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- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Ecology Stanford University
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- TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011) (2118)
- On the definition of ecological species groups in tropical rain forests (1988) (1005)
- Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests (2009) (972)
- TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access (2019) (687)
- The dynamics of tree populations in tropical forest: a review (1987) (409)
- Distribution and Ecology of Vascular Plants in a Tropical Rain Forest. Forest Vegetation in Ghana. (1981) (389)
- Classification and ecology of closed-canopy forest in Ghana. (1976) (347)
- Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020) (343)
- Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014) (308)
- DISPERSAL PATTERNS AND SEED BANK DYNAMICS OF PIONEER TREES IN MOIST TROPICAL FOREST (1998) (248)
- Characteristics of dry forest in West Africa and the influence of fire (1992) (243)
- Rainfall and soil fertility as factors limiting forest species distributions in Ghana (1996) (228)
- Distribution and ecology of vascular plants in a tropical rain forest (1981) (225)
- Early succession on cleared forest land in Ghana. (1983) (225)
- Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana. (2012) (210)
- Interpreting China's Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (2000) (195)
- Use of hemispherical photographs in forest ecology: measurement of gap size and radiation totals in a Bornean tropical rain forest (1993) (184)
- Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (1984) (179)
- The ecology of tropical forest tree seedlings (1996) (178)
- Tree population dynamics at Kade, Ghana (1968-1982) (1987) (162)
- Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests (2020) (142)
- Differences in plant and soil water relations in and around a forest gap in West Africa during the dry season may influence seedling establishment and survival (1996) (141)
- Soil seed bank community dynamics in seasonally moist lowland tropical forest, Panama (1997) (140)
- Effect of light on the germination of forest trees in Ghana (1999) (138)
- Variation in tropical forest growth rates: combined effects of functional group composition and resource availability (2003) (137)
- The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α‐diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? (2007) (133)
- Seed Stocks in Ghanaian Forest Soils (1980) (131)
- Seed Dispersal by Baboons in the Shai Hills, Ghana (1979) (131)
- The effects of fire exclusion on savanna vegetation at Kpong, Ghana (1992) (129)
- A re-assessment of a fire protection experiment in north-eastern Ghana savanna. (1980) (120)
- African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2002) (112)
- The mosaic theory of forest regeneration and the determination of forest composition in Ghana (1988) (106)
- Structure and dynamics of a tropical dry forest in Ghana (1990) (104)
- Associations between tree growth, soil fertility and water availability at local and regional scales in Ghanaian tropical rain forest (2003) (103)
- Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests (2016) (101)
- Transient facilitative effects of heather on Scots pine along a grazing disturbance gradient in Scottish moorland (2006) (96)
- Lianas may be favoured by low rainfall: evidence from Ghana (2007) (96)
- Germination and Growth of Colonizing Species in Artificial Gaps of Different Sizes in Dipterocarp Rain Forest (1992) (93)
- Geological Substrates Shape Tree Species and Trait Distributions in African Moist Forests (2012) (91)
- Diversity distribution and floristic differentiation of the coastal lowland vegetation: implications for the conservation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2010) (90)
- Rain forest seed dynamics during succession at Gogol, Papua New Guinea (1988) (87)
- The influence of spatial patterns of damping‐off disease and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on tree seedling establishment in Ghanaian tropical forest soil (2004) (82)
- Grouping species for predicting mixed tropical forest dynamics: looking for a strategy (2005) (81)
- Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests (2014) (77)
- Phenological differences in tree water use and the timing of tropical forest inventories: conclusions from patterns of dry season diameter change (2002) (76)
- Effect of soil depth on seedling emergence in tropical soil seed-bank investigations (1995) (76)
- The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset (2015) (75)
- Factors affecting the natural regeneration of Quercus in Scottish oakwoods. I. Competition from Pteridium aquilinum (1997) (74)
- China’s Assertive Behavior – Part Two: The Maritime Periphery (2011) (74)
- Biochemical systematics and ecology of the toddalioideae in the central part of the West African forest zone (1978) (73)
- Population dynamics of trees in dipterocarp forests of Peninsular Malaysia. (1994) (71)
- Above- and below-ground competition between the liana Acacia kamerunensis and tree seedlings in contrasting light environments (2008) (69)
- Distribution and Ecology of Vascular Plants in a Tropical Rainforest. Forest Vegetation in Ghana (1982) (64)
- Interpreting China's Grand Strategy (2000) (59)
- A new insight in the structure, composition and functioning of central African moist forests (2014) (58)
- Factors affecting the natural regeneration of Quercus in Scottish oakwoods. II. Insect defoliation of trees and seedlings (1997) (55)
- Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021) (55)
- An application of principal components analysis to vegetation change in permanent plots (1980) (54)
- Population dynamics of tree species in tropical forests (1989) (54)
- Modelling growing space requirements for some tropical forest tree species (2003) (51)
- Taller trees, denser stands and greater biomass in semi-deciduous than in evergreen lowland central African forests (2016) (47)
- Enhanced Tree Recruitment Following Logging in Two Forest Reserves in Ghana (2008) (42)
- Effect of lianas on tree regeneration in gaps and forest understorey in a tropical forest in Ghana (2008) (42)
- America's Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-First Century (2011) (40)
- Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework About Societal Evolution (1996) (39)
- The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles (2012) (38)
- Effects of drought on isolates of Bradyrhizobium elkanii cultured from Albizia adianthifolia seedlings of different provenances (2007) (37)
- Effects of drought on isolates of Bradyrhizobium elkanii cultured from Albizia adianthifolia seedlings of different provenances (2007) (37)
- Trouble in Taiwan (2004) (36)
- Predicting alpha diversity of African rain forests: models based on climate and satellite‐derived data do not perform better than a purely spatial model (2011) (36)
- ON THE THEORY OF EXPLOSIVELY DISPERSED SEEDS (1977) (35)
- Seasonal changes in pasture biomass, production and offtake under the transhumance system in northern Pakistan (2006) (33)
- Can harvesting for timber in tropical forest enhance timber tree regeneration (2014) (33)
- Forest climbing plants of West Africa: introduction (2005) (33)
- Can harvesting for timber in tropical forest enhance timber tree regeneration (2014) (33)
- China: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy (1995) (33)
- What is forest (1981) (30)
- Japan and Ballistic Missile Defense (2001) (27)
- Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa (2020) (26)
- Managing Sino-American crises : case studies and analysis (2006) (26)
- Biomass allocation and photosynthetic responses of lianas and pioneer tree seedlings to light (2008) (26)
- Natural Regeneration Dynamics of Tree Seedlings on Skid Trails and Tree Gaps Following Selective Logging in a Tropical Moist Semi-Deciduous Forest in Ghana (2014) (25)
- Distribution and ecology of vascular plants in a tropical rain forest (2004) (25)
- Forest river plants and water quality in Ghana (2006) (23)
- Seasonal and long‐term soil water regime in West African tropical forest (1996) (22)
- China’s Military and the U.S.-Japan Alliance in 2030: A Strategic Net Assessment (2013) (22)
- Root hemiparasitism in a West African rainforest tree Okoubaka aubrevillei (Santalaceae) (1996) (22)
- The Military and Political Succession in China: Leadership, Institutions, Beliefs (1995) (21)
- Effect of three species of climber on the performance of Ceiba pentandra seedlings in gaps in a tropical forest in Ghana (2007) (20)
- A New Strategy and Fewer Forces: The Pacific Dimension (1992) (20)
- Taiwan's national security, defense policy, and weapons procurement processes (1999) (20)
- Effects of Fencing and Ground Preparation on Natural Regeneration of Native Pinewood over 12 years in Glen Tanar, Aberdeenshire (1991) (19)
