David M. Lapola

5.7k citations

52 papers · 2.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
Soil Science top 5%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 32
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 16
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 16
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 11
Nature and Landscape Conservation 8
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 7

Co-authors: Joerg A. Priess Alberte Bondeau Jennifer Koch Joseph Alcamo Ruediger Schaldach Carlos A. Nobre Roger Rodrigues Torres Ana Paula Aguiar
Journals: Climatic Change (5 papers)Nature Climate Change (3 papers)Ecosystem Services (2 papers)Plants People Planet (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: Brazil Germany United States

In The Last Decade

David M. Lapola

52 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system 2013 · 411 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nature Climate Change
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis Functional Ecology ·Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, Laynara F. Lugli, Lucia Fuchslueger, Florian Hofhansl, Nathielly Martins, Amanda L. Cordeiro, Karst J. Schaap, Kelly M. Andersen, Sabrina García, Adriana Grandis, Ana Caroline M. Pereira, Katrin Fleischer, Marcel R. Hoosbeek, Iain P. Hartley, Erick Oblitas Mendoza, David M. Lapola, Carlos A. Quesada	2025	2
2	Climate projections indicate a loss and redistribution of the biodiversity of valuable plants in the Brazilian semiarid Journal for Nature Conservation ·Everton A. Maciel, Fabrina Bolzan Martins, José Maria Cardoso da Silva, David M. Lapola, Roger Rodrigues Torres	2025	2
3	Not just semantics: CO₂ fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide forest degradation Plants People Planet ·David M. Lapola, C. Blanco, Bárbara Rocha Cardeli, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, João V. Martinelli, Carlos Alberto Quesada, Bianca Fazio Rius, Celso H. L. Silva	2025	1
4	Reference maps of soil phosphorus for the pan-Amazon region Earth system science data ·João Paulo Darela-Filho, Anja Rammig, Katrin Fleischer, Tatiana Reichert, Laynara F. Lugli, Carlos Alberto Quesada, Luís Carlos Colocho Hurtarte, Mateus Dantas de Paula, David M. Lapola	2024	5
5	Simulated sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to extreme drought Environmental Research Letters ·Phillip Papastefanou, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Allan Buras, Katrin Fleischer, Thorsten E. E. Grams, Thomas Hickler, David M. Lapola, Daijun Liu, Christian Zang, Anja Rammig	2024	5
6	Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change Plants People Planet ·J. Aaron Hogan, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Eileen H. Helmer, Matthew E. Craig, Evan C. Fricke, Viola Heinrich, Steven A. Kannenberg, Charles D. Koven, Kees Klein Goldewijk, David M. Lapola, Yue Li, Yadvinder Malhi, John E. Quinn, Stephanie Roe, César Terrer, Emilio Vilanova, Anthony P. Walker, Kai Zhu, Erle C. Ellis	2024	2
7	Balancing food production with climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in the Brazilian Amazon The Science of The Total Environment ·Ramón Silva, James Millington, Andrés Viña, Yue Dou, Emilio F. Morán, Mateus Batistella, David M. Lapola, Jianguo Liu	2023	5
8	Urban adaptation index: assessing cities readiness to deal with climate change Climatic Change ·Eduardo Alves Neder, Fabiano de Araújo Moreira, Michele Dalla Fontana, Roger Rodrigues Torres, David M. Lapola, Maria da Penha Vasconcellos, Ana Maria Bedran-Martins, Arlindo Philippi, Maria Carmen Lemos, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio	2021	24
9	CO ₂ physiological effect can cause rainfall decrease as strong as large-scale deforestation in the Amazon Biogeosciences ·Gilvan Sampaio, Marília Harumi Shimizu, Carlos A. Guimarães-Júnior, Felipe Alexandre, Marcelo Guatura, Manoel Cardoso, Tomas F. Domingues, Anja Rammig, Celso von Randow, L. F. C. Rezende, David M. Lapola	2021	23
10	New plant hydraulic architecture reproduces impacts of droughts in the Amazon rainforest Phillip Papastefanou, Christian Zang, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Daijun Liu, David M. Lapola, Katrin Fleischer, Thorsten E. E. Grams, Thomas Hickler, Anja Rammig	2021	1
