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A comparison of inducible, ontogenetic, and interspecific sources of variation in the foliar metabolome in tropical trees

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: Faunal composition and rates of attack

article

A functional analysis of the crown architecture of tropical forest Psychotria species: do species vary in light capture efficiency and consequently in carbon gain and growth?

scientific article published on 7 February 2004

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

article

A highly resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species-rich tropical forest

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

A host-parasite model explains variation in liana infestation among co-occurring tree species

scientific article published in 2018

A phenology model for tropical species that flower multiple times each year

scientific article published in 2019

A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests

scientific article published in February 2017

ANNUAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION IN SEEDFALL AND SEEDLING RECRUITMENT IN A NEOTROPICAL FOREST

scientific article published in 2005

ARE LIANAS INCREASING IN IMPORTANCE IN TROPICAL FORESTS? A 17-YEAR RECORD FROM PANAMA

article by S. Joseph Wright et al published February 2004 in Ecology

Abundance of insect seed predators and intensity of seed predation on Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae) in two consecutive masting events in Peninsular Malaysia

article by Tetsuro Hosaka et al published 30 September 2011 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA-TV)

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

An ecosystem report on the Panama Canal: monitoring the status of the forest communities and the watershed.

scientific article published on November 2002

Are Large Predators Keystone Species in Neotropical Forests? The Evidence from Barro Colorado Island

article

Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests.

scientific article

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

article

Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama

scientific article

Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Biodiversity meets the atmosphere: a global view of forest canopies

scientific article

Biogeochemical drivers of Neotropical ant activity and diversity

article published in 2016

Biogeochemistry and forest composition shape nesting patterns of a dominant canopy ant

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Biogeochemistry drives diversity in the prokaryotes, fungi, and invertebrates of a Panama forest.

scientific article

Bushmeat Hunting and Climate: An Indirect Link

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

scientific article

Cascading effects of defaunation on the coexistence of two specialized insect seed predators.

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Charge characteristics of soil in a lowland tropical moist forest in Panama in response to dry-season irrigation

Chemical novelty facilitates herbivore resistance and biological invasions in some introduced plant species

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Cloud cover limits net CO2 uptake and growth of a rainforest tree during tropical rainy seasons

scholarly article

Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production

article published in 2013

Coexistence in tropical forests through asynchronous variation in annual seed production.

scientific article published on September 2012

Colonization Strategies of Two Liana Species in a Tropical Dry Forest Canopy

Community and ecosystem ramifications of increasing lianas in neotropical forests

scientific article

Community proteogenomics reveals the systemic impact of phosphorus availability on microbial functions in tropical soil

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

scientific article

Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Comparative life history and physiology of two understory Neotropical herbs.

scientific article published on October 1991

Comparative physiology and demography of three Neotropical forest shrubs: alternative shade-adaptive character syndromes

scientific article published on December 1993

Comparison of CO2 and O2 fluxes demonstrate retention of respired CO2 in tree stems from a range of tree species

scientific article published in 2019

Competition, differential mortality, and their effect on the spatial pattern of a desert perennial, Eriogonum inflatum Torr and Frem (Polygonaceae).

scientific article published on August 1982

Consistency of demographic trade‐offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Contrasting leaf phenotypes control seasonal variation in water loss in a tropical forest shrub.

scientific article published on October 1992

Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition.

scientific article

Coordinated changes in photosynthesis, water relations and leaf nutritional traits of canopy trees along a precipitation gradient in lowland tropical forest

scientific article

Correction to 'A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests'.

scientific article published in December 2017

Counting niches: Abundance-by-trait patterns reveal niche partitioning in a Neotropical forest

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests

scientific article

Cross-boundary subsidy cascades from oil palm degrade distant tropical forests.

