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Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests.  Journal of Ecology.  114.

Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests.  Nature Communications.  16.

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change.  Science.  387:1057-+.

Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras.  Scientific Reports.  15.

Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa.  Functional Ecology.  39:181-198.

Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests.  Functional Ecology.  39:21-37.

Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities.  Journal of Biogeography.  51:1163-1184.

One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.  Nature Ecology and Evolution.  8.

Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old-growth and selectively logged tropical forests.  Journal of Ecology.  112:590-612.

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.  Nature.  625:728-+.

Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora.  Communications Biology.  6.

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.  Science.  382:103-108.

Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly.  Nature Climate Change. 

Characterizing the landscape of plant science careers in the United States II: Academic perspectives.  Plants People Planet.  5:796-811.

Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  120.

Niche breadth of Amazonian trees increases with niche optimum across broad edaphic gradients.  Ecology.  104.

Root-associated fungal communities are influenced more by soils than by plant-host root traits in a Chinese tropical forest.  New Phytologist.  238:1849-1864.

Weak phylogenetic and habitat effects on root trait variation of 218 Neotropical tree species.  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.  6.

Intraspecific trait variation and species turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community-weighted means.  Plant Ecology.  224:463-477.

Functional variability in specific root respiration translates to autotrophic differences in soil respiration in a temperate deciduous forest.  Geoderma.  432.

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.  Scientific Reports.  13.

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates.  Global Ecology and Biogeography.  32:49-69.

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset.  Scientific data.  9.

Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient.  Oikos.  2022.

Water levels primarily drive variation in photosynthesis and nutrient use of scrub Red Mangroves in the southeastern Florida Everglades.  Tree Physiology.  42:797-814.

Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests.  Ecological Monographs.  91.

The physiological acclimation and growth response of Populus trichocarpa to warming.  Physiologia Plantarum.  173:1008-1029.

At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana.  Applied Soil Ecology.  164.

Resolving whole-plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of 1467 Amazonian tree species.  Oikos.  130:1193-1208.

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata.  Nature Ecology and Evolution.  5:757-+.

Revisiting the hyperdominance of Neotropical tree species under a taxonomic, functional and evolutionary perspective.  Scientific Reports.  11.

Root anatomy helps to reconcile observed root trait syndromes in tropical tree species.  American Journal of Botany.  108:744-755.

Evidence of elemental homeostasis in fine root and leaf tissues of saplings across a fertility gradient in tropical montane forest in Hainan, China.  Plant and Soil.  460:625-646.

Environmental determinants of leaf litter ant community composition along an elevational gradient.  Biotropica.  53:97-109.

Surprising low diversity of the plant pathogen Phytophthora in Amazonian forests.  Environmental Microbiology.  22:5019-5032.

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests.  Nature Communications.  11.

Independent evolutionary changes in fine-root traits among main clades during the diversification of seed plants.  New Phytologist.  228:541-553.

Morphological variation of fine root systems and leaves in primary and secondary tropical forests of Hainan Island, China.  Annals of Forest Science.  77.

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.  Scientific Reports.  10.

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests.  Science.  368:869-+.

Tree communities and soil properties influence fungal community assembly in neotropical forests.  Biotropica.  52:444-456.

Disentangling the effects of environment and ontogeny on tree functional dimensions for congeneric species in tropical forests.  New Phytologist.  226:385-395.

Relative Efficiency of Pitfall Trapping vs. Nocturnal Hand Collecting in Assessing Soil-Dwelling Spider Diversity along A Structural Gradient of Neotropical Habitats.  Sensors.  12.

Evidence for trait-based community assembly patterns in hardwood hammock forests.  Ecosphere.  10.

Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests.  Nature Ecology and Evolution.  3:1754-1761.

Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics.  Oecologia.  191:519-530.

Fungi of French Guiana gathered in a taxonomic, environmental and molecular dataset.  Scientific data.  6.

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.  Scientific Reports.  9.

Coordinated community structure among trees, fungi and invertebrate groups in Amazonian rainforests.  Scientific Reports.  9.

A spatiotemporal natural-human database to evaluate road development impacts in an Amazon trinational frontier.  Scientific data.  6.

The Amazonas-trap: a new method for sampling plant-inhabiting arthropod communities in tropical forest understory.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.  167:534-543.

Dominant tree species drive beta diversity patterns in western Amazonia.  Ecology.  100.

Trait-based community assembly pattern along a forest succession gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest.  Ecosphere.  10.

Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities.  Journal of Ecology.  107:696-710.

sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses.  Journal of Vegetation Science.  30:161-186.

Habitats shape taxonomic and functional composition of Neotropical ant assemblages.  Oecologia.  189:501-513.

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change.  Global Change Biology.  25:39-56.

A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  218:69-88.

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities.  Nature Ecology and Evolution.  2:1906-1917.

Understanding the recruitment response of juvenile Neotropical trees to logging intensity using functional traits.  Ecological Applications.  28:1998-2010.

Understanding the Recruitment Response of Juvenile Neotropical Trees to Logging Intensity Using Functional Traits.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.  99.

Divergent Secondary Metabolites and Habitat Filtering Both Contribute to Tree Species Coexistence in the Peruvian Amazon.  Frontiers in Plant Science.  9.

Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species.  New Phytologist.  218:1015-1024.

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data.  Scientific Reports.  8.

Geographical Variation in Community Divergence: Insights from Tropical Forest Monodominance by Ectomycorrhizal Trees.  The American Naturalist.  190:S105-S122.

Nutrient-cycling mechanisms other than the direct absorption from soil may control forest structure and dynamics in poor Amazonian soils.  Scientific Reports.  7.

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition.  Science.  355:925-+.

Intraspecific leaf trait variability along a boreal-to-tropical community diversity gradient.  PLoS ONE.  12.

Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations' carbon emissions.  Carbon Balance and Management.  12.

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome.  Scientific Reports.  7.

Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia.  Ecology and Society.  22.

Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests.  eLife.  5.

Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  283.

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models.  Global Change Biology.  22:3996-4013.

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests.  Science.  354.

There's no place like home: seedling mortality contributes to the habitat specialisation of tree species across Amazonia.  Ecology Letters.  19:1256-1266.

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles.  30:964-982.

Evolutionary patterns of volatile terpene emissions across 202 tropical tree species.  Ecology and Evolution.  6:2854-2864.

Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  283.

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations.  Ambio.  45:29-41.

Interdependency of plants and animals in controlling the sodium balance of ecosystems and the impacts of global defaunation.  Ecography.  39:204-212.

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition.  Nature.  529:204-U174.

The global spectrum of plant form and function.  Nature.  529:167-+.

GuiaTreeKey, a multi-access electronic key to identify tree genera in French Guiana.  PhytoKeys.  27-44.

Habitat Endemism in White-sand Forests: Insights into the Mechanisms of Lineage Diversification and Community Assembly of the Neotropical Flora.  Biotropica.  48:24-33.

Low Phylogenetic Beta Diversity and Geographic Neo-endemism in Amazonian White-sand Forests.  Biotropica.  48:34-46.

Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Lepidoptera Communities of Amazonian White-sand Forests.  Biotropica.  48:101-109.

Taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests.  Journal of Animal Ecology.  85:227-239.

Pervasive Local-Scale Tree-Soil Habitat Association in a Tropical Forest Community.  PLoS ONE.  10.

Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier.  Biological Conservation.  191:674-681.

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.  Science Advances.  1.

Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities.  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity.  21:1295-1307.

Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest.  Functional Ecology.  29:1268-1277.

Optimal strategies for sampling functional traits in species-rich forests.  Functional Ecology.  29:1325-1331.

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why.  Journal of Ecology.  103:978-989.

BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants.  Ecology.  96:1445-1445.

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.  Nature Communications.  6.

Reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation in tropical forests using reduced-impact logging..  Journal of Applied Ecology.  52:379-388.

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink.  Nature.  519:344-+.

Day-time vs. night-time sampling does not affect estimates of spider diversity across a land use gradient in the Neotropics.  Journal of Arachnology.  43:413-416.

The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests.  Applied Vegetation Science.  18:171-174.

Estimating tropical tree diversity indices from forestry surveys: A method to integrate taxonomic uncertainty.  Forest Ecology and Management.  328:270-281.

Wood specific gravity and anatomy of branches and roots in 113 Amazonian rainforest tree species across environmental gradients.  New Phytologist.  202:79-94.

Logging in bamboo-dominated forests in southwestern Amazonia: Caveats and opportunities for smallholder forest management.  Forest Ecology and Management.  315:202-210.

Leaf synchrony and insect herbivory among tropical tree habitat specialists.  Plant Ecology.  215:209-220.

The water relations of two tropical rainforest species (Virola surinamensis and Eperua falcata): Is Virola unusual as previously reported?.  Journal of Plant Hydraulics.  1:e002-e002.

Are commonly measured functional traits involved in tropical tree responses to climate?.  International Journal of Ecology.  2014.

Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests.  Journal of Ecology.  102:145-155.

Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia.  Ecology and Society.  19.

Correction: Toward Trait-Based Mortality Models for Tropical Forests.  PLoS ONE.  8:10.1371/annotation/af025e30-f31f-4300-be8b-4655484ed09e.

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora.  Science.  342:325-+.

Strong coupling of plant and fungal community structure across western Amazonian rainforests.  The ISME Journal.  7:1852-1861.

Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change: Highway paving and community-level deforestation in a tri-national frontier in the Amazon.  Land Use Policy.  34:27-41.

Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees.  Ecology.  94:1764-1775.

Toward Trait-Based Mortality Models for Tropical Forests.  PLoS ONE.  8.

Rapid Simultaneous Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity Across Neotropical Forests: A Comparison of Field Inventory Methods.  Biotropica.  45:288-298.

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems.  PLoS Biology.  11.

Differences in volatile terpene composition between the bark and leaves of tropical tree species.  Phytochemistry.  82:81-88.

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species.  Functional Ecology.  26:1153-1161.

Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging.  Journal of Applied Ecology.  49:861-870.

Herbivory, growth rates, and habitat specialization in tropical tree lineages: implications for Amazonian beta-diversity.  Ecology.  93:S195-S210.

Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly.  Ecology.  93:760-769.

The decomposition of Shannon's entropy and a confidence interval for beta diversity.  Oikos.  121:516-522.

A comparison of two common flight interception traps to survey tropical arthropods.  ZooKeys.  43-55.

Current knowledge on overall post-logging biomass dynamics in Northern Amazonian forests.  Bois et Forets des Tropiques.  41-49.

Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest.  Ecology Letters.  15:34-41.

Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species.  Journal of Ecology.  99:1431-1440.

Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests.  Global Change Biology.  17:2677-2688.

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests.  Oikos.  120:720-727.

WITHIN-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION OF TRUNK AND BRANCH XYLEM DENSITY IN TROPICAL TREES.  American Journal of Botany.  98:140-149.

Functional explanations for variation in bark thickness in tropical rain forest trees.  Functional Ecology.  24:1202-1210.

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees.  Ecology Letters.  13:1338-1347.

Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter: a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana.  Annals of Forest Science.  67.

Modeling decay rates of dead wood in a neotropical forest.  Oecologia.  164:243-251.

Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps.  Journal of Applied Ecology.  47:821-831.

Fine-scale Microhabitat Heterogeneity in a French Guianan Forest.  Biotropica.  42:420-428.

Integrating functional diversity into tropical forest plantation designs to study ecosystem processes.  Annals of Forest Science.  67.

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities.  Functional Ecology.  24:208-216.

Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest.  Journal of Ecology.  98:137-146.

Diversity of the Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted by 55 Species of Tropical Trees: a Survey in French Guiana.  Journal of Chemical Ecology.  35:1349-1362.

Identification of Amazonian Trees with DNA Barcodes.  PLoS ONE.  4.

Dynamics of aboveground carbon stocks in a selectively logged tropical forest.  Ecological Applications.  19:1397-1404.

Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon.  Ecography.  32:46-54.

A trait database for Guianan rain forest trees permits intra- and inter-specific contrasts.  Annals of Forest Science.  64:781-786.

Seed size, seedling morphology, and response to deep shade and damage in neotropical rain forest trees.  American Journal of Botany.  94:901-911.

Future crop tree damage in a certified community forest in southwestern Amazonia.  Forest Ecology and Management.  242:108-118.

Seasonal water stress tolerance and habitat associations within four neotropical tree genera.  Ecology.  88:478-489.

Ecological limitations of reduced-impact logging at the smallholder scale.  Forest Ecology and Management.  238:365-374.

Limitations and applications of parataxonomy for community forest management in Southwestern Amazonia.  Ethnobotany Research and Applications.  5:77-84.

Differential seedling growth response to soil resource availability among nine neotropical tree species.  Journal of Tropical Ecology.  22:487-497.

Seed mass, seedling size and neotropical tree seedling establishment.  Journal of Ecology.  93:1156-1166.

Performance trade-offs among tropical tree seedlings in contrasting microhabitats.  Ecology.  86:2461-2472.

Microhabitat associations and seedling bank dynamics in a neotropical forest.  Oecologia.  141:701-712.

Régénération forestière naturelle : de la graine à la jeune tige..  Revue Forestiere Francaise.  55:179-187.

A comparison of five indirect methods for characterizing the light environment in a tropical forest.  Annals of Forest Science.  58:877-891.

Scientists and stakeholders, data and diagnostics: Crossing boundaries for modeling the impacts of highway paving in a tri-national frontier in the amazon.  327-359.

Love Thy Neighbour? Tropical Tree Growth and Its Response to Climate Anomalies Is Mediated by Neighbourhood Hierarchy and Dissimilarity in Carbon- and Water-Related Traits.  Ecology Letters.

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests.  Current Biology. R787-R788.

Is climate a stronger driver of tree growth than disturbance? A comment on Toledo et al. (2011).  Journal of Ecology. 1065-1068.

One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (Mar, 10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1, 2024).  Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1046-1047.

The number of tree species on Earth (vol 119, e2115329119, 2022).  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

TRY plant trait database - Enhanced coverage and open access (vol 26, pg 119, 2020).  Global Change Biology. 1318-1318.

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (vol 11, 5515, 2020).  Nature Communications.

Morphological variation of fine root systems and leaves in primary and secondary tropical forests of Hainan Island, China (vol 77, 76, 2020).  Annals of Forest Science.

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests (vol 25, pg R787, 2015).  Current Biology. 2738-2738.

The number of tree species on Earth.  Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 281-282.

Intraspecific trait variation and species turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community weighted means

Functional Variability in Specific Root Respiration Translates to Autotrophic Differences in Soil Respiration in a Temperate Decicuous Forest

Functional Variability in Specific Root Respiration Translates to Autotrophic Differences in Soil Respiration in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

Water levels primarily drive variation in photosynthesis and nutrient use of scrub Red Mangroves in the southeastern Florida Everglades

A Methodology to Derive Global Maps of Leaf Traits Using Remote Sensing and Climate Data

At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana

Intraspecific root and leaf trait variation with tropical forest successional status: consequences for community-weighted patterns

Intraspecific trait variation and species functional turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing gap-filling for community weighted means

Intraspecific trait variation and species functional turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community weighted means

Quantifying Tropical Plant Diversity Requires an Integrated Technological Approach.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 1100-1109.

Botanic gardens are an untapped resource for studying the functional ecology of tropical plants.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 258-267.

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities.  Ecology Letters. 1406-1419.

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities.  Journal of Ecology. 690-701.

Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin.  Biogeosciences. 545-568.

Natural forest regeneration - From seed to young stem [abstract].  Revue Forestiere Francaise. 179-187.