11	The declining tropical carbon sink Nature Climate Change ·Anja Rammig, David M. Lapola	2021	11
12	Fine‐root dynamics vary with soil depth and precipitation in a low‐nutrient tropical forest in the Central Amazonia PubMed ·Amanda L. Cordeiro, Richard J. Norby, Kelly M. Andersen, Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, Lucia Fuchslueger, Erick Oblitas, Iain P. Hartley, Colleen M. Iversen, Nathan Gonçalves, Bruno Takeshi, David M. Lapola, Carlos Alberto Quesada	2020	46
13	Bridging the gap between will and action on climate change adaptation in large cities in Brazil Regional Environmental Change ·Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Roger Rodrigues Torres, David M. Lapola, Ana Maria Bedran-Martins, Maria da Penha Vasconcellos, Diego Rafael Galvão Cesar Braga, Marcos Paulo Fuck, Yohanna Juk, Veruska Nogueira, Ana Carolina Penna, Tiago da Silva Jacaúna, Marcelo Fetz, Zoraide Souza Pessoa, Rylanneive Pontes, Marize Schons, Adriano Premebida	2019	30
14	Amazon Forest Ecosystem Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Alterations in Nutrient Availability: Filling the Gaps with Model-Experiment Integration Frontiers in Earth Science ·Florian Hofhansl, Kelly M. Andersen, Katrin Fleischer, Lucia Fuchslueger, Anja Rammig, Karst J. Schaap, Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, David M. Lapola	2016	20
15	Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil: how do changes driven by the new set of IPCC climatic projections affect their relevance for policy? Climatic Change ·João Paulo Darela-Filho, David M. Lapola, Roger Rodrigues Torres, Maria Carmen Lemos	2016	37
16	Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free‐air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) experiments New Phytologist ·Richard J. Norby, Martin G. De Kauwe, Tomas F. Domingues, Remko A. Duursma, David S. Ellsworth, Daniel S. Goll, David M. Lapola, Kristina Luus, A. R. MacKenzie, Belinda E. Medlyn, Ryan Pavlick, Anja Rammig, Benjamin Smith, Rick Thomas, Kirsten Thonicke, Anthony P. Walker, Xiaojuan Yang, Sönke Zaehle	2015	159
17	Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system Nature Climate Change ·David M. Lapola, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Carlos A. Peres, Jean Pierre Ometto, Manuel Eduardo Ferreira, Carlos A. Nobre, Ana Paula Aguiar, Mercedes Bustamante, Manoel Cardoso, Marcos Heil Costa, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Christiane Cavalcante Leite, Paulo Moutinho, Gilvan Sampaio, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Hit paper breakdown →	2013	411
18	Ant-tended hemiptera in Amazonian myrmecophytes : Patterns of abundance and implications for mutualism function (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Sociobiology ·David M. Lapola, Emilio M. Bruna, Cristina Granara De Willink, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos	2005	6
19	Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of obligate plant-ants: experimental tests and consequences for herbivory Oecologia ·Emilio M. Bruna, David M. Lapola, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos	2004	53
20	Contrasting Responses to Induction Cues by Ants Inhabiting Maieta guianensis (Melastomataceae)1 Biotropica ·David M. Lapola, Emilio M. Bruna, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos	2003	2

About David M. Lapola

David M. Lapola is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling and Water Science and Technology, having authored 52 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (6 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.3k citations), Soil Science (264 citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (216 citations), Environmental Engineering (358 citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (278 citations). David M. Lapola has collaborated with scholars based in Brazil, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Joerg A. Priess, Alberte Bondeau, Jennifer Koch, Joseph Alcamo, Ruediger Schaldach, Carlos A. Nobre, Roger Rodrigues Torres, Ana Paula Aguiar, Jean Pierre Ometto and Gilvan Sampaio. Their work appears in journals such as Climatic Change, Nature Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, Plants People Planet and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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