Mercedes Bustamante

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Mercedes Bustamante

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According to Wikipedia, Mercedes Bustamante is a biologist born in Chile. Most of her work takes place in the savannah regions in Brazil called the cerrado biome. Her area of interests are studying large scale impacts on the environment, land usage and biogeochemistry. Since 1994 she has been a professor at the University of Brasília , where she is currently the Graduate Coordinator of the Ecology Department. She is a member of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.

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Mercedes Bustamante's Published Works

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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis. (2010) (2110)
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) (2014) (1084)
The Amazon basin in transition (2012) (930)
Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. (2009) (740)
Global change pressures on soils from land use and management (2016) (515)
How much land‐based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals? (2013) (503)
Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system (2014) (457)
Achieving mitigation and adaptation to climate change through sustainable agroforestry practices in Africa (2014) (442)
Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis. (2011) (400)
Controls over foliar N:P ratios in tropical rain forests. (2007) (390)
The Prokaryotes (2014) (376)
Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils (2015) (304)
Functional convergence in hydraulic architecture and water relations of tropical savanna trees: from leaf to whole plant. (2004) (287)
Partitioning of soil water among tree species in a Brazilian Cerrado ecosystem. (1999) (238)
Leaf functional traits of Neotropical savanna trees in relation to seasonal water deficit (2005) (221)
Atmospheric and hydraulic limitations on transpiration in Brazilian cerrado woody species (1999) (221)
Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil (2016) (208)
Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity (2016) (165)
Nutrient resorption and patterns of litter production and decomposition in a Neotropical Savanna (2007) (164)
Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses (2013) (164)
Ecological research in the large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia: early results (2004) (155)
Nutrient availability constrains the hydraulic architecture and water relations of savannah trees. (2006) (150)
Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raising in Brazil (2012) (150)
Nitrogen cycling in tropical and temperate savannas (2006) (148)
Co‐benefits, trade‐offs, barriers and policies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector (2014) (145)
15N NATURAL ABUNDANCE IN WOODY PLANTS AND SOILS OF CENTRAL BRAZILIAN SAVANNAS (CERRADO) (2004) (129)
Nutrient use efficiency at ecosystem and species level in savanna areas of Central Brazil and impacts of fire (2006) (123)
Cerrado ecoregions: A spatial framework to assess and prioritize Brazilian savanna environmental diversity for conservation. (2019) (121)
Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing (2015) (120)
Amazonia and global change. (2009) (110)
Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Brazilian Savanna Native Vegetation Using Landsat Data Processed in the Google Earth Engine Platform (2020) (102)
Potential impacts of climate change on biogeochemical functioning of Cerrado ecosystems. (2012) (102)
Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves (2019) (101)
Effects of fire on soil nitrogen dynamics and microbial biomass in savannas of Central Brazil (2003) (101)
Pasture degradation in the central Amazon: linking changes in carbon and nutrient cycling with remote sensing (2004) (86)
Undervaluing and Overexploiting the Brazilian Cerrado at Our Peril (2016) (84)
Understanding the Influences of Spatial Patterns on N Availability Within the Brazilian Amazon Forest (2008) (83)
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Americas of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2018) (81)
Soil emissions of N2O, NO, and CO2 in Brazilian Savannas: Effects of vegetation type, seasonality, and prescribed fires (2002) (80)
Mapping Brazilian savanna vegetation gradients with Landsat time series (2016) (79)
4. The Fire Factor (2002) (79)
Characterization of Soil Bacterial Assemblies in Brazilian Savanna-Like Vegetation Reveals Acidobacteria Dominance (2012) (78)
Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: A recipe for tropical forest degradation (2018) (71)
Carbon Inputs and Water Uptake in Deep Soils of an Eastern Amazon Forest (2011) (70)
Effects of nutrient additions on plant biomass and diversity of the herbaceous-subshrub layer of a Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) (2012) (69)
The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America. (2010) (68)