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Cumulative Satiation of a Seed Predator over the Fruiting Season of Its Host

scientific article published in 1990

DOES MAMMAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION CONTROL RECRUITMENT IN NEOTROPICAL FORESTS? EVIDENCE FROM PANAMA

article

Decadal-scale litter manipulation alters the biochemical and physical character of tropical forest soil carbon

article by Daniela F. Cusack et al published September 2018 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees

scientific article published on June 2007

Decline of photosynthetic capacity with leaf age and position in two tropical pioneer tree species

scientific article published on December 2002

Decline of photosynthetic capacity with leaf age in relation to leaf longevities for five tropical canopy tree species

scientific article published on May 1997

Decomposing leaf mass into photosynthetic and structural components explains divergent patterns of trait variation within and among plant species

article

Decoupled dimensions of leaf economic and anti-herbivore defense strategies in a tropical canopy tree community

scientific article

Demographic consequences of chromatic leaf defence in tropical tree communities: do red young leaves increase growth and survival?

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Density compensation in island avifaunas.

scientific article

Differences in leaf traits, leaf internal structure, and spectral reflectance between two communities of lianas and trees: Implications for remote sensing in tropical environments

scientific article published in 2009

Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups.

scientific article

Diverse Optical and Photosynthetic Properties in a Neotropical Dry Forest during the Dry Season: Implications for Remote Estimation of Photosynthesis1

scholarly article by John A. Gamon et al published December 2005 in Biotropica

Does relatedness matter? Phylogenetic density-dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest

scientific article

Drought Accilmation of an Understory Shrub (Psychotria limonensis; Rubiaceae) in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Panama

scientific article published in 1991

Drought acclimation among tropical forest shrubs (Psychotria, Rubiaceae).

scientific article published on April 1992

Drought and Irrigation Effects on Fine Root Dynamics in a Tropical Moist Forest, Panama1

ECOLOGICAL DETERMINISM IN PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ACROSS A TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPE

article

Effect of Seasonal Water Availability on Phenology and the Annual Shoot Carbohydrate Cycle of Tropical Forest Shrubs

scientific article published in 1995

Effects of Mammalian Herbivores on Plant Recruitment in Two Neotropical Forests

article

Effects of irrigation on litterfall, fine root biomass and production in a semideciduous lowland forest in Panama

article published in 1999

Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and postdrought periods

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Empty Sites and the Analysis of Presence-Absence Data

scientific article published in 1983

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

article

Episodic death across species of desert shrubs.

scientific article

Estimation of the distribution of Tabebuia guayacan (Bignoniaceae) using high-resolution remote sensing imagery

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

Evaluating the success of conservation actions in safeguarding tropical forest biodiversity.

scientific article

Extinction-Mediated Competition: The Anolis Lizards and Insectivorous Birds of the West Indies

article

Fertilization influences the nutrient acquisition strategy of a nomadic vine in a lowland tropical forest understory

Filter-dispersal assembly of lowland Neotropical rainforests across the Andes

scientific article published in 2018

Fine-root responses to fertilization reveal multiple nutrient limitation in a lowland tropical forest.

scientific article published on August 2015

Flower production decreases with warmer and more humid atmospheric conditions in a western Amazonian forest

scientific article published on 20 November 2023

Flowering and fruiting phenologies of seasonal and aseasonal neotropical forests: the role of annual changes in irradiance

scientific article published in 2007

Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation

scientific article published on November 2016

Foliar respiration and its temperature sensitivity in trees and lianas: in situ measurements in the upper canopy of a tropical forest

scientific article published on April 16, 2013

Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species

scientific article published in 2017

Frugivores and seed dispersal (1985–2010); the ‘seeds’ dispersed, established and matured

scientific article published in 2011

Frugivores and seed dispersal: mechanisms and consequences for biodiversity of a key ecological interaction

scientific article published on 17 November 2010

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

scientific article

Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

scientific article published on December 2010

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

scientific article published in 2016

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

scientific article published on December 2012

Functional traits of tropical trees and lianas explain spatial structure across multiple scales

scientific article published in 2017

Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests

scientific article published on 18 October 2023

GAP-DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT, REALIZED VITAL RATES, AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF TROPICAL TREES

scientific article published in 2003

General herbivore outbreak following an El Niño-related drought in a lowland Panamanian forest

scientific article published in 2004

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography

scientific article published in January 2024

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

scientific article

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

scientific article published in 2015

Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Growth and reproduction respond differently to climate in three Neotropical tree species.

