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Juliana Schietti is affiliated with the Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and general ecology.

The main themes of Juliana Schietti's scientific work include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, plant diversity and evolution, and species distribution and climate change.

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

  • 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)
  • Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research (2023, Current Biology)
  • Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly (2023, Nature Climate Change)
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Juliana Schietti frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Scientific Reports

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Flávia R. C. Costa
  • Carolina V. Castilho
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Ben Hur Marimon

Juliana Schietti's research contributes to understanding the complex dynamics of Amazonian ecosystems, addressing aspects of plant diversity, hydrology, forest responses to climate anomalies, and ecological gaps in tropical forest studies. Their work spans large-scale ecological questions relevant to conservation and resource management within the Amazon basin and broader tropical forest landscapes.

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

  • Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests.

    Carlos A. Peres;Thaise Emilio;Juliana Schietti;Sylvain J. M. Desmoulière

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • 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

  • 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

  • The importance of hydraulic architecture to the distribution patterns of trees in a central Amazonian forest.

    Luiza H. M. Cosme;Juliana Schietti;Flávia R. C. Costa;Rafael S. Oliveira

  • Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

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  • The effectiveness of lidar remote sensing for monitoring forest cover attributes and landscape restoration

    D.R.A. Almeida;S.C. Stark;R. Chazdon;B.W. Nelson

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • The global abundance of tree palms

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Scott C. Stark;Gang Shao;Juliana Schietti

  • Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography.

    Scott C. Stark;Scott C. Stark;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Scott R. Saleska;Veronika Leitold

  • Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps

    Maria O. Hunter;Michael Keller;Douglas Morton;Bruce Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Flávia R. C. Costa
Flávia R. C. Costa National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Susan G. Laurance
Susan G. Laurance James Cook University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Timothy J. Killeen
Timothy J. Killeen Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum

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