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List of works by David A. Coomes

(Russo et al. 2007): A re-analysis of growth–size scaling relationships of woody plant species

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A Research Agenda for Microclimate Ecology in Human-Modified Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

A critique of general allometry-inspired models for estimating forest carbon density from airborne LiDAR

article

A general combined model to describe tree-diameter distributions within subtropical and temperate forest communities

article

A general integrative framework for modelling woody biomass production and carbon sequestration rates in forests

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

A global evaluation of the effectiveness of voluntary REDD+ projects at reducing deforestation and degradation in the moist tropics

scientific article published in 2022

A greater range of shade-tolerance niches in nutrient-rich forests: an explanation for positive richness-productivity relationships?

scientific article published in 2009

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

article

Above ground biomass estimation in an African tropical forest with lidar and hyperspectral data

article by Gaia Vaglio Laurin et al published March 2014 in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Aboveground biomass estimation in tropical forests at single tree level with ALS data

Accurate Measurement of Tropical Forest Canopy Heights and Aboveground Carbon Using Structure From Motion

Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Airborne LiDAR Detects Selectively Logged Tropical Forest Even in an Advanced Stage of Recovery

Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

scientific article

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity.

scientific article published in February 2010

Applications of airborne lidar for the assessment of animal species diversity

scientific article published in 2014

Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential: a mechanism promoting positive diversity-invasibility relationships in mountain beech forests in New Zealand?

scientific article

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

scientific article

Are differences in seed mass among species important in structuring plant communities? Evidence from analyses of spatial and temporal variation in dune-annual populations

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Area-based vs tree-centric approaches to mapping forest carbon in Southeast Asian forests from airborne laser scanning data ⬇️

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Assessing the impacts of fragmentation on plant communities in New Zealand: scaling from survey plots to landscapes

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Asymmetric competition causes multimodal size distributions in spatially structured populations

scientific article published in January 2016

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Author Correction: Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010.

scientific article

Biodiversity mapping in a tropical West African forest with airborne hyperspectral data

scientific article

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human-modified tropical landscapes

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

scientific article published on 02 June 2011

Century-scale effects of invasive deer and rodents on the dynamics of forests growing on soils of contrasting fertility

article

Challenges to the generality of WBE theory

scientific article published on 20 September 2006

Climate modulates the effects of tree diversity on forest productivity

article published in 2015

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups

scientific article

Comment on "A brief history of seed size".

scientific article published in November 2005

Comment on "Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands".

scientific article

Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity-productivity relationships in Iberian forests

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Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Correction: The Effects of Sampling Bias and Model Complexity on the Predictive Performance of MaxEnt Species Distribution Models.

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed-species forests

article

Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Densities of Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in heavily degraded forest and oil palm plantations in Sabah, Borneo

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands

scientific article published in 2002

Detecting the fingerprint of drought across Europe’s forests: do carbon isotope ratios and stem growth rates tell similar stories?

Differential responses of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores to traits of New Zealand subalpine shrubs

scientific article published in April 2011

Disturbance affects short-term facilitation, but not long-term saturation, of exotic plant invasion in New Zealand forest ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 October 2010

Disturbances prevent stem size-density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships

article

Do leaves of plants on phosphorus-impoverished soils contain high concentrations of phenolic defence compounds?

article

Drivers of aboveground wood production in a lowland tropical forest of West Africa: teasing apart the roles of tree density, tree diversity, soil phosphorus, and historical logging

scientific article (publication date: June 2016)

Dynamics of a human-modified tropical peat swamp forest revealed by repeat lidar surveys

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Effects of competition on tree radial-growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients

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Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees

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Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning ⬇️

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Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments

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Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness

scientific article published in 2020

Extreme and Highly Heterogeneous Microclimates in Selectively Logged Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

Factors Preventing the Recovery of New Zealand Forests Following Control of Invasive Deer

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Forest fragmentation in China and its effect on biodiversity

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Forest soils in France are sequestering substantial amounts of carbon.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Getting the biggest birch for the bang: restoring and expanding upland birchwoods in the Scottish Highlands by managing red deer

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Global Airborne Laser Scanning Data Providers Database (GlobALS)—A New Tool for Monitoring Ecosystems and Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2020

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

scientific article published on 5 November 2008

Good things take time—Diversity effects on tree growth shift from negative to positive during stand development in boreal forests

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Ground Data are Essential for Biomass Remote Sensing Missions

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Growth-size scaling relationships of woody plant species differ from predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model

scientific article published in October 2007

Herbivory and plant competition reduce mountain beech seedling growth and establishment in New Zealand

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How do trees respond to species mixing in experimental compared to observational studies?

