Daniel Curtis Nepstad
#165,491
Most Influential Person Now
Daniel Curtis Nepstad's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Daniel Curtis Nepstadearth-sciences Degrees
Earth Sciences
#2103
World Rank
#2873
Historical Rank
Environmental Science
#247
World Rank
#249
Historical Rank
Daniel Curtis Nepstadbiology Degrees
Biology
#13387
World Rank
#16932
Historical Rank
Ecology
#825
World Rank
#895
Historical Rank
Download Badge
Earth Sciences Biology
Daniel Curtis Nepstad's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
Similar Degrees You Can Earn
Why Is Daniel Curtis Nepstad Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)Daniel Curtis Nepstad's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest (2009) (1570)
- Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire (1999) (1348)
- The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures (1994) (1334)
- Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin (2006) (1233)
- The 2010 Amazon Drought (2011) (945)
- Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains (2014) (890)
- Inhibition of Amazon Deforestation and Fire by Parks and Indigenous Lands (2006) (840)
- Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests (2001) (660)
- Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (2008) (639)
- Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation (2010) (602)
- Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon forest. (2007) (587)
- Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions (2014) (573)
- Globalization of the Amazon Soy and Beef Industries: Opportunities for Conservation (2006) (541)
- Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia (1995) (505)
- Tropical Forests and Climate Policy (2007) (504)
- The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2009) (500)
- Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol (2005) (427)
- Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems (2014) (389)
- Recuperation of a degraded Amazonian landscape: forest recovery and agricultural restoration. (1991) (377)
- A comparative study of tree establishment in abandoned pasture and mature forest of eastern Amazonia (1996) (377)
- Rethinking Tropical Forest Conservation: Perils in Parks (2000) (373)
- The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest (2002) (371)
- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (2011) (323)
- Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees (2005) (320)
- Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment (2008) (319)
- Deep Soil Moisture Storage and Transpiration in Forests and Pastures of Seasonally-Dry Amazonia (1998) (319)
- Simulating the response of land‐cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: the Santarém–Cuiabá corridor (2004) (319)
- Forest Understory Fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and Non-ENSO Years: Area Burned and Committed Carbon Emissions (2006) (312)
- Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones (2008) (296)
- Drought stress and carbon uptake in an Amazon forest measured with spaceborne imaging spectroscopy. (2004) (269)
- Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon (2010) (267)
- Deep root function in soil water dynamics in cerrado savannas of central Brazil (2005) (266)
- Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior (2012) (243)
- Effects of an experimental drought on soil emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide in a moist tropical forest (2004) (241)
- Persistence of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis of the rationale for beef production (2012) (228)
- MICROMETEOROLOGICAL AND CANOPY CONTROLS OF FIRE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A FORESTED AMAZON LANDSCAPE (2005) (220)
- Frontier Governance in Amazonia (2002) (214)
- The dynamics of extraction in Amazonia: a historical perspective. (1992) (209)
- Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin‐wide analysis (2004) (205)
- Non-Timber Products from Tropical Forests: Evaluation of a Conservation and Development Strategy (1993) (205)
- The role of the shrub Cordia multispicata Cham. as a ‘succession facilitator’ in an abandoned pasture, Paragominas, Amazônia (1994) (204)
- Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales (2013) (202)
- Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems (2015) (202)
