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Plínio Barbosa de Camargo

Plínio Barbosa de Camargo

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
67
Citations
16146
World Ranking
1607
National Ranking
20

Overview

Plínio Barbosa de Camargo is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

Their research topics focus extensively on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Soil Management and Crop Yield, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, as well as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Plínio Barbosa de Camargo has published frequently in various scientific venues, with multiple contributions in CATENA, The Science of The Total Environment, Biogeochemistry, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Revista Contemporânea.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers such as Siu Mui Tsai, Wanderlei Bieluczyk, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Ted R. Feldpausch, and Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, showing a pattern of consistent joint research efforts aligned with their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia

    Susan E Trumbore;Eric A Davidson;Pli­nio Barbosa de Camargo;Daniel C Nepstad

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

    Erika Berenguer;Joice Ferreira;Toby Alan Gardner;Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz Aragão

  • Forest structure and live aboveground biomass variation along an elevational gradient of tropical Atlantic moist forest (Brazil)

    Luciana Ferreira Alves;Simone Aparecida Vieira;Marcos Scaranello;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo

  • Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment.

    Paulo M Brando;Daniel C Nepstad;Eric A Davidson;Susan E Trumbore

  • Seasonal controls on the exchange of carbon and water in an Amazonian rain forest

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Lucy R. Hutyra;J. William Munger;Scott R. Saleska;Ellaine W. Gottlieb

  • CARBON BALANCE AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN AN OLD-GROWTH AMAZONIAN FOREST

    Amy H. Rice;Elizabeth Hammond Pyle;Scott R. Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network

    Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Humberto R. da Rocha;Lucy R. Hutyra;Alessandro C. da Araujo;Alessandro C. da Araujo

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

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

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Revised method for forest canopy height estimation from Geoscience Laser Altimeter System waveforms

    Michael A. Lefsky;Michael Keller;Yong Pang;Plinio B. de Camargo

  • Chemical composition of rainwater and anthropogenic influences in the Piracicaba River Basin, Southeast Brazil

    L.B.L.S Lara;P Artaxo;L.A Martinelli;R.L Victoria

  • Forest structure and carbon dynamics in Amazonian tropical rain forests.

    Simone Vieira;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo;Diogo Selhorst;Roseana da Silva

  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

    Scott C Stark;Veronika Leitold;Jin L Wu;Maria O Hunter

  • Effects of Urban Sewage on Dissolved Oxygen, Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Carbon, and Electrical Conductivity of Small Streams along a Gradient of Urbanization in the Piracicaba River Basin

    Mariely H. B. Daniel;Alexandra A. Montebelo;Marcelo C. Bernardes;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • Influence of soil texture on carbon dynamics and storage potential in tropical forest soils of Amazonia

    Everaldo De Carvalho ConceiçÃ. £O. Telles;PlíNio Barbosa de Camargo;Luiz A. Martinelli;Susan E. Trumbore

  • A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Joice Ferreira;Jos Barlow;Alexander C. Lees

  • Slow growth rates of Amazonian trees: Consequences for carbon cycling

    Simone Vieira;Susan Trumbore;Plinio B. Camargo;Diogo Selhorst

  • Properties of aerosols from sugar-cane burning emissions in Southeastern Brazil

    L.L. Lara;P. Artaxo;L.A. Martinelli;P.B. Camargo

Frequent Co-Authors

Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Simone A. Vieira
Simone A. Vieira State University of Campinas
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo
Marisa de Cássia Piccolo Universidade de São Paulo
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria Universidade de São Paulo
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Lucy R. Hutyra
Lucy R. Hutyra Boston University
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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