Rafael S. Oliveira

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

  José A. Marengo;Carlos A. Nobre;Javier Tomasella;Marcos D. Oyama

  1001
  Citations

• Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

  Lucy Rowland;A.C.L. da Costa;David R. Galbraith;R.S. Oliveira

  718
  Citations

• Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority

  Fernando A. O. Silveira;Daniel Negreiros;Newton P. U. Barbosa;Elise Buisson

  700
  Citations

• Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

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  651
  Citations

• Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems.

  Todd E. Dawson;Stephen S. O. Burgess;Kevin P. Tu;Rafael S. Oliveira

  526
  Citations

• Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

  Rafael S. Oliveira;Todd E. Dawson;Stephen S. O. Burgess;Stephen S. O. Burgess;Daniel C. Nepstad

  441
  Citations

• Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

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  424
  Citations

• Deep root function in soil water dynamics in cerrado savannas of central Brazil

  R. S. Oliveira;L. Bezerra;E. A. Davidson;F. Pinto

  392
  Citations

• Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency

  Hans Lambers;Patrick E. Hayes;Etienne Laliberté;Rafael S. Oliveira;Rafael S. Oliveira

  372
  Citations

• Root functioning modifies seasonal climate

  Jung Eun Lee;Rafael S. Oliveira;Todd E. Dawson;Inez Fung

  352
  Citations

• Foliar uptake of fog water and transport belowground alleviates drought effects in the cloud forest tree species, Drimys brasiliensis (Winteraceae)

  Cleiton B. Eller;Aline L. Lima;Rafael S. Oliveira

  333
  Citations

• Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

  Rafael S. Oliveira;Cleiton B. Eller;Fernanda de V. Barros;Fernanda de V. Barros;Marina Hirota;Marina Hirota

  290
  Citations

• Disturbance maintains alternative biome states.

  Vinícius de L. Dantas;Marina Hirota;Marina Hirota;Rafael S. Oliveira;Juli G. Pausas

  260
  Citations

• Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest

  Mauro Brum;Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur;Valeriy Ivanov;Heidi Asbjornsen

  231
  Citations

• Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro-topographic gradients

  Rafael S. Oliveira;Flavia R.C. Costa;Emma van Baalen;Emma van Baalen;Arjen de Jonge;Arjen de Jonge

  213
  Citations

• Mineral nutrition of campos rupestres plant species on contrasting nutrient-impoverished soil types

  Rafael S. Oliveira;Rafael S. Oliveira;Hugo C. Galvão;Mariana C. R. de Campos;Cleiton B. Eller

  203
  Citations

• Convergence of soil nitrogen isotopes across global climate gradients

  Joseph M. Craine;Andrew J. Elmore;Lixin Wang;Laurent Augusto

  196
  Citations

• Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

  Francesco Giardina;Francesco Giardina;Alexandra G. Konings;Daniel Kennedy;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad

  195
  Citations

• Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content.

  Alexandra G. Konings;Sassan S. Saatchi;Christian Frankenberg;Michael Keller;Michael Keller

  183
  Citations

• A preliminary evaluation of the effect of processing temperature on coffee roasting degree assessment

  Adriana S. Franca;Leandro S. Oliveira;Rafael C.S. Oliveira;Pamela C. Mancha Agresti

  179
  Citations

• Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate.

  Cleiton B. Eller;Cleiton B. Eller;Lucy Rowland;Maurizio Mencuccini;Teresa Rosas

  172
  Citations

• Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

  Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  168
  Citations

• Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest.

  Lourens Poorter;Lourens Poorter;Carolina V. Castilho;Juliana Schietti;Rafael S. Oliveira

  154
  Citations

• The hydroclimatic and ecophysiological basis of cloud forest distributions under current and projected climates

  Rafael S. Oliveira;Cleiton B. Eller;Paulo R. L. Bittencourt;Mark Mulligan

  129
  Citations

• Cloud forest trees with higher foliar water uptake capacity and anisohydric behavior are more vulnerable to drought and climate change.

  Cleiton B. Eller;Aline L. Lima;Rafael S. Oliveira

  115
  Citations

• Global overview on nitrogen dynamics in mangroves and consequences of increasing nitrogen availability for these systems

  Carla Roberta Gonçalves Reis;Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto;Rafael Silva Oliveira

  110
  Citations

• On xylem hydraulic efficiencies, wood space‐use and the safety–efficiency tradeoff

  Paulo R. L. Bittencourt;Luciano Pereira;Rafael S. Oliveira

  75
  Citations