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A Pedagogical Model for Team-Based, Problem-Focused Interdisciplinary Doctoral Education

A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests

scientific article published in 2023

A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists

scientific article published in June 2011

Above-ground biomass storage potential in primary rain forests managed for timber production in Costa Rica

scientific article published in 2021

Active restoration of secondary and degraded forests in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Altitude and community traits explain rain forest stand dynamics over a 2370‐m altitudinal gradient in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 09 December 2021

Altitude and species identity drive leaf litter decomposition rates of ten species on a 2950 m altitudinal gradient in Neotropical rain forests

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

article published in 2017

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

scientific article published in 2018

Biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes of Mesoamerica: Past, present and future

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Biomass of timber species in Central American secondary forests: Towards climate change mitigation through sustainable timber harvesting

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Community aggregated traits disclose functional responses to seasonal resource fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity

article

Comparative effectiveness of silvicultural interventions for increasing timber production and sustaining conservation values in natural tropical production forests. A systematic review protocol

article

Comparative landscape genetics of two frugivorous bats in a biological corridor undergoing agricultural intensification

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Composition and Dynamics of Functional Groups of Trees During Tropical Forest Succession in Northeastern Costa Rica

article

Concepts and a methodology for evaluating environmental services from trees of small farms in Chiapas, México

scientific article published on December 11, 2012

Coupled social and ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification in Costa Rica and the future of biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural regions

scholarly article by Irene Shaver et al published May 2015 in Global Environmental Change

Data from: Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests

Dispersal limitation, soil, and fire affect functional properties of tropical secondary forests on abandoned cattle ranching landscapes

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Disturbance and the elevation ranges of woody plant species in the mountains of Costa Rica

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

scientific article published in 2014

Drivers of tropical rainforest composition and alpha diversity patterns over a 2,520 m altitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

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

article

Forest succession

scientific article published in Nature

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

scientific article

Genetic Consequences of Multigenerational and Landscape Colonisation Bottlenecks for a Neotropical Forest Pioneer Tree, Vochysia ferruginea

scientific article published on 24 February 2010

How forest structure varies with elevation in old growth and secondary forest in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Integrating Landsat TM and SRTM-DEM derived variables with decision trees for habitat classification and change detection in complex neotropical environments

scholarly article

Integrating agricultural landscapes with biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican hotspot

scientific article

Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

scientific article

Litterfall Dynamics Under Different Tropical Forest Restoration Strategies in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

scientific article

Neotropical moth assemblages degrade due to oil palm expansion

scientific article published on 05 May 2017

Old-growth Neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition

article

PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Characterization of microsatellite markers for the almendro (Dipteryx panamensis), a tetraploid rainforest tree

scientific article published on March 1, 2008

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

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Pollen dispersal and genetic structure of the tropical tree Dipteryx panamensis in a fragmented Costa Rican landscape

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Potential trajectories of old-growth Neotropical forest functional composition under climate change

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances

scientific article published on February 2007

Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession

Standardized genetic diversity-life history correlates for improved genetic resource management of Neotropical trees

article published in 2018

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

scientific article published in July 2022

Structural and Floristic Heterogeneity in a 30-Year-Old Costa Rican Rain Forest Restored on Pasture Through Natural Secondary Succession

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The multispectral separability of Costa Rican rainforest types with support vector machines and Random Forest decision trees

scholarly article

Throughfall heterogeneity in tropical forested landscapes as a focal mechanism for deep percolation

Tree Regeneration and Understory Woody Plants Show Diverse Responses to Forest-Pasture Edges in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica: the effect of several strategies on litter production, accumulation and decomposition

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Understory Bees and Floral Resources in Logged and Silviculturally Treated Costa Rican Rainforest Plots

Variation in Seedling Density and Seed Predation Indicators for the Emergent Tree Dipteryx panamensis in Continuous and Fragmented Rain Forest

scientific article published in 2006

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2019