Daniel Magnabosco Marra

Postdoctoral Researcher

Address

Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Funktionelle Biodiversität
Universität Leipzig
Johannisallee 21
04103 Leipzig

Research-Interests

• Tropical forest dynamics and succession
• Tree growth and mortality modeling
• Functional biodiversity research
• Tree species' anatomy and mechanics
• Remote sensing

Peer-reviewed Articles

In review/preparation

Peterson CJ, Ribeiro GHPM, Negrón-Juárez RI, Magnabosco Marra D, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Lima AN, Cannon JB: Estimates of wind speeds necessary to topple central Amazon trees sugest that wind may be an extremely common agent of disturbance. FORESTS, in review.

Negrón-Juárez RI, Magnabosco Marra D, Jenkins HS et al. (in preparation): Extreme rainfall shapes forest dynamics and carbon residence time in Amazonia.

Magnabosco Marra D, Rüger N, Wirth C,..., Trumbore SE (in preparation): Vital rates and ecological strategies of Amazonian trees.

2018

Magnabosco Marra D, Trumbore SE, Higuchi N, Ribeiro GHPM, Negrón-Juárez RI, Holzwarth F, Rifai SW, Santos J dos, Lima AJN, Kinupp VF, Chambers JQ, Wirth C: Windthrows control biomass patterns and functional composition of Amazon forests, Global Change Biology, accepted. Online Article

Silverio DV, Brando PM, Bustamante MMC, Putz FE, Magnabosco Marra D, Levick SR, Trumbore SE: Fire, fragmentation and windstorms: a recipe for tropical forest degradadion. Journal of Ecology, accepted. Online Article

Negrón-Juárez RI, Holm JA, Magnabosco Marra D, Rifai SW, Riley WJ, Chambers JQ, Koven CD, Knox RG, McGroddy ME, Di Vittorio AV, Urquiza-Munoz JD, Tello-Espinoza R, Alegria-Munoz W, Ribeiro GHPM, Higuchi N (2018) Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality. Environ. Res. Lett., 13, 054021. Online Article

2017

Negrón-Juárez RI, Jenkins HS, Raupp CFM, Riley WJ, Kueppers LM, Magnabosco Marra D, Ribeiro GHPM, Monteiro MTF, Candido LA, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N (2017) Windthrow variability in Central Amazon. Atmosphere, 8(28), 1-17. Online Article

2016

Magnabosco Marra D, Higuchi N, Trumbore SE, Santos J dos, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J, Lima AJN, Carneiro VMC, Chambers JQ, Negrón-Juárez RI, Holzwarth F, Reu B, Wirth C (2016) Predicting biomass of hyperdiverse and structurally complex Central Amazon forests - a virtual approach using extensive field data. Biogeosciences, 13, 1553-1570. Online Article

Santos LT dos, Magnabosco Marra D, Trumbore SE, Camargo PB de, Negrón-Juárez RI, Lima AJN, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J dos, Higuchi N (2016) Windthrows increase soil carbon stocks in a Central Amazon forest. Biogeosciences, 13, 1299-1308. Online Article

Ribeiro GHPM, Chambers J, Peterson C, Trumbore S, Magnabosco Marra D, Wirth C, Cannon J, Negrón-Juárez R, Lima A, de Paula E, Santos J, Higuchi N (2016) Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species. Forest Ecology and Management, 380, 1-10, Online Article

2014

Marra DM, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Trumbore SE, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J, Negrón-Juárez RI, Reu B, Wirth C (2014) Large-scale wind disturbances promote tree diversity in a Central Amazon forest. PLoSONE, 9(8), e103711. Online Article

Marra DM, Pereira BSA, Fagg CW, Felfili JM (2014) Trees and environmental variables influence the natural regeneration of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Central Brazil. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 9(2), 62-77. Online Article

Ribeiro GHPM, Suwa R, Marra DM, Lima AJN, Kajimoto T, Ishizuka M, Higuchi N (2014) Allometry for juvenile trees in an Amazonian forest after wind disturbance. JARQ, 48(2), 213-219. Online Article

2013

Chambers JQ, Negrón-Juárez RI, Marra DM, Di Vittorio A, Tews J, Roberts D, Ribeiro GHPM, Trumbore S and Higuchi N (2013) The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth Central Amazon forest landscape. PNAS, 110, 3949-3954. Online Article

Menger JS, Marra DM, Salimon, CI (2013) Forest management effects on the abundance and species composition of ferns in South West of Brazilian Amazon. Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 8(1), 25-30. Online Article

2012

Silva RP, Souza CAS, Amaral MRM, Carneiro VM, Barros PC, Marra DM, Santos J, Higuchi N (2012) Árvore - crescimento, desenvolvimento e sua identificação, p. 71-99, In: Higuchi MIG, Higuchi N (org.) A floresta amazônica e suas múltiplas dimensões: uma proposta de educação ambiental. 2ed., Manaus, Brasil, 424p.

