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List of works by Jess K. Zimmerman

A NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS OF TREE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL IN A HURRICANE-DRIVEN TROPICAL FOREST

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A Strategy for Restoration of Montane Forest in Anthropogenic Fern Thickets in the Dominican Republic

scholarly article by Matthew G. Slocum et al published December 2006 in Restoration Ecology

A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode sequence data

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Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest

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Acanthopria and Mimopriella parasitoid wasps (Diapriidae) attack Cyphomyrmex fungus-growing ants (Formicidae, Attini).

scientific article published on 29 November 2005

Acclimation of tropical tree species to hurricane disturbance: ontogenetic differences

scientific article published on June 2008

Active use of the metapleural glands by ants in controlling fungal infection

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2006)

Advances in the use of DNA barcodes to build a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot

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Age structure of male Euglossa imperialis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) at nectar and chemical sources in Panama

scholarly article by Jess K. Zimmerman & Santiago Madriñán R. published August 1988 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and natural enemies promote coexistence of tropical tree species

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

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Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities.

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Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with tree successional status

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Author Correction: Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

article published in 2017

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

scientific article published in 2018

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

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Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production

article published in 2013

Commitment of Meristems to Growth and Reproduction in Buckhorn Cholla (Cactaceae)

Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

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Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models.

scientific article published in May 2006

Consistency of demographic trade‐offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an aseasonal, everwet forest

Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Effects of hurricanes and climate oscillations on annual variation in reproduction in wet forest, Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

Effects of land management and a recent hurricane on forest structure and composition in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

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Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Flowering and fruiting phenologies of seasonal and aseasonal neotropical forests: the role of annual changes in irradiance

scientific article published in 2007

Forest Regeneration in a Chronosequence of Tropical Abandoned Pastures: Implications for Restoration Ecology

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Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species

scientific article published in 2017

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

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Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

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Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Green roofs in the tropics: design considerations and vegetation dynamics

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Host specificity and low reproductive success in the rare endemic Puerto Rican orchid Lepanthes caritensis

Hurricane Disturbance Alters Secondary Forest Recovery in Puerto Rico

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Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Hurricane-Induced Rainfall is a Stronger Predictor of Tropical Forest Damage in Puerto Rico Than Maximum Wind Speeds

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF LAND USE HISTORY AND NATURAL DISTURBANCE ON SEEDLING DYNAMICS IN A SUBTROPICAL FOREST

scientific article published in 2009

Improving predictions of tropical forest response to climate change through integration of field studies and ecosystem modeling.

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: A consensus perspective

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Interactive effects of land use history and natural disturbance on seedling dynamics in a subtropical forest

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Interspecific Functional Convergence and Divergence and Intraspecific Negative Density Dependence Underlie the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Tropical Trees

scientific article published on January 2016

Invasive Species in Puerto Rico: The View From El Yunque

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Knowledge to serve the city: insights from an emerging knowledge-action network to address vulnerability and sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico

scholarly article

Land Use History, Environment, and Tree Composition in a Tropical Forest

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Land-Use History and Forest Regeneration in the Cayey Mountains, Puerto Rico

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Land-use History Affects the Distribution of the Saprophytic Orchid Wullschlaegelia calcarata in Puerto Rico's Tabonuco Forest1

Land-use history augments environment-plant community relationship strength in a Puerto Rican wet forest

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Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community

scientific article published in 2012

Linking soil phosphorus with forest litterfall resistance and resilience to cyclone disturbance: A pantropical meta‐analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Linking spatial patterns of leaf litterfall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: a neighborhood approach

scientific article published in October 2015

Long-lasting effects of land use history on soil fungal communities in second-growth tropical rain forests

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Metacommunity structure of tropical forest along an elevation gradient in Puerto Rico

scientific article published in 2008

Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest

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Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

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Natural regeneration of subtropical montane forest after clearing fern thickets in the Dominican Republic

scholarly article by Matthew G. Slocum et al published July 2004 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Nonrandom processes maintain diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published in January 2006

Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly

scientific article published on August 2015

Patch dynamics and community metastability of a subtropical forest: compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use

scientific article published in 2010

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

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Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant responses to simulated hurricane impacts in a subtropical wet forest, Puerto Rico

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Population structure, growth rates and spatial distribution of two dioecious tree species in a wet forest in Puerto Rico

scientific article published in 2010

Proposing the solar-wind energy flux hypothesis as a driver of inter-annual variation in tropical tree reproductive effort

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

ROLE OF PSEUDOBULBS IN GROWTH AND FLOWERING OF CATASETUM VIRIDIFLAVUM (ORCHIDACEAE)

scientific article published on 01 April 1990

Reduced biological control and enhanced chemical pest management in the evolution of fungus farming in ants

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Responses to moisture stress in male and female plants of Rumex acetosella L. (Polygonaceae).

scientific article published on June 1982

Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

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Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Solar radiation and soil moisture drive tropical forest understory responses to experimental and natural hurricanes

scientific article published in 2022

Species Diversity Associated with Foundation Species in Temperate and Tropical Forests

Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities

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Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

scientific article published in July 2022

Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity.

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Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

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The Frequency of Cyclonic Wind Storms Shapes Tropical Forest Dynamism and Functional Trait Dispersion

article by J. Hogan et al published 5 July 2018 in Forests

The influence of spatial and size scale on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities

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The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics

scientific article published in October 2006

The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees

scientific article published in 2017

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Understanding and Conserving Puerto Rico’s Tropical Ecosystems

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Using codispersion analysis to quantify and understand spatial patterns in species-environment relationships

scientific article published on April 2016

Variation in Susceptibility to Hurricane Damage as a Function of Storm Intensity in Puerto Rican Tree Species

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Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

scientific article published on 22 April 2019