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List of works by John Terborgh

A New Species of Wood-Wren from Peru

scientific article

A New Subspecies of Curassow of the Genus Pauxi from Peru

scientific article published in 1971

A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016.

scientific article

A last chance in the Amazon

scientific article published on 01 May 1976

A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

Amazonian Nature Reserves: An Analysis of the Defensibility Status of Existing Conservation Units and Design Criteria for the Future

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Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984.

Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees

scientific article published on January 2002

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Bird Species Diversity on an Andean Elevational Gradient

scientific article published in 1977

CHANCE, HABITAT AND DISPERSAL IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS IN THE WEST INDIES

scientific article published in 1973

CHANCE, HABITAT AND DISPERSAL IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS IN THE WEST INDIES.

scientific article

Changes in tree community structure in defaunated forests are not driven only by dispersal limitation

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

scientific article

Colonization of Secondary Habitats by Peruvian Birds

scientific article published in 1969

Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

scientific article

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

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

scientific article

Decomposing dispersal limitation: limits on fecundity or seed distribution?

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Defaunation increases the spatial clustering of lowland Western Amazonian tree communities

scientific article published in 2018

Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments

Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release

scientific article published in August 2022

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

scientific article

Do Community-Managed Forests Work? A Biodiversity Perspective

Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

scientific article published on November 30, 2001

Effects of Mammalian Herbivores on Plant Recruitment in Two Neotropical Forests

article

Effects of Red and Blue Light on the Growth and Morphogenesis of Acetabularia crenulata

scientific article published in September 1965

Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests

scientific article

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

scientific article

Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees

scientific article

Fates of seedling carpets in an Amazonian floodplain forest: intra-cohort competition or attack by enemies?

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Frugivorous butterflies in Venezuelan forest fragments: abundance, diversity and the effects of isolation

scientific article published in 1999

Funding Should Come to Those Who Wait

scientific article published in Science

Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest

scientific article

Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities

scientific article published on 17 February 2024

Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness

scientific article published in January 2006

Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees

scientific article

How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure.

scientific article

How many seeds does it take to make a sapling?

scientific article published on April 2014

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Identifying keystone plant resources in an Amazonian forest using a long-term fruit-fall record

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Increased Herbivory in Forest Isolates: Implications for Plant Community Structure and Composition

scientific article published in 2001

Indigenous Perceptions of Tree Species Abundance Across an Upper Amazonian Landscape

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

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

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

scientific article published on March 2015

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Low Energy Effects of Light on Growth and Pigment Content in a Yellow-in-the-Dark Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardi

scientific article published in December 1967

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

scientific article

Megafauna in the Earth system

scientific article published in 2015

Mixed flocks and polyspecific associations: Costs and benefits of mixed groups to birds and monkeys

article

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

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Multi-Species Territoriality in Neotropical Foraging Flocks

scholarly article published in The Condor in November 1979

Non-Flying Mammals as Pollinating Agents in the Amazonian Forest

Oddity and the ‘confusion effect’ in predation

article published in 1986

On the Notion of Favorableness in Plant Ecology

scientific article (publication date: July 1973)

On the mating system of the cooperatively breeding saddle-backed tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis)

article

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition.

scientific article published in March 2017

Phaethornis koepckeae, a New Species of Hummingbird from Peru

scientific article published in 1977

Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities

article

Potentiation of photosynthetic oxygen evolution in red light by small quantities of monochromatic blue light

scientific article published in November 1966

Preservation of Natural Diversity: The Problem of Extinction Prone Species

scientific article published in 1974

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

Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types

scientific article published in 2022

Reply to Cucheroussetet al

scientific article published in 2012

Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

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Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

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Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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Seed characteristics and susceptibility to pathogen attack in tree seeds of the Peruvian Amazon

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Seed limitation in an Amazonian floodplain forest

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Seed predation and seedling herbivory as factors in tree recruitment failure on predator-free forested islands

scientific article published in 2007

Size-abundance relationships in an Amazonian bird community: implications for the energetic equivalence rule

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

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

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Spatial organization of vegetation arising from non-local excitation with local inhibition in tropical rainforests

scholarly article by Sally E. Thompson et al published June 2009 in Physica D

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

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC RHYTHM OF ACETABULARIA CRENULATA. I. CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS OF OXYGEN EXCHANGE IN ALTERNATING LIGHT-DARK REGIMES AND IN CONSTANT LIGHT OF DIFFERENT INTENSITIES

scholarly article by John Terborgh & Guy C. Mcleod published December 1967 in The Biological Bulletin

THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC RHYTHM OF ACETABULARIA CRENULATA. II. MEASUREMENTS OF PHOTOASSIMILATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND THE ACTIVITIES OF ENZYMES OF THE REDUCTIVE PENTOSE CYCLE

scholarly article by Johan A. Hellebust et al published December 1967 in The Biological Bulletin

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

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

scientific article published in 1993

The Role of Ecotones in the Distribution of Andean Birds

scientific article published in 1985

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

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The effects of plant pathogens on tree recruitment in the Western Amazon under a projected future climate: a dynamical systems analysis

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The global abundance of tree palms

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The number of tree species on Earth

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The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests

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The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park

scientific article published in 2023

Toward a trophic theory of species diversity

scientific article published on September 2015

Tree height integrated into pan-tropical forest biomass estimates

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Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tree recruitment in an empty forest

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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

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Tropical Tree Communities: A Test of the Nonequilibrium Hypothesis

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

article

Turnover and Ecological Release in the Avifauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico

scientific article published in 1973

Twenty-three-year timeline of ecological stable states and regime shifts in upper Amazon oxbow lakes

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Using Janzen–Connell to predict the consequences of defaunation and other disturbances of tropical forests

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Variability in the tropics: the ecology of a tropical forest

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Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models.

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Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands

scientific article published in 2006

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

When top-down becomes bottom up: behaviour of hyperdense howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) trapped on a 0.6 ha island

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

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

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