Liza Comita
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- PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University
- Masters Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University
- Bachelors Biology Williams College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Liza Sheera Comita is an American ecologist and Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology in the School of the Environment at Yale University. Her research focuses on tropical tree species ecology and how spatial and temporal variation in early life-stages affects abundance and diversity of species in tropical forests.
Liza Comita's Published Works
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Published Works
- Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. (2011) (1931)
- Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests (2007) (918)
- Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients (2011) (614)
- Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community (2010) (545)
- Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014) (456)
- Scaling of Connectivity in Marine Populations (2010) (256)
- Developmental changes in habitat associations of tropical trees (2007) (214)
- Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank. (2009) (209)
- Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly. (2010) (196)
- Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest. (2009) (159)
- Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014) (156)
- Conspecific and phylogenetic density‐dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest (2015) (140)
- Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane‐impacted tropical forest (2009) (135)
- When and where plant-soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta-analysis. (2019) (131)
- Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees (2016) (131)
- Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities (2012) (130)
- Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. (2010) (123)
- Strategies for fitting nonlinear ecological models in R, AD Model Builder, and BUGS (2013) (108)
- Density dependence across multiple life stages in a temperate old-growth forest of northeast China (2012) (102)
- Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest (2018) (99)
- Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests (2006) (92)
- PERSPECTIVE Navigating the multiple meanings of b diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist (2010) (91)
- Patterns of woody plant species abundance and diversity in the seedling layer of a tropical forest (2007) (87)
- Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest. (2012) (83)
- Density-dependent survival varies with species life-history strategy in a tropical forest. (2018) (80)
- ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2021) (78)
- Seasonal differentiation in density‐dependent seedling survival in a tropical rain forest (2012) (76)
- Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community. (2018) (76)
- Tropical tree species assemblages in topographical habitats change in time and with life stage (2011) (71)
- Abiotic niche partitioning and negative density dependence drive tree seedling survival in a tropical forest (2017) (71)
- Habitat specificity and diversity of tree species in an African wet tropical forest (2011) (61)
- Local-Scale Drivers of Tree Survival in a Temperate Forest (2012) (61)
- Species associations structured by environment and land-use history promote beta-diversity in a temperate forest. (2015) (61)
- Tree species vary widely in their tolerance for liana infestation: A case study of differential host response to generalist parasites (2018) (52)
- Life‐history trade‐offs during the seed‐to‐seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community (2013) (49)
- Ecological genomics of tropical trees: how local population size and allelic diversity of resistance genes relate to immune responses, cosusceptibility to pathogens, and negative density dependence (2017) (48)
- Tools for enhancing interdisciplinary communication (2011) (47)
- Neighbourhood density and genetic relatedness interact to determine fruit set and abortion rates in a continuous tropical tree population (2008) (46)
- Forests and Global Change: Drought as a driver of tropical tree species regeneration dynamics and distribution patterns (2014) (43)
- Interspecific variation in conspecific negative density dependence can make species less likely to coexist. (2018) (42)
- Temporal and spatial variability in seedling dynamics: a cross-site comparison in four lowland tropical forests (2008) (42)
- Distance-dependent seedling mortality and long-term spacing dynamics in a neotropical forest community. (2017) (41)
- Density-dependent pre-dispersal seed predation and fruit set in a tropical tree. (2010) (41)
- Higher β-diversity observed for herbs over woody plants is driven by stronger habitat filtering in a tropical understory. (2016) (40)
- The contribution of understory light availability and biotic neighborhood to seedling survival in secondary versus old-growth temperate forest (2014) (40)
- Interactive effects of land use history and natural disturbance on seedling dynamics in a subtropical forest. (2009) (38)
- Patch dynamics and community metastability of a subtropical forest: compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use (2010) (36)
- Evidence of within-species specialization by soil microbes and the implications for plant community diversity (2019) (34)
- Weaker plant-enemy interactions decrease tree seedling diversity with edge-effects in a fragmented tropical forest (2018) (31)
- Evidence for arrested succession within a tropical forest fragment in Singapore (2011) (29)
- Drivers of community assembly in tropical forest restoration sites: role of local environment, landscape, and space. (2017) (29)
- Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species (2018) (25)
- Historic Mining and Agriculture as Indicators of Occurrence and Abundance of Widespread Invasive Plant Species (2015) (22)
- Influence of soil pathogens on early regeneration success of tropical trees varies between forest edge and interior (2017) (22)
- Seed-to-seedling transitions exhibit distance-dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest. (2019) (20)
- Surviving in a Cosexual World: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dioecy in Tropical Trees (2017) (19)
- Contrasting patterns of insect herbivory and predation pressure across a tropical rainfall gradient (2018) (17)
