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Marcos Heil Costa publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcos Heil Costa sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 150 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Marcos Heil Costa D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcos Heil Costa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Marcos Heil Costa is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Climate Variability and Models; Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies; Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics; Water Resources Management and Optimization; and Irrigation Practices and Water Management.

Marcos Heil Costa has contributed to several recent papers, including the following:

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation (2023, Science)
  • Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges (2021, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Carbon stocks and dynamics of different land uses on the Cerrado agricultural frontier (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Beyond Carbon: The Contributions of South American Tropical Humid and Subhumid Forests to Ecosystem Services (2022, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Soil Carbon Sequestration in Rainfed and Irrigated Production Systems in a New Brazilian Agricultural Frontier (2020, Agriculture)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marcos Heil Costa include:

  • Luciana V. Gatti
  • Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão
  • Emily Ane Dionizio
  • Raphael Pousa
  • Laura S. Borma

Regarding publication venues, the scientist frequently publishes in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Science
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Effects of large-scale changes in land cover on the discharge of the Tocantins River, Southeastern Amazonia

    Marcos Heil Costa;Marcos Heil Costa;Aurélie Botta;Jeffrey A Cardille

  • Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin

    Jonathan A. Foley;Gregory P. Asner;Marcos Heil Costa;Michael T. Coe

  • Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes.

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Stith T. Gower

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

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

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Combined Effects of Deforestation and Doubled Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on the Climate of Amazonia

    Marcos Heil Costa;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion

    Gilvan Sampaio;Carlos Nobre;Marcos Heil Costa;Prakki Satyamurty

  • Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate

    Jonathan A. Foley;Marcos Heil Costa;Christine Delire;Navin Ramankutty

  • Variação espacial e temporal da precipitação no estado do Pará.

    Bergson Cavalcanti de Moraes;José Maria Nogueira da Costa;Antonio Carlos Lôla da Costa;Marcos Heil Costa

  • Surface water dynamics in the Amazon Basin: Application of satellite radar altimetry

    C. M. Birkett;L. A. K. Mertes;T. Dunne;M. H. Costa

  • The influence of historical and potential future deforestation on the stream flow of the Amazon River – Land surface processes and atmospheric feedbacks

    Michael T. Coe;Marcos H. Costa;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho

  • Effects of Amazon and Central Brazil deforestation scenarios on the duration of the dry season in the arc of deforestation

    Marcos Heil Costa;Gabrielle Ferreira Pires

  • Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

    Thomas L. Powell;David R. Galbraith;David R. Galbraith;Bradley O. Christoffersen;Anna Harper;Anna Harper

  • Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture.

    Lívia C. P. Dias;Fernando M. Pimenta;Ana B. Santos;Marcos H. Costa

  • Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought

    Liang Xu;Arindam Samanta;Marcos H. Costa;Sangram Ganguly

  • Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales.

    Claudia M. Stickler;Michael T. Coe;Marcos H. Costa;Daniel C. Nepstad

  • Projections of climate change effects on discharge and inundation in the Amazon basin

    Mino Viana Sorribas;Rodrigo C. D. Paiva;John M. Melack;Juan Martin Bravo

  • Incorporating dynamic vegetation cover within global climate models

    Jonathan A. Foley;Samuel Levis;Marcos Heil Costa;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Iris Roitman;T. Mitchell Aide;Ane Alencar

  • El Niño–Southern oscillation and the climate, ecosystems and rivers of Amazonia

    Jonathan A. Foley;Aurélie Botta;Michael T. Coe;Marcos Heil Costa

  • Surface water dynamics in the Amazon basin: Application of satellite radar altimetry : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    C. M. Birkett;L. A. K. Mertes;T. Dunne;M. H. Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Richard J. Ladle
Richard J. Ladle Federal University of Alagoas
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Britaldo Soares-Filho
Britaldo Soares-Filho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Paul R. Moorcroft
Paul R. Moorcroft Harvard University
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

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