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

How landscapes change: Integration of spatial patterns and human processes in temperate landscapes of southern Chile

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Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2012)

Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

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Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Impacts of culling and exclusion of browsers on vegetation recovery across New Zealand forests

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Impacts of forest fragmentation on species composition and forest structure in the temperate landscape of southern Chile

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Incorporating Canopy Cover for Airborne-Derived Assessments of Forest Biomass in the Tropical Forests of Cambodia

scientific article

Inferring diversity patterns along an elevation gradient from stacked SDMs: A case study on Mesoamerican ferns

scientific article published in 2018

Influence of foliar traits on forage selection by introduced red deer in New Zealand

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Influences of forest structure, climate and species composition on tree mortality across the eastern US

scientific article

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

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Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific article

Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory: progress after four decades of invasive red deer control

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Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

scientific article published in 2023

Larger fragments have more late‐successional species of woody plants than smaller fragments after 50 years of secondary succession

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

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Leech blood-meal invertebrate-derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

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Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity

scientific article published in 2023

Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient

scientific article published in May 2003

Long-term influences of introduced deer on the composition and structure of New Zealand Nothofagus forests

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Long-term tree fern dynamics linked to disturbance and shade tolerance

Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo

Mapping Aboveground Carbon in Oil Palm Plantations Using LiDAR: A Comparison of Tree-Centric versus Area-Based Approaches

Mapping community change in modified landscapes

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Maximizing the value of forest restoration for tropical mammals by detecting three-dimensional habitat associations

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Monitoring early-successional trees for tropical forest restoration using low-cost UAV-based species classification

scientific article published in 2022

Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: correlations with toughness and leaf presentation

scientific article published on 02 April 2008

Moving on from Metabolic Scaling Theory: hierarchical models of tree growth and asymmetric competition for light

scientific article published on 26 February 2011

Nationally Representative Plot Network Reveals Contrasting Drivers of Net Biomass Change in Secondary and Old-Growth Forests

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Neighbour identity hardly affects litter-mixture effects on decomposition rates of New Zealand forest species

scientific article

Neoendemism in Madagascan scaly tree ferns results from recent, coincident diversification bursts

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

On the challenges of using field spectroscopy to measure the impact of soil type on leaf traits

scientific article published in 2017

Optical and SAR sensor synergies for forest and land cover mapping in a tropical site in West Africa

Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

scientific article

Partial river flow recovery with forest age is rare in the decades following establishment

scientific article published on 19 January 2020

Patterns and drivers of tree mortality in iberian forests: climatic effects are modified by competition

scientific article

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant movements and climate warming: intraspecific variation in growth responses to nonlocal soils

scientific article

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

scientific article

Predictable changes in aboveground allometry of trees along gradients of temperature, aridity and competition

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Predicting leaf traits of temperate broadleaf deciduous trees from hyperspectral reflectance: can a general model be applied across a growing season?

scientific article published on 16 November 2021

Quantifying variation in forest disturbance, and its effects on aboveground biomass dynamics, across the eastern United States

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

Rapid deforestation and fragmentation of Chilean Temperate Forests

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Reconciling the contribution of environmental and stochastic structuring of tropical forest diversity through the lens of imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Remotely sensed indicators of forest conservation status: Case study from a Natura 2000 site in southern Portugal

scientific article

Resilience of Spanish forests to recent droughts and climate change

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Riparian buffers act as microclimatic refugia in oil palm landscapes

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes

article by Simon L. Mitchell et al published 6 August 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Scaling of tree vascular transport systems along gradients of nutrient supply and altitude

scientific article

Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species

scientific article published on June 2008

Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Seed mass and nutrient content in nutrient-starved tropical rainforest in Venezuela

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Size-dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest

scholarly article by Georges Kunstler et al published July 2009 in Journal of Ecology

Size-specific tree mortality varies with neighbourhood crowding and disturbance in a Montane Nothofagus forest

scientific article

Soil drainage and phosphorus depletion contribute to retrogressive succession along a New Zealand chronosequence

Soil nutrient supply modulates temperature-induction cues in mast-seeding grasses

scientific article published in March 2012

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

scholarly article by Robert J. Holdaway et al published 14 March 2011 in Journal of Ecology

Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

scientific article

Sustainable management, earthquake disturbances, and transient dynamics: modelling timber harvesting impacts in mixed-species forests

scholarly article by Georges Kunstler et al published 18 December 2012 in Annals of Forest Science

Synergistic use of Landsat 8 OLI image and airborne LiDAR data for above-ground biomass estimation in tropical lowland rainforests

scholarly article by Mui-How Phua et al published December 2017 in Forest Ecology and Management

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

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

Tallo–a global tree allometry and crown architecture database

scientific article published on 15 June 2022

Testing the Metabolic Scaling Theory of tree growth

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published on 30 August 2012

The distribution of plants and seed dispersers in response to habitat fragmentation in an artificial island archipelago

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

The effects of sampling bias and model complexity on the predictive performance of MaxEnt species distribution models

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The impact of selective logging and clearcutting on forest structure, tree diversity and above-ground biomass of African tropical forests

scientific article published in 2014

The more stems the merrier: advantages of multi-stemmed architecture for the demography of understorey trees in a temperate broadleaf woodland

scientific article published on 05 August 2011

The motion of trees in the wind: a data synthesis

scientific article published in 2021

The number of tree species on Earth

scientific article

Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes ⬇️

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Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Tree survival and growth responses in the aftermath of a strong earthquake

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Tree-centric mapping of forest carbon density from airborne laser scanning and hyperspectral data

scientific article

Trends in entropy production during ecosystem development in the Amazon Basin

scientific article published on May 2010

Tropical nature reserves are losing their buffer zones, but leakage is not to blame

scientific article published on 27 November 2015

Use of an airborne lidar system to model plant species composition and diversity of Mediterranean oak forests

scientific article

Using species distribution models to inform IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article published on 26 July 2014

Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms.

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

What drives retrogressive succession? Plant strategies to tolerate infertile and poorly drained soils

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

Wood production response to climate change will depend critically on forest composition and structure

scientific article

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