- The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region (2009) (200)
- Contribution of transpiration to forest ambient vapour based on isotopic measurements (1997) (191)
- Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia (2008) (189)
- Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change (2010) (185)
- Surmounting barriers to forest regeneration in abandoned, highly degraded pastures: a case study from Paragominas, Pará, Brazil. (1990) (181)
- Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake. (2010) (179)
- Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses (2013) (164)
- Evolution of the Brazilian phytogeography classification systems: implications for biodiversity conservation (2000) (163)
- NUTRIENT LOSS AND REDISTRIBUTION AFTER FOREST CLEARING ON A HIGHLY WEATHERED SOIL IN AMAZONIA (2004) (163)
- MODELING FOREST UNDERSTORY FIRES IN AN EASTERN AMAZONIAN LANDSCAPE (2004) (156)
- Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones (2008) (148)
- INFLUENCE OF LEAF‐CUTTING ANT NESTS ON SECONDARY FOREST GROWTH AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN AMAZONIA (2003) (148)
- Arguing Tropical Forest Conservation: People versus Parks (2000) (138)
- Simulating fire regimes in the Amazon in response to climate change and deforestation. (2011) (136)
- The economic cost of the use of fire in the Amazon (2004) (136)
- Large-Area Classification and Mapping of Forest and Land Cover in the Brazilian Amazon: A Comparative Analysis of ALOS/PALSAR and Landsat Data Sources (2010) (134)
- Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. An editorial essay (2005) (123)
- Sensitive development could protect Amazonia instead of destroying it (2001) (111)
- Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon (2011) (105)
- Flames in the rain forest : origins, impacts and alternatives to Amazonian fires (1999) (97)
- An interdisciplinary model of soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: The climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants (2008) (95)
- Dynamics of fine root carbon in Amazonian tropical ecosystems and the contribution of roots to soil respiration (2006) (93)
- Defending public interests in private lands: compliance, costs and potential environmental consequences of the Brazilian Forest Code in Mato Grosso (2013) (90)
- Smallholders, The Amazon's New Conservationists (2006) (90)
- Rainfall exclusion in an eastern Amazonian forest alters soil water movement and depth of water uptake. (2005) (89)
- Upland agricultural and forestry development in the Amazon: sustainability, criticality and resilience (1996) (87)
- Marketing of non-timber forest products in western Amazonia: general observations and research priorities. (1992) (86)
- More food, more forests, fewer emissions, better livelihoods: linking REDD+, sustainable supply chains and domestic policy in Brazil, Indonesia and Colombia (2013) (85)
- Vertical patterns of soil water uptake by plants in a primary forest and an abandoned pasture in the eastern Amazon: an isotopic approach (2004) (85)
- Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin‐wide Amazon forest plot data? (2009) (84)
- The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment (2015) (83)
- Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: Balancing Development and Sustainability (2002) (81)
- Natural climate solutions are not enough (2019) (81)
- Responding to climate change and the global land crisis: REDD+, market transformation and low-emissions rural development (2013) (81)
- Studies of ecosystem response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances provide guidelines for designing sustainable land-use systems in Amazonia. (1990) (73)
- Forest fragmentation, climate change and understory fire regimes on the Amazonian landscapes of the Xingu headwaters (2012) (72)
- Biotic impoverishment of Amazonian forests by rubber tappers, loggers, and cattle ranchers. (1992) (72)
- Seedling growth dynamics of a deeply rooting liana in a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia (2004) (71)
- Carbon Inputs and Water Uptake in Deep Soils of an Eastern Amazon Forest (2011) (70)
- The Dry Forests of Puerto Rico’s South Coast (1995) (70)
- Forest Recovery Following Pasture Abandonment in Amazonia: Canopy Seasonality, Fire Resistance and Ants (1995) (69)
