Kyle E. Harms

15.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
86 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Kyle E. Harms is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle E. Harms has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kyle E. Harms's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (46 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Kyle E. Harms is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (46 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Kyle E. Harms collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Australia. Kyle E. Harms's co-authors include S. Joseph Wright‬, Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster, Richard Condit, Joseph B. Yavitt, James W. Dalling, Jonathan A. Myers, Milton N. Garcia, Osvaldo Calderón and Andrés Hernández and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kyle E. Harms

82 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree ... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2000 2010 2007 2001 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest
    1999 1.2k citations Stephen P. Hubbell, Kyle E. Harms et al. profile →
  2. Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest
    2000 819 citations Kyle E. Harms, S. Joseph Wright‬ et al. profile →
  3. Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees
    2010 795 citations S. Joseph Wright‬, Kaoru Kitajima et al. Ecology profile →
  4. Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species
    2007 785 citations James W. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms et al. profile →
  5. Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50‐ha neotropical forest plot
    2001 689 citations Kyle E. Harms, Richard Condit et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  6. ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS
    2008 593 citations Lourens Poorter, S. Joseph Wright‬ et al. Ecology profile →
  7. Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest
    2011 472 citations S. Joseph Wright‬, Joseph B. Yavitt et al. Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kyle E. Harms United States 42 7.7k 3.9k 3.3k 2.8k 2.0k 86 10.6k
Marcelo Cabido Argentina 46 6.7k 0.9× 3.8k 1.0× 2.9k 0.9× 3.2k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 118 10.1k
Shahid Naeem United States 16 4.9k 0.6× 2.6k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 3.7k 1.3× 2.2k 1.1× 25 9.7k
Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen Germany 55 6.4k 0.8× 2.4k 0.6× 3.9k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 162 11.2k
Adrián Escudero Spain 54 5.5k 0.7× 4.8k 1.3× 2.5k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 3.7k 1.9× 307 10.3k
Deborah A. Clark United States 51 6.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 4.3k 1.3× 2.5k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 126 10.4k
Francisco I. Pugnaire Spain 58 9.4k 1.2× 5.4k 1.4× 4.3k 1.3× 3.5k 1.2× 6.0k 3.0× 160 14.8k
Étienne Laliberté Canada 42 5.1k 0.7× 3.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 2.9k 1.0× 3.9k 2.0× 96 10.0k
Christiane Roscher Germany 55 4.7k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 2.2k 0.8× 2.7k 1.4× 150 8.2k
Michelle R. Leishman Australia 53 6.8k 0.9× 4.7k 1.2× 2.2k 0.7× 3.1k 1.1× 5.2k 2.6× 186 11.8k
Amy J. Symstad United States 22 4.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 2.6k 0.8× 3.2k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 50 7.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Snell‐Rood, Emilie C., et al.. (2024). Butterfly species vary in sex‐specific sodium accumulation from larval diets. Ecological Entomology. 50(1). 228–234. 1 indexed citations
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Harms, Kyle E., et al.. (2023). Low sodium availability in hydroponically manipulated host plants promotes cannibalism in a lepidopteran herbivore. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20822–20822. 3 indexed citations
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Harms, Kyle E., et al.. (2022). Contrasts among cationic phytochemical landscapes in the southern United States. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). 226–241. 4 indexed citations
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Harms, Kyle E., et al.. (2021). No escape: The influence of substrate sodium on plant growth and tissue sodium responses. Ecology and Evolution. 11(20). 14231–14249. 14 indexed citations
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Wills, Christopher, Kyle E. Harms, Thorsten Wiegand, et al.. (2016). Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0156913–e0156913. 11 indexed citations
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Barrett, Luke G., et al.. (2015). Host promiscuity in symbiont associations can influence exotic legume establishment and colonization of novel ranges. Diversity and Distributions. 21(10). 1193–1203. 40 indexed citations
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Harms, Kyle E. & Peter T. Green. (2014). Under the Lunch Tree: Fifty years of rainforest dynamics in Queensland, Australia.. Natural history. 122(2). 32–37.
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Cleveland, Cory C., Alan R. Townsend, Philip Taylor, et al.. (2011). Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis. Ecology Letters. 14(9). 939–947. 373 indexed citations
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Santiago, Louis S., S. Joseph Wright‬, Kyle E. Harms, et al.. (2011). Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition. Journal of Ecology. 100(2). 309–316. 193 indexed citations
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Wright‬, S. Joseph, Joseph B. Yavitt, Nina Wurzburger, et al.. (2011). Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest. Ecology. 92(8). 1616–1625. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wright‬, S. Joseph, Kaoru Kitajima, Nathan J. B. Kraft, et al.. (2010). Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees. Ecology. 91(12). 3664–3674. 795 indexed citations breakdown →
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Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. (2009). Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high‐diversity pine savannas. Ecology. 90(10). 2745–2754. 59 indexed citations
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Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. (2009). Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 12(11). 1250–1260. 287 indexed citations
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Poorter, Lourens, S. Joseph Wright‬, Horacio Paz, et al.. (2008). ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS. Ecology. 89(7). 1908–1920. 593 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harms, Kyle E., et al.. (2007). Collpas: Activity Hotspots for Frugivorous Bats (Phyllostomidae) in the Peruvian Amazon. Biotropica. 40(2). 203–210. 41 indexed citations
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Wright, Ian J., David D. Ackerly, Frans Bongers, et al.. (2006). Relationships Among Ecologically Important Dimensions of Plant Trait Variation in Seven Neotropical Forests. Annals of Botany. 99(5). 1003–1015. 320 indexed citations
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Harms, Kyle E. & C. E. Timothy Paine. (2003). Regeneración de árboles tropicales e implicaciones para el manejo de bosques naturales. Ecosistemas: Revista científica y técnica de ecología y medio ambiente. 12(3). 1–16. 3 indexed citations
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Dalling, James W., et al.. (1997). Regeneration from Cotyledons in Gustavia superba (Lecythidaceae). Biotropica. 29(2). 234–237. 18 indexed citations

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