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Marcelo Zacharias Moreira

Marcelo Zacharias Moreira

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6072
World Ranking
8085
National Ranking
55

Overview

Marcelo Zacharias Moreira is affiliated with Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Moreira has contributed to numerous scientific publications and regularly collaborates with researchers such as Marcelo Magioli, Paulo dos Santos Pompeu, Kátia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz, Débora Reis de Carvalho, and Plínio Barbosa de Camargo.

The scientist has published frequently in venues including Biogeochemistry, Oecologia, Oikos, SSRN Electronic Journal, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among their recent papers are:

  • Integrated farming systems influence soil organic matter dynamics in southeastern Brazil (2020, Geoderma)
  • Trophic diversity and carbon sources supporting fish communities along a pollution gradient in a tropical river (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Determining ecosystem functioning in Brazilian biomes through foliar carbon and nitrogen concentrations and stable isotope ratios (2020, Biogeochemistry)
  • Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Food and Beverage in Brazil (2020, Molecules)
  • Using δ15N of periphyton and fish to evaluate spatial and seasonal variation of anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in a polluted Brazilian river basin (2020, Ecological Indicators)

Best Publications

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias‐Filho;E. Davidson

  • 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

  • Specific leaf area explains differences in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees

    W. A. Hoffmann;A. C. Franco;M. Z. Moreira;M. Haridasan

  • Contribution of transpiration to forest ambient vapour based on isotopic measurements

    Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;L S L Sternberg;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Reynaldo Luiz Victoria

  • Stable isotope study of cave percolation waters in subtropical Brazil: Implications for paleoclimate inferences from speleothems

    Francisco W. Cruz;Francisco W. Cruz;Ivo Karmann;Oduvaldo Viana;Stephen J. Burns

  • Geographical patterns of human diet derived from stable-isotope analysis of fingernails.

    G B Nardoto;S Silva;C Kendall;J R Ehleringer

  • Mixed-species plantations of Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus grandis in Brazil: 2: Nitrogen accumulation in the stands and biological N2 fixation

    Jean-Pierre Bouillet;Jean-Paul Laclau;José Leonardo M. Gonçalves;M.Z. Moreira

  • Using stable isotopes to determine sources of evaporated water to the atmosphere in the Amazon basin

    Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Reynaldo Luiz Victoria;Leonel Silveira Lobo Sternberg;Aristides Ribeiro

  • Solar neon in the Icelandic mantle: new evidence for an undegassed lower mantle

    Manuel Moreira;Kresten Breddam;Joshua Curtice;Mark D. Kurz

  • Hydraulic lift in a neotropical savanna

    M. Z. Moreira;F. G. Scholz;S. J. Bucci;L. S. Sternberg

  • Stable carbon isotope ratio of tree leaves, boles and fine litter in a tropical forest in Rondônia, Brazil

    Luiz Antonio Martinelli;S Almeida;I F Brown;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira

  • Introducing Acacia mangium trees in Eucalyptus grandis plantations: consequences for soil organic matter stocks and nitrogen mineralization

    Maureen Voigtlaender;Jean-Paul Laclau;José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves;Marisa de Cássia Piccolo

  • Potassium fertilization increases water-use efficiency for stem biomass production without affecting intrinsic water-use efficiency in Eucalyptus grandis plantations

    Patricia Battie-Laclau;Juan Sinforiano Delgado-Rojas;Mathias Christina;Yann Nouvellon

  • NITROUS OXIDE NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION 15N ENRICHMENT FACTORS FROM AMAZON FOREST SOILS

    Tibisay Perez;Tibisay Perez;Diana Garcia-Montiel;Susan E. Trumbore;Stanley Tyler

  • Biophysical and life‐history determinants of hydraulic lift in Neotropical savanna trees

    F. G. Scholz;F. G. Scholz;S. J. Bucci;S. J. Bucci;G. Goldstein;G. Goldstein;M. Z. Moreira

  • Rainfall exclusion in an eastern Amazonian forest alters soil water movement and depth of water uptake

    Hugo Romero‐Saltos;Leonel da S. L. Sternberg;Marcelo Z. Moreira;Daniel C. Nepstad

  • Carbon isotope discrimination in forest and pasture ecosystems of the Amazon Basin, Brazil

    Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto;Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto;L. B. Flanagan;L. B. Flanagan;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira

  • Human-modified landscapes alter mammal resource and habitat use and trophic structure

    Marcelo Magioli;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;Renata Cristina Batista Fonseca;Milton Cezar Ribeiro

  • Sourcing Brazilian marijuana by applying IRMS analysis to seized samples.

    Elisa K. Shibuya;Jorge E. Souza Sarkis;Osvaldo Negrini Neto;Marcelo Z. Moreira

  • Vertical patterns of soil water uptake by plants in a primary forest and an abandoned pasture in the eastern Amazon: an isotopic approach

    Marcelo Z. Moreira;Leonel da S. L. Sternberg;Daniel C. Nepstad

  • Plants use macronutrients accumulated in leaf-cutting ant nests.

    Leenel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg;Maria Camila Pinzon;Marcelo Z. Moreira;Paulo Moutinho

  • Integrated farming systems influence soil organic matter dynamics in southeastern Brazil

    Wanderlei Bieluczyk;Marisa de Cássia Piccolo;Marcos Gervasio Pereira;Moacir Tuzzin de Moraes

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias-Filho;E. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli 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
Paulo Santos Pompeu
Paulo Santos Pompeu Federal University of Lavras
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo
Jean-Paul Laclau
Jean-Paul Laclau Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo Universidade de São Paulo
Yann Nouvellon
Yann Nouvellon University of Montpellier

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