Projects per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding how human activities impact tropical forest biodiversity, and the ecosystem services and functions that biodiversity delivers. My work focusses on the Brazilian Amazon, where I have been working since 1998.
I am a co-founder of the Sustainable Amazon Network (Rede Amazônia Sustentável), which brings together scientists, conservation practitioners and local stakeholders to further our understanding of the environmental and socio-economic trade-offs in the world's largest remaining expanse of tropical forest.
I am a Trustee of WWF-UK and chair of the Impact Committee, Lead author & member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the UN’s Science Panel for the Amazon, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Ecology.
Teaching
I teach on a variety of modules within the Ecology and Conservation and Geography undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, using my expertise in tropical forests to illustrate the many tensions between economic development and conservation. I also teach and supervise students on post-graduate courses at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
Contact
Department: Lancaster Environment Centre
Office: LEC Building
Location: LEC 3 - B34
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MC PDF: TROPIC - Thresholds in Rainforest Organisms: a Pan-taxa and Integrated Community approach (Paula Ribeiro Anunciação)
Barlow, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/08/25 → 31/07/27
Project: Research
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Enabling large-scale and climate-resilient forest restoration in the Eastern Amazon
Barlow, J. (Principal Investigator), Gontijo Leal, C. (Co-Investigator) & De Sousa Miranda, L. (Co-Investigator)
1/11/24 → 31/10/27
Project: Research
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Amazon-SOS: a Safe Operating Space for Amazonian Forests
Barlow, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/24 → 31/07/28
Project: Research
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Rainforest Fauna in the Anthropocene: an integrated approach to understanding climate and land use change (RAINFAUNA).
Barlow, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/23 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Amazon PyroCarbon: Quantifying soil carbon responses to fire and climate change (FAPESP)
Barlow, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/07/22 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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Anthropogenic disturbances simplify frugivory interactions in Amazonia
Rossi, L. C., Emer, C., Charles Lees, A., Berenguer, E., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J., França, F. M., Ramos, Y. G., Tavares, P. & Aurelio Pizo, M., 31/07/2025, In: Oikos. 2025, 7, e10831.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework
Reed, J., Barlow, J., Carmenta, R., Fakheran, S., Ickowitz, A. & Sunderland, T., 30/06/2025, In: Conservation Letters. 18, 3, e13104.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Dornelas, M., Antão, L. H., Bates, A. E., Brambilla, V., Chase, J. M., Chow, C. F. Y., Fontrodona‐Eslava, A., Magurran, A. E., Martins, I. S., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Adu‐Acheampong, S., Acquah‐Lamptey, D., Adam, D., Ajani, P. A., Albaina, A., Almaraz, P., An, J., Anderson, R. S. & Anderson, M. J. R. & 465 others, , 31/05/2025, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34, 5, e70003.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Rifai, S. W., Deng, X., ter Steege, H., Thomson, E., Corral-Rivas, J. J., Guimaraes, A. F., Muller, S., Klipel, J., Fauset, S., Resende, A. F., Wallin, G., Joly, C. A., Abernethy, K., Adu-Bredu, S., Alexandre Silva, C., de Oliveira, E. A., Almeida, D. R. A., Alvarez-Davila, E. & Asner, G. P. & 99 others, , 1/05/2025, In: Nature. 641, 8061, p. 129-136 8 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests
McMichael, C. N. H., Bush, M. B., ter Steege, H., Piperno, D. R., Gosling, W. D., Nascimento, M. N., Lombardo, U., de Souza Coelho, L., Leão do Amaral, I., de Almeida Matos, F. D., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Castilho, C. V., Wittmann, F., Guevara-Andino, J. E., Magnusson, W. E., Salomão, R. P., Phillips, O. L., Cardenas Revilla, J. D., Irume, M. V. & Pires Martins, M. & 157 others, , 25/11/2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122, 47, e2514040122.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
