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4491
World Ranking
7860
National Ranking
773

Overview

Toby R. Marthews is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, and Soil Science.

Their research topics cover several areas including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing, and Soil and Unsaturated Flow.

Their frequent coauthors include Garry Hayman, Karina Williams, Eleanor Blyth, Marcelo Zeri, and Murilo dos Santos Vianna.

Toby R. Marthews has published multiple papers in prominent scientific venues. Recent publications include:

  • "The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Improvement of modeling plant responses to low soil moisture in JULESvn4.9 and evaluation against flux tower measurements," 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Importance of including soil moisture in drought monitoring over the Brazilian semiarid region: An evaluation using the JULES model, in situ observations, and remote sensing," 2021, Climate Resilience and Sustainability
  • "Hydro-pedotransfer functions: a roadmap for future development," 2024, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems," 2021, Global Change Biology

Their research is frequently published in venues such as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Biological Conservation, and Geoscientific Model Development.

Best Publications

  • How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

    C. E. Timothy Paine;Toby R. Marthews;Toby R. Marthews;Deborah R. Vogt;Drew Purves

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • 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

  • Soil carbon release enhanced by increased tropical forest litterfall

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Matthew S. Heard;Helen K. Grant;Toby R. Marthews

  • Deforestation and climate feedbacks threaten the ecological integrity of south–southeastern Amazonia

    Michael T. Coe;Toby R. Marthews;Marcos Heil Costa;David R. Galbraith

  • The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • How contemporary bioclimatic and human controls change global fire regimes

    Douglas I. Kelley;Ioannis Bistinas;Ioannis Bistinas;Rhys Whitley;Chantelle Burton

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests

    Terhi Riutta;Yadvinder Malhi;Lip Khoon Kho;Lip Khoon Kho;Toby R. Marthews

  • The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru

    Yadvinder Malhi;Filio Farfán Amézquita;Christopher E. Doughty;Javier E. Silva-Espejo

  • High-resolution global topographic index values for use in large-scale hydrological modelling.

    T. R. Marthews;S. J. Dadson;B. Lehner;S. Abele

  • The Effectiveness of Contrasting Protected Areas in Preventing Deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru

    Anni Johanna Vuohelainen;Lauren Coad;Toby R. Marthews;Yadvinder Malhi

  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile Girardin;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Social and Ecological Change over a Decade in a Village Hunting System, Central Gabon

    Lauren M Coad;Judith Schleicher;Judith Schleicher;Eleanor J Milner-Gulland;Toby R Marthews

  • Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes

    Cecile A. J. Girardin;Javier E. Silva Espejob;Christopher E. Doughty;Walter Huaraca Huasco

  • PROGRESS TOWARDS THE CBD PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS TARGETS

    Lauren Coad;Fiona Leverington;Neil D. Burgess;Ivon C. Cuadros

  • Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation.

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Lindsay A. Turnbull;Christopher D. Philipson;Drew W. Purves;Rebecca L. Atkinson

  • Seasonal production, allocation and cycling of carbon in two mid-elevation tropical montane forest plots in the Peruvian Andes

    Walter Huaraca Huasco;Cécile A.J. Girardin;Christopher E. Doughty;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • Forest community response to invasive pathogens: the case of ash dieback in a British woodland

    Jessica Needham;Cory Merow;Nathalie Butt;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Soil drying in a tropical forest : Three distinct environments controlled by gap size

    T.R. Marthews;D.F.R.P. Burslem;S.R. Paton;F. Yangüez

  • The UKC2 regional coupled environmental prediction system

    Huw W. Lewis;Juan Manuel Castillo Sanchez;Jennifer Graham;Andrew Saulter

  • Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling

    Toby Marthews;Terhi Riutta;Cécile Girardin;Nathalie Butt

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Simon Dadson
Simon Dadson University of Oxford
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Cécile A. J. Girardin
Cécile A. J. Girardin University of Oxford
Daniel B. Metcalfe
Daniel B. Metcalfe Umeå University
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona
David F. R. P. Burslem
David F. R. P. Burslem University of Aberdeen
Nathalie Butt
Nathalie Butt University of Queensland
Terese B. Hart
Terese B. Hart Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Inc.

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