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List of works by David J. Harris

A checklist of the vascular plants of the lowland savannas of Belize, Central America

scientific article

A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae)

scientific article

A taxonomic monograph of Ipomoea integrated across phylogenetic scales

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

A taxonomic treatment of Drypetes calvescens and a new endangered species from the western Congolian swamp forest, D. palustris sp. nov. (Putranjivaceae)

scientific article published in 2022

A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa

scholarly article by Vincent Droissart et al published 28 February 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

Big hitting collectors make massive and disproportionate contribution to the discovery of plant species

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Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Culture or climate? The relative influences of past processes on the composition of the lowland Congo rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2007)

Detecting floristic structure and pattern across topographic and moisture gradients in a mixed species Central African forest using IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ images

Developing integrated workflows for the digitisation of herbarium specimens using a modular and scalable approach

scientific article (published 2012-01-01)

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2017)

Fire and climate change impacts on lowland forest composition in northern Congo during the last 2580 years from palaeoecological analyses of a seasonally flooded swamp

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Flower morphological diversity in Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) from Africa – the importance of distinct floral types with presumably specific pollinator associations, differential habitat adaptations and allopatry in speciation and species maintenance

Hemi-epiphytic Ficus (Moraceae) in a Congolese forest

Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery

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How long does it take to discover a species?

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

How the temperate world was colonised by bindweeds: biogeography of the Convolvuleae (Convolvulaceae)

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Influence of 1100 years of burning on the central African rainforest

scientific article published in 2014

Integrating DNA barcode data in a monographic study of Convolvulus

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2014)

Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

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Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Multi-locus phylogenies of the genus Barteria (Passifloraceae) portray complex patterns in the evolution of myrmecophytism

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2011-31 January 2012.

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene Begonia speciation in Africa

scientific article published on May 2004

Policies Handbook on Using Molecular Collections

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions

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Recent oceanic long-distance dispersal and divergence in the amphi-Atlantic rain forest genus Renealmia L.f. (Zingiberaceae).

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Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

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Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

scientific article published on 13 September 2020

Testing Putative African Tropical Forest Refugia Using Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Phylogeography

scientific article published in March 2010

The Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III: a linear sequence of the families in APG III

scholarly article by Elspeth Margaret Haston et al published October 2009 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

The early evolution of the mega-diverse genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) inferred from organelle DNA phylogenies

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The effects of selective logging on forest structure and tree species composition in a Central African forest: implications for management of conservation areas

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The global abundance of tree palms

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The historical origins of palaeotropical intercontinental disjunctions in the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae

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The number of tree species on Earth

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The origin of a mega-diverse genus: datingBegonia(Begoniaceae) using alternative datasets, calibrations and relaxed clock methods

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The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory

scientific article published in 2019

Tropical monodominant forest resilience to climate change in Central Africa: A Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forest pollen record over the past 2,700 years

Widespread mistaken identity in tropical plant collections

scientific article published in November 2015