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Helene Muller-Landau's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helene Muller-Landau is a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Her research focuses on tropical forest diversity and climate interactions with tropical forests. Education Helene Muller-Landau received her bachelor's from the Swathmore College in Mathematics and Statistics. She received both her masters and PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.
Helene Muller-Landau's Published Works
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Published Works
- Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees (2014) (1744)
- Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees (2002) (1225)
- The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective (2003) (741)
- Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species. (2006) (733)
- Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests. (2008) (580)
- Comparing Classical Community Models: Theoretical Consequences for Patterns of Diversity (2002) (551)
- Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community (2010) (545)
- The Future of Tropical Forest Species 1 (2006) (511)
- CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015) (467)
- Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities (2018) (416)
- Interspecific and Inter‐site Variation in Wood Specific Gravity of Tropical Trees (2004) (378)
- GAP‐DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT, REALIZED VITAL RATES, AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF TROPICAL TREES (2003) (359)
- A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mapping (2012) (357)
- Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. (2007) (351)
- Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest (2008) (319)
- Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests. (2006) (310)
- The tolerance–fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size (2010) (307)
- Role of dispersal in the recruitment limitation of neotropical pioneer species (2002) (303)
- Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests. (2018) (288)
- Scale‐dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests (2013) (258)
- The Effects of Density, Spatial Pattern, and Competitive Symmetry on Size Variation in Simulated Plant Populations (2001) (253)
- Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities (2008) (229)
- Evaluating uncertainty in mapping forest carbon with airborne LiDAR (2011) (216)
- ANNUAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION IN SEEDFALL AND SEEDLING RECRUITMENT IN A NEOTROPICAL FOREST (2005) (205)
- Assessing recruitment limitation: concepts, methods and case-studies from a tropical forest. (2002) (205)
- Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models. (2006) (200)
- The Future of Tropical Species on a Warmer Planet (2009) (193)
- The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration (2007) (181)
- Measuring tree height: a quantitative comparison of two common field methods in a moist tropical forest (2013) (175)
- Rethinking the value of high wood density (2010) (162)
- SAMPLING THE SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A LANDSCAPE (2002) (155)
- Liana Abundance, Diversity, and Distribution on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2012) (155)
- Carbon stocks in primary and secondary tropical forests in Singapore (2013) (153)
- Life history trade-offs in tropical trees and lianas. (2006) (153)
- Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan‐tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area (2010) (146)
- Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees (2016) (131)
- Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks (2014) (126)
- High-fidelity national carbon mapping for resource management and REDD+ (2013) (124)
- Predicting the Long‐Term Effects of Hunting on Plant Species Composition and Diversity in Tropical Forests (2007) (114)
- Controls over aboveground forest carbon density on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2010) (113)
- The Uncertain Future of Tropical Forest Species 1 (2006) (112)
- Seed Dispersal of Woody Plants in Tropical Forests: Concepts, Examples and Future Directions (2005) (111)
- Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests (2006) (92)
- Measuring long‐distance seed dispersal in complex natural environments: an evaluation and integration of classical and genetic methods (2008) (89)
- Negative density dependence of seed dispersal and seedling recruitment in a neotropical palm. (2014) (87)
- Theoretical Perspectives on Evolution of Long-Distance Dispersal and the Example of Specialized Pests (2003) (86)
- When do Localized Natural Enemies Increase Species Richness (2005) (85)
- Differential Effects of Hunting on Pre‐Dispersal Seed Predation and Primary and Secondary Seed Removal of Two Neotropical Tree Species (2007) (84)
- Functional composition drives ecosystem function through multiple mechanisms in a broadleaved subtropical forest (2016) (81)
- Size symmetry of competition alters biomass–density relationships (2002) (80)
- ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2021) (78)
- The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling (2011) (74)
- Space, time and complexity in plant dispersal ecology (2014) (71)
- Quantifying Leaf Phenology of Individual Trees and Species in a Tropical Forest Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images (2019) (69)
- Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (2018) (69)
- Seed dispersal of desert annuals. (2008) (67)
- Positive effects of neighborhood complementarity on tree growth in a Neotropical forest. (2016) (67)
- The evolution of dispersal and seed size in plant communities (2000) (67)
- Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2019) (65)
- Topographic Variation in Aboveground Biomass in a Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest in China (2012) (63)
- Hydrological Networks and Associated Topographic Variation as Templates for the Spatial Organization of Tropical Forest Vegetation (2013) (62)
- The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance‐ and density‐dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns (2012) (62)