- Environmental gradients structure tropical tree assemblages at the regional scale (2016) (17)
- Edge effects reduce α-diversity but not β-diversity during community assembly in a human-modified tropical forest. (2019) (17)
- Shifts in taxonomic and functional composition of trees along rainfall and phosphorus gradients in central Panama (2020) (16)
- Shifts in taxonomic and functional composition of trees along rainfall and phosphorus gradients in central Panama (2020) (16)
- Long-term research impacts on seedling community structure and composition in a permanent forest plot (2006) (16)
- How latitude affects biotic interactions (2017) (16)
- Resolving the paradox of clumped seed dispersal: positive density and distance dependence in a bat-dispersed species. (2018) (15)
- Biotic vs abiotic drivers of seedling persistence in a tropical karst forest (2017) (15)
- Tree seedling richness, but not neighborhood composition, influences insect herbivory in a temperate deciduous forest community (2016) (14)
- Natural Enemies and the Maintenance of Tropical Tree Diversity: Recent Insights and Implications for the Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World1 (2020) (13)
- Response to Comments on “Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients” (2012) (11)
- Impact of Research Trails on Seedling Dynamics in a Tropical Forest (2008) (11)
- Macro‐scale variation and environmental predictors of flowering and fruiting phenology in the Chinese angiosperm flora (2020) (11)
- Environment and past land use together predict functional diversity in a temperate forest. (2018) (10)
- Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest (2018) (10)
- Intraspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent seedling recruitment in a subtropical evergreen forest (2017) (9)
- Large mammalian herbivores contribute to conspecific negative density dependence in a temperate forest (2020) (8)
- Differences among species in seed dispersal and conspecific neighbor effects can interact to influence coexistence (2020) (8)
- Resolved phylogenetic relationships in the Ocotea complex (Supraocotea) facilitate phylogenetic classification and studies of character evolution. (2021) (8)
- Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015–16 El Niño (2021) (7)
- Edge Effects on Seedling Diversity Are Mediated by Impacts of Fungi and Insects on Seedling Recruitment but Not Survival (2019) (7)
- Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats (2021) (7)
- Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity (2020) (7)
- Intensive research activity alters short-term seedling dynamics in a tropical forest (2008) (6)
- Local adaptation to herbivory within tropical tree species along a rainfall gradient. (2020) (6)
- Long‐term dynamics of liana seedlings suggest decelerating increases in liana relative abundance over time (2019) (4)
- Flowering sex ratios and costs of reproduction in gynodioecious Ocotea oblonga (Lauraceae) (2020) (4)
- Animal seed dispersal recovery during passive restoration in a forested landscape (2022) (3)
- Edge effects alter the role of fungi and insects in mediating functional composition and diversity of seedling recruits in a fragmented tropical forest. (2020) (2)
- Widespread herbivory cost in tropical nitrogen-fixing tree species. (2022) (2)
- Density dependence across multiple life stages in a temperate old-growth forest of northeast China (2012) (2)
- Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings. (2022) (1)
- A decade of diversity and forest structure: Post-logging patterns across life stages in an Afrotropical forest (2022) (1)
- [Dataset:] Barro Colorado 50-ha Canopy Density Data (2014) (1)
- Should Ecological Science Be Ethical (2010) (1)
- Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species (2010) (1)
- Local‐ and landscape‐scale drivers of terrestrial herbaceous plant diversity along a tropical rainfall gradient in Western Ghats, India (2023) (0)
- Exploration of in-situ light and biomass estimation by digital hemispherical photography in tropical forests (2009) (0)
- Intraspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent seedling recruitment in a subtropical evergreen forest (2017) (0)
- Impact of hurricanes on light regime and biomass in tropic forest ecosystems: Puerto Rico as showcase (2009) (0)
- Drought and seedling survival in tropical rain forest plants: linking drought resistance with species distribution (2003) (0)
- Weaker plant-enemy interactions decrease tree seedling diversity with edge-effects in a fragmented tropical forest (2018) (0)
- Seed to seedling transition shows distance-based mortality effects but no strong Janzen-Connell patterns for tree species at Barro Colorado Island (Panama) (2018) (0)
- Linking seedling drought resistance with species habitat associations: dry season mortality (2005) (0)
- The contribution of understory light availability and biotic neighborhood to seedling survival in secondary versus old-growth temperate forest (2014) (0)
- Seedling performance in a dioecious tree species is similar near female and male conspecific adults despite differences in colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (2023) (0)
- Assessment of the impact of hurricanes on light regime and biomass in tropical forest ecocsystems: a Puerto Rico case-study (2009) (0)
- Influence of soil pathogens on early regeneration success of tropical trees varies between forest edge and interior (2017) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Abiotic niche partitioning and negative density dependence drive tree seedling survival in a tropical forest" (2017) (0)
- Effects of the 2015-2016 El Niño on seedling dynamics across a rainfall gradient on Central Panama (2017) (0)
- INTERACTIONS IN A SUBTROPICAL WET FOREST: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY (2011) (0)
- Do experimental drought stress and species' drought sensitivity influence herbivory in tropical tree seedlings? (2022) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. (2012) (0)
- Widespread variation in functional trait‐vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings across a precipitation and soil phosphorus gradient (2022) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2011) (0)
- Woody plant species abundance, distribution, and survival in the seedling bank of a neotropical forest (2006) (0)
- Susceptibility to specialist natural enemies may be both the cause and consequence of rarity (2019) (0)
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