scientific article

Growth responses to soil water potential indirectly shape local species distributions of tropical forest seedlings

article

Homeostatic maintenance of non‐structural carbohydrates during the 2015‐2016 El Niño drought across a tropical forest precipitation gradient

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

How Isolation Affects Rates of Turnover of Species on Islands

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How cellulose-based leaf toughness and lamina density contribute to long leaf lifespans of shade-tolerant species

scientific article published on 18 June 2012

Hunting alters seedling functional trait composition in a Neotropical forest.

scientific article published on July 2015

Hunting and Plant Community Dynamics in Tropical Forests: A Synthesis and Future Directions

article

Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient

scientific article published on 13 June 2021

Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest

scientific article

Immediate and long-term nitrogen oxide emissions from tropical forest soils exposed to elevated nitrogen input

Impact of elevated N input on soil N cycling and losses in old-growth lowland and montane forests in Panama.

scientific article published on June 2010

Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015–16 El Niño

scientific article published on 17 July 2021

Influences of Heterotrophic and Autotrophic Resource Use on Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions of Tropical Tree Leaves

scientific article published on January 1, 2001

Inter-annual variability of fruit timing and quantity at Nouragues (French Guiana): insights from hierarchical Bayesian analyses

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Interspecific Interaction and Similarity in Species Composition

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Interspecific associations in seed arrival and seedling recruitment in a Neotropical forest

scientific article published on October 2016

Interspecific synchrony and asynchrony in the fruiting phenologies of congeneric bird-dispersed plants in Panama

article

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2008

Interspecific variation in tropical tree height and crown allometries in relation to life history traits

article by Isabel Martinez Cano et al published 12 July 2018 in Biogeosciences Discussions

Intra-Archipelago Vertebrate Distributions: The Slope of the Species-Area Relation

scientific article published in 1981

Intrinsic water-use efficiency and heterotrophic investment in tropical leaf growth of two Neotropical pioneer tree species as estimated from delta13C values

article

Introduction

Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

scientific article published on 16 August 2021

Island Biogeographic Distributions: Testing for Random, Regular, and Aggregated Patterns of Species Occurrence

scholarly article by S. Joseph Wright & Carl C. Biehl published March 1982 in The American Naturalist

Large-scale spatial variation in palm fruit abundance across a tropical moist forest estimated from high-resolution aerial photographs

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Leaf cellulose density as the key determinant of inter- and intra-specific variation in leaf fracture toughness in a species-rich tropical forest.

scientific article published on June 2016

Leaf life span spectrum of tropical woody seedlings: effects of light and ontogeny and consequences for survival

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Leaf ontogeny and phenology influence nutrient, moisture and light limitation of ecosystem productivity in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees

scientific article

Lianas always outperform tree seedlings regardless of soil nutrients: results from a long-term fertilization experiment

scientific article published on July 2015

Lianas and soil nutrients predict fine-scale distribution of above-ground biomass in a tropical moist forest

scientific article published in 2016

Life history trade-offs in tropical trees and lianas.

scientific article published on May 2006

Light and the Phenology of Tropical Trees

article by S. Joseph Wright & Carel P. van Schaik published January 1994 in The American Naturalist

Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery

scientific article published on 02 May 2022

Linking imaging spectroscopy and LiDAR with floristic composition and forest structure in Panama

article

Linking wood traits to vital rates in tropical rainforest trees: Insights from comparing sapling and adult wood

scientific article published on 01 October 2017

Long-term change in the nitrogen cycle of tropical forests.

scientific article published on November 2011

Long-term changes in liana loads and tree dynamics in a Malaysian forest

scientific article published in October 2015

Long-term fertilization determines different metabolomic profiles and responses in saplings of three rainforest tree species with different adult canopy position.

scientific article

Long-term increases in tropical flowering activity across growth forms in response to rising CO2 and climate change.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients

scientific article published in 2023

Measuring the demographic impact of conspecific negative density dependence.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Mechanics and chemistry of rain forest leaves: canopy and understorey compared.

scientific article

Mesoscale assessment of changes in tropical tree species richness across a bioclimatic gradient in Panama using airborne imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2015

