Publications

Note: [*Uriarte lab Student or ¥Postdoctoral researcher lead author or co-author]

2026
  • Xu et al. Mechanisms and scales in modeling forest responses to changing disturbance regimes. New Phytologist.  PDF
  • Tavares et al. Wood anatomical trait correlations with hydraulic efficiency and safety in an aseasonal wet tropical forest. Functional Ecology.  PDF
  • Li et al. Higher-order interactions enhance the latitudinal tree diversity gradient. Nature.  PDF
  • ¥*Boeschoten et al. Tree growth after a major hurricane reflects pre-disturbance vigor rather than canopy damage. PNAS. PDF
  • Xu et al. The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity. Nature.  PDF
  • ¥Boeschoten et al. All reforestation methods can support tropical tree diversity recovery, but drivers and species composition vary. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Han et al. Taller trees experienced less crown damage during a severe hurricane in a tropical forest. Global Change Biology. PDF
 
2025
  • Lim et al. Socioeconomic and land use drivers of weedy grass infestation in the Peruvian Amazon. Global Regional Environmental Change. PDF
  • Cooley et al. Global “Climate Opportunity Benefit” of forest regeneration: Meta-analysis shows warming from soil CH4 and N2O is small relative to agriculture. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. PDF
  • *Arroyo et al. Intraspecific trait variation in tree species responds to environmental heterogeneity at range-wide but not local scales. Ecology and Evolution. PDF
  • Borràs Sayas et al. Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities. PNAS. PDF
  • Lu et al. A spatio-temporal model of embolism propagation in leaf vein networks. AoBP. PDF
  • Gao et al. The importance of distinguishing between natural and managed tree cover gains in the moist tropics. Nature Communications. PDF
  • *Ankori-Karlinsky et al. Wind acclimation in a subtropical forest: trees on wind-exposed slopes are shorter with smaller crowns. New Phytologist. PDF
  • Kambach et al. Putting seedlings on the map: Trade-offs in demographic rates between ontogenetic size classes in five tropical forests. Ecology. PDF
2024
  • Journé et al. The relationship between maturation size and maximum tree size from topical to boreal climates. Ecology Letters. PDF
  • Sande et al. Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness. Global Ecology and Biogeography. PDF
  • Hall et al. Forest cover lessens hurricane impacts on peak streamflow. Hydrological Processes. PDF
  • Ibanez et al. Damage to tropical forest caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Leite et al. Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. Ecography. PDF
  • Matlaga et al. Survival, growth, and functional traits of tropical wet forest tree seedlings across an experimental soil moisture gradient in Puerto Rico. Ecology and Evolution. PDF
  • Hülsmann et al. Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities. Nature. PDF
  • *Ankori-Karlinsky et al. Chronic winds reduce tropical forest structural complexity regardless of climate, topography, or forest age. Ecosystems. PDF
2023
  • Qiu et al. Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants. PDF
  • Medina-Vega et al. Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil nutrients. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
  • Chatzopoulos et al. Height-diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forests dynmaics in forests of Puerto Rico. Biotropica. PDF
  • McElwee, P.D., S.L. Carter, K.J.W. Hyde, J.M. West, K. Akamani, A.L. Babson, G. Bowser, J.B. Bradford, J.K. Costanza, T.M. Crimmins, S.C. Goslee, S.K. Hamilton, B. Helmuth, S. Hoagland, F.-A.E. Hoover, M.E. Hunsicker, R. Kashuba, S.A. Moore, R.C. Muñoz, G. Shrestha, M. Uriarte, and J.L. Wilkening, 2023:  Ch8. Ecosystems, ecosystem services, and biodiversity. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 1–xxx. https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA5.2023.CH8 PDF
  • Bruna et al. Demography of the understory herb Heliconia acuminata (Heliconiaceae) in an experimentally fragmented tropical landscape. Ecology. PDF
  • Uriarte et al. 20th-Century Hurricanes leave long-lasting legacies on tropical forest height and the abundance of a dominant wind-resistant palm. Ecology and Evolution. PDF
  • Delavaux et al. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology. PDF
  • *Ziemińska et al. Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane. Functional Ecology. PDF
  • ¥Smith-Martin, et al., Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability. Ecology Letters. PDF
  • Umaña et al., Demographic trade-offs and functional shifts in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest. Annals of Botany. PDF
  • Bogdziewicz et al., Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography. PDF
2022
  • ¥Smith-Martin, et al., Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest. Functional Ecology. PDF
  • ¥Vargas G., G., et al., Leaf habit affects the distribution of drought sensitivity but not water transport efficiency in the tropics. Ecology Letters. PDF
  • *Quebbeman, A. W., D.N. L. Menge, G. Arellano, J. Hall, T. E. Wood, J. K. Zimmerman, & M. Uriarte. A Severe Hurricane Increases Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes and Triples Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Tropical Forest. Ecosystems. PDF
