Publications

2020

Levis, C., Flores, B.M., Mazzochini, G.G. et al. (2020) Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 172–173. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1093-x.

Matos, IS, Flores, BM, Hirota, M, Rosado, BHP. (2020)Critical transitions in rainfall manipulation experiments on grasslands. Ecol Evol.; 10: 2695– 2704. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6072.

Hirota, Marina ; OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL . (2020)Crossing thresholds on the way to ecosystem shifts. SCIENCE (NEW YORK, N.Y.: ONLINE), v. 367, p. 739-740. doi: 10.1126/science.aba7115.

Albarracín, J. F. H.; Oliveira, R. S.; Hirota, M.; DOS SANTOS, J. A. ; TORRES, R. S. (2020) A Soft Computing Approach for Selecting and Combining Spectral Bands. Remote Sensing, v. 12, p. 2267. doi: 10.3390/rs12142267.

2019

Flores, B. M. ; Staal, A.; Jakovac, C.;Hirota, M.; Holmgren, M.; Oliveira, R. S. (2019) Soil erosion as a resilience drain in disturbed tropical forests. Plant and Soil, p. 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-04097-8.

Ciemer, C.; Boers, N.; Hirota, M. et al. (2019) Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall. Nat. Geosci. 12, 174–179. doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0312-z.

N. Menini et al. (2019) “Tucumã: A toolbox for spatiotemporal remote sensing image analysis [Software and Data Sets],” in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 110-122. doi:10.1109/MGRS.2019.2928260.

2018

Levis, C.; Flores, B. M.; Moreira, P. A.; Luize, B. G. ; Alves, R. P.; Franco-Moraes, J.; Lins, J.; Konings, E.; Peña-Claros, M.; Bongers, F.; Costa, F. R. C.; Clement, C. R. (2018) How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, v. 5, p. 171. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00171.

N. Menini et al. (2018) “A Soft Computing Framework for Image Classification Based on Recurrence Plots,” in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 320-324. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2872132.

2017

Zemp, D.; Schleussner, C.; Barbosa, H. et al. (2017) Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks. Nat Commun 8, 14681. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14681.

2016

Flores, B.M., Fagoaga, R., Nelson, B.W. and Holmgren, M. (2016), Repeated fires trap Amazonian blackwater floodplains in an open vegetation state. J Appl Ecol, 53: 1597-1603. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12687

Egbert H. van Nes; Babak M.S. Arani; Arie Staal; Bregje van der Bolt; Bernardo M. Flores; Sebastian Bathiany; Marten Scheffer. (2016) What Do You Mean, ‘Tipping Point’?.Trends in Ecology & Evolution, v. 31, p. 902-904. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.011

Verbesselt, J. ; Umlauf, N.; Hirota, M.; Holmgren, M.; van Nes, E. H. ; Herold, M. ; Zeileis, A.; Scheffer, M. (2016) Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests. Nature Climate Change, 6: 1028-1031. doi: 10.1038/nclimate3108.

Debortoli, N.S.; Dubreuil, V.; Hirota M.; Rodrigues-Filho, S.; Lindoso, D.P.; Nabucet, J. (2016) Detecting deforestation impacts in Southern Amazonia rainfall using rain gauges. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4886.

Dantas, V.L.; Hirota, M.; Oliveira, R.S.; Pausas, J. G. (2016) Disturbance maintains alternative biome states. Ecology Letters, 19(1): 12-19. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12537.

2015

Salazar, A.; Baldi, G.; Hirota, M.; Syktus, J.; McAlpine, C. (2015) Land use and land cover change impacts on the regional climate of non-Amazonian South America: a review. Global and Planetary Change, 128: 103-119, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.02.009.

Staal, A. ; Dekker, S.C. ; Hirota, Marina ; van Nes, E.H. (2015) Synergistic effects of drought and deforestation on the resilience of the south-eastern Amazon rainforest. Ecological Complexity, 22: 65-75, doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2015.01.003.

2014

van Nes, E.H.; Hirota, M.; Holmgren, M.; Scheffer, M. (2014) Tipping points in tropical tree cover: linking theory to data. Glob. Change Biol., 20: 1016-1021, doi: 10.1111/gbc.12398.

2013

Holmgren, M.; Hirota, M.; van Nes, E.H.; Scheffer, M. (2013) Effects of interannual variability on tropical tree cover. Nature Clim. Change, 3: 755-758, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1906.

2012

Scheffer, M.; Hirota, M.; Holmgren, M.; van Nes, E.H.; Chapin III, F.S. (2012) Thresholds for boreal biome transitions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109(52): 21384-9, doi: pnas.1219844110.

2011

Hirota, M; Holmgren, M.; van Nes, E.H.; Scheffer, M. (2011) Global resilience of tropical forest and savanna to critical transitions. Science, 334: 232-235.

Hirota, M.; Oyama, M.D.; Nobre, C. (2011) Concurrent climate impacts of tropical South America land-cover change. Atmos. Sci. Let., 12: 261-267.

2010

Hirota, M.; Nobre, C.; Oyama, M.D.; Bustamante, M.M.C. (2010) The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America. New Phytol., 187(3): 707-719.