2011

Negrón-Juárez RI, Chambers JQ, Marra DM, Ribeiro GHPM, Rifai SW, Higuchi N, Roberts D (2011) Detection of subpixel tree fall gaps with Landsat imagery in Central Amazon forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(12), 3322-3328. Online Article

2010

Negrón-Juárez RI, Chambers JQ, Guimaraes G, Zeng H, Raupp CFM, Marra DM, Ribeiro GHPM, Saatchi S, Nelson BW, Higuchi N (2010) Widespread Amazon forest tree mortality from a single cross-basin squall line event. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L16701), 1-5. Online Article

2009

Chambers JQ, Negrón-Juárez RI, Hurtt GC, Marra DM, Higuchi N (2009) Lack of intermediate-scale disturbance data prevents robust extrapolation of plot-level tree mortality rates for old-growth tropical forests. Ecology Letters, 12(12), E22-E25. Online Article

Other Articles

Queiroz T, Soares L, Rosa C, Gordon Y, Marra DM (2009) Nutrient availability and seed size of Ormosia excelsa (FABACEAE) in the Anavilhanas archipelago, Amazonas, Brazil. 3rd Latin-American Congress of Ecology, São Lourenço, Brazil. Online access

Marra DM (2008) Parent-distance and establishment of Scleronema micranthum (MALVACEAE) in a Central Amazon forest. Ecologia da Floresta Amazônica (EFA), INPA/PDBFF, Manaus, Brasil. Online access

Conference talks and lectures

Magnabosco Marra D, Trumbore SE, Higuchi N, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J dos, Carneiro VMC, Kinupp VF, Negrón-Juárez RI, Chambers JQ, Wirth C (2016) Shifts in functional composition enhance biomass resilience of Amazon forests to windthrows. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Magnabosco Marra D, Trumbore SE, Higuchi N, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J dos, Kinupp VF, Negrón-Juárez RI, Chambers JQ, Wirth C (2016) Windthrows affect biomass stocks and balance in Central Amazon forests. 53nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Montpellier, France.

Magnabosco Marra D, Higuchi N, Trumbore SE, Santos J dos, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J, Lima AJN, Carneiro VMC, Chambers JQ, Negrón-Juárez RI, Holzwarth F, Reu B, Wirth C (2015) Predicting biomass of hyperdiverse and structurally complex Central Amazon forests - a virtual forest approach using extensive field data. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Honolulu, USA.

Marra DM, Higuchi N, Trumbore S, Santos J, Chambers J, Ribeiro GHPM, Lima AN, Carneiro VM, Kinupp VF, Negrón-Juárez RI, Reu B, Wirth C (2014): Large wind-throw events affect biomass dynamics of Central Amazon forests. 44th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), Hildesheim, Germany.

Marra DM, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Trumbore SE, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J, Negrón-Juárez RI, Reu B, Wirth C (2014) The effects of large-scale wind disturbances on forest structure and species composition in Central Amazon. 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Cairns, Australia.

Marra DM, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Trumbore SE, Ribeiro GHPM, Santos J, Negrón-Juárez RI, Reu B, Wirth C (2014) Large-scale wind disturbances affect forest structure and species composition in the Central Amazon. 1st PhD Conference on Earth System Science, IMPRS, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.

Marra DM (2014) Tropical forest dynamics and succession. Tropical Forest Ecology module, M.Sc. Forest Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany.

Marra DM (2013) Tropical forest dynamics and succession. Tropical Forest Ecology module, M.Sc. Forest Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany.

Chambers JQ, Negrón-Juárez RI, Marra DM, Roberts DA, Di Vittorio AV, Higuchi N, Trumbore S (2011) Succession-inducing disturbances and the old-growth forest mosaic of a Central Amazon landscape. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.

Poster

Marra DM, Trumbore SE, Chambers JQ, Higuchi N, Ribeiro GHPM, Negrón-Juárez RI, Holzwarth F, Wirth C (2015) Functional diversity enhances resilience of wind-disturbed Amazon forests. iDiv Annual Conference, Leipzig, Germany.

Santos LT dos, Marra DM, Camargo PB de, Trumbore SE, Ribeiro GHPM, Chambers JQ, Santos J dos, Higuchi N (2015) Large-scale wind disturbances change soil attributes in a Central Amazon terra firme forest. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Honolulu, USA.

Marra DM, Pereira BAS, Fagg CW, Felfili JM (2014) The natural regeneration in a seasonally dry tropical forest on limestone outcrops. 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), Cairns, Australia.

Interview

Marra DM (2011) Amazônia e o ano da floresta. Ciência para todos, 7(3), 28-33. INPA/Manaus, Brazil. Online access