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- PhD Ecology University of Buenos Aires
- Masters Environmental Science University of Buenos Aires
- Bachelors Biology University of Buenos Aires
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, María Uriarte is an ecologist who specializes in the processes that drive tropical forest dynamics, especially after extreme weather events. She is currently a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science at Columbia University and serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Ecology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She conducts research primarily in Puerto Rico and Brazil and is associated with the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments tropics and ForestGeo research groups.
Maria Uriarte's Published Works
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- Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century (2010) (1208)
- ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models (2014) (1119)
- Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests (2016) (709)
- Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition (2015) (605)
- Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 (2009) (533)
- CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015) (467)
- Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics (2016) (402)
- Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world (2020) (381)
- DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation. (2015) (369)
- Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests (2015) (345)
- Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain. (1997) (327)
- A spatially explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: does the identity of neighbours matter? (2004) (306)
- Neighborhood analyses of canopy tree competition along environmental gradients in New England forests. (2006) (259)
- Global importance of large‐diameter trees (2018) (258)
- Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests (2019) (254)
- A NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS OF TREE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL IN A HURRICANE‐DRIVEN TROPICAL FOREST (2004) (243)
- Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art (2012) (203)
- Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly. (2010) (196)
- Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities (2012) (188)
- Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: a multi-scale analysis (2011) (188)
- The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession. (2014) (175)
- Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs (2018) (172)
- Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity. (2012) (171)
- Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of neotropical forests. (2017) (170)
- High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon (2011) (158)
- A Well-Resolved Phylogeny of the Trees of Puerto Rico Based on DNA Barcode Sequence Data (2014) (151)
- Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot (2010) (147)
- Integrating frugivory and animal movement: a review of the evidence and implications for scaling seed dispersal (2013) (145)
- Seedling recruitment in a hurricane‐driven tropical forest: light limitation, density‐dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees (2005) (145)
- Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator (2009) (143)
- Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests (2014) (142)
- The energy balance, evapo-transpiration and nocturnal dew deposition of an arid valley in the Andes (2006) (137)
- Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane‐impacted tropical forest (2009) (135)
- Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies? (2016) (134)
- Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon (2015) (127)
- Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks (2014) (126)
- Analysis of neighborhood dynamics of forest ecosystems using likelihood methods and modeling. (2006) (126)
- Natural regeneration in the context of large‐scale forest and landscape restoration in the tropics (2016) (121)
- Forest transitions: An introduction (2010) (114)
- Land-use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia (2013) (112)
- Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of modern range loss in large mammals (2011) (111)
- Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables? (2009) (111)
- Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability (2018) (111)
- Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local and regional scales. (2013) (105)
- Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time (2019) (103)
- Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia (2016) (103)
- Disentangling the drivers of reduced long-distance seed dispersal by birds in an experimentally fragmented landscape. (2011) (101)
- Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests (2018) (97)
- Interspecific Relationships among Growth, Mortality and Xylem Traits of Woody Species from New Zealand (2010) (96)
- Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms (2019) (92)
- Expansion of sugarcane production in São Paulo, Brazil: Implications for fire occurrence and respiratory health (2009) (86)
- North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability (2011) (84)
- Multispecies coexistence of trees in tropical forests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity (2013) (84)
- Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest. (2012) (83)
- ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2021) (78)
