2026 Philip M. Fearnside: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	102	251	237	1	1	431	42167

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Brazil Leader Award
2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Philip M. Fearnside is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications addressing various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Forest Ecology and Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation.

Philip M. Fearnside has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

"The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation," 2023, Science
"Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health," 2020, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
"Brazil's conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia," 2020, Land Use Policy
"Protect Indigenous peoples from COVID-19," 2020, Science
"Comment on "Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests"," 2020, Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)

Collaborations play a significant role in their research endeavors. Frequent co-authors include:

Lucas Ferrante
Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Aurora Miho Yanai
Liana O. Anderson

Publications are often found in recognized academic venues, with numerous contributions to:

Science
Environmental Conservation
Land Use Policy
Journal of Environmental Management
Forests

Philip M. Fearnside's work is recognized through distinctions such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

Jérôme Chave;Maxime Réjou‐Méchain;Alberto Búrquez;Emmanuel Chidumayo

3158
Citations
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences

Philip Martin Fearnside

1576
Citations
The Future of the Brazilian Amazon

William F. Laurance;Mark A. Cochrane;Scott Bergen;Philip M. Fearnside

1294
Citations
Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil

Philip M. Fearnside

1052
Citations
The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History.

Ghillean T. Prance;Michael Goulding

770
Citations
GLOBAL WARMING AND TROPICAL LAND-USE CHANGE: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM BIOMASS BURNING, DECOMPOSITION AND SOILS IN FOREST CONVERSION, SHIFTING CULTIVATION AND SECONDARY VEGETATION

Philip Martin Fearnside

710
Citations
Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

662
Citations
RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF AMAZONIAN LIANA COMMUNITIES

William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Diego Pérez-Salicrup;Patricia Delamônica;Philip M. Fearnside

652
Citations
Predictors of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Ana K. L. M. Albernaz;Goetz Schroth;Philip M. Fearnside

639
Citations
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

624
Citations
The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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564
Citations
Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

William F Laurance;Philip M Fearnside;Susan G Laurance;Patricia Delamonica

559
Citations
RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF SUCCESSIONAL TREES

William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance;Ana C. S. Andrade

539
Citations
Soil carbon changes from conversion of forest to pasture in Brazilian Amazonia

Philip M Fearnside;Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa

530
Citations
Sustainable Biofuels Redux

G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

494
Citations
Human Carrying Capacity of the Brazilian Rainforest

Philip M. Fearnside

456
Citations
Amazonian deforestation and global warming: carbon stocks in vegetation replacing Brazil's Amazon forest

Philip M. Fearnside

456
Citations
GREENHOUSE GASES FROM DEFORESTATION IN BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA: NET COMMITTED EMISSIONS

Philip M. Fearnside

435
Citations
WOOD DENSITY FOR ESTIMATING FOREST BIOMASS IN BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA

Philip Martin Fearnside

417
Citations
Desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira: história, índices e conseqüências

Philip M. Fearnside

405
Citations
Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

Alexander C. Lees;Carlos A. Peres;Philip M. Fearnside;Maurício Schneider

399
Citations
Estimates of forest biomass in the Brazilian Amazon: New allometric equations and adjustments to biomass from wood-volume inventories

Euler Melo Nogueira;Philip Martin Fearnside;Bruce Walker Nelson;Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa

392
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. Laurance James Cook University

Bruce Walker Nelson Amazon (United States)

Susan G. Laurance James Cook University

Mark A. Cochrane University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

Ana Andrade National Institute of Amazonian Research

Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule Federal University of Paraná

Fernando Mayer Pelicice Federal University of Tocantins

Jon Lloyd Imperial College London

Carlos Clemente Cerri Universidade de São Paulo

Yoshiki Yamagata Keio University

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