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Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
14136
World Ranking
2680
National Ranking
39

Overview

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research spans several areas within environmental and biological sciences, with a focus on the Amazonian ecosystem and its biodiversity dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader categories, the scientist has contributed significantly to subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science

The research topics covered in their work reveal key areas of focus:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade has co-authored frequently with several researchers, indicating collaborative engagements, including:

  • Jochen Schöngart
  • Florian Wittmann
  • Layon Oreste Demarchi
  • Adriano Costa Quaresma
  • Aline Lopes

They have published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Acta Botanica Brasilica
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Biology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Hydrobiologia

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia," 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • "Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "A Review of the Ecological and Biogeographic Differences of Amazonian Floodplain Forests," 2022, Water

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade;Jochen Schöngart;Mario Cohn-Haft

  • Brazilian wetlands: their definition, delineation, and classification for research, sustainable management, and protection

    W. J. Junk;M. T. F. Piedade;R. Lourival;F. Wittmann

  • Tree species composition and diversity gradients in white‐water forests across the Amazon Basin

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Juan Carlos Montero;Thomas Motzer

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • Phenology and stem-growth periodicity of tree species in Amazonian floodplain forests

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Sabine Ludwigshausen;Viviana Horna

  • Plant Life in the Floodplain with Special Reference to Herbaceous Plants

    Wolfgang Johannes Junk;Maria Teresa F. Piedade

  • The várzea forests in Amazonia: flooding and the highly dynamic geomorphology interact with natural forest succession

    Florian Karl Wittmann;Wolfgang Johannes Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade

  • The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;M. O. Andreae;O. C. Acevedo;A. Araùjo;P. Artaxo

  • Central Amazonian Floodplain Forests: Tree Adaptations in a Pulsing System

    P. Parolin;O. De Simone;K. Haase;D. Waldhoff

  • The Productivity of the C_4 Grass Echinochloa Polystachya on the Amazon Floodplain

    M. T.F. Piedade;W. J. Junk;Stephen P Long

  • Teleconnection between tree growth in the Amazonian floodplains and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation effect.

    Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;José Marcio Ayres

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Wood growth patterns of Macrolobium acaciifolium (Benth.) Benth. (Fabaceae) in Amazonian black-water and white-water floodplain forests.

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • A classification of the major habitats of Amazonian black-water river floodplains and a comparison with their white-water counterparts

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Maria T. F. Piedade

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • A classification of major natural habitats of Amazonian white-water river floodplains (várzeas)

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade;Jochen Schöngart;Florian Wittmann

  • Amazonian Floodplain Forests. Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria T. F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart

  • Habitat specifity, endemism and the neotropical distribution of Amazonian white-water floodplain trees

    Florian Wittmann;Ethan Householder;Maria T. F. Piedade;Rafael L. de Assis

  • Herbaceous plants of the Amazon floodplain near Manaus: Species diversity and adaptations to the flood pulse

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria T.F. Piedade

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jochen Schöngart
Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research
Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
Pia Parolin
Pia Parolin Universität Hamburg
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Leandro V. Ferreira
Leandro V. Ferreira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History

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