restoring tropical forests on lands mined for bauxite: Examples from the Brazilian Amazon

    John A Parrotta;Oliver H Knowles

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lamb
David Lamb University of New England
Jeffrey Sayer
Jeffrey Sayer University of British Columbia
Eckehard G. Brockerhoff
Eckehard G. Brockerhoff Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Florencia Montagnini
Florencia Montagnini Yale University
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Ian D. Thompson
Ian D. Thompson Canadian Forest Service
Henry Neufeldt
Henry Neufeldt Technical University of Denmark
Kevin L. O'Hara
Kevin L. O'Hara University of California, Berkeley
Markku Kanninen
Markku Kanninen University of Helsinki

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