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Rogério Gribel is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior.

Gribel has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin (2022, Ecography)
  • Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Growth and survival over ten years of Brazil-nut trees planted in three anthropogenic habitats in northern Amazonia (2021, Acta Amazonica)
  • Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale (2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their frequent publication venues reflect consistent contributions to:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ecography
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Acta Amazonica

Rogério Gribel collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Luiz de Souza Coêlho, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, and Juan Ernesto Guevara, each having coauthored five works with Gribel.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

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

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

  • Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation.

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

  • To self, or not to self... A review of outcrossing and pollen-mediated gene flow in neotropical trees

    M Ward;Christopher W. Dick;Christopher W. Dick;Rogerio Gribel;Andrew J. Lowe

  • 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

  • Population genetic structure of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King, Meliaceae) across the Brazilian Amazon, based on variation at microsatellite loci: implications for conservation.

    Maristerra R. Lemes;Maristerra R. Lemes;Rogério Gribel;John Proctor;Dario Grattapaglia;Dario Grattapaglia

  • Flowering phenology and pollination biology of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in Central Amazonia

    Rogério Gribel;Peter E. Gibbs;Aldenora L. Queiróz

  • Extreme long-distance dispersal of the lowland tropical rainforest tree Ceiba pentandra L. (Malvaceae) in Africa and the Neotropics.

    Christopher W. Dick;Christopher W. Dick;Eldredge Bermingham;Maristerra R. Lemes;Rogerio Gribel

  • Pollination ecology of Caryocar brasiliense (Caryocaraceae) in Central Brazil cerrado vegetation

    Rogério Gribel;John D. Hay

  • Effects of different secondary vegetation types on bat community composition in Central Amazonia, Brazil

    P. E. D. Bobrowiec;R. Gribel

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Seed dispersal of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by scatter-hoarding rodents in a central amazonian forest

    Joanne M. Tuck Haugaasen;Torbjørn Haugaasen;Carlos A. Peres;Rogerio Gribel

  • Population Structure of Brazil Nut ( Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) Stands in Two Areas with Different Occupation Histories in the Brazilian Amazon

    Ricardo Scoles;Rogério Gribel

  • Prey preference of the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus, Chiroptera) using molecular analysis

    Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec;Maristerra R. Lemes;Maristerra R. Lemes;Rogério Gribel;Rogério Gribel

  • Monitoring genetic diversity in tropical trees with multilocus dominant markers

    A Kremer;H Caron;S Cavers;N Colpaert

  • Age and Growth Patterns of Brazil Nut Trees (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.) in Amazonia, Brazil

    Jochen Schöngart;Jochen Schöngart;Rogério Gribel;Sinomar Ferreira da Fonseca-Junior;Torbjørn Haugaasen

  • Visits of Caluromys lanatus (Didelphidae) to Flowers of Pseudobombax tomentosum (Bombacaceae): A Probable Case of Pollination by Marsupials in Central Brazil

    Rogerio Gribel

  • High Outbreeding as a Consequence of Selfed Ovule Mortality and Single Vector Bat Pollination in the Amazonian Tree Pseudobombax munguba (Bombacaceae)

    Rogério Gribel;Peter E. Gibbs

  • Post-logging loss of genetic diversity in a mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King, Meliaceae) population in Brazilian Amazonia

    Thiago André;Maristerra R. Lemes;James Grogan;Rogério Gribel

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
Christopher W. Dick
Christopher W. Dick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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