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Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez

Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez

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Ecology and Evolution
Peru
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
9598
World Ranking
7745
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Peru Leader Award

Overview

Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez is affiliated with the Jardin Botanico de Missouri in Peru. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on ecology, landscape conservation, and plant science.

Their recent published work spans key topics in forest ecology and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, and species distribution linked to climate change. Notable papers include "Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission" (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment), "Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests" (2020, Science), and "Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests" (2021, Nature Communications).

Other publications include "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora" (2020, Scientific Reports) and "Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests" (2023, Nature).

Their research has appeared frequently in several publication venues:

  • Q EUÑA (7 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (4 publications)
  • Communications Biology (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 publications)
  • Science (2 publications)

Rodolfo has coauthored extensively with a consistent group of collaborators, including Oliver L. Phillips, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Timothy R. Baker, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, and Ted R. Feldpausch, reflecting ongoing partnerships in ecological research.

Their subfields of study cover ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and plant science. Main research topics are ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, plant diversity and evolution, and Amazonian archaeology and ethnohistory.

Best Publications

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

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

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

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

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

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

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

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

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

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots

    S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;J. Lloyd

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

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

  • Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Douglas Sheil;Barbara Vinceti

  • LARGE LIANAS AS HYPERDYNAMIC ELEMENTS OF THE TROPICAL FOREST CANOPY

    Oliver L. Phillips;Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez;Abel Monteagudo Mendoza;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker

  • Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez;Percy Núñez Vargas;Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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

  • Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

    Kuo-Jung Chao;Oliver L. Phillips;Emanuel Gloor;Abel Monteagudo

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Oliver L. Phillips;Roel J.W. Brienen;Sophie Fauset

  • Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Lan Qie;Lan Qie

  • Adiciones a la flora peruana: especies nuevas, nuevos registros y estados taxonomicos de las angiospermas para el Peru

    Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez;Rocio del Pilar Rojas Gonzales;Eric F Rodriguez Rodriguez

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • 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

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Timothy J. Killeen
Timothy J. Killeen Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Luzmila Arroyo
Luzmila Arroyo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University

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