List of works by Stephen P. Hubbell

A general framework for the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities.

scientific article

A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees

scientific article published in 2020

A spatially explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: does the identity of neighbours matter?

article

A systematic comparison of summary characteristics for quantifying point patterns in ecology

scientific article published in 2012

A taxonomic comparison of local habitat niches of tropical trees

scientific article

Abiotic niche partitioning and negative density dependence drive tree seedling survival in a tropical forest.

scientific article published in December 2017

Adapterama II: universal amplicon sequencing on illumina platforms (TaggiMatrix)

journal article published in 2019

Adult mortality in a low-density tree population using high-resolution remote sensing

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Aggression and Competition among Stingless Bees: Field Studies

scientific article (publication date: 1974)

An antifungal terpenoid defends a neotropical tree (Hymenaea) against attack by fungus-growing ants (Atta).

scientific article

Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities.

scientific article

Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community

scientific article

Bayesian animals sense ecological constraints to predict fitness and organize individually flexible reproductive decisions

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees

scientific article published on January 2002

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

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

scientific article

Chance, time allocation, and the evolution of adaptively flexible sex role behavior.

scientific article published in November 2005

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Colloquium paper: how many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?

scientific article

Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution II: biodiversity and extinction

scientific article

Community-level species' correlated distribution can be scale-independent and related to the evenness of abundance

article

Comparing models of species abundance (Reply)

scientific article published in Nature

Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models.

scientific article published in May 2006

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

scientific article

Contrasting structure and composition of the understory in species-rich tropical rain forests.

scientific article

Correction: Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Crown Asymmetry, Treefalls, and Repeat Disturbance of Broad-Leaved Forest Gaps

scientific article published in 1991

Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Demographic trends and climate over 35 years in the Barro Colorado 50 ha plot

Density dependence explains tree species abundance and diversity in tropical forests

scientific article

Density-dependent adult recruitment in a low-density tropical tree

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Density-dependent seedling mortality varies with light availability and species abundance in wet and dry Hawaiian forests

article

Detecting and projecting changes in forest biomass from plot data

Determinants of mortality across a tropical lowland rainforest community

scholarly article by Nadja Rüger et al published 15 March 2011 in Oikos

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

scientific article

Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Effects of seedling size, El Niño drought, seedling density, and distance to nearest conspecific adult on 6-year survival of Ocotea whitei seedlings in Panamá.

scientific article published on May 2001

Estimating extinction from species--area relationships: why the numbers do not add up.

scientific article

Estimating local interaction from spatiotemporal forest data, and Monte Carlo bias correction

scientific article

Estimating the global number of tropical tree species, and Fisher's paradox

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

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

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article published on December 2010

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

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article published in 2003

Genetic evidence of frequent long-distance recruitment in a vertebrate-dispersed tree

scientific article published in May 2006

Geographic Influence on Genetic Structure in the Widespread Neotropical Tree Simarouba amara (Simaroubaceae)

Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Growth strategies of tropical tree species: disentangling light and size effects

scientific article

He and Hubbell reply

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-02-22

Improving estimates of biomass change in buttressed trees using tree taper models

article

Inferring species interactions in tropical forests

scientific article

Intensive research activity alters short-term seedling dynamics in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2008

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2008

Liana abundance, diversity, and distribution on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

scientific article

Life history scaling in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 18 January 2024

Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Local canopy disturbance as an explanation for long‐term increases in liana abundance

scientific article published in 2021

Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank

scientific article

Long-term research impacts on seedling community structure and composition in a permanent forest plot

article

Nest Tree Selectivity by the Tropical Ant, Paraponera clavata

Neutral theory and relative species abundance in ecology

scientific article

Neutral theory and the evolution of ecological equivalence

scientific article

Neutral theory: the stability of forest biodiversity

scientific article

Nonrandom processes maintain diversity in tropical forests

scientific article

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs

scientific article

Percolation Theory for the Distribution and Abundance of Species

scientific article published on 07 November 2003

Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests

scientific article

Pervasive canopy dynamics produce short-term stability in a tropical rain forest landscape

scientific article published on February 2009

Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

scientific article

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

scientific article

Protracted speciation revitalizes the neutral theory of biodiversity

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article

Reply to Feeley and Silman: Extinction risk estimates are approximations but are not invalid.

scholarly article

Reproductive decisions under ecological constraints: it's about time

scholarly article

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

article

Resolving the paradox of clumped seed dispersal: positive density and distance dependence in a bat-dispersed species

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Resource-based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community

scientific article published in 2012

Response of demographic rates of tropical trees to light availability: can position-based competition indices replace information from canopy census data?

scientific article

Response of recruitment to light availability across a tropical lowland rain forest community

scientific article

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published in Science

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

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

scientific article published on 06 June 2017

Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

article

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

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species

scholarly article

Spatial scaling in model plant communities

scientific article published on 23 August 2005

Spatial scaling of species abundance distributions

article

Species diversity in local neutral communities

scientific article

Species-area curves, diversity indices, and species abundance distributions: a multifractal analysis.

scientific article published in February 2002

Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2017

Stochastic Extinction and Reserve Size: A Focal Species Approach

article

Stochastically driven adult-recruit associations of tree species on Barro Colorado Island

scientific article published in September 2014

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2008

Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests.

scientific article published in May 2006

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

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The Frequency of Cyclonic Wind Storms Shapes Tropical Forest Dynamism and Functional Trait Dispersion

article by J. Hogan et al published 5 July 2018 in Forests

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

scientific article published in 1990

The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America

scientific article published in 1991

The case for ecological neutral theory.

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

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

scientific article published in 2010

The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

The lianas of Barro Colorado Island, Panama

The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography and Stephen Jay Gould

scholarly article by Stephen P. Hubbell published June 2005 in Paleobiology

The phylogenetic structure of a neotropical forest tree community.

scientific article published on July 2006

The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography at age ten.

scientific article

The use of soil pollen to determine the sex of overhead individuals of a temperate dioecious shrub

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

scientific article published in 2012

Thirty years of forest census at Barro Colorado and the importance of immigration in maintaining diversity

scientific article

Trade-offs in seedling growth and survival within and across tropical forest microhabitats

scientific article

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

Tropical rain forest conservation and the twin challenges of diversity and rarity

scientific article

Use of sonic tomography to detect and quantify wood decay in living trees.

scientific article

Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity

scientific article published on 20 June 2018