- Balancing Conservation and Economic Sustainability: The Future of the Amazon Timber Industry (2009) (69)
- Regional application of an ecosystem production model for studies of biogeochemistry in Brazilian Amazonia (1998) (67)
- OF WATER UPTAKE (2005) (66)
- Soil carbon dynamics in regrowing forest of eastern Amazonia (1999) (66)
- Phenology, litterfall, growth, and root biomass in a tidal floodplain forest in the Amazon estuary (2004) (64)
- Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests (2013) (61)
- Pasture soils as carbon sink (1995) (61)
- Systemic Conservation, REDD, and the Future of the Amazon Basin (2011) (56)
- A Three-Fund Approach to Incorporating Government, Public and Private Forest Stewards into a REDD Funding Mechanism (2008) (56)
- Forest Fire Prediction and Prevention in the Brazilian Amazon (1998) (54)
- Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances (2017) (53)
- Contribution of vines to the evapotranspiration of a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia (2001) (53)
- Jurisdictional Approaches to REDD+ and Low Emissions Development: Progress and Prospects (2018) (50)
- The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin (2009) (47)
- Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil) (2014) (46)
- The Effects of Drought on Amazonian Rain Forests (2013) (45)
- Phenology, growth, and root biomass in a tidal floodplain forest in the Amazon estuary (2004) (45)
- Unexpected results of a pilot throughfall exclusion experiment on soil emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, and NO in eastern Amazonia (2002) (45)
- Modeling the effects of throughfall reduction on soil water content in a Brazilian Oxisol under a moist tropical forest (2007) (44)
- Ecosystem modeling and dynamic effects of deforestation on trace gas fluxes in Amazon tropical forests (2001) (44)
- Uptake of water by lateral roots of small trees in an Amazonian Tropical Forest (2002) (43)
- The ecological importance of forest remnants in an eastern Amazonian frontier landscape. (1996) (43)
- Land-use in Amazonia and the cerrado of Brasil. (1997) (43)
- AN Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development? (2004) (42)
- Searching for Sustainability: Forest Policies, Smallholders, and the Trans - Amazon Highway (2006) (39)
- Participatory Stakeholder Workshops to Mitigate Impacts of Road Paving in the Southwestern Amazon (2007) (37)
- Deep soil heterogeneity and fine root distribution in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia (1996) (36)
- Land-use strategies for successful extractive economies in Amazonia. (1992) (36)
- Carbon Storage and Land-use in Extractive Reserves, Acre, Brazil (1992) (36)
- Managing the Tropical Agriculture Revolution (2008) (35)
- Carbon dioxide recycling in two Amazonian tropical forests (1997) (35)
- Managing the Amazon Timber Industry (2004) (34)
- Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes (2019) (34)
- The ecology and economics of oligarchic forests. (1992) (32)
- Pattern and process: Fire-initiated grass invasion at Amazon transitional forest edges (2009) (31)
- Effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the phenology of Coussarea racemosa (Rubiaceae) in an east-central Amazon rainforest (2006) (31)
- The economics of cropland conversion in Amazonia: The importance of agricultural rent (2010) (30)
- Land-use in Amazonia and the Cerrado of Brazil: State of Knowledge and GIS Database (1997) (29)
- Research, part of a Special Feature on Do we need new management paradigms to achieve sustainability in tropical forests? Integrating Ecosystem Management, Protected Areas, and Mammal Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon (2006) (28)
- Predicting moisture dynamics of fine understory fuels in a moist tropical rainforest system: results of a pilot study undertaken to identify proxy variables useful for rating fire danger. (2010) (27)
- The rattan trade in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (1992) (27)
- Introduction: Non-timber product extraction from tropical forests evaluation of a conservation and development strategy (1992) (26)
- Community forest and lake reserves in the (Peruvian Amazon): a local alternative for sustainable use of tropical forests. (1992) (25)
