Publications

2023

93. Li Y, Baker JC, Brando PM, Hoffman FM, Lawrence DM, Morton DC, Swann AL, Uribe MD***, Randerson JT (2023) Future increases in Amazonia water stress from CO2 physiology and deforestation. Nature Water. 31:1-9.

92. Maracahipes-Santos L, Silvério DV, Maracahipes L***, Macedo MN, Lenza E, Jankowski KJ, Wong MY, Silva AC, Neill C, Durigan G, Brando PM (2023) Intraspecific trait variability facilitates tree species persistence along riparian forest edges in Southern Amazonia. Scientific Reports. 1;13(1):12454.

91. Carvalho RL, Resende AF, Barlow J, França FM, Moura MR, Maciel R, Alves-Martins F, Shutt J, Nunes CA, Elias F, Silveira JM et al. (2023) Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Current Biology.

90. Uribe M***, Coe M, Castanho A, Macedo M, Valle D, Brando PM (2023) Net Loss of Biomass Predicted for Tropical Biomes in a Changing Climate. Nature Climate Change.

2022

89. Banerjee O, Cicowiez M, Macedo MN, Malek Ž, Verburg PH, Goodwin S, Vargas R, Rattis L, Bagstad KJ, Brando PM, Coe MT (2022) Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs. Environmental Research Letters. 2022 Dec 2;17(12):125005.

88. Shuman J, Balch JK, Barnes RT, Higuera PE, Roos CI, Schwilk DW, Stavros EN, Banerjee T, Bela MM, Bendix J, Bertolino S, Bililign S, Bladon KD, Brando PM, Breidenthal RE, Buma B, Calhoun D, Carvalho LMV, Cattau ME, Cawley KM, Chandra S, Chipman ML, Cobian-Iñiguez J, Conlisk E, Coop JD, Cullen A, Davis KT, Dayalu A, Sales FD, Dolman M, Ellsworth LM, Franklin S, Guiterman CH, Hamilton M, Hanan EJ, Hansen WD, Hantson S, Harvey BJ, Holz A, Huang T, Hurteau MT, Ilangakoon NT, Jennings M, Jones C, Klimaszewski-Patterson A, Kobziar LN, Kominoski J, Kosovic B, Krawchuk MA, Laris P, Leonard J, Loria-Salazar SM, Lucash M, Mahmoud H, Margolis E, Maxwell T, McCarty JL, McWethy DB, Meyer RS, Miesel JR, Moser WR, Nagy RC, Niyogi D, Palmer HM, Pellegrini A, Poulter B, Robertson K, Rocha A, Sadegh M, Santos F, Scordo F, Sexton JO, Sharma AS, Smith AMS, Soja AJ, Still C, Swetnam T, Syphard AD, Tingley MW,  Tohidi A, Trugman AT, Turetsky M, Varner MJ, Wang Y, Whitman T, Yelenik S, Zhang X (2022) Reimagine Fire Science for the Anthropocene. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), p.pgac115.

87. Rodrigues AA, Macedo MN, Silverio DV, Maracahipes L, Coe M, Brando PM, Shimbo JZ, Rajão R, Soares-Filho B, Bustamante M (2022) Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16386

86. Andela N, Morton DC, Schroeder, Chen Y, Brando PM, Randerson J (2022) Tracking and classifying Amazon fire events in near-real time. Science Advances. 29;8(30):eabd2713.

85. Queiroz EA, Schoereder JH, Cornelissen TG, Brando PM, Maracahipes L, Paolucci L (2022). Biotropica. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13129

84. ***Ribeiro AF, Brando PM, Santos L, Rattis L, Hirschi M, Hauser M, Seneviratne SI, Zscheischler J (2022) A compound event-oriented framework to tropical fire risk assessment in a changing climate. Environmental Research Letters 17 065015.

