Most cited papers in Environmental and biological studies
What are the most cited papers in Environmental and biological studies?
The most cited paper in Environmental and biological studies is "Plantas medicinais: fatores de influência no conteúdo de metabólitos secundários" (Leonardo Gobbo‐Neto, Norberto Peporine Lopes, 2007), with 1,027 citations. Next come "Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions" (780) and "Effects of isolation on the water status of forest patches in the Brazilian Amazon" (703).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 145 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plantas medicinais: fatores de influência no conteúdo de metabólitos secundários Leonardo Gobbo‐Neto, Norberto Peporine Lopes · Química Nova | 26 Mar 2007 | 1,027 |
| 2 | Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions Yadvinder Singh Malhi, James Wright · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Mar 2004 | 780 |
| 3 | Effects of isolation on the water status of forest patches in the Brazilian Amazon Valerie Kapos · Journal of Tropical Ecology | May 1989 | 703 |
| 4 | Spatial patterns and fire response of recent Amazonian droughts Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Yadvinder Singh Malhi, Rosa María Román-Cuesta et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | Apr 2007 | 576 |
| 5 | Regimes de precipitação na América do Sul: uma revisão bibliográfica Michelle Simões Reboita, Manoel Alonso Gan, Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha et al. · Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia | Jun 2010 | 529 |
| 6 | "Prevenção de lesões de pele no perioperatório: revisão integrativa da literatura" Elizabeth Silva Ursi, Cristina Maria Gavão · Americanae (AECID Library) | 12 Apr 2005 | 527 |
| 7 | Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests Jin Wu et al. · Science | 25 Feb 2016 | 496 |
| 8 | Biomass of Tropical Forests: A New Estimate Based on Forest Volumes Sandra Brown, Ariel E. Lugo · Science | 23 Mar 1984 | 471 |
| 9 | Evaporation from Amazonian rainforest William James Shuttleworth · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 22 Apr 1988 | 463 |
| 10 | The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest Daniel Curtis Nepstad, Paulo R. S. Moutinho, Moacyr Bernardino Dias-Filho et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 23 Oct 2002 | 442 |
| 11 | Phenology of Atlantic Rain Forest Trees: A Comparative Study 1 LPC. Morellato, Daniela Custódio Talora, Adrians Takahasi et al. · Biotropica | Dec 2000 | 437 |
| 12 | The potential effects of nitrogen deposition on fine‐root production in forest ecosystems Knute J. Nadelhoffer · New Phytologist | Jul 2000 | 419 |
| 13 | Conservation in Brazil needs to include non‐forest ecosystems Gerhard E. Overbeck, Eduardo Vélez‐Martin, Fabio R. Scarano et al. · Diversity and Distributions | 12 Oct 2015 | 416 |
| 14 | Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies Vânia Regina Pivello, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Alexander V. Christianini et al. · Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | Jul 2021 | 410 |
| 15 | The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols Meinrat Otto Andreae et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 28 Sep 2015 | 409 |
| 16 | Nutrient dynamics within amazonian forests Elvira Cuevas, Ernesto Medina · Oecologia | Jul 1988 | 393 |
| 17 | Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest Antônio C. L. da Costa, David Roberto Galbraith, Samuel Soares de Almeida et al. · New Phytologist | 9 Jun 2010 | 377 |
| 18 | Treefall gap size effects on above‐ and below‐ground processes in a tropical wet forest JULIE SLOAN DENSLOW, Aaron M. Ellison, Robert L. Sanford · Journal of Ecology | Aug 1998 | 366 |
| 19 | Vegetation dynamics and rainfall sensitivity of the Amazon Thomas Hilker, Alexei Lyapustin, Compton J. Tucker et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 27 Oct 2014 | 366 |
| 20 | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Amazon Rainfall Wim G. Sombroek · AMBIO | Nov 2001 | 358 |
| 21 | Southern Bahian moist forests Scott Alan Mori, Brian M. Boom, André M. de Carvalho et al. · The Botanical Review | Apr 1983 | 355 |
| 22 | On climate variability in Northeast of Brazil Vicente de Paulo Rodrigues da Silva · Journal of Arid Environments | 6 Feb 2004 | 338 |
| 23 | Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management Adrian C. Newton · Mountain Research and Development | Nov 2012 | 331 |
| 24 | Variação espacial e temporal da precipitação no Estado do Pará Bergson Cavalcanti de Moraes, José Maria Nogueira da Costa, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. · Acta Amazonica | Jun 2005 | 331 |
| 25 | Classificação climática de Köppen e de Thornthwaite e sua aplicabilidade na determinação de zonas agroclimáticas para o estado de são Paulo Glauco de Souza Rolim, Marcelo Bento Paes de Camargo, Daniel Grosseli Lania et al. · Bragantia | 2007 | 309 |
| 26 | Variation of carbon and nitrogen cycling processes along a topographic gradient in a central Amazonian forest Regina C. C. Luizão, Flávio Jesus Luizão, R. Paiva et al. · Global Change Biology | 23 Apr 2004 | 297 |
| 27 | Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought Liang Xu, Arindam Samanta, Marcos Heil Costa et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | Apr 2011 | 289 |
| 28 | Leaf functional traits of Neotropical savanna trees in relation to seasonal water deficit Augusto César Franco, Mercedes Bustamante, Linda Styer Caldas et al. · Trees | 8 Dec 2004 | 280 |
| 29 | Flood tolerance and tree distribution in central Amazonian floodplains Wolfgang Johannes Junk · Elsevier eBooks | 1989 | 277 |
| 30 | Identifying areas susceptible to desertification in the Brazilian northeast Rita Márcia da Silva Pinto Vieira, Javier Tomasella, Regina C. S. Álvala et al. · Solid Earth | 18 Mar 2015 | 257 |
| 31 | Gross rainfall and its partitioning into throughfall, stemflow and evaporation of intercepted water in four forest ecosystems in western Amazonia C.Tobón Marin, Willem Bouten, J. Sevink · Journal of Hydrology | Oct 2000 | 251 |
| 32 | The measurement and modelling of rainfall interception by Amazonian rain forest Colin R. Lloyd, J. H. C. Gash, William James Shuttleworth et al. · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | Sep 1988 | 251 |
| 33 | Biomass and Nutrient Dynamics Associated with Slash Fires in Neotropical Dry Forests J. Boone Kauffman, Robert L. Sanford, Dian L. Cummings et al. · Ecology | 1993 | 241 |
| 34 | Soil and air temperatures during prescribed cerated fires in Central Brazil Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Miranda, Heloisa Sinatora Miranda, Inês de Fátima Oliveira Dias et al. · Journal of Tropical Ecology | Aug 1993 | 233 |
| 35 | The effect of polishing techniques on the surface roughness and color change of composite resins Duygu Saraç, Y. Şinasi Saraç, Şafak Külünk et al. · Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry | Jul 2006 | 231 |
| 36 | Changes in soil C and N stocks and nutrient dynamics 13 years after recovery of degraded land using leguminous nitrogen-fixing trees M. O. Macedo, Alexander Silva de Resende, Pablo C. García et al. · Forest Ecology and Management | 7 Jan 2008 | 229 |
| 37 | Classificação e tendências climáticas em Lavras, MG Antônio Augusto Aguilar Dantas, Luiz Gonsaga de Carvalho, Elizabeth Ferreira · Ciência e Agrotecnologia | Dec 2007 | 229 |
| 38 | Application of the Köppen classification for climatic zoning in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil Arionaldo de Sá Júnior, Luiz Gonsaga de Carvalho, Fábio Fernandes da Silva et al. · Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 25 Aug 2011 | 226 |
| 39 | Comparação de dois métodos de avaliação da fenologia de plantas, sua interpretação e representação CINARA S.C. BENCKE, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato · Revista Brasileira de Botânica | Sep 2002 | 223 |
| 40 | Leaf Carbon and Nutrient Assimilation and Conservation in Species of Differing Successional Status in an Oligotrophic Amazonian Forest Peter B. Reich, David S. Ellsworth, Christopher Uhl · Functional Ecology | Feb 1995 | 221 |
| 41 | Nutrient dynamics within amazonian forest ecosystems Elvira Cuevas, Ernesto Medina · Oecologia | 1986 | 221 |
| 42 | Litter fall and decomposition in primary, secondary and plantation forests in the Brazilian Amazon Jos Barlow, Toby Alan Gardner, Leandro Valle Ferreira et al. · Forest Ecology and Management | 23 May 2007 | 220 |
| 43 | The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier Gabriel Selbach Hofmann, Manoel Cardoso, Ruy José Válka Alves et al. · Global Change Biology | 21 May 2021 | 210 |
| 44 | Spatiotemporal rainfall and temperature trends throughout the Brazilian Legal Amazon, 1973–2013 Catherine Torres de Almeida, José Francisco de Oliveira‐Júnior, Rafael Coll Delgado et al. · International Journal of Climatology | 20 Jul 2016 | 208 |
| 45 | Plant Life in the Floodplain with Special Reference to Herbaceous Plants Wolfgang J. Junk, María Teresa Fernández Piedade · Ecological studies | 1997 | 206 |
| 46 | Impacts on regional climate of Amazon deforestation Robert E. Dickinson, Patrick Jack Kennedy · Geophysical Research Letters | Oct 1992 | 204 |
| 47 | Fenologia de espécies arbóreas em floresta de planície litorânea do sudeste do Brasil Daniela Custódio Talora, Patrícia C. Morellato · Revista Brasileira de Botânica | Mar 2000 | 202 |
| 48 | Drought monitoring in the Brazilian Semiarid region Regina C. S. Álvala, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, SHEILA S.B. BRITO et al. · Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências | 11 Oct 2017 | 201 |
| 49 | Photosynthetic capacity in a central Amazonian rain forest Bob Carswell, Patrick Meir, Elisa Vieira Wandelli et al. · Tree Physiology | Feb 2000 | 200 |
| 50 | SUCCESSIONAL CHANGES IN CERRADO AND CERRADO/FOREST ECOTONAL VEGETATION IN WESTERN SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL, 1962–2000 Giselda Durigan, J. A. RATTER · Edinburgh Journal of Botany | 4 Aug 2006 | 197 |
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