Search filters

Authors whose works are in public domain in at least one jurisdiction

List of works by Timothy R. Baker

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region

A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils

scientific article published in 2009

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

scientific article

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

article

Amazon palm biomass and allometry

scientific article published in 2013

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

article

Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest

article

Associations between tree growth, soil fertility and water availability at local and regional scales in Ghanaian tropical rain forest

scholarly article by Timothy R. Baker et al published 6 February 2003 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Author Correction: Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

correction of a scholarly article

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

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate

scholarly article by N. M. Fyllas et al published 27 November 2009 in Biogeosciences

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances

scientific article

Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin

scientific article published in 2009

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests

scientific article published on 5 March 2025

Changes in Amazonian forest biomass, dynamics, and composition, 1980–2002

article

Changes in Growth of Tropical Forests: Evaluating Potential Biases

article

Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2016

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

article

Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots

scientific article

Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests

scientific article

Continuous human presence without extensive reductions in forest cover over the past 2500 years in an aseasonal Amazonian rainforest

scholarly article by Thomas J. Kelly et al published 14 March 2018 in Journal of Quaternary Science

Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 14 October 2008

Coordination of physiological and structural traits in Amazon forest trees

article

Divergent Landowners' Expectations May Hinder the Uptake of a Forest Certificate Trading Scheme

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

scientific article

Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

scientific article

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

scientific article published on August 2010

Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

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

scientific article

Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology

scientific article published in December 2016

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees

scientific article

Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Floristics and biogeography of vegetation in seasonally dry tropical regions

scholarly article by K.G. Dexter et al published 1 August 2015 in International Forestry Review

Freezing and water availability structure the evolutionary diversity of trees across the Americas

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

From plots to policy: How to ensure long‐term forest plot data supports environmental management in intact tropical forest landscapes

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

article by T. R. Feldpausch et al published 5 May 2011 in Biogeosciences

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities

scientific article published in 2018

Impacts of global atmospheric change on tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots

scientific article

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

scientific article published on February 2009

Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

scientific article

Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia

scientific article published in 2009

Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests

scientific article

Landscape-scale forest disturbance regimes in southern Peruvian Amazonia

scientific article

Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover

article

Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots

article

Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests

Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)

article

Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a southwest Amazonian forest

scientific article

Making forest data fair and open

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data

scientific article published in 2022

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists

scientific article

Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots

article

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

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Optimisation of photosynthetic carbon gain and within-canopy gradients of associated foliar traits for Amazon forest trees

scholarly article by Jonathan Lloyd et al published 4 June 2010 in Biogeosciences

Participatory indicator development: what can ecologists and local communities learn from each other?

scientific article

Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Peatland forests are the least diverse tree communities documented in Amazonia, but contribute to high regional beta-diversity

article by Frederick C. Draper et al published 16 January 2018 in Ecography

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species

scientific article

Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru

scientific article published on 14 April 2022

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

article

Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests

article

Soil physical conditions limit palm and tree basal area in Amazonian forests

article

Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees

scientific article published in 2009

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

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Striking divergences in Earth Observation products may limit their use for REDD+

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

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

scientific article

The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The RAINFOR database: monitoring forest biomass and dynamics

article

The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

article

The associations of smoking dependence motives with depression among daily smokers

scientific article

The carbon balance of South America: a review of the status, decadal trends and main determinants

article

The changing Amazon forest

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2008)

The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The high hydraulic conductivity of three wooded tropical peat swamps in northeast Peru: measurements and implications for hydrological function

The importance of crown dimensions to improve tropical tree biomass estimates

scientific article published on June 2014

The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory

scientific article published in 2019

The presence of peat and variation in tree species composition are under different hydrological controls in Amazonian wetland forests

scientific article published in 2022

The vegetation history of an Amazonian domed peatland

scholarly article by Thomas J. Kelly published in February 2017

Tightening up on tree carbon estimates

scientific article published in Nature

Tree Community Change across 700 km of Lowland Amazonian Forest from the Andean Foothills to Brazil

article

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

article

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical forest wood production: a cross-continental comparison

article

Using tree species inventories to map biomes and assess their climatic overlaps in lowland tropical South America

article by Pedro Luiz Silva de Miranda et al published August 2018 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

article

Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and modelled rates of photosynthetic carbon supply

scientific article published in November 2011

Variations in chemical and physical properties of Amazon forest soils in relation to their genesis

article by C. A. Quesada et al published 17 May 2010 in Biogeosciences

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

article by L. Banin et al published 20 July 2012 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Wood density and stocks of coarse woody debris in a northwestern Amazonian landscape

article