I'm currently a Senior Researcher at JBRJ and I volunteer as a teacher in postgraduate and undergraduate courses. My main interests are biology and ecology, with a focus on tropical forest ecology and anthropogenic impacts on the biosphere. Habitat fragmentation and extinction, ecological restoration and issues related to the Anthropocene are central topics in my work, which led us to propose in 2019 the concept of the Bio-evolutionary Anthropocene (see , where we explore the role of humanity and novel organisms in biosphere transformation. pablojfpr@
EDUCATION
I graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1995, obtained a Master's degree in Ecology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Biosciences and Biotechnology from the State University of Norte Fluminense in 2004. I started at the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro (JBRJ) in 2002 through a public selection process. I was Coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Programme from 2004 to 2008 and Coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Biome Biodiversity Project/JBRJ/MCTI/MMA from 2009 to 2014.
Ecosystems in the Anthropocene: transformative drivers CGMC Guimaraes, PJFP Rodrigues arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08656 , 2026 2026
Assessing Atlantic Forest successional stages using remote sensing F Zuñe, PJFP Rodrigues, ATA Rodarte, AF Costa, CM Sakuragui, ... Acta Botanica Brasilica 39, e20240217 , 2025 2025
What Anthropocene Do We Want? M da Silva Pinheiro, PJFP Rodrigues Anthropocene Science , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Anthropogenic pressure and protected areas in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Serra da Tiririca State Park process and patterns F Zuñe, PJFP Rodrigues, CM Sakuragui, AF Costa, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... Biota Neotropica 25 (2), e20241658 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests J Aguirre-Gutiérrez, SW Rifai, X Deng, H Ter Steege, E Thomson, ... Nature 641 (8061), 129-136 , 2025 2025 Citations: 34
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests MJP Sullivan, OL Phillips, D Galbraith, E Almeida, EA de Oliveira, ... Nature Communications 16 (1), 2351 , 2025 2025 Citations: 17
Let the Transformative Anthropocene Be Positive! PJF Pena Rodrigues, CF Lira https://www.qeios.com/read/DJ3TP4.2 1 (1) , 2025 2025
Pressão antrópica e áreas protegidas na Mata Atlântica brasileira: processos e padrões do Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca F Zuñe, PJFP Rodrigues, CM Sakuragui, AF Costa, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... Biota Neotropica 25, e20241658 , 2025 2025
Disentangling the veil line for Brazilian biodiversity: An overview from two long-term research programs reveals huge gaps in ecological data reporting AF Guimaraes, LC de Alagao Querido, T Rocha, D de Jesus Rodrigues, ... Science of the Total Environment 950, 174880 , 2024 2024 Citations: 19
The Goldilocks Dilemma: the optimal management strategy for invasive trees in the Atlantic Forest RCR Abreu, PJFP Rodrigues Biological Invasions 26 (10), 3445-3454 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Leonardo Bona do Nascimento1, 5, Arno Fritz das Neves Brandes2, 13, Glaucia Crispim Ferreira1, 6, Rafael Perpetuo Albuquerque1, 7, Beatriz França Borja1, 8, Warlen Silva da … FF de Negreiros, HC de Lima, CF Barros Rodriguésia 75, e01372023 , 2024 2024
Estimating tree aboveground biomass in an Atlantic Forest remnant using different modeling methods F Zuñe, P RODRIGUES, NG Silva, C Rojas-Idrogo, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... Journal of Environmental Analysis and Progress 9 (4), 325-339 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Montane forest tree species have lower hydraulic efficiency and vulnerability than lowland forest species in the Atlantic Forest LB Nascimento, AFN Brandes, GC Ferreira, RP Albuquerque, BF Borja, ... Rodriguésia 75, e01372023 , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
Active Deep Learning for Seismic Facies Classification N Costa, P Rodrigues, L Oliveira First EAGE Conference on Deepwater Equatorial Margin: New Energy Frontier … , 2023 2023
Tree structure and composition of a coastal remnant of the Atlantic forest in Rio de Janeiro. F Zuñe-da-Silva, PJFP Rodrigues, C Rojas-Idrogo, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... 2023 Citations: 3
The Harvesting of the Endangered Palm Euterpe edulis in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: The Case of Linear Canopy Openings PJFP Rodrigues, M de Andrade Iguatemy, T Reis Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 11, 151-162 , 2023 2023
Are liana communities in linear canopy openings subject to edge effects? BC Miranda, JBB Sansevero, TA Amorim, PJFP Rodrigues, ... Plant Ecology 223 (8), 1023-1034 , 2022 2022 Citations: 4
Edge influence over functional tree traits in an atlantic forest remnant F Zuñe-da-Silva, PJFP Rodrigues, C Rojas-Idrogo, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... Revista Árvore 46, e4603 , 2022 2022 Citations: 9
Influence of fire on edge vegetation in an Atlantic forest remnant in Brazil. F Zune-da-Silva, PJFP Rodrigue, C Rojas-Idrogo, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... 2022 Citations: 3
Influência das bordas sobre características funcionais das árvores em um remanescente de mata atlântica F Zuñe-da-Silva, PJFP Rodrigues, C Rojas-Idrogo, GE Delgado-Paredes, ... Revista Árvore 46, e4603 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Four sites with contrasting environmental stress in southeastern Brazil: relations of species, life form diversity, and geographic distribution to ecophysiological parameters FR Scarano, HM Duarte, KT Ribeiro, PJFP Rodrigues, EMB Barcellos, ... Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 136 (4), 345-364 , 2001 2001 Citations: 173
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots C Blundo, J Carilla, R Grau, A Malizia, L Malizia, O Osinaga-Acosta, ... Biological Conservation 260, 108849 , 2021 2021 Citations: 164
Natural regeneration in plantations of native trees in Lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: community structure, diversity, and dispersal syndromes JBB Sansevero, PV Prieto, LFD de Moraes, PJFP Rodrigues Restoration Ecology 19 (3), 379-389 , 2011 2011 Citations: 147
Frogs and snakes as phoretic dispersal agents of bromeliad ostracods (Limnocytheridae: Elpidium) and annelids (Naididae: Dero) LCS Lopez, PJFP Rodrigues, RI Rios Biotropica, 705-708 , 1999 1999 Citations: 116
Morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of the Vriesea paraibica complex (Bromeliaceae) AF Da Costa, PJFP RODRIGUES, MGL Wanderley Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (1), 163-181 , 2009 2009 Citations: 63
Past land-use and ecological resilience in a lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: implications for passive restoration JBB SANSEVERO, PV PRIETO, A SÁNCHEZ-TAPIA, JMA BRAGA, ... New Forests 1, 1-14 , 2017 2017 Citations: 58
Ecophysiology of six selected shrub species in different plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic Forest of SE-Brazil HM Duarte, A Geßler, FR Scarano, AC Franco, EA de Mattos, M Nahm, ... Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 200 (5), 456-476 , 2005 2005 Citations: 53
Estrutura da comunidade arbórea da Floresta Atlântica de baixada periodicamente inundada na Reserva Biológica de Poço das Antas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil FA Carvalho, MT Nascimento, JMA Braga, PJFP Rodrigues Rodriguésia 57 (3), 503-518 , 2006 2006 Citations: 46
A vegetação da Reserva Biológica União e os efeitos de borda na Mata Atlântica fragmentada P Rodrigues Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do North … , 2004 2004 Citations: 45
Isotopic composition of leaf carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) of deciduous and evergreen understorey trees in two tropical Brazilian Atlantic forests AP Vitória, E Ávila-Lovera, T de Oliveira Vieira, APL do Couto-Santos, ... Journal of Tropical Ecology 34 (2), 145-156 , 2018 2018 Citations: 39
Tree community phenodynamics and its relationship with climatic conditions in a lowland tropical rainforest JPA Pires, NAC Marino, AG Silva, PJFP Rodrigues, L Freitas Forests 9 (3), 114 , 2018 2018 Citations: 36
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests J Aguirre-Gutiérrez, SW Rifai, X Deng, H Ter Steege, E Thomson, ... Nature 641 (8061), 129-136 , 2025 2025 Citations: 34
Edge effects of linear canopy openings on understorey communities in a lowland Atlantic tropical forest PV PRIETO, JBB SANSEVERO, ML GARBIN, JMA BRAGA, ... Applied Vegetation Science 17, 121-128 , 2014 2014 Citations: 34
Intraspecific variation in functional wood anatomy of tropical trees caused by effects of forest edge WS da Costa, M Da Cunha, PJFP Rodrigues, M de Andrade Iguatemy, ... Forest Ecology and Management 473, 118305 , 2020 2020 Citations: 29
Disentangling the veil line for Brazilian biodiversity: An overview from two long-term research programs reveals huge gaps in ecological data reporting AF Guimaraes, LC de Alagao Querido, T Rocha, D de Jesus Rodrigues, ... Science of the Total Environment 950, 174880 , 2024 2024 Citations: 19
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests MJP Sullivan, OL Phillips, D Galbraith, E Almeida, EA de Oliveira, ... Nature Communications 16 (1), 2351 , 2025 2025 Citations: 17
The bio-evolutionary Anthropocene hypothesis: Rethinking the role of human-induced novel organisms in evolution PJF Pena Rodrigues, CF Lira Biological Theory 14 (3), 141-150 , 2019 2019 Citations: 17
Estrutura de populações de jaqueiras, subsídios para manejo e conservação da Mata Atlântica RCR Abreu, P Rodrigues I Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Espécies Exóticas Invasoras. Brasília , 2005 2005 Citations: 16
