Rafael S. Oliveira

Research interests

Publications

• Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

  Nature · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0

• Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

  Science · 2022 · 10.1126/science.abo3856

• Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00272-1

• Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 10.1073/pnas.2003405118

• Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

  New Phytologist · 2021 · 10.1111/nph.17266

• Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

  Global Change Biology · 2021 · 10.1111/gcb.15872

• Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests

  Nature Communications · 2021 · 10.1038/s41467-021-22378-8

• Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

  New Phytologist · 2020 · 10.1111/nph.16419

• Higher resilience to climatic disturbances in tropical vegetation exposed to more variable rainfall

  Nature Geoscience · 2019 · 10.1038/s41561-019-0312-z

• Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

  Nature Geoscience · 2018 · 10.1038/s41561-018-0133-5

• Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest

  Journal of Ecology · 2018 · 10.1111/1365-2745.13022

• Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro‐topographic gradients

  New Phytologist · 2018 · 10.1111/nph.15463

• Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest

  New Phytologist · 2018 · 10.1111/nph.15206

• Disturbance maintains alternative biome states

  Ecology Letters · 2015 · 10.1111/ele.12537

• Ecology and evolution of plant diversity in the endangered campo rupestre: a neglected conservation priority

  Plant and Soil · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2637-8

• Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15539

• Convergence of soil nitrogen isotopes across global climate gradients

  Scientific Reports · 2015 · 10.1038/srep08280

• Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency

  Trends in Plant Science · 2014 · 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.007

• Mineral nutrition of campos rupestres plant species on contrasting nutrient‐impoverished soil types

  New Phytologist · 2014 · 10.1111/nph.13175

• Foliar uptake of fog water and transport belowground alleviates drought effects in the cloud forest tree species, D rimys brasiliensis ( W interaceae)

  New Phytologist · 2013 · 10.1111/nph.12248

• The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

  Journal of Climate · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1175/2007jcli1600.1

• Nighttime transpiration in woody plants from contrasting ecosystems

  Tree Physiology · 2007 · 10.1093/treephys/27.4.561

• Root functioning modifies seasonal climate

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 10.1073/pnas.0508785102

• Deep root function in soil water dynamics in cerrado savannas of central Brazil

  Functional Ecology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.01003.x

• Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

  Oecologia · 2005 · 10.1007/s00442-005-0108-2

Current projects

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