Meta-analysis of the effects of human disturbance on seed dispersal by animals

scientific article

Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

Molybdenum limitation of asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in tropical forest soils

Mortality Rates of Insular Anolis Lizards: A Systematic Effect of Island Area?

article published in 1984

Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 15 November 2007

Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse <scp>A</scp>mazonian plant communities

scientific article published in 2023

Negative density dependence of seed dispersal and seedling recruitment in a neotropical palm

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

No evidence that boron influences tree species distributions in lowland tropical forests of Panama

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Non-structural carbohydrate pools in a tropical forest

scientific article published on December 2004

Operational Tree Species Mapping in a Diverse Tropical Forest with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Oxygen isotope ratio stratification in a tropical moist forest

scientific article published on October 1989

Oxygen isotope ratios of plant available phosphate in lowland tropical forest soils

article

PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY AND LEAF LONGEVITY IN THE CANOPY OF A DRY TROPICAL FOREST

scientific article published in 1995

PLASTIC PHENOTYPIC RESPONSE TO LIGHT OF 16 CONGENERIC SHRUBS FROM A PANAMANIAN RAINFOREST

article

Partitioning mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards across 203 tropical tree species

article

Pattern and mortality in Colorado Desert plants.

scientific article published on October 1987

Patterns of Abundance and the Form of the Species-Area Relation

scientific article published in 1988

Performance of tropical forest seedlings under shade and drought: an interspecific trade-off in demographic responses

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest.

scientific article

Pervasive interactions between foliar microbes and soil nutrients mediate leaf production and herbivore damage in a tropical forest.

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Pervasive within-species spatial repulsion among adult tropical trees

scientific article published on 03 August 2023

Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands.

scientific article published on 10 December 2014

Phylogenetic Patterns among Tropical Flowering Phenologies

scientific article published in 1995

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

article

Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence.

scientific article

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant physiological ecology of tropical forest canopies

scientific article published on October 1, 1996

Plant responses to fertilization experiments in lowland, species-rich, tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Plant responses to nutrient addition experiments conducted in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2019

Planting exceptional tropical tree species to increase long‐term carbon storage in assisted secondary succession

scientific article published on 28 November 2023

Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs from a Panamanian Rainforest

article

Poachers Alter Mammal Abundance, Seed Dispersal, and Seed Predation in a Neotropical Forest

Poachers and Forest Fragmentation Alter Seed Dispersal, Seed Survival, and Seedling Recruitment in the Palm Attalea butyraceae, with Implications for Tropical Tree Diversity1

Positive effects of neighborhood complementarity on tree growth in a Neotropical forest.

scientific article

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

scientific article published on August 2011

Poverty and corruption compromise tropical forest reserves.

scientific article

Pre‐dispersal seed predation could help explain premature fruit drop in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Quantifying the role of wood density in explaining interspecific variation in growth of tropical trees

scientific article published in 2017

Radial variation in wood specific gravity of tropical tree species differing in growth-mortality strategies

scientific article

Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest.

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests.

scientific article

Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

scientific article

Reproductive size thresholds in tropical trees: variation among individuals, species and forests

article

Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term inorganic and organic nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest

article

Responses of pre-dispersal seed predators to sequential flowering of Dipterocarps in Malaysia

article

Revisiting nutrient cycling by litterfall—Insights from 15 years of litter manipulation in old-growth lowland tropical forest

scientific article published in 2020

Role of dispersal in the recruitment limitation of neotropical pioneer species

article

Role of tree size in moist tropical forest carbon cycling and water deficit responses.

scientific article published on 06 June 2017

Root and leaf traits reflect distinct resource acquisition strategies in tropical lianas and trees

scientific article published on 9 August 2015

Seasonal Changes and Treatment Effects on Soil Inorganic Nutrients Following a Decade of Fertilizer Addition in a Lowland Tropical Forest

article

Seasonal Drought and Leaf Fall in a Tropical Forest

scientific article published in 1990

Seasonal Drought and the Phenology of Understory Shrubs in a Tropical Moist Forest

scientific article published in 1991

Seasonal changes in soil organic matter after a decade of nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest

article

Seasonal drought and dry-season irrigation influence leaf-litter nutrients and soil enzymes in a moist, lowland forest in Panama

scientific article published in 2004

Seasonal drought, soil fertility and the species density of tropical forest plant communities