- Taiwan's foreign and defense policies : features and determinants (2001) (19)
- The Role of the Chinese Military in National Security Policymaking. Revised Edition (1996) (18)
- Climate seasonality limits carbon assimilation and storage in tropical forests (2016) (18)
- An early holocene leaf flora from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana (1978) (18)
- Is a Regional Strategy Viable in Afghanistan (2010) (17)
- A sharp floristic discontinuity revealed by the biogeographic regionalization of African savannas (2018) (17)
- China and Arms Control Institutions (1999) (16)
- ON THE THEORY OF EXPLOSIVELY DISPERSED SEEDS: A CORRECTION. (1979) (15)
- Chinese Decision-Making Regarding Taiwan, 1979-2000 (2002) (14)
- Woody life-form composition and association on rainfall and soil fertility gradients in Ghana (1999) (13)
- CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (2011) (13)
- THE ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION OF BORNEAN NEPENTHES (2001) (12)
- Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer (1984) (10)
- The African rain forest - main characteristics of changes in vegetation and climate from the Upper Cretaceous to the Quaternary (1996) (10)
- Small-scale natural forest management: a new model for small farmers in the Brazilian Amazon. (1998) (10)
- Chinese National Security Decisionmaking Under Stress (2014) (9)
- Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia, edited by Robert S. Ross and Øystein Tunsjø. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. v+304 pp. US$89.95 (paper). (2018) (9)
- Population genetic structure of Milicia speciescharacterised by using RAPD and nucleotide sequencing L. (2001) (9)
- The PLA and Chinese National Security Policy: Leaderships, Structures, Processes (1996) (9)
- Climbing plants in Ghanaian forests (2005) (9)
- A Counterproductive Cold War With China (2018) (8)
- Assessing the threat : the Chinese military and Taiwan's security (2007) (8)
- Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients (2022) (7)
- Deterring Conflict In The Taiwan Strait: The Successes and Failures of Taiwan’s Defense Reform and Modernization Program (2004) (7)
- Seedlings, saplings and tree temperaments : potential for agroforestry in the African rain forest (1996) (7)
- Stilt Roots and Ephemeral Germination Sites (1983) (6)
- The response of Albizia adianthifolia to Rhizobium and Nitrogen in forest-grown and greenhouse grown seedlings (2007) (6)
- The response of Albizia adianthifolia to Rhizobium and Nitrogen in forest-grown and greenhouse grown seedlings (2007) (6)
- Does China Have a Grand Strategy (2000) (6)
- The real challenge in the Pacific. (2015) (6)
- Dissecting the difference in tree species richness between Africa and South America (2022) (5)
- Rheophytes of Ghana (1996) (5)
- Can gap creation by red deer enhance the establishment of birch (Betula pubescens)? Experimental results within Calluna- and Molinia-dominated vegetation at Creag Meagaidh. (2000) (5)
- The ecological impacts of a migratory bat aggregation on its seasonal roost in Kasanka National Park, Zambia (2010) (5)
- NBR ANALYSIS VOLUME 13 , NUMBER 3 , JUNE 2002 Ballistic Missiles and Missile Defense in Asia (2002) (4)
- Taiwan's foreign and defense policies (2001) (4)
- Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Strategic Net Assessment (2015) (4)
- An application of ordination to the identification of forest types (1976) (4)
- Reproductive biology of the critically endangered tropical tree Talbotiella gentii (2015) (3)
- Preface – A tribute volume for the late Dr T.C. Whitmore (2003) (3)
- Zonation of a coastal grassland in Ghana, West Africa (1979) (3)
- Calcium and potassium levels in leaves measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis (1982) (3)
- Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests: Implications for the global carbon cycle (2009) (3)
- Sustainable Forest Management for Smallholder Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon (2011) (3)
- Population genetic structure of Milicia species characterised by using RAPD and nucleotide sequencing (3)
- Taiwan's Management of Relations with the United States During the First Chen Shui-bian Administration (2005) (2)
- Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020) (2)
- Talbotiella gentii: genetic variation and conservation (2014) (2)
- Descriptions of forest types (1981) (2)