- Role of tree size in moist tropical forest carbon cycling and water deficit responses. (2018) (59)
- Temperature explains global variation in biomass among humid old‐growth forests (2012) (59)
- Dissecting biomass dynamics in a large Amazonian forest plot (2009) (58)
- Tree species vary widely in their tolerance for liana infestation: A case study of differential host response to generalist parasites (2018) (52)
- Spatial variability in tropical forest leaf area density from multireturn lidar and modeling (2015) (51)
- A theoretical model linking interspecific variation in density dependence to species abundances (2011) (50)
- Tri-trophic interactions affect density dependence of seed fate in a tropical forest palm. (2011) (50)
- Improving estimates of biomass change in buttressed trees using tree taper models (2014) (49)
- Drought-induced mortality patterns and rapid biomass recovery in a terra firme forest in the Colombian Amazon. (2017) (46)
- Comparison of decay classification, knife test, and two penetrometers for estimating wood density of coarse woody debris (2010) (46)
- Carbon cycle: Sink in the African jungle (2009) (45)
- Fitting Ecological Process Models to Spatial Patterns Using Scalewise Variances and Moment Equations (2013) (44)
- Tree diversity, tree height and environmental harshness in eastern and western North America. (2016) (42)
- Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland Neotropical forest. (2019) (40)
- Signs of stabilisation and stable coexistence. (2019) (39)
- Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest (2015) (37)
- Detecting and projecting changes in forest biomass from plot data (2014) (33)
- Large-scale spatial variation in palm fruit abundance across a tropical moist forest estimated from high-resolution aerial photographs (2008) (32)
- Unimodal Tree Size Distributions Possibly Result from Relatively Strong Conservatism in Intermediate Size Classes (2012) (31)
- Comment on "From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity" (2007) (30)
- Seed arrival in tropical forest tree fall gaps. (2013) (30)
- Tropical tree height and crown allometries for the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama: a comparison of alternative hierarchical models incorporating interspecific variation in relation to life history traits (2019) (30)
- Seeds of understanding of plant diversity (2003) (29)
- Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass. (2020) (29)
- Linking fruit traits to variation in predispersal vertebrate seed predation, insect seed predation, and pathogen attack. (2011) (29)
- Distorted‐distance models for directional dispersal: a general framework with application to a wind‐dispersed tree (2012) (27)
- Dead Wood Necromass in a Moist Tropical Forest: Stocks, Fluxes, and Spatiotemporal Variability (2019) (27)
- Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally (2021) (25)
- Functional traits of tropical trees and lianas explain spatial structure across multiple scales (2018) (24)
- Growth and reproduction respond differently to climate in three Neotropical tree species (2017) (24)
- Still rethinking the value of high wood density. (2012) (24)
- Insights into regional patterns of Amazonian forest structure, diversity, and dominance from three large terra-firme forest dynamics plots (2017) (24)
- A host–parasite model explains variation in liana infestation among co‐occurring tree species (2018) (22)
- Intraspecific variation in seed dispersal of a Neotropical tree and its relationship to fruit and tree traits (2016) (21)
- Bushmeat hunting and climate: an indirect link. (2010) (21)
- How seed dispersal affects interactions with specialized natural enemies and their contribution to the maintenance of diversity (2007) (20)
- Interspecific and Inter-site Variation in Wood Specific Gravity of Tropical Trees1 (2004) (20)
- Surviving in a Cosexual World: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dioecy in Tropical Trees (2017) (19)
- Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA‐TV) (2020) (18)
- Quantifying the role of wood density in explaining interspecific variation in growth of tropical trees (2017) (18)
- The emergence of diversity in plant communities. (2000) (17)
- How do lianas and vines influence competitive differences and niche differences among tree species? Concepts and a case study in a tropical forest (2018) (17)
- Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees (2021) (16)
- Global patterns of forest autotrophic carbon fluxes (2021) (15)
- Testing for changes in biomass dynamics in large‐scale forest datasets (2019) (14)
- Pantropical geography of lightning‐caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests (2020) (14)
- Stabilization of species coexistence in spatial models through the aggregation-segregation effect generated by local dispersal and nonspecific local interactions. (2016) (14)
- How do size distributions relate to concurrently measured demographic rates? Evidence from over 150 tree species in Panama (2016) (13)
- What Determines the Abundance of Lianas and Vines? (2020) (12)
- Rates of formation and dissipation of clumping reveal lagged responses in tropical tree populations. (2016) (12)
- Integrating high resolution drone imagery and forest inventory to distinguish canopy and understory trees and quantify their contributions to forest structure and dynamics (2020) (11)
- Colonization-related tradeoffs in tropical forests and their role in the maintenance of plant species diversity (2008) (11)
- A phenology model for tropical species that flower multiple times each year (2019) (11)
- Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests. (2021) (10)
- Estimation of sticking and contact efficiencies in aggregation of phytoplankton: The 1993 SIGMA tank experiment (1995) (10)
- Cross-Section Mass: An Improved Basis for Woody Debris Necromass Inventory (2011) (10)
- A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees (2020) (10)
- Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity (2021) (9)
- A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mapping (2011) (8)
- Soils and topography control natural disturbance rates and thereby forest structure in a lowland tropical landscape. (2022) (8)
