Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Recent submissions

  • Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests 
    Zuleta, Daniel; Arellano, Gabriel; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; McMahon, Sean M.; Aguilar, Salomon; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Cardenas, Dairon; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Duque, Alvaro; Mitre, David; Nasardin, Musalmah; Perez, Rolando; Sun, I-Fang; Yao, Tze Leong; Davies, Stuart J. (2022)
    The relative importance of tree mortality risk factors remains unknown, especially in diverse tropical forests where species may vary widely in their responses to particular conditions. We present a new framework for ...
  • Methodological considerations for monitoring soil/litter arthropods in tropical rainforests using DNA metabarcoding, with a special emphasis on ants, springtails and termites 
    Basset, Yves; Donoso, David A.; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Wright, Michael T. G.; Perez, Kate H. J.; Lamarre, Greg P. A.; De León, Luis F.; Palacios-Vargas, Jos; Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela; Rivera, Marleny; Perez, Filonila; Bobadilla, Ricardo; Lopez, Yacksecari; Ramirez, José Alejandro; Barrios, Héctor (2020)
    Robust data to refute or support claims of global insect decline are currently lacking, particularly for the soil fauna in the tropics. DNA metabarcoding represents a powerful approach for rigorous spatial and temporal ...
  • Savanna woody plants responses to mammalian herbivory and implications for management of livestock–wildlife landscape 
    Kibet, Staline; Nyangito, Moses; MacOpiyo, Laban; Kenfack, David (2021)
    The need to address wildlife conservation outside of protected areas has become more urgent than ever before to meet environmental and socio-economic goals. However, there is limited knowledge about how woody plants respond ...
  • Hypoxia from depth shocks shallow tropical reef animals 
    Lucey, Noelle M.; Haskett, Eileen; Collin, Rachel (2021)
    Coastal deoxygenation is poorly documented in the tropics. When the Isthmus of Panama separated the Caribbean from the Pacific, sister lineages diverged and adapted to changing oxy-thermal conditions along both coasts. ...
  • Asymmetry of marine invasions across tropical oceans 
    Torchin, Mark E.; Freestone, Amy L.; McCann, Linda; Larson, Kristen; Schlöder, Carmen; Steves, Brian P.; Fofonoff, Paul; Repetto, Michele F.; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2021)
    Understanding the mechanisms of spatial variation of biological invasions, across local-to-global scales, has been a major challenge. The importance of evolutionary history for invasion dynamics was noted by Darwin, and ...
  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest 
    Chitra-Tarak, Rutuja; Xu, Chonggang; Aguilar, Salomon; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Chambers, Jeff; Detto, Matteo; Faybishenko, Boris; Fisher, Rosie A.; Knox, Ryan G.; Koven, Charles D.; Kueppers, Lara M.; Kunert, Nobert; Kupers, Stefan J.; McDowell, Nate G.; Newman, Brent D.; Paton, Steven R.; Perez, Rolando; Ruiz, Laurent; Sack, Lawren; Warren, Jeffrey M.; Wolfe, Brett T.; Wright, Cynthia; Wright, S. Joseph; Zailaa, Joseph; McMahon, Sean M. (2021)
    Deep-water access is arguably the most effective, but under-studied, mechanism that plants employ to survive during drought. Vulnerability to embolism and hydraulic safety margins can predict mortality risk at given levels ...
  • Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation: Good Practices Protocol 
    Duncanson, Laura; Armston, John; Disney, Mat; Avitabile, V.; Barbier, N.; Calders, K.; Carter, S.; Chave, J.; Herold, M.; MacBean, N.; McRoberts, R.; Minor, David; Paul, K.; Réjou-Méchain, M.; Roxburgh, S.; Williams, M.; Albinet, C.; Baker, T.; Bartholomeus, H.; Bastin, J. F.; Coomes, D.; Crowther, T.; Davies, Stuart J.; De Bruin, S.; De Kauwe, M.; Domke, G.; Dubayah, R.; Falkowski, M.; Fatoyinbo, L.; Goetz, S.; Jantz, P.; Jonckheere, I.; Jucker, T.; Kay, H.; Kellner, J.; Labriere, N.; Lucas, R.; Mitchard, E.; Morsdorf, F.; Næsset, E.; Park, T.; Phillips, O. L.; Ploton, P.; Puliti, S.; Quegan, S.; Saatchi, S.; Schaaf, C.; Schepaschenko, D.; Scipal, K.; Stovall, A.; Thiel, C.; Wulder, M. A.; Camacho, Fernando; Nickeson, Jaime; Román, M.; Margolis, H. (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Working Group on Calibration and Validation. Land Product Validation Subgroup, 2021)
  • 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 ...
  • Mutualism within a parasitism within a mutualism: the bees and coccids that inhabit <I>Cecropia</I> ant-plants 
    Roubik, David W. (2021)
  • Understanding the monodominance of Acacia drepanolobium in East African savannas: insights from demographic data 
    Kenfack, David; Arellano, Gabriel; Kibet, Staline; Kimuyu, Duncan; Musili, Paul (2021)
    Key message The high mortality and low recruitment of the myrmecophytic Acacia drepanolobium are not consistent with the demographic rates of monodominant species. The positive conspecific density dependence observed from ...
  • Lutz Creek watershed, Barro Colorado Island, Republic of Panama 
    Larsen, Matthew C.; Stallard, Robert F.; Paton, Steven (2021)
  • Wildlife disturbances as a source of conspecific negative density-dependent mortality in tropical trees 
    Luskin, Matthew Scott; Johnson, Daniel J.; Ickes, Kalan; Yao, Tze Leong; Davies, Stuart J. (2021)
    Large vertebrates are rarely considered important drivers of conspecific negative density-dependent mortality (CNDD) in plants because they are generalist consumers. However, disturbances like trampling and nesting also ...
  • Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees 
    Kunert, Norbert; Zailaa, Joseph; Herrmann, Valentine; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Wright, S. Joseph; Perez, Rolando; McMahon, Sean M.; Condit, Richard C.; Hubbell, Steven P.; Sack, Lawren; Davies, Stuart J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. (2021)
    The effects of climate change on tropical forests will depend on how diverse tropical tree species respond to drought. Current distributions of evergreen and deciduous tree species across local and regional moisture gradients ...
  • Knots, spoons, and cloches: DNA barcoding unusual larval forms helps document the diversity of Neotropical marine annelids 
    Collin, Rachel; Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E.; Macdonald, Kenneth; Driskell, Amy C.; Boyle, Michael J. (2021)
    The morphological diversity of marine annelid larvae is stunning. Although many of the larval forms have been categorized as trochophores or modified trochophores, there are a few groups with distinctive larval features ...
  • Temperature-Induced Changes in Hatching Size of a Tropical Snail Occur During Oogenesis and Can Persist for Several Weeks 
    Ly, Sophia; Collin, Rachel (2021)
  • How I wonder what you are: Can DNA barcoding identify the larval asteroids of Panama? 
    Collin, Rachel; Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E.; Driskell, Amy C.; Macdonald, Kenneth S.; Boyle, Michael J. (2020)
    As part of a project to document the diversity of larval invertebrates on both coasts of Panama, we collected and photographed 141 larval asteroids and sequenced fragments of their mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit ...
  • Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass 
    Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Cushman, K. C.; Arroyo, Eva E.; Cano, Isabel Martinez; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Backiel, Bogumila (2020)
    Tropical forests vary widely in biomass carbon (C) stocks and fluxes even after controlling for forest age. A mechanistic understanding of this variation is critical to accurately predicting responses to global change. We ...
  • Keys to Fishes of the Pipeline Road, Panama Canal Zone 
    McPhail, J. D.; Karr, James R.; Moodie, G. E. E. (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1978)
  • Check-list of Fresh Water Fishes of the Canal Zone 
    Loftin, Horace Greeley (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1970)
  • World Travelers: DNA Barcoding Unmasks the Origin of Cloning Asteroid Larvae from the Caribbean 
    Collin, Rachel; Venera-Ponton, Dagoberto E.; Paulay, Gustav; Boyle, Michael J. (2020)
    The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the Oreasteridae, on the basis of ...

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