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Overview

Mauro Santos is affiliated with the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil. Their research output spans a range of topics within agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, with considerable focus on plant science and ecology.

Their recent publications address diverse aspects of plant physiology, ecology, and environmental stress responses. Among these are studies such as "Whole plant water status and non-structural carbohydrates under progressive drought in a Caatinga deciduous woody species" (2021, Trees), "Ecophysiological Traits of Invasive C3 Species Calotropis procera to Maintain High Photosynthetic Performance Under High VPD and Low Soil Water Balance in Semi-Arid and Seacoast Zones" (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science), and "Intense mycorrhizal root colonization in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest" (2020, Forest Ecology and Management).

Additional works include "Stomatal Responses to Light, CO2, and Mesophyll Tissue in Vicia faba and Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi" (2021, Frontiers in Plant Science) and "Salt tolerance of Calotropis procera begins with immediate regulation of aquaporin activity in the root system" (2021, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants).

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaborative research efforts and include:

  • Gabriella Frosi
  • Rebeca Rivas
  • Vanessa Andrade de Barros
  • Marcelo Tabarelli
  • Mariana Santos

Mauro Santos publishes often in several journals, including:

  • Journal of Arid Environments
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology
  • Physiologia Plantarum

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, they focus on subfields such as:

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

The key research topics covered include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Best Publications

  • Tolerance landscapes in thermal ecology

    Enrico L. Rezende;Luis E. Castañeda;Luis E. Castañeda;Mauro Santos

  • Evolution before genes

    Vera Vasas;Vera Vasas;Chrisantha Fernando;Chrisantha Fernando;Mauro Santos;Stuart Kauffman

  • Genetic polymorphism of alcohol dehydrogenase in europeans: the ADH2*2 allele decreases the risk for alcoholism and is associated with ADH3*1.

    Emma Borràs;Christiane Coutelle;Albert Rosell;Fina Fernández-Muixi

  • Estimating the adaptive potential of critical thermal limits: methodological problems and evolutionary implications

    Enrico L. Rezende;Miguel Tejedo;Mauro Santos

  • Do alcohol-metabolizing enzyme gene polymorphisms increase the risk of alcoholism and alcoholic liver disease?†

    Elias Zintzaras;Ioannis Stefanidis;Mauro Santos;Francesc Vidal

  • Exponential stability for the Timoshenko system with two weak dampings

    Carlos Alberto Raposo;Jorge Ferreira;Mauro de Lima Santos;Nelson Nery de Oliveira Castro

  • Caatinga, the Brazilian dry tropical forest: can it tolerate climate changes?

    Mauro G. Santos;Marciel T. Oliveira;Karla V. Figueiredo;Hiram M. Falcão

  • Heritability of human cranial dimensions: comparing the evolvability of different cranial regions

    Neus Martínez-Abadías;Mireia Esparza;Torstein Sjøvold;Rolando González-José

  • Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks constraints metabolism-first scenarios for the origin of life

    Vera Vasas;Eörs Szathmáry;Mauro Santos

  • Photosynthesis, photoprotection and antioxidant activity of purging nut under drought deficit and recovery

    Marcelo F. Pompelli;Ricardo Barata-Luís;Hermerson S. Vitorino;Eduardo R. Gonçalves

  • The stability number of the Timoshenko system with second sound

    M.L. Santos;D.S. Almeida Júnior;J.E. Muñoz Rivera

  • Real ribozymes suggest a relaxed error threshold.

    Ádám Kun;Mauro Santos;Eörs Szathmáry

  • Photosynthesis and water relations of well-watered orange plants as affected by winter and summer conditions.

    R.V. Ribeiro;E.C. Machado;M.G. Santos;R.F. Oliveira

  • The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii . XIV. Larger flies mate more often in nature

    M Santos;A Ruiz;A Barbadilla;J E Quezada-Diaz

  • Photosynthetic parameters and leaf water potential of five common bean genotypes under mild water deficit

    M. G. Santos;R. V. Ribeiro;E. C. Machado;C. Pimentel

  • PERVASIVE GENETIC INTEGRATION DIRECTS THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SKULL SHAPE

    Neus Martínez-Abadias;Mireia Esparza;Torstein Sjøvold;Rolando González-José

  • Making sense of heat tolerance estimates in ectotherms: lessons from Drosophila

    Mauro Santos;Luis E. Castañeda;Luis E. Castañeda;Enrico L. Rezende

  • The evolutionary history of Drosophila buzzatii. XX. Positive phenotypic covariance between field adult fitness components and body size

    Mauro Santos;Alfredo Ruiz;Jorge E. Quezada‐Díaz;Antonio Barbadilla

  • Gene–environment interaction for body size and larval density in Drosophila melanogaster : an investigation of effects on development time, thorax length and adult sex ratio

    Mauro Santos;Kevin Fowler;Kevin Fowler;Linda Partridge;Linda Partridge

  • THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION

    Mauro Santos;Eörs Szathmáry

Frequent Co-Authors

Eörs Szathmáry
Eörs Szathmáry Parmenides Foundation
Enrico L. Rezende
Enrico L. Rezende Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Rafael Vasconcelos Ribeiro
Rafael Vasconcelos Ribeiro State University of Campinas
Eduardo Caruso Machado
Eduardo Caruso Machado Instituto Agronômico de Campinas
Elias Zintzaras
Elias Zintzaras University Of Thessaly
Gustavo Maia Souza
Gustavo Maia Souza Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Michael R. Rose
Michael R. Rose University of California, Irvine
Linda Partridge
Linda Partridge Max Planck Society
Christian Peter Klingenberg
Christian Peter Klingenberg University of Manchester
Leonor Costa Maia
Leonor Costa Maia Federal University of Pernambuco

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