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62. Aguirre Gutierrez, J, ..., R Muscarella, ... et al. (Accepted) Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change.
61. Aguirre Gutierrez, J, ... R Muscarella, ... et al. (Accepted) Canopy functional trait variation across Earth's tropical forests.
60. Snef, C, AE Muelbert, T Pugh, ... R Muscarella, ... et al. (Accepted) Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. New Phytologist.
59. Ibanez, T, D. Bauman, S Aiba, ..., R Muscarella, et al. (2024) Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics. Global Change Biology. LINK
58. Yim, C, ES Bellis, VL DeLeo, D Gamba, R Muscarella, JR Lasky (2024) Climate biogeography of Arabidopsis thaliana: linking distribution models and individual variation. Journal of Biogeography 51(4): 560-574. LINK
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 Evolution. LINK
56. Hüttnerová T, R Muscarella, P Surovy (2024) Drone micro-relief 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 (2023) 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>