  • Martinuzzi, S. et al. Patterns and controls on island-wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second-growth forests of Puerto Rico. Biotropica. PDF
  • *¥Piffer, P. R., L. R. Tambosi, & M. Uriarte. Achieving sustainable water and land use systems in highly developed tropical landscapes. Environmental Research Letters. PDF
  • Qiu et al. Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications. PDF
  • ¥Smith-Martin et al. Hurricanes increase tropical forest vulnerability to drought. New Phytologist. PDF
  • Kambach et al. Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 sub tropical forests. Journal of Ecology. PDF
  • *Hall J., M. School, Y. Gorokhovich, and M. Uriarte. Forest cover lessens the impact of drought on streamflow in Puerto Rico. Hydrological Processes. PDF
  • Journé, V et al. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters. PDF
  • *¥Piffer, P. R., M. R. Rosa, L. R. Tambosi, J. P. Metzger & M. Uriarte. Turnover rates of regenerated forests challenge restoration efforts in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Environmental Research Letters. PDF
  • Press: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/as-large-areas-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-regenerate-the-gains-dont-last/
  • Press: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/03/18/regrown-tropical-forests-may-have-short-lifespans-says-new-study/
  • Press: https://abori.com.br/ambiente/novos-desmatamentos-de-areas-em-regeneracao-desafiam-esforcos-de-restauracao-na-mata-atlantica/
  • Needham, J.F. et al. Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Piponiot, C. et al. Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world. New Phytologist. PDF
2021
  • *Poorter, L. et al. Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests. PNAS. PDF
  • *¥Piffer, P. R., A. Calaboni, M. R. Rosa, N. B. Schwartz, L. R. Tambosi & M. Uriarte. Ephemeral forest regeneration limits carbon sequestration potential in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Scott, E. R., M. Uriarte & E. M. Bruna. Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Leitold, V., D. C. Morton, S. Martinuzzi, I. Paynter, M. Uriarte, M. Keller, A. Ferraz, B. D. Cook, L. A. Corp & G. González. Tracking the rates and mechanisms of canopy damage and recovery following hurricane Maria using multitemporal Lidar data. Ecosystems. PDF
  • Qiu, T. et al. Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. PNAS. PDF
  • Press: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/09/07/for-big-old-trees-its-a-downhill-slide-when-it-comes-to-reproduction/
  • *¥Piffer, P. R., L. R. Tambosi, S. F. B. Ferraz, J. P. Metzger & M. Uriarte. Native forest cover safeguards stream water quality under a changing climate. Ecological Applications. PDF
  • *Quebbeman, A. W., R. Davis, J. Thompson, J. Zimmerman & M. Uriarte. Percolation threshold analyses can detect community assembly processes in simulated and natural tree communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. PDF
  • *Quebbeman, A. W., D. N. L. Menge, J. Zimmerman & M. Uriarte. Topography and tree species improve estimates of spatial variation in soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a subtropical forest. Ecosystems. PDF
  • *Valero, N. N. H., P. Prist & M. Uriarte. Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in São Paulo, Brazil. Science of Total Environment. PDF
  • Blundo, C. et al. Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation. PDF
  • Heilpern, S.A., R. DeFries, K. Fiorella, A.S. Flecker, S.A. Sethi, M. Uriarte & S. Naeem. Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk. Science Advances. PDF
  • Press: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/declining-fish-biodiversity-in-peruvian-amazon-affecting-human-nutrition/
  • Zhong, Y. J. et al. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature Communications. PDF
  • Wills, C., B. Wang, S. Fang, Y. Wang, Y. Jin, J. Lutz, J. Thompson, K.E. Harms, S. Pulla, B. Pasion, S. Germain, H. Liu, J. Smokey, S. Su, N. Butt, C. Chu, G. Chuyong, C. Chang-Yang, H. S. Dattaraja, S. Davies, S. Ediriweera, S. Esufali, C.D. Fletcher, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, C. Hsieh, F. He, S. Hubbell, Z. Hao, A. Itoh, D. Kenfack, B. Li, X. Li, K. Ma, M. Morecroft, X. Mi, Y. Malhi, P. Ong, L.J. Rodriguez, H.S. Suresh, I.F. Sun, R. Sukumar, S. Tan, D. Thomas, M. Uriarte, X. Wang, X. Wang, T.L. Yao, J. Zimmermann. 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. PLOS Computational Biology. PDF
  • Heilpern, S.A., K. Fiorella, C. Cañas, A.S. Flecker, L. Moya, S. Naeem, S.A. Sethi,  M. Uriarte & R. DeFries. Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon. Nature Food. PDF
  • Tang, C., M. Uriarte, H. Jin, D.C Morton & T. Zheng. Large-scale, image-based tree species mapping in a tropical forest using artificial perceptual learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. PDF
  • Davies, S. J. et al. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation. PDF
2020
2019
  • *Valero, N. N. H. & M. Uriarte. Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors associated with visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic review. Parasitology Research. PDF
  • *Khalyani, A. H., W. A. Gould, M. J. Falkowski, R. Muscarella, M. Uriarte & F. Yousef. Climate Change increases potential plant species richness on Puerto Rican uplands. Climatic Change. PDF