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Seasonal leaf phenotypes in the canopy of a tropical dry forest: photosynthetic characteristics and associated traits.

scientific article published on February 1997

Seasonal patterns of carbohydrate storage in four tropical tree species

scientific article

Seasonal, El Niño and longer term changes in flower and seed production in a moist tropical forest

scientific article

Seasonality of reproduction in an ever‐wet lowland tropical forest in <scp>A</scp>mazonian <scp>E</scp>cuador

scientific article published in 2023

Seed arrival in tropical forest tree fall gaps

scientific article (publication date: July 2013)

Seed limitation in a Panamanian forest

scientific article published in 2005

Seed polyphenols in a diverse tropical plant community

article

Seed predation and defleshing in the agouti-dispersed palm Astrocaryum standleyanum

scientific article published in 2010

Seed predation during general flowering events of varying magnitude in a Malaysian rain forest

article published in 2007

Seed size and the evolution of leaf defences

scientific article published in 2015

Seed-to-seedling transitions exhibit distance-dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Seedling growth responses to water and nutrient augmentation in the understorey of a lowland moist forest, Panama

article

Seedling interactions in a tropical forest in Panama.

scientific article

Shifts in taxonomic and functional composition of trees along rainfall and phosphorus gradients in central Panama

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Signs of stabilisation and stable coexistence

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Soil fertility and fine root dynamics in response to 4 years of nutrient (N, P, K) fertilization in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama

article by JOSEPH B. YAVITT et al published 30 June 2010 in Austral Ecology

Soil phosphorus responses to chronic nutrient fertilisation and seasonal drought in a humid lowland forest, Panama

article

Solar irradiance as the proximate cue for flowering in a tropical moist forest

Sources of variation in foliar secondary chemistry in a tropical forest tree community

scientific article

Spatial heterogeneity of soil chemical properties in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama

article by J. B. Yavitt et al published 2009 in Soil Research

Species with greater seed mass are more tolerant of conspecific neighbours: a key driver of early survival and future abundances in a tropical forest.

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Species-specific flowering cues among general flowering Shorea species at the Pasoh Research Forest, Malaysia

scientific article published in 2017

Species-specific responses of foliar nutrients to long-term nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a lowland tropical forest

article

Stable nitrogen isotope patterns of trees and soils altered by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition to a lowland tropical rainforest

article

Stem, root, and older leaf N:P ratios are more responsive indicators of soil nutrient availability than new foliage

scientific article

Stochastic Extinction and Reserve Size: A Focal Species Approach

article

Strong radial variation in wood density follows a uniform pattern in two neotropical rain forests

scientific article published in 2013

Survival and ecophysiology of tree seedlings during El Niño drought in a tropical moist forest in Panama

scholarly article by Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht et al published July 2002 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Survival and growth of Virola surinamensis yearlings: Water augmentation in gap and understory.

scientific article published on April 1991

Surviving in a Cosexual World: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dioecy in Tropical Trees

scientific article

THE EFFECTS OF NEIGHBORS ON THE DEMOGRAPHY OF A DOMINANT DESERT SHRUB (AMBROSIA DUMOSA)

scholarly article by Maria N. Miriti et al published November 2001 in Ecological Monographs

THE EL NIÑO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION, VARIABLE FRUIT PRODUCTION, AND FAMINE IN A TROPICAL FOREST

scientific article published in 1999

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

Taxonomy and remote sensing of leaf mass per area (LMA) in humid tropical forests

scientific article published on January 2011

Temporal and spatial variability in seedling dynamics: a cross-site comparison in four lowland tropical forests

scientific article published in 2008

Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity.

scientific article

Temporal patterns of soil nutrients in a Panamanian moist forest revealed by ion-exchange resin and experimental irrigation

