[LTER-luq] Newsletter

Tue Oct 27 10:03:56 MDT 2015

New publications relevant to LTER:

1.         Poorter and many co-authors. (2015). Does tropical forest tree diversity enhance carbon storage? Global Ecology and Biogeography.

2.         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.

3.         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 convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. J Vegetation Science.

4.         Umaña, M.N, J. Forero-Montaña, R. Muscarella, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. G. Swenson. (2015). Inter-specific functional similarity and intra-specific negative density dependence underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees. American Naturalist. 

5.         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.

6.         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.

7.      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.

8.         Uriarte,M., J. Thompson, B. Turner and J.K. Zimmerman  (2015). Linking spatial patterns of leaf litterfall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: A neighborhood approach. Ecological Applications.

9.         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

10.      Kress, J.W, C. Garcia-Robledo, M. Uriarte, and D. Erickson. (2014). DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 

11.      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

12.      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.

From: luq [mailto:luq-bounces at lists.lternet.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Stankavich
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:56 PM
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Subject: [LTER-luq] Newsletter

Hi all -

If you have something you would like included in the November newsletter, please let me know.

Sarah

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Sarah Stankavich
LUQ-LTER Coordinator

El Verde Field Station
787-222-7756

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