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D-Index
57
Citations
17855
World Ranking
2647
National Ranking
38

Marcos Silveira 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 Marcos Silveira sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 102 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Marcos Silveira 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 Marcos Silveira sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Marcos Silveira is affiliated with Universidade Federal do Acre in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Ecology. Their work extensively covers topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and animal studies, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Recent publications by Marcos Silveira include:

  • "Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa" (2020, Ecology)
  • "Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests" (2023, Nature)
  • "Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Frequent co-authors of Silveira include:

  • Wendeson Castro
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Ben Hur Marimon
  • Timothy R. Baker

Their publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Phytotaxa
  • Nature
  • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
  • Acta Amazonica

Marcos Silveira has contributed to multiple books published by Stricto Sensu Editora eBooks, including titles released in 2020 such as "Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia no Brasil 2," "Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia no Brasil," "FAZENDA EXPERIMENTAL CATUABA: O seringal que virou laboratório-vivo em uma paisagem fragmentada no Acre," and a recent 2024 publication, "Sociobiodiversidade da Área de Proteção Ambiental Lago do Amapá." Additionally, they have a forthcoming book with Editora da FURG eBooks titled "Estratégias para superar desafios de mulheres cientistas: compilação de palestras do PPGQTA - FURG por Gurias na Ciência, vol. 1," set for 2025.

In 2009, Marcos Silveira received the ACM Senior Member award.

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

    Hans Ter Steege;Nigel Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos

  • Catálogo de plantas e fungos do Brasil - Vol. 2

    Rafaela Campostrini Forzza;Paula Moraes Leitman;Andrea Costa;Aníbal Alves de Carvalho Jr.

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

    T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor

  • The number of tree species on Earth

    Unknown

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Catálogo de plantas e fungos do Brasil

    Rafaela Campostrini Forzza;Paula Moraes Leitman;Andrea Costa;Aníbal Alves de Carvalho Jr.

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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