Alwyn H. Gentry

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Alwyn H. Gentry

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Alwyn H. Gentry's Published Works

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Changes in Plant Community Diversity and Floristic Composition on Environmental and Geographical Gradients (1988) (1624)
Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest (1989) (845)
Neotropical Floristic Diversity: Phytogeographical Connections Between Central and South America, Pleistocene Climatic Fluctuations, or an Accident of the Andean Orogeny? (1982) (834)
Patterns of neotropical plant species diversity. (1982) (830)
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique (2008) (795)
DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF NEOTROPICAL VASCULAR EPIPHYTES (1987) (716)
Increasing Turnover Through Time in Tropical Forests (1994) (533)
Tree species richness of upper Amazonian forests. (1988) (533)
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Diversity and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests (1995) (524)
Contribution of nontrees to species richness of a tropical rain forest (1987) (504)
Flowering Phenology and Diversity in Tropical Bignoniaceae (1974) (491)
Tropical forest biodiversity : distributional patterns and their conservational significance (1992) (482)
Quantitative Ethnobotany and Amazonian Conservation (1994) (476)
Dynamics and species richness of tropical rain forests. (1994) (442)
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: II. Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany (2008) (430)
The Biology of Vines : The distribution and evolution of climbing plants (1992) (378)
Four Neotropical Rainforests (1991) (331)
A field guide to the families and genera of woody plants of northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), with supplementary notes on herbaceous taxa (1993) (322)
Patterns of diversity and floristic composition in Neotropical montane forests. (1995) (259)
Biological Extinction in Western Ecuador (1991) (257)
Geographical variation in fertility, phenology, and composition of the understory of neotropical forests (1987) (251)
Prediction of neotropical tree and liana species richness from soil and climatic data (1995) (249)
Tropical Forest Structure and the Distribution of Gliding and Prehensile-Tailed Vertebrates (1983) (236)
Coevolutionary Patterns in Central American Bignoniaceae (1974) (219)
Use and Misuse of Forest-harvested Fruits in the Iquitos Area. (1989) (164)
Deforestation and increased flooding of the upper Amazon. (1982) (160)
Species richness and floristic composition of Choco Region plant communities (1986) (157)
The structure and diversity of rain forests at bajo calima choco region western colombia (1991) (104)
Speciation in tropical forests (1989) (97)
A Synopsis of Bignoniaceae Ethnobotany and Economic Botany (1992) (94)
Using Vegetation Analysis to Facilitate the Selection of Conservation Sites in Eastern Paraguay (1993) (79)
Flora of the Rio Palenque Science Center, los Rios, Ecuador. (1979) (73)
Liana diversity and species richness of Malaysian rain forests (1993) (69)
Tropical forest biodiversity and the potential for new medicinal plants (1993) (60)
Taxonomic Implications of Bignoniaceae Palynology (1979) (59)
The Biology of Vines : Breeding and dispersal systems of lianas (1992) (52)
Flora of Panama. Part IX. Family 172. Bignoniaceae (1973) (48)
Bignoniaceae of Southern Central America: Distribution and Ecological Specificity (1976) (46)
Distributional patterns and an additional species of thePassiflora vitifolia complex: Amazonian species diversity due to edaphically differentiated communities (1981) (44)
Anti-Pollinators for Mass-Flowering Plants? (1978) (41)
