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39
Citations
6903
World Ranking
6332
National Ranking
2147

Overview

Marcos Longo is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their primary research area is environmental science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, environmental engineering, ecology, and atmospheric science.

Longo's research topics encompass plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and climate variability and models.

Frequent coauthors include Michael Keller, Jean Pierre Ometto, Eric Bastos Görgens, Luciane Sato, and Mauro Assis. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse body of work published in several scientific venues.

Key publication venues for Longo's work are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Remote Sensing of Environment, and New Phytologist.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses, 2020, Science Advances
  • Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors, 2021, One Earth

The research by Longo covers a wide range of environmental issues, with significant attention to forest ecosystems, carbon cycling, and the application of remote sensing technologies. This body of work contributes to understanding ecosystem responses to environmental stressors such as drought and deforestation.

Best Publications

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change

    Naomi M. Levine;Naomi M. Levine;Ke Zhang;Ke Zhang;Marcos Longo;Alessandro Baccini

  • Coupled weather research and forecasting-stochastic time-inverted lagrangian transport (WRF-STILT) model

    Thomas Nehrkorn;Janusz Eluszkiewicz;Steven Charles Wofsy;John C. Lin

  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content.

    Alexandra G. Konings;Sassan S. Saatchi;Christian Frankenberg;Michael Keller;Michael Keller

  • Future deforestation in the Amazon and consequences for South American climate

    Abigail L.S. Swann;Marcos Longo;Ryan G. Knox;Eunjee Lee

  • Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Marcos Longo;Michael M. Keller;Michael M. Keller;Michael M. Keller;Maiza N. dos‐Santos;Veronika Leitold

  • Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses

    Celso H. L. Silva Junior;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Liana O. Anderson;Marisa G. Fonseca

  • Combining LiDAR and hyperspectral data for aboveground biomass modeling in the Brazilian Amazon using different regression algorithms

    Catherine Torres de Almeida;Lênio Soares Galvão;Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira Cruz e Aragão;Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira Cruz e Aragão;Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

  • The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO2, and land use.

    Ke Zhang;Ke Zhang;Ke Zhang;Andrea D. de Almeida Castanho;Andrea D. de Almeida Castanho;David R. Galbraith;Sanaz Moghim

  • Quantifying long-term changes in carbon stocks and forest structure from Amazon forest degradation

    Danielle I Rappaport;Douglas C Morton;Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Michael Keller

  • Seasonal carbon dynamics and water fluxes in an Amazon rainforest

    Yeonjoo Kim;Ryan G. Knox;Marcos Longo;David Medvigy

  • River breeze circulation in eastern Amazonia: observations and modelling results

    M. A. F. Silva Dias;P. L. Silva Dias;M. Longo;D. R. Fitzjarrald

  • The biophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry of functionally diverse, vertically and horizontally heterogeneous ecosystems: the Ecosystem Demography model, version 2.2 – Part 1: Model description

    Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Ryan G. Knox;Ryan G. Knox;David M. Medvigy;Naomi M. Levine

  • Sources of carbon monoxide and formaldehyde in North America determined from high-resolution atmospheric data

    Scot M. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Arlyn E. Andrews;Dylan B. Millet

  • Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography.

    Scott C. Stark;Scott C. Stark;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Scott R. Saleska;Veronika Leitold

  • Carbon stocks in central African forests enhanced by elephant disturbance

    Fabio Berzaghi;Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Philippe Ciais;Stephen Blake;Stephen Blake

  • El Niño drought increased canopy turnover in Amazon forests.

    Veronika Leitold;Veronika Leitold;Douglas C. Morton;Marcos Longo;Maiza Nara dos‐Santos

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration with concurrent eddy covariance measurements in a mixed forest

    Eugénie Paul-Limoges;Sebastian Wolf;Fabian D. Schneider;Marcos Longo

  • Ecosystem heterogeneity and diversity mitigate Amazon forest resilience to frequent extreme droughts

    Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Ryan G Knox;Naomi M Levine;Luciana Ferreira Alves

  • Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests

    Marcos Longo;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Michael Keller;Kevin W. Bowman

  • A case study of convective organization into precipitating lines in the Southwest Amazon during the WETAMC and TRMM‐LBA

    M. A. F. Silva Dias;W. Petersen;P. L. Silva Dias;R. Cifelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Paul R. Moorcroft
Paul R. Moorcroft Harvard University
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang Hohai University
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University
Michael C. Dietze
Michael C. Dietze Boston University
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University

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