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

scientific article

Testing for changes in biomass dynamics in large-scale forest datasets

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Testing the Dispersion of Juveniles Relative to Adults: A New Analytic Method

scientific article published in 1986

The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind

The Dispersion of Eggs by a Bruchid Beetle among Scheelea Palm Seeds and the Effect of Distance to the Parent Palm

scientific article published in 1983

The Future of Tropical Forest Species1

The Phenology of Tropical Forests: Adaptive Significance and Consequences for Primary Consumers

scientific article published in 1993

The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration

article

The Response of Litter-Associated Myxomycetes to Long-Term Nutrient Addition in a Lowland Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 24 March 2019

The Spatial Pattern and Reproductive Consequences of Outbreak Defoliation in Quararibea Asterolepis, A Tropical Tree

scientific article published in 1990

The Status of the Panama Canal Watershed and Its Biodiversity at the Beginning of the 21st Century

The Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest Species1

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

article

The carbon sink in intact tropical forests

scientific article published on November 15, 2012

The contribution of interspecific variation in maximum tree height to tropical and temperate diversity

article by David A. King et al published 21 December 2005 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

The decline of tree diversity on newly isolated tropical islands: A test of a null hypothesis and some implications

The effect of climatic gradients, topographic variation and species traits on the beta diversity of rain forest trees

scholarly article by Priya Davidar et al published July 2007 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

The future of tropical forests

The future of tropical forests.

scientific article

The future of tropical species in secondary forests: A quantitative review

article

The future of tropical species on a warmer planet.

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function

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 lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

scientific article published in 2010

The insect‐focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rain forests: An inter‐continental comparison

scientific article published in 2019

The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

The mechanical defence advantage of small seeds

scientific article

The myriad consequences of hunting for vertebrates and plants in tropical forests

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The relative roles of environment, history and local dispersal in controlling the distributions of common tree and shrub species in a tropical forest landscape, Panama

article

The response of lianas to 20 years of nutrient addition in a Panamanian forest

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

The response of microbial biomass and hydrolytic enzymes to a decade of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium addition in a lowland tropical rain forest

article

The response of stomatal conductance to seasonal drought in tropical forests

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

The timing of abscission affects dispersal distance in a wind-dispersed tropical tree

scientific article published in 2012

Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and distribution in a diverse Amazonian forest

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Trait evolution and the coexistence of a species swarm in the tropical forest understorey

scientific article published in 2012

Tree species vary widely in their tolerance for liana infestation: A case study of differential host response to generalist parasites

scientific article published in 2017

Trees adjust nutrient acquisition strategies across tropical forest secondary succession

scientific article published on 14 May 2024

Tri-trophic interactions affect density dependence of seed fate in a tropical forest palm.

scientific article

Tropical Forest Litter Decomposition under Seasonal Drought: Nutrient Release, Fungi and Bacteria

article by Fernando H. Cornejo et al published June 1994 in Oikos

Tropical Forest Litter Dynamics and Dry Season Irrigation on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

article

Tropical forest responses to increasing atmospheric CO2: current knowledge and opportunities for future research

article

Tropical forests in a changing environment

scientific article published on 8 August 2005

Tropical mountain cradles of dry forest diversity

scientific article (publication date: 2 August 2005)

Tropical tree height and crown allometries for the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama: a comparison of alternative hierarchical models incorporating interspecific variation in relation to life history traits

article by Isabel Martínez Cano et al published 20 February 2019 in Biogeosciences

Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

article

Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions.

scientific article

Variability in leaf optical properties of Mesoamerican trees and the potential for species classification.

scientific article

Variable Responses of Lowland Tropical Forest Nutrient Status to Fertilization and Litter Manipulation

article

Variation in crown light utilization characteristics among tropical canopy trees.

scientific article published on 7 December 2004

Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Variations of leaf longevity in tropical moist forests predicted by a trait-driven carbon optimality model

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

WHAT'S UP? PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FOREST CANOPY CONFERENCE AT SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 1994

scientific article published in 1995

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

What makes a leaf tough? Patterns of correlated evolution between leaf toughness traits and demographic rates among 197 shade-tolerant woody species in a neotropical forest.

scientific article published on June 2011

Why Do Some Tropical Forests Have So Many Species of Trees?

Wood traits related to size and life history of trees in a Panamanian rainforest

scientific article published on 17 August 2016