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  1. Postfire Vegetation Recovery And Spectral Separability Over Amazonian Savanna Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing Time Series And Fuel Loads Measurements

    Article • Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, September 2025, Universidad de la Rioja

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  2. Climate Change May Increase Environmental Suitability of the Babassu Complex (Attalea spp., Arecaceae)

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  3. Tree species occurring in Amazonian wetland forests consistently show broader range sizes and niche breadths than trees in upland forests

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr Tadeu Siqueira, Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  4. Mapping and Monitoring of Water Hyacinth in Lake Victoria Using Polarimetric Radar Data

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  5. IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE VETORES MODIFICADORES DA PAISAGEM NO LITORAL NORTE DE SÃO PAULO DURANTE OS SÉCULOS XX E XXI.

    Article • GEOGRAFIA, September 2023, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  6. Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  7. Spatial distribution and temporal variation of tropical mountaintop vegetation through images obtained by drones

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, February 2023, Frontiers

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  8. How does the fire regime change after creating a protected area in the Brazilian Cerrado?

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  9. A global systematic review of frugivorous animal tracking studies and the estimation of seed dispersal distances

    Article • January 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  10. Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  11. How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, September 2022, Elsevier

    Menaka Revel, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Dr Conrado M Rudorff

  12. The novel mangrove environment and composition of the Amazon Delta

    Article • Current Biology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  13. A framework for near-real time monitoring of diversity patterns based on indirect remote sensing, with an application in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

    Article • PeerJ, June 2022, PeerJ

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  14. High bee functional diversity buffers crop pollination services against Amazon deforestation

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  15. Fires in Amazonian Blackwater Floodplain Forests: Causes, Human Dimension, and Implications for Conservation

    Article • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, December 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  16. Surviving as a young scientist in Brazil

    Article • Science, November 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  17. Human-climate interactions shape fire regimes in the Cerrado of São Paulo state, Brazil

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  18. Revisiting the drivers of acoustic similarities in tropical anuran assemblages

    Article • Ecology, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Tadeu Siqueira, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  19. Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  20. Environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  21. Beta diversity of stream insects differs between boreal and subtropical regions, but land use does not generally cause biotic homogenization

    Article • Freshwater Science, March 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  22. The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  23. Urban expansion and forest reserves: Drivers of change and persistence on the coast of São Paulo State (Brazil)

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  24. Drivers of assemblage‐wide calling activity in tropical anurans and the role of temporal resolution

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr Tadeu Siqueira, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  25. Accuracy and limitations for spectroscopic prediction of leaf traits in seasonally dry tropical environments

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  26. Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  27. Characterization of chlorophyll fluorescence, absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, and reflectance-based vegetation index spectroradiometer measurements

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  28. Spatial heterogeneity and habitat configuration overcome habitat composition influences on alpha and beta mammal diversity

    Article • Biotropica, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  29. A Change-Driven Image Foveation Approach for Tracking Plant Phenology

    Article • Remote Sensing, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  30. Carbon Dioxide Fluxes to the Atmosphere From Waters Within Flooded Forests in the Amazon Basin

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, February 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  31. Monitoring Mega-Crown Leaf Turnover from Space

    Article • Remote Sensing, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  32. Thresholds of fire response to moisture and fuel load differ between tropical savannas and grasslands across continents

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  33. A new era in forest restoration monitoring

    Article • Restoration Ecology, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  34. A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring

    Article • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  35. Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Pixel Classification by Using Convolutional Networks

    Article • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  36. Predicting the potential hybridization zones between native and invasive marmosets within Neotropical biodiversity hotspots

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  37. Leafing Patterns and Drivers across Seasonally Dry Tropical Communities

    Article • Remote Sensing, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  38. Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  39. Beyond the park and city dichotomy: Land use and land cover change in the northern coast of São Paulo (Brazil)

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  40. Spatiotemporal Patterns and Phenology of Tropical Vegetation Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence across Brazilian Biomes Using Satellite Observations

    Article • Remote Sensing, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  41. Phenology and Seasonal Ecosystem Productivity in an Amazonian Floodplain Forest

    Article • Remote Sensing, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  42. Satellite image texture for the assessment of tropical anuran communities

    Article • Biotropica, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  43. Massive tree mortality from flood pulse disturbances in Amazonian floodplain forests: The collateral effects of hydropower production

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  44. Terrestrial Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Review and Perspectives

    Article • BioScience, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  45. Multifrequency and Full-Polarimetric SAR Assessment for Estimating Above Ground Biomass and Leaf Area Index in the Amazon Várzea Wetlands

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  46. Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, July 2018, Wiley

    Mrs Jenny Maria Jyrkankallio-Mikkola, Dr Tadeu Siqueira, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  47. Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  48. The tree species pool of Amazonian wetland forests: Which species can assemble in periodically waterlogged habitats?

