Walfrido Moraes Tomás

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Walfrido Moraes Tomás is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Walfrido Moraes Tomás has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Walfrido Moraes Tomás's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (22 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (18 papers). Walfrido Moraes Tomás is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (22 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (18 papers). Walfrido Moraes Tomás collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Walfrido Moraes Tomás's co-authors include Guilherme Mourão, Helena Godoy Bergallo, Átilla Colombo Ferreguetti, Jader Marinho‐Filho, Ana Cristyna Reis Lacerda, Danilo Bandini Ribeiro, Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez, Carolina Joana da Silva, Gerhard E. Overbeck and S. M. de Salis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Walfrido Moraes Tomás

94 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, conseq... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies
    2021 222 citations Vânia Regina Pivello, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira et al. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walfrido Moraes Tomás Brazil 21 1.0k 504 421 256 197 98 1.7k
Christine Strüssmann Brazil 19 532 0.5× 854 1.7× 467 1.1× 386 1.5× 257 1.3× 85 1.6k
Luciano M. Verdade Brazil 25 1.1k 1.1× 388 0.8× 681 1.6× 161 0.6× 102 0.5× 121 1.9k
M. Andrea Previtali United States 19 746 0.7× 370 0.7× 404 1.0× 269 1.1× 256 1.3× 38 1.5k
Kátia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz Brazil 28 1.7k 1.7× 437 0.9× 665 1.6× 375 1.5× 577 2.9× 96 2.4k
Ainara Cortés‐Avizanda Spain 28 1.9k 1.9× 445 0.9× 623 1.5× 460 1.8× 340 1.7× 62 2.5k
Simon Mduma Tanzania 23 2.0k 2.0× 481 1.0× 726 1.7× 361 1.4× 393 2.0× 52 2.6k
Fernanda Michalski Brazil 22 1.2k 1.2× 549 1.1× 631 1.5× 290 1.1× 343 1.7× 61 1.8k
Adriano Pereira Paglia Brazil 22 1.0k 1.0× 590 1.2× 659 1.6× 628 2.5× 462 2.3× 68 2.3k
Guilherme Mourão Brazil 25 1.1k 1.1× 209 0.4× 445 1.1× 386 1.5× 125 0.6× 110 2.1k
Cleber J. R. Alho Brazil 23 744 0.7× 437 0.9× 525 1.2× 229 0.9× 79 0.4× 42 1.4k

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All Works

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Chiaravalloti, Rafael Morais, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, Thomas S. Akre, et al.. (2023). Achieving conservation through cattle ranching: The case of the Brazilian Pantanal. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(7). 5 indexed citations
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Cunha, Cátia Nunes da, Ivan Bergier, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, et al.. (2023). Classificação dos macrohabitat do Pantanal brasileiro. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(1). 3 indexed citations
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Tomás, Walfrido Moraes, André Restel Camilo, Maxwell da Rosa Oliveira, et al.. (2022). Primatas ocorrentes na Bacia do Alto Paraguai e Pantanal, Brasil. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais. 17(3). 701–724. 2 indexed citations
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Pivello, Vânia Regina, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Alexander V. Christianini, et al.. (2021). Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 19(3). 233–255. 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Posso, Sérgio Roberto, Rudi Ricardo Laps, Reginaldo José Donatelli, et al.. (2021). Birds of the Pantanal floodplains, Brazil: historical data, diversity, and conservation. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 61. e20216182–e20216182. 7 indexed citations
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Garcia, Letícia Couto, Judit K. Szabo, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, et al.. (2021). Record-breaking wildfires in the world's largest continuous tropical wetland: Integrative fire management is urgently needed for both biodiversity and humans. Journal of Environmental Management. 293. 112870–112870. 113 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Maxwell da Rosa, et al.. (2019). Risk of exposure of farms and subsistence nurseries to contact with wild boar in southern Mato Grosso do Sul. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira. 39(2). 148–154. 2 indexed citations
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Ferreguetti, Átilla Colombo, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, & Helena Godoy Bergallo. (2018). Density, habitat use, and daily activity patterns of the Red-rumped Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 53(2). 143–151. 12 indexed citations
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Tomás, Walfrido Moraes, William E. Magnusson, Guilherme Mourão, et al.. (2018). Meio século da proibição da caça no Brasil: consequências de uma política inadequada de gestão de vida selvagem. Biodiversidade Brasileira. 8(2). 75–81.
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Ferreguetti, Átilla Colombo, Courtney L. Davis, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, & Helena Godoy Bergallo. (2018). Using activity and occupancy to evaluate niche partitioning: the case of two peccary species in the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil.. Hystrix. 29(2). 168–174. 8 indexed citations
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Ferreguetti, Átilla Colombo, et al.. (2018). One step ahead to predict potential poaching hotspots: Modeling occupancy and detectability of poachers in a neotropical rainforest. Biological Conservation. 227. 133–140. 29 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Vanda Lúcia, et al.. (2017). Battle of giants: Predation on giant tadpole of Pseudis platensis (Anura: Hylidae) by a giant water bug (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae).. Americanae (AECID Library). 2 indexed citations
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Ferreguetti, Átilla Colombo, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, & Helena Godoy Bergallo. (2017). DIFFERENCES IN THE MAMMALIAN HABITAT USE IN A MOSAIC OF VEGETATION TYPES OF AN ATLANTIC RAIN-FOREST RESERVE, BRAZIL. Mastozoología neotropical. 24(2). 355–364. 9 indexed citations
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Hannibal, Wellington, Maurício Neves Godoi, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, et al.. (2016). Biogeography and conservation of non-volant mammals from the Urucum Mountains: a Chiquitano dry forest ecoregion in western Brazil. Mammalia. 81(2). 169–180. 11 indexed citations
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Antunes, Pâmela Castro, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira‐Santos, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, James D. Forester, & Fernando A. S. Fernandez. (2016). Disentangling the effects of habitat, food, and intraspecific competition on resource selection by the spiny rat,Thrichomys fosteri. Journal of Mammalogy. 97(6). 1738–1744. 15 indexed citations
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Evans, Teresa, Maycira Costa, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, & André Restel Camilo. (2013). A SAR fine and medium spatial resolution approach for mapping the Brazilian Pantanal. Geografia (Rio Claro). 38(38). 25–44. 3 indexed citations
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Tomás, Milagros, et al.. (2010). Densidade e tamanho de grupos de Callicebus cf pallescens (Primates: Pitheciidae) na Fazenda Santa Teresa, Pantanal.. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 1 indexed citations
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Mourão, Guilherme, Walfrido Moraes Tomás, & Zilca Campos. (2010). How much can the number of jabiru stork (Ciconiidae) nests vary due to change of flood extension in a large Neotropical floodplain?. Zoologia (Curitiba). 27(5). 751–756. 15 indexed citations
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Tomás, Walfrido Moraes, et al.. (2001). A survey of a pampas deer, Ozotoceros bezoarticus leucogaster (Arctiodactyla, Cervidae), population in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, using the distance sampling technique. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 24(1). 101–106. 21 indexed citations
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Tomás, Walfrido Moraes, et al.. (1997). On the hyacinth macaw's nesting tree: density of young manduvis around adult trees under three different management conditions in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil.. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 2 indexed citations

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