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Lucas C. R. Silva is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Soil Science.

The main topics that characterize their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Lucas C. R. Silva has contributed to several recent papers, which illustrate the range of their research interests and collaborations. Notable recent publications include:

  • Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions: structure, function, and predictive scaling for climate change mitigation, 2020, Plant and Soil
  • A new hypothesis for the origin of Amazonian Dark Earths, 2021, Nature Communications

They have also coauthored papers with several frequent collaborators, including Bárbara Bomfim, Toby M. Maxwell, Scott D. Bridgham, Hilary Rose Dawson, and Brendan J. M. Bohannan.

Lucas C. R. Silva's work is frequently published in well-known scientific venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant and Soil
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Biogeochemistry

Their research addresses various aspects of environmental and agricultural sciences, blending observational studies and theoretical approaches to understand ecosystem dynamics, carbon cycling, and soil processes. The range of topics covered reflects an interdisciplinary approach applied across different ecosystems and climate-related challenges.

Best Publications

  • Ecological thresholds at the savanna-forest boundary: how plant traits, resources and fire govern the distribution of tropical biomes

    William A. Hoffmann;Erika L. Geiger;Sybil G. Gotsch;Davi R. Rossatto

  • Use of chemical and physical characteristics to investigate trends in biochar feedstocks.

    Fungai N. D. Mukome;Xiaoming Zhang;Lucas C. R. Silva;Johan Six

  • Probing for the influence of atmospheric CO2 and climate change on forest ecosystems across biomes

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Madhur Anand

  • Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Madhur Anand;Mark D. Leithead

  • Depth of water uptake in woody plants relates to groundwater level and vegetation structure along a topographic gradient in a neotropical savanna

    Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;Lucas de Carvalho Ramos Silva;Randoll Villalobos-Vega;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Lucas C. R. Silva;Leonel Sternberg;Mundayatan Haridasan;William A. Hoffmann

  • Can savannas become forests? A coupled analysis of nutrient stocks and fire thresholds in central Brazil

    Lucas C. R. Silva;William A. Hoffmann;Davi R. Rossatto;Mundayatan Haridasan

  • Cerrado vegetation and global change: the role of functional types, resource availability and disturbance in regulating plant community responses to rising CO2 levels and climate warming

    Augusto Cesar Franco;Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;Lucas de Carvalho Ramos Silva;Cristiane da Silva Ferreira

  • Bark water uptake promotes localized hydraulic recovery in coastal redwood crown.

    J. Mason Earles;Or Sperling;Lucas C. R. Silva;Andrew J. McElrone;Andrew J. McElrone

  • Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions: structure, function, and predictive scaling for climate change mitigation

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Hans Lambers;Hans Lambers

  • Growth decline and divergent tree ring isotopic composition (δ13C and δ18O) contradict predictions of CO2stimulation in high altitudinal forests

    Armando Gómez-Guerrero;Lucas C. R. Silva;Miguel Barrera-Reyes;Barbara Kishchuk

  • Tree growth acceleration and expansion of alpine forests: The synergistic effect of atmospheric and edaphic change

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Geng Sun;Xia Zhu-Barker;Qianlong Liang

  • Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter

    Leah L R Renwick;Leah L R Renwick;William Deen;Lucas Silva;Matthew E Gilbert

  • North America's oldest boreal trees are more efficient water users due to increased [CO2], but do not grow faster.

    Claudie Giguère-Croteau;Étienne Boucher;Étienne Boucher;Yves Bergeron;Yves Bergeron;Martin P Girardin

  • Northward migrating trees establish in treefall gaps at the northern limit of the temperate–boreal ecotone, Ontario, Canada

    Mark D. Leithead;Madhur Anand;Lucas C. R. Silva

  • Assessing response of local moisture conditions in central Brazil to variability in regional monsoon intensity using speleothem 87Sr/86Sr values

    Barbara E. Wortham;Barbara E. Wortham;Corinne I. Wong;Lucas C.R. Silva;David McGee

  • Explaining Global Increases in Water Use Efficiency: Why Have We Overestimated Responses to Rising Atmospheric CO2 in Natural Forest Ecosystems?

    Lucas C. R. Silva;William R. Horwath

  • Mechanisms of Araucaria (Atlantic) Forest Expansion into Southern Brazilian Grasslands

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Lucas C. R. Silva;Madhur Anand

  • Seasonal variation in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees in Central Brazil: Implications for forest expansion into savanna

    Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;William Arthur Hoffmann;Lucas de Carvalho Ramos Silva;Mundayatan Haridasan

  • Past century changes in Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze water use efficiency and growth in forest and grassland ecosystems of southern Brazil: implications for forest expansion

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Madhur Anand;Juliano M. Oliveira;Valério D. Pillar

  • Unprecedented carbon accumulation in mined soils: the synergistic effect of resource input and plant species invasion

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Rodrigo S. Corrêa;Timothy A. Doane;Engil I. P. Pereira

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Horwath
William R. Horwath University of California, Davis
Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand University of Guelph
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Augusto C. Franco
Augusto C. Franco University of Brasília
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Mato Grosso State University
William A. Hoffmann
William A. Hoffmann North Carolina State University
Gregory J. Retallack
Gregory J. Retallack University of Oregon
Roberto Ventura Santos
Roberto Ventura Santos University of Brasília
Shawn W. Laffan
Shawn W. Laffan University of New South Wales

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