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58. Ibanez, T, D. Bauman, S Aiba, ..., R Muscarella, et al. (Accepted) Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics. Global Change Biology.
57. Matlaga, D, R Lammerant, JA Hogan, M Uriarte, C Rodriguez Valle, JK Zimmerman, R Muscarella (2024) Survival, growth, and functional traits of tropical wet forest tree seedlings across an experimental soil moisture gradient in Puerto Rico. Ecology and Evoution. LINK
56. Hüttnerová T, R Muscarella, P Surovy (2024) Drone microrelief analysis to predict the presence of naturally regenerated seedlings. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 6:1329675. LINK
55. Ankori-Karlinsky, R, J Hall, L Murphy, R Muscarella, S Martinuzzi, R Fahey, JK Zimmerman, M Uriarte (2024) Chronic winds reduce tropical forest structural complexity regardless of climate, topography or forest age. Ecosystems.
54. * Ziemińska, K, S Bibbo, S Farrar, J Thompson, M Uriarte, E Ziaco, JK Zimmerman, R Muscarella (2023). Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane. Functional Ecology. LINK
53. * Chatzopoulos, P, R Lammerant, J Thompson, M Uriarte, JK Zimmerman, R Muscarella (Accepted) Height-diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico. Biotropica.
52. Xu, Z, R Muscarella, M Zhu, S Fang, J Ye, F Lin, Z Mao, Z Hao, Z Wang (2023) Functional traits mediate seedling survival response to climate in a temperate forest. Fundamental Research. LINK
51. Smith-Martin, CM, R Muscarella, W Hammond, S Jansen, TJ Brodribb, B Choat, D Johnson, G Vargas-G, M Uriarte (2023) Hydraulic vulnerability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability. Ecology Letters. LINK
50. * Lammerant, R, A Rita, M Borghetti, R Muscarella (2023) Water-limited environments affect the association between functional diversity and forest annual increment. Ecology and Evolution. LINK
49. Tavares, J, R Oliviera, M Mencuccini, ... R Muscarella, ... DR Galbraith. 2023. Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts carbon balance of Amazonian forests. Nature. LINK.
48. Smith-Martin, CM., R Muscarella, R Ankori-Karlinsky, S Delzon, SL Farrar, M Salva-Sauri, J Thompson, JK Zimmerman, and M Uriarte. 2022. Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest. Functional Ecology. LINK
47. Smith-Martin, CM, R Muscarella, R. Ankori-Karlinsky, S. Delzon, S. L. Farrar, M. Salva-Sauri, J. Thompson, J. K. Zimmerman, and M. Uriarte. 2022. Hurricanes increase tropical forest vulnerability to drought. The New phytologist. LINK
46. Muscarella, R and L Poorter (2022) Ten simple rules for managing communications with a large number of co-authors. PLOS Computational Biology. LINK
45. Peterson, AT, M Aiello-Lammens, G Amatulli, R Anderson, M Cobos, JA Diniz-Filho, L Escobar, ... R Muscarella, ... et al.(2022) ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species’ Niches and Distributions. Biodiversity Informatics 17. LINK
44. Poorter, L, DMA Rozendaal, F Bongers, JS Almeida, FS Álvarez, JL Andrade, LF Arreola Villa, ... R Muscarella... et al. (2021) Functional Recovery of Secondary Tropical Forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (49). LINK
43. Lehtonen, S, R Muscarella, G Moulatlet, H Balslev and H Tuomisto (2021) Edaphic Heterogeneity and the Evolutionary Trajectory of Amazonian Plant Communities. Ecology and Evolution 11 (24): 17672–85. LINK
42. Kass, JM, R Muscarella, PJ Galante, C Bohl, GE Pinilla-Buitrago, RA Boria, M Soley‐Guardia and RP Anderson (2021). ENMeval 2.0: redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. LINK
41. Swanson, H, JC Svenning, A Saxena, R Muscarella, J Franklin, M Garbelotto, AS Mathews, O S, AE Schnitzler, JM Serra-Diaz, AL Tsing (2021) History as grounds for interdisciplinarity: Promoting sustainable woodlands through an integrative ecological and socio-cultural historical perspective. One Earth. LINK
40. ForestPlots.net. 2021. Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation. LINK
39. Schwartz, NB, X Feng, R Muscarella, NG Swenson, MN Umaña, JK Zimmerman, M Uriarte. 2020. Topography and traits mediate tree performance and drought response in a tropical forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. <LINK>
38. Fleischman, F, S Basant, A Chhatre, EA Coleman, HW Fischer, D Gupta, B Güneralp, P Kashwan, D Khatri, R Muscarella, JS Powers, V Ramprasad, P Rana, CR Solorzano, JW Veldman. (2020) Pitfalls of tree planting show why we need people-centered natural climate solutions. BioScience. <LINK>
