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List of works by Robert Muscarella

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

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

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Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory's impact on plant biodiversity

scientific article published in December 2016

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

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Climate-change-induced range shifts of three allergenic ragweeds (Ambrosia L.) in Europe and their potential impact on human health

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Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics

scientific article published in May 2024

Demographic drivers of functional composition dynamics

scientific article published on 20 August 2017

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

scientific article published in March 2016

ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions

scientific article published on 6 March 2022

ENMeval 2.0: Redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions

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ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models

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Effects of biotic interactions on tropical tree performance depend on abiotic conditions

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

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

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

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Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

History as grounds for interdisciplinarity: promoting sustainable woodlands via an integrative ecological and socio-cultural perspective

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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

Hurricanes increase tropical forest vulnerability to drought

scientific article published in 2022

Interannual variations in needle and sapwood traits of Pinus edulis branches under an experimental drought.

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

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

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

Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly

scientific article published on August 2015

Palm community transects and soil properties in western Amazonia

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

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Soil fertility and flood regime are correlated with phylogenetic structure of Amazonian palm communities

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Synchrony, compensatory dynamics, and the functional trait basis of phenological diversity in a tropical dry forest tree community: effects of rainfall seasonality

scientific article published on 08 November 2016

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

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Ten simple rules for managing communications with a large number of coauthors

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

The challenge of modeling niches and distributions for data-poor species: a comprehensive approach to model complexity

scientific article published in 2017

The global abundance of tree palms

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The role of frugivorous bats in tropical forest succession

scientific article published on November 2007

Topography and Traits Modulate Tree Performance and Drought Response in a Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Wallace : A flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion

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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