  • *Muscarella, R., S. Kolyaie, D. C. Morton, J. K. Zimmerman, M. Uriarte. Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context. Journal of Ecology. PDF
  • Chen, Y., M. Uriarte, S. J. Wright and S. Yu. Effects of neighborhood trait composition on tree survival differ between drought and postdrought periods. Ecology. PDF
  • Brooks, M. E., K. Kristensen, M. R. Darrigo, P. Rubim, M. Uriarte, E. Bruna and B. M. Bolker. Statistical modeling of patterns in annual reproductive rates. Ecology. PDF
  • *Schwartz, N. B., A. M. Budsock and M. Uriarte. Fragmentation, forest structure, and topography modulate impacts of drought in a tropical forest landscape. Ecology. PDF
  • *Poorter, L., D. M. A. Rozendaal, F. Bongers, J. S. Almeida-Cortez, A. M. A. Zambrano, F. S. Alvarez, J. L. Andrade, L. F. A. Villa, P. Balvanera, J. M. Becknell, T. V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar, V. Boukili, P. H. S. Brancalion, E. N. Broadbent, R. G. Cesar, J. Chave, R. L. Chazdon, G. D. Colletta, D. Craven, B. H. J. Jong, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S. J. DeWalt, E. D. García, J. M. Dupuy, S. M. Durán, M. M. Espírito-Santo, M. C. Fandiño, G. W. Fernandes, B. Finegan, V. G. Moser, J. S. Hall, J. L. Hernández-Stefanoni, C. C. Jakovac, A. B. Junqueira,
    D. Kennard, E. Lebrija-Trejos, S. G. Letcher, M. Lohbeck, O. R. Lopez, E. Marín-Spiotta, M. Martínez-Ramos, S. V. Martins, P. E. S. Massoca, J. A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, V. S. Moreno, S. C. Müller, R. Muñoz, R. Muscarella, S. N. O. Neto, Y. R. F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona , H. Paz, M. Peña-Claros, D. Piotto, J. Ruíz, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N. B. Schwartz, M. K. Steininger, W. W. Thomas , M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, L. P. Utrera, M. van Breugel, M. T. van der Sande , H. van der Wal, M. D. M. Veloso, H. F. M. Vester, I. C. G. Vieira, P. M. Villa, G. B. Williamson, S. J. Wright, K. J. Zanini, J. K. Zimmerman and M. Westoby. Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
  • Press: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190517115129.htm
  • Uriarte, M., J. Thompson and J. Zimmerman. Hurricane Maria tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms. Nature Communications. PDF
  • Press: https://www.earth.com/news/future-storms-alter-tropical-forests/#.XJlOPCJKipo
  • https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/health/hurricane-maria-forest-climate/index.html
  • https://phys.org/news/2019-03-hurricane-maria-future-climate-driven-storms.html
  • http://www.800noticias.com/investigacion-estimo-que-huracan-maria-causo-dano-nunca-visto-en-puerto-rico
  • https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hurricane-maria-devastated-puerto-ricos-forests-at-an-unprecedented-rate/
  • https://www.scidev.net/america-latina/medio-ambiente/noticias/huracanes-severos-son-una-amenaza-a-bosques-del-caribe.html
  • Umana, M. N., J. Forero-Montana, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. Zimmerman and N. G. Swenson. Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance. Ecology. PDF
  • Rozendaal, D. M. A., F. Bongers, T. M. Aide, E. Alvarez-Dávila, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, J. Becknell, T. Bentos, P. H. S. Brancalion, G. A. L. Cabral, S. Calvo-Rodriguez, J. Chave, R. G. César, R. L. Chazdon, R. Condit, J. S. Dallinga, J. S. Almeida-Cortez, B. Jong, A. Oliveira, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S. J. DeWalt, J. M. Dupuy, S. M. Durán, L. P. Dutrieux, M. M. Espírito-Santo, M. C. Fandino, G. W. Fernandes, B. Finegan, H. García, N. Gonzalez, V. G. Moser, J. S. Hall, J. L. Hernández-Stefanoni, S. Hubbell, C. C. Jakovac, A. J. Hernández, A. B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, D. Larpin, S. G. Letcher, J. Licona, E. Lebrija-Trejos, E. Marín-Spiotta, M. Martínez-Ramos, P. E. S. Massoca, J. A. Meave, R. C. G. Mesquita, F. Mora, S. C. Müller, R. Muñoz, S. N. O. Neto, N. Norden, Y. R. F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E. Ortiz-Malavassi, R. Ostertag, M. Peña-Claros, E. A. Pérez-García, D. Piotto, J. S. Powers, J. Aguilar-Cano, S. Rodriguez-Buritica, J. Rodríguez-Velázquez, M. A. Romero, J. Ruíz, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. S. Almeida, W. L. Silver, N. B. Schwartz, W. W. Thomas, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, E. V. S. Sampaio, M. Breugel, H. der Wal, S. V. Martins, M. D. M. Veloso, H. F. M. Vester, A. Vicentini, I. C. G. Vieira, P. Villa, G. B. Williamson, K. J. Zanini, J. Zimmerman and L. Poorter. Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests. Science Advances. PDF
  • Bragion E. F. A., G. A. O. Coelho, F. F. Siqueira,  M. Uriarte and E. Berg. Sharp differentiation on the performance of plant functional groups across natural edges. Journal of Plant Ecology. PDF
2018
  • Strassburg, B., B. Hawthorne, R. Crouzeilles, A. Iribarrem, F. Barros, M. Ferreira de Siqueira, A. Sánchez Tapia, A. Balmford, J. Boelsums, P. Brancalion, E. Broadbent, R. Chazdon, A. Oliveira Filho, T. Gardner, A. Gordon, A. Latawiec, R. Loyola, J.P. Metzger, M. Mills, H. Possingham, R. Ribeiro Rodrigues, C. A. de Mattos Scaramuzza, F. Scarano, L. Tambosi, and M. Uriarte. Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
  • Press: https://uriartelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/strassburg-et-al-2018-news-views.pdf