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Towards COP30 – Integrated and Participatory Planning for Forest Restoration in Response to the Climate Crisis
De Sousa Miranda, L. (Organiser), Barlow, J. (Organiser) & Ferreira, J. (Organiser)
10/06/2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Fire and the future the the Amazon
Barlow, J. (Speaker)
19/03/2012Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Journal of Applied Ecology (Journal)
Barlow, J. (Editor)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Datasets
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Data from: Listening to tropical forest soils
Metcalf, O. (Creator), Baccaro, F. (Creator), Barlow, J. (Creator), Berenguer, E. (Creator), Bradfer-Lawrence, T. (Creator), Chesini Rossi, L. (Creator), Vale, E. (Creator) & Lees, A. (Creator), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.05qfttf7t, https://zenodo.org/record/8008230
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Avian seed dispersal code
Hatfield, J. (Creator), Banks-Leite, C. (Contributor), Barlow, J. (Creator), Lees, A. (Contributor), Tobias, J. (Contributor), Banks-Leite, C. (Contributor), Barlow, J. (Creator), Lees, A. (Contributor) & Tobias, J. (Contributor), Zenodo, 16/10/2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10008383, https://zenodo.org10008383
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Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: trait-climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities
Pinho, B. (Creator), Tabarelli, M. (Creator), ter Braak, C. (Creator), Wright, S. J. (Creator), Arroyo-Rodriguez, V. (Creator), Benchimol, M. (Creator), Engelbrecht, B. (Creator), Pierce, S. (Creator), Hietz, P. (Creator), Santos, B. (Creator), Peres, C. (Creator), Müller, S. (Creator), Wright, I. (Creator), Bongers, F. (Creator), Lohbeck, M. (Creator), Niinemets, Ü. (Creator), Slot, M. (Creator), Jansen, S. (Creator), Jamelli, D. (Creator), Ferreira de Lima, R. A. (Creator), Swenson, N. (Creator), Condit, R. (Creator), Barlow, J. (Creator), Slik, F. (Creator), Hernández-Ruedas, M. (Creator), Mendes, G. (Creator), Martinez-Ramos, M. (Creator), Pitman, N. C. A. (Creator), Kraft, N. (Creator), Garwood, N. (Creator), Andino, J. (Creator), Faria, D. (Creator), Chacon, E. (Creator), Mariano-Neto, E. (Creator), Junior, V. (Creator), Kattge, J. (Creator) & Melo, F. (Creator), Zenodo, 2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vq83bk3s3, https://zenodo.org/record/5699108
Dataset
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Data from: Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities
Garcia Luize, B. (Creator), Luize, B. (Creator), Bauman, D. (Creator), ter Steege, H. (Creator), Silva, C. P. D. (Creator), Amaral, I. (Creator), Coelho, L. D. S. (Creator), Matos, F. D. D. A. (Creator), Filho, D. D. A. L. (Creator), Salomão, R. (Creator), Wittmann, F. (Creator), Castilho, C. V. (Creator), Carim, M. D. J. V. (Creator), Guevara, J. (Creator), Phillips, O. (Creator), Magnusson, W. (Creator), Sabatier, D. (Creator), Revilla, J. D. C. (Creator), Molino, J.-F. (Creator), Irume, M. V. (Creator), Martins, M. P. (Creator), Guimarães, J. R. D. S. (Creator), Ramos, J. F. (Creator), Bánki, O. S. (Creator), Piedade, M. T. (Creator), López, D. C. (Creator), Pitman, N. (Creator), Demarchi, L. O. (Creator), Schöngart, J. (Creator), Novo, E. M. M. D. L. (Creator), Vargas, P. N. (Creator), Silva, T. (Creator), Venticinque, E. (Creator), Manzatto, A. G. (Creator), Reis, N. F. C. (Creator), Terborgh, J. (Creator), Casula, K. R. (Creator), Honorio Coronado, E. (Creator), Mendoza, A. M. (Creator), Montero, J. C. (Creator), Costa, F. (Creator), Feldpausch, T. (Creator), Quaresma, A. C. (Creator), Arboleda, N. C. (Creator), Zartman, C. (Creator), Killeen, T. J. (Creator), Marimon, B. (Creator), Marimon-Junior, B. H. (Creator), Vasquez, R. (Creator), Mostacedo, B. (Creator), Assis, R. L. (Creator), Baraloto, C. (Creator), Amaral, D. (Creator), Engel, J. (Creator), Petronelli, P. (Creator), Castellanos, H. (Creator), Medeiros, M. B. D. (Creator), Simon, M. (Creator), Andrade, A. (Creator), Camargo, J. L. (Creator), Laurance, W. (Creator), Laurance, S. (Creator), Rincón, L. M. (Creator), Schietti, J. (Creator), Sousa, T. R. D. (Creator), Farias, E. D. S. (Creator), Lopes, M. A. (Creator), Magalhães, J. L. (Creator), Nascimento, H. E. M. (Creator), Queiroz, H. (Creator), Aymard