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78
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World Ranking
895
National Ranking
9

Marcelo Tabarelli 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 Marcelo Tabarelli sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 227 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Marcelo Tabarelli 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 Marcelo Tabarelli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - 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

Marcelo Tabarelli is affiliated with the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, forestry, and general ecology.

Tabarelli's research covers several main topics, notably ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management. Additional focus areas include land use and ecosystem services, agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, African botany and ecology studies, and species distribution in relation to climate change.

The scientist has published extensively, including several recent papers such as:

  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery (2021, Science)
  • Pollination ecosystem services: A comprehensive review of economic values, research funding and policy actions (2020, Food Security)
  • Winner-Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot (2020, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation)

Tabarelli collaborates frequently with other researchers including Inara R. Leal, Ariadna Valentina Lopes, Maria Fabíola Barros, Carlos A. Peres, and Bruno K. C. Filgueiras.

The scientist has contributed numerous papers to several publication venues, with the most frequent being Forest Ecology and Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Arid Environments, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, and Biotropica.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    C.L. Rezende;C.L. Rezende;F.R. Scarano;F.R. Scarano;E.D. Assad;C.A. Joly

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

    José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: New insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Felipe P. L. Melo;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Frans Bongers

  • Experiences from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: ecological findings and conservation initiatives

    Carlos A. Joly;Jean Paul Walter Metzger;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Effects of habitat fragmentation on plant guild structure in the montane Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Waldir Mantovani;Carlos A. Peres

  • Prospects for biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Lessons from aging human-modified landscapes

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Antonio Venceslau Aguiar;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Jean Paul Walter Metzger

  • A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

    Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

  • On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes.

    Felipe P.L. Melo;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Lenore Fahrig;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • 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

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation.

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Lenore Fahrig;Marcelo Tabarelli;James I. Watling

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

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

  • Ecologia e conservação da caatinga

    Felipe Fernando da Silva Siqueira;Fernanda Maria Pereira de Oliveira;José Domingos Ribeiro Neto;Maria Fabíola Barros

  • Forest fragmentation, synergisms and the impoverishment of neotropical forests

    Marcelo Tabarelli;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Claude Gascon

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: A Shrinking Biodiversity Hotspot

    Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Milton Cezar Ribeiro;Alexandre Camargo Martensen;Jean Paul Metzger;Marcelo Tabarelli

  • Drastic erosion in functional attributes of tree assemblages in Atlantic forest fragments of northeastern Brazil

    Bráulio A. Santos;Carlos A. Peres;Marcondes A. Oliveira;Alexandre Grillo

  • The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Carlos A. Peres;Felipe P.L. Melo

  • Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization

    Diele Lôbo;Tarciso Leão;Felipe P. L. Melo;André M. M. Santos

  • Abiotic and vertebrate seed dispersal in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: implications for forest regeneration

    Marcelo Tabarelli;Carlos A Peres

Frequent Co-Authors

Inara R. Leal
Inara R. Leal Federal University of Pernambuco
Felipe P. L. Melo
Felipe P. L. Melo Federal University of Pernambuco
Bráulio A. Santos
Bráulio A. Santos Federal University of Paraíba
Rainer Wirth
Rainer Wirth Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
José Maria Cardoso da Silva
José Maria Cardoso da Silva University of Miami
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo
Jean Paul Metzger
Jean Paul Metzger Universidade de São Paulo
Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Pedro H. S. Brancalion Universidade de São Paulo

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