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Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies
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The changing Amazon forest
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Global Patterns of Groundwater Table Depth
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Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community
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Interspecific and Inter‐site Variation in Wood Specific Gravity of Tropical Trees
2004
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Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009
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Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments
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The contribution of edaphic heterogeneity to the evolution and diversity of Burseraceae trees in the western Amazon.
2005
MULTIPLE TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS IN RELATION TO HABITAT DIFFERENTIATION AMONG 17 FLORIDIAN OAK SPECIES
2004
Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots
2004
The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal
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Biomass change in an Atlantic tropical moist forest: the ENSO effect in permanent sample plots over a 22-year period
2004
Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree
2000 Nature
The empty forest revisited
2011
The global diversity of birds in space and time
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Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia
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Survey of plant short tandem DNA repeats
1994
Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon
2000
Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
2000 StandoutNature
Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits
2010
The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species
2009
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 StandoutNature
A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity
2003 Nature
REGIONAL AND PHYLOGENETIC VARIATION OF WOOD DENSITY ACROSS 2456 NEOTROPICAL TREE SPECIES
2006
Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages
2009
Human nutrition, the gut microbiome and the immune system
2011 StandoutNature
Tropical forests in a changing environment
2005
Frequencies and sequence characteristics of di-, tri-, and tetra-nucleotide microsatellites in wheat
1996
NEUTRAL THEORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGICAL EQUIVALENCE
2006
Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land‐Use Change
2009
Global patterns in biodiversity
2000 StandoutNature
The scaling laws of human travel
2006 StandoutNature
Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life
2016 Standout
Acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie
2001 StandoutNature
LEAF TRAITS ARE GOOD PREDICTORS OF PLANT PERFORMANCE ACROSS 53 RAIN FOREST SPECIES
2006
Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
2008 Standout
Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning
2011 Nature
MORTALITY OF LARGE TREES AND LIANAS FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL DROUGHT IN AN AMAZON FOREST
2007
Identification of polymorphic, conserved simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in cultivated Brassica species
1996
Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
2011 StandoutNature
Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
2011 StandoutNature
Leaf Traits Determine the Growth‐Survival Trade‐Off across Rain Forest Tree Species
2006
Abundance and length polymorphism of microsatellite repeats in Beta vulgaris L.
1996
Apparent climatically induced increase of tree mortality rates in a temperate forest
2007
Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees
2010
Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community‐wide variation across latitude and elevation
2007
Length polymorphisms of simple sequence repeat DNA in soybean.
1992
The Human Microbiome Project
2007 StandoutNature
Simple sequence repeats for germplasm analysis and mapping in maize
1996
The Relationships of Wood-, Gas- and Water Fractions of Tree Stems to Performance and Life History Variation in Tropical Trees
2008
Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests
2007 Nature
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
2010 StandoutNature
The velocity of climate change
2009 StandoutNature
Quantifying the Extent of North American Mammal Extinction Relative to the Pre-Anthropogenic Baseline
2009
Microsatellite analysis of relationships within cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum)
1996
Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference
2009 Standout
Diversity of hydraulic traits in nine Cordia species growing in tropical forests with contrasting precipitation
2007
Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective
2010
The abundance of various polymorphic microsatellite motifs differs between plants and vertebrates
1993
Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum
2009 Standout
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology
2009 Standout
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human‐modified world
2009
Abundance, variability and chromosomal location of microsatellites in wheat
1995
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment
2004 StandoutNature
Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
2014 StandoutNature
Abundance, polymorphism and genetic mapping of microsatellites in rice
1993
Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf‐area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single‐species forests: a theoretical investigation
2010
Tropical Tree Richness and Resource-Based Niches
1999 Science
On the detection of dynamic responses in a drought-perturbed tropical rainforest in Borneo
2009
Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand
2009
Impact of severe drought associated with the 1997–1998 El Niño in a tropical forest in Sarawak
2000
Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: The Search for the Primary Cause
1992
Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
2014 StandoutScience
Transcription and RNA processing by the DNA tumour viruses
1980 Nature
Pleistocene Perspectives on Coral Reef Community Structure
1992
Production of a novel neuropeptide encoded by the calcitonin gene via tissue-specific RNA processing
1983 StandoutNature
Climate warming and the rainforest birds of the Australian Wet Tropics: Using abundance data as a sensitive predictor of change in total population size
2005
A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
2009 Standout
Conifers, Angiosperm Trees, and Lianas: Growth, Whole-Plant Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiency, and Stable Isotope Composition (δ 13C and δ 18O) of Seedlings Grown in a Tropical Environment
2008
Supplemental irrigation increases seedling performance and diversity in a tropical forest
2009
Species Loss and Aboveground Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest
2005 Science
Relationships between soil hydrology and forest structure and composition in the southern Brazilian Amazon
2007
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective
2003
Seed Size of Woody Plants in Relation to Disturbance, Dispersal, Soil Type in Wet Neotropical Forests
1995
Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity
2010 StandoutScience
Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems
2001 StandoutScience
Estimating resource acquisition and at‐sea body condition of a marine predator
2013
Impacts of climate change on natural forest productivity – evidence since the middle of the 20th century
2006
Effects of the 1997–98 El Niño drought on rain forests of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
2002
Re-assessing current extinction rates
2009
Localized tree mortality following the drought of 1999 at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda
2003
Growth, carbon‐isotope discrimination, and drought‐associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect
2009
A Microsatellite Map of Wheat
1998 Standout
Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest
2008 Science
Variation partitioning as a tool to distinguish between niche and neutral processes
2010
Floristic patterns along a 43‐km long transect in an Amazonian rain forest
2003
Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity
2012
A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data
2004 Standout
Disturbance and Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests: The Density Effect
1995
Amazonian Tree Mortality during the 1997 El Niño Drought
2000
Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness
2001 Standout
Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia
2005
The role of DNA rearrangement and alternative RNA processing in the expression of immunoglobulin delta genes
1981 StandoutNobel
Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants
1999 Nature
Drought-induced shift of a forest–woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation
1998
Factors predisposing episodic drought‐induced tree mortality in Nothofagus– site, climatic sensitivity and growth trends
2004
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND STAND AGE ON ANNUAL TREE DYNAMICS IN TROPICAL SECOND-GROWTH RAIN FORESTS
2005
Estimated migration rates under scenarios of global climate change
2002
Alternative RNA processing in calcitonin gene expression generates mRNAs encoding different polypeptide products
1982 StandoutNature
LIGHT GRADIENT PARTITIONING AMONG TROPICAL TREE SPECIES THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL SEEDLING MORTALITY AND GROWTH
1999
THE CONTRIBUTION OF EDAPHIC HETEROGENEITY TO THE EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF BURSERACEAE TREES IN THE WESTERN AMAZON
2005
Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world
2015 StandoutScience
Tissue‐level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species
2010
Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef
1994 StandoutScience
The role of wood density and stem support costs in the growth and mortality of tropical trees
2006
Within-plot relationships between tree species occurrences and hydrological soil constraints: an example in French Guiana investigated through canonical correlation analysis
2002
Extraordinarily polymorphic microsatellite DNA in barley: species diversity, chromosomal locations, and population dynamics.
1994
Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest
2010
The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States
2011 StandoutScience
Effects of a strong drought on Amazonian forest fragments and edges
2001
Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs
2003 StandoutScience
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions
2014
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection
2014 StandoutScience
An Emerging Disease Causes Regional Population Collapse of a Common North American Bat Species
2010 StandoutScience
Drought impact on forest growth and mortality in the southeast USA: an analysis using Forest Health and Monitoring data
2009
Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999
2003 StandoutScience
Drought as an Inciting Mortality Factor in Scots Pine Stands of the Valais, Switzerland
2006
Drought effects on seedling survival in a tropical moist forest
2005
Drought in a Bornean everwet rain forest
2003
Identification of simple arylfluorosulfates as potent agents against resistant bacteria
2021 StandoutNobel
Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)
2008
Changes in the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Plots
1998 Science
Tree Species Diversity in Commercially Logged Bornean Rainforest
1998 Science
Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet
2002 StandoutScience
Physical defence traits enhance seedling survival of neotropical tree species
2007
Species Richness, Spatial Variation, and Abundance of the Soil Seed Bank of a Secondary Tropical Rain Forest1
1998
Soil‐related performance variation and distributions of tree species in a Bornean rain forest
2005
Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1
2010
Species–habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest
2006
Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared
2011 StandoutScience
Selective Drought Mortality of Dipterocarp Trees: No Correlation with Timber Group Distributions in Borneo1
1998
Variation in wood density, wood water content, stem growth and mortality among twenty‐seven tree species in a tropical rainforest on Borneo Island
2007
The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia
2004
Stand dynamics of an Appalachian old-growth forest during a severe drought episode
2003
Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests
2008
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF PLEISTOCENE CORAL REEFS OF CURAÇAO, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
2001
On the causes of gradients in tropical tree diversity
1999
HERBIVORY AND PLANT DEFENSES IN TROPICAL FORESTS
1996
Defaunation in the Anthropocene
2014 StandoutScience
Drought and the consequences of El Niño in Borneo: a case study of figs
2001
Adaptation of forests and people to climate change - a global assessment report.
2009
The role of immigrants in the assembly of the South American rainforest tree flora
2004
Polypore fungal diversity and host density in a moist tropical forest
2002
Hurricane Disturbance and Tropical Tree Species Diversity
2000 Science
Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities
2012
Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal
2007
Assessing inter- and intra-specific variation in trunk carbon concentration for 32 neotropical tree species
2003
Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass
2004
Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree
2003 Standout
Drought, fire and tree survival in a Borneo rain forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
2004
Tropical forests and the changing earth system
2005
Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota
2004 StandoutScience
Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
2000 StandoutScience
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto
2014 Standout
THE MORTALITY OF MIDWESTERN OVERSTORY OAKS AS A BIOINDICATOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
1999
Sources or sinks? The responses of tropical forests to current and future climate and atmospheric composition
2004
A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity
2003
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF PLANT DISEASES IN NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
2002
Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution
2008
Long-term forest–savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation
2006
Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks and change
2011
Plurality of tree species responses to drought perturbation in Bornean tropical rain forest
2008
Works of Richard Condit being referenced
How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?
2008
The effect of climatic gradients, topographic variation and species traits on the beta diversity of rain forest trees
2007
ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS
2008 Standout
Defining and mapping vegetation types in mega-diverse tropical forests
1996
Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species
2012
Forest turnover, diversity, and CO2
1997
Research in large, long-term tropical forest plots
1995
Abundance and DNA sequence of two-base repeat regions in tropical tree genomes
1991
The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set
2010
Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests
2004 Nature
Presence and absence of density dependence in a neotropical tree community
1990
GAP-DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT, REALIZED VITAL RATES, AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF TROPICAL TREES
2003
Inferred longevity of Amazonian rainforest trees based on a long-term demographic study
2003
The Status of the Panama Canal Watershed and Its Biodiversity at the Beginning of the 21st Century
2001
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL TRANSITION FROM FASTING TO FEEDING IN WEANED ELEPHANT SEAL PUPS
1987
Assessing the response of plant functional types to climatic change in tropical forests
1996
The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind
2007
Mortality Rates of 205 Neotropical Tree and Shrub Species and the Impact of a Severe Drought
1995
Similar non–random processes maintain diversity in two tropical rainforests
1999
Density Dependence in Two Understory Tree Species in a Neotropical Forest
1994
Tree Species Composition and Diversity in the Upper Chagres River Basin, Panamá
2005
Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees
2005
Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest
1999 Science
Strong density- and diversity-related effects help to maintain tree species diversity in a neotropical forest
1997
Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador
2004
Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50‐ha neotropical forest plot
2001
Recruitment Near Conspecific Adults and the Maintenance of Tree and Shrub Diversity in a Neotropical Forest
1992
Short-Term Dynamics of a Neotropical Forest
1992
Species-Area and Species-Individual Relationships for Tropical Trees: A Comparison of Three 50-ha Plots
1996
Transcription of a defective polyoma virus genome.
1978
Quantifying the deciduousness of tropical forest canopies under varying climates
2000
Demographic and life‐history correlates for Amazonian trees
2005
A spatially explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: does the identity of neighbours matter?
2004
Predicting species diversity in tropical forests
2000
Dynamics of the forest communities at Pasoh and Barro Colorado: comparing two 50–ha plots
1999
Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees
2002 Science
Local neighborhood effects on long‐term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest
2001
Above‐ground biomass estimation in closed canopy Neotropical forests using lidar remote sensing: factors affecting the generality of relationships
2003
Mortality and growth of a commercial hardwood ‘el cativo’, Prioria copaifera, in Panama
1993
Ecological Implications of Changes in Drought Patterns: Shifts in Forest Composition in Panama
1998
Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest
2008
Floristic composition across a climatic gradient in a neotropical lowland forest
2001
Diameter, Height, Crown, and Age Relationship in Eight Neotropical Tree Species
1995