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List of works by Sean M. McMahon

A general model of intra-annual tree growth using dendrometer bands

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A predictive framework to understand forest responses to global change

scientific article published on April 2009

Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

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Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

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

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

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Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests

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Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Closing the life cycle of forest trees: The difficult dynamics of seedling‐to‐sapling transitions in a subtropical rainforest

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Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas

scientific article published on 15 July 2022

Cryptic phenology in plants: Case studies, implications, and recommendations

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 February 2022

Demography beyond the population

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum

scientific article published in February 2023

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an aseasonal, everwet forest

Ecological and environmental factors constrain sprouting ability in tropical trees.

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Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth

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Fine-scale patch mosaic of developmental stages in Northeast American secondary temperate forests: the European perspective

Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Forest community response to invasive pathogens: the case of ash dieback in a British woodland

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ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

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Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

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Ground based LiDAR demonstrates the legacy of management history to canopy structure and composition across a fragmented temperate woodland

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HIGH DIMENSIONAL COEXISTENCE BASED ON INDIVIDUAL VARIATION: A SYNTHESIS OF EVIDENCE

scientific article published in 2010

High-dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence

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

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IPMpack: an R package for integral projection models

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Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests

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Inferring forest fate from demographic data: from vital rates to population dynamic models.

scientific article published in March 2018

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Isoprene emission structures tropical tree biogeography and community assembly responses to climate

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests

scientific article published in 2021

Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities

scientific article published on 28 February 2024

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

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On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

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

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Quantifying the Community: Using Bayesian Learning Networks to find Structure and Conduct Inference in Invasions Biology

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Reply to Foster et al.: Using a forest to measure trees: Determining which vital rates are responding to climate change.

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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

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

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Scales of association: hierarchical linear models and the measurement of ecological systems

scientific article published in June 2007

Seasonal and drought‐related changes in leaf area profiles depend on height and light environment in an Amazon forest

scientific article published on 09 March 2019

Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest

scientific article published in 2015

Small Field Plots Can Cause Substantial Uncertainty in Gridded Aboveground Biomass Products from Airborne Lidar Data

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Speeding up ecological and evolutionary computations in R; essentials of high performance computing for biologists

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Statistical modelling of annual variation for inference on stochastic population dynamics using Integral Projection Models

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Strategies of tolerance reflected in two North American maple genomes

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

The importance and challenges of detecting changes in forest mortality rates

scientific article published on 26 February 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 roots of the drought: Hydrology and water uptake strategies mediate forest‐wide demographic response to precipitation

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The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

scientific article published in 2002

Topographically driven microclimatic gradients shape patterns of forest structure, diversity, and composition at a forest-grassland transition zone

Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species.

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Transient sensitivities of non-indigenous shrub species indicate complicated invasion dynamics

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Tree Circumference Dynamics in Four Forests Characterized Using Automated Dendrometer Bands.

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Tree spatial patterns of Fagus sylvatica expansion over 37 years

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits

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Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits

scientific article published on 06 November 2021

Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress

scientific article published on 18 May 2022

Warm springs alter timing but not total growth of temperate deciduous trees

scientific article published on 10 August 2022

Warmer spring temperatures in temperate deciduous forests advance the timing of tree growth but have little effect on annual woody productivity

What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

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allodb : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots

scientific article published on 23 November 2021