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Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

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Ecology and Evolution

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36
Citations
4641
World Ranking
7168
National Ranking
724

Overview

Thiago Sanna Freire Silva is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to related subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work spans a range of specific research topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Thiago Sanna Freire Silva has authored and co-authored papers published in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers highlight the range and focus of their research contributions:

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia, 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Spatial heterogeneity and habitat configuration overcome habitat composition influences on alpha and beta mammal diversity, 2020, Biotropica
  • Carbon Dioxide Fluxes to the Atmosphere From Waters Within Flooded Forests in the Amazon Basin, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • María Teresa Fernández Piedade
  • Bruno Garcia Luize
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Ben Hur Marimon
  • Florian Wittmann

Their body of work covers various key aspects of environmental and ecological science with a pronounced attention to Amazonian ecosystems, vegetation dynamics, and the use of remote sensing technologies. This interdisciplinary approach ties together systematics, modeling, and conservation within the wider context of global environmental change.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Review and Perspectives

    Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai;Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;José Wagner Ribeiro;Diego Llusia;Diego Llusia

  • Linking plant phenology to conservation biology

    Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato;Bruna Alberton;Swanni T. Alvarado;Bruno Borges

  • Remote sensing of aquatic vegetation: theory and applications

    Thiago S F Silva;Maycira P F Costa;John M Melack;Evlyn Márcia Leão Moraes Novo

  • 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

  • Monitoring flood extent in the lower Amazon River floodplain using ALOS/PALSAR ScanSAR images

    Allan S. Arnesen;Thiago S.F. Silva;Laura L. Hess;Evlyn M.L.M. Novo

  • Using ALOS/PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 to Map Land Cover and Seasonal Inundation in the Brazilian Pantanal

    T L Evans;M Costa;K Telmer;T S F Silva

  • Drivers of fire occurrence in a mountainous Brazilian cerrado savanna: tracking long-term fire regimes using remote sensing

    Swanni T. Alvarado;Tamires Fornazari;Andresa Cóstola;Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato

  • 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

  • Assessment of deforestation in the Lower Amazon floodplain using historical Landsat MSS/TM imagery

    Vivian F. Renó;Evlyn M.L.M. Novo;Chieno Suemitsu;Camilo D. Rennó

  • Spatial and temporal variability of macrophyte cover and productivity in the eastern Amazon floodplain: A remote sensing approach

    Thiago Sanna F. Silva;Maycira P.F. Costa;John M. Melack

  • A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring

    Larissa Sayuri Moreira Sugai;Camille Desjonquères;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Diego Llusia;Diego Llusia

  • Massive tree mortality from flood pulse disturbances in Amazonian floodplain forests: The collateral effects of hydropower production.

    Angélica Faria de Resende;Angélica Faria de Resende;Jochen Schöngart;Annia Susin Streher;Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira

  • Dual-season and full-polarimetric C band SAR assessment for vegetation mapping in the Amazon várzea wetlands.

    Luiz Felipe Almeida de Almeida Furtado;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo

  • The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia

    Jochen Schöngart;Florian Wittmann;Angélica Faria de Resende;Cyro Assahira;Cyro Assahira

  • Combining ALOS/PALSAR derived vegetation structure and inundation patterns to characterize major vegetation types in the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve, Central Amazon floodplain, Brazil

    Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Annia Susin Streher;Adriana Gomes Affonso

  • A new era in forest restoration monitoring

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Scott C. Stark;Rubén Valbuena;Eben N. Broadbent

  • Land use and land cover changes determine the spatial relationship between fire and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    André Lima;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de Aragão;Ramon Morais de Feitas

  • Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents

    Swanni T. Alvarado;Niels Andela;Thiago S. F. Silva;Thiago S. F. Silva;Sally Archibald

  • Seasonal variation in the biomass and agar yield from Gracilaria cervicornis and Hydropuntia cornea from Brazil.

    E. Marinho-Soriano;T.S.F. Silva;W.S.C. Moreira

  • Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas.

    Swanni T. Alvarado;Swanni T. Alvarado;Thiago Sanna Freire Silva;Sally Archibald

  • Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

    Hans Ter Steege;Terry W. Henkel;Nora Helal;Beatriz S. Marimon

  • Annual net primary production of macrophytes in the eastern Amazon floodplain

    Thiago S. F. Silva;Maycira P. F. Costa;John M. Melack

  • Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters

    Jani Heino;Adriano S. Melo;Jenny Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola;Danielle Katharine Petsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo
Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo National Institute for Space Research
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John M. Melack
John M. Melack University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato
Leonor Patricia C. Morellato Sao Paulo State University
Jochen Schöngart
Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University

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