Daniela Granato‐Souza
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Universidade Federal de Lavras (2018–2024); Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (2024–2025); Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2005–2006); Universidade Regional de Blumenau (2018); Schlumberger (Ireland) (2018); Department of Forestry (2025); University of Alabama in Huntsville (2025)
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Daniela Granato‐Souza's research focuses on understanding tropical tree growth and climate variability, particularly in the Amazon basin. She investigates how climatic factors, such as dry-season conditions, influence tree ring development, wood traits, and overall biomass production. Her work utilizes multi-proxy tree-ring approaches to reconstruct past climate patterns and assess their long-term impacts on forest ecosystems.
Granato‐Souza has received federal funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for collaborative research aimed at reconstructing and analyzing precipitation and streamflow in the Amazon River Basin. This work involves developing historical climate records from tree rings. She has published findings on the pantropical effects of drought on stem growth and the relationship between climate variability and tropical tree growth. Her research also explores the shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density in tropical tree biomass production across different spatial and temporal scales.
Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 15 with 33 total publications and 619 citations. Granato‐Souza collaborates with researchers from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including David W. Stahle, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, and Ian M. Howard, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications. She leads a research group and is an active investigator in her field.
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- h-index: 15
- Publications: 33
- Citations: 634
Selected Publications
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Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain (2025)
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A novel post-1950 CE atmospheric 14C record for the tropics using absolutely dated tree rings in the equatorial Amazon (2024)
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Drought and Flood Extremes on the Amazon River and in Northeast Brazil, 1790–1900 (2023)
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The Flood Risk and Water Supply Implications of Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions in Northern California (2023)
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Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon (2023)
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The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review (2023)
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Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell. (2023)
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Descrição do crescimento em altura de clones híbridos de Eucalyptus em região semiárida utilizando modelos não lineares (2022)
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Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability (2022)
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Pan American interactions of Amazon precipitation, streamflow, and tree growth extremes (2020)
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Multidecadal Changes in Wet Season Precipitation Totals Over the Eastern Amazon (2020)
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Radiocarbon analysis confirms annual periodicity in Cedrela odorata tree rings from the equatorial Amazon (2020)
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Tropical dendrochronology applied to invasive tree species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2019)
Federal Grants 2 $543,392 total
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- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain
- The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- A novel post-1950 CE atmospheric 14C record for the tropics using absolutely dated tree rings in the equatorial Amazon
- Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
- The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Combining wood traits as a promising timber origin verification and its application in the Brazilian trade chain
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- A novel post-1950 CE atmospheric 14C record for the tropics using absolutely dated tree rings in the equatorial Amazon
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell.
- Long- and short-term impacts of climate and dry-season on wood traits of Cedrela fissilis Vell. in southern Brazilian Amazon
- The Flood Risk and Water Supply Implications of Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions in Northern California
- Drought and Flood Extremes on the Amazon River and in Northeast Brazil, 1790–1900
- Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
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