August 25, 2010

Publications: Apr - Jul 2010

Bastien-Henri, S, A Park, M Ashton, and C Messier. 2010. Biomass distribution among tropical tree species grown under differing regional climates. Forest Ecology and Management 260(3): 403-410.
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Chen, L, X Mi, LS Comita, L Zhang, H Ren, and K Ma. 2010. Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecology Letters 13(6): 695-704.
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Comita, LS, HC Muller-Landau, S Aguilar, and SP Hubbell. 2010. Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community. Science 329: 330-332.
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DeFries, RS, T Rudel, M Uriarte, and M Hansen. 2010. Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century. Nature Geoscience 3: 178-181.
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DeWalt, SJ, SA Schnitzer, J Chave, F Bongers, RJ Burnham, Z Cai, G Chuyong, DB Clark, CEN Ewango, JJ Gerwing, E Gortaire, T Hart, G Ibarra-Manriquez, K Ickes, D Kenfack, MJ Macia, JR Makana, M Martinez-Ramos, Jo Mascaro, S Moses, HC Muller-Landau, MPE Parren, N Parthasarathy, DR Perez-Salicrup, FE Putz, H Romero-Saltos, and D Thomas. 2010. Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area. Biotropica 42(3): 309-317.
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Eichhorn, MP, R Nilus, SG Compton, SE Hartley, and DFRP Burslem. 2010. Herbivory of tropical rain forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality. Ecology 91(4): 1092-1101.
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Ingwell, LL, SJ Wright, KK Becklund, SP Hubbell, and SA Schnitzer. 2010. The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Journal of Ecology 98(4): 879-887.
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Kraft, NJB and DD Ackerly. 2010. Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest. Ecological Monographs 80(3): 401-422.
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Larjavaara, M. 2010. Maintenance cost, toppling risk and size of trees in a self-thinning stand. Journal of Theoretical Biology 265: 63-67.
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Larjavaara, M and HC Muller-Landau. 2010. Rethinking the value of high wood density. Functional Ecology 24(4): 701-705.
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Noumi, VN, L Zapfack, B Sonke, G Achoundong, and OC Kengne. 2010. Distribution et richesse taxonomiques des épiphytes de quelques phorophytes au Parc national de Korup (Cameroun). International Journal of Environmental Studies 67:1: 51-61.
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Park, A, M van Breugel, MS Ashton, M Wishnie, E Mariscal, J Deago, D Ibarra, N Cedeno, JS Hall. 2010. Local and regional environmental variation influences the growth of tropical trees in selection trials in the Republic of Panama. Forest Ecology and Management 260(1): 12-21.
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Russo, SE, WL Cannon, C Elowsky, S Tan, and SJ Davies. 2010. Variation in leaf stomatal traits of 28 tree species in relation to gas exchange along an edaphic gradient in a Bornean rain forest. American Journal of Botany 97(7): 1109-1120.
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Schnitzer, SA and WP Carson. 2010. Lianas suppress tree regeneration and diversity in treefall gaps. Ecology Letters 13(7): 849-857.
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Uriarte, M, EM Bruna, P Rubim, M Anciaes, and I Jonckheere. 2010. Effects of forest fragmentation on the seedling recruitment of a tropical herb: assessing seed vs. safe-site limitation. Ecology 91(5): 1317-1328.
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Wang, X, T Wiegand, Z Hao, B Li, J Ye, and F Lin. 2010. Species associations in an old-growth temperate forest in north-eastern China. Journal of Ecology 98(3): 674-686.
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Wright, SJ. 2010. The future of tropical forests. 2010. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1195: 1–27.
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Zuidema, PA, T Yamada, HJ During, A Itoh, T Yamakura, T Ohkubo, M Kanzaki, S Tan, and PS Ashton. 2010. Recruitment subsidies support tree subpopulations in non-preferred tropical forest habitats. Journal of Ecology 98(3): 636-644.
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August 5, 2010

Videos of Harvard Talks Now Online

Videos of the presentations at the Arnold Arboretum-CTFS Harvard Plant Biology Symposium in April are now available online for viewing at
http://arboretum.harvard.edu/research/center-for-tropical-forest-science-arnold-arboretum-asia-program/pbi/.


Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) in partnership with the CTFS-Arnold Arboretum (CTFS-AA) program hosted the 6th Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium. This year's theme was "Trees and the Global Environment." The symposium was supported by CTFS-AA, OEB, and the HSBC Climate Partnership.

The talks represented both empirical and modeling/theory perspectives from diverse disciplines in plant science and resource economics. Presentations ranged from the functional responses of individual trees to changing environmental conditions all the way up to ecosystem and landscape-scale responses. For more information, please visit: http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm.