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List of works by Kenneth J. Feeley

A downside of diversity? A response to Gallagher et al.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

A preliminary revision of Chusquea sect. Swallenochloa (Bambuseae, Bambusoideae, Poaceae) in Peru including the description of two new species and the resurrection of two other species

scientific article published in 2019

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Analysis of avian communities in Lake Guri, Venezuela, using multiple assembly rule models

scientific article published on 05 July 2003

Ancient human disturbances may be skewing our understanding of Amazonian forests

scientific article

Are we filling the data void? An assessment of the amount and extent of plant collection records and census data available for tropical South America

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities.

scientific article

Author Correction: Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

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

scientific article published in 2022

Bamboo phenology and life cycle drive seasonal and long-term functioning of Amazonian bamboo-dominated forests

journal article from 'Journal of Ecology' published in 2021

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

scientific article

Botanic gardens are an untapped resource for studying the functional ecology of tropical plants

article

Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America

scientific article published in 2022

Changes in tree functional composition across topographic gradients and through time in a tropical montane forest

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Changing forests under climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities

scientific article

Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition".

scientific article published in October 2017

Commentary: Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

article

Commentary: Novel competitors shape species' responses to climate change

article

Compositional shifts in Costa Rican forests due to climate-driven species migrations

scientific article

Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition.

scientific article

Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees

scientific article published on June 2007

Determinants of plant species richness and patterns of nestedness in fragmented landscapes: evidence from land-bridge islands

scientific article published in 2011

Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

scientific article

Disappearing climates will limit the efficacy of Amazonian protected areas

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Downward shift of montane grasslands exemplifies the dual threat of human disturbances to cloud forest biodiversity

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

ECOLOGY. Thermal trouble in the tropics

scientific article published on March 2016

Ecological character displacement alters the outcome of priority effects during community assembly

scientific article published on 11 May 2019

Ecological contingency in species shifts: downslope shifts of woody species under warming climate and land-use change

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Establishing the Position and Drivers of the Eastern Andean Treeline with Automated Transect Sampling

scientific article published in 2023

Evolutionary Diversity Peaks at Mid-Elevations Along an Amazon-to-Andes Elevation Gradient

scientific article published on 24 August 2021

Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species

scholarly article

Forest patches and the upward migration of timberline in the southern Peruvian Andes

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

Freezing temperatures as a limit to forest recruitment above tropical Andean treelines

scientific article published on July 2015

Functional composition of epiphyte communities in the Colombian Andes

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Global climate change increases risk of crop yield losses and food insecurity in the tropical Andes.

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

Guidelines for including bamboos in tropical ecosystem monitoring

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Habitat Fragmentation Drives Plant Community Assembly Processes across Life Stages

scientific article

Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness

scientific article published in January 2006

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Increasing Humidity Threatens Tropical Rainforests

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Increasing preference for beef magnifies human impact on world's food web.

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Interspecific and intraspecific variation of tree branch, leaf and stomatal traits in relation to topography in an aseasonal Amazon forest

scientific article published in 2022

Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought

scientific article published on 30 June 2011

Large-scale patterns of turnover and Basal area change in Andean forests.

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Leaf thermal safety margins decline at hotter temperatures in a natural warming ‘experiment’ in the Amazon

scientific article published on 20 November 2023

Limited acclimation of leaf traits and leaf temperatures in a subtropical urban heat island

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Livestock: limit red meat consumption

scientific article published in April 2014

Losing your edge: climate change and the conservation value of range-edge populations

scientific article

Many species risk mountain top extinction long before they reach the top

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Many species risk mountain top extinction long before they reach the top

scientific article published in 2016

Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges

scientific article

Meat consumption as a key impact on tropical nature: a response to Laurance et al.

scientific article

Methods matter for assessing global variation in plant thermal tolerance

scientific article

Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Most ‘global’ reviews of species’ responses to climate change are not truly global

scientific article published on 09 December 2016

Mountain Ecosystems as Natural Laboratories for Climate Change Experiments

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Moving forward with species distributions

scientific article

Neglect of the Tropics Is Widespread in Ecology and Evolution: A Comment on Clarke et al.

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

No Differences in Soil Carbon Stocks Across the Tree Line in the Peruvian Andes

article

Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another

scientific article published in 2019

PSII heat tolerances characterize thermal generalists and the upper limit of carbon assimilation

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

Patterns of bird functional diversity on land-bridge island fragments

scientific article

Photosynthetic heat tolerances and extreme leaf temperatures

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve

scientific article published in August 2006

Publisher Correction: Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities

correction of a scholarly article

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Reduced tree density and basal area in Andean forests are associated with bamboo dominance

scientific article published in January 2021

Regeneration of different plant functional types in a Masson pine forest following pine wilt disease

scientific article

Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types

scientific article published in 2022

Research Priorities for the Conservation and Sustainable Governance of Andean Forest Landscapes

scholarly article by Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel et al published August 2017 in Mountain Research and Development

Restoring low-input high-diversity grasslands as a potential global resource for biofuels

scientific article published on 22 July 2017

Seasonality of above-ground net primary productivity along an Andean altitudinal transect in Peru

scientific article published in 2014

Seedling transplants reveal species-specific responses of high-elevation tropical treeline trees to climate change

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Species characteristics associated with extinction vulnerability and nestedness rankings of birds in tropical forest fragments

scientific article published in 2007

Taking a bite out of biodiversity

scientific article

The Thermal Tolerances, Distributions, and Performances of Tropical Montane Tree Species

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

The capacity to emit isoprene differentiates the photosynthetic temperature responses of tropical plant species

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

The ecology of peace: preparing Colombia for new political and planetary climates

article

The effects of landscape variables on the species-area relationship during late-stage habitat fragmentation

scientific article

The inability of tropical cloud forest species to invade grasslands above treeline during climate change: potential explanations and consequences

scientific article published on 02 April 2015

The influence of historical dispersal on the phylogenetic structure of tree communities in the tropical Andes

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

The legacy of biogeographic history on the composition and structure of Andean forests

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

The role of gap phase processes in the biomass dynamics of tropical forests

article

Thermal optimum of photosynthesis is controlled by stomatal conductance and does not acclimate across an urban thermal gradient in six subtropical tree species

scientific article published on 9 January 2023

Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

scientific article

Tropical Trees Will Need to Acclimate to Rising Temperatures. But Can They?

Tropical Trees Will Need to Acclimate to Rising Temperatures—But Can They?

scientific article published on 31 August 2023

Unrealistic assumptions invalidate extinction estimates

scholarly article

Upslope migration of Andean trees

Using species distribution models as a tool to discover new populations of Phaedranassa brevifolia Meerow, 1987 (Liliopsida: Amaryllidaceae) in Northern Ecuador

scholarly article by Nora H. Oleas et al published July 2014 in Check List

Variation in leaf temperatures of tropical and subtropical trees are related to leaf thermoregulatory traits and not geographic distributions

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Variation in the Drought Tolerance of Tropical Understory Plant Communities across an Extreme Elevation and Precipitation Gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Weak phylogenetic and climatic signals in plant heat tolerance

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

scientific article published in Nature

perspective: The responses of tropical forest species to global climate change: acclimate, adapt, migrate, or go extinct?

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus L.E.Skog & L.P.Kvist (Gesneriaceae) at multiple sites in western Ecuador

scientific article published on 15 April 2022