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José Maria Cardoso da Silva

José Maria Cardoso da Silva

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
8492
World Ranking
7015
National Ranking
2351

José Maria Cardoso da Silva 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 José Maria Cardoso da Silva sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 87 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

José Maria Cardoso da Silva 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 José Maria Cardoso da Silva sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

José Maria Cardoso da Silva is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with substantial contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist has published extensively, with 51 publications categorized under Environmental Science. Their work spans several main topics, including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Economic and Environmental Valuation; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; Plant and Animal Studies; Species Distribution and Climate Change; and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Frequent publication venues for José Maria Cardoso da Silva include:

  • Land Use Policy
  • Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
  • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecological Economics
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by José Maria Cardoso da Silva are:

  • Funding deficits of protected areas in Brazil, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • Toward integrating private conservation lands into national protected area systems: Lessons from a megadiversity country, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice

Other relevant recent papers published in the same timeframe but authored by frequent collaborators are:

  • A sustainable agricultural landscape model for tropical drylands, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • The Caatinga region is a system and not an aggregate, 2022, Journal of Arid Environments
  • Do protected areas hamper economic development of the Amazon region? An analysis of the relationship between protected areas and the economic growth of Brazilian Amazon municipalities, 2020, Land Use Policy

José Maria Cardoso da Silva frequently co-authors with several researchers, including:

  • Sara J. Oyler-McCance
  • Brooke L. Bateman
  • Nathan W. Cooper
  • Kevin C. Fraser
  • Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Best Publications

  • Biogeographic Patterns and Conservation in the South American Cerrado: A Tropical Savanna Hotspot

    José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;John M. Bates

  • Tree species impoverishment and the future flora of the Atlantic forest of northeast Brazil.

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Changing the Course of Biodiversity Conservation in the Caatinga of Northeastern Brazil

    Inara R. Leal;José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli;Thomas E. Lacher

  • A comparative study of tree establishment in abandoned pasture and mature forest of eastern Amazonia

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Christopher Uhl;Cassio A. Pereira;Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Luiz Paulo Pinto;José M. C. Silva;Márcia Hirota

  • The Fate of the Amazonian Areas of Endemism

    José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Anthony B. Rylands;Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca

  • Forest fragmentation, synergisms and the impoverishment of neotropical forests

    Marcelo Tabarelli;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Claude Gascon

  • Plant Succession, Landscape Management, and the Ecology of Frugivorous Birds in Abandoned Amazonian Pastures

    José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Christopher Uhl;Gregory Murray

  • Desafios e oportunidades para a conservação da biodiversidade na Mata Atlântica brasileira

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Luiz Paulo Pinto;José Maria C. Silva;Márcia M. Hirota

  • Areas of endemism for passerine birds in the Atlantic forest, South America

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Marcelo Cardoso de Sousa;Carlos H. M. Castelletti

  • Caatinga: The largest tropical dry forest region in South America

    Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva;Inara Roberta Leal;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Biogeographical relationships among tropical forests in north‐eastern Brazil

    André M. Melo Santos;Deyvson Rodrigues Cavalcanti;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • The Caatinga: Understanding the Challenges

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Luis Cláudio Fernandes Barbosa;Inara R. Leal;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Endemic bird species and conservation in the Cerrado Region, South America

    Jose´ Maria Cardoso Da Silva

  • Restricted-range fishes and the conservation of Brazilian freshwaters.

    Cristiano Nogueira;Paulo A. Buckup;Naercio A. Menezes;Osvaldo T. Oyakawa

  • Application of parsimony analysis of endemicity in Amazonian biogeography: An example with primates

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;David Conway Oren

  • Application of parsimony analysis of endemicity in Amazonian biogeography: an example with primates

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  • Ecosystems as infrastructure

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Emily Wheeler

  • Estratégias para evitar a perda de biodiversidade na Amazônia

    Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Peter Mann de Toledo

  • CHAPTER 12 – The Speciation of South American and African Birds in Montane Regions

    Michael S. Roy;José Maria Cardoso Da Silva;Peter Arctander;Jaime García-Moreno

  • Avian inventory of the cerrado region, South America: implications for biological conservation

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva

  • Phylogeny and Conservation: List of contributors

    Andrew Purvis;John L. Gittleman;Thomas Brooks

  • Systematics and Biogeography of Scaled Woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae)

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Fernando C Straube

  • The impact of deforestation, urbanization, public investments, and agriculture on human welfare in the Brazilian Amazonia

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Shivangi Prasad;José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Tabarelli
Marcelo Tabarelli Federal University of Pernambuco
Fabio Rubio Scarano
Fabio Rubio Scarano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
John M. Bates
John M. Bates Field Museum of Natural History
Philip M. Fearnside
Philip M. Fearnside National Institute of Amazonian Research
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho Universidade Federal de Goiás
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Javier Benitez
Javier Benitez Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge

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