- Turbo prolog: The language (1986) (2)
- Rebalancing United States – China Relations (2)
- BASKIN, C.C. & BASKIN, J.M. 1998. Seeds. Ecology, biogeography, and evolution of dormancy and germination. Academic Press, San Diego. xiv + 666 pages. ISBN 0-12-080260 (hardback). Price £69.95. (1999) (1)
- America's Challenge (2012) (1)
- Calling Apple's bluff (1991) (1)
- Improve the characterization of tropical forests to improve management: policy brief (2014) (1)
- J. Borota 1991. Tropical forests. Some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure . Elsevier, Amsterdam, xii + 274 pages. ISBN 0-444-98768-1. Price: US$ 120.00/Dfl 210 (hardback). (1991) (1)
- Tropical rain forest : disturbance and recovery : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 18 and 19 September 1991 (1992) (1)
- Chapter 6. Taiwan’s Defense Reforms and Military Modernization Program: Objectives, Achievements, and Obstacles (2005) (1)
- Rheophytes of Africa – A review (1999) (1)
- A New Strategy and Fewer Forces (1992) (1)
- The open programmer (1993) (1)
- Species identification of morphologically similar tropical dolphins and estimating group size using aerial imagery in coastal waters (2022) (1)
- Multimedia and the art (or science?) of UI design (1992) (1)
- T. C. Whitmore 1984. Tropical rain forests of the Far East . (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, Oxford. 352 + xvi pages. ISBN 0-19-854136-8. Price: £40.00 (hardback only). (1985) (1)
- The effects of altitude on birch seed germinability at Creag Meagaidh, Scottish Highlands. (2000) (1)
- A CHAT WITH BOB BEMER (1998) (1)
- Programming paradigms: Faux fear (2002) (1)
- The past and future of computer programming (1990) (1)
- Programming paradigms: two early neural net implementations (1989) (1)
- Pasture productivity and utilisation. (2005) (1)
- Building Xanadu (1991) (1)
- Distribution maps with notes on morphology, taxonomy, chorology, ecology and utilisation (1981) (1)
- Low genetic diversity and high genetic differentiation among severely fragmented populations of the critically endangered tree Talbotiella gentii (Fabaceae) (2011) (1)
- Chinese Regional Forces as Political Actors (2021) (1)
- Where Taiwan Support Stops (2003) (0)
- The Lemon Tree (2011) (0)
- Forest structure and physiognomy (1981) (0)
- Swaine's flames: E-mails of the fortune five million, #1 (2002) (0)
- Programming paradigms: I almost get a Linux editor and compiler (2001) (0)
- Programing paradigms (1990) (0)
- Swaine's flames: the case of the inside man (2002) (0)
- Diversity of Poisonous Plants and their Antidotes, Affecting Ruminant Livestock Production on Rangelands in Ghana (2021) (0)
- Taiwan's National Security: Dilemmas and Opportunities. Alexander C. Tan , Steve Chan , Calvin Jillson (2003) (0)
- Explaining and predicting the impact of global change on forest biodiversity in the Congo Basin: the CoForChange project (2010) (0)
- 12. China’s Regional Military Posture (2019) (0)
- SHOW ME THE PATTERN (1998) (0)
- Swaine's flames: flaw and order (2001) (0)
- THE LONG VIEW (1999) (0)
- Programming paradigms: beautiful math (2002) (0)
- A conversation with Robert Carr: part II (1991) (0)
- Biogeography and evolutionary ecology of the woody flora in tropical Africa (2019) (0)
- Programming paradigms: back to the future (2001) (0)
- Every install is five-sevenths stall (2001) (0)
- Variation and classification of forest (1981) (0)
- K. A. Longman & J. Jeník 1987. Tropical forest and its environment (2nd ed.). Tropical Ecology Series, Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow, Essex (co-published by John Wiley, New York). 347 pages. ISBN 0-582-44678-3 (hardback only). Price: £17.95 (1988) (0)
- Programming paradigms: digital hubbub and wayback machine (2002) (0)
- Finding the key to the mini-bar (1993) (0)
- Programming paradigms: a conversation with Bill Duvall (1991) (0)
- LITTLE ENGINES THAT COULD (1999) (0)
- THE PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS OF LA BAMBA (1998) (0)
- Terms of Reference Ecological Impacts of Logging Social Impacts of Logging (2014) (0)
- Stephen Wolfram: multiparadigm man (1993) (0)
- Visitors from the east (1992) (0)
- The living room and other markets (1992) (0)
- Impact of Communication Infrastructure Development on Livestock Density and Forage Use under the Transhumance System in Northern Pakistan (2007) (0)
- China's Military and the Upcoming Succession Struggle (1993) (0)
