Felipe P L Melo

Biographic Data

ID4151356
NAMEFelipe P L Melo
GIVEN NAMESFelipe P L
FAMILY NAMEMelo
SIGNATUREMELO F P L
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco
ORCID0000-0002-1271-3214
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Forwarding forest restoration

    Open AccessMariana C Hernández-Montilla Mariana C Hernández-Montilla, Mariana…ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals. To better understand existing and future challenges and opportunities, we convened a diverse panel of 25 international experts from academia, …

  • On the need for biocultural approaches to restoration

    Open AccessFelipe P L Melo, Madelon Lohbeck et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Ecological restoration is gaining global momentum for climate mitigation, yet its prevailing approach, often rooted in Western technical science, frequently appears neutral while inadvertently reinforcing power imbalances and sidelining local knowledge. We argue for biocultural restoration approaches that go beyond community participation by explicitly integrating cultural meanings, knowledge systems, and power relations into restoration planning…

  • Deforestation and human development in the Brazilian tropical dry forest

    Open AccessL M G Alencar, Lucas Alencar et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2025References: 7

  • Tradeoffs and synergies between food security and forest cover in Brazilian drylands

    Open AccessLucas Alencar, Cristina Baldauf et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2023

    Global food demand is expected to increase in the next decades, pushing agricultural expansion and deforestation. However, food production in agricultural lands is just one dimension of food security, to which forest goods and services also contribute. In this paper, we aimed to explore the relationship between forest cover and food security. We hypothesized that food security is improved by both human‐made and green infrastructure combined. To t…

  • Using land inequality to inform restoration strategies for the Brazilian dry forest

    Open AccessFelipe P L Melo, Guilherme G Mazzochini et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

  • Introduced goats reduce diversity and biomass of herbs in Caatinga dry forest

    Open AccessTatiane Menezes, Rodrigo F R Carmo et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2021

    Herbivores are considered important drivers of vegetation shifts in rangelands worldwide. In the Brazilian Caating a years in 16 paired exclosure versus free‐access plots. Exclosure of goats caused a small but significant increase in the species diversity and above‐ground biomass of herbs that varied strongly with time. Taxonomic dissimilarity between exclosure and free‐access was small and due to the turnover of a few species, however, tended to…

  • A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”

    Open AccessUlysses Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior et al.ARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2021Cited by: 2

  • Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

    Open AccessFelipe P L Melo, Luke Parry et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 3References: 12

  • Socioecologia da Caatinga

    Open AccessUlysses Paulino De Albuquerque, Ulysses Albuquerque et al.ARTICLECiência e Cultura2018

  • Priority setting for scaling-up tropical forest restoration projects

    Felipe P L Melo, Severino Pinto et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2013Cited by: 7References: 5