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List of works by Marielos Peña-Claros

A More Realistic Portrayal of Tropical Forestry: Response to Kormos and Zimmerman

scholarly article by Francis E. Putz et al published 11 July 2013 in Conservation Letters

A monocarpic tree species in a polycarpic world: how can Tachigali vasquezii maintain itself so successfully in a tropical rain forest community?

scientific article published in 2005

Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest

article by Masha T. Van der Sande et al published 27 March 2017 in Journal of Ecology

Amazonian Dark Earth Shapes the Understory Plant Community in a Bolivian Forest

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An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

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 in species, traits, and structure determines carbon stocks and uptake in tropical forests

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests.

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

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

scientific article

Climate and soil drive forest structure in Bolivian lowland forests

scientific article published in 2011

Climate is a stronger driver of tree and forest growth rates than soil and disturbance

scientific article published in 2010

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

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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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Correction to 'Interactive effects of tree size, crown exposure and logging on drought-induced mortality'

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients

scientific article published in 2011

Disturbance Level Determines the Regeneration of Commercial Tree Species in the Eastern Amazon

Disturbance intensity is a stronger driver of biomass recovery than remaining tree-community attributes in a managed Amazonian forest

scientific article published in 2018

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2015

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

scientific article published in 2014

Driving factors of forest growth: a reply to Ferryet al.(2012)

scientific article published in 2012

Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

scholarly article by Patricia Balvanera et al published December 2012 in Ecosystem services

Effects of Amazonian Dark Earths on growth and leaf nutrient balance of tropical tree seedlings

Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2012

Effects of liana load, tree diameter and distances between conspecifics on seed production in tropical timber trees

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Enrichment planting of Bertholletia excelsa in secondary forest in the Bolivian Amazon: effect of cutting line width on survival, growth and crown traits

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Fates of trees damaged by logging in Amazonian Bolivia

scholarly article by Alexander Shenkin et al published December 2015 in Forest Ecology and Management

Forest conservation: Humans' handprints

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Impact of agroecological management on plant diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in pasture and coffee systems in the Atlantic forest of Brazil

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Integrating stand and soil properties to understand foliar nutrient dynamics during forest succession following slash-and-burn agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon

scientific article

Interactive effects of tree size, crown exposure and logging on drought-induced mortality

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Interdisciplinary perspectives on REDD+

Land-use intensification effects on functional properties in tropical plant communities

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

Linking vegetation and soil functions during secondary forest succession in the Atlantic forest

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

scientific article published on March 2015

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

scientific article published on 07 January 2015

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Mid-term effects of reduced-impact logging on the regeneration of seven tree commercial species in the Eastern Amazon

scientific article published in 2012

Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model

scholarly article published 15 November 2018

Monitoring direct drivers of small-scale tropical forest disturbance in near real-time with Sentinel-1 and -2 data

scientific article published in 2023

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

scientific article

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

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Optimal strategies for ecosystem services provision in Amazonian production forests

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Patterns and Determinants of Floristic Variation across Lowland Forests of Bolivia

scholarly article by Marisol Toledo et al published 11 October 2010 in Biotropica

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

scientific article published in March 2017

Post-harvesting silvicultural treatments in logging gaps: A comparison between enrichment planting and tending of natural regeneration

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Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests.

scientific article published in September 2015

Recovery of forest structure and spectral properties after selective logging in lowland Bolivia

scientific article published in June 2006

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

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Response to Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition".

scientific article published in October 2017

Ritmos de crecimiento diamétrico en los bosques secos tropicales: aportes al manejo sostenible de los bosques de la provincia biogeográfica del Cerrado Boliviano

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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Socio-ecological costs of Amazon nut and timber production at community household forests in the Bolivian Amazon

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Soil Effects on Forest Structure and Diversity in a Moist and a Dry Tropical Forest

Soil fertility and species traits, but not diversity, drive productivity and biomass stocks in a Guyanese tropical rainforest

article by Masha T. Van der Sande et al published 23 October 2017 in Functional Ecology

Spatial and temporal dynamics of shifting cultivation in the middle-Amazonas river: Expansion and intensification.

scientific article

Spatial partitioning of biomass and diversity in a lowland Bolivian forest: Linking field and remote sensing measurements

scientific article published in 2008

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

scientific article published in July 2022

Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests

scientific article published in 2022

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

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

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The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

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The integration of empirical, remote sensing and modelling approaches enhances insight in the role of biodiversity in climate change mitigation by tropical forests

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The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Timber production in selectively logged tropical forests in South America

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Timber stock recovery in a chronosequence of secondary forests in Southern Brazil: Adding value to restored landscapes

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical Dry Forest Resilience to Fire Depends on Fire Frequency and Climate

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Will REDD+ work? The need for interdisciplinary research to address key challenges

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