- Variation in Susceptibility to Hurricane Damage as a Function of Storm Intensity in Puerto Rican Tree Species (2010) (72)
- Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. (2015) (69)
- Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration (2018) (65)
- Effects of forest fragmentation on the seedling recruitment of a tropical herb: assessing seed vs. safe-site limitation. (2010) (63)
- A trait‐mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests (2016) (62)
- Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales (2011) (61)
- Hurricane Disturbance Alters Secondary Forest Recovery in Puerto Rico (2010) (59)
- Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico (2016) (56)
- Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021) (55)
- Long-lasting effects of land use history on soil fungal communities in second-growth tropical rain forests. (2016) (55)
- Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites (2015) (55)
- Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and distribution in a diverse Amazonian forest. (2018) (53)
- Linking spatial patterns of leaf litterfall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: a neighborhood approach. (2015) (51)
- Interactions between goldenrod (Solidago altissima L.) and its insect herbivore (Trirhabda virgata) over the course of succession (2000) (49)
- Constructing a Broader and More Inclusive Value System in Science (2007) (49)
- Life‐history trade‐offs during the seed‐to‐seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community (2013) (49)
- Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon (2012) (48)
- Incorporating natural regeneration in forest landscape restoration in tropical regions: synthesis and key research gaps (2016) (48)
- Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories (2016) (48)
- Statistical modeling of patterns in annual reproductive rates. (2019) (47)
- Improving predictions of tropical forest response to climate change through integration of field studies and ecosystem modeling (2018) (45)
- Landscape, Environmental and Social Predictors of Hantavirus Risk in São Paulo, Brazil (2016) (44)
- Spatially Explicit Metrics of Species Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Phylogenetic Diversity: Insights into Plant Community Assembly Processes (2017) (43)
- Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context (2019) (41)
- Hurricane-Induced Rainfall is a Stronger Predictor of Tropical Forest Damage in Puerto Rico Than Maximum Wind Speeds (2020) (41)
- Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees (2018) (40)
- Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia. (2014) (39)
- Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest (2017) (39)
- The Frequency of Cyclonic Wind Storms Shapes Tropical Forest Dynamism and Functional Trait Dispersion (2018) (39)
- Synchrony, compensatory dynamics, and the functional trait basis of phenological diversity in a tropical dry forest tree community: effects of rainfall seasonality (2016) (39)
- Interactive effects of land use history and natural disturbance on seedling dynamics in a subtropical forest. (2009) (38)
- Fragmentation increases wind disturbance impacts on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape. (2017) (37)
- Patch dynamics and community metastability of a subtropical forest: compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use (2010) (36)
- An allometry‐based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation (2016) (36)
- Fragmentation, forest structure, and topography modulate impacts of drought in a tropical forest landscape. (2019) (34)
- Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency (2020) (34)
- Trophic control across a natural productivity gradient with sap-feeding herbivores (1998) (33)
- The effect of agricultural diversity and crop choice on functional capacity change in grassland conversions (2011) (33)
- Human-Induced Trophic Cascades along the Fecal Detritus Pathway (2013) (33)
- Climate change and sugarcane expansion increase Hantavirus infection risk (2017) (32)
- The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees (2017) (32)
- A MODEL OF SIMULTANEOUS EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY AND HERBIVORE RESISTANCE IN A PERENNIAL PLANT (2002) (31)
- The interaction of land‐use legacies and hurricane disturbance in subtropical wet forest: twenty‐one years of change (2016) (31)
- Rapid remote sensing assessment of impacts from Hurricane Maria on forests of Puerto Rico (2018) (31)
- Perceptional and Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Household Drinking Water Management Strategies in Rural Puerto Rico (2014) (31)
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and natural enemies promote coexistence of tropical tree species. (2017) (31)
- The forest transition in São Paulo, Brazil: historical patterns and potential drivers (2018) (30)
- Coupling of fog and marine microbial content in the near-shore coastal environment (2011) (30)
- Local environmental pollution strongly influences culturable bacterial aerosols at an urban aquatic superfund site. (2012) (30)
- Reversals of Reforestation Across Latin America Limit Climate Mitigation Potential of Tropical Forests (2019) (29)
- Environmental controls on coastal coarse aerosols: implications for microbial content and deposition in the near-shore environment. (2011) (29)
- One size does not fit all: flexible models are required to understand animal movement across scales. (2011) (29)
- Asymmetric Dispersal and Colonization Success of Amazonian Plant-Ants Queens (2011) (28)
- Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata (2013) (28)
- Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence (2021) (28)
- Variation between individuals fosters regional species coexistence. (2018) (28)
- Moving forward in global-change ecology: capitalizing on natural variability (2013) (27)
- Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients (2016) (27)
- Interspecific Functional Convergence and Divergence and Intraspecific Negative Density Dependence Underlie the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Tropical Trees (2016) (27)
- Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional neighbourhood effects on tree survival and growth (2018) (26)
- Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon (2015) (25)
- Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species (2018) (25)
- Land Transitions in the Tropics: Going Beyond the Case Studies (2010) (23)
- Matchmaking and species marriage: A game-theory model of community assembly (2003) (23)
- Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: Neighbourhood effects on sapling growth and survival in a neotropical forest and the ecological-equivalence hypothesis (2005) (23)
- Interactions among mutualism, competition, and predation foster species coexistence in diverse communities (2015) (21)
- The advantage of the extremes: tree seedlings at intermediate abundance in a tropical forest have the highest richness of above‐ground enemies and suffer the most damage (2016) (20)
- Implications of vulnerability to hurricane damage for long-term survival of tropical tree species : a Bayesian hierarchical analysis (2008) (19)
- Decomposing recruitment limitation for an avian‐dispersed rain forest tree in an anciently fragmented landscape (2013) (18)
- Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments (2011) (18)
- Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (2021) (17)
- Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests (2020) (17)
- Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests (2021) (16)
- Abrupt Change in Forest Height along a Tropical Elevation Gradient Detected Using Airborne Lidar (2016) (16)
- Synthesis: Land Transitions in the Tropics (2010) (16)
- Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with tree successional status. (2018) (16)
- Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and post-drought periods. (2019) (15)
- Land‐use history augments environment–plant community relationship strength in a Puerto Rican wet forest (2016) (15)
- Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance. (2019) (14)
- Diameter growth performance of tree functional groups in Puerto Rican secondary tropical forests (2014) (13)
- Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon (2021) (12)
- Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities (2013) (10)
- Topography and Traits Modulate Tree Performance and Drought Response in a Tropical Forest (2020) (10)
- Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk (2021) (10)
- Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest (2018) (10)
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide (2021) (9)
- Tracking the Rates and Mechanisms of Canopy Damage and Recovery Following Hurricane Maria Using Multitemporal Lidar Data (2021) (8)
- Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery (2022) (8)
- Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world. (2022) (7)
- The scale dependency of trait‐based tree neighborhood models (2020) (7)
- Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understorey Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata (2009) (6)
- Corrigendum to "The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession" (2014) (6)
- Turnover rates of regenerated forests challenge restoration efforts in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (2022) (6)
- Climate change increases potential plant species richness on Puerto Rican uplands (2019) (6)
- Large‐scale, image‐based tree species mapping in a tropical forest using artificial perceptual learning (2020) (6)
- Consistency of demographic trade‐offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests (2022) (5)
- Ephemeral forest regeneration limits carbon sequestration potential in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2021) (5)
- Sharp differentiation on the performance of plant functional groups across natural edges (2018) (4)
- Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests. (2022) (4)
- Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in São Paulo, Brazil. (2021) (4)
- Native forest cover safeguards stream water quality under a changing climate. (2021) (4)
- Abundance-dependent effects of neighbourhood dissimilarity and growth rank reversal in a neotropical forest (2018) (4)
- Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. (2022) (3)
- Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests (2022) (3)
- Preaching to the unconverted. (2009) (3)
- Hurricanes increase tropical forest vulnerability to drought. (2022) (3)
- Leaf habit affects the distribution of drought sensitivity but not water transport efficiency in the tropics (2022) (2)
- Topography and Tree Species Improve Estimates of Spatial Variation in Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Subtropical Forest (2021) (2)
- Erratum to: Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests (Global Ecology and Biogeography, (2017), 26, 12, (1423-1434), 10.1111/geb.12668) (2017) (2)
- Consistency of demographic trade-offs across tropical forests (2021) (2)
- Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments (2021) (2)
- Climate and biodiversity effects on standing biomass in Puerto Rican forests (2016) (2)
- Forest cover lessens the impact of drought on streamflow in Puerto Rico (2022) (2)
- Microsatellite markers for the relict tree Aextoxicon punctatum: the only species in the Chilean endemic family Aextoxicaceae. (2011) (2)
- Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories (2021) (2)
- Author Correction: Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms (2019) (1)
- A Severe Hurricane Increases Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes and Triples Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Tropical Forest (2022) (1)
- Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico (2022) (1)
- Percolation threshold analyses can detect community assembly processes in simulated and natural tree communities (2021) (1)
- Coordination du numéro spécial de Land Use Policy 27(2): "Forest transitions - Wind power planning, landscapes and publics" (2010) (1)
- Large‐ and small‐seeded species have contrasting functional neighborhoods in a subtropical forest (2020) (1)
- Author Correction: Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs (2020) (1)
- Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs (2018) (0)
- Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests (2020) (0)
- PAPERS Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests (2015) (0)
- Fragmentation, topography, and forest age modulate impacts of drought on a tropical forested landscape in eastern Puerto Rico (2017) (0)
- Impact of hurricanes on light regime and biomass in tropic forest ecosystems: Puerto Rico as showcase (2009) (0)
- Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests (2023) (0)
- Author Correction: Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms (2019) (0)
- A Wetter Brahmaputra River with Greater Flood Risk (2019) (0)
- Hurricane-Induced Rainfall is a Stronger Predictor of Tropical Forest Damage in Puerto Rico Than Maximum Wind Speeds (2020) (0)
- Land-use legacies and extreme events interact to shape species composition in a secondary tropical forest (2018) (0)
- Author response for "Percolation threshold analyses can detect community assembly processes in simulated and natural tree communities" (2021) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Abundance-dependent effects of neighbourhood dissimilarity and growth rank reversal in a neotropical forest" (2018) (0)
- Aspects of the climate of the Elqui valley (2004) (0)
- Artificial Perceptual Learning: Image Categorization with Weak Supervision (2021) (0)
- Spatially Explicit Measures of Species, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity: Insights into Community Assembly Processes (2016) (0)
- Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time (2019) (0)
- Exploration of in-situ light and biomass estimation by digital hemispherical photography in tropical forests (2009) (0)
- Author Correction: Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs (2020) (0)
- Seasonal reconstructions of Brahmaputra River discharge and applications for monsoon flooding risk (2019) (0)
- ICLE Tropical reforestation and climate change : beyond carbon (2015) (0)
- Which functional traits best predict climate impacts on tropical tree growth and survival (2013) (0)
- INTERACTIONS IN A SUBTROPICAL WET FOREST: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY (2011) (0)
- Unmasking the story behind forest carbon flux : an integrated remote-sensing based approach (2018) (0)
- Topography and traits modulate drought effects on tree growth in a tropical second-growth forest (2016) (0)
- Heat vs. dryness influence on photosynthesis assessed using solar-induced fluorescence (2018) (0)
- Demographic trade-offs and functional shifts in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest. (2023) (0)
- Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees (2018) (0)
- Interactions among mutualism, competition, and predation foster species coexistence in diverse communities (2015) (0)
- Five Centuries of Tree Ring Reconstructed Streamflow and Projections for Future Water Risk over the Upper Indus Watershed (2017) (0)
- Seeing the forest for the streams: a multiscale analysis of land use change and the integrity of freshwater ecosystems in the southeastern Amazon (2012) (0)
- Assessment of the impact of hurricanes on light regime and biomass in tropical forest ecocsystems: a Puerto Rico case-study (2009) (0)
- Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms (2019) (0)
- Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests 1 2 (2015) (0)
- Power clashes limit science and reflect archaic values (2006) (0)
- Achieving sustainable water and land use systems in highly developed tropical landscapes (2022) (0)
- Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest (2022) (0)
- IMPACTS OF DROUGHT LEGACIES ON TREE DEMOGRAPHY AND SUCCESSIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF TROPICAL FORESTS (2015) (0)
- Teixeira GCB 2014 Suppinfo (2014) (0)
- The growth−survival and stature−recruitment trade-offs structure the majority of tropical forests. (2021) (0)
- Improving predictions of carbon fluxes in the tropics undre climatic changes using ED2 (2016) (0)
- Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests (2018) (0)
- Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees (2023) (0)
- Incorporating SST seasonal forecast into drought and fire predictions in western Amazon (2011) (0)
- TREE CROWN OVERLAP IMPROVES PREDICTIONS OF THE FUNCTIONAL 15 NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON TREE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH 16 17 (2018) (0)
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