37. Muscarella R, T Emilio, et al. (2020) The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 1495-1514. <LINK>
36. Hall, J, R Muscarella, A Quebbeman, G Arellano, J Thompson, JK Zimmerman and M Uriarte (2020) Hurricane-induced rainfall is a stronger predictor of tropical forest damage in Puerto Rico than maximum wind speeds. Scientific Reports 10, 4318. 10.1038/s41598-020-61164-2 <LINK>
35. Bellis, ES, EA Kelly, CM Lorts, H Gao, VL DeLeo, G Rouhan, A Budden, GB Bhaskara, Z Hu, R Muscarella, MP Timko, B Nebje, SM Runo, ND Chilcoat, TE Juenger, GP
Morris, CW dePamphilis and JR Lasky (2020) Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
10.1073/pnas.1908707117. <LINK>
34. Muscarella, R, S Kolyaie, DC Morton, JK Zimmerman and M Uriarte (2019) Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context. Journal of Ecology. DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.13261. <LINK>
33. Balslev, H, S Munch Kristiansen, R Muscarella (2019) Palm community transects and soil properties in western Amazonia. Ecology. 10.1002/ecy.2841. <LINK>
32. Poorter, L, … R Muscarella & 68 coauthors (2019) Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3: 928-934. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0882-6 <LINK>
31. Khalyani, AH, WA Gould, MJ Falkowski, R Muscarella, M Uriarte and F Yousef (2019) Climate change alters environmental suitability and potential plant species composition and richness in Puerto Rico. Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02491-w. <LINK>
30. Muscarella, R, J Messier, R Condit, SP Hubbell and JC Svenning (2018) Effects of biotic interactions on tropical tree performance depend on abiotic conditions. Ecology. 99: 2740-2750. DOI:10.1002/ecy.2537. <LINK>
29. Muscarella, R, CD Bacon, S Faurby, A Antonelli, SM Kristiansen, JC Svenning and H Balslev (2018) Soil fertility and flood regime are correlated with phylogenetic structure of Amazonian palm communities. Annals of Botany. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy196 <LINK>
28. Gei, MG, DMA Rozendaal, L Poorter, ... R Muscarella and 52 coauthors (2018) Ecological success of tropical legumes across succession and rainfall gradients. Nature Ecology and Evolution. <LINK>
27. Eychenne, J, N Ortega, H Balslev, R Muscarella, F Stauffer (2018) Taxonomic revision, distribution and ecology of Wedlandiella (Arecaceae: Arecoideae: Chamaedoreeae). Webbia. <LINK>
26. Guérin, M, D Martin-Benito, G von Arx, KL Griffin, L Andreu-Hayles, NG McDowell, W Pockman, R Muscarella, R Hamdan, P Gentine (2018) Inter-annual variations in needle and sapwood traits of Pinus edulis induced by an experimental drought. Ecology and Evolution. <LINK>
25. Bachelot B, J Clark, M Uriarte, R Muscarella, N Swenson, J Thompson, K McGuire and JK Zimmerman (2017) Associations between tropical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities and tree functional traits, seedling abundance, and foliar damage changes with tree seedling successional status. Ecology. <LINK>
24. Uriarte, M, R Muscarella and JK Zimmerman (2017) Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14000 <LINK>
23. Kass, JM, B Vilela, ME Aiello-Lammens, R Muscarella and RP Anderson (2017) Wallace: a flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. <LINK>
22. Muscarella, R, M Lohbeck, M Martinéz-Ramos, L Poorter, J Rodriguez-Velálazguez, M van Breugel and F Bongers (2017) Demographic drivers of functional
composition dynamics. Ecology. 98: 2743-2750. <LINK>
21. Galante PJ, B Alade, R Muscarella, SA Jansa, SM Goodman and RP Anderson (2017) The challenge of modeling niches and distributions for data-poor species: a
comprehensive approach to model complexity. Ecography. <LINK>
20. Kilvin S, K Treseder, R Muscarella and C Hawkes (2017) The predictive power of ecological niche modeling for global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biogeography. Pages 143-158 in L Tedersoo, ed. Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Springer International. <LINK>
19. Rasmussen K, J Thyrring, R Muscarella and F Borchsenius (2017) Climate change induced range shifts of three allergenic ragweeds (Ambrosia L.) in Europe and potential impact on human health. PeerJ. 5:e3104; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3104. <LINK>
18. Lasky, J, M Uriarte & R Muscarella (2016) Synchrony, compensatory dynamics, and the functional trait basis of phenological diversity in a tropical tree community.
