Richard Condit

25.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
148 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

About

Richard Condit is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Condit has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 53 papers in Ecology and 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Richard Condit's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (91 papers), Forest ecology and management (57 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Richard Condit is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (91 papers), Forest ecology and management (57 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Richard Condit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Germany. Richard Condit's co-authors include Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster, S. Joseph Wright‬, Kyle E. Harms, Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Salomón Aguilar, Benjamin L. Turner, Renato Valencia, Raman Sukumar and S. Lao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard Condit

143 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

1999 1.2k citations Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster et al. Science profile →
Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

2002 1.1k citations Richard Condit, Robin B. Foster et al. Science profile →
Tropical Forest Census Plots

1998 802 citations Richard Condit profile →
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 →
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 →
Mortality Rates of 205 Neotropical Tree and Shrub Species and the Impact of a Severe Drought

1995 569 citations Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell et al. profile →
Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

2013 384 citations Richard Condit et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Pervasive phosphorus limitation of tree species but not communities in tropical forests

2018 268 citations Richard Condit et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Condit

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Condit

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Condit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Condit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Condit based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Condit. Richard Condit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Signal and Noise in Sampling Tropical Forest Structure and Dynamics 2026 ·(unknown), Peter S. Ashton, Richard Condit, N. Manokaran, Stephen P. Hubbell	0
2	Quantifying dispersal between two colonies of northern elephant seals across 17 birth cohorts 2023 ·PLoS ONE ·Richard Condit, (unknown), Patricia Morris, Daniel P. Costa	0
3	Neighbours consistently influence tree growth and survival in a frequently burned open oak landscape 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Mark A. Davis, Richard Condit	3
4	Estimating population size when individuals are asynchronous: A model illustrated with northern elephant seal breeding colonies 2022 ·PLoS ONE ·Richard Condit, Sarah G. Allen, Daniel P. Costa, (unknown), (unknown), Burney J. Le Bœuf, Mark S. Lowry, Patricia Morris	3
5	Distribution of Panama’s narrow-range trees: are there hot-spots? 2021 ·Forest Ecosystems ·(unknown), Richard Condit	0
6	Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics 2020 ·Science ·Nadja Rüger, Richard Condit, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Stephen P. Hubbell, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Omar R. López, Christian Wirth, Caroline E. Farrior	115
7	Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kailiang Yu, William K. Smith, Anna T. Trugman, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell, Jordi Sardans, Changhui Peng, Kai Zhu, Josep Peñuelas, Maxime Cailleret, Tom Levanič, Arthur Geßler, Marcus Schaub, Marco Ferretti, William R. L. Anderegg	54
8	Inter‐annual variability of fruit timing and quantity at Nouragues (French Guiana): insights from hierarchical Bayesian analyses 2018 ·Biotropica ·Irene Mendoza, Richard Condit, S. Joseph Wright‬, (unknown), Patrick Châtelet, Isabelle Hardy, Pierre‐Michel Forget	29
9	Partitioning mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards across 203 tropical tree species 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James Camac, Richard Condit, Richard G. FitzJohn, (unknown), Daniel Steinberg, Mark Westoby, S. Joseph Wright‬, Daniel S. Falster	23
10	A Bioenergetics Approach to Understanding the Population Consequences of Disturbance: Elephant Seals as a Model System 2015 ·Advances in experimental medicine and biology ·Daniel P. Costa, Lisa K. Schwarz, Patrick W. Robinson, Robert S. Schick, Patricia Morris, Richard Condit, Daniel E. Crocker, A. Marm Kilpatrick	28
11	Extracting Environmental Benefits from a New Canal in Nicaragua: Lessons from Panama 2015 ·PLoS Biology ·Richard Condit	10
12	Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species 2012 ·Ecology ·Nadja Rüger, Christian Wirth, S. Joseph Wright‬, Richard Condit	143
13	Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Nadja Rüger, Uta Berger, Stephen P. Hubbell, Ghislain Vieilledent, Richard Condit	86
14	The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set 2010 ·New Phytologist ·Nathan J. B. Kraft, Margaret R. Metz, Richard Condit, Jérôme Chave	122
15	How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct? 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Luís Borda‐de‐Água, James R. Kellner, Hans ter Steege	199
16	ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS breakdown → 2008 ·Ecology ·Lourens Poorter, S. Joseph Wright‬, Horacio Paz, David D. Ackerly, Richard Condit, Guillermo Ibarra‐Manríquez, Kyle E. Harms, Juan Carlos Licona, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Susan J. Mazer, Helene C. Muller‐Landau, (unknown), Campbell O. Webb, Ian J. Wright	593
17	An Ecosystem Report on the Panama Canal: Monitoring the Status of the Forest Communities and the Watershed 2002 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Roberto Ibáñez, Richard Condit, George R. Angehr, Salomón Aguilar, Tomás García Martín, (unknown), (unknown), Robert F. Stallard, S. Joseph Wright‬, A. Stanley Rand, (unknown)	60
18	Predicting Population Trends from Size Distributions: A Direct Test in a Tropical Tree Community 1998 ·The American Naturalist ·Richard Condit, Raman Sukumar, Stephen P. Hubbell, Robin B. Foster	330
19	Forest turnover, diversity, and CO2 1997 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Richard Condit	14
20	Abundance and DNA sequence of two-base repeat regions in tropical tree genomes 1991 ·Genome ·Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell	187

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