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25. Rosado BHP, Matos IS. 2025. Water uptake by aerial organs: adding twigs, flowers, and other missing pieces to the complex puzzle. Journal of Experimental Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf223. PDF
24. Matos IS, Vu B, Mann J, Xie E, Madhavan S, Sharma S, Niewiadomski I, Echevarria A, Tomaka C, Carlos S, Antonio M, Chu A, Scudder M, Yokota N, Park HJ, Vuong N, Boakye M, Duarte MA, Pechuzal C, Aparecido LMT, Franco MB, Wong RJ, Liu J, Guevara Heredia A, Boyle B, Ryan M, Cardenas RE, Enquist BJ., Erwin DM, Forbes H, Dexter K, Fricker M, Blonder B. 2025. Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales. Nature Plants. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02011-y. PDF
23. Roland H, Matos IS, Rosado BHP, Menor IO. 2025. Non-Additive Effects on Plant Mixtures Flammability in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 34, WF24168. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24168 PDF
22. Zorger BB, Matos IS, Rosado BHP. 2025. Leaf traits explain shrubs and herbs' functional composition shifts in a climate-impacted tropical montane grassland. Austral Ecology. 50: e70069. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.70069 PDF
21. Rosado BHP, Matos IS. 2025. On the need to use proper metrics to detect experimental drought treatments. Oecologia. 207, 76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05717-0 PDF
20. Niewiadomski I, Antonio M, Aparecido L, Boakye M, Carlos S, Echevarria A, Fontao A, Mann J, Matos IS, Salinas N, Vu B, Blonder B. 2025. Illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks. Applications in Plant Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70002. PDF
19. Zorger BB, Matos IS, Bondi L, Nunes Y, Moraes Y, Amorim T, Rosado BHP. 2025. Vegetation vulnerability to drought is driven by either higher drought sensitivity or lower fog exposure in tropical cloud-ecosystems. Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70043. PDF
18. Matos IS, Boakye M, Antonio M, Carlos S, Chu A, Duarte MA, Echevarria A, Fontao A, Garcia L, Huang L, Johnson BC, Joshi S, Kalantar D, Madhavan S, McDonough S, Niewiadomski I, Nguyen N, Park HJ, Pechuzal C, Rohde J, Sahu R, Scudder M, Sharma S, Sneor L, To J, Vu B, Vuong N, Yokota N, Aparecido A, Forbes H, Fricker M, Blonder BW. 2024. Investigating the Functional and Architectural Diversity of Leaf Venation Networks. Bull Ecol Soc Am. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2206 PDF
17. Matos IS, Boakye M, Antonio M, Carlos S, Chu A, Duarte MA, Echevarria A, Fontao A, Garcia L, Huang L, Johnson BC, Joshi S, Kalantar D, Madhavan S, McDonough S, Niewiadomski I, Nguyen N, Park HJ, Pechuzal C, Rohde J, Sahu R, Scudder M, Sharma S, Sneor L, To J, Vu B, Vuong N, Yokota N, Aparecido L, Forbes H, Fricker M, Blonder B. 2024b. Leaf architecture and functional traits for 122 species at the University of California at Berkeley Botanical Garden. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4436 PDF
16. Matos IS, Boakye M, Niewiadomski I, Antonio M, Carlos S, Johnson BC, Chu A, Echevarria A, Fontao A, Garcia L, Kalantar D, Madhavan S, Mann J, McDonough S, Rohde J, Scudder M, Sharma S, To J, Tomaka C, Vu B, Yokota N, Forbes H, Fricker M, Blonder BW. 2024. Leaf venation network architecture coordinates functional trade-offs across vein spatial scales: evidence for multiple alternative designs. New Phytologist. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20037 PDF
15. Matos IS, McDonough S, Johnson BC, Kalantar D , Rohde J, Sahu R, Wang J, Fontao A, To J, Carlos S, Garcia L, Boakye M, Forbes H, Blonder BW. 2024. Negative allometry of leaf xylem conduit diameter and double-wall thickness: implications for implosion safety. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19771 PDF
14. Matos IS, Gouveia WF, Oliveras I, Rifai SW, Mantuano D, Rosado BHP. 2024. A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity. Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13258 PDF
13. Matos IS, Rifai S, Rosado BHP. 2023. 2015/16 El-Niño increased water demand and pushed plants from a mesic tropical montane grassland beyond their hydraulic safety limits. Austral Ecology, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13343 PDF
12. Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Althuizen IHJ, Christiansen CT , Henn JJ, Jónsdóttir IS, Klanderud K, Macias-Fauria M, Malhi Y, Maitner BS, Michaletz S, Roos RE, Telford RJ, Bass P, Björnsdóttir K, Bustamante LLV, Chmurzynski A, Chen S, Haugum SV, Kemppinen J, Lepley K, Li Y, Linabury M, Matos IS, Neto-Bradley BM, Ng M, Niittynen P, Östman S, Pánková K, Roth N, Salaks MC, Spiegel M, Thomson E, Vågenes AS, Enquist BJ. 2023. Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard. Scientific Data, 10, 578. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02467-7 PDF
11. Matos IS, Binks O, Eller CB, Zorger BB, Meir P, Dawson TE, Rosado BHP. 2022. Revisiting plant hydrological niches: The importance of atmospheric resources for ground-rooted plants. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13933 PDF
