Marina Hirota

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Marina Hirota is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Hirota has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marina Hirota's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (16 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Marina Hirota is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (16 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers). Marina Hirota collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Netherlands and United States. Marina Hirota's co-authors include Egbert H. van Nes, Milena Holmgren, Marten Scheffer, Rafael S. Oliveira, Arie Staal, F. Stuart Chapin, Juli G. Pausas, Vinícius Dantas, Álvaro Salazar and Germán Baldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marina Hirota

44 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

2011 884 citations Marina Hirota et al. profile →
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

2021 189 citations Rafael S. Oliveira, Cleiton B. Eller et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Hirota Brazil	19	2.3k	1.2k	805	574	287	45	3.0k
Emanuel Gloor United Kingdom	29	2.2k 0.9×	897 0.7×	818 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	180 0.6×	55	3.3k
Xiangtao Xu United States	26	1.6k 0.7×	690 0.6×	753 0.9×	574 1.0×	184 0.6×	53	2.2k
Marcos Longo United States	30	2.5k 1.1×	987 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	753 1.3×	156 0.5×	75	3.3k
Arjan J. H. Meddens United States	29	2.2k 0.9×	929 0.7×	1.9k 2.3×	475 0.8×	192 0.7×	63	3.1k
David M. Bell United States	27	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	687 1.2×	381 1.3×	72	2.9k
Imma Oliveras Menor United Kingdom	30	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	688 0.9×	521 0.9×	329 1.1×	92	2.7k
Divino Vicente Silvério Brazil	22	1.6k 0.7×	939 0.8×	700 0.9×	215 0.4×	314 1.1×	54	2.3k
Paola Mairota Italy	19	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	388 0.7×	204 0.7×	34	3.1k
Cho‐ying Huang Taiwan	22	1.3k 0.5×	769 0.6×	975 1.2×	459 0.8×	163 0.6×	63	2.2k
Lucy Rowland United Kingdom	30	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	536 0.7×	936 1.6×	267 0.9×	71	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marina Hirota

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marina Hirota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Hirota

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marina Hirota. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marina Hirota 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 Marina Hirota. Marina Hirota is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Loriani, Sina, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 327–374. 1 indexed citations

Nehemy, Magali F., Caio R. C. Mattos, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2025). Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(33). e2501585122–e2501585122.

Oliveira, Rafael S., et al.. (2024). Estimating vegetation water content from Sentinel-1 C-band SAR data over savanna and grassland ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34019–34019. 8 indexed citations

Donges, Jonathan F., Niklas Boers, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24029–24029. 3 indexed citations

Lhermitte, Stef, Marina Hirota, Timo Conradi, et al.. (2024). Critical slowing down of the Amazon forest after increased drought occurrence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(22). e2316924121–e2316924121. 16 indexed citations

Akabane, Thomas Kenji, Cristiano Mazur Chiessi, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Weaker Atlantic overturning circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests. Nature Geoscience. 17(12). 1284–1290. 4 indexed citations

Mattos, Caio R. C., Marina Hirota, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2023). Double stress of waterlogging and drought drives forest–savanna coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2301255120–e2301255120. 21 indexed citations

Chiessi, Cristiano Mazur, Marina Hirota, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2022). Changes in obliquity drive tree cover shifts in eastern tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews. 279. 107402–107402. 6 indexed citations

Wunderling, Nico, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2022). Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120777119–e2120777119. 46 indexed citations

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Hirota, Marina, et al.. (2022). Direct and indirect effects of an invasive non-native tree on coastal plant communities. Plant Ecology. 223(8). 935–949. 1 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Rafael S., Cleiton B. Eller, Fernanda Barros, et al.. (2021). Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems. New Phytologist. 230(3). 904–923. 189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Flores, Bernardo M., Michele de Sá Dechoum, Isabel Belloni Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Tropical riparian forests in danger from large savanna wildfires. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 419–430. 33 indexed citations

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Sakschewski, Boris, Werner von Bloh, Markus Drüke, et al.. (2020). Variable tree rooting strategies improve tropical productivity and evapotranspiration in a dynamic global vegetation model. 9 indexed citations

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Lamparelli, Rubens Augusto Camargo, Guerric Le Maire, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2019). Tucumã: A toolbox for spatiotemporal remote sensing image analysis [Software and Data Sets]. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 7(3). 110–122. 4 indexed citations

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Thonicke, Kirsten, Fanny Langerwisch, Matthias Baumann, et al.. (2019). A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversitytipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems. 3 indexed citations

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Lamparelli, Rubens Augusto Camargo, Guerric Le Maire, Jefersson A. dos Santos, et al.. (2018). A Soft Computing Framework for Image Classification Based on Recurrence Plots. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 16(2). 320–324. 14 indexed citations

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Zemp, Delphine Clara, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, et al.. (2017). Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14681–14681. 278 indexed citations

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Salazar, Álvaro, Germán Baldi, Marina Hirota, Jozef Syktus, & Clive McAlpine. (2015). Land use and land cover change impacts on the regional climate of non-Amazonian South America: A review. Global and Planetary Change. 128. 103–119. 214 indexed citations

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Hirota, Marina, Marcos Daisuke Oyama, & Carlos A. Nobre. (2011). Concurrent climate impacts of tropical South America land‐cover change. Atmospheric Science Letters. 12(3). 261–267. 9 indexed citations

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Hirota, Marina, Carlos A. Nobre, Marcos Daisuke Oyama, & Mercedes Bustamante. (2010). The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest–savanna transition in tropical South America. New Phytologist. 187(3). 707–719. 56 indexed citations

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