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Ecology and Evolution
Brazil
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
34182
World Ranking
575
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Mauro Galetti is affiliated with Sao Paulo State University in Brazil and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research primarily explores themes in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Recent publications include:

  • Climate and land-use change will lead to a faunal "savannization" on tropical rainforests, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest, 2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Rethinking megafauna, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Dispersal of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Evidence and Insights for Ecological Studies, 2020, Microbial Ecology
  • Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle, 2020, Functional Ecology

Mauro Galetti frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Nacho Villar
  • Marcelo Magioli
  • Mathias M. Pires
  • Kátia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz
  • Fernando Gonçalves

The scientist commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Mammalogy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Mauro Galetti has also contributed to book publications, including a 2023 title with Editora UNESP eBooks titled Um naturalista no Antropoceno: Um biólogo em busca do selvagem.

Best Publications

  • Defaunation in the Anthropocene

    Rodolfo Dirzo;Hillary S. Young;Mauro Galetti;Gerardo Ceballos

  • World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

    William J. Ripple;Christopher Wolf;Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Mauro Galetti

  • Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.

    William J Ripple;Thomas M Newsome;Thomas M Newsome;Christopher Wolf;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene.

    Christopher N. Johnson;Andrew Balmford;Barry W. Brook;Jessie C. Buettel

  • Beyond species loss: The extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world

    Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet;Marcelo A. Aizen;Julio M. Alcántara;Juan Arroyo

  • Functional extinction of birds drives rapid evolutionary changes in seed size

    Mauro Galetti;Roger Guevara;Marina C. Côrtes;Rodrigo Fadini

  • Seed Dispersal and Frugivory : Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

    D.J. Levey;W.R. Silva;M. Galetti;W.M. van Helten

  • Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Pil B M Pedersen;C Josh Donlan;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

    William J. Ripple;Katharine Abernethy;Matthew G. Betts;Guillaume Chapron

  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Mauro Galetti;Felisa A. Smith

  • Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Mauro Galetti;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

    Carolina Bello;Mauro Galetti;Marco A. Pizo;Luiz Fernando S. Magnago

  • Seed dispersal anachronisms: rethinking the fruits extinct megafauna ate.

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães;Mauro Galetti;Pedro Jordano

  • The dimensionality of ecological networks

    Anna Eklöf;Ute Jacob;Jason Kopp;Jordi Bosch

  • Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Christopher C. Wilmers;Shawn J. Leroux;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Seed survival and dispersal of an endemic Atlantic forest palm: the combined effects of defaunation and forest fragmentation

    Mauro Galetti;Camila I. Donatti;Camila I. Donatti;Alexandra S. Pires;Paulo R. Guimarães;Paulo R. Guimarães

  • Analysis of a hyper-diverse seed dispersal network: modularity and underlying mechanisms

    Camila I. Donatti;Paulo R. Guimaraes;Mauro Galetti;Marco Aurellio Pizo

  • A meta-analysis of the effect of gut treatment on seed germination.

    A. Traveset;M. Verdú;D. J. Levey;W. R. Silva

  • Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world

    Mauro Galetti;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Assessing recruitment limitation: concepts, methods and case-studies from a tropical forest.

    H. C. Muller-Landau;S. J. Wright;O. Calderón;S. P. Hubbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Milton Cezar Ribeiro
Milton Cezar Ribeiro Sao Paulo State University
Marco Aurélio Pizo
Marco Aurélio Pizo Sao Paulo State University
Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
Paulo R. Guimarães
Paulo R. Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University

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