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  • Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide 
    Merow, Cory; Dahlgren, Johan P.; Metcalf, C. J.; Childs, Dylan Z.; Evans, Margaret E. K.; Jongejans, Eelke; Record, Sydne; Rees, Mark; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; McMahon, Sean M. (2014)
    * Integral projection models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates survival, growth and reproduction to make population projections. IPMs are constructed from regression ...
  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment 
    Stark, Scott C.; Leitold, Veronika; Wu, Jin L.; Hunter, Maria O.; de Castilho, Carolina V.; Costa, Flávia R. C.; McMahon, Sean M.; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Shimabukuro, Mô; Lefsky, Michael A.; Keller, Michael; Alves, Luciana F.; Schietti, Juliana; Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir; Brandão, Diego O.; Woodcock, Tara K.; Higuchi, Niro; de Camargo, Plinio B.; de Oliveira, Raimundo C.; Saleska, Scott R. (2012)
    Tropical forest structural variation across heterogeneous landscapes may control above-ground carbon dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that canopy structure (leaf area and light availability) remotely estimated from ...
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide 
    Zhong, Yonglin; Chu, Chengjin; Myers, Jonathan A.; Gilbert, Gregory S.; Lutz, James A.; Stillhard, Jonas; Zhu, Kai; Thompson, Jill; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; He, Fangliang; LaManna, Joseph A.; Davies, Stuart J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Alonso, Alfonso; Chao, Kuo-Jung; Wang, Xugao; Gao, Lianming; Orwig, David A.; Yin, Xue; Sui, Xinghua; Su, Zhiyao; Abiem, Iveren; Bissiengou, Pulchérie; Bourg, Norm; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Chang-Yang, Chia; Chao, Wei-Chun; Chapman, Hazel; Chen, Yu-Yun; Coomes, David A.; Cordell, Susan; de Oliveira, Alexandre A.; Du, Hu; Fang, Suqin; Giardina, Christian P.; Hao, Zhanqing; Hector, Andrew; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Janík, David; Jansen, Patrick A.; Jiang, Mingxi; Jin, Guangze; Kenfack, David; Král, Kamil; Larson, Andrew J.; Li, Buhang; Li, Xiankun; Li, Yide; Lian, Juyu; Lin, Luxiang; Liu, Feng; Liu, Yankun; Liu, Yu; Luan, Fuchen; Luo, Yahuang; Ma, Keping; Malhi, Yadvinder; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William; Memiaghe, Hervé; Mi, Xiangcheng; Morecroft, Mike; Novotny, Vojtech; O'Brien, Michael J.; Ouden, Jan den; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Qiao, Xiujuan; Ren, Haibao; Reynolds, Glen; Samonil, Pavel; Sang, Weiguo; Shen, Guochun; Shen, Zhiqiang; Song, Guo-Zhang Michael; Sun, I. -F; Tang, Hui; Tian, Songyan; Uowolo, Amanda L.; Uriarte, María; Wang, Bin; Wang, Xihua; Wang, Youshi; Weiblen, George D.; Wu, Zhihong; Xi, Nianxun; Xiang, Wusheng; Xu, Han; Xu, Kun; Ye, Wanhui; Yu, Mingjian; Zeng, Fuping; Zhang, Minhua; Zhang, Yingming; Zhu, Li; Zimmerman, Jess K. (2021)
    Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) associations are critical for host-tree performance. However, how mycorrhizal associations correlate with the latitudinal tree beta-diversity remains untested. Using a ...
  • Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests 
    Sedio, Brian E.; Spasojevic, Marko J.; Myers, Jonathan A.; Wright, S. Joseph; Person, Maria D.; Chandrasekaran, Hamssika; Dwenger, Jack H.; Prechi, Maria Laura; Lopez, Christian A.; Allen, David N.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; Bourg, Norman A.; Castillo, Buck T.; Day, Nicola J.; Dewald-Wang, Emily; Dick, Christopher W.; James, Timothy Y.; Kueneman, Jordan G.; LaManna, Joseph; Lutz, James A.; McGregor, Ian R.; McMahon, Sean M.; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Parker, John D.; Vandermeer, John H. (2021)
    Plant diversity varies immensely over large-scale gradients in temperature, precipitation, and seasonality at global and regional scales. This relationship may be driven in part by climatic variation in the relative ...
  • Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees 
    Johnson, Daniel J.; Needham, Jessica; Xu, Chonggang; Massoud, Elias C.; Davies, Stuart J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Chambers, Jeffery Q.; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Chiang, Jyh-Min; Chuyong, George B.; Condit, Richard S.; Cordell, Susan; Fletcher, Christine; Giardina, Christian P.; Giambelluca, Thomas W.; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Gunatilleke, Savitri; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen; Inman-Narahari, Faith; Kassim, Abdul Rahman; Katabuchi, Masatoshi; Kenfack, David; Litton, Creighton M.; Lum, Shawn; Mohamad, Mohizah; Nasardin, Musalmah; Ong, Perry S.; Ostertag, Rebecca; Sack, Lawren; Swenson, Nathan G.; Sun, I. Fang; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Duncan W.; Thompson, Jill; Umana, Maria Natalia; Uriarte, Maria; Valencia, Renato; Yap, Sandra; Zimmerman, Jess; McDowell, Nate G.; McMahon, Sean M. (2018)
    Survival rates of large trees determine forest biomass dynamics. Survival rates of small trees have been linked to mechanisms that maintain biodiversity across tropical forests. How species survival rates change with size ...
  • Closing the life cycle of forest trees: The difficult dynamics of seedling-to-sapling transitions in a subtropical rainforest 
    Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Needham, Jessica; Lu, Chia-Ling; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Sun, I-Fang; McMahon, Sean M. (2021)
    Experimental and observational studies on seedling dynamics posit mechanisms that can influence forest diversity, structure and function. However, high mortality and slow growth of seedlings make it difficult to evaluate ...
  • Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community 
    Sedio, Brian E.; Parker, John D.; McMahon, Sean M.; Wright, S. Joseph (2018)
    Plant enemies that attack chemically similar host species are thought to mediate competitive exclusion of chemically similar plants and select for chemical divergence among closely related species. This hypothesis predicts ...
  • Comparative metabolomics of forest communities: Species differences in foliar chemistry are greater in the tropics 
    Sedio, Brian E.; Parker, John D.; McMahon, Sean M.; Wright, S. Joseph (2018)
    Interspecific variation in the secondary metabolites of plants constrains host specificity of insect herbivores and microbial pathogens. The intensity and specificity of these plant-pest interactions is widely believed to ...
  • Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas 
    Sezen, U. Uzay; Worthy, Samantha J.; Umaña, Maria N.; Davies, Stuart J.; McMahon, Sean M.; Swenson, Nathan G. (2022)
    Lianas, climbing woody plants, influence the structure and function of tropical forests. Climbing traits have evolved multiple times, including ancestral groups such as gymnosperms and pteridophytes, but the genetic basis ...
  • Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations 
    Albert, Loren P.; Restrepo-Coupe, Natalia; Smith, Marielle N.; Wu, Jin; Chavana-Bryant, Cecilia; Prohaska, Neill; Taylor, Tyeen C.; Martins, Giordane A.; Ciais, Philippe; Mao, Jiafu; Arain, M. A.; Li, Wei; Shi, Xiaoying; Ricciuto, Daniel M.; Huxman, Travis E.; McMahon, Sean M.; Saleska, Scott R. (2019)
    Plant phenology - the timing of cyclic or recurrent biological events in plants - offers insight into the ecology, evolution, and seasonality of plant-mediated ecosystem processes. Traditionally studied phenologies are ...
  • CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change 
    Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Davies, Stuart James; Bennett, Amy C.; González-Akre, Erika B.; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Wright, S. Joseph; Abu Salim, Kamariah; Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica M.; Alonso, Alfonso; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; Basset, Yves; Bourg, Norman A.; Broadbent, Eben N.; Brockelman, Warren Y.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Cardenas, Dairon; Chuyong, George B.; Clay, Keith; Cordell, Susan; Dattaraja, Handanakere S.; Deng, Xiaobao; Detto, Matteo; Du, Xiaojun; Duque, Alvaro; Erikson, David L.; Ewango, Corneille E. N.; Fischer, Gunter A.; Fletcher, Christine; Foster, Robin B.; Giardina, Christian P.; Gilbert, Gregory S.; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Gunatilleke, Savitri; Hao, Zhanqing; Hargrove, William W.; Hart, Terese B.; Hau, Billy C. H.; He, Fangliang; Hoffman, Forrest M.; Howe, Robert W.; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Inman-Narahari, Faith; Jansen, Patrick A.; Jiang, Mingxi; Johnson, Daniel J.; Kanzaki, Mamoru; Kassim, Abdul Rahman; Kenfack, David; Kibet, Staline; Kinnaird, Margaret F.; Korte, Lisa; Kral, Kamil; Kumar, Jitendra; Larson, Andrew J.; Li, Yide; Li, Xiankun; Liu, Shirong; Lum, Shawn K. Y.; Lutz, James A.; Ma, Keping; Maddalena, Damian M.; Makana, Jean-Remy; Malhi, Yadvinder; Marthews, Toby; Mat Serudin, Rafizah; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William J.; Memiaghe, Hervé R.; Mi, Xiangcheng; Mizuno, Takashi; Morecroft, Michael; Myers, Jonathan A.; Novotny, Vojtech; de Oliveira, Alexandre A.; Ong, Perry S.; Orwig, David A.; Ostertag, Rebecca; den Ouden, Jan; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Phillips, Richard P.; Sack, Lawren; Sainge, Moses N.; Sang, Weiguo; Sri-ngernyuang, Kriangsak; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I-F; Sungpalee, Witchaphart; Suresh, Hebbalalu Sathyanarayana; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Sean C.; Thomas, Duncan W.; Thompson, Jill; Turner, Benjamin L.; Uriarte, Maria; Valencia, Renato; Vallejo, Marta I.; Vicentini, Alberto; Vrška, Tomáš; Wang, Xihua; Wang, Xugao; Weiblen, George; Wolf, Amy; Xu, Han; Yap, Sandra; Zimmerman, Jess (2015)
    Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest conservation and climate protection. This ...
  • Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical forests 
    Zuleta, Daniel; Arellano, Gabriel; McMahon, Sean M.; Aguilar, Salomón; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Castaño, Nicolas; Chang-Yang, Chia; Duque, Alvaro; Mitre, David; Nasardin, Musalmah; Pérez, Rolando; Sun, I-F; Yao, Tze Leong; Valencia, Renato; Krishna Moorthy, Sruthi,M.; Verbeeck, Hans; Davies, Stuart J. (2023)
    Accurate estimates of forest biomass stocks and fluxes are needed to quantify global carbon budgets and assess the response of forests to climate change. However, most forest inventories consider tree mortality as the only ...
  • Data from: Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest 
    Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; McGarvey, Jennifer C.; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Park, Janice Y.; González-Akre, Erika B.; Herrmann, Valentine; Bennett, Amy C.; So, Christopher V.; Bourg, Norman A.; Thompson, Jonathan R.; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William J. (Dryad Digital Repository, 2016)
    Many morphological, physiological and ecological traits of trees scale with diameter, shaping the structure and function of forest ecosystems. Understanding the mechanistic basis for such scaling relationships is key to ...
  • Data from: Tree circumference dynamics in four forests characterized using automated dendrometer bands 
    Herrmann, Valentine; McMahon, Sean M.; Detto, Matteo; Lutz, James A.; Davies, Stuart J.; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (Dryad, 2017)
    Stem diameter is one of the most commonly measured attributes of trees, forming the foundation of forest censuses and monitoring. Changes in tree stem circumference include both irreversible woody stem growth and reversible ...
  • Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests 
    Needham, Jessica F.; Johnson, Daniel J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Bourg, Norman; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Cardenas, Dairon; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Chen, Yu-Yun; Chuyong, George; Dattaraja, Handanakere S.; Davies, Stuart J.; Duque, Alvaro; Ewango, Corneille E. N.; Fernando, Edwino S.; Fisher, Rosie; Fletcher, Christine D.; Foster, Robin; Hao, Zhanqing; Hart, Terese; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Itoh, Akira; Kenfack, David; Koven, Charles D.; Larson, Andrew J.; Lutz, James A.; McShea, William; Makana, Jean-Remy; Malhi, Yadvinder; Marthews, Toby; Mohamad, Mohizah Bt; Morecroft, Michael D.; Norden, Natalia; Parker, Geoffrey; Shringi, Ankur; Sukumar, Raman; Suresh, Hebbalalu S.; Sun, I-Fang; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Duncan W.; Thompson, Jill; Uriarte, Maria; Valencia, Renato; Yao, Tze Leong; Yap, Sandra L.; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Yuehua, Hu; Zimmerman, Jess K.; Zuleta, Daniel; McMahon, Sean M. (2022)
    The growth and survival of individual trees determine the physical structure of a forest with important consequences for forest function. However, given the diversity of tree species and forest biomes, quantifying the ...
  • Demographic synthesis for global tree species conservation 
    Ohse, Bettina; Compagnoni, Aldo; Farrior, Caroline E.; McMahon, Sean M.; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Rüger, Nadja; Knight, Tiffany M. (2023)
    Almost one-third of globally known tree species are threatened with extinction, calling for a better understanding of the vulnerability of tree species to different threats.Quantifying changes in vital rates (e.g., survival, ...
  • Demography and biomass change in monodominant and mixed old-growth forest of the Congo 
    Makana, Jean-Remy; Ewango, Corneille N.; McMahon, Sean M.; Thomas, Sean C.; Hart, Terese B.; Condit, Richard S. (2011)
    Mbau forest covers much of the Congo, and shifts in its composition could have a large impact on the African tropics. The Ituri forest in east Congo is near a boundary between the monodominant mbau type and non-mbau mixed ...
  • Dendrometer Data for Macrosystems Transcriptomic Research 
    McMahon, Sean M.; Shue, Jessica (The Smithsonian Institution, 2021)
    These data contain the dendrometer band growth of five species of trees at two Forest Global Earth Observatory plots (and environs). ~250 trees at The Smithsonian Environmental Research Institute and Harvard Forest had ...
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world 
    Piponiot, Camille; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Davies, Stuart J.; Allen, David; Bourg, Norman A.; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Cardenas, Dairon; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Chuyong, George; Cordell, Susan; Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah; Duque, Alvaro; Ediriweera, Sisira; Ewango, Corneille; Ezedin, Zacky; Filip, Jonah; Giardina, Christian P.; Howe, Robert; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Inman-Narahari, Faith M.; Itoh, Akira; Janik, David; Kenfack, David; Kral, Kamil; Lutz, James A.; Makana, Jean-Remy; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William; Mi, Xiangcheng; Mohamad, Mohizah Bt; Novotny, Vojtech; O'Brien, Michael J.; Ostertag, Rebecca; Parker, Geoffrey; Perez, Rolando; Ren, Haibao; Reynolds, Glen; Sabri, Mohamad Danial Md; Sack, Lawren; Shringi, Ankur; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I-Fang; Suresh, Hebbalalu S.; Thomas, Duncan W.; Thompson, Jill; Uriarte, Maria; Vandermeer, John; Wang, Yunquan; Ware, Ian M.; Weiblen, George D.; Whitfeld, Timothy J. S.; Wolf, Amy; Yao, Tze Leong; Yu, Mingjian; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Zimmerman, Jess K.; Zuleta, Daniel; Muller-Landau, Helene C. (2022)
    Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of among-site differences in how aboveground biomass ...
  • Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum 
    Smith, Marielle N.; Stark, Scott C.; Taylor, Tyeen C.; Schietti, Juliana; de Almeida, Danilo Roberti Alves; Aragon, Susan; Torralvo, Kelly; Lima, Albertina P.; de Oliveira, Gabriel; de Assis, Rafael Leandro; Leitold, Veronika; Pontes-Lopes, Aline; Scoles, Ricardo; Vieira, Luciana Cristina de Sousa; Resende, Angelica Faria; Coppola, Alysha, I.; Brandao, Diego Oliveira; Silva Junior, Joao de Athaydes; Lobato, Laura F.; Freitas, Wagner; Almeida, Daniel; Souza, Mendell S.; Minor, David M.; Villegas, Juan Camilo; Law, Darin J.; Goncalves, Nathan; da Rocha, Daniel Gomes; Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro; Tonini, Helio; da Silva, Katia Emidio; van Haren, Joost; Rosa, Diogo Martins; do Valle, Dalton Freitas; Cordeiro, Carlos Leandro; de Lima, Nicolas Zaslavsky; Shao, Gang; Menor, Imma Oliveras; Conti, Georgina; Florentino, Ana Paula; Montti, Lia; Aragao, Luiz E. O. C.; McMahon, Sean M.; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Breshears, David D.; Da Costa, Antonio Carlos Lola; Magnusson, William E.; Mesquita, Rita; Camargo, Jose Luis C.; de Oliveira, Raimundo C.; de Camargo, Plinio B.; Saleska, Scott R.; Nelson, Bruce Walker (2023)
    Amazon forests are being degraded by myriad anthropogenic disturbances, altering ecosystem and climate function. We analyzed the effects of a range of land-use and climate-change disturbances on fine-scale canopy structure ...

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