List of works - Jennifer S. Powers

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Beyond MAP: A guide to dimensions of rainfall variability for tropical ecology

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Beyond leaf habit: generalities in plant function across 97 tropical dry forest tree species

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Biogeochemistry and Geographical Ecology: Embracing All Twenty-Five Elements Required to Build Organisms

scientific article

Biological potential of four indigenous tree species from seasonally dry tropical forest for soil restoration

scientific article

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Biotic constraints on the establishment and performance of native, naturalized, and invasive plants in Pacific Northwest (USA) steppe and forest

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

scientific article

Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

scientific article

Climate and hydraulic traits interact to set thresholds for liana viability

scientific article published in 2022

Coarse woody debris stocks as a function of forest type and stand age in Costa Rican tropical dry forest: long-lasting legacies of previous land use

scientific article published in 2010

Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass and nitrogen cycling in a field warming and biodiversity experiment in a North American prairie

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Contribution of lianas to plant area index and canopy structure in a Panamanian forest

scientific article published on December 2016

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

article by Jennifer S Powers et al published July 2009 in Journal of Ecology

Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

scientific article published in 2009

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests.

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Early chemical changes during wood decomposition are controlled by fungal communities inhabiting stems at treefall in a tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 07 July 2021

Ecosystem Processes and Biogeochemical Cycles in Secondary Tropical Forest Succession

scientific article published in 2017

Edaphic factors, successional status and functional traits drive habitat associations of trees in naturally regenerating tropical dry forests

scientific article published in 2018

Effect of lianas on forest-level tree carbon accumulation does not differ between seasons: Results from a liana removal experiment in Panama

scientific article published in 2019

Effects of dry-season irrigation on leaf physiology and biomass allocation in tropical lianas and trees

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Effects of lianas on forest biogeochemistry during their lives and afterlives

scientific article published in April 2024

Effects of soil type and light on height growth, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen dynamics on 22 species of tropical dry forest tree seedlings: Comparisons between legumes and nonlegumes.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

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

article

Explaining Legume Success in Tropical Dry Forests Based on Seed Germination Niches: A New Hypothesis

article

Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four neotropical rain forests: patterns across large geographic distances

scientific article

Forest composition modifies litter dynamics and decomposition in regenerating tropical dry forest

2016 scientific article

Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation.

scientific article

Growth responses, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen isotopes of prairie legumes in response to elevated temperature and varying nitrogen source in a growth chamber experiment ⬇️

scientific article published on April 26, 2012

Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance

scientific article

Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

scholarly article by María Uriarte et al published November 2016 in Biotropica

Increased litterfall in tropical forests boosts the transfer of soil CO2 to the atmosphere

scientific article

Intra-annual variation in microclimatic conditions in relation to vegetation type and structure in two tropical dry forests undergoing secondary succession

scientific article published on 05 March 2022

Landscape-scale Variation in Pathogen-suppressive Bacteria in Tropical Dry Forest Soils of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 30 October 2014

Leaf traits and water relations of 12 evergreen species in Costa Rican wet and dry forests: patterns of intra-specific variation across forests and seasons

article

Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests

scholarly article by Geertje M. van der Heijden et al published 20 September 2013 in Biotropica

Liana competition with tropical trees varies seasonally but not with tree species identity.

scientific article published on January 2015

Lianas and Trees From a Seasonally Dry and a Wet Tropical Forest Did Not Differ in Embolism Resistance but Did Differ in Xylem Anatomical Traits in the Dry Forest

scientific article published on 12 April 2022

Lianas maintain insectivorous bird abundance and diversity in a neotropical forest

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests

scientific article

Lianas reduce community-level canopy tree reproduction in a Panamanian forest

scientific article published in 2017

Lianas suppress seedling growth and survival of 14 tree species in a Panamanian tropical forest

scientific article

Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration

scientific article published in 2017

Macro- and micronutrient effects on decomposition of leaf litter from two tropical tree species: inferences from a short-term laboratory incubation

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Modeling the Carbon Cost of Plant Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake Across Temperate and Tropical Forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

scientific article

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and cation use efficiency in stands of regenerating tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Nutrient addition effects on tropical dry forests: a mini-review from microbial to ecosystem scales

article

Observed variation in soil properties can drive large variation in modelled forest functioning and composition during tropical forest secondary succession

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Opportunities for Integrating Social Science into Research on Dry Forest Restoration: A Mini-Review

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

Pervasive and strong effects of plants on soil chemistry: a meta-analysis of individual plant 'Zinke' effects

scientific article published in August 2015

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

scientific article

Plant community responses to stand-level nutrient fertilization in a secondary tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought

scientific article published on 18 December 2021

Regional variation in soil carbon and δ13C in forests and pastures of northeastern Costa Rica

scientific article published in 2005

Reply to Verbeeck and Kearsley: Addressing the challenges of including lianas in global vegetation models.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Resilience of seed production to a severe El Niño-induced drought across functional groups and dispersal types

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Resilience of tropical dry forests - a meta-analysis of changes in species diversity and composition during secondary succession

article

Scale-dependent variation in nitrogen cycling and soil fungal communities along gradients of forest composition and age in regenerating tropical dry forests

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

scientific article

Short and Long-Term Soil Moisture Effects of Liana Removal in a Seasonally Moist Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Soil biogeochemistry across Central and South American tropical dry forests

scientific article

Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession

Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

article

Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives

article

Tradeoffs and Synergies in Tropical Forest Root Traits and Dynamics for Nutrient and Water Acquisition: Field and Modeling Advances

scientific article published on 02 December 2021

Trait-based signatures of cloud base height in a tropical cloud forest

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Tree species effects on pathogen-suppressive capacities of soil bacteria across two tropical dry forests in Costa Rica

scientific article

Tropical biology and conservation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Tropical dry forest trees and lianas differ in leaf economic spectrum traits but have overlapping water-use strategies

