After trying my hand at Economics at Manchester University and Hazel Coppicing in Sussex, I finally decided to follow my life-long interest in Ecology and Conservation in 1995 by undertaking a BSc at the University of East Anglia. After finishing my degree in 1998, I overcame an interest in UK shorebirds and went to the Brazilian Amazon to examine the aftermath of the understorey fires linked to the 1997-1998 El-Niño event. Shocked by the extent and effect of these fires, I continued this work for a PhD, spending two years living with local people in the Rio Maró and Arapiuns and examining how fires affected bird communities, tree mortality, and large vertebrates. I am currently a RCUK Academic fellow at Lancaster University, and my ongoing research focuses on the the impacts of wildfires in humid tropical forests, the biodiversity value of abandoned lands, forest corridors, and the wider agricultural landscape. I am associate editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology and Conservation Letters.
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Publications
Hawes, J., Barlow, J. Gardner, T.A. and Peres, C.A. 2008. The value of forest strips for understorey birds in an Amazonian plantation landscape. Biological Conservation.
Gardner, T.A., M. I. M. Hernandez, J. Barlow and C.A. Peres. 2008. Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles. Journal of Applied Ecology.45 (3) 883 - 893
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Barlow, J. and Peres, C.A. 2008. Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0013
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Gardner, T.A., Barlow, J., Araujo, I.S., Avila-Pires, T.C.S., Bonaldo, A.B., Costa, J.E., Esposito, M.C., Ferreira, L.V., Hawes, J., Hernandez, M.I.M., Hoogmoed, M., Leite, R.N., Lo-Man-Hung, N.F., Malcolm, J.R., Martins, M.B., Mestre, L.A.M., Miranda-Santos, R., Nunes-Gutjahr, A.L., Overal, W.L., Parry, L.T.W., Peters, S.L., Ribeiro-Junior, M.A., da Silva, M.N.F., da Silva Motta, C. & Peres, C. 2008 The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests. Ecology letters. 11: 139–150
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Barlow, J., T. A. Gardner, I. S. Araujo, A. B. Bonaldo, J. E. Costa, M. C. Esposito, L. V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M. I. M. Hernandez, R. N. Leite, N. F. Lo-Man-Hung, J. R. Malcolm, M. B. Martins, L. A. M. Mestre, A. L. Nunes-Gutjahr, W. L. Overal, L. Parry, S. L. Peters, M. A. Ribeiro-Junior, C. da Silva Motta, M. N. F. da Silva, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary and plantation forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 104 (47): 18555-18560
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Parry, L., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Large vertebrate assemblages of primary and secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 23:653-662
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Barlow, J., I. S. Araujo, W. L. Overal, F. Mendes, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres 2008. Diversity and composition of fruit-feeding butterflies in tropical plantation forests. Biodiversity and Conservation.. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9240-0
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Barlow, J., T. A. Gardner, L. V. Ferreira, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Litter fall and decomposition in primary, secondary and plantation forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management. 247: 91–97
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Barlow, J., W. L. Overal, I. S. Araujo, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres. 2007. The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for fruit-feeding butterflies in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Applied Ecology. 44:1001-1012
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Gardner, T.A., Ribeiro Jr, M.A., Barlow, J., Ávila-Pires, T.A.S., Hoogmoed, M., & Peres, C.A. 2007 The biodiversity value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for a neotropical herpetofauna. Conservation biology. 21:775-787
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Gardner, T. A., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: consequences of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles. Biological Conservation. 138:166-179
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Barlow, J., L. A. M. Mestre, T. A. Gardner, and C. A. Peres. 2007. The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for Amazonian birds. Biological Conservation. 136: 212-231
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Gardner, T. A., J. Barlow, L. T. W. Parry, and C. A. Peres. 2007. Predicting the Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest Species in a Data Vacuum. Biotropica 39 25-30.