  • https://g1.globo.com/globonews/estudio-i/video/brasileiro-faz-estudo-inedito-sobre-a-mata-atlantica-7239022.ghtml
  • Zambrano, J., W. Fagan, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, M. N. Umaña and N. G. Swenson. 2018. Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional neighborhood effects on tree survival and growth. Journal of Ecology. PDF
  • *¥Calaboni, A., L. R. Tambosi, A. T. Igari, J. Farinaci, J. Metzger, and M. Uriarte. 2018. The forest transition in Sao Paulo, Brazil: Historical patterns and putative drivers. Ecology & Society. PDF
  • *¥Comita, L., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Umaña, and J. K.  Zimmerman. 2018. Changes in phylogenetic community structure of the seedling layer following hurricane disturbance in a human-impacted tropical forest. Forests. PDF
  • Hogan, J.A., J. K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, N. G. Swenson, R. Condit, S. Hubbell, D. J. Johnson, I. F. Sun, C. Chang-Yang, S. Su,, P. Ong, L. Rodriguez, C. C. Monoy, S. Yap, and S. L. Davies. 2018. The frequency of cyclonic wind storms shapes tropical forest dynamism and functional trait dispersion. Forests. PDF
  • Uriarte, M. and D. L. Menge. 2018. Variation between individuals fosters regional species coexistence. Ecology Letters. PDF
  • Press: https://f1000.com/prime/733805502?utm_medium=email&utm_source=prime_selected_sections#eval793550736
  • Rao, M.P., E. R. Cook, B. I. Cook, J. Palmer, M. Uriarte, N. Devineni, U. Lall, R. D. D’Arrigo, C. A. Woodhouse, M. Ahmed, M. Usama Zafar, N. Khan, A. Khan, and M. Wahab. 2018. Six Centuries of Upper Indus Basin Streamflow Variability and Its Climatic Drivers. Water Resources Research. PDF
  • ¥Fortunel, C., J. R. Lasky, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. J. Wright, N. C. Garwood, and N. J.B. Kraft. 2018. Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and coexistence in a hyper-diverse Amazonian forest. Ecology. PDF
  • Johnson, DJ, J. Needham, C. Xu, E. C. Massoud, S. Davies, K. Anderson-Teixeira, N. Brokaw, S. Bunyavejchewin, C. Chang-Yang, J. Chiang, G. Chuyong, R. Condit, S. Cordell, C. Fletcher, C. Giardina, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, C. Hsieh, S. Hubbell, A. Rahman Kassim, M. Katabuchi, D. Kenfack, C. Litton, S. Lum, M. Mohamad, N. Musalmah, P. Ong, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, N. Swenson, I F. Sun, S. Tan, D. Thomas, J. Thompson, M. Umaña, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. Yap, J. Zimmerman, N. McDowell, S. McMahon. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
  • *Gei, M., D. M. A. Rozendaal, L. Poorter, F. Bongers, J. I. Sprent, M. D. Garner, T. Mitchell Aide, J. L. Andrade, P. Balvanera, J. M. Becknell, P. H.S. Brancalion, G. A. L. Cabral, R. Gomes César, R. L. Chazdon, R. J. Cole, G. Dalla Colletta, B. de Jong, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S. J. DeWalt, J. Manuel Dupuy, S. M. Durán, M.M. do Espírito Santo, G. Wilson Fernandes, Y R Ferreira Nunes, B. Finegan, V. Granda Moser, J. S. Hall, J L Hernández-Stefanoni, A. B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, E. Lebrija-Trejos, S. G. Letcher, M. Lohbeck, E. Marín-Spiotta, M. Martínez-Ramos, J.A. Meave, D. N. L. Menge, F.  Mora, R. Muñoz, R. Muscarella, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, R. Ostertag, M. Peña-Claros, E. A. Pérez- García, D. Piotto, P. B. Reich, C. Reyes-García, J. Rodríguez- Velázquez, I. E. Romero-Pérez, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N. B. Schwartz, A. Silva de Almeida, J. Silva Almeida-Cortez, W. Silver, V. Souza Moreno, B. W. Sullivan, N. G. Swenson, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M. das Dores Magalhães Veloso, H. F. M. Vester, I. Célia Guimarães Vieira, J. K. Zimmerman, J. S. Powers. 2018. Legume Abundance along successional and rainfall gradients In Neotropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PDF
  • Press: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0583-6
  • Giardina, F., A. Koenigs, H. Alemohammad, D. Kennedy, R. Oliveira, M. Uriarte, and P. Gentine. 2018. Tall Amazonian forests are more resistant to precipitation variability. Nature Geosciences. PDF
  • Press: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0147-z?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ngeo%2Frss%2Fcurrent+%28Nature+Geoscience+-+Issue%29
  • Lutz, J. A., T. J. Furniss, D. J. Johnson, S. J. Davies, D. Allen, A. Alonso, K. Anderson-Teixeira, A. Andrade, J. Baltzer, K. M. L. Becker, E. M. Blomdahl, N. A. Bourg, S. Bunyavejchewin, D. F. R. P. Burslem, C. A. Cansler, K. Cao, M. Cao, D. Cárdenas, L.-W. Chang, K.-J. Chao, W.-C. Chao, J.-M. Chiang, C. Chu, G. B. Chuyong, K. Clay, R. Condit, S. Cordell, H. S. Dattaraja, A. Duque, D. Escobar, C. E. N. Ewango, G. A. Fisher, C. Fletcher, J. A. Fruend, C. Giardina, S. J. Germain, G. S. Gilbert, Z. Hao, T. Hart, B. C. H. Hau, F. He, A. Hector, R. W. Howe, C.-F. Hsieh, Y.-H. Hu, S. P. Hubbell, F. M. Inman-Narahari, A. Itoh, D. Janik, A. R. Kassim, D. Kenfack, L. Kortee, K. Král, A. J. Larson, Y.-D. Li, Y. Lin, S. Liu, S. Lum, K. Ma, J.-R. Makana, Y. Malhi, S. M. McMahon, W. J. McShea, H. R. Memiaghe, X. Mi, M. Morecroft, P. M. Musili, J. A. Myers, V. Novotny, A. de Oliveira, P. Ong, D. A. Orwig, R. Osterag, G. G. Parker, R. Patankar, R. P. Phillips, G. Reynolds, L. Sack, G.-Z. M. Song, S.-H. Su, R. Sukumar, I.-F. Sun, H. S. Suresh, M. E. Swanson, S. Tan, D. W. Thomas, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, A. Vicentine, T. Vrška, X. Wang, G. D. Weiblen, A. Wolf, S.-H. Wu, H. Xu, T. Yamakura, S. Yap, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Global importance of large-diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography. PDF
