Paulo Moutinho

10.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
59 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Paulo Moutinho is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paulo Moutinho has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Paulo Moutinho's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (30 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (16 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (12 papers). Paulo Moutinho is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (30 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (16 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (12 papers). Paulo Moutinho collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Paulo Moutinho's co-authors include Daniel C. Nepstad, David Ray, Ane Alencar, Paul A. Lefebvre, Carlos A. Nobre, Stephan Schwartzman, Eric A. Davidson, Peter Schlesinger, Ingrid Tohver and Eirivelthon Lima and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paulo Moutinho

55 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

1999 973 citations Daniel C. Nepstad, Ane Alencar et al. Nature profile →
Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

2010 544 citations Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Paulo Moutinho et al. profile →
Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests

2001 512 citations Daniel C. Nepstad, Georgia O. Carvalho et al. profile →
Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

2013 411 citations David M. Lapola, Luiz Antônio Martinelli et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paulo Moutinho Brazil	31	4.5k	1.7k	1.6k	993	764	59	6.7k
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg Brazil	35	3.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	636 0.8×	69	6.5k
Ane Alencar Brazil	34	6.4k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	654 0.9×	67	8.4k
Rodney J. Keenan Australia	37	4.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	541 0.5×	571 0.7×	145	6.0k
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Brazil	36	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	430 0.4×	872 1.1×	142	5.7k
Deborah Lawrence United States	39	3.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	405 0.4×	869 1.1×	83	5.6k
H. Ricardo Grau Argentina	42	3.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	404 0.4×	423 0.6×	115	6.0k
Márcia N. Macedo United States	31	3.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	590 0.6×	657 0.9×	63	5.6k
Marc J. Metzger United Kingdom	39	3.7k 0.8×	848 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	610 0.6×	581 0.8×	128	6.5k
Lisa M. Curran United States	34	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	2.5k 1.6×	657 0.7×	356 0.5×	61	6.0k
Manuel R. Guariguata Indonesia	38	4.0k 0.9×	2.7k 1.6×	1.9k 1.2×	423 0.4×	468 0.6×	108	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paulo Moutinho

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Scarano, Fábio Rúbio, et al.. (2025). Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 23(2). 70–76.

Moutinho, Paulo & Cláudia Azevedo-Ramos. (2023). Untitled public forestlands threaten Amazon conservation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1152–1152. 16 indexed citations

Abramovay, Ricardo, Francisco de Assis Costa, Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young, et al.. (2022). Capítulo 30: Uma nova bioeconomia na Amazônia: Oportunidades e desafios para florestas e rios saudáveis.

Alencar, Ane, et al.. (2022). A gestão ambiental e territorial de Terras Indígenas da Amazônia brasileira: uma questão climática. 5(1). 230–253.

Pinto, Erika de Paula Pedro, et al.. (2017). Comment on the Article Published in Forest by Maria Fernanda Gebara and Arun Agrawal, Forests 2017, 8, 66. Forests. 8(7). 230–230.

Lapola, David M., Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Carlos A. Peres, et al.. (2013). Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system. Nature Climate Change. 4(1). 27–35. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

Carvalho, Karine S., Jennifer K. Balch, & Paulo Moutinho. (2011). O papel da formiga saúva (Atta spp.) na recuperação da vegetação pós-fogo em floresta de transição amazônica. Acta Amazonica. 42(1). 2 indexed citations

Carvalho, Karine S., Ane Alencar, Jennifer K. Balch, & Paulo Moutinho. (2011). Leafcutter Ant Nests Inhibit Low-Intensity Fire Spread in the Understory of Transitional Forests at the Amazon's Forest-Savanna Boundary. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2012. 1–7. 17 indexed citations

Carvalho, Karine S., Jennifer K. Balch, & Paulo Moutinho. (2011). Influências de Atta spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) na recuperação da vegetação pós-fogo em floresta de transição amazônica. Acta Amazonica. 42(1). 81–88. 6 indexed citations

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Moutinho, Paulo, et al.. (2011). The emerging REDD+ regime of Brazil. Carbon Management. 2(5). 587–602. 14 indexed citations

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Silveira, Juliana M., Jos Barlow, Júlio Louzada, & Paulo Moutinho. (2010). Factors Affecting the Abundance of Leaf-Litter Arthropods in Unburned and Thrice-Burned Seasonally-Dry Amazonian Forests. PLoS ONE. 5(9). e12877–e12877. 37 indexed citations

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Ricketts, Taylor H., Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, et al.. (2010). Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change. PLoS Biology. 8(3). e1000331–e1000331. 162 indexed citations

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Nepstad, Daniel C., et al.. (2007). MORTALITY OF LARGE TREES AND LIANAS FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL DROUGHT IN AN AMAZON FOREST. Ecology. 88(9). 2259–2269. 493 indexed citations

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Moutinho, Paulo & Stephan Schwartzman. (2005). Tropical deforestation and climate change. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 129 indexed citations

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Nepstad, Daniel C., Paul A. Lefebvre, Javier Tomasella, et al.. (2004). Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin‐wide analysis. Global Change Biology. 10(5). 704–717. 316 indexed citations

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Carvalho, Georgia O., Paulo Moutinho, Daniel C. Nepstad, Luciano Mansor de Mattos, & Márcio Santilli. (2003). AN Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development?. Environment Development and Sustainability. 6(1-2). 163–174. 19 indexed citations

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Nepstad, Daniel C., Paulo Moutinho, M. B. Dias‐Filho, et al.. (2002). The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 107(D20). 305 indexed citations

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Moutinho, Paulo. (2000). Shell size variation and aggregation behavior of Littoraria flava (Gastropoda : Littorinidae) on a southeastern Brazilian shore. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 3 indexed citations

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Joly, Carlos Alfredo, Marcos Pereira Marinho Aidar, Carlos Augusto Klink, et al.. (2000). Evolution of the Brazilian phytogeography classification systems: implications for biodiversity conservation. Ciencia e cultura. 51. 331–348. 130 indexed citations

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Nepstad, Daniel C., Ane Alencar, Carlos A. Nobre, et al.. (1999). Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature. 398(6727). 505–508. 973 indexed citations breakdown →

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