83. Li Y, Brando PM, Morton DC, Lawrence DM, Yang H, Randerson JT. Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests (2022) Nature communications. 12;13(1):1-3.

82. Valle D, Silva CA, Longo M, Brando PM (2022) The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model applied to airborne LiDAR data: A case study on mapping forest degradation associated with fragmentation and fire in the Amazon region. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13, no. 6 (2022): 1329-1342.

81. Silvério DV, Oliveira RS, Flores BM, Brando PM, Almada HK, Furtado MT, Moreira FG, Heckenberger M, Ono KY, Macedo MN. (2022) Intensification of fire regimes and forest loss in the Território Indígena do Xingu. Environmental Research Letters. 21;17(4):045012.

2021

80. Rattis L, Brando PM, Macedo MN, Spera SA, Castanho AD, Marques EQ, Costa NQ, Silverio DV, Coe MT (2021) Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil. Nature Climate Change. 11(12):1098-104.

79. Feng X, Merow C, Liu Z, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Maitner B, Newman EA, Boyle BL, Lien A, Burger JR, Pires MM, Brando PM, Bush MB, McMichael CNH, Neves DM, Nikopoulos EI, Saleska S, Hannah L, Breshears D, Evans T, Soto JR, Ernst KC, Enquist B (2021) How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity. Nature. 597(7877):516-21.

78. Martin MA, Sendra OA, Bastos A, Bauer N, Bertram C, Blenckner T, Bowen K, Brando PM, Rudolph TB, Büchs M, Bustamante M, Chen D, Cleugh H, Dasgupta P, Denton F, Donges FJ, Donkor FK, Duan H, Duarte CM, Ebi KL, Edwards CM, Engel A, Fisher E, Fuss S, Gaertner J, Gettelman A, Girardin CAJ, Golledge NR, Green JF, Grose MR, Hashizume M, Hebden S, Hepach H, Hirota M, Hsu HH, Kojima S, Lele S, Lorek S, Lotze HK, Matthews HD, McCauley D, Mebratu D, Mengis N, Nolan RH, Pihl E, Rahmstorf S, Redman A, Reid CE, Rockström J, Rogelj J, Saunois M, Sayer L, Schlosser P, Sioen GB, Spangenberg JH, Stammer D, Sterner TNS, Stevens N (2021) Ten new insights in climate science 2021–a horizon scan. Global Sustainability. Oct 18:1-39.

77. Silva Junior CH, Carvalho NS, Pessôa A, Reis JB, Pontes-Lopes A, Doblas J, Heinrich V, Campanharo W, Alencar A, Silva C, Lapola DM, Armenteras D, Matricardi EAT, Berenguer E, Cassol H, Numata I, House J, Ferreira J, Barlow J, Gatti L, Brando PM, Fearnside PM, Saatchi S, Silva S, Sitch S, Aguiar AP, Silva CA, Vancutsem C, Achard F, Beuchle R, Shimabukuro YE, Anderson LO, Aragão LEOC (2021)Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda. Nature Geoscience. 14(9):634-5.

76. Herrera‐Ramírez D, Sierra CA, Römermann C, Muhr J, Trumbore S, Silvério D, Brando PM, Hartmann H (2021) Starch and lipid storage strategies in tropical trees relate to growth and mortality. New Phytologist. 230(1):139-54.

75. Valle D, Shimizu G, Izbicki R, Maracahipes L, Silverio DV, Paolucci LN, Jameel Y, Brando PM (2021) The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model with covariates (LDAcov): A case study on the effect of fire on species composition in Amazonian forests. Ecology and Evolution.

74. da Silva SS, Oliveira I, Morello TF, Anderson LO, Karlokoski A, Brando PM, de Melo AW, da Costa JG, de Souza FS, da Silva IS, de Souza Nascimento E. Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019 (2021) J. of Environmental Management. 15;286:112189.

73. Kruid S, Macedo MN, Gorelik S, Walker W, Moutinho PR, Brando PM, Castanho AA, Baccini A, Alencar AA, Coe MT (2021) Beyond deforestation: carbon emissions from land grabbing and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4:105.

2021

72. da Silva SS, Oliveira I, Morello TF, Anderson LO, Karlokoski A, Brando PM, de Melo AW, da Costa JG, de Souza FS, da Silva IS, de Souza Nascimento E. Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019 (2021) Journal of Environmental Management. 15;286:112189.

71. Herrera‐Ramírez D, Sierra CA, Römermann C, Muhr J, Trumbore S, Silvério D, Brando PM, Hartmann H (2021) Starch and lipid storage strategies in tropical trees relate to growth and mortality. New Phytologist. 2021 Apr;230(1):139-54.

2020

70. Longo M, Saatchi S, Keller M, Bowman K, Ferraz A, Moorcroft PR, Morton DC, Bonal D, Brando PM, Burban B,  Derroire G (2020) Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2020JG005677.

69. Cury RT, Balch JK, Brando PM, Andrade RB, Scervino RP, Torezan JM (2020) Higher fire frequency impaired woody species regeneration in a south-eastern Amazonian forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology

68. Cury R, Montibeller-Santos C, Balch JK, Brando PM,  Torezan JM (2020) Effects of Fire Frequency on Seed Sources and Regeneration in Southeastern Amazonia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3: 82.

67. Brando PM, Macedo M, Silvério D, Rattis L, Paolucci L, Alencar A, Coe M,  Amorim C (2020) Amazon wildfires: Scenes from a foreseeable disaster. Flora, p.151609.

66. McLauchlan, Kendra K., et al.  (2020) Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology.

65. Castanho AD., Coe MT, Brando PM, Macedo M, Baccini A, Walker W, Andrade EM (2020) Potential shifts in the aboveground biomass and physiognomy of a seasonally dry tropical forest in a changing climate. Environmental Research Letters15(3), p.034053.

64. Caioni C, Silvério DV, Macedo MN, Coe MT, Brando PM (2020) Droughts Amplify Differences Between the Energy Balance Components of Amazon Forests and Croplands. Remote Sens.12, 525.

63. Brando PM, Soares-Filho B, Rodrigues L, et al. (2020) The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia. Science Advances.

62. Staver AC, Brando PM, Barlow J, Morton DC, Paine CT, Malhi Y , Araujo Murakami A, Pasquel J (2019), Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.13409


2019

61. Brando PM, Paolucci L, Ummenhofer C, Ordway E, Hartmann H, Cattau M, Rattis L, Medjibe V, Coe M, Balch J (2019) Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: a Pantropical Synthesis. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

60. Wong MY, Neill C, Marino R,1 Silvério DV, Brando PM,  Howarth RW (2019). Biological nitrogen fixation does Not replace nitrogen losses after forest fires in the southeastern Amazon. Ecosystemsdoi: 10.1007/s10021-019-00453-y

59. Costa MH, Fleck LC,  Cohn AS, Abrahão GM, Brando PM,  Coe MT, Rong Fu et al. (2019) Climate risks to Amazon agriculture suggest a rationale to conserve local ecosystemsFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2124

58. Brando PM, Silverio D, Maracahipes L, Oliveira-Santos C, Levick S, Coe M, Migliavacca M, Balch J, Macedo M, Nepstad D, Maracahipes L, Davidson E, Asner G, Kolle O, Trumbore S (2019). Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes. Global Change Biology, 25(9), 2855-2868.

57. Silvério DV, Brando PM, Bustamante MM, Putz FE, Marra DM, Levick SR, Trumbore SE (2019) Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: A recipe for tropical forest degradation. Journal of Ecology. V.106 p.1.1

56. Nóbrega CC, Brando PM, Silvério DV, Maracahipes L, de Marco Jr P (2019). Effects of experimental fires on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of woody species in a neotropical forest.Forest Ecology and Management,450, 117497.

55. Conte L, Renner M, Brando PM, dos Santos C, Silverio D, Kolle O, Trumbore S, Kleidon A (2019) Effects of tropical deforestation on surface energy balance partitioning in southeastern Amazonia estimated from maximum convective power. Geophysical Research Letters.

54. Paolucci L, Liberio R, Rattis L, Silverio D, Marques N, Macedo M, Brando PM (2019) Lowland tapirs facilitate seed dispersal in Amazon degraded forests. Biotropica.


2018

53. Brando PM (2018) Tree height matters. Nature Geoscience.

52. Rifai SW, Girardin CA, Berenguer E, del Aguila-Pasquel J, Dahlsjö CA., Doughty CE., Jeffery KJ, Moore S, Oliveras I, Riutta T, Rowland LM et al. (2018) ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1760), p.20170410.

51. Nagy R Porder S, Brando PM, Davidson EA, Neill C., Riskin S, Trumbore S (2018) Soil carbon dynamics in soybean cropland and forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(1), 18-31.

50. Berengue E, Malhi Y, Brando PM, Cardoso Nunes Cordeiro A, Ferreira J, França F, Chesini Rossi L, Maria Moraes de Seixas M, Barlow J (2018) Tree growth and stem carbon accumulation in human-modified Amazonian forests following drought and fire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1760), p.20170308.

49. McDowell N, Allen CD., Anderson‐Teixeira, K, Brando PM, Brienen R, Chambers J, et. al. (2018) Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests. New Phytologist.

48. Metcalfe DB, Rocha W, Balch JK, Brando PM, Doughty CE, Malhi Y (2018) Impacts of fire on sources of soil CO2 efflux in a dry Amazon rain forest. Global Change Biology.

47. Domingues TF, Ometto JP., Nepstad DC, Brando PM, Martinelli LA, Ehleringer JR (2018) Ecophysiological plasticity of Amazonian trees to long-term drought. Oecologia, 187(4), pp.933-940.


2017

46. Coe MT, Brando PM, Deegan LA, Macedo MN, Neill C, Silvério DV (2017) The forests of the Amazon and Cerrado moderate regional climate and are the key to the future. Tropical Conservation Science. 10:1940082917720671.

45. Paolucci L, Schoerederc J, Brando PM, Andersen A (2017) Fire-induced forest transition to derived savannas: Cascading effects on ant communities. Biological Conservation. 214, 295-302

44. De Faria BL, Brando PM, Macedo M, Panday P, Soares-Filho B, Coe M. Current and future patterns of fire-induced forest degradation in Amazonia (2017 ) Environmental Research Letters.

43. Neill C, Jankowski K, Brando PM, Coe MT, Deegan L,  Macedo M, Riskin S, Porder S, Elsenbeer H, and Krusche A (2017) Surprisingly Modest Water Quality Impacts From Expansion and Intensification of Large-Sscale Commercial Agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon-Cerrado Region. Tropical Conservation Science 10: 1940082917720669.

​42. de Andrade RB, Balch JK, Carreira JY, Brando PM, Freitas AV (2017). The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 33(1), 22-32.


2016

41. Wu J, et al (2016) Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests. Science 351.6276 (2016): 972-976.

40. Brando PM, Oliveria‐Santos C, Rocha W, Cury R, Coe MT (2016) Effects of experimental fuel additions on fire intensity and severity: unexpected carbon resilience of a neotropical forest. Global Change Biology.

39. Coe MT, Macedo MN, Brando PM, Lefebvre P, Panday P, Silvério D (2016). The hydrology and energy balance of the Amazon basin. In Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin (pp. 35-53). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.


2015

38. Duffy PB, Brando PM, Asner GP, Field CB (2015). Projections of future meteorological drought and wet periods in the Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(43), 13172-13177.

37. Silvério D, Brando PM, Macedo MN, Beck PS, Bustamante M, Coe MT (2015). Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: the overlooked non-GHG forcing. Environmental Research Letters, 10(10), 104015.

36. Trumbore S, Brando PM, Hartmann H (2015) Forest health and global change. Science, 394(6250), 814-818.

35. Meir P, Wood TE, Galbraith D, Brando PM, Da Costa A, Rowland L, Ferreira LV. Threshold responses to soil moisture deficit by trees and soil in tropical rain forests: insights from field experiments. BioScience 65, no. 9 (2015): 882-892.

34. Nagy C, Porder S, Neil C, Brando PM, Quintino R, do Nascimento R (2015). Structure and Composition of Altered Riparian Forests in an Agricultural Amazonian Landscape. Ecological Applications.

33. Balch J, Brando PM, Nepstad D, Coe M, Silvério D, Massad T, Davidson E, Lefebvre P, Oliveira-Santos C, Rocha W, Cury R, Thissel A, Carvalho K (2015) The Tolerance and susceptibility of southeastern Amazon forest to fire: insights from large-scale experimental burns. Bioscience.

32. Alencar AAC, Brando PM, Asner GP, Putz FE (2015) Landscape Fragmentation, Severe Drought and the New Amazon Forest Fire Regime. Ecological Applications:150123115009002–38.

31. Malhi, Yadvinder, et al. (2015) The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology.

30. Massad TJ, Balch J, Mews C, Porto P, Marimon Junior BH, Quintino R, Brando PM, Vieira S, Trumbore S. (2015) Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon. Oecologia 1-11.


2014

29. Brando PM, Balch JK, Nepstad D, Morton D, Putz FE, Coe MT, Silvério D, Macedo M et al. (2014) Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1305499111

28. Nepstad D, McGrath D, Stickler C, Alencar A, Azevedo A, Swette B, Bezerra T, DiGiano M, Shimada J, Seroa da Motta R, Armijo E, Castello L, Brando PM, et al. (2014). Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains. Science, 344(6188), 1118–1123. doi:10.1126/science.1248525


2013

27. Silvério DV, Brando PM, Balch JK, Putz FE, Nepstad DC, Oliveira-Santos C, Bustamante MM (2013) Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368(1619).

26. Brando PM, Coe MT, DeFries R, Andrea AA (2013) Ecology, economy and management of an agroindustrial frontier landscape in the southeast Amazon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1619.

25. Rocha W, Metcalfe DB, Doughty CE, Brando PM, Silverio D, Halladay K, Nepstad DC, J. K. Balch Malhi Y. 2013. Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil). Plant Ecology & Diversity 7:1–16.

24. Balch JK, Massad TJ, Brando PM, Nepstad DC, Curran LM. 2013. Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368:20120157.

23. Powell TL, Galbraith DR, Christoffersen BO, Harper A, Imbuzeiro HMA, Rowland L, Almeida S, Brando PM, da Costa ACL, Costa MH, Levine NM, Malhi Y, Saleska SR, Sotta E, Williams M, Meir P, Moorcroft PR. 2013. Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought. New phytologist 200:350–365.

22. Macedo MN, Coe MT, DeFries R, Uriarte M, Brando PM, Neill C, Walker WS. 2013. Land- use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368:20120153–20120153.


2012

21. Soares-Filho B, Silvestrini R, Nepstad D, Brando PM, Rodrigues H, Alencar A, Coe M, et al. (2012). Forest fragmentation, climate change and understory fire regimes on the Amazonian landscapes of the Xingu headwaters. Landscape Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10980-012-9723-6

20. Brando PM, Nepstad DC, Balch JK, Bolker B, Christman MC, Coe M, Putz FE (2012) Fire- induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density, and fire behavior. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j. 1365-2486.2011

19. Massad T, Davidson Eric, Balch JK, Brando PM, Mews C, Vieira S, Marimon Junior BH, Trumbore S (2012) Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon. Oecologia 172.1 (2013): 219-229.


2011

18. *Lewis SL, Brando PM, Phillips OL, Heijden GMF van der, Nepstad D (2011) The 2010 Amazon drought. Science 331:554. *These two authors contributed equally to the work

17. Sakaguchi, K, Xubin Z, Bradley C, Restrepo-Coupe N, Saleska SR, Brando PM (2011) Natural and drought scenarios in an east central Amazon forest: Fidelity of the Community Land Model 3.5 with three biogeochemical models. Journal of Geophysical Research.

16. Balch JK, Nepstad DC, Curran LM, Brando PM, Portela O, Guilherme P, Reuning-Scherer JD, Carvalho Jr. O de (2011) Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 261:68-77.


2010

15. Balch J, Nepstad D, Brando PM, Alencar A. 2010. Comment on “The Incidence of Amazon Fire with Implications for REDD”. Science 330, 1627.

14. Brando PM, Goetz SJ, Baccini A, Nepstad DC, Beck PSA, Christman MC (2010) Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:14685.

13. Markewitz D, Devine S, Davidson E, Brando PM, Nepstad DC (2010) Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake. New Phytologist 187:592-607.

12. Davidson E, Lefebvre P, Brando PM et al. (2010) Carbon Inputs and Water Uptake in Deep Soils of an Eastern Amazon Forest. Forest Science.

11. Ray D, Nesptad D, Brando PM (2010) Moisture Dynamics of Leaf Litter in a Moist Tropical Rainforest System: Linking Easily Obtained Measures with Fire Danger. New Phytologist.


2009

10. Phillips O, Aragao L, Fisher J, Lewis S, Lloyd J, Gonzalez G, Malhi Y, Monteagudo A, Peacock J, Quesada C, van der Heijden G, Almeida S, Amaral I, Arroyo L, Aymard G, Baker T, Banki O,Blanc L, Bonal D, Brando PM et al. (2009) Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science.

9. Malhi Y, Aragao L, Metcalfe D, Patinho S, Quesada A, Almeida S, Anderson L, Brando PM et al (2009) Comprehensive Assessment of Carbon Productivity, Allocation and Storage in Three Amazonian Forests. Global Change Biology, 15, 1255–1274.

8. Meir P, Brando PM et al. (2009) The effects of drought on Amazonian rainforests, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., doi:10.1029/2008GM000882.

7. Gloor E et al. (2009) Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology. 15, 2418–2430.


2008

6. Brando PM, Nepstad D, Davidson E, Trumbore S, Ray D, Camargo P (2008) Drought Effects on Litterfall, Wood Production, and Belowground Carbon Cycling in an Amazon Forest: Results of a Throughfall Reduction Experiment. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 363, 1839-1848.

5. Balch JK, Nepstad DC, Brando PM, Curran LM, Portela O, de Carvalho O, & LefebvreP (2008). Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia. Global Change Biology, 14(10), 2276-2287. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01655.x

4. Davidson E, Nepstad D, Ishida I, Brando PM (2008) Effects of an Experimental Drought and Recovery on Soil Emissions of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and Nitric Oxide in a Moist Tropical Forest. Global Change Biology, 14, 2582-2590.


2006 & earlier

3. Brando PM, Ray D, Nepstad D, Cardinot G, Curran L, Oliveira R (2006) Effects of Partial Throughfall Exclusion on the Phenology of Coussarea racemosa (Rubiaceae) in an East- Central Amazon Rainforest. Oecologia, 150, 181-189.

2. Brando PM & Durigan G (2004) Changes in Cerrado Vegetation after Disturbance by Frost (São Paulo State, Brazil). Plant Ecology 175:205-215.1

1. Brando PM & Durigan G. (2002) Época de maturação dos frutos, beneficiamento e germinação de sementes de espécies lenhosas do cerrado. Boletim do Herbário Ezechias Paulo Heringer, Brasilia