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Luiz Antonio Martinelli

Luiz Antonio Martinelli

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Ecology and Evolution
Brazil
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
89
Citations
35850
World Ranking
498
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Luiz Antonio Martinelli is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and focuses their research on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The researcher has contributed to topics such as:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Indigenous Health and Education
  • Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Rural Development and Agriculture

Some of the recent papers featuring Luiz Antonio Martinelli's work include:

  • Determining ecosystem functioning in Brazilian biomes through foliar carbon and nitrogen concentrations and stable isotope ratios, 2020, Biogeochemistry
  • Soil quality literature in Brazil: A systematic review, 2022, Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
  • Photodegradation influences litter decomposition rate in a humid tropical ecosystem, Brazil, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Three Decades of Changes in Brazilian Municipalities and Their Food Production Systems, 2020, Land
  • Conservation implications of a limited avian cross-habitat spillover in pasture lands, 2020, Biological Conservation

The frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto
  • Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
  • Adibe Luiz Abdalla Filho
  • Eduardo Mariano
  • Thaís Rovere Diniz-Reis

Publication venues where Luiz Antonio Martinelli's research appears often are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

    James N. Galloway;Alan R. Townsend;Jan Willem Erisman;Mateete Bekunda

  • Nutrient Imbalances in agricultural development

    P.M. Vitousek;Rosamond L. Naylor;T. Crews;M.B. David

  • Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

    Peter M. Vitousek;Ken Cassman;Cory Cleveland;Tim Crews

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

  • Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: tropical versus temperate forests

    L. A. Martinelli;M. C. Piccolo;A. R. Townsend;P. M. Vitousek

  • Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia

    Susan E Trumbore;Eric A Davidson;Pli­nio Barbosa de Camargo;Daniel C Nepstad

  • Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

    David M. Lapola;Luiz A. Martinelli;Carlos A. Peres;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • Variations in chemical and physical properties of Amazon forest soils in relation to their genesis

    C. A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;S. Patiño;S. Patiño

  • Recuperation of nitrogen cycling in Amazonian forests following agricultural abandonment

    Eric A. Davidson;Cláudio J. Reis de Carvalho;Adelaine Michela Figueira;Françoise Yoko Ishida

  • Expansion of sugarcane ethanol production in Brazil: environmental and social challenges.

    Luiz A. Martinelli;Solange Filoso

  • Biogeochemistry of carbon in the Amazon River

    Jeffrey E. Richey;John I. Hedges;Allan H. Devol;Paul D. Quay

  • Autotrophic Carbon Sources for Fish of the Central Amazon

    B. R. Forsberg;C. A. R. M. Araujo-Lima;L. A. Martinelli;R. L. Victoria

  • Forest structure and live aboveground biomass variation along an elevational gradient of tropical Atlantic moist forest (Brazil)

    Luciana Ferreira Alves;Simone Aparecida Vieira;Marcos Scaranello;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo

  • The impact of sugar cane-burning emissions on the respiratory system of children and the elderly.

    José Eduardo Delfini Cançado;Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva;Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira;Luciene B L S Lara

  • Uncertainty in the biomass of Amazonian forests: An example from Rondônia, Brazil

    I.Foster Brown;I.Foster Brown;Luiz A. Martinelli;W.Wayt Thomas;Marcelo Z. Moreira

  • Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate.

    N. M. Fyllas;S. Patiño;S. Patiño;T. R. Baker;G. Bielefeld Nardoto

  • Effects of land use on water chemistry and macroinvertebrates in two streams of the Piracicaba river basin, south-east Brazil.

    Jean Pierre H. B. Ometo;Luiz A. Martinelli;Maria Victoria Ballester;Alaídes Gessner

  • Energy Sources for Detritivorous Fishes in the Amazon

    Carlos A. R. M. Araujo-Lima;Bruce R. Forsberg;Reynaldo Victoria;Luiz Martinelli

  • Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests

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  • Chemical composition of rainwater and anthropogenic influences in the Piracicaba River Basin, Southeast Brazil

    L.B.L.S Lara;P Artaxo;L.A Martinelli;R.L Victoria

  • Forest structure and carbon dynamics in Amazonian tropical rain forests.

    Simone Vieira;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo;Diogo Selhorst;Roseana da Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria Universidade de São Paulo
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira Universidade de São Paulo
Simone A. Vieira
Simone A. Vieira State University of Campinas
Carlos Alfredo Joly
Carlos Alfredo Joly State University of Campinas
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo Universidade de São Paulo
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Jeffrey E. Richey
Jeffrey E. Richey University of Washington
Alex V. Krusche
Alex V. Krusche Universidade de São Paulo

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