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Tropical forest composition and function across space and time: Insights from diverse gradients in Área de Conservación Guanacaste

scientific article

Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

scholarly article by Bruno Locatelli et al published 13 April 2015 in Restoration Ecology

Two Co-occurring Liana Species Strongly Differ in Their Hydraulic Traits in a Water-Limited Neotropical Forest

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Unraveling the relative role of light and water competition between lianas and trees in tropical forests: A vegetation model analysis

scientific article published in 2020

Using large-scale tropical dry forest restoration to test successional theory

scientific article published on 07 March 2020

Using soil amendments and plant functional traits to select native tropical dry forest species for the restoration of degraded Vertisols

article

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

article

List of works by Jennifer S. Powers

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

Beyond MAP: A guide to dimensions of rainfall variability for tropical ecology

Beyond leaf habit: generalities in plant function across 97 tropical dry forest tree species

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

Biogeochemistry and Geographical Ecology: Embracing All Twenty-Five Elements Required to Build Organisms

Biological potential of four indigenous tree species from seasonally dry tropical forest for soil restoration

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

Biotic constraints on the establishment and performance of native, naturalized, and invasive plants in Pacific Northwest (USA) steppe and forest

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

Climate and hydraulic traits interact to set thresholds for liana viability

Coarse woody debris stocks as a function of forest type and stand age in Costa Rican tropical dry forest: long-lasting legacies of previous land use

Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass and nitrogen cycling in a field warming and biodiversity experiment in a North American prairie

Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

Contribution of lianas to plant area index and canopy structure in a Panamanian forest

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics

Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests.

Early chemical changes during wood decomposition are controlled by fungal communities inhabiting stems at treefall in a tropical dry forest

Ecosystem Processes and Biogeochemical Cycles in Secondary Tropical Forest Succession

Edaphic factors, successional status and functional traits drive habitat associations of trees in naturally regenerating tropical dry forests

Effect of lianas on forest-level tree carbon accumulation does not differ between seasons: Results from a liana removal experiment in Panama

Effects of dry-season irrigation on leaf physiology and biomass allocation in tropical lianas and trees

Effects of lianas on forest biogeochemistry during their lives and afterlives

Effects of soil type and light on height growth, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen dynamics on 22 species of tropical dry forest tree seedlings: Comparisons between legumes and nonlegumes.

Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature

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

Explaining Legume Success in Tropical Dry Forests Based on Seed Germination Niches: A New Hypothesis

Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four neotropical rain forests: patterns across large geographic distances

Forest composition modifies litter dynamics and decomposition in regenerating tropical dry forest

Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation.

Growth responses, biomass partitioning, and nitrogen isotopes of prairie legumes in response to elevated temperature and varying nitrogen source in a growth chamber experiment ⬇️

Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance

Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

Increased litterfall in tropical forests boosts the transfer of soil CO2 to the atmosphere

Intra-annual variation in microclimatic conditions in relation to vegetation type and structure in two tropical dry forests undergoing secondary succession

Landscape-scale Variation in Pathogen-suppressive Bacteria in Tropical Dry Forest Soils of Costa Rica

Leaf traits and water relations of 12 evergreen species in Costa Rican wet and dry forests: patterns of intra-specific variation across forests and seasons

Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests

Liana competition with tropical trees varies seasonally but not with tree species identity.

Lianas and Trees From a Seasonally Dry and a Wet Tropical Forest Did Not Differ in Embolism Resistance but Did Differ in Xylem Anatomical Traits in the Dry Forest

Lianas maintain insectivorous bird abundance and diversity in a neotropical forest

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests

Lianas reduce community-level canopy tree reproduction in a Panamanian forest

Lianas suppress seedling growth and survival of 14 tree species in a Panamanian tropical forest

Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration

Macro- and micronutrient effects on decomposition of leaf litter from two tropical tree species: inferences from a short-term laboratory incubation

Modeling the Carbon Cost of Plant Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake Across Temperate and Tropical Forests

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and cation use efficiency in stands of regenerating tropical dry forest

Nutrient addition effects on tropical dry forests: a mini-review from microbial to ecosystem scales

Observed variation in soil properties can drive large variation in modelled forest functioning and composition during tropical forest secondary succession

Opportunities for Integrating Social Science into Research on Dry Forest Restoration: A Mini-Review

Pervasive and strong effects of plants on soil chemistry: a meta-analysis of individual plant 'Zinke' effects

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

Plant community responses to stand-level nutrient fertilization in a secondary tropical dry forest

Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought

Regional variation in soil carbon and δ13C in forests and pastures of northeastern Costa Rica

Reply to Verbeeck and Kearsley: Addressing the challenges of including lianas in global vegetation models.

Resilience of seed production to a severe El Niño-induced drought across functional groups and dispersal types

Resilience of tropical dry forests - a meta-analysis of changes in species diversity and composition during secondary succession

Scale-dependent variation in nitrogen cycling and soil fungal communities along gradients of forest composition and age in regenerating tropical dry forests

Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

Short and Long-Term Soil Moisture Effects of Liana Removal in a Seasonally Moist Tropical Forest

Soil biogeochemistry across Central and South American tropical dry forests

Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession

Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives

Tradeoffs and Synergies in Tropical Forest Root Traits and Dynamics for Nutrient and Water Acquisition: Field and Modeling Advances

Trait-based signatures of cloud base height in a tropical cloud forest