- Dr. Dobb's Essential Hypertalk Handbook (1988) (0)
- LET THE FIN BEGIN (1999) (0)
- Author, author! (1990) (0)
- Confessions and conversations (1992) (0)
- Mapping methods and map format (1981) (0)
- REALbasic for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (2002) (0)
- Effects of climate and soil on the distribution and regeneration of timber tree species in Ghana. Final report (1996) (0)
- Quantifying tree species shade tolerance (2012) (0)
- The first programmer (1992) (0)
- Swaine's flames: the taxidermist and the flapper (2001) (0)
- H. Balslev (ed.). 1993. Neotropical montane forests. Biodiversity and conservation. AUU Reports Aarhus University. 114 pages. ISBN 87-87600-40-4. Price: 78 DKK, US$13 (paperback). (1994) (0)
- Programming paradigms: a quantum computer and a scripting studio (2002) (0)
- Programming paradigms: other worlds (2001) (0)
- How to be a tree in a tropical rain forest (2003) (0)
- S. H. Bullock, H. A. Mooney & E. Medina (eds) 1995. Seasonally dry tropical forests . Cambridge University Press, xvii + 450pp. Hardback. ISBN 0 521 43514 5. Price £65.00. (1997) (0)
- The Okinawa Question and the US-Japan Alliance: Factoring in Japanese Domestic Politics and Debates (2011) (0)
- China's Military: The PLA in 1992-1993 . Chief Editor Richard H. Yang. [Taipei: Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, 1993. 204 pp. ISBN 0-8133-8787-6.] (1994) (0)
- Multi-Disciplinary Detail on Rain Forest Recovery (1992) (0)
- Programming paradigms: how a no-nonsense hardware engineer came to embrace the parapsychology of artificial intelligence (1989) (0)
- Who's Who in the Chinese Government. By Jacques de Goldfiem, translated by Marie-France Trojani. [Jouy-en-Josas, France: HEC Eurasia Institute, 1992. 151 pp. ISBN 2 909586 06 5.] (1993) (0)
- Programming paradigms: OOPSLA '89: fourth down and goal to go (1989) (0)
- The Death of the Macintosh (1989) (0)
- ROOTING FOR THE LITTLE GUY (1998) (0)
- BLARNEY AND STEVE JOBS (1999) (0)
- Programming paradigms: a language without a name: Part II. (1991) (0)
- LEO AND THE LIZARDS (1998) (0)
- The Policy Analyst and Historical Perspectives: Notes of a Practitioner (2009) (0)
- The problems of parallelism (1986) (0)
- Roll over, Kemeny and Kurtz (2001) (0)
- Programming paradigms: background on Backprop (1989) (0)
- HILL CLIMBING AND OTHER ALGORITHMS (1998) (0)
- Programming paradigms: windows and gates (1991) (0)
- MODULE 1 Species conservation strategies Case study 1 . 2 Talbotiella gentii : genetic variation and conservation (2014) (0)
- Swaine's flames: the geek girls and the big-Endian conspiracy (2001) (0)
- African Forest Conservation (2002) (0)
- Everything becomes irrelevant (1992) (0)
- Swaine's flames: falling in place (2002) (0)
- Swaine's flames (1991) (0)
- Understanding multimedia (1992) (0)
- SUN DREAMS OF JINI (1998) (0)
- S. Rehm & G. Espig 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and sub-tropics (translated by G. McNamara & C. Ernsting). Verlay Josef Margraf, Germany, viii + 552 pages. ISBN 3-8236-1169-0. Price: DM49.00 (hardback). (1992) (0)
- Regeneration in felling gaps after logging in Acre state, Western Amazon. (2002) (0)
- Programming paradigms: size matters (2001) (0)
- Annual Staunton Hill Conference on China's People Liberation Army (PLA) (2nd) Held in Staunton Hill, Virginia on September 6 - 8, 1991 (1991) (0)
- The real meaning of the Apple-IBM deal (1991) (0)
- Light requirements and drought tolerance : Experiments launched in Pointe-Noire (2010) (0)
- Programming paradigms: the cyberspace amendment (1991) (0)
- Utilisation and conservation of Ghanaian forest (1981) (0)
- Swaine's flames: the pickle and the printout (2002) (0)
- CHANGE IS GOOD, BUT FOLDING MONEY IS BETTER (2000) (0)
- Programming paradigms: Parker's perceptions (1989) (0)
- Distribution of some important timber species (1981) (0)
- Programming paradigms: nasal nets (1989) (0)
- The conservation atlas of tropical forests: Africa: edited by J.A. Sayer, C.S. Harcourt, and N.M. Collins, Macmillan, 1992. £75.00 hbk (vii t 288 pages) ISBN 0 333 57757 4 (1993) (0)
- Programming paradigms: strategy and secrecy (2002) (0)
- Conversation with Stephen Wolfram (1993) (0)
- FAIRHEAD, J. & LEACH, M. 1998. reframing deforestation. global analyses and local realities: studies in West Africa. Routledge, London. pp. xxv + 238. ISBN 0-415-18591-2. Paperback £17.99. (1998) (0)
- REBOL AND E-MAIL SERVICES (2000) (0)
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