Marina Hirota

Biographic Data

ID5415055
NAMEMarina Hirota
GIVEN NAMESMarina
FAMILY NAMEHirota
SIGNATUREHIROTA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina
ORCID0000-0002-1958-3651
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Ten new insights in climate science 2025

    Open AccessDorian Ospina, Paula Mirazo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Sustainability2026

    Non-Technical Summary This review highlights 10 recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning diverse topics: (1) the global temperature jump of 2023–2024; (2) sea surface warming and marine heatwaves; (3) land carbon sinks; (4) interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss; (5) accelerated groundwater decline; (6) global dengue incidence; (7) income and labour productivity loss; (8) strategic conside…

  • Unraveling divergences

    Open AccessLuís Gustavo Cattelan, Caio R C Mattos et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Gridded precipitation datasets are widely used to monitor hydroclimatic trends, yet their accuracy in tropical South America remains uncertain. Here, we systematically compare trends from state-of-the-art precipitation datasets with station data across the region. Our results reveal substantial disagreements in both the magnitude and direction of trends, with datasets frequently failing to capture observed station trends. Trend accuracy varies co…

  • O desapego na promoção de propostas inovadoras para as crises ambientais atuais

    Open AccessMarina HirotaARTICLECiência e Cultura2025

  • Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

    Open AccessBernardo M Flores, Edwin Montoya et al.ARTICLENature2024

    The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern 1–3 . For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires, even in central and remote parts of the system 1 . Long existing feedbacks bet…

  • Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances

    Open AccessVitus Benson, Jonathan F Donges et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The Amazon rainforest is considered one of the Earth’s tipping elements and may lose stability under ongoing climate change. Recently a decrease in tropical rainforest resilience has been identified globally from remotely sensed vegetation data. However, the underlying theory assumes a Gaussian distribution of forest disturbances, which is different from most observed forest stressors such as fires, deforestation, or windthrow. Those stressors of…

  • Estimating vegetation water content from Sentinel-1 C-band SAR data over savanna and grassland ecosystems

    Open AccessPaulo N Bernardino, Rafael S Oliveira et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Studying vegetation water content (VWC) dynamics is essential for understanding plant growth, water and carbon cycles, and ecosystem stability. However, acquiring field-based VWC estimates, consistently through space and time, is challenging due to time and resource constraints. This study investigates the potential of Sentinel-1 C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for estimating VWC in natural ecosystems in central Brazil. We assessed (i)…

  • Rainfall and topographic position determine tree embolism resistance in Amazônia and Cerrado sites

    Open AccessCaio R C Mattos, Guilherme G Mazzochini et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Droughts are predicted to increase in both frequency and intensity by the end of the 21st century, but ecosystem response is not expected to be uniform across landscapes. Here we assess the importance of the hill-to-valley hydrologic gradient in shaping vegetation embolism resistance under different rainfall regimes using hydraulic functional traits. We demonstrate that rainfall and hydrology modulate together the embolism resistance of tree spec…

  • Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

    Open AccessMarina Hirota, Milena Holmgren et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    Tree distributions across continents indicate three distinct stable states in tree cover―forest, savanna, and treeless.