- Cascading effects of defaunation on the coexistence of two specialized insect seed predators (2017) (8)
- Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world. (2022) (7)
- Strong temporal variation in treefall and branchfall rates in a tropical forest is explained by rainfall: results from five years of monthly drone data for a 50-ha plot (2021) (7)
- Sink in the African jungle (2009) (7)
- Ecology: Plant diversity rooted in pathogens (2014) (7)
- Tree diversity in relation to maximum tree height: evidence for the harshness hypothesis of species diversity gradients. (2017) (5)
- Strong temporal variation in treefall and branchfall rates in a tropical forest is related to extreme rainfall: results from 5 years of monthly drone data for a 50 ha plot (2021) (5)
- Variation in trunk taper of buttressed trees within and among five lowland tropical forests (2021) (4)
- Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest (2022) (3)
- Functional composition drives ecosystem function through multiple mechanisms in a broadleaved subtropical forest (2016) (1)
- Insights into regional patterns of Amazonian forest structure, diversity, and dominance from three large terra-firme forest dynamics plots (2016) (1)
- Correction: Topographic Variation in Aboveground Biomass in a Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest in China (2013) (1)
- The future of Southeast Asian forests and their species (2009) (1)
- Interspecific variation in tropical tree height and crown allometries in relation to life history traits (2018) (1)
- Space, time and complexity in plant dispersal ecology (2014) (1)
- Simulating environmentally sensitive tree recruitment in vegetation demographic models. (2022) (1)
- Bushmeat Hunting and Climate (2010) (1)
- Quantifying high temporal resolution patterns of gap creation and tree mortality in the 50 ha plot on Barro Colorado Island using drone-acquired imagery (2019) (0)
- Effects of the 100-year most severe El Niño driven drought on above and below ground CO 2 exchanges in a seasonal tropical forest (2015) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Contrasting plant productivity-diversity relationships across latitude: the role of evolutionary history. (2007) (0)
- ForC: a global database characterizing carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests (2018) (0)
- Woody debris research : Overview CTFS Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative Version : November 2008 (2008) (0)
- Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics (2022) (0)
- Community patterns of tropical tree phenology derived from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle images: intra- and interspecific variation, association with species plant traits, and response to interannual climate variation (2017) (0)
- Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (2018) (0)
- Dead Wood Necromass in a Moist Tropical Forest: Stocks, Fluxes, and Spatiotemporal Variability (2019) (0)
- ELEVEN Seed dispersal of woody plants in tropical forests : concepts , examples and future directions (2009) (0)
- Dispersal, Plant (2019) (0)
- How do different empirically derived patterns of natural enemy attack and seed dispersal affect patterns of seedling recruitment (2007) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Coexistence of perennial plants: an embarrassment of niches. (2010) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Pathogen impacts on plant communities: unifying theory, concepts, and empirical work. (2011) (0)
- CTFS/ForestGEO: A global network to monitor forest interactions with a changing climate (2013) (0)
- Spatial patterns of seed predation by a specialized invertebrate (2016) (0)
- Phenology of seed and leaves rain in response to periodic climatic variability in a seasonal wet tropical forest (2016) (0)
- Linking interspecific variation in vertebrate seed predation, insect seed predation, and pathogen attack to fruit traits in tropical woody plants (2009) (0)
- Supplementary material to "Strong temporal variation in treefall and branchfall rates in a tropical forest is explained by rainfall: results from five years of monthly drone data for a 50-ha plot" (2021) (0)
- Interspecific and intraspecific variation of tree branch, leaf, and stomatal traits in relation to topography in an aseasonal Amazon forest (2022) (0)
- Woody debris research : Overview (2009) (0)
- To appear in Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism : Findings from a Network of Large-Scale Forest Dynamics Plots (2001) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Neutral theory as a predictor of avifaunal extinctions after habitat loss. (2011) (0)
- Temperature explains global variation in old-growth forest biomass (2012) (0)
- [Dataset:] How do size distributions relate to concurrently measured demographic rates? Evidence from over 150 tree species in Panama: Supporting Data (2016) (0)
- Turgor loss point as indicator for tropical tree species distribution along a steep rainfall gradient (2018) (0)
- A thermal tolerance trait distinguishes microclimatic niches of tropical trees (2019) (0)
- Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of FATES predictions of ecosystem structure and function at Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2018) (0)
- Effects of vertebrate seed dispersers, insect seed predators, and pathogens in seed survival at the pre-dispersal stage of several tropical woody plants (2008) (0)
- Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative Overview of Planned Research (2008) (0)
- HALTING BIOLOGICAL HITCHHIKERS (2006) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. (2012) (0)
- How seed dispersal distances interact with natural enemy interaction scales to influence population spatial structure, population regulation, and diversity maintenance (2013) (0)
- REV IEW AND SYNTHES IS Signs of stabilisation and stable coexistence (2019) (0)
- Intra- and interspecific variation in tropical tree and liana phenology derived from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle images (2017) (0)
- Growth and reproduction respond differently to climate in three Neotropical tree species (2017) (0)
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