  • *Chen, Y, M. Umaña, M. Uriarte, and S. Yu. 2018. Abundance-dependent effects of neighborhood dissimilarity and growth rank reversal in a Neotropical forest. Proceedings Royal Society B. PDF
  • *Bachelot, B., J. Clark, M. Uriarte, R. Muscarella, J. Forero, J. Thompson, JK. McGuire, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and tropical tree communities change with tree successional status. Ecology. PDF
  • *Uriarte, M, R. Muscarella, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration. Global Change Biology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14000. PDF
  • Chen, L., L. Comita, SJ Wright, N. Swenson, JK. Zimmerman, X. Mi, Hao, Y. Zhanqing, Wanhui, S. Hubbell, WJ Kress, M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, C. Nytch, X. Wang, J. Lian, Ju-yu, and K. Ma.  Negative conspecific density dependence, rather than interactions among closely related species, structures the assemblages of forest tree neighborhoods. Ecography. PDF
  • Poorter, L., M. T. van der Sande, E. J. M. M. Arets, N. Ascarrunz, B. Enquist4, B. Finegan, J. C. Licona, M. Martínez-Ramos, L. Mazzei, J. Meave, R. Muñoz, C. J. Nytch, A. A de Oliveira, E. A. Pérez-García, J. S. Powers, Jamir Prado-Junior, J. Rodríguez-Velázques. A. R. Ruschel, B. Salgado-Negret, I. Schiavini, N. G. Swenson, E. A. Tenorio, J. Thompson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, J. Zimmerman, M. Peña-Claros. Biodiversity, climate, and soil determine functioning of Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. PDF
2017
  • ¥Feng, X., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, G. Gonzalez, S. Reed, J. K. Zimmerman, and L. Murphy. 2017. Improving predictions of tropical forest response to climate change through integration of field studies and ecosystem modeling. Global Change Biology. PDF
  • Wiegand, T. M. Uriarte, N. Kraft, G. Shen, X. Wang, and F. He. 2017. Spatially explicit metrics of species, functional and phylogenetic diversity: insights into plant community assembly processes. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. PDF
  • *Prist, P., M. Uriarte, K Fernandes, and J. P. Metzger. 2017. Climate change and sugarcane expansion increase hantavirus risk. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. PDF
  • *Schwartz, N. B., M. Uriarte, R. DeFries, V. Gutiérrez-Vélez, K. Fernandes, M. A. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2017. Fragmentation increases impact of wind disturbance on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape. Ecological Applications. PDF
  • *Schwartz, N., M. Uriarte, R. DeFries, V. Gutierrez-Velez, M. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2017. Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second growth forest. Environmental Research Letters doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa708b. PDF
  • Umaña, M., M. Xiangcheng, M. Cao, B. Enquist, H. Zhanqing, R. Howe, Y. Iida, D. Johnson, L. Lin, L., Xiaojuan, K. Ma, I. Sun, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, X. Wang, A. Wolf, J. Yang, J. K. Zimmerman, N. Swenson. 2017. The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.12583. PDF
  • *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, K. McGuire, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2017. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and natural enemies promote coexistence of tropical tree species. Ecology 98:712-720. PDF
2016
  • ¥Lasky, J. R., M. Uriarte, and R. Muscarella. 2016. Synchrony, compensatory dynamics, and the functional traits linked to phenological diversity in a tropical tree community. Environmental Research Letters. PDF
  • Press: http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/68070
  • *Prist, P., M. Uriarte, L. Reverberi Tambosi, A. Prado,  A. Townsend Peterson, R. Pardini, P. D´Andrea, and J. P. Metzger. 2016. Landscape, environmental and social predictors of Hantavirus risk in São Paulo, Brazil. PloS One. PDF
  • Muscarella, M., M. Uriarte, T. M. Aide, D. L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman. Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients. Perspectives in Plant Ecology. PDF
  • ¥Wolf, J. A., G. Y. Brocard, J. K. Willenbring, S. Porder, and M. Uriarte. 2016. Abrupt Change in Forest Height along a Tropical Elevation Gradient Detected Using Airborne Lidar. Remote Sensing and the Environment. PDF
  • Press: https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242383&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
  • Chazdon, R. L and M. Uriarte. 2016. Natural regeneration in the context of large-scale forest and landscape restoration in the tropics. Biotropica. PDF
  • Uriarte, M. and R.L. Chazdon. 2016. Incorporating natural regeneration in forest landscape restoration in tropical regions: synthesis and key research gaps. Biotropica. PDF
  • Press: https://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/researchers-say-natural-regeneration-an-overlooked-but-low-cost-option-for-forest-restoration/
  • Press: http://blog.cifor.org/48223/mother-nature-often-knows-best?fnl=en&utm_source=CIFOR+Website&utm_medium=Slide+show+bar&utm_campaign=Forests+News
  • *Uriarte, M., N. Schwartz, J. Powers, E. Marin-Spiotta, W. Liao, and L. Werden. 2016. Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories. Biotropica. PDF
  • Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson, and M. Uriarte. 2016. Revisiting Land Use, Hurricane Dynamics and the Environment in a Subtropical Wet Forest: Twenty-One Years of Change. Ecosphere 7(8):e01405.10.1002/ecs2.1405. PDF
  • Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, M. Uriarte, B. Turner, and J. Thompson. 2016. Land-Use History Augments Environment–Plant Community Relationships in a Puerto Rican Wet Forest. J of Ecology 104: 1466-1477. PDF
  • Cattau, M.E., M. E. Harrison, I. Shinyo, S. Tungau, S. H. Limin, M. Uriarte, and R. DeFries. Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental Change 39:205-219. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., J. R. Lasky, V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon. 2016. A trait-mediated, neighborhood approach to quantify climate impacts on tropical rainforest succession. Functional Ecology 30: 157-167. PDF
  • Press: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/tropical-forests-store-less-carbon-climate-changes-20052
  • Chazdon et al. 2016. Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics. Science Advances. PDF
  • Press: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/even-young-rainforests-can-help-save-climate
  • *Muscarella, M. and M. Uriarte. 2016. Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies? Proceedings Royal Society B 283: 20152434. PDF
  • Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, J. Leff, A. Asai, J. Kosher and K. McGuire. 2016. Long-lasting effects of land use history on soil fungal communities in second-growth tropical rain forests. Ecological Applications 26: 1881-1895. PDF
  • * Poorter, L., F. Bongers, T. M. Aide, A. M. Almeyda Zambrano, P. Balvanera, J. M. Becknell, V. Boukili, P. H. Brancalion, E. N. Broadbent, R. L. Chazdon, D. Craven, J. S. de Almeida-Cortez, G. A. Cabral, B. H. de Jong, J. S. Denslow, D. H. Dent, S. J. DeWalt, J. M. Dupuy, S. M. Duran, M. M. Espirito-Santo, M. C. Fandino, R. G. Cesar, J. S. Hall, J. L. Hernandez-Stefanoni, C. C. Jakovac, A. B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, S. G. Letcher, J. C. Licona, M. Lohbeck, E. Marin-Spiotta, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. Massoca, J. A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Munoz, R. Muscarella, Y. R. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, A. A. de Oliveira, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Pena-Claros, E. A. Perez-Garcia, D. Piotto, J. S. Powers, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, I. E. Romero-Perez, J. Ruiz, J. G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N. B. Schwartz, M. K. Steininger, N. G. Swenson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M. D. Veloso, H. F. Vester, A. Vicentini, I. C. Vieira, T. V. Bentos, G. B. Williamson, and D. M. Rozendaal. 2016. Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature 530:211-214. PDF
  • Press: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/newsroom/press-releases/highly-resilient-secondary-tropical-forests-rapidly-sequester-carbon
  • Kunstler, G., D. Falster, D. A. Coomes, F. Hui, R. M. Kooyman, D. C. Laughlin, L. Poorter, M. Vanderwel, G. Vieilledent, S. J. Wright, M. Aiba, C. Baraloto, J. Caspersen, J. H. Cornelissen, S. Gourlet-Fleury, M. Hanewinkel, B. Herault, J. Kattge, H. Kurokawa, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, H. Poorter, M. Uriarte, S. Richardson, P. Ruiz-Benito, I. F. Sun, G. Stahl, N. G. Swenson, J. Thompson, B. Westerlund, C. Wirth, M. A. Zavala, H. Zeng, J. K. Zimmerman, N. E. Zimmermann, and M. Westoby. 2016. Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529:204-207. PDF
2015
  • *Poorter, L., M. T. van der Sande, J. Thompson, E. J. M. M. Arets, A. Alarcon, J. Alvarez-Sanchez, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, G. Barajas-Guzman, A. Boit, F. Bongers, F. A. Carvalho, F. Casanoves, G. Cornejo-Tenorio, F. R. C. Costa, C. V. de Castilho, J. F. Duivenvoorden, L. P. Dutrieux, B. J. Enquist, F. Fernandez-Mendez, B. Finegan, L. H. L. Gormley, J. R. Healey, M. R. Hoosbeek, G. Ibarra-Manriquez, A. B. Junqueira, C. Levis, J. C. Licona, L. S. Lisboa, W. E. Magnusson, M. Martinez-Ramos, A. Martinez-Yrizar, L. G. Martorano, L. C. Maskell, L. Mazzei, J. A. Meave, F. Mora, R. Munoz, C. Nytch, M. P. Pansonato, T. W. Parr, H. Paz, E. A. Perez-Garcia, L. Y. Renteria, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, D. M. A. Rozendaal, A. R. Ruschel, B. Sakschewski, B. Salgado-Negret, J. Schietti, M. Simoes, F. L. Sinclair, P. F. Souza, F. C. Souza, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, N. G. Swenson, K. Thonicke, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, P. Walker, N. Zamora, and M. Pena-Claros. 2016. Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:1314-1328. PDF
  • *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2015. 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. J Ecology 104: 90-103. PDF
  • *Muscarella, M., M. Uriarte, T. M. Aide, D. L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, W. J. Kress, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman. (2015). Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. J Vegetation Science 10.1111/jvs.12354 PDF
