Publications

Peer reviewed publications

Biological Conservation - 2025

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Gomes, V. H. F., Andrino, C. O., Barbosa-Silva, R. G., Acosta, A. L., González-Chaves, A. D., Slätis, J.,

Giannini, T. C. (2025). Food insecurity under global human-induced changes: Plants of the future in the

Amazonian biome. Biological Conservation, 311, 111398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111398

PNAS - 2025

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Correa, S. B., Coronado-Franco, K. V., Jézéquel, C. , Cantarute-Rodrigues, A., Evans, K. O., Granger, J. J., Gomes, V. H. F., et.al. (2025). Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, e2414416122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.241441612

Communications Biology - 2025

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ter Steege, H., Poorter, L., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Fortunel, C., Magnusson, W. E., Phillips, O. L., Pos, E., Luize, B. G., Baraloto, C., Guevara, J. E. Gomes, V. H. F., et.al. (2025). Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests. Communications Biology, 8, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8

Revista Bras. de Edu. Amb. - 2025

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Silva, D. da S. E., Girotto, A. das D. S., Santos, C. B. dos, Paula, W. T., Araujo, F. Rocha de, Gomes, V. H. F.,

Sousa, M, P. A. de. (2025). Interactive panels for the promotion of environmental education and sustainable tourism in the Amazon: a report of the experience in the APA of Ilha do Combu (PA, Brazil). Revista Brasileira de Educação Ambiental, 20, 405-421.

Journal of Biogeography - 2024

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Luize, B. G.; Bauman, D.; ter Steege, H.; Palma‐Silva, C.; do Amaral, I. L. de Souza Coelho; L. ... Gomes, V. H. F. (2024). Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities. Journal of Biogeography, 00, 1–22.. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14816

Nature - 2024

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Cooper, D. L. M.; Lewis, S. L.; Sullivan, M. J. P. Prado, P. I.; ... Gomes, V. H. F. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625, 728–734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

Science - 2023

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Peripato, V.; Levis, C.; Moreira, G. A.; Gamerman, D.; ... Gomes, V. H. F. (2023). More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science, 382 (6666), 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade254

Scientific Reports - 2023

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Pos, E.; de Souza Coelho, L.; de Andrade Lima Filho, D.; ... Gomes, V. H. F. (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Nature Research, 13 (1), 2859. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000156335

Communications Biology - 2023

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ter Steege, H., Pitman, N.C.A., do Amaral, I.L.; ...; Gomes, V. H. F. (2023). Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6, 1130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6

American Journal of Botany - 2023

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ter Steege, Fortes, E. H.; Sabatier, D.; ...; Gomes, V. H. F.; Mota de Oliveira, S. (2023). Molecular phylogeny and evolution of inflorescence types in Eperua. American Journal of Botany, 110(10), e16229. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16229

Current Biology - 2023

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Carvalho, R. L.; Resende, A. F.; Barlow, J.; França, F. M.; ... Gomes, V. H. F. (2023). Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Current Biology, 33(16), 3495-3504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.077

American Journal of Botany - 2023

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Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2023

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Correa, D. F., Stevenson, P. R., Umaña, M. N., Coelho, L. de S., Salomão, R. P.... & Gomes, V. H. F., et al. (2022). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecol Biogeogr_ 32:49- 69. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13596

Scientific Reports - 2020

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Ter Steege, H. Prado, P. I., Lima, R. A. F., Pos, E. Coelho, L. S., Lima Filho, D. A., Salomão, R. P.... & Gomes, V. H. F., et al. (2020). Biased-corrected richness

estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports, 9, 10130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-

020-66686-3

Journal of Biogeography - 2020

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Gomes, V. H. F., Mayle, F. E., Gosling, W. D., Vieira, I. C., Salomão, R. P., & ter Steege, H. (2020). Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long‐term climate change during the Mid‐Late Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47: 1530 -1540. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13833

Nature Climate Change - 2019

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Gomes, V. H. F., Vieira, I. C., Salomão, R. P., & ter Steege, H. (2019). Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change. Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 547-553. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0500-2

Journal of Biogeography - 2020

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Gomes, V. H. F., Mayle, F. E., Gosling, W. D., Vieira, I. C., Salomão, R. P., & ter Steege, H. (2020). Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long-term climate change during the Mid-Late Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47: 1530 - 1540.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13833

Nature Climate Change - 2019

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Scientific Reports - 2019

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Ter Steege, H., Henkel, T. W., Helal, N., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Huth, A., ... & Gomes, V. H. F. (2019). Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Scientific Reports, 9, 13822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9

Scientific Reports - 2018

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Gomes, V. H. F., IJff, S. D., Raes, N., Salomão, R. P., ... & ter Steege, H. (2019). Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8, 1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1

Ecology - 2017

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Ter Steege, H.; Sabatier, D.; Mota de Oliveira, S.;

Magnusson, W. E.; Molino, J. F.; Gomes, V. H. F.; ... & Salomão, R. P. (2017). Estimating species richness in hyper-diverse large tree communities. Ecology, 98(5),

1444-1454. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1813

Boletim do MPEG - 2017

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Salomão, R. P., Santana, A. C., Brienza, S., Gomes, V. H. F. (2012). Análise fitossociológica de floresta tropical primária densa da Amazônia e determinação de espécies-chave através de análise multivariada. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Ciencias Naturais, 7, 57-102.

Scientific Reports - 2019

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