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UNIVERSITY THE URIARTE LAB Department of Ecology,
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PUBLICATIONS [*Uriarte lab Student
or ¥Postdoctoral
researcher lead author or co-author] 2018 Zambrano,
J., W. Fagan, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, M. N. Umaña and N. G.
Swenson. In press. Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional
neighborhood effects on tree survival and growth. In press. J Ecology. Strassburg,
B., B. Hawthorne, R. Crouzeilles, A. Iribarrem, F. Barros, M. Ferreira de
Siqueira, A. Sánchez Tapia, A. Balmford, J. Boelsums,
P. Brancalion, E. Broadbent, R. Chazdon, A. Oliveira Filho, T. Gardner, A.
Gordon, A. Latawiec, R. Loyola, J.P. Metzger, M. Mills, H. Possingham, R. Ribeiro Rodrigues, C. A. de Mattos
Scaramuzza, F. Scarano, L. Tambosi, and M. Uriarte.
2018. Strategic approaches to
restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs. Nature
Ecology & Evolution. PDF. News and Views PDF. *Bragion, E.,
G. Coehlo, F. Siqueira, M. Uriarte, and E. van den
Berg. 2018. Sharp differentiation on the performance of plant functional groups across an abrupt
environmental gradient in natural edges. Plant Ecology. PDF. *Calaboni, A., L. R. Tambosi, A. T. Igari, J. Farinaci, J. Metzger, and M. Uriarte. 2018. The forest
transition in São Paulo, Brazil: Historical patterns and potential drivers.
Ecology & Society. PDF. Comita, L., M.
Uriarte, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Umaña,
and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Changes in phylogenetic community structure of
the seedling layer following hurricane disturbance in a human-impacted
tropical forest. Forests. PDF. Hogan, J.A., J. K. Zimmerman,
J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, N. G. Swenson, R. Condit, S. Hubbell, D. J. Johnson,
I. F. Sun, C. Chang-Yang, S. Su,, P. Ong, L. Rodriguez, C. C. Monoy, S. Yap, and S. L. Davies. 2018. The frequency of
cyclonic wind storms shapes tropical forest dynamism and functional trait
dispersion. Forests. PDF. Uriarte, M. and D. L. Menge. 2018. Variation between individuals fosters
regional species coexistence. Ecology Letters. PDF. Rao, M.P., E. R. Cook, B. I.
Cook, J. Palmer, M. Uriarte, N. Devineni, U. Lall,
R. D. D’Arrigo, C. A. Woodhouse, M. Ahmed, M. Usama
Zafar, N. Khan, A. Khan, and M. Wahab. 2018. Six Centuries of Upper Indus Basin Streamflow
Variability and Its Climatic Drivers. Water Resources Research. PDF. ¥Fortunel, C., J. R. Lasky,
M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. J. Wright, N. C. Garwood, and N. J.B. Kraft.
2018. Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species
growth and coexistence in a hyper-diverse Amazonian forest. Ecology. PDF. Johnson, DJ, J. Needham, C. Xu, E. C. Massoud, S. Davies, K. Anderson-Teixeira, N. Brokaw, S. Bunyavejchewin, C. Chang-Yang, J. Chiang, G. Chuyong, R. Condit, S. Cordell, C. Fletcher, C. Giardina,
N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke,
C. Hsieh, S. Hubbell, A. Rahman Kassim, M. Katabuchi, D. Kenfack, C. Litton,
S. Lum, M. Mohamad, N. Musalmah,
P. Ong, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, N. Swenson, I F. Sun,
S. Tan, D. Thomas, J. Thompson, M. Umaña, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. Yap, J.
Zimmerman, N. McDowell, S. McMahon. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent
survival in tropical trees.
Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF. *Gei, M., D. M. A. Rozendaal, L. Poorter, F. Bongers, J.
I. Sprent, M. D. Garner, T. Mitchell Aide, J. L.
Andrade, P. Balvanera, J. M. Becknell, P. H.S. Brancalion, G. A. L. Cabral,
R. Gomes César, R. L. Chazdon, R. J. Cole, G. Dalla
Colletta, B. de Jong, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S.
J. DeWalt, J. Manuel Dupuy, S. M. Durán, M.M. do Espírito
Santo, G. Wilson Fernandes, Y R Ferreira Nunes, B. Finegan, V. Granda
Moser, J. S. Hall, J L Hernández-Stefanoni, A. B.
Junqueira, D. Kennard, E. Lebrija-Trejos, S. G.
Letcher, M. Lohbeck, E. Marín-Spiotta, M. Martínez-Ramos, J.A. Meave, D. N.
L. Menge, F.
Mora, R. Muñoz, R. Muscarella, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E.
Orihuela-Belmonte, R. Ostertag, M. Peña-Claros, E.
