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Overview

Rafael P. Salomão is affiliated with the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil. Their research primarily spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on nature and landscape conservation and ecological modeling. Their work also extends to global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and history.

Salomão's research is concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant diversity and evolution
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Amazonian archaeology and ethnohistory
  • Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications in prominent research venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Brazilian Journal of Development

Some of the recent papers by Rafael P. Salomão are:

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Challenges and opportunities for large-scale reforestation in the Eastern Amazon using native species, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Ted R. Feldpausch, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Susan G. W. Laurance, and Oliver L. Phillips.

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

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

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

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

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • 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

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation.

    Carlos A. Peres;Claudia Baider;Pieter A. Zuidema;Lúcia H. O. Wadt

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • 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

  • 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

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

    T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor

  • The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Rens W. Vaessen;Rens W. Vaessen;Dairon Cárdenas-López;Daniel Sabatier

  • 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

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil.

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;José Salomão Silva;Aldicir Scariot;Alexandre Bonesso Sampaio

  • Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change

    Vitor H. F. Gomes;Vitor H. F. Gomes;Ima C. G. Vieira;Ima C. G. Vieira;Rafael P. Salomão;Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege

  • Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

    C.A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;T.R. Baker

  • 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

Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Timothy J. Killeen
Timothy J. Killeen Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter

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