  • *Umaña, M.N, J. Forero-Montaña, R. Muscarella, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. G. Swenson. 2015. Interspecific functional similarity and intraspecific negative density dependence underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees. American Naturalist 187: 99-109. PDF
  • Gentine, P, M. Guérin, M. Uriarte, N. McDowell and W. Pockman. 2015. An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation. Ecohydrology DOI: 10.1002/eco.1654 PDF
  • *Letcher, S.G.,  J.R. Lasky, N. Norden, R.L. Chazdon, A. Andrade, J.L. Andrade-Torres, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, T.V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar, F. Bongers, V.S. Boukili, D.A. Clark, D.B. Clark, D. Craven, A. DeFrancesco, J.M. Dupuy, B.G. Finegan, E. González-Jiménez, J.S. Hall, K.E. Harms, P. Heitz, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, D. Kennard, T.J. Killeen, S.G. Laurance, M.W.M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P.E.S. Massocca, J.A. Meave, R.C.G. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muñoz Avilés, R. Muscarella, H. Paz, E. Pérez-García , F. Pineda-García, J.S. Powers, R. Quesada-Monge, E. Romero-Pérez, M.E. Sandor, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, E. Schüller, N.G. Swenson, A. Tauro, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, O. Vargas-Ramírez, A. Wendt, G.B. Williamson, S.J. Wright. 2015. Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites. J of Ecology 103:  1276-1290. PDF
  • *Locatelli, B., C. Catterall, P. Imbach,  K. Chetan, R. Lasco, E. Marin-Spiotta, B.  Mercer, J. Powers, N. Schwartz, and M. Uriarte. 2015. Tropical reforestation and climate change: Beyond carbon. Restoration Ecology doi: 10.1111/rec.12209. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., J. Thompson, B. Turner and J.K. Zimmerman. 2015. Linking spatial patterns of leaf litter fall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: A neighborhood approach. Ecological Applications 25: 2022-2034. PDF
  • *Lasky, J., B. Bachelot, R. Muscarella, N. Schwartz, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, C. J. Nytch, J. Forero-Montaña and M. Uriarte. 2015. Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology 96: 2157-2169. PDF
  • *Schwartz N.B. M. Uriarte, V. H. Gutierrez-Velez, W. Baethgen, R. DeFries, K. Fernandes, C. Padoch, and M. A. Pinedo-Vasquez. 2015. Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon. Global Environmental Change 31: 144-153. PDF
  • *Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, and K. McGuire. 2015 Interactions among mutualism, competition, and predation foster species coexistence in diverse communities. Theoretical Ecology: DOI 10.1007/s12080-015-0251-2. PDF
2014
  • Kress, J.W, C. Garcia-Robledo, M. Uriarte, and D. Erickson. 2014. DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30: 25-35. PDF
  • *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, and W. J. Kress. 2014. A Well-Resolved Phylogeny of the Trees of Puerto Rico Based on DNA Barcode Sequence Data. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112843. PDF
  • *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman, W. J. Kress. Climate and Biodiversity Effects on Standing Biomass in Puerto Rican Forests. Caribbean Forester special issue 1: 199-217. PDF
  • *Muscarella, R. P.J. Galante, M. Soley, R.A. Boria, J. Kass, M. Uriarte and R. P. Anderson. 2014. ENMeval: An R package for tuning MAXENT ecological niche models with spatially independent evaluations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 1198-1205. PDF
  • Anderson-Teixeira et al. 2014. CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.12712. PDF
  • ¥Lasky, J., M. Uriarte, V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon. 2014. The relationship between biodiversity and tree biomass dynamics changes along tropical forest succession. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.12322. PDF
  • *Réjou-Méchain M., and many others. 2014. Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences 11:5711–5742 doi:10.5194/bgd-11-5711-2014. PDF
  • ¥Lasky, J., M. Uriarte, V. Boukili, and R. L. Chazdon. 2014. Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 15: 5616-5621. PDF
  • *Gutiérrez-Vélez, VH, M. Uriarte, R. DeFries, M. Pinedo-Vásquez, K. Fernandes, P. Ceccato, W. Baethgen, and C. Padoch. 2014. Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia. Ecological Applications 24: 1323-1340. PDF
  • *Jain, M., Y. Lim, J. Arce and M. Uriarte. 2014. Perceptional and socio-demographic factors associated with household drinking water management strategies in rural Puerto Rico. PloS One 9(2): e88059. PDF
  • ¥Adame, P., M. Uriarte, and T.J. Brandeis. 2014. Diameter growth performance of tree functional groups in Puerto Rican secondary tropical forests. Forest Systems 23: 52-63. PDF
2013
  • Swenson, N., X. Mi, J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J. Zimmerman. 2013. Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities. Ecology and Evolution 3: 1173-1183. PDF
  • *Côrtes, M.,  M. Uriarte , M. Lemes, R. Gribel , P. Smouse, W. J. Kress, and E. M. Bruna. 2013. Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12495 PDF
  • *Nichols,E., M. Uriarte, C. Peres,  J. Louzada, R. Fagundes-Braga, G. Schiffler, and W. Endo. Human-Induced Trophic Cascades along the Fecal Detritus Pathway. PloS One 8 (10): e75819. PDF