    Article • PLOS One, May 2018, PLOS

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  49. Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  50. Drivers of fire occurrence in a mountainous Brazilian cerrado savanna: Tracking long-term fire regimes using remote sensing

    Article • Ecological Indicators, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  51. Semantic segmentation of vegetation images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles using an ensemble of ConvNets

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  52. Land Surface Phenology in the Tropics: The Role of Climate and Topography in a Snow-Free Mountain

    Article • Ecosystems, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  53. Linking plant phenology to conservation biology

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Carlos A. Peres, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  54. Dual-season and full-polarimetric C band SAR assessment for vegetation mapping in the Amazon várzea wetlands

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  55. Reconstructing historical forest cover change in the Lower Amazon floodplains using the LandTrendr algorithm

    Article • Acta Amazonica, March 2016, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  56. A floristic survey of angiosperm species occurring at three landscapes of the Central Amazon várzea, Brazil

    Article • Check List, November 2015, Check List Journal

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  57. The structuring role of free-floating plants on the fish community in a tropical shallow lake: an experimental approach with natural and artificial plants

    Article • Hydrobiologia, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  58. Land cover classification of Lago Grande de Curuai floodplain (Amazon, Brazil) using multi-sensor and image fusion techniques

    Article • Acta Amazonica, June 2015, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  59. Effects of the Flooding Gradient on Tree Community Diversity inVárzeaForests of the Purus River, Central Amazon, Brazil

    Article • Biotropica, February 2015, Wiley

    Mr Bruno G Luize, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  60. Combining ALOS/PALSAR derived vegetation structure and inundation patterns to characterize major vegetation types in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Central Amazon floodplain, Brazil

    Article • Wetlands Ecology and Management, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  61. Empirical models for estimating the suspended sediment concentration in Amazonian white water rivers using Landsat 5/TM

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  62. Identificação da dinâmica espaço-temporal para estimar área cultivada de soja a partir de imagens MODIS no Rio Grande do Sul

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, January 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  63. Responses of aquatic macrophyte cover and productivity to flooding variability on the Amazon floodplain

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  64. A multisensor, multitemporal approach for monitoring herbaceous vegetation growth in the Amazon floodplain

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  65. Monitoring flood extent in the lower Amazon River floodplain using ALOS/PALSAR ScanSAR images

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Conrado M Rudorff, Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  66. Restoration Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Landscape Connectivity under the New Brazilian Forest Act

    Article • Natureza & Conservação, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  67. Classificação orientada a objetos aplicada na caracterização da cobertura da terra no Araguaia

    Article • Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, September 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  68. Spatial - Temporal pattern of forest regeneration in areas deforested in the Eastern Amazon

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  69. Land use and land cover changes determine the spatial relationship between fire and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Article • Applied Geography, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  70. Impact of the 2009 extreme water level variation on phytoplankton community structure in Lower Amazon floodplain lakes

    Article • Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, February 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  71. Assessment of deforestation in the Lower Amazon floodplain using historical Landsat MSS/TM imagery

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  72. Mapping Macrophyte Species in the Amazon Floodplain Wetlands Using Fully Polarimetric ALOS/PALSAR Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  73. Using ALOS/PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 to Map Land Cover and Seasonal Inundation in the Brazilian Pantanal

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  74. Spatial and temporal variability of macrophyte cover and productivity in the eastern Amazon floodplain: A remote sensing approach

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  75. Investigations on the full polarimetric PALSAR data to discriminate macrophytes species in the Amazon floodplain wetland

    Article • July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  76. Assessment of two biomass estimation methods for aquatic vegetation growing on the Amazon Floodplain

    Article • Aquatic Botany, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  77. Annual net primary production of macrophytes in the eastern Amazon floodplain

    Article • Wetlands, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  78. Remote sensing of aquatic vegetation: theory and applications

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

  79. Seasonal variation in the biomass and agar yield from Gracilaria cervicornis and Hydropuntia cornea from Brazil

    Article • Bioresource Technology, April 2001, Elsevier

    Dr. Thiago Sanna Freire Silva