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List of works by Pieter A. Zuidema

(15)N in tree rings as a bio-indicator of changing nitrogen cycling in tropical forests: an evaluation at three sites using two sampling methods

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A More Realistic Portrayal of Tropical Forestry: Response to Kormos and Zimmerman

scholarly article by Francis E. Putz et al published 11 July 2013 in Conservation Letters

A Wood Biology Agenda to Support Global Vegetation Modelling

scientific article published on 09 September 2018

A physiological production model for cocoa (Theobroma cacao): model presentation, validation and application

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Attaining the canopy in dry and moist tropical forests: strong differences in tree growth trajectories reflect variation in growing conditions

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Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Climate is a stronger driver of tree and forest growth rates than soil and disturbance

scientific article published in 2010

Climate-growth relations of congeneric tree species vary across a tropical vegetation gradient in Brazil

scientific article published in February 2022

Climate‐driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Climatic influences on intra-annual stem radial variations and xylem formation of Toona ciliata at two Asian tropical forest sites with contrasting soil water availability

scientific article published in May 2022

Combining dendrochronology and matrix modelling in demographic studies: An evaluation for Juniperus procera in Ethiopia

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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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Data storage: overcome hurdles to global databases.

scientific article published in July 2014

Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation

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Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content

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Detecting evidence for CO2fertilization from tree ring studies: The potential role of sampling biases

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Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods.

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Developing forensic tools for an African timber: Regional origin is revealed by genetic characteristics, but not by isotopic signature

Disturbance History of a Seasonal Tropical Forest in Western Thailand: A Spatial Dendroecological Analysis

scholarly article by Romaike S. Middendorp et al published 3 July 2013 in Biotropica

Diversity Bears Fruit: Evaluating the Economic Potential of Undervalued Fruits for an Agroecological Restoration Approach in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

Do persistently fast-growing juveniles contribute disproportionately to population growth? A new analysis tool for matrix models and its application to rainforest trees

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Does biomass growth increase in the largest trees? Flaws, fallacies and alternative analyses

scientific article published in 2016

Driving factors of forest growth: a reply to Ferryet al.(2012)

scientific article published in 2012

Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia

scientific article published in 2017

Effects of denudation and burial on growth and reproduction of Artemisia ordosica in Mu Us sandland

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Explaining biomass growth of tropical canopy trees: the importance of sapwood

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Explaining long-term inter-individual growth variation in plant populations: persistence of abiotic factors matters

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Fast-slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life-history variation worldwide

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Forests: Tree rings track climate trade-offs

scientific article published in July 2015

Habitat-specific demography across dune fixation stages in a semi-arid sandland: understanding the expansion, stabilization and decline of a dominant shrub

scientific article published in 2011

Heritability of growth and leaf loss compensation in a long-lived tropical understorey palm

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention

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Integral Projection Models for trees: a new parameterization method and a validation of model output

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Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Interannual temperature variability is a principal driver of low-frequency fluctuations in marine fish populations

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Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests

scientific article published in 2021

Long-term physiological and growth responses of Himalayan fir to environmental change are mediated by mean climate

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Loss of animal seed dispersal increases extinction risk in a tropical tree species due to pervasive negative density dependence across life stages

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Making conservation research more relevant for conservation practitioners

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Matrix population models indicate that bark harvest of two medicinal plants in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is sustainable

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Mobile dune fixation by a fast-growing clonal plant: a full life-cycle analysis

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No evidence for consistent long-term growth stimulation of 13 tropical tree species: results from tree-ring analysis

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Recent CO2 rise has modified the sensitivity of tropical tree growth to rainfall and temperature

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Recruitment subsidies support tree subpopulations in non-preferred tropical forest habitats

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

Relating tree growth to rainfall in Bolivian rain forests: a test for six species using tree ring analysis.

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Resilience of palm populations to disturbance is determined by interactive effects of fire, herbivory and harvest

scientific article published in 2015

Revisiting the ‘cornerstone of Amazonian conservation’: a socioecological assessment of Brazil nut exploitation

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Sapwood allocation in tropical trees: a test of hypotheses

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Seedlings of the semi-shrub Artemisia ordosica are resistant to moderate wind denudation and sand burial in Mu Us sandland, China

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Seeing the forest through the trees: how tree‐level measurements can help understand forest dynamics

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

Stable isotopes in tropical tree rings: theory, methods and applications

scientific article published in 2017

Strict mast fruiting for a tropical dipterocarp tree: a demographic cost-benefit analysis of delayed reproduction and seed predation

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Strong persistent growth differences govern individual performance and population dynamics in a tropical forest understorey palm

scientific article published in 2012

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

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

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Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

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Testing sustainability by prospective and retrospective demographic analyses: evaluation for palm leaf harvest

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The New Face of Debt-Peonage in the Bolivian Amazon: Social Networks and Bargaining Instruments

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2014

The Quest for a Suitable Host: Size Distributions of Host Trees and Secondary Hemiepiphytes Search Strategy

Towards smarter harvesting from natural palm populations by sparing the individuals that contribute most to population growth or productivity

scientific article published in 2018

Trait Acclimation Mitigates Mortality Risks of Tropical Canopy Trees under Global Warming

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Tree Age Distributions Reveal Large-Scale Disturbance-Recovery Cycles in Three Tropical Forests

scientific article published on January 2016

Tree growth variation in the tropical forest: understanding effects of temperature, rainfall and CO2.

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Trends in tropical tree growth: re-analyses confirm earlier findings.

scientific article published on 19 November 2016

Tropical forest warming: looking backwards for more insights

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps.

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Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

Tropical tree rings reveal preferential survival of fast-growing juveniles and increased juvenile growth rates over time

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Understanding recruitment failure in tropical tree species: Insights from a tree-ring study

scientific article published in 2014

Understanding the effects of a new grazing policy: the impact of seasonal grazing on shrub demography in the Inner Mongolian steppe

scholarly article by Shou-Li Li et al published 10 September 2013 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Variation in ploidy level and phenology can result in large and unexpected differences in demography and climatic sensitivity between closely related ferns

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What controls species' distributions? A demographic analysis and a new hypothesis