  • *Nuñez-Avila, M., M. Uriarte, P. A. Marquet, and J.J. Armesto. 2013. Decomposing recruitment limitation for an avian-dispersed rain forest tree in an anciently fragmented landscape. J. Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12148. PDF
  • Brown, C., D.F.R.P. Burslem, J.B. Illian, C.L. Bao, W. Brockelman, M. Cao, H.S. Dattaraja, C.V.S. Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke, J. Huang, A.R. Kassim, J. Lian, L. Lin, K. Ma, X. Mi, A. Nathalang, S. Noor, S. Pulla, R. Sukumar, I.F. Sun, H.S. Suresh, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia,W. Ye, R. Law. 2013. Multi-species coexistence in tropical rainforests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity. Proc Royal Society Series B 280: PDF
  • *Macedo, M., M. T. Coe, R. S. DeFries, M. Uriarte, P. M. Brando, C. Neill, and W. S. Walker. 2013. Land use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia. Proc Royal Society Series B 368, 20120153. PDF
  • *Nichols, E., M. Uriarte, D. E. Bunker, J. N.C Louzada, T. H. Larsen, F. Vaz de Mello, K. Vulinec, M. E. Favila, E. M. Slade, S. Naeem, and S. H. Spector. 2013. Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local to global scales. Ecology 94:180–189. PDF
2012
  • *Uriarte, M. M. Pinedo‐Vasquez , R. DeFries, K. Fernandes, V. Gutierrez-Velez, W. Baethgen, and C. Padoch. 2012. Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the Western Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109: 21546–21550. PDF
  • Press: http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2012/12/12/4
  • Press: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121210160856.htm
  • *Dueker, M. E, G. D. O’Mullan, A. R. Juhl, K. C. Weathers, and M. Uriarte. In press. Local environmental pollution strongly influences culturable microbial aerosols at an urban aquatic Superfund site. Environmental Science & Technology 46: 10926−10933. PDF
  • Press: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/whats-bubbling-up-from-newtown-creek/
  • Ibáñez, I., E.S. Gornish, L. Buckley, D. Debinski, J. Hellmann, B. Helmuth, J. HillRisLambers, A. Latimer, A. Miller-Rushing, M. Uriarte. 2012. Research in global change ecology: Using integrative analyses to capitalize on natural variability. Ecology & Evolution 3: 170-181. PDF
  • *Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montaña, L. S. Comita, N. G. Swenson, J. Thompson, C. Nytch, I. Jonckheere, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2012. Exploring the mechanisms behind life history tradeoffs during the seed-to-seedling transition for tropical trees and lianas. Journal of Ecology 101: 171-182. PDF
  • *Balvanera, P., M. Uriarte, L. Almeida-Leñero, A. Altesor, F. DeClerk, T. Gardner, J. Hall, A. Lara, P. Laterra, M. Peña-Claros, D. M. Silva Matos, L. Romero-Duque, A. L. Vogt, L.F. Arreola, A.P. Caro-Borrero, F. Gallego, M. Jain, C. Little, R. de Oliveira Xavier, J. M. Paruelo, J.E. Peinado, L. Poorter, N. Azcarrun, F. Correa, M.B. Cunha-Santino, A.P Hernández-Sánchez, and M. Vallejos. 2012. Ecosystem Service Research in Latin America: The State of the Art. Ecosystem Services 2: 56-70. PDF
  • Press: http://wle.cgiar.org/blogs/2013/01/24/prices-values-and-the-role-of-ecosystem-services-in-policy
  • *Côrtes, M. and M. Uriarte. 2012. Integrating frugivore behavior and animal movement: A review of the evidence and implication for scaling seed dispersal. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00250.x. PDF
  • Swenson, N.G., D.L. Erickson, X. Mi, N. Bourg, J. Montana-Forero, R. Howe, J.K.  Lake, X. Liu, X., J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, A. Wolf, J. Zhang, J.K. Zimmerman and W. J. Kress, W.J. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional beta diversity in tree communities across latitude. Ecology 93: S112-S125. PDF
  • Swenson, N.G.., J. C. Stegen, S. J. Davies, D. L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña, A. H. Hurlbert, W. J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, S. J. Wright, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2012. Temporal Turnover in the Composition of Tropical Tree Communities: Functional Determinism and Phylogenetic Stochasticity. Ecology 93: 490-499. PDF
  • Uriarte, M. J. S. Clark, L. S. Comita, J. Thompson, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2012. Multi-dimensional tradeoffs in species responses to disturbance: Implications for successional diversity in a subtropical forest. Ecology 93: 191-205. PDF
  • *Dueker, M. E., G. D. O’Mullan, K. C. Weathers, A. R. Juhl, and M. Uriarte. 2012. Coupling of fog and marine microbial content in the near-shore coastal environment. Biogeosciences 9: 803-813. PDF
2011
  • *Gutiérrez-Vélez, V.H., R. DeFries, M. Pinedo-Vásquez, M. Uriarte, C. Padoch, W. Baethgen, K. Fernandes, and Y. Lim. 2011.  High-yield oil palm plantations expand in the Peruvian Amazon at expense of forests. Environmental Research Letters 6:4.  PDF
  • Press: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0110-peru_palm_oil.html
  • *Uriarte, M., C. Yackulic, Y. Lim, and J. Arce. 2011. Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: A multi-scale analysis. Landscape Ecology 26: 1151-1164. PDF
  • *Yackulic, C.B., M.E. Fagan, M. Jain, A. Jina, Y. Lim, M. Marlier, B. Muscarella, P. Adame, R.S. DeFries, and M. Uriarte. 2011. Biophysical and socioeconomic factors associated with forest transitions at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Ecology and Society