Luiz E. O. C. Aragão

33.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
218 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Luiz E. O. C. Aragão is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 92 papers in Ecology and 63 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Luiz E. O. C. Aragão's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (73 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (54 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (53 papers). Luiz E. O. C. Aragão is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (73 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (54 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (53 papers). Luiz E. O. C. Aragão collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and United States. Luiz E. O. C. Aragão's co-authors include Yadvinder Malhi, Liana O. Anderson, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Sassan Saatchi, Oliver L. Phillips, Fabien Wagner, Patrick Meir, Jos Barlow, Egídio Arai and Stephen Sitch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luiz E. O. C. Aragão

212 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-chang... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2021 2021 2014 2021 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest
    2009 618 citations Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change
    2021 539 citations Henrique Cassol, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →
  3. Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics
    2021 313 citations Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →
  4. Brazil's environmental leadership at risk
    2014 204 citations Joice Ferreira, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →
  5. Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change
    2021 173 citations Ricardo Dalagnol, Henrique Cassol et al. profile →
  6. The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests
    2023 90 citations Ricardo Dalagnol, Celso H. L. Silva et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão Brazil 58 8.4k 4.1k 3.4k 1.8k 1.4k 218 12.1k
P. K. Snyder United States 19 6.8k 0.8× 3.6k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 30 11.4k
Carol Barford United States 17 7.4k 0.9× 4.9k 1.2× 2.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 32 14.2k
Sebastiaan Luyssaert France 48 7.2k 0.9× 3.4k 0.8× 2.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 2.3k 1.6× 117 12.0k
Frédéric Achard Italy 50 7.6k 0.9× 4.5k 1.1× 1.9k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 939 0.7× 105 11.4k
Mark A. Cochrane United States 50 10.1k 1.2× 5.0k 1.2× 3.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 136 12.9k
Werner A. Kurz Canada 51 8.2k 1.0× 3.3k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 189 11.1k
Ulrike Tappeiner Austria 55 5.8k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 809 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 218 9.4k
Changhui Peng Canada 67 8.5k 1.0× 4.4k 1.1× 4.8k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.7× 320 15.4k
Jeffrey Q. Chambers United States 43 6.6k 0.8× 2.7k 0.6× 5.9k 1.7× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 141 10.8k
Alessandro Cescatti Italy 63 10.5k 1.3× 5.0k 1.2× 2.3k 0.7× 2.7k 1.5× 3.4k 2.5× 172 14.5k

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luiz E. O. C. Aragão. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luiz E. O. C. Aragão based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Luiz E. O. C. Aragão. Luiz E. O. C. Aragão is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Matricardi, Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, José Max Barbosa de Oliveira, et al.. (2024). Assessing Forest Degradation Through Remote Sensing in the Brazilian Amazon: Implications and Perspectives for Sustainable Forest Management. Remote Sensing. 16(23). 4557–4557. 3 indexed citations
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Restrepo‐Coupé, Natalia, Kleber Silva Campos, Luciana F. Alves, et al.. (2024). Contrasting carbon cycle responses to dry (2015 El Niño) and wet (2008 La Niña) extreme events at an Amazon tropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110037–110037. 8 indexed citations
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Galvão, Lênio Soares, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Jean Pierre Ometto, et al.. (2024). Characterizing Canopy Structure Variability in Amazonian Secondary Successions with Full-Waveform Airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing. 16(12). 2085–2085. 5 indexed citations
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Silvério, Divino Vicente, Lênio Soares Galvão, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, et al.. (2024). Assessing the effectiveness of vegetation indices in detecting forest disturbances in the southeast Amazon. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 27287–27287. 4 indexed citations
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Fearnside, Philip M., Aurora Miho Yanai, Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça, et al.. (2023). Burned area mapping in Different Data Products for the Southwest of the Brazilian Amazon. Revista Brasileira de Cartografia. 75. 3 indexed citations
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Maeda, Eduardo Eiji, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Jessica C. A. Baker, et al.. (2023). Land use still matters after deforestation. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 5 indexed citations
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Dalagnol, Ricardo, Lênio Soares Galvão, Fabien Wagner, et al.. (2023). AnisoVeg: anisotropy and nadir-normalized MODIS multi-angle implementation atmospheric correction (MAIAC) datasets for satellite vegetation studies in South America. Earth system science data. 15(1). 345–358. 1 indexed citations
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Campanharo, Wesley A., Marisa Gesteira Fonseca, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada, et al.. (2023). Potential aboveground biomass increase in Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments with climate change. Global Change Biology. 29(11). 3098–3113. 16 indexed citations
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Anderson, Liana O., Philip M. Fearnside, Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça, et al.. (2022). Fire Dynamics in an Emerging Deforestation Frontier in Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil. Fire. 6(1). 2–2. 15 indexed citations
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Jackson, Toby, Eric Bastos Görgens, Ricardo Dalagnol, et al.. (2022). Forest disturbance and growth processes are reflected in the geographical distribution of large canopy gaps across the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Ecology. 110(12). 2971–2983. 26 indexed citations
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Mataveli, Guilherme, Michel Eustáquio Dantas Chaves, N. A. Brunsell, & Luiz E. O. C. Aragão. (2021). The emergence of a new deforestation hotspot in Amazonia. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 19(1). 33–36. 23 indexed citations
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Maeda, Eduardo Eiji, Temesgen Alemayehu Abera, Mika Siljander, et al.. (2021). Large-scale commodity agriculture exacerbates the climatic impacts of Amazonian deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(7). 55 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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Dalagnol, Ricardo, Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira, Yuliya Tarabalka, et al.. (2020). Tree Crown Delineation Algorithm Based on a Convolutional Neural Network. Remote Sensing. 12(8). 1288–1288. 103 indexed citations
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Campanharo, Wesley A., Aline Pontes Lopes, Liana O. Anderson, Thiago Fonseca Morello, & Luiz E. O. C. Aragão. (2019). Translating Fire Impacts in Southwestern Amazonia into Economic Costs. Remote Sensing. 11(7). 764–764. 46 indexed citations
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Martins, Vitor S., Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo, Alexei Lyapustin, et al.. (2018). Seasonal and interannual assessment of cloud cover and atmospheric constituents across the Amazon (2000–2015): Insights for remote sensing and climate analysis. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 145. 309–327. 74 indexed citations
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Bispo, Polyanna da Conceição, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Heiko Balzter, et al.. (2017). Drivers of metacommunity structure diverge for common and rare Amazonian tree species. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188300–e0188300. 11 indexed citations
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Malhi, Yadvinder, Cécile Girardin, Gregory R. Goldsmith, et al.. (2016). The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective. New Phytologist. 214(3). 1019–1032. 116 indexed citations
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Metcalfe, Daniel B., Patrick Meir, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, et al.. (2010). Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large‐scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon. New Phytologist. 187(3). 608–621. 112 indexed citations
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Malhi, Yadvinder, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, David Galbraith, et al.. (2009). Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(49). 20610–20615. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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