Generic delimitations of Central American Bignoniaceae (1973) (37)
An ecotaxonomic survey of Panamanian lianas (1985) (31)
Naphthoquinone Constituents of Tabebuia spp. (1988) (27)
Endangered plant species and habitats of Ecuador and Amazonian Peru (1977) (26)
Where have all the Ceibas gone? A case history of mismanagement of a tropical forest resource (1988) (25)
Martinella (Bignoniaceae): a widely used eye medicine of South America. (1984) (25)
Deforestation and increased flooding of the upper Amazon. (1980) (19)
New species and a new combination for plants from trans-Andean South America (1988) (17)
Relationships of the MadagascarBignoniaceae: A striking case of convergent evolution (1976) (16)
Additional Generic Mergers in Bignoniaceae (1979) (15)
Studies in Bignoniaceae 19: Generic Mergers and New Species of South American Bignoniaceae (1976) (15)
The Biology of Vines : Secondary compounds in vines with an emphasis on those with defensive functions (1992) (14)
TABEBUIA: THE TORTUOUS HISTORY OF A GENERIC NAME* (BIGNON.) (1969) (13)
Floristic knowledge and needs in Pacific Tropical America (1978) (13)
Studies of Bignoniaceae 11: A Synopsis of the Genus Distictis (1974) (11)
A New Peruvian Styloceras (Buxaceae): Discovery of a Phytogeographical Missing Link (1981) (10)
Notes on Peruvian Palms (1986) (9)
A New Species of Styloceras (Buxaceae) from Peru (1993) (9)
New Species and a New Combination in Palmae, Theaceae, Araliaceae, Apocynaceae, and Bignoniaceae From the Choco and Amazonian Peru (1981) (9)
ADDITIONAL PANAMANIAN MYRISTICACEAE (1975) (9)
A revision of tabebuia (bignoniaceae) in Central America (1970) (8)
Six new species of Bignoniaceae from Upper Amazonia (1992) (8)
A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) with Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa (1994) (8)
Notes on Panamanian Apocynaceae (1974) (7)
Sphingiphila (Bignoniaceae), a New Genus from the Paraguayan Chaco (1990) (7)
New species of woody plants from Amazonian Peru (1992) (7)
Flora of Panama. Part VI. Family 87A. Humiriaceae (1975) (7)
IDENTIFICATION OF VELLOZO'S BIGNONIACEAE (1975) (6)
Exarata (Bignoniaceae), a new genus from the Choco region of Ecuador and Colombia (1992) (6)
Alstonia (Apocynaceae): Another Palaeotropical Genus in Central America (1983) (6)
A New Combination for a Problematic Central American Apocynaceae (1983) (6)
Six new species of Adenocalymna (Bignoniaceae) from eastern South America (1993) (6)
Studies in Bignoniaceae 31: New Species and Combinations from Amazonian Peru and Brazil (1978) (5)
Flora of Panama. Part VI. Family 109. Sabiaceae (1980) (5)
THE TYPE SPECIES OF BIGNONIA L. (1972) (5)
New species of Apocynaceae, Bignoniaceae, Passifloraceae, and Piperaceae from coastal Colombia and Ecuador (1980) (5)
Transfer of the Species of Dialyanthera to Otoba (Myristicaceae) (1979) (5)
Studies in Bignoniaceae 12: New or Noteworthy Species of South American Bignoniaceae (1974) (5)
Naphthoquinone Constituents of Commercial Lapacho/Pau d'arco/Taheebo Products (1995) (5)
New species and combinations in Apocynaceae from Peru and adjacent Amazonia (1984) (5)
Flora of Panama. Part VI. Family 99. Buxaceae (1978) (5)
A NEW PANAMANIAN STERCULIA WITH TAXONOMIC NOTES ON THE GENUS (1976) (4)
Studies in Bignoniaceae. 48. New South American species of Bignoniaceae. (1985) (4)
Fevillea-a new oil seed from Amazonian Peru (1986) (4)
Studies in Bignoniaceae 25: New Species and Combinations in South American Bignoniaceae (1977) (4)
Four new species of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) from Peru (1992) (4)
New neotropical species of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) (1986) (4)
STUDIES IN BIGNONIACEAE 37. NEW SPECIES OF BIGNONIACEAE FROM EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA (1980) (3)