10. Matos IS, Eller CB, Oliveras I, Mantuano D, Rosado BHP. 2021. Three eco-physiological strategies of response to drought maintain the form and function of a tropical montane grassland. Journal of Ecology, 109: 327– 341. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13481 PDF
9. Christmann T, Rosado BHP, Delhaye G, Matos IS, Roland H, Moraes Y, Drummond J, Oliveras I. 2021. Functional assembly of tropical montane tree islands in the Atlantic Forest is shaped by stress-tolerance, bamboo-presence and facilitation. Ecology and Evolution, 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7824 PDF
8. Matos IS, Flores BM, Hirota M, Rosado BHP. 2020. Critical transitions in rainfall manipulation experiments. Ecology and Evolution, 10: 2695– 2704. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6072. PDF
7. Blonder B, Both S, Jodra M, Xu H, Fricker M, Matos IS, Majalap-Lee N, Burslem D, Teh YA, Malhi Y. 2020. Linking functional traits to multiscale statistics of leaf venation networks. New Phytologist, 228: 1796-1810. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16830. PDF
6. Eller CB, Rowland L, Mencuccini M, Rosas T, Williams K, Harper A, Medlyn BE, Wagner Y, Klein T, Teodoro GS, Oliveira RS, Matos IS, Rosado BH, Fuchs K, Wohlfahrt G, Montagnani L, Meir P, Sitch S, Cox PM. 2020. Stomatal optimisation based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate. New Phytologist, 226: 1622-1637. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16419. PDF
5. *Matos IS, Oliveras I, Rifai SW, Rosado BHP. 2020. Deciphering the stability of grassland productivity in response to rainfall manipulation experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29: 558– 572. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13039. PDF
*Recommended by Dr. Alan Knapp on F1000 as being of special significance for the Ecology field.
4. Rosado BHP, Matos IS, Amorim, T. de A. 2017. A matter of scale and traits: a comment on “On the need for phylogenetic corrections in functional trait-based approaches?” by de Bello et al. 2015. Folia Geobotanica, 51, 383–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-016-9255-y. PDF
3. Matos IS, Rosado, B. H. P. 2016. Retain or repel? Droplet volume does matter when measuring leaf wetness traits. Annals of Botany, 117(6): 1045-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw025. PDF
2. Matos IS, Landim MF. 2016. Morpho-functional ecology of seedlings of 15 species from a remnant of Atlantic Forest in Sergipe State. Scientia Plena, 12: 1-15. https://doi.org/ 10.14808/sci.plena.2016.091003. PDF
1. Landim MF, Proença CEB, Sales AB, Matos IS. 2015. Floristic characterization of an Atlantic Rainforest in Southern Sergipe: Crasto forest. Biota Neotropica, 15(1): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-06032014003613. PDF
Book chapters:
1. Santos LAS, Matos IS. 2013. Orchidaceae: Habenaria Willd. In: Prata, A. P. do N; Amaral, M. do C. E. do; Farias, M. C. V.; Alves, M. V.(Org.). Flora de Sergipe. 1ed. Aracaju: Triunfo, 1: 459-464. PDF [in Portuguese] (I illustrated and described nine species of Orchidaceae native of Brazilian Northeast Tropical Forests).
Outreach and other publications:
Matos IS. 2020. Plant eco-physiological strategies of response to drought and the future of the “Campos de Altitude”. Journal of Ecology Blog. Blog Post [in English] (I discuss the main findings and the importance of my research on plant responses to drought in an accessible language).
Matos IS, Rosado BHP. 2019. How plants from tropical mountain grasslands deal with droughts? Boletim de Pesquisa do Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, n° 30, ISSN 16776569. PDF [in Portuguese] (We present the main results and implications of my Ph.D thesis in an accessible language for park managers and other non-academic readers).
Matos IS. 2019. Plant functional guide of the Itatiaia National Park (PNI, RJ, Brazil). PDF [in English and Portuguese] (I designed 32 illustrated and colored cards containing information about the functional traits of native plant species co-occurring in the 'Campos de Altitude' of the Itatiaia National Park).
Assis MV, Sanchez-Tapia A, de Mattos EA, Andrade L, Aximoff I, Matos IS, Guida Y. 2019. Os Campos do Sudeste (The Grasslands of Brazilian Southeast). Video [36 minutes, in Portuguese] (In this short documentary we discuss the vulnerability of the Tropical Mountain Grasslands to many drivers of climate change, including drought, fire and air pollution).
Matos IS. 2016. Vulnerability of Tropical Mountain Grasslands to Climate Change. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) Newsletter. PDF [in Portuguese] (In this newsletter of the Brazilian Federal Environment Agency, I discuss how the Tropical Mountain Grasslands are being affected by extreme drought events caused by Climate Change).
Bovini MG. 2016. Two new species of Sida (Malvaceae: Malvoideae) for Brazil. Phytotaxa, 282: 291-295. (I illustrated two new species of the genus Sida – Malvaceae).
Matos IS. 2015. Vulnerability of High Altitude Grasslands to Extreme Drought Events: The Role of Facilitation, Alternative Sources of Water and Functional Diversity. Rufford Foundation Blog. Blog Post [in English].
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