- Environment. Tropical forests and climate policy. (2007) (25)
- The State of Jurisdictional Sustainability: Synthesis for practitioners and policymakers (2018) (25)
- Root distribution in an Amazonian seasonal forest as derived from δ13C profiles (1998) (23)
- Extractive economies in a historical perspective: gum arabic in West Africa. (1992) (21)
- The emerging REDD+ regime of Brazil (2011) (19)
- Land distribution and the social costs of frontier development in Brazil: social and historical context of extractive reserves. (1992) (19)
- The Recovery of Biomass, Nutrient Stocks, and Deep-Soil Functions in Secondary Forests (2001) (19)
- Effects of an experimental drought and recovery on soil emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide in a moist tropical forest (2008) (18)
- Subnational jurisdictional approaches: Policy innovation and partnerships for change (2018) (16)
- Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon (2006) (16)
- Comment on “The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD” (2010) (15)
- Governing the Amazon timber industry. (2004) (15)
- Collective Action Without Collective Ownership: Community Associations and Logging on the Amazon Frontier (2006) (14)
- The relationship between 18O/16O and 13C/12C ratios of ambient CO2 in two Amazonian tropical forests (1998) (13)
- LBA-ECO LC-14 Modeled Deforestation Scenarios, Amazon Basin: 2002-2050 (2013) (13)
- A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon? (2003) (11)
- Some doubts about concessions in Brazil (2003) (10)
- Amazonia at the millennium. (2000) (9)
- The Large‐Scale Biosphere‐Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia: Analyzing Regional Land Use Change Effects (2013) (8)
- Soil carbon dynamics in pastures and forests of the eastern Amazon (1993) (8)
- The challenge of non-timber forest product extraction. (1992) (8)
- Ecophysiological plasticity of Amazonian trees to long-term drought (2018) (8)
- GOVERNING THE AMAZON TIMBER INDUSTRY FOR MAXIMUM SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS (2005) (6)
- Deforestation for posture in the humid tropics: is it economically and environmentally sound in the long term? (1993) (6)
- Economic policies and tropical deforestation. (1992) (5)
- Recognizing and Managing the Tropical Agricultural Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean (2011) (5)
- Eo-1 Hyperion Measures Canopy Drought Stress In Amazonia (2004) (4)
- LBA-ECO LC-14 Biophysical Measurements, Rainfall Exclusion, Tapajos National Forest (2013) (4)
- prospects for a near-term forest tipping point Interactions among Amazon land use , forests and climate : (2008) (4)
- Pre-LBA RADAMBRASIL Project Data (2009) (4)
- A heated fight against devastation (2002) (4)
- Governing the World ’ s Forests (2005) (4)
- The first principles for climatic stabilization (2011) (4)
- Colombia’s pathway to a more sustainable cattle sector: A spatial multi-criteria analysis (2021) (3)
- Some doubts about concessions in Brazil: should Brazil shelve its proposed system of forest concessions? (2003) (3)
- Fire Along the Transition Between the Amazon Forest and the Cerrado Ecosystems 1 (1996) (3)
- SEARCHING FOR SUSTAINABILITY FOREST POLICIES, SMALLHOLDERS, (2006) (3)
- The Economic Costs of Fire in the Amazon (2003) (3)
- Adaptive management of jurisdictional REDD + programs: a methodology illustrated for Ecuador (2021) (2)
- Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities (2021) (2)
- Traditional Resource Use in Neotropical Forests (1994) (2)
- Mato Grosso, Brazil: Low-emission rural development (LED-R) at a glance (2018) (2)
- Leveraging agricultural value chains to enhance tropical tree cover and slow deforestation (leaves): Synthesis report (2019) (1)
- Stable isotope analyses provide evidence of drought stress impacting plant function at the Seca Floresta (2004) (1)
- CASE STUDY 6: Postponing the Amazon Tipping Point (2019) (1)
- Correction to ''Modeling the effects of throughfall reduction on soil water content in a Brazilian Oxisol under a moist tropical forest'' (2008) (1)
- Water relations of acai palm in tidal forests of the Amazon estuary (1998) (1)
- Reduced deep soil water uptake through forest conversion to pasture in Amazonia (1993) (1)
- The opportunity costs of reducing carbon emissions in an Amazonian agroindustrial region: the Xingu River headwaters (2008) (1)
- Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed ‘To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees’ (2014) (1)
- LBA-ECO CD-05 Soil VWC and Meteorology, Rainfall Exclusion, Tapajos National Forest (2013) (0)
- Referees used in 2000 (2001) (0)
- LBA-ECO CD-05 Understory Fuel Stick Moisture, km 67 Site, Para, Brazil: 1998-2000 (2014) (0)
- LBA-ECO ND-30 Water Chemistry, Rainfall Exclusion, km 67, Tapajos National Forest (2012) (0)
- LBA-ECO LC-14 Specific Leaf Area and Phenology, km 67 Site, Para, Brazil: 2001-2006 (2014) (0)
- Towards sustainable and productive management of Indonesian peatlands: Case Studies of Indonesia's Peat Restoration Agency (Badan Restorasi Gambut) Interventions in Siak, Riau and Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan (2020) (0)
- Ending Tropical Deforestation: Jurisdictional Approaches to REDD+ and Low Emissions Development: Progress and Prospects (2018) (0)
- LBA-ECO CD-05 Forest Understory Fuel Loads, Paragominas, Para, Brazil: 2001 (2014) (0)
- Completing below-ground carbon budgets for pastures, recovering forests, and mature forests of Amazonia. Second annual report, 1 August 1994-31 May 1995 (1995) (0)
- (NASA-CR-191219) HUMAN IMPACTS ON SOIL CARBON DYNAMICS OF DEEP-ROOTED AMAZONIAN FORESTS ANQ EFFECT OF LAND USE CHANGE ON THE CARBON CYCLE (0)
- LARGE AREA MAPPING OF FOREST AND LAND COVER IN THE AMAZON BASIN : A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ALOS / PALSAR AND LANDSAT TM DATA SOURCES (2010) (0)
- Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances (2017) (0)
- Drought effects on net primary productivity and its allocation in an east-central Amazon forest: results from a throughfall exclusion experiment. (2002) (0)
- Predicting Fire Susceptibility in the Forests of Amazonia (2000) (0)
- The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the seasonal photosynthetic light response of trees in a forest area in eastern brazilian Amazonia. (2002) (0)
- Response to Comment on "Observational and Model Evidence for Positive Low-Level Cloud Feedback" (2010) (0)
- LBA-ECO LC-02 Forest Flammability Data, Catuaba Experimental Farm, Acre, Brazil: 1998 (2012) (0)
- Ecophysiological plasticity of Amazonian trees to long-term drought (2018) (0)
- Tropical Forest Conservation : People versus Parks (2000) (0)
- LBA-ECO ND-02 Cation Leaching from Forest and Pasture Soils, Para, Brazil (2012) (0)
- The Cerrado, Exposed (2003) (0)
- LBA-ECO ND-02 Soil Volumetric Water Content, Tapajos National Forest, Brazil (2012) (0)
- LBA-ECO LC-14 Root Biomass and Phenology, km 67 Site, Para, Brazil: 2001 (2015) (0)
- Soil carbon dynamics in forests and pastures of the eastern Amazon (1994) (0)
- Forest fragmentation, climate change and understory fire regimes on the Amazonian landscapes of the Xingu headwaters (2012) (0)
- Claudinei pasture grasses invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis : fire effects on Supplementary data (2013) (0)
- Human impacts on soil carbon dynamics of deep-rooted Amazonian forests and effect of land use change on the carbon cycle in Amazon soils. Annual report No. 1, 1 September 1991-30 August 1992 (1992) (0)
- pasture grasses invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on (2013) (0)
- BOWLING ET AL ß DYNAMICS OF CO 2 ISOTOPE XCHANGE IN A DECIDUOUS FOREST (2006) (0)
- LBA-ECO CD-11 Biophysical Measurements of Logged and Fire-Treated Forests, Brazil (2012) (0)
- Evaluation of c and n inventories, sigma 'ANTPOT.13 C' and delta 'ANTPOT.14 C' in deep soils from mature and regrowing forest (capoeira) and pasture of eastern amazonica (1994) (0)
- The Ecology of a Prairie Legume (Raptisia Leucantha) and an Associated Curculioned Seed Predator (Apoin Rostrum) (1978) (0)
- Throughfall reduction: Impacts on solution nutrient fluxes. (2008) (0)
- LBA-ECO LC-14 Modeled Soil and Plant Water Balance, Amazon Basin, 1995-2001 (2013) (0)
- Diversity Managing the Amazon Timber Industry (2004) (0)
- Opportunities And Challenges For Reducing Carbon Emissions From Deforestation And Degradation In The Democratic Republic of Congo (2008) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
What Schools Are Affiliated With Daniel Curtis Nepstad?
Daniel Curtis Nepstad is affiliated with the following schools:
