List of works by Jos Barlow

21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

A framework for integrating biodiversity concerns into national REDD+ programmes

A large-scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human-modified Amazonian forests ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of Ecology'

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

scientific article

A multi-region assessment of tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world

A multi-taxa assessment of nestedness patterns across a multiple-use Amazonian forest landscape

A question of dissemination: Assessing the practices and implications of research in tropical landscapes.

scientific article

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

scientific article

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

Allocation of hunting effort by Amazonian smallholders: Implications for conserving wildlife in mixed-use landscapes

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation.

scientific article

Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective

Assessing invertebrate herbivory in human-modified tropical forest canopies

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

Assessing the Importance of Intraspecific Variability in Dung Beetle Functional Traits

scientific article

Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Assessing the utility of statistical adjustments for imperfect detection in tropical conservation science

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon

article

BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Belowground changes to community structure alter methane-cycling dynamics in Amazonia

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production

scientific article published on 29 April 2024

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle-mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment

scientific article published in 2015

Biodiversity and land-use change: understanding the complex responses of an endemic-rich bird assemblage

article

Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon: A multi-scale assessment using ant communities

article published in 2016

Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes

Biodiversity in tropical plantations is influenced by surrounding native vegetation but not yield: A case study with dung beetles in Amazonia

scientific article published in 2019

Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Biotic congruence in humid tropical forests: A multi-taxa examination of spatial distribution and responses to forest disturbance

article

Can Management Improve the Value of Shade Plantations for the Endemic Species of São Tomé Island?

article

Can REDD+ help the conservation of restricted-range island species? Insights from the endemism hotspot of São Tomé ⬇️

scientific article

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

Celebrating the golden jubilee of theJournal of Applied Ecology

scientific article published in 2013

Challenges of Governing Second-Growth Forests: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazonian State of Pará

article

Clarifying Amazonia's burning crisis

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Clarifying the landscape approach: A response to the Editor

scientific article

Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Community structure of dung beetles in Amazonian savannas: role of fire disturbance, vegetation and landscape structure

scientific article published in 2010

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change ⬇️

article

Conservation of Tropical Birds

Constraints on avian seed dispersal reduce potential for resilience in degraded tropical forests

scientific article published on 16 November 2023

Correction: Can REDD+ Help the Conservation of Restricted-Range Island Species? Insights from the Endemism Hotspot of São Tomé. ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Correction: Wildfires in Bamboo-Dominated Amazonian Forest: Impacts on Above-Ground Biomass and Biodiversity.

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Developing Cost-Effective Field Assessments of Carbon Stocks in Human-Modified Tropical Forests

scientific article

Developing evidence-based arguments to assess the pristine nature of Amazonian forests

article

Disentangling the contribution of multiple land covers to fire-mediated carbon emissions in Amazonia during the 2010 drought ⬇️

scientific article

Diversity and composition of Amazonian moths in primary, secondary and plantation forests

article

Diversity and composition of fruit-feeding butterflies in tropical Eucalyptus plantations

article

Do space-for-time assessments underestimate the impacts of logging on tropical biodiversity? An Amazonian case study using dung beetles

scientific article published in 2016

Does the Establishment of Sustainable Use Reserves Affect Fire Management in the Humid Tropics?

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Drought-induced Amazonian wildfires instigate a decadal-scale disruption of forest carbon dynamics

article

Dung beetle community dynamics in undisturbed tropical forests: implications for ecological evaluations of land-use change

Ecological responses of Amazonian forests to El Niño-induced surface fires

article

Ecological responses to el Niño-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests

scientific article

Effects of Single and Recurrent Wildfires on Fruit Production and Large Vertebrate Abundance in a Central Amazonian Forest

article

Effects of ground fires on understorey bird assemblages in Amazonian forests

Effects of surface fires on understorey insectivorous birds and terrestrial arthropods in central Brazilian Amazonia

article

El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes

scientific article published in 2020

Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises

scientific article published on 18 April 2024

Ensuring applied ecology has impact

scientific article published in 2012

Erratum: Corrigendum: Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

scientific article published in Nature

Expert elicitation as a method for exploring illegal harvest and trade of wild meat over large spatial scales

Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Factors affecting the abundance of leaf-litter arthropods in unburned and thrice-burned seasonally-dry Amazonian forests

scientific article

Fertilizer Adoption by Smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon: Farm-level Evidence

article

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

scientific article published on May 2008

Forest loss or management intensification? Identifying causes of mammal decline in cacao agroforests

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance

scientific article published on 11 July 2021

Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Have integrated landscape approaches reconciled societal and environmental issues in the tropics?

scientific article published in April 2017

How Does Hybrid Governance Emerge? Role of the elite in building a Green Municipality in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

article

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

How pristine are tropical forests? An ecological perspective on the pre-Columbian human footprint in Amazonia and implications for contemporary conservation

Hunting for sustainability in tropical secondary forests

scientific article published on October 2009

Identifying thresholds of logging intensity on dung beetle communities to improve the sustainable management of Amazonian tropical forests

Idiosyncratic responses of Amazonian birds to primary forest disturbance

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Improving the design and management of forest strips in human-dominated tropical landscapes: a field test on Amazonian dung beetles

article by Jos Barlow et al published 7 June 2010 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?

article

Land use intensification in the humid tropics increased both alpha and beta diversity of soil bacteria

scientific article

Large Mammals in an Agroforestry Mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

article

Large tree mortality and the decline of forest biomass following Amazonian wildfires

scholarly article by Jos Barlow et al published 13 December 2002 in Ecology Letters

Large-vertebrate assemblages of primary and secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Leaf-litter production in human-modified Amazonian forests following the El Niño-mediated drought and fires of 2015–2016

scientific article

Litter fall and decomposition in primary, secondary and plantation forests in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

MESOCLOSURES - increasing realism in mesocosm studies of ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2015

Management by proxy? The use of indices in applied ecology

article by Philip Stephens et al published 20 January 2015 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Measuring the conservation value of tropical primary forests: the effect of occasional species on estimates of biodiversity uniqueness

scientific article

Mediation of area and edge effects in forest fragments by adjacent land use

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest

article published in 2003

Multi-scale assessment of human-induced changes to Amazonian instream habitats

scientific article published in 2016

Multi‐lingual literature searches are needed to unveil global knowledge ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2023

Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries

scientific article published in 2021

Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles

article by Toby A. Gardner et al published August 2007 in Biological Conservation

Policy instruments to control Amazon fires: A simulation approach

scientific article published in 2017

Predation on artificial caterpillars following understorey fires in human‐modified Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

Predicting the Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest Species in a Data Vacuum

article

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

scientific article

Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world

scientific article

Quantifying immediate carbon emissions from El Niño-mediated wildfires in humid tropical forests

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Quantifying responses of dung beetles to fire disturbance in tropical forests: the importance of trapping method and seasonality

scientific article

Radiotelemetry reveals key data for the conservation of Sheppardia gabela (Rand, 1957) in the Angolan Escarpment forest

scholarly article by Aimy Cáceres et al published 9 March 2016 in African Journal of Ecology

Rainforest metropolis casts 1,000-km defaunation shadow

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Rainforest renewed

scholarly article by Toby Gardner et al published June 2007 in New Scientist

Rainforest-to-pasture conversion stimulates soil methanogenesis across the Brazilian Amazon

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Research effort allocation and the conservation of restricted-range island bird species

article

Road networks predict human influence on Amazonian bird communities

scientific article

Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Shifting Cultivation and Fire Policy: Insights from the Brazilian Amazon

article

Solving environmental problems in the Anthropocene: the need to bring novel theoretical advances into the applied ecology fold

scientific article published in 2017

Spatial and temporal shifts in functional and taxonomic diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified tropical forest landscape

scientific article published in 2018

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

scientific article published in July 2022

Subtle Land-Use Change and Tropical Biodiversity: Dung Beetle Communities in Cerrado Grasslands and Exotic Pastures

article by Sabrina Almeida et al published 8 March 2011 in Biotropica

Surface wildfires in central Amazonia: short-term impact on forest structure and carbon loss

scholarly article by Torbjørn Haugaasen et al published July 2003 in Forest Ecology and Management

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

Testing and optimizing metabarcoding of <scp>iDNA</scp> from dung beetles to sample mammals in the hyperdiverse Neotropics

scientific article published on 22 April 2024

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts ⬇️

scientific article

The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

scientific article

The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests

scientific article

The critical importance of considering fire in REDD+ programs

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

scientific article

The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The value of forest strips for understorey birds in an Amazonian plantation landscape

The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for Amazonian birds

The value of primary, secondary, and plantation forests for Neotropical epigeic arachnids

scientific article published in 2008

The value of primary, secondary, and plantation forests for a neotropical herpetofauna

scientific article

The value of trophic interactions for ecosystem function: dung beetle communities influence seed burial and seedling recruitment in tropical forests.

scientific article published in December 2016

Threatened birds of the Angolan Central Escarpment: distribution and response to habitat change at Kumbira Forest

scholarly article by Aimy Cáceres et al published 10 July 2014 in Oryx

Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas

scientific article

Tough fishing and severe seasonal food insecurity in Amazonian flooded forests

scientific article published in 2020

Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

scientific article

Tree growth and stem carbon accumulation in human-modified Amazonian forests following drought and fire

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Tropical forest fires and biodiversity: dung beetle community and biomass responses in a northern Brazilian Amazon forest

article

Two hundred years of local avian extinctions in eastern Amazonia.

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles

article by Toby A. Gardner et al published 1 November 2007 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Using avian functional traits to assess the impact of land-cover change on ecosystem processes linked to resilience in tropical forests

scientific article published in December 2016

Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon

scientific article

Vertebrate responses to surface wildfires in a central Amazonian forest

article

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

Wildfires in bamboo-dominated Amazonian forest: impacts on above-ground biomass and biodiversity

scientific article

Wildlife Harvest and Consumption in Amazonia's Urbanized Wilderness

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