Andrea Castanho

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Andrea Castanho is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Castanho has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Andrea Castanho's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (8 papers). Andrea Castanho is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (8 papers). Andrea Castanho collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Andrea Castanho's co-authors include Paulo Artaxo, Michael T. Coe, Márcia N. Macedo, J. Vanderlei Martins, R. A. Houghton, David Galbraith, Yadvinder Malhi, Marcos Heil Costa, Alexandros Papayannis and P. K. Panday and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Castanho

30 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The enduring world forest carbon sink

2024 202 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrea Castanho United States	20	1.0k	625	255	233	204	31	1.5k
Roberto Serrano‐Notivoli Spain	23	889 0.9×	632 1.0×	94 0.4×	164 0.7×	143 0.7×	78	1.3k
Ümüt Halik China	23	961 0.9×	342 0.5×	424 1.7×	283 1.2×	328 1.6×	95	1.8k
Jatin Kala Australia	27	1.4k 1.4×	801 1.3×	303 1.2×	165 0.7×	217 1.1×	61	2.0k
Tamara Blett United States	17	637 0.6×	348 0.6×	221 0.9×	414 1.8×	558 2.7×	29	1.7k
Pablo Sarricolea Chile	19	797 0.8×	408 0.7×	187 0.7×	85 0.4×	194 1.0×	62	1.3k
Yuanhong Deng China	17	739 0.7×	434 0.7×	153 0.6×	99 0.4×	355 1.7×	34	1.5k
Lochan Prasad Devkota Nepal	11	552 0.5×	701 1.1×	162 0.6×	94 0.4×	187 0.9×	19	1.3k
Martinho Marta‐Almeida Portugal	24	716 0.7×	456 0.7×	217 0.9×	91 0.4×	286 1.4×	55	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrea Castanho

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Coe, Michael T., Christopher Neill, Leonardo Maracahipes‐Santos, et al.. (2025). Deep Soil Water Reservoirs Modulate Land Use and Drought Effects on the Water Budget of Amazon Headwaters. Water Resources Research. 61(9).

Pan, Yude, Richard A. Birdsey, Oliver L. Phillips, et al.. (2024). The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature. 631(8021). 563–569. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

Houghton, R. A. & Andrea Castanho. (2023). Annual emissions of carbon from land use, land-use change, and forestry from 1850 to 2020. Earth system science data. 15(5). 2025–2054. 33 indexed citations

Coe, Michael T., et al.. (2023). Net loss of biomass predicted for tropical biomes in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 274–281. 29 indexed citations

Zobel, Zachary, et al.. (2021). Increasing risks of crop failure and water scarcity in global breadbaskets by 2030. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104013–104013. 52 indexed citations

Macedo, Márcia N., Seth R. Gorelik, Wayne Walker, et al.. (2021). Beyond Deforestation: Carbon Emissions From Land Grabbing and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4. 37 indexed citations

Castanho, Andrea, Michael T. Coe, Eunice Maia de Andrade, et al.. (2020). A close look at above ground biomass of a large and heterogeneous Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest - Caatinga in North East of Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 92(1). e20190282–e20190282. 20 indexed citations

Costa, Marcos Heil, Andrea Castanho, Gabrielle Ferreira Pires, et al.. (2018). Influence of climate variability, fire and phosphorus limitation on vegetation structure and dynamics of the Amazon–Cerrado border. Biogeosciences. 15(3). 919–936. 14 indexed citations

Lathuillière, Michael J., Michael T. Coe, Andrea Castanho, Jordan Graesser, & Mark S. Johnson. (2018). Evaluating Water Use for Agricultural Intensification in Southern Amazonia Using the Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment. Water. 10(4). 349–349. 39 indexed citations

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Panday, P. K., Michael T. Coe, Márcia N. Macedo, Paul A. Lefebvre, & Andrea Castanho. (2015). Deforestation offsets water balance changes due to climate variability in the Xingu River in eastern Amazonia. Journal of Hydrology. 523. 822–829. 106 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ke, Andrea Castanho, David Galbraith, et al.. (2015). The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO_2, and land use. Global Change Biology. 21(7). 2569–2587. 102 indexed citations

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Castanho, Andrea, David Galbraith, Ke Zhang, et al.. (2015). Changing Amazon biomass and the role of atmospheric CO₂ concentration, climate, and land use. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 30(1). 18–39. 28 indexed citations

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Moorcroft, P. R., Andrea Castanho, David Galbraith, et al.. (2014). The Fate of Amazonian Ecosystems over the Coming Century Arising from Changes in Climate, Atmospheric CO 2 and Land-use. 2014. 6 indexed citations

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Castanho, Andrea, Michael T. Coe, Marcos Heil Costa, et al.. (2013). Improving simulated Amazon forest biomass and productivity by including spatial variation in biophysical parameters. Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2255–2272. 48 indexed citations

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Procópio, A. S., et al.. (2009). A Study of the Spatial Distribution of Aerosol Optical Thickness in Rio de Janeiro. AIP conference proceedings. 287–290. 1 indexed citations

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Castanho, Andrea, R. G. Prinn, Vanderlei Martins, et al.. (2007). Analysis of Visible/SWIR surface reflectance ratios for aerosol retrievals from satellite in Mexico City urban area. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 7(20). 5467–5477. 34 indexed citations

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Papayannis, Alexandros, Dimitris Balis, Vassilis Amiridis, et al.. (2005). Measurements of Saharan dust aerosols over the Eastern Mediterranean using elastic backscatter-Raman lidar, spectrophotometric and satellite observations in the frame of the EARLINET project. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(8). 2065–2079. 150 indexed citations

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Castanho, Andrea, Paulo Artaxo, J. Vanderlei Martins, et al.. (2005). Chemical Characterization of Aerosols on the East Coast of the United States Using Aircraft and Ground-Based Stations during the CLAMS Experiment. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62(4). 934–946. 15 indexed citations

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Landulfo, Eduardo, Alexandros Papayannis, Paulo Artaxo, et al.. (2003). Synergetic measurements of aerosols over São Paulo, Brazil using LIDAR, sunphotometer and satellite data during the dry season. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 3(5). 1523–1539. 58 indexed citations

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Artaxo, Paulo, J. Vanderlei Martins, Márcia Akemi Yamasoe, et al.. (1998). Large‐scale aerosol source apportionment in Amazonia. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(D24). 31837–31847. 131 indexed citations

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