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Peres, C. A., Barlow, J. & Laurance, W.F. 2006 Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution Vol. 21(5): 227-229
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Barlow, J., Peres, C. A., Henriques, L. M. P., Stouffer, P. C. & Wunderle, J. M. 2006. The Responses of Understorey Birds to Forest Fragmentation, Logging and Wildfires: an Amazonian Synthesis. Biological Conservation. 128 (2): 182-19
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Barlow, J., and C. Peres. 2006. Effects of single and recurrent wildfires on fruit production and large vertebrate abundance in a central Amazonian forest. Biodiversity and Conservation.
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Barlow, J., and C. A. Peres. 2004. Avifaunal responses to single and recurrent wildfires in Amazonian forests. Ecological Applications 14:1358–1373.
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Barlow, J., and C. A. Peres. 2004. Ecological responses to El Niño-induced surface fires in central Amazonia: Management implications for flammable tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 359:367-380.
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Barlow, J., C. A. Peres, B. Lagan, and T. Haugaasen. 2003. Large tree mortality and the decline of forest biomass following Amazonian wildfires. Ecology letters 6:6-8.
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Barlow, J., B. O. Lagan, and C. A. Peres. 2003. Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19:291-299.
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Haugaasen, T., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2003. Surface wildfires in central Amazonia: Short-term impact on forest structure and carbon loss. Forest Ecology and Management 179:321-331.
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Peres, C. A., J. Barlow, and T. Haugaasen. 2003. Vertebrate Responses to Surface Fires in a Central Amazonian Forest. Oryx 37:97-109.
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Haugaasen, T., J. Barlow, and C. A. Peres. 2003. Effects of surface fires on understorey insectivorous birds and terrestrial arthropods in central Brazilian Amazonia. Animal conservation 6:299-306.
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Barlow, J., and C. A. Peres. 2003. Fogo rasteiro: Uma nova ameaça na região amazônica. Ciencia Hoje 34:24-29.
Barlow, J., T. Haugaasen, and C. A. Peres. 2002. Effects of ground fires on understorey bird assemblages in Amazonian forests. Biological Conservation 105:157-169.
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Barlow, J., T. Haugaasen, and C. Peres. 2002. Sympatry of black-faced Leucopternis melanops and white-browed hawks L.kuhli along the lower rio Tapajos, Para, Brazil. Cotinga 18:77-79.
Book chapters
Barlow, J., and C.A. Peres. 2006. Consequences of cryptic and recurring
fire disturbances for ecosystem structure and biodiversity in Amazonian
forests. Pages 225-240 in W. F. Laurance, and C. A. Peres, editors.
Emerging threats to tropical forests. Chicago University Press.
Barlow,
J., and C. A. Peres. 2005. Ecological responses to El Niño-induced
surface fires in central Amazonia. Pages 87-96 in Y. Malhi, and O.
Phillips, editors. Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change.
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Peres, C. A., and J. Barlow. 2004. Human Influences on Tropical Forest
Wildlife. in J. Burley, J. Evans, and J. Youngquist, editors.
Encyclopaedia of Forest Sciences. Academic press, Elsevier Science,
Oxford.
Liley, D., J. Barlow, and M. Middleton. 2002. Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula. Pages 278-280 in C. Chris Wernham, M. Toms, J. Marchant, J. Clark, G. Siriwardena, and B. S., editors. Migration Atlas: Movements of the Birds of Britain and Ireland. T & AD Poyser, London.
Book reviews
Barlow, J. 2008 Book review: Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, Dale D. Goble, J. Michael Scott, Frank W. Davis (Eds.), vol. 1, Island Press, Washington. 392 pp., Hardback, Price $70.00, ISBN 9781597260084.Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes, J. Michael Scott, Dale D. Goble, Frank W. Davis (Eds.), vol. 2, Island Press, Washington. 376 pp., Hardback, Price $80.00, ISBN 9781597260541.
Barlow, J. 2006 Book review: Tropical rain forests: An ecological and
biogeographical comparison. Geographical Journal 172: 81-81
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