Environmental Research Letters. 11:115003. <LINK>
+ Coverage on Environmental Research Web
17. Muscarella, R, M Uriarte, DL Erickson, NG Swenson, WJ Kress, JK Zimmerman (2016) Variation of tropical forest assembly mechanisms across regional
environmental gradients. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 23: 52-62. <LINK>
16. Naeem, S, C Prager, B Weeks, A Varga, DFB Flynn, K Griffin, R Muscarella, S Wood & W Schuster (2016) Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B. <LINK>
15. Muscarella, R and M Uriarte (2016) Do community-mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20152434. <LINK>
14. Chazdon, R, Broadbent E, Rozendaal DMA, … R Muscarella & 54 coauthors (2016) Carbon mitigation potential of Neotropical second-growth forest. Science
Advances. 2(5): e1501639. <LINK>
+ Coverage in Science
13. Poorter, L, … R Muscarella & 64 coauthors (2016) Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature. 530(7589): 211-214. <LINK>
+ Coverage in BBC
12. Muscarella, R, M Uriarte, TM Aide, DL Erickson, J Forero-Montaña, NJ Swenson, WJ Kress & JK Zimmerman (2016) Functional convergence and phylogenetic
divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. Journal Vegetation Science. 27(2): 283-294. <LINK>
11. Umaña, MN, J Forero-Montaña, R Muscarella, CJ Nytch, J Thompson, M Uriarte, JK Zimmerman & NG Swenson (2016) Inter-specific functional convergence and
divergence and intraspecific negative density dependence underlie the seed-to-seedling transition in tropical trees. The American Naturalist. 187(1): 99-109. <LINK>
10. Muscarella, R, M Uriarte, NJ Swenson, DL Erickson, JK Zimmerman & WJ Kress (2016). Climate and biodiversity effects on standing biomass in Puerto Rican
forests. Caribbean Naturalist. S1: 199-217. <LINK>
9. Letcher, SG, … R Muscarella & 55 coauthors (2015) Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical
forest sites. Journal of Ecology. 103(5): 1276-1290. <LINK>
8. Lasky, JR, B Bachelot, R Muscarella, N Schwartz, J Forero-Montaña, NG Swenson, J Thompson, JK Zimmerman & M Uriarte (2015) Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated
mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology. 96: 2157-2169. <LINK>
7. Réjou-Méchain, M, … R Muscarella & 65 coauthors (2014) Spatial variation in forest biomass and consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences.
11: 6827-6840. <LINK>
6. Muscarella, R, M Uriarte, NJ Swenson, DL Erickson, JK Zimmerman & WJ Kress (2014). A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode
sequence data. PLoS ONE. 9(11): e112843. <LINK>
5. Muscarella, R, PJ Galante, M Soley-Gaurdia, RA Boria, J Kass, M Uriarte & RP Anderson (2014) ENMeval: an R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations
and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(11): 1198-1205. <LINK>
+ Download the package from CRAN [Also see the new vignette!]
+ Follow the project on GitHub
4. Muscarella, R, M Uriarte, J Forero-Montaña, L Comita, NJ Swenson, J Thompson, C Nytch, I Jonckheere & JK Zimmerman (2013). Life history trade-offs during the
seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community. Journal of Ecology 101(1): 171-182. <LINK>
3. Yakulic, C, ME Fagan, M Jain, A Jina, Y Lim, M Marlier, R Muscarella, P Adame, RS DeFries & M Uriarte (2011) Biophysical and socioeconomic factors associated with
forest transitions at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Ecology and Society 16(3): 15. <LINK>
2. Muscarella, R, KL Murray, A Russell, D Ortt & TH Fleming (2011). Exploring demographic, physical, and historical explanations for the genetic structure of two lineages
of Greater Antillean bats PLoS ONE 6(3): e17704. <LINK>
1. Muscarella, R & TH Fleming (2007) The role of frugivorous bats in tropical forest succession. Biological Reviews 82(4): 573-590. <LINK>
