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Marisol Toledo is affiliated with the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University in Bolivia. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science with a concentration in various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Marisol Toledo has contributed to multiple academic articles, including the following recent papers:

  • "Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots" (2021) published in Biological Conservation
  • "Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests" (2022) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness" (2024) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Odour prevention strategies in wastewater treatment plants: A pilot scale study of activated sludge recycling and oxidized nitrogen recycling" (2023) published in Journal of environmental chemical engineering

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including A. Carneluti, Lourens Poorter, Cristina Mangia, C. Goulart, and Sofia Moutinho.

Marisol Toledo's publications often appear in venues such as Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Biological Conservation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of environmental chemical engineering.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

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

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

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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

  • 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

  • Climate is a stronger driver of tree and forest growth rates than soil and disturbance

    Marisol Toledo;Lourens Poorter;Marielos Peña-Claros;Alfredo Alarcón

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

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

  • Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of neotropical forests.

    Lourens Poorter;Masha T. van der Sande;Eric J. M. M. Arets;Nataly Ascarrunz

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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

  • 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

  • Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

    Lourens Poorter;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;Jarcilene S. de Almeida-Cortez

  • Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients

    Marisol Toledo;Marielos Peña-Claros;Frans Bongers;Alfredo Alarcón

  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

    Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

  • Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest

    Masha T. van der Sande;Marielos Peña‐Claros;Nataly Ascarrunz;Eric J. M. M. Arets

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Soil Effects on Forest Structure and Diversity in a Moist and a Dry Tropical Forest

    Marielos Peña-Claros;Lourens Poorter;Alfredo Alarcón;Geoffrey Blate

  • Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

    Ervan Rutishauser;Bruno Hérault;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Lilian Blanc

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • 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

Marielos Peña-Claros
Marielos Peña-Claros Wageningen University & Research
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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