Publications
2020
A new species of Protium (Burseraceae) from the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
Phytotaxa
434: 183-194
2020
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The contribution of multiple barriers to reproduction between edaphically divergent lineages in the Amazonian tree Protium subserratum (Burseraceae)
Ecology and Evolution
2020
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Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought
New Phytologist
2020
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Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora
Scientific Reports
10:10130
2020
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Genomics of microgeographic adaptation in the Amazonian hyperdominant tree Eperua falcata Aubl. (Fabaceae)
Molecular Ecology
In Press (cover stor
2020
A new species of Protium (Burseraceae) from the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
Phytotaxa
434: 183-194
2020
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2019
Adiciones a la flora del Perú a través de 15 inventarios biológicos rápidos en la Amazonía peruana
Peruvian Journal of Biology
2019
Leaf transcriptome assembly of Protium copal (Burseraceae) and annotation of terpene biosynthetic genes
Genes
10(5), 392
2019
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The Amazonas-trap: a new method for sampling plant-inhabiting arthropod invertebrate communities in tropical forest understory
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
2019
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Dominant tree species drive broad scale beta diversity patterns in West Amazonia
Ecology
100 (4): e02636
2019
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Reestablishment of Protium cordatum (Burseraceae) based on integrative taxonomy
Taxon
68: 34-46
2019
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Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities
Journal of Ecology
107: 696-710
2019
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2018
Towards an integrative taxonomy in Neotropical botany: disentangling the Pagamea guianensis species complex (Rubiaceae)
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
188: 213-231
2018
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Generic limits re-visited and an updated sectional classification for Protium (tribe Protieae). Studies in Neotropical Burseraceae XXV
Brittonia
70(4): 418-426
2018
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Origin and maintenance of chemical diversity in a species-rich tropical tree lineage
Nature Ecology & Evolution
2: 983-990
2018
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Peatland forests are the least diverse tree communities in Amazonia but contribute to high regional beta-diversity
Ecography
41: 1–14
2018
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Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data
Scientific Reports
8:
1003
2018
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Importance of dispersal in the assembly of the Neotropical biota.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
115:5829-5831
2018
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Divergent secondary metabolites and habitat filtering both contribute to tree species coexistence in the Peruvian Amazon
Frontiers in Plant Science
9:836
2018
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Dry and hot: the hydraulic consequences of a climate change-type drought for Amazonian trees.
Philosophical Transactions B
373: 20180209
2018
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2017
Environmental filtering of eudicot lineages underlies phylogenetic clustering in tropical South American flooded forests
Oecologia
183: 327-335
2017
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2017
Maximising synergy among tropical plant systematists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
32: 258-267
2017
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Incorporating phylogenetic information for the definition of floristic districts in hyper-diverse Amazon forests: implications for conservation
Ecology and Evolution
7:9639-9650
2017
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Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Science
355: 925-931
2017
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2016
There’s no place like home: seedling mortality contributes to the habitat specialization of tree species across Amazonia
Ecology Letters
19: 1256-1266
2016
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Taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod assemblages across Amazonian forests.
Journal of Animal Ecology
85: 227-239
2016
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Neotropical white-sand forests: origins, ecology and conservation of a unique rain forest environment
Biotropica
48: 5-6
2016
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Phylogenetic overdispersion in Lepidopteran communities of Amazonian white-sand communities
Biotropica
48:101-109
2016
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Low phylogenetic beta diversity and geographic neo-endemism in Amazonian white-sand forests
Biotropica
48: 34-46
2016
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Habitat endemism in white-sand forests: insights into the mechanisms of lineage diversification and community assembly of the Neotropical flora
Biotropica
48: 24-33
2016
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Geographical variation in community divergence: insights from tropical forest monodominance by ectomycorrhizal trees
American Naturalist
190: S105-S122
2016
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2015
Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Science Advances
1:e1500936
2015
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Ecological and evolutionary drivers of geographic variation in species diversity
Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
2015
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Habitat-specific divergence of procyanidins in Protium subserratum (Burseraceae)
Chemoecology
2015
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Assessing the latitudinal gradient in herbivory
Global Ecology and Biogeography
24:
1106-1112
2015
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Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile growth rate, and we do not know why
Journal of Ecology
103: 978-989
2015
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2014
Genetic variation within a dominant shrub structures green and brown food webs and ecosystem processes
Ecology
95:
397-398
2014
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To move or to evolve: contrasting patterns of intercontinental connectivity and climatic niche evolution in "Terebinthaceae" (Anacardiaceae and Burseraceae)
Frontiers in Genetics
5:
409
2014
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Investigating processes of Neotropical rain forest tree diversification by examining the evolution and historical biogeography of Protieae (Burseraceae)
Evolution
68:
1988-2004
2014
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Evidence for ecological divergence across a mosaic of soil types in an Amazonian tropical tree: Protium subserratum (Burseraceae)
Molecular Ecology
23:
2543–2558
2014
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Survival of seasonal flooding in the Amazon by a terrestrial insect Conotrachelus dubiae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a pest of the camu camu plant Myrciaria dubia (Myrtaceae)
Neotropical Entomology
43:
380-384
2014
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Wood specific gravity and anatomy of branches and roots in 113 Amazonian rainforest tree species across environmental gradients
New Phytologist
202:
79-94
2014
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Contrasting patterns in leaf synchrony and herbivory rates among tropical tree habitat specialists.
Plant Ecology
215:
209-220
2014
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Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests
Journal of Ecology
102:
145-155
2014
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2013
Uncorrelated evolution of leaf and petal venation patterns across the angiosperm phylogeny
Journal of Experimental Botany
64:
4081-4088
2013
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Anthropogenic burning on the central California coast in late Holocene and early historical times: findings implications and future directions
California Archaeology
5(2):
371-390
2013
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Diversification of the monoterpene synthase gene family (TPSb) in Protium, a highly diverse genus of tropical trees
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
68:
432-442
2013
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Strong coupling of plant and fungal community structure across Amazonian rainforests
The ISME Journal
7:
1852-1861
2013
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Insect herbivores, chemical innovation and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees
Ecology
94:
1764-1775
2013
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Plant ontogeny, spatial distance and soil type influences negative density-dependent effects on a common Amazonian tree
PLoS ONE
8(5):
e62639
2013
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Oenocarpus bataua: the original Amazonian superfood
Pp.36-37 in Food: an atlas. D. Jensen and M. Roy, eds. Guerrilla Cartography, Oakland, CA.
2013
Habitat specialization by birds in western Amazonian white-sand forests
Biotropica
45:
365-372
2013
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Population genetic structure of California hazelnut, an important food source for people in the Quiroste Valley in the Late Holocene
California Archaeology
5:
353-370
2013
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2012
Rapid simultaneous estimation of aboveground biomass and tree diversity across Neotropical forests: A comparison of field inventory methods
Biotropica
45:
288-298
2012
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Microsatellite primers for an Amazonian lowland tropical tree, Protium subserratum (Burseraceae)
American Journal of Botany
99:
465-467
2012
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Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species
Functional Ecology
26:
1153-1161
2012
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Burseraceae: a model for studying the Amazonan flora / Buseraceae: um modelo para estudos da flora Amazonica
Rodriguésia
63:
21-30
2012
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A comparison of two common flight interception traps to survey tropical arthropods
Zookeys
216:
43-55
2012
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An oxidized squalene derivative from Protium subserratum (Engl.) Engl. growing in Peru
Molecules
17:
7451-7457
2012
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Global gradients in vertebrate diversity predicted by historical area productivity dynamics and contemporary environment
PLoS Bio
10(3):
e1001292
2012
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Herbivory, growth rates, and habitat specialization in tropical tree lineages: implications for Amazonian beta-diversity
Ecology
93:
S195–S210
2012
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The importance of environmental heterogeneity and spatial distance in generating phylogeographic structure in edaphic specialist and generalist species of Protium (Burseraceae) across the Amazon Basin
Journal of Biogeography
40:
646-661
2012
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2011
Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests
Global Change Biology
17:
2677-2688
2011
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Abondance relative des Coleopteres dans trois types d’habitats forestiers de la foret tropicale de Guyane Francaise: relations avec la structure et la diversite de la communaute de plantes ligneuses
in Coleopteres de Guyane. ACOREP-France.
pp 3-9
2011
Nitrogen isotope ratios suggest tropical heath forests are more limited by nitrogen than water availability
Acta Amazonica
41:
409-412
2011
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A 100 million year love affair with American plants: book review of Alan Graham’s “A Natural History of the New World”
Frontiers of Biogeography
3:
51-52
2011
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A new Amazonian section of Protium (Burseraceae) including both edaphic specialist and generalist taxa. Studies in Neotropical Burseraceae XVI
Systematic Botany
36:
939-949
2011
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Phylogenetic community structure and phylogenetic turnover across space and edaphic gradients in western Amazonian tree communities
Ecography
34:
53-656
2011
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The role of natural enemies in the germination and establishment of Pachira (Malvaceae) trees in the Peruvian Amazon
Biotropica
43:
265-269
2011
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2010
A floristic study of the white-sand forests of Peru
nnals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
97:
283-305
2010
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2009
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology
Ecology Letters
12:
693-715
2009
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2008
The disparity in tree species richness between tropical, temperate ad boreal biomes: the geographic area and age hypothesis. In: W. P. Carson and S. Schnitzer (eds.)
Tropical Forest Community Ecology. Blackwell Scientific, London.
2008
Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space and time
Ecology Letters
11:
1265-1277
2008
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2006
Comparing composition and diversity of parasitoid wasps and plants in an Amazonian rain-forest mosaic
Journal of Tropical Ecology
22:
167-176
2006
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Evidence for a time-integrated species-area effect on the latitudinal gradient in tree diversity
American Naturalist
168(6):
796-804
2006
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The growth-defense trade-off and habitat specialization by plants in Amazonian forests
Ecology
87(7):
S150-S162
2006
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La especializacion edafica por plantas en la Amazonia peruana (Edaphic specialization by plants in the Peruvian Amazon)
Folia Amazonica
15:
39-99
2006
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2005
Una clave para la identificacion de las Burseraceas comunes del Centro de Investigacion y Capacitacion Los Amigos, Madre de Dios, Peru
Biodiversidad Amazonica
1(1):
61-63
2005
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Sobre el genero Schizaea (Polypodiaceae) en el Peru (On the genus Schizaea in Peru)
Revista Biologica Peruana
12(1):
97-102
2005
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The contribution of edaphic heterogeneity to the evolution and diversity of Burseraceae trees in the western Amazon
Evolution
59(7):
1464-1478
2005
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2004
Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests
Science
305:
663-665
2004
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2003
Relationships of phytogeography and diversity of tropical tree species with limestone topography in southern Belize
Journal of Biogeography
30:
1669-1688
2003
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2002
The invasibility of tropical forests by exotic plants
Journal of Tropical Ecology
18:
687-705
2002
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2001
An evaluation of the geographic area hypothesis using the latitudinal gradient in North American tree diversity
Evolutionary Ecology Research
3:
413-428
2001
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1999
Aerial Predator Recognition by Free-Ranging Sceloporus occidentalis
Journal of Herpetology
33:
128-131
1999
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