Dr Ralph Trancoso da Silva
Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Book Chapter
Porro, Roberto, Miller, Robert P., Tito, Marcos R., Donovan, Jason A., Vivan, Jorge L., Trancoso, Ralph, Van Kanten, Rudi F., Grijalva, Jorge E., Ramirez, Bertha L. and Gonçalves, André L. (2012). Agroforestry in the Amazon Region: A Pathway for Balancing Conservation and Development. Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. (pp. 391-428) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-4676-3_20
Journal Articles
Trancoso, Ralph (2021). Changing Amazon deforestation patterns: urgent need to restore command and control policies and market interventions. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (4), 041004. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abee4c
Eccles, Rohan, Zhang, Hong, Hamilton, David, Trancoso, Ralph and Syktus, Jozef (2021). Impacts of climate change on streamflow and floodplain inundation in a coastal subtropical catchment. Advances in Water Resources, 147 103825, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103825
Trancoso, Ralph, Syktus, Jozef, Toombs, Nathan, Ahrens, David, Wong, Kenneth Koon-Ho and Pozza, Ramona Dalla (2020). Heatwaves intensification in Australia: a consistent trajectory across past, present and future. Science of The Total Environment, 742 140521, 140521. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140521
Chapman, Sarah, Syktus, Jozef I, Trancoso, Ralph, Salazar, Alvaro, Thatcher, Marcus J., Watson, James E. M., Meijaard, Erik, Sheil, Douglas, Dargusch, Paul and McAlpine, Clive Alexander (2020). Compounding impact of deforestation on Borneo’s climate during El Niño events. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (8) 084006, 084006. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab86f5
Liu, Yang, Trancoso, Ralph, Ma, Qin, Yue, Chaofang, Wei, Xiaohua and Blanco, Juan A. (2020). Incorporating climate effects in Larix gmelinii improves stem taper models in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Inner Mongolia, northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management, 464 118065, 118065. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118065
Liu, Yang, Yue, Chaofang, Wei, Xiaohua, Blanco, Juan A. and Trancoso, Ralph (2020). Tree profile equations are significantly improved when adding tree age and stocking degree: an example for Larix gmelinii in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Inner Mongolia, northeast China. European Journal of Forest Research, 139 (3), 443-458. doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01261-z
Guo, Yanrong, Peng, Changhui, Trancoso, R., Zhu, Q. and Zhou, Xiaolu (2019). Stand carbon density drivers and changes under future climate scenarios across global forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 449 117463, 117463. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117463
Berghuijs, Wouter R., Aalbers, Emma E., Larsen, Joshua R., Trancoso, Ralph and Woods, Ross A. (2017). Recent changes in extreme floods across multiple continents. Environmental Research Letters, 12 (11) 114035, 1-7. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa8847
Trancoso, Ralph, Larsen, Joshua R., Mcvicar, Tim R., Phinn, Stuart R. and Mcalpine, Clive A. (2017). CO2-vegetation feedbacks and other climate changes implicated in reducing base flow. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (5), 2310-2318. doi: 10.1002/2017GL072759
Trancoso, Ralph, Phinn, Stuart, Mcvicar, Tim R. , Larsen, Joshua R. and McAlpine, Clive A. (2017). Regional variation in streamflow drivers across a continental climatic gradient. Ecohydrology, 10 (3) e1816, e1816. doi: 10.1002/eco.1816
Trancoso, Ralph, Larsen, Joshua R., McAlpine, Clive, McVicar, Tim R. and Phinn, Stuart (2016). Linking the Budyko framework and the Dunne diagram. Journal of Hydrology, 535, 581-597. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.017
Trancoso, Ralph, Sano, Edson E. and Meneses, Paulo R. (2015). The spectral changes of deforestation in the Brazilian tropical savanna. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 187 (1). doi: 10.1007/s10661-014-4145-3
Cuartas, Luz Adriana, Tomasella, Javier, Nobre, Antonio Donato, Nobre, Carlos Afonso, Hodnett, Martin G., Waterloo, Maarten J., de Oliveira, Sylvia Mota, von Randow, Rita de Cassia, Trancoso, Ralph and Ferreira, Monica (2012). Distributed hydrological modeling of a micro-scale rainforest watershed in Amazonia: model evaluation and advances in calibration using the new HAND terrain model. Journal of Hydrology, 462, 15-27. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.047
Pinho, Rachel C., Alfaia, Sonia S., Miller, Robert Pritchard, Uguen, Katell, Magalhaes, Leovone D., Ayres, Marta, Freitas, Viviane and Trancoso, Ralph (2011). Islands of fertility: soil improvement under indigenous homegardens in the savannas of Roraima, Brazil. Agroforestry Systems, 81 (3), 235-247. doi: 10.1007/s10457-010-9336-5
Trancoso, Ralph, Carneiro Filho, Arnaldo, Tomasella, Javier, Schietti, Juliana, Forsberg, Bruce Rider and Miller, Robert Pritchard (2009). Deforestation and conservation in major watersheds of the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Conservation, 36 (4), 277-288. doi: 10.1017/s0376892909990373
Thesis
Trancoso da Silva, Ralph (2017). Ecohydrology in space and time: functioning and changes in the streamflow generation of catchments. PhD Thesis, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.538
Research Report
Larsen, Joshua, Leon, Javier, McGrath, Chris and Trancoso, Ralph (2013). Review of the catchment processes relevant to the Great Barrier Reef region. Townsville, QLD, Australia: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.