Herbarium taxonomy versus field knowledge. Is there an attainable solution (1989) (3)
Selective Insect Damage in a Tropical Herbarium Collection (1971) (3)
Additional Panamanian Passifloraceae (1976) (3)
STUDIES IN BIGNONIACEAE VII. DENDROSICUS, ENALLAGMA, AND AMPHITECNA (1973) (3)
NEW SPECIES OF GIBSONIOTHAMNUS (SCROPHULARIACEAE/BIGNONIACEAE) AND TOURNEFORTIA (BORAGINACEAE) FROM EASTERN PANAMA AND THE CHOCO' (1977) (3)
Klainedoxa (Irvingiaceae) at Makokou, Gabon: Three Sympatric Species in a Putatively Monotypic Genus (1984) (3)
BIGNONIA CRUCIGERA: A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY* (1975) (2)
Flora of Panama. Part IV. Family 50A. Rafflesiaceae (1973) (2)
Plagioceltis (Ulmaceae): A Superfluous Genus (1983) (2)
Two new species from Jauneche, Ecuador: Inga jaunechensis (Leguminosae) and Annona hystricoides (Annonaceae) (1984) (2)
STUDIES IN BIGNONIACEAE 17: KIGELIANTHE: A SYNONYM OF FERNANDOA (BIGNONIACEAE ) (1975) (2)
Note on Gibsoniothamnus [by] Alwyn H. Gentry. (1971) (2)
A revision of tabebuia (bignoniaceae) in Central America (2008) (2)
A new species of Allomarkgrafia (Apocynaceae) and notes on the genus (1989) (2)
A new species of Vantanea (Humiriaceae) from Amazonian Peru. Contribution to the study of the flora and vegetation of Peruvian Amazonia. XX (1990) (2)
On the Typification of Bignonia crucigera L. (Bignoniaceae) (1991) (2)
Tropical Rainforests: Nature's Supreme Manifestation (1993) (1)
New Records of Apocynaceae for Panama and the Choco (1977) (1)
New phanerogam species from Chocóc Colombia (1984) (1)
Mosses and liverworts of the Chocó region , Colombia (2012) (1)
1998 Alwyn Gentry Award (1998) (1)
New species of Myristicaceaec Combretaceaec and Urticaceae from coastal Colombia and Ecuador (1981) (1)
Amphitecna-Enallagma-Dendrosicus Revisited (1976) (1)
Gibsoniothamnus lScrophulariaceaer in Panama (1974) (1)
Studies in Bignoniaceae IX: New species of Dendrosicus and Pachyptera (1973) (1)
Three New Hispaniolan Species of Tabebuia Bignoniaceae (1989) (1)
Book Review:Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme. Nigel J. H. Smith (1983) (0)
2004 Alwyn Gentry Award (2004) (0)
Rainforest corridors (book review) (1983) (0)
Six New Species of Adenocalymna (Bignoniaceae) from Eastern (2016) (0)
Dynamics andspecies richness oftropical rainforests (mortailty/diversity/tur ver/dstrbance/productity) (1994) (0)
1997 Alwyn Gentry Award (1997) (0)
In memoriam (1962) (0)
Studies in Bignoniaceae III. Two New Panamanian Species of Bignoniaceae (1971) (0)
STUDIES IN BIGNONIACEAE 25: NEW SPECIES (2016) (0)
Studies in Bignoniaceae 18: Notes on S. Moore's Mato Grosso Bignoniaceae (1976) (0)
Crescentieae and Tourrettieae) (1980) (0)
ANTIFUNGAL AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF THE FLORAL ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF MANDEVILLA (2021) (0)
A New Freziera (Theaceae) from the Panama/Colombia Border (1978) (0)
A new species of Aptandra (Olacaceae) from Amazonian Peru (1992) (0)
New phanerogam species from Choco, Colombia [Ampelocera macrocarpa, Pithecellobium longipendulum, Neoptychocarpus chocoensis, Jacaratia chocoensis. description]. (1984) (0)
Notes on Middle American Bignoniaceae (1977) (0)
Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity in South-Eastern Peru (1996) (0)
2011 Alwyn Gentry Awards, Bacardi Award and ATBC Honorary Fellow (2011) (0)
ENALLAGMA‐AMPHITECNA‐DENDROSICUS: A DIFFERENT VIEW OF PROPOSALS 46, 47 AND 48 (1975) (0)
A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS DISTICTIS. (2016) (0)
Flora of Peru / Alwyn H. Gentry, Dillon Michael O., and Jones Samuel B. (1980) (0)
Schlegelia costaricensisc a familial transfer to Boraginaceae (1973) (0)
2003 Alwyn Gentry Award (2003) (0)
2002 Alwyn Gentry Award (2002) (0)