C., G. A. (Creator), Brienen, R. (Creator), Stevenson, P. (Creator), Araujo-Murakami, A. (Creator), Cintra, B. B. L. (Creator), Baker, T. (Creator), Feitosa, Y. O. (Creator), Mogollón, H. (Creator), Duivenvoorden, J. (Creator), Peres, C. (Creator), Silman, M. (Creator), Ferreira, L. (Creator), Lozada, J. R. (Creator), Comiskey, J. (Creator), Toledo, J. J. D. (Creator), Damasco, G. (Creator), Dávila, N. (Creator), Draper, F. (Creator), García-Villacorta, R. (Creator), Lopes, A. (Creator), Vicentini, A. (Creator), Valverde, F. C. (Creator), Alonso, A. (Creator), Arroyo, L. (Creator), Dallmeier, F. (Creator), Gomes, V. (Creator), Jimenez, E. M. (Creator), Neill, D. (Creator), Mora, M. C. P. (Creator), Noronha, J. C. (Creator), Aguiar, D. P. P. D. (Creator), Barbosa, F. R. (Creator), Bredin, Y. K. (Creator), Carpanedo, R. D. S. (Creator), Carvalho, F. A. (Creator), Souza, F. C. D. (Creator), Feeley, K. J. (Creator), Gribel, R. (Creator), Haugaasen, T. (Creator), Hawes, J. (Creator), Pansonato, M. P. (Creator), Paredes, M. R. (Creator), Rodrigues, D. (Creator), Barlow, J. (Creator), Berenguer, E. (Creator), Silva, I. B. D. (Creator), Ferreira, M. J. (Creator), Ferreira, J. (Creator), Fine, P. (Creator), Guedes, M. C. (Creator), Levis, C. (Creator), Licona, J. C. (Creator), Zegarra, B. E. V. (Creator), Vos, V. A. (Creator), Cerón, C. (Creator), Durgante, F. M. (Creator), Fonty, E. (Creator), Henkel, T. (Creator), Householder, J. E. (Creator), Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I. (Creator), Silveira, M. (Creator), Stropp, J. (Creator), Thomas, R. (Creator), Daly, D. (Creator), Milliken, W. (Creator), Molina, G. P. (Creator), Pennington, R. T. (Creator), Vieira, I. (Creator), Albuquerque, B. W. (Creator), Campelo, W. (Creator), Fuentes, A. (Creator), Klitgård, B. (Creator), Pena, J. L. M. (Creator), Tello, J. S. (Creator), Vriesendorp, C. (Creator), Chave, J. (Creator), Di Fiore, A. (Creator), Hilário, R. R. (Creator), Pereira, L. D. O. (Creator), Phillips, J. (Creator), Rivas-Torres, G. (Creator), van Andel, T. (Creator), Hildebrand, P. V. (Creator), Balée, W. (Creator), Barbosa, E. M. (Creator), Bonates, L. C. D. M. (Creator), Doza, H. P. D. (Creator), Gómez, R. Z. (Creator), Gonzales, T. (Creator), Gonzales, G. P. G. (Creator), Hoffman, B. (Creator), Junqueira, A. B. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Miranda, I. P. D. A. (Creator), Pinto, L. F. M. (Creator), Prieto, A. (Creator), Rudas, A. (Creator), Ruschel, A. R. (Creator), Silva, N. (Creator), Vela, C. I. A. (Creator), Zent, S. (Creator), Zent, E. L. (Creator), Cano, Á. (Creator), Márquez, Y. A. C. (Creator), Correa, D. F. (Creator), Costa, J. B. P. (Creator), Flores, B. M. (Creator), Galbraith, D. (Creator), Holmgren, M. (Creator), Kalamandeen, M. (Creator), Lobo, G. (Creator), Montenegro, L. T. (Creator), Nascimento, M. T. (Creator), Oliveira, A. A. (Creator), Pombo, M. M. (Creator), Ramirez-Angulo, H. (Creator), Rocha, M. (Creator), Scudeller, V. (Creator), Umaña, M. N. (Creator), Heijden, G. M. F. V. D. (Creator), Torre, E. V. (Creator), Reategui, M. A. A. (Creator), Baider, C. (Creator), Balslev, H. (Creator), Cárdenas, S. (Creator), Casas, L. F. (Creator), Farfan Rios, W. (Creator), Ferreira, C. (Creator), Linares-Palomino, R. (Creator), Mendoza, C. (Creator), Mesones, I. (Creator), Parada, G. A. (Creator), Torres-Lezama, A. (Creator), Giraldo, L. E. U. (Creator), Villarroel, D. (Creator), Zagt, R. (Creator), Alexiades, M. N. (Creator), Oliveira, E. (Creator), Garcia Cabrera, K. (Creator), Hernandez, L. (Creator), Palacios Cuenca, W. (Creator), Pansini, S. (Creator), Pauletto, D. (Creator), Arevalo, F. R. (Creator), Sampaio, A. F. (Creator), Sandoval, E. H. V. (Creator), Gamarra, L. V. (Creator) & Dexter, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 7/03/2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q573n5tqm, https://zenodo.org10794158
Dataset
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Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire
Staver, A. C. (Creator), Brando, P. M. (Creator), Barlow, J. (Creator), Morton, D. C. (Creator), Paine, C. E. T. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Araujo Murakami, A. (Creator) & Pasquel, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tht76hdv9, https://zenodo.org/record/5023606
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