Jos Barlow

32.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
231 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Jos Barlow is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jos Barlow has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 128 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 89 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jos Barlow's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (106 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (83 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (56 papers). Jos Barlow is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (106 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (83 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (56 papers). Jos Barlow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Jos Barlow's co-authors include Carlos A. Peres, Toby Gardner, Luke Parry, Navjot S. Sodhi, Joice Ferreira, Júlio Louzada, William F. Laurance, Érika Berenguer, Alexander Charles Lees and Lian Pin Koh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jos Barlow

223 papers receiving 14.2k 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.

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

2011 1.5k citations Toby Gardner, Jos Barlow et al. profile →
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human‐modified world

2009 708 citations Toby Gardner, Jos Barlow et al. profile →
Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?

2018 476 citations Jos Barlow et al. profile →
The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018 436 citations Jos Barlow, Filipe França et al. profile →
Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

2016 292 citations James Reed, Josh van Vianen et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

2014 204 citations Joice Ferreira, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →
Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre‐history: An ecological perspective

2015 86 citations Jos Barlow et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jos Barlow	7.5k	6.7k	6.0k	2.7k	2.3k	231	14.6k
Jean Paul Metzger	6.0k 0.8×	6.2k 0.9×	6.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	202	14.6k
Thomas Ε. Lovejoy	5.4k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	5.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	105	13.4k
Lian Pin Koh	6.8k 0.9×	4.0k 0.6×	8.1k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	170	16.1k
David P. Edwards	5.4k 0.7×	4.3k 0.6×	5.5k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	226	12.0k
David S. Wilcove	4.8k 0.6×	5.7k 0.9×	8.6k 1.4×	2.7k 1.0×	3.3k 1.5×	162	14.5k
Toby Gardner	7.3k 1.0×	5.2k 0.8×	6.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	124	14.3k
Ana S. L. Rodrigues	6.3k 0.8×	4.5k 0.7×	5.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	4.7k 2.1×	82	12.5k
Erika S. Zavaleta	4.9k 0.6×	6.0k 0.9×	6.4k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	96	14.4k
Chris Margules	5.0k 0.7×	7.7k 1.1×	7.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	3.7k 1.6×	72	14.3k
Reed F. Noss	5.9k 0.8×	5.9k 0.9×	7.2k 1.2×	2.0k 0.7×	2.9k 1.3×	128	14.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jos Barlow

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jos Barlow

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Elias, Fernando, Egberto Reis Barbosa, Jonathan M. Coutinho, et al.. (2025). Exploring plant functional traits and their relationship to biomass dynamics in secondary forests in Eastern Amazonia. Flora. 326. 152712–152712.

Socolar, Jacob B., James J. Gilroy, Jos Barlow, et al.. (2025). Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(9). 1643–1655.

Metcalf, Oliver C., Catarina S. Nunes, Carlos Abrahams, et al.. (2024). The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes. Ecological Indicators. 169. 112954–112954.

Rader, Romina, Martín A. Núñez, Tadeu Siqueira, et al.. (2024). Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(6). 1142–1146. 2 indexed citations

Barlow, Jos, et al.. (2024). Recurrent wildfires alter forest structure and community composition of terra firme Amazonian forests. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114051–114051. 4 indexed citations

Trew, Brittany T., David P. Edwards, Alexander Charles Lees, et al.. (2024). Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies. Nature Climate Change. 14(7). 753–759. 15 indexed citations

Saranholi, Bruno H., Filipe França, Alfried P. Vogler, et al.. (2024). Testing and optimizing metabarcoding of iDNA from dung beetles to sample mammals in the hyperdiverse Neotropics. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(5). e13961–e13961. 2 indexed citations

Zenni, Rafael Dudeque, Jos Barlow, Nathalie Pettorelli, et al.. (2023). Multi‐lingual literature searches are needed to unveil global knowledge. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(3). 380–383. 22 indexed citations

Betts, Matthew G., Marion Pfeifer, Christopher Wolf, et al.. (2023). Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(7). 1079–1091. 29 indexed citations

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Metcalf, Oliver C., Jos Barlow, Yves Bas, et al.. (2022). Detecting and reducing heterogeneity of error in acoustic classification. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2559–2571. 5 indexed citations

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Berenguer, Érika, Joice Ferreira, Carlos Alfredo Joly, et al.. (2021). Assessing invertebrate herbivory in human‐modified tropical forest canopies. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 4012–4022. 10 indexed citations

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Berenguer, Érika, Gareth D. Lennox, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2021). Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 77 indexed citations

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Parry, Luke, et al.. (2021). Urban market amplifies strong species selectivity in Amazonian artisanal fisheries. Neotropical Ichthyology. 19(3). 12 indexed citations

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Nunes, Cássio Alencar, Jos Barlow, Filipe França, et al.. (2021). Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance. Biotropica. 53(6). 1510–1521. 11 indexed citations

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Metcalf, Oliver C., Jos Barlow, Christian Devenish, et al.. (2020). Acoustic indices perform better when applied at ecologically meaningful time and frequency scales. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(3). 421–431. 71 indexed citations

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Kroeger, Marie, Laura Meredith, Kyle Meyer, et al.. (2020). Rainforest-to-pasture conversion stimulates soil methanogenesis across the Brazilian Amazon. The ISME Journal. 15(3). 658–672. 29 indexed citations

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Barlow, Jos, et al.. (2020). Tough fishing and severe seasonal food insecurity in Amazonian flooded forests. People and Nature. 2(2). 468–482. 35 indexed citations

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Pettorelli, Nathalie, Jos Barlow, Philip A. Stephens, et al.. (2018). Making rewilding fit for policy. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(3). 1114–1125. 144 indexed citations

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Berenguer, Érika, Toby Gardner, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2018). Seeing the woods through the saplings: Using wood density to assess the recovery of human‐modified Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology. 106(6). 2190–2203. 39 indexed citations

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Reed, James, Josh van Vianen, Elizabeth Deakin, Jos Barlow, & Trey Sunderland. (2016). Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future. Global Change Biology. 22(7). 2540–2554. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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