Scale dependence of biophysical structure in deforested areas bordering the Tapajós National Forest, Central Amazon (2003) (67)
Regional Variations in Biomass Distribution in Brazilian Savanna Woodland (2014) (66)
Diversity of shrub tree layer, leaf litter decomposition and N release in a Brazilian Cerrado under N, P and N plus P additions. (2011) (65)
Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage (2017) (65)
Ecosystem Structure throughout the Brazilian Amazon from Landsat Observations and Automated Spectral Unmixing (2005) (63)
Characterization by solid-state CPMAS 13C NMR spectroscopy of decomposing plant residues in conventional and no-tillage systems in Central Brazil. (2009) (62)
SOIL FLUXES OF CO2, CO, NO, AND N2O FROM AN OLD PASTURE AND FROM NATIVE SAVANNA IN BRAZIL (2004) (59)
Phosphorus cycling in a small watershed in the Brazilian Cerrado: impacts of frequent burning (2011) (59)
How can we advance the knowledge on the behavior and effects of fire in the Cerrado biome (2018) (58)
Molecular phylogenetic diversity of bacteria associated with soil of the savanna-like Cerrado vegetation. (2009) (58)
Unexpected changes in soil phosphorus dynamics along pasture chronosequences in the humid tropics (2002) (57)
Fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus in a gallery forest in the Cerrado of central Brazil (2011) (57)
Surface Soil Changes Following Selective Logging in an Eastern Amazon Forest (2005) (56)
Terrestrial carbon sinks in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado region predicted from MODIS satellite data and ecosystem modeling (2009) (55)
Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil (2019) (55)
Emissions of Nitrous Oxide and Nitric Oxide from Soils of Native and Exotic Ecosystems of the Amazon and Cerrado Regions of Brazil (2001) (53)
Spatial variation in vegetation structure coupled to plant available water determined by two-dimensional soil resistivity profiling in a Brazilian savanna (2007) (49)
Spectrometry of pasture condition and biogeochemistry in the central Amazon (1999) (47)
Soil carbon storage and sequestration potential in the Cerrado Region of Brazil. (2006) (42)
Soil emissions of NO, N2O and CO2 from croplands in the savanna region of central Brazil (2011) (42)
Latin America's Nitrogen Challenge (2013) (40)
Dissolved rainfall inputs and streamwater outputs in an undisturbed watershed on highly weathered soils in the Brazilian cerrado (2006) (39)
Rural Environmental Registry: An innovative model for land-use and environmental policies (2018) (37)
Native and alien herbaceous plants in the Brazilian Cerrado are (co-)limited by different nutrients (2016) (36)
Optimizing biomass estimates of savanna woodland at different spatial scales in the Brazilian Cerrado: Re-evaluating allometric equations and environmental influences (2018) (33)
Structure and composition of bacterial and fungal community in soil under soybean monoculture in the Brazilian Cerrado (2010) (32)
Soil Acidobacterial 16S rRNA Gene Sequences Reveal Subgroup Level Differences between Savanna-Like Cerrado and Atlantic Forest Brazilian Biomes (2014) (30)
Alien and endangered plants in the Brazilian Cerrado exhibit contrasting relationships with vegetation biomass and N : P stoichiometry. (2012) (29)
Effects and behaviour of experimental fires in grasslands, savannas, and forests of the Brazilian Cerrado (2020) (29)
Crop fertilization affects pollination service provision – Common bean as a case study (2018) (25)
Modeling fuel loads dynamics and fire spread probability in the Brazilian Cerrado (2021) (25)
Landsat phenological metrics and their relation to aboveground carbon in the Brazilian Savanna (2018) (25)
Savanna vegetation structure in the Brazilian Cerrado allows for the accurate estimation of aboveground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning (2020) (24)
Nitrogen management challenges in major watersheds of South America (2015) (24)
Brazilian assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services: summary for policy makers (2019) (23)
Woody Aboveground Biomass Mapping of the Brazilian Savanna with a Multi-Sensor and Machine Learning Approach (2020) (23)
Equivalent water thickness in savanna ecosystems: MODIS estimates based on ground and EO-1 Hyperion data (2011) (22)
Abundance of gall-inducing insect species in sclerophyllous savanna: understanding the importance of soil fertility using an experimental approach (2011) (22)
Soil fertility status, carbon and nitrogen stocks under cover crops and tillage regimes (2014) (20)
Seasonal soil fluxes of carbon monoxide in burned and unburned Brazilian savannas (2002) (19)
Sources and Sinks of Trace Gases in Amazonia and the Cerrado (2013) (19)
Effects of Different Treatments of Pasture Restoration on Soil Trace Gas Emissions in the Cerrados of Central Brazil (2006) (19)
From sample to pixel: multi-scale remote sensing data for upscaling aboveground carbon data in heterogeneous landscapes (2018) (18)
Seasonal Effects in a Lake Sediment Archaeal Community of the Brazilian Savanna (2014) (16)
Soil bacterial communities in the Brazilian Cerrado: Response to vegetation type and management (2019) (16)
Responses of Plant Biomass in the Brazilian Savanna to Frequent Fires (2020) (16)
Microbial communities in Cerrado soils under native vegetation subjected to prescribed fire and under pasture (2011) (15)
Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan (2021) (15)
Carbon Stocks in Compartments of Soil Organic Matter 31 Years after Substitution of Native Cerrado Vegetation by Agroecosystems (2016) (15)
Innovations for a sustainable future: rising to the challenge of nitrogen greenhouse gas management in Latin America (2014) (14)
Increasing effectiveness of the science-policy interface in the socioecological arena in Brazil (2019) (14)
Engagement of scientific community and transparency in C accounting: the Brazilian case for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry (2018) (13)
Chapter 4: Direct and indirect drivers of change in biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (2018) (13)
Land Use Change and the Carbon Budget in the Brazilian Cerrado (2010) (13)
Species richness both impedes and promotes alien plant invasions in the Brazilian Cerrado (2020) (12)
Linking woody species diversity with plant available water at a landscape scale in a Brazilian savanna. (2009) (12)
Discharge–calcium concentration relationships in streams of the Amazon and Cerrado of Brazil: soil or land use controlled (2011) (12)
Forms of phosphorus in an oxisol under different soil tillage systems and cover plants in rotation with maize (2014) (12)
As far as the eye can see: Scenic view of Cerrado National Parks (2018) (11)
Unexprected Changes in Soil Phosphorus Dynamics Following Tropical Deforestation to Cattle Pasture (2001) (10)
Chapter 19 - Land Use Change, Air Pollution and Climate Change—Vegetation Response in Latin America (2013) (9)
Determinants of Fire Impact in the Brazilian Biomes (2022) (9)
Characterization of cover crops by NMR spectroscopy: impacts on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus under tillage regimes (2014) (9)
Seasonal Variations in Soil Microbiota Profile of Termite (Syntermes wheeleri) Mounds in the Brazilian Tropical Savanna (2020) (9)
Improving the LPJmL4-SPITFIRE vegetation-fire model for South America using satellite data (2019) (8)
Leaf Litter Decomposition and Nutrient Release Under Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Nitrogen Plus Phosphorus Additions in a Savanna in Central Brazil (2014) (7)
Mapping the stock and spatial distribution of aboveground woody biomass in the native vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado biome (2021) (7)
Corrigendum: The Amazon basin in transition (2012) (6)
Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems (2022) (6)
Long term post-fire recovery of woody plants in savannas of central Brazil (2021) (6)
Improving the LPJmL4-SPITFIRE vegetation–fire model for South America using satellite data (2019) (6)
Long-term liming promotes drastic changes in the composition of the microbial community in a tropical savanna soil (2020) (5)
Are Brazil deforesters avoiding detection? Reply to Richards et al. 2016 (2017) (5)
Seasonal and long-term effects of nutrient additions and liming on the nifH gene in cerrado soils under native vegetation (2021) (5)
Nitrogen oxides emission related to urea broadcasting fertilization under conventional and no-tillage systems (2006) (4)
Assessing deforestation related carbon emission in the Brazilian Savanna based on moderate resolution imagery (2011) (4)
Effects of nutrient addition on polyphenol and nutrient concentrations in leaves of woody species of a savanna woodland in Central Brazil (2019) (4)
Mapping Cerrado physiognomies using Landsat time series based phenological profiles (2015) (4)
Effects of Nutrient Additions on the Diversity of the Herbaceous-Subshrub Layer of a Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado) (2014) (4)
Characterization of Soil Bacterial Assemblies in Brazilian Savanna-Like Vegetation Reveals Acidobacteria Dominance (2012) (4)
Improving the LPJmL 4-SPITFIRE vegetation-fire model for South America using satellite data ” (2019) (4)
The Latin America Regional Nitrogen Centre: Concepts and Recent Activities (2020) (3)
Mapping woody plant community turnover with space‐borne hyperspectral data – a case study in the Cerrado (2018) (3)
Emissions from cattle farming in Brazil (2016) (3)
Nitrogen oxides and CO2 from an Oxisol cultivated with corn in succession to cover crops (2016) (3)
Land Use and Changes in Carbon Budget in the Brazilian Cerrado (2007) (2)
Ten new insights in climate science 2022 (2022) (2)
Nutrient enrichment changes water transport structures of savanna woody plants (2021) (2)
Diversity and Function of Bacterial Assemblages in Savanna Vegetation Soils (2014) (1)
Competition Alters Responses of Juvenile Woody Plants and Grasses to Nitrogen Addition in Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado) (2014) (1)
Feedbacks between land cover and climate changes in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes (2016) (1)
Richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) along a vegetation gradient of Brazilian Cerrado: responses to seasonality, soil types, and plant communities (2022) (1)
Trophic relationships between primary producers and associated fauna in a pristine Cerrado pond (2019) (1)
Spatial planning for restoration in Cerrado: balancing the trade‐offs between conservation and agriculture (2022) (1)
A protocol for expedite and effective retrieval of land conversion information in savanna environments (2011) (0)
LBA-ECO ND-10 Soil Properties of Pasture Chronosequences, Para, Brazil: 1997 (2013) (0)
Soil Emissions of Co2 and Co in Tropical Savannas of Central Brazil Under Different Fire Regimes (2005) (0)
Native and alien herbaceous plants in the Brazilian Cerrado are (co-)limited by different nutrients (2015) (0)
PROTECTED AREAS IN BRAZIL: EVOLUTION, LAND USE AND COVER, AND IMPACT ON EMISSIONS INVENTORY (2020) (0)
Simulating the effect of fire frequency on the vegetation biomass and carbon emissions in the Brazilian savanna: BEFIRE model (2019) (0)
An Integrated Use of Experimental, Modeling and Remote Sensing Techniques to Investigate Carbon and Phosphorus Dynamics in the Humid Tropics (2001) (0)
Soil mesofauna drives litter decomposition under combined nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a Brazilian woodland savanna (2021) (0)
Effects of nutrient additions on plant biomass and diversity of the herbaceous-subshrub layer of a Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) (2012) (0)
From burned vegetation to streams water: fire effects on vegetation resilience and nutrient fluxes (2020) (0)
Ecological research in the Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia : A discussion of early results (2019) (0)
Photochemical effects on NOx and CO emissions in a Brazilian savanna (2001) (0)
Impacts of deforestation and climate change on biodiversity, ecological processes, and environmental adaptation (2021) (0)
Modeling the effects of climate and land use change on carbon and trace gas budgets over the Amazon Region using NASA satellite products. (2007) (0)
Scaling up equivalent water thickness in savanna environments: From local to biome scale, via ground, Hyperion, and MODIS data (2009) (0)
Nutrient resorption and patterns of litter production and 21 . 1034-1043 decomposition in a Neotropical Savanna (0)
Effects of Prescribed Fires on Nitrogen Fluxes in Savanna Formations of Central Brazil (2005) (0)
Mapping Cerrado woody plant traits with spaceborne hyperspectral data (2018) (0)
Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot (2022) (0)
Fire propagation model in the Cerrado Biome (2019) (0)
Modelling dry biomass dynamics in the Cerrado Biome (2019) (0)
Carbon and Nutrient Transfer due to Selective Logging in the Amazon Using Remote Sensing Data. (2003) (0)
Nox and Co Emissions From Soil and Surface Litter in a Brazilian Savanna (2005) (0)
Correction to: Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil (2019) (0)
Structure of Microbial Communities in Native and Converted Savanna Areas of Central Brazil (2005) (0)
A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversity tipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems (2019) (0)
LBA-ECO ND-07 Hydrochemistry of Natural and Developed Land Cover, Brasilia, Brazil (2011) (0)
How Deep Can the Endophytic Mycobiome Go? A Case Study on Six Woody Species from the Brazilian Cerrado (2023) (0)
Fire effects on riparian vegetation recovery and nutrient fluxes in Brazilian Cerrado (2022) (0)
Net Radiation and Albedo from MODIS for Xingu River Basin, Brazil, 2000-2012 (2019) (0)
LBA-ECO ND-07 Trace Gas Fluxes Under Multiple Land Uses, Brazil: 1999-2004 (2011) (0)
pasture grasses invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on (2013) (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)
LBA-ECO ND-07 Nitric Oxide Flux from Cerrado Soils, Brasilia, Brazil: 2004 (2012) (0)
Long-term liming promotes drastic changes in the composition of the microbial community in a tropical savanna soil (2020) (0)
Estimating the Above Ground Biomass of Brazilian Savanna using multi-sensor approach (2020) (0)
Diversity of the Shrub-tree Layer in a Brazilian Cerrado Under Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Nitrogen Plus Phosphorus Addition (2014) (0)
LBA-ECO ND-07 Microbial Biomass in Cerrado Soils, Brasilia, Brazil (2011) (0)
From burned forest to streams water: fire effects on water quality and nutrient fluxes (2019) (0)
Aboveground Woody Biomass Estimation of the Brazilian Cerrado Biome Using Data Integration (2021) (0)
LBA-ECO ND-07 Carbon and Nitrogen in Cerrado Plants and Soils, Brasilia: 1999-2000 (2012) (0)
Species richness both impedes and promotes alien plant invasions in the Brazilian Cerrado (2020) (0)

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