Search Results - "Thiago Sanna Freire Silva"
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Terrestrial Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Review and Perspectives
Published in Bioscience (01-01-2019)“…Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is quickly gaining ground in ecological research, following global trends toward automated data collection and big data…”
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structuring role of free-floating plants on the fish community in a tropical shallow lake: an experimental approach with natural and artificial plants
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-09-2016)“…Free-floating plants are important components of aquatic ecosystems in tropical climates, playing a key role in the structure and spatial distribution of fish…”
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A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring
Published in Remote sensing in ecology and conservation (01-09-2020)“…Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is increasingly popular in ecological research and conservation programs, with high‐volume and long‐term data collection…”
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Dual-season and full-polarimetric C band SAR assessment for vegetation mapping in the Amazon várzea wetlands
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-03-2016)“…This study answered the following questions: 1) Is polarimetric C-band SAR (PolSAR) more efficient than dual-polarization (dual-pol) C-band SAR for mapping…”
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Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-09-2018)“…Aim: Biological diversity typically varies between climatically different regions, and regions closer to the equator often support higher numbers of taxa than…”
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Accuracy and limitations for spectroscopic prediction of leaf traits in seasonally dry tropical environments
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-07-2020)“…Generalized assessments of the accuracy of spectroscopic estimates of ecologically important leaf traits such as leaf mass per area (LMA) and leaf dry matter…”
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The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia
Published in Aquatic conservation (01-05-2021)“…The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River in the 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its…”
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The tree species pool of Amazonian wetland forests: Which species can assemble in periodically waterlogged habitats?
Published in PloS one (29-05-2018)“…We determined the filtered tree species pool of Amazonian wetland forests, based on confirmed occurrence records, to better understand how tree diversity in…”
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Land Surface Phenology in the Tropics: The Role of Climate and Topography in a Snow-Free Mountain
Published in Ecosystems (New York) (01-12-2017)“…Leaf phenology represents a major temporal component of ecosystem functioning, and understanding the drivers of seasonal variation in phenology is essential to…”
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Leafing Patterns and Drivers across Seasonally Dry Tropical Communities
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-10-2019)“…Investigating the timing of key phenological events across environments with variable seasonality is crucial to understand the drivers of ecosystem dynamics…”
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Satellite image texture for the assessment of tropical anuran communities
Published in Biotropica (01-07-2019)“…The relationship between environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity represents a cornerstone of ecological research. While environmental descriptors over…”
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Carbon Dioxide Fluxes to the Atmosphere From Waters Within Flooded Forests in the Amazon Basin
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences (01-03-2020)“…Inundated tropical forests are underrepresented in analyses of the global carbon cycle and constitute 80% of the surface area of aquatic environments in the…”
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Combining ALOS/PALSAR derived vegetation structure and inundation patterns to characterize major vegetation types in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Central Amazon floodplain, Brazil
Published in Wetlands ecology and management (01-02-2015)“…Remote sensing studies of vegetation cover and hydrologic dynamics in Amazonian wetlands have been mostly limited temporally or spatially, and the distribution…”
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Reconstructing historical forest cover change in the Lower Amazon floodplains using the LandTrendr algorithm
Published in Acta amazonica (01-03-2016)“…ABSTRACTThe Amazon várzeas are an important component of the Amazon biome, but anthropic and climatic impacts have been leading to forest loss and interruption…”
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Predicting the potential hybridization zones between native and invasive marmosets within Neotropical biodiversity hotspots
Published in Global ecology and conservation (01-10-2019)“…The human-induced introductions of marmoset species (Callithrix genus) threaten the native species persistence within Brazilian biodiversity hotspots. Invasive…”
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Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-07-2018)“…Humans can alter fire dynamics in grassland systems by changing fire frequency, fire seasonality and fuel conditions. These changes have effects on vegetation…”
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Drivers of fire occurrence in a mountainous Brazilian cerrado savanna: Tracking long-term fire regimes using remote sensing
Published in Ecological indicators (01-07-2017)“…•We reconstructed 31 years of fire occurrence history in a Brazilian mountainous Savanna.•We determined the drivers of temporal and spatial variation in fire…”
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Beyond the park and city dichotomy: Land use and land cover change in the northern coast of São Paulo (Brazil)
Published in Landscape and urban planning (01-09-2019)“…•Forest persistence and urban expansion were the most frequent LULCC processes.•From 1985 to 2015, dense urban use grew 167%, at an annual rate of increase of…”
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Massive tree mortality from flood pulse disturbances in Amazonian floodplain forests: The collateral effects of hydropower production
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-04-2019)“…Large dams built for hydroelectric power generation alter the hydrology of rivers, attenuating the flood pulse downstream of the dam and impacting riparian and…”
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Land cover classification of Lago Grande de Curuai floodplain (Amazon, Brazil) using multi-sensor and image fusion techniques
Published in Acta amazonica (01-06-2015)“…Given the limitations of different types of remote sensing images, automated land-cover classifications of the Amazon várzea may yield poor accuracy indexes…”
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