A. Pérez- García, D. Piotto, P. B. Reich, C. Reyes-García, J. Rodríguez-
Velázquez, I. E. Romero-Pérez, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva,
A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N. B. Schwartz, A. Silva de
Almeida, J. Silva Almeida-Cortez, W. Silver, V. Souza Moreno, B. W. Sullivan,
N. G. Swenson, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M. das Dores Magalhães Veloso, H. F. M. Vester, I. Célia
Guimarães Vieira, J. K. Zimmerman, J. S. Powers. 2018. Legume Abundance along auccessional
and rainfall gradients In Neotropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF. Press:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0583-6 Giardina, F., A. Koenigs,
H. Alemohammad, D. Kennedy, R. Oliveira, M.
Uriarte, and P. Gentine. 2018. Tall Amazonian forests are more resistant to
precipitation variability. Nature Geosciences. PDF. Lutz, J. A., T. J. Furniss,
D. J. Johnson, S. J. Davies, D. Allen, A. Alonso, K. Anderson-Teixeira, A.
Andrade, J. Baltzer, K. M. L. Becker, E. M. Blomdahl, N. A. Bourg, S. Bunyavejchewin,
D. F. R. P. Burslem, C. A. Cansler,
K. Cao, M. Cao, D. Cárdenas, L.-W. Chang, K.-J. Chao, W.-C. Chao, J.-M.
Chiang, C. Chu, G. B. Chuyong, K. Clay, R. Condit,
S. Cordell, H. S. Dattaraja, A. Duque, D. Escobar,
C. E. N. Ewango, G. A. Fisher, C. Fletcher, J. A. Fruend, C. Giardina, S. J. Germain,
G. S. Gilbert, Z. Hao, T. Hart, B. C. H. Hau, F.
He, A. Hector, R. W. Howe, C.-F. Hsieh, Y.-H. Hu, S. P. Hubbell, F. M. Inman-Narahari, A. Itoh, D. Janik, A.
R. Kassim, D. Kenfack, L.
Kortee, K. Král, A. J.
Larson, Y.-D. Li, Y. Lin, S. Liu, S. Lum, K. Ma,
J.-R. Makana, Y. Malhi,
S. M. McMahon, W. J. McShea, H. R. Memiaghe, X. Mi, M. Morecroft, P. M. Musili, J. A.
Myers, V. Novotny, A. de Oliveira, P. Ong, D. A. Orwig,
R. Osterag, G. G. Parker, R. Patankar,
R. P. Phillips, G. Reynolds, L. Sack, G.-Z. M. Song, S.-H. Su, R. Sukumar, I.-F. Sun, H. S. Suresh, M. E. Swanson, S. Tan,
D. W. Thomas, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, A. Vicentine, T. Vrška, X. Wang, G. D. Weiblen,
A. Wolf, S.-H. Wu, H. Xu, T. Yamakura, S. Yap, and
J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Global importance of large-diameter trees. Global
Ecology and Biogeography. PDF. *Chen, Y, M. Umaña, M. Uriarte, and S. Yu. 2018.
Abundance-dependent effects of neighborhood dissimilarity and growth rank
reversal in a Neotropical forest. Proceedings Royal Society B. PDF. *Bachelot,
B., J. Clark, M. Uriarte, R. Muscarella, J. Forero, J. Thompson, JK. McGuire,
and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and
tropical tree communities change with tree successional status. Ecology. PDF. *Uriarte,
M, R. Muscarella, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Environmental heterogeneity and
biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14000 PDF. Lei, C., L. Comita, SJ Wright,
N. Swenson, JK. Zimmerman, X. Mi, Hao, Y. Zhanqing,
Wanhui, S. Hubbell, WJ Kress, M. Uriarte, J.
Thompson, C. Nytch, X. Wang, J. Lian, Ju-yu, and K. Ma. In press. Negative conspecific density
dependence, rather than interactions among closely related species,
structures the assemblages of forest tree neighborhoods. Ecography.
Poorter, L.,
M. T. van der Sande, E. J. M. M. Arets, N. Ascarrunz,
B. Enquist4, B. Finegan, J. C. Licona, M. Martínez-Ramos, L. Mazzei, J. Meave, R. Muñoz, C. J. Nytch, A. A de
Oliveira, E. A. Pérez-García, J. S. Powers, Jamir
Prado-Junior, J. Rodríguez-Velázques. A. R. Ruschel, B. Salgado-Negret, I. Schiavini, N. G. Swenson, E. A. Tenorio, J. Thompson, M.
Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, J. Zimmerman,
M. Peña-Claros. In press.
Biodiversity, climate, and soil determine functioning of Neotropical forests.
Global Ecology and Biogeography. PDF. 2017 ¥Feng, X., M. Uriarte, J.
Thompson, G. Gonzalez, S. Reed, J. K. Zimmerman, and L. Murphy. 2017.
Improving predictions of tropical forest response to climate change through
integration of field studies and ecosystem modeling. Global Change Biology. PDF. Wiegand, T. M. Uriarte, N. Kraft, G. Shen, X.
Wang, and F. He. 2017.
Spatially explicit metrics of species, functional and phylogenetic diversity:
insights into plant community assembly processes. Annual Review of Ecology
and Systematics. PDF. *Prist, P., M. Uriarte, K Fernandes, and J. P. Metzger.
2017. Climate change and
sugarcane expansion increase hantavirus risk. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. PDF. *Schwartz, N.
B., M. Uriarte, R. DeFries, V. Gutiérrez-Vélez, K. Fernandes,
M. A. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2017.
Fragmentation increases impact of wind disturbance on forest structure and
carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape. Ecological Applications. PDF *Schwartz, N., M. Uriarte, R. DeFries, V.
Gutierrez-Velez, M. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2017. Land-use dynamics influence
estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second growth forest.
Environmental Research Letters doi:
10.1088/1748-9326/aa708b. PDF Umaña, M., M. Xiangcheng, M. Cao, B. Enquist, H. Zhanqing,
R. Howe, Y. Iida, D. Johnson, L. Lin, L., Xiaojuan, K. Ma, I. Sun, J.
Thompson, M. Uriarte, X. Wang, A. Wolf, J. Yang, J. K. Zimmerman, N. Swenson.
2017. The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining
rarity in trees worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI:
10.1111/geb.12583 PDF *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, K. McGuire, and
J.K. Zimmerman. 2017. Opposing effects of arbuscular mycorrizhal
fungi and natural enemies on seedling mortality promote tree species
coexistence. Ecology 98:712-720. PDF 2016 ¥Lasky, J. R., M. Uriarte, and R. Muscarella. 2016. Synchrony,
compensatory dynamics, and the functional traits linked to phenological diversity in a tropical tree community.
Environmental Research Letters. PDF. http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/68070 *Prist, P., M. Uriarte, L. Reverberi Tambosi, A. Prado, A. Townsend Peterson, R. Pardini, P. D´Andrea, and J. P.
Metzger. 2016. Landscape,
environmental and social predictors of Hantavirus risk in São Paulo, Brazil. PloS One. PDF. *Muscarella, M., M. Uriarte, T. M. Aide, D. L.
Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman. In
press. Functional and phylogenetic dimensions of tree diversity reveal
shifting assembly mechanisms across regional environmental gradients in
Puerto Rico. Perspectives in Plant Ecology. PDF. ¥Wolf, J. A., G. Y. Brocard, J. K. Willenbring, S. Porder, and
M. Uriarte. 2016. Abrupt change in forest structure localized to
elevation of regional knickpoints in a tropical
mountain range. Remote Sensing and the Environment. PDF. Press: https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242383&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 Chazdon, R. L and M. Uriarte. 2016. Natural
regeneration in the context of large-scale forest and landscape restoration
in the tropics. Biotropica. PDF. Uriarte, M. and R.L. Chazdon. 2016. Incorporating
natural regeneration in forest landscape restoration in tropical regions:
synthesis and key research gaps. Biotropica. PDF. *Uriarte, M., N. Schwartz, J. Powers, E. Marin-Spiotta, W. Liao, and L. Werden. 2016. Impacts of
climate variability on tree demography in second-growth tropical forests: The
importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories. Biotropica. PDF. Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson, and
M. Uriarte. 2016. Revisiting Land Use, Hurricane Dynamics and the Environment
in a Subtropical Wet Forest: Twenty-One Years of Change. Ecosphere 7(8):e01405.10.1002/ecs2.1405. PDF. Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, M. Uriarte, B. Turner, and J.
Thompson. 2016. Land-Use History Augments Environment–Plant Community
Relationships in a Puerto Rican Wet Forest. J of Ecology 104: 1466-1477. PDF. *Cattau, M.E., M. E. Harrison, I. Shinyo,
S. Tungau, S. H. Limin,
M. Uriarte, and R. DeFries. In press. Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions
on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental
Change 39:205-219. PDF. Uriarte, M., J. R. Lasky,
V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon. 2016. A
trait-mediated, neighborhood approach to quantify climate impacts on tropical
rainforest succession. Functional Ecology 30: 157-167. PDF. Press:
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/tropical-forests-store-less-carbon-climate-changes-20052 *Chazdon and many others. 2016. Carbon mitigation
potential of Neotropical second-growth forest. Science Advances. PDF. Press:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/even-young-rainforests-can-help-save-climate *Muscarella,
M. and M. Uriarte. 2016. Do
community-weighted mean functional trait values represent optimal strategies?
Proceedings Royal Society B 283:
20152434. PDF. *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman, J.
Thompson, J. Leff, A. Asai, J. Kosher and K.
McGuire. 2016. Assessing the mechanisms underlying land use impacts on the
composition and diversity of soil fungal communities in a tropical forest. Ecological
Applications 26: 1881-1895. PDF. *
Poorter, L., F. Bongers, T. M. Aide, A. M. Almeyda Zambrano, P. Balvanera, J.
M. Becknell, V. Boukili, P. H. Brancalion, E. N.
Broadbent, R. L. Chazdon, D. Craven, J. S. de Almeida-Cortez, G. A. Cabral,
B. H. de Jong, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S. J. DeWalt, J. M. Dupuy, S. M.
Duran, M. M. Espirito-Santo, M. C. Fandino, R. G. Cesar, J. S. Hall, J. L. Hernandez-Stefanoni, C. C. Jakovac, A. B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, S.
G. Letcher, J. C. Licona, M. Lohbeck, E. Marin-Spiotta, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. Massoca, J. A.
Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Munoz, R. Muscarella, Y. R. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, A. A. de Oliveira, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Pena-Claros, E. A. Perez-Garcia, D.
Piotto, J. S. Powers, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, I. E. Romero-Perez, J. Ruiz, J.
G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa,
N. B. Schwartz, M. K. Steininger, N. G. Swenson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, M.
van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M. D. Veloso, H. F. Vester, A. Vicentini, I. C. Vieira, T. V. Bentos,
G. B. Williamson, and D. M. Rozendaal. 2016. Biomass resilience of
Neotropical secondary forests. Nature 530:211-214. PDF. Press:
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/newsroom/press-releases/highly-resilient-secondary-tropical-forests-rapidly-sequester-carbon Kunstler, G., D. Falster,
D. A. Coomes, F. Hui, R. M. Kooyman, D. C. Laughlin, L. Poorter, M.
Vanderwel, G. Vieilledent, S. J. Wright, M. Aiba, C. Baraloto, J. Caspersen, J.
H. Cornelissen, S. Gourlet-Fleury, M. Hanewinkel, B. Herault,
J. Kattge, H. Kurokawa, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, H.
Poorter, M. Uriarte, S. Richardson, P. Ruiz-Benito, I. F. Sun, G. Stahl, N.
G. Swenson, J. Thompson, B. Westerlund, C. Wirth, M. A. Zavala, H. Zeng, J.
K. Zimmerman, N. E. Zimmermann, and M. Westoby. 2016. Plant functional traits
have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529:204-207. PDF. 2015 *Poorter, L., M. T. van der
Sande, J. Thompson, E. J. M. M. Arets, A. Alarcon, J. Alvarez-Sanchez, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, G. Barajas-Guzman, A. Boit, F. Bongers, F. A. Carvalho,
F. Casanoves, G. Cornejo-Tenorio,
F. R. C. Costa, C. V. de Castilho, J. F. Duivenvoorden,
L. P. Dutrieux, B. J. Enquist, F. Fernandez-Mendez, B. Finegan, L. H. L. Gormley, J. R. Healey, M. R. Hoosbeek, G. Ibarra-Manriquez, A. B. Junqueira, C. Levis, J. C. Licona, L. S. Lisboa, W. E.
Magnusson, M. Martinez-Ramos, A. Martinez-Yrizar,
L. G. Martorano, L. C. Maskell,
L. Mazzei, J. A. Meave, F. Mora, R. Munoz, C.
Nytch, M. P. Pansonato, T. W. Parr, H. Paz, E. A.
Perez-Garcia, L. Y. Renteria, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, D. M. A. Rozendaal, A.
R. Ruschel, B. Sakschewski,
B. Salgado-Negret, J. Schietti,
M. Simoes, F. L. Sinclair, P. F. Souza, F. C.
Souza, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, N. G. Swenson, K. Thonicke, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, P. Walker, N. Zamora, and M. Pena-Claros. 2016.
Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and
Biogeography 24:1314-1328. *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, and J.K.
Zimmerman. 2015. Advantages of living at the extremes: Tree seedlings at
intermediate abundance in a tropical forest have the highest richness of
aboveground enemies and suffer most damage. J Ecology 104: 90-103. PDF. *Muscarella, M., M. Uriarte, T. M. Aide, D. L.
Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman.
(2015). Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary
succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. J Vegetation Science
10.1111/jvs.12354 PDF. *Umaña, M.N, J. Forero-Montaña, R. Muscarella, C. J.
Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. G. Swenson. 2015.
Interspecific functional similarity and intraspecific negative density
dependence underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees.
American Naturalist 187: 99-109. PDF. Gentine, P, M. Guérin, M.
Uriarte, N. McDowell and W. Pockman. 2015. An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of
hydraulic failure and carbon starvation. Ecohydrology
DOI:
10.1002/eco.1654 PDF. *Letcher, S.G.,
J.R. Lasky, N. Norden,
R.L. Chazdon, A. Andrade, J.L. Andrade-Torres, P. Balvanera, J.M.
Becknell, T.V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar, F. Bongers,
V.S. Boukili, D.A. Clark, D.B. Clark, D. Craven, A.
DeFrancesco, J.M. Dupuy, B.G. Finegan, E. González-Jiménez, J.S. Hall,
K.E. Harms, P. Heitz, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, D. Kennard, T.J. Killeen, S.G. Laurance, M.W.M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P.E.S. Massocca, J.A. Meave, R.C.G. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muñoz
Avilés, R. Muscarella, H. Paz, E. Pérez-García , F. Pineda-García,
J.S. Powers, R. Quesada-Monge, E. Romero-Pérez,
M.E. Sandor, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, E. Schüller, N.G. Swenson, A. Tauro,
M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, O. Vargas-Ramírez, A.
Wendt, G.B. Williamson, S.J. Wright. 2015. Pioneer genealogy: Evolutionary relatedness, trait
conservatism, and successional habitat affinity in tropical trees. J of
Ecology 103: 1276-1290. PDF. *Locatelli, B., C. Catterall, P. Imbach, K. Chetan, R. Lasco, E. Marin-Spiotta,
B. Mercer, J. Powers, N. Schwartz, and
M. Uriarte. 2015. Tropical reforestation and climate change: Beyond carbon.
Restoration Ecology doi: 10.1111/rec.12209 Uriarte,
M., J. Thompson, B. Turner and J.K. Zimmerman. 2015. Linking spatial patterns
of leaf litter fall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: A neighborhood
approach. Ecological Applications 25: 2022-2034. PDF *Lasky, J., B. Bachelot, R.
Muscarella, N. Schwartz, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, C. J.
Nytch, J. Forero-Montaña and M. Uriarte. 2015. Ontogenetic shifts in
trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology 96: 2157-2169. PDF *Schwartz N.B. M. Uriarte, V. H.
Gutierrez-Velez, W. Baethgen, R. DeFries, K. Fernandes,
C. Padoch, and M. A. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2015. Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict
local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon. Global Environmental Change
31: 144-153. PDF. *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, and K. McGuire. 2015
Interactions among mutualism, competition, and predation foster species
coexistence in diverse communities. Theoretical Ecology: DOI
10.1007/s12080-015-0251-2. PDF. 2014 Kress, J.W, C. Garcia-Robledo, M. Uriarte, and D.
Erickson. 2014. DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 30: 25-35. PDF *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G.
Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, and W. J. Kress. 2014. A molecular phylogeny for
the trees of Puerto Rico. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112843.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112843 PDF *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G.
Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, W. J. Kress. In press. Climate and Biodiversity
Effects on Standing Biomass in Puerto Rican Forests. Caribbean Forester
special issue 1: 199-217. PDF. *Muscarella, R. P.J. Galante, M. Soley, R.A. Boria,
J. Kass, M. Uriarte and R. P. Anderson. 2014. ENMeval:
An R package for tuning MAXENT ecological niche models with spatially
independent evaluations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 1198-1205 PDF. Anderson-Teixeira and many co-authors. 2014.
CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global
change. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.12712. PDF ¥Lasky, J., M. Uriarte, V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon. 2014. The
relationship between biodiversity and tree biomass dynamics changes along
tropical forest succession. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.12322. PDF *Réjou-Méchain M.,
and many others. 2014. Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences
11:5711–5742 doi:10.5194/bgd-11-5711-2014.
¥Lasky, J., M. Uriarte, V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon.
2014. Multiple effects of functional trait variation on tree community
dynamics in tropical successional forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 15: 5616-5621.
PDF *Gutiérrez-Vélez, VH, M.
Uriarte, R. DeFries, M. Pinedo-Vásquez, K. Fernandes,
P. Ceccato, W. Baethgen, and C. Padoch. 2014. Land cover change interacts with drought severity to
change fire regimes in Western Amazonia. Ecological Applications 24:
1323-1340. PDF *Jain, M., Y. Lim, J. Arce and M. Uriarte. 2014.
Perceptional and socio-demographic factors associated with household drinking
water management strategies in rural Puerto Rico. PloS
One 9(2): e88059.
PDF ¥Adame, P., M. Uriarte, and T.J. Brandeis. 2014. Diameter
growth performance of tree functional groups in Puerto Rican secondary
tropical forests. Forest Systems 23: 52-63. PDF 2013 Swenson, N.,
X. Mi, J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J.
Zimmerman. 2013. Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships
in tropical tree communities. Ecology and Evolution 3: 1173-1183. PDF *Côrtes, M., M.
Uriarte , M. Lemes, R. Gribel , P. Smouse, W. J. Kress, and E. M.
Bruna. 2013. Fragmentation and low population density enhance gene flow of an
Amazonian herb. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12495 PDF *Nichols,E.,
M. Uriarte, C. Peres, J. Louzada, R.
Fagundes-Braga, G. Schiffler, and W. Endo. In press. Hunting-induced trophic cascades in a tropical
fecal detritus food web. PloS One 8 (10): e75819. PDF *Nuñez-Avila,
M., M. Uriarte, P. A. Marquet, and J.J. Armesto. 2013. Decomposing recruitment limitation and seed-mediated gene flow
for a dioecious tree species
in a fragmented landscape. J. Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12148. PDF Brown, C.,
D.F.R.P. Burslem, J.B. Illian, C.L. Bao, W. Brockelman, M. Cao, H.S. Dattaraja,
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J. Huang, A.R. Kassim, J. Lian, L. Lin, K. Ma, X. Mi, A. Nathalang, S. Noor, S. Pulla, R. Sukumar, I.F. Sun,
H.S. Suresh, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia,W.
Ye, R. Law. 2013. Multi-species coexistence in tropical rainforests: spatial
signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental
heterogeneity. Proc Royal Society Series B 280: 20130502. PDF *Macedo, M., M. T. Coe, R. S. DeFries, M. Uriarte, P. M.
Brando, C. Neill, and W. S. Walker. 2013. Land use-driven stream warming in
southeastern Amazonia. Proc Royal Society Series B 368, 20120153. PDF *Nichols, E.,
M. Uriarte, D. E. Bunker, J. N.C Louzada, T. H.
Larsen, F. Vaz de Mello, K. Vulinec,
M. E. Favila, E. M. Slade,
S. Naeem, and S. H. Spector. 2013. Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest
conversion at local to global scales. Ecology 94:180–189. PDF
2012 *Uriarte, M. M. Pinedo‐Vasquez , R. DeFries,
K. Fernandes, V. Gutierrez-Velez, W. Baethgen, and
C. Padoch. 2012.
Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the Western
Amazon. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA 109: 21546–21550. PDF Press: http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/12/12/4
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121210160856.htm *Dueker, M. E, G. D. O’Mullan,
A. R. Juhl, K. C. Weathers, and M. Uriarte.
In press. Local environmental pollution strongly influences culturable microbial aerosols at an urban aquatic
Superfund site. Environmental Science & Technology 46: 10926−10933. PDF Press: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/whats-bubbling-up-from-newtown-creek/
Ibáñez, I., E.S. Gornish, L.
Buckley, D. Debinski, J. Hellmann, B. Helmuth, J. HillRisLambers, A. Latimer, A. Miller-Rushing, M.
Uriarte. 2012. Research in global change ecology: Using integrative analyses
to capitalize on natural variability. Ecology & Evolution 3: 170-181. PDF *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montaña, L. S.
Comita, N. G. Swenson, J. Thompson, C. Nytch, I. Jonckheere, and J.K.
Zimmerman. 2012. Exploring the mechanisms
behind life history tradeoffs during the seed-to-seedling transition for
tropical trees and lianas. Journal of Ecology 101:
171-182. PDF
*Balvanera,
P., M. Uriarte, L. Almeida-Leñero, A. Altesor, F. DeClerk, T. Gardner, J. Hall, A. Lara, P. Laterra, M. Peña-Claros, D. M. Silva Matos, L.
Romero-Duque, A. L. Vogt, L.F. Arreola, A.P.
Caro-Borrero, F. Gallego, M. Jain, C. Little, R. de Oliveira Xavier, J. M. Paruelo, J.E. Peinado, L. Poorter, N. Azcarrun, F. Correa, M.B. Cunha-Santino,
A.P Hernández-Sánchez, and M. Vallejos. 2012. Ecosystem Service Research in Latin America: The
State of the Art. Ecosystem Services 2: 56-70. PDF Press: http://wle.cgiar.org/blogs/2013/01/24/prices-values-and-the-role-of-ecosystem-services-in-policy *Côrtes, M. and M. Uriarte. 2012. Integrating frugivore behavior and
animal movement: A review of the evidence and implication for scaling seed
dispersal. Biological Reviews doi:
10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00250.x. PDF
Swenson, N.G., D.L. Erickson, X. Mi,
N. Bourg, J. Montana-Forero, R. Howe, J.K.
Lake, X. Liu, X., J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, A. Wolf, J. Zhang, J.K.
Zimmerman and W. J. Kress, W.J. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional beta
diversity in tree communities across latitude. Ecology 93: S112-S125. PDF Swenson, N.G.., J. C. Stegen, S.
J. Davies, D. L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, A. H. Hurlbert,
W. J. Kress, J. Thompson, M.
Uriarte, S. J. Wright, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2012. Temporal Turnover in the Composition of Tropical Tree Communities: Functional Determinism and Phylogenetic
Stochasticity. Ecology 93: 490-499. PDF Uriarte, M. J. S. Clark, L. S. Comita, J. Thompson, and J.
K. Zimmerman. 2012. Multi-dimensional tradeoffs in species responses to
disturbance: Implications for successional diversity in a subtropical forest.
Ecology 93: 191-205. PDF *Dueker,
M. E., G. D. O’Mullan,
K. C. Weathers, A. R. Juhl, and M. Uriarte. 2012.
Coupling of fog and marine microbial content in the near-shore coastal
environment. Biogeosciences 9:
803-813. PDF 2011 *Gutiérrez-Vélez, V.H., R. DeFries, M.
Pinedo-Vásquez, M. Uriarte, C. Padoch, W. Baethgen, K. Fernandes, and Y. Lim.
2011. High-yield oil palm plantations expand in the Peruvian
Amazon at expense of forests. Environmental Research Letters 6:4. PDF Press: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0110-peru_palm_oil.html *Uriarte, M., C. Yackulic, Y. Lim, and J. Arce. 2011.
Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: A multi-scale
analysis. Landscape Ecology 26: 1151-1164. PDF *Yackulic, C.B., M.E. Fagan, M. Jain, A. Jina, Y. Lim, M. Marlier, B. Muscarella, P. Adame, R.S.
DeFries, and M. Uriarte. 2011. Biophysical and socioeconomic factors
associated with forest transitions at multiple temporal and spatial scales.
Ecology and Society 16(3): 15. PDF Bruna, E.M., T. Izzo, B. Inouye, M. Uriarte,
and H. Vasconcelos. 2011. Estimating
the dispersal capability of Amazonian plant-ant queens using inverse
modeling. PLoS One 6: e22937- e22937. PDF Fernandes,
K., W. Baethgen, S. Bernardes, R. Defries, D. DeWitt, L. Goddard, W. Lavado, D. Lee, C. Padoch, M. Pinedo- Vasquez and M. Uriarte. 2011. North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon
fire season variability. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L12701. PDF Press: http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0718-amazon_fernandes.html *Yackulic, C. B., S. Blake, S. Deem, M. Kock, and M. Uriarte. 2011. One size does not fit
all: flexile models are required to understand animal movement across scales.
Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 1088-1096. PDF Received 2010 E.C. Pielou
Student in Statistical Ecology from Ecological Society of America. Recommended Faculty 100:
http://f1000.com/prime/13370052 *Dueker, E., K. C. Weathers, G. O’Mullan,
A. Juhl, and M. Uriarte.2011. Environmental
controls on coastal coarse aerosols: implications for microbial aerosol
content and deposition at the waterfront. Environmental Science &
Technology 45:3386-92. PDF *Yackulic, C. B., E. W. Sanderson, and M.
Uriarte. 2011. Anthropogenic and intrinsic drivers of intra-specific
variation in extinction risk. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108: 2044-4029. PDF *Lin, B.B., D. F.B. Flynn, M. M. McGinty,
D. E. Bunker, A. Weidman, P. Olmsted, M. I. Palmer, M. Uriarte, S. Naeem. 2011. Contraction and
displacement of trait space following agricultural conversion in Great Plains
landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. PDF *Nuñez-Avila,
M., M. Uriarte, P. A. Marquet, and J.J. Armesto. 2011. Microsatellite markers for the relict tree Aextoxicon punctatum (Aextoxicaceae) from Chilean temperate rainforests.
American Journal of Botany 98:e30-e32. PDF Gagnon, P.R., E. M. Bruna, P.
Rubim, M. Darrigo, R. C. Littlel, M. Uriarte, and W. J. Kress. 2011. Chronically reduced plant growth in Amazonian forest
fragments. Biological Conservation 144: 830-835. PDF Uriarte, M., M. Anciães, M. T.B. da Silva, P. Rubim, and
E. M. Bruna. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of reduced long distance
dispersal by birds in an experimentally-fragmented. Ecology 94:924-937. PDF Received 2012 Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology Award
from the US Association for Landscape Ecology. 2010 Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M.
Uriarte, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2010. Improvements in the application of DNA
barcodes in building a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto
Rican Forest Dynamics Plot. PLoS One 15. PDF Uriarte, M., N. Swenson, R. Chazdon, L.S. Comita, D. L.
Erickson, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Trait
similarity, shared ancestry, and the structure of neighborhood interactions
in a subtropical forest: Implications for community assembly. Ecology Letters
13: 1503-1514. PDF Zimmerman, J.K., L.S. Comita, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and
N. V. Brokaw. 2010. Patch dynamics and community meta-stability in a tropical
forest: Compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use. Landscape
Ecology 25:1099–1111. PDF DeFries,
R., T. K. Rudel, M. Uriarte, and J. Hansen. 2010. Pressures on tropical
forests in the 21st century. Nature Geosciences 3: 178-181. PDF Press: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/focus/5th-anniversary/index.html Recommended Faculty 100: http://f1000.com/prime/2839959 Uriarte,
M., E. M. Bruna, P. Rubim, M.
Anciães, and I. Jonckheere. 2010. Effects of forest fragmentation on seedling
recruitment of an understory herb: Assessing seed vs. safe-site limitation.
Ecology 91:1317-1328. PDF ¥Comita, L.S,
J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, I. Jonckheere, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Land use
history alters post-hurricane seedling dynamics in a tropical forest.
Ecological Applications 20: 1270–1284. PDF Russo, S.E.,
K.L. Jenkins, S.K. Wiser, M. Uriarte, R. Duncan, and D.A. Coomes. 2010.
Interspecific relationships among tree growth and mortality rates and wood
traits. Functional Ecology 24: 253–262. PDF Uriarte,
M., L. Schneider, and T.K. Rudel. 2010. Land use transitions in the tropics:
Going beyond the case studies. Biotropica 42:1:2. Uriarte,
M., L. Schneider, and T.K. Rudel. 2010. Synthesis: Land use transitions in
the tropics. Biotropica 42:59:62. PDF Canham,
CD, J. Thompson, J.K. Zimmerman, and M. Uriarte. 2010. Variation in susceptibility to hurricane damage as a
function of storm severity in Puerto Rican tree species. Biotropica
42: 87-94. PDF *
Flynn DBF, M. Uriarte, T. Crk, J. B. Pascarella, J.
K. Zimmerman, and M. Caraballo. 2010. Hurricane disturbance alters secondary
forest recovery and introduced species dynamics. Biotropica
42: 149-157. PDF 2009 Rudel,
T.K., L. Schneider, M. Uriarte, B.L. Turner II, R. DeFries, D. Lawrence, J. Geoghegan, S.
Hecht, A. Ickowitz, E. F. Lambin, T. Birkenholtz,
S. Baptista, Ricardo Grau. 2009.
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 20675–20680. PDF ¥Comita, L.S,
M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, I. Jonckheere, C.D. Canham, and J.K. Zimmerman.
2009. Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted
tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 97: 1346–1359. PDF Rudel
T, L.C. Schneider, M. Uriarte. 2009. Forest transitions: An introduction.
Land Use Policy 27:95-97. PDF * Crk,
T., M. Uriarte, F. Corsi, DBF Flynn. 2009. Tropical
forest recovery in Puerto Rico. What is the relative importance of
biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables? Landscape Ecology 24:
629-642. PDF *Cortes,
M. C., V. Gowda, W. J. Kress, E.M. Bruna, and M. Uriarte. 2009.
Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understory Amazonian
herb Heliconia acuminata.
Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1261-1264. PDF *Uriarte,
M, C. Yackulic, T. Cooper, D.
Flynn, M. Cortes, T. Crk, G. Cullman, M. McGinty,
and J Sircely. 2009. Sugarcane, fires, and
respiratory health in São Paulo, Brazil: Assessing the sustainability of
biofuel production. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 132: 48-56. PDF Uriarte, M., C. D. Canham, J. Thompson, J. K. Zimmerman.
2009. Understanding natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of
tree community dynamics in a subtropical wet forest: Results from a forest
simulator. Ecological Monographs 79:423-443. PDF *Uriarte,
M. and C. Yackulic. 2009. Preaching to the unconverted. Ecological
Applications 19: 592-596. PDF Before 2009 Uriarte,
M. and M.
Papaik. 2007. Hurricane impacts on dynamics,
structure, and carbon sequestration of forest ecosystems in Southern New
England. Tellus 59A:519-528. PDF Uriarte,
M., H. Ewing, V.E. Eviner, and K. C. Weathers. 2007.
Scientific culture, diversity, and society: suggestions for the development
and adoption of a broader value system in science. Bioscience 57: 71-78. PDF Canham, C.D., M. Papaik, M.
Uriarte and W. McWilliams. 2006. Neighborhood analyses of canopy tree
competition along environmental gradients in New England forests. Ecological Applications 16:540–554. PDF Canham, C.D. and M. Uriarte. 2006. Likelihood methods, inverse modeling and the
analysis of neighborhood processes in forests. Ecological Applications 16:62-73. PDF Uriarte, M., C.D. Canham, J. Thompson and J.K. Zimmerman. 2005.
Seedling recruitment in a hurricane-driven tropical forest: light limitation,
density dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees. Journal of Ecology 93: 291-304. PDF Uriarte, M., C.D. Canham, J. Thompson
and J.K. Zimmerman. 2004. A maximum-likelihood, spatially-explicit analysis
of tree growth and survival in a hurricane-driven tropical forest. Ecological
Monographs 71: 591-614. PDF Uriarte, M., L. W.
Rivera, J. K. Zimmerman, T. M. Aide, A. G. Power and A. Flecker.
2004. Interactions between land use history and hurricane damage in a neotropical forest.
Plant Ecology 174: 49-58. PDF Uriarte, M., R. Condit, C.D.
Canham, and S.P. Hubbell. 2004. A spatially-explicit model of sapling growth
in a tropical forest: Does the identity of neighbours
matter? Journal of Ecology 92: 348-360. PDF Uriarte, M. and H. K. Reeve.
2003. Matchmaking and species marriage: A game theory model of
community assembly. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 1979-1982. PDF Recommended Faculty 100: http://f1000.com/prime/1108104 Hatch, L.T., M. Uriarte, D. Fink, L.
Aldrich-Wolfe, R.G. Allen, C. T. Webb, K. Zamudio,
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Species’ Habitat: The Impacts of People and Property on Recovery
Planning. Ecological Applications 12: 690-700. PDF Uriarte, M., C. Canham and R.B. Root. 2002.
A simulation model of the simultaneous evolution of competitive
ability and herbivore resistance in a perennial plant population. Ecology 83: 2649- 2663. PDF Uriarte, M. 2000. Nitrogen-mediated interactions between
goldenrod (Solidago altissima,
L) and its insect herbivore (Trirhabda virgata): implications for nitrogen cycling and
succession. Oecologia 122: 479-486. PDF Uriarte, M. and O.J. Schmitz.
1998. Trophic control across a natural
productivity gradient: a test of the exploitation hypothesis. Oikos 82: 552-560. PDF Beckerman,
A.P., M. Uriarte and O.J. Schmitz.
1997. Experimental evidence for
a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 94: 10735-10738. PDF Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters S.
Perkins, S. Altizer, O. Bjornstad,
J. Burdon, K. Clay, L. Gomez-Aparicio, J. Jeschke, P. Johnson, K. Lafferty, C. Malstrom,
P. Martin, A. Power, P. Thrall, D. Strayer, and M.
Uriarte. 2006. Infectious disease in invasion biology. In R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing and V. E. Eviner. Infectious Disease Ecology Effects of disease on ecosystems and of ecosystems on disease. Cary Conference Proceedings. Ogle,
K., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, J. Johnstone, A. Jones, Y. Lin, E.McIntire, and J. Zimmerman. 2006. Implications of vulnerability
to hurricane damage for long-term survival of tropical tree species: A
Bayesian hierarchical analysis. Pages 98-123 in: J.S. Clark and A.E. Gelfand
(Eds.) Applications of Computational Statistics in the Environmental
Sciences: Hierarchical Bayes and MCMC Methods. Oxford University Press,
Oxford, UK. PDF Uriarte, M, S.P. Hubbell, R. John, R. Condit, and C.D.
Canham. 2005. Neighborhood effects on
sapling growth and survival in a neotropical forest
and the ecological equivalence hypothesis. In Burslem,
D.F.R.P., Pinard, M.A. and Hartley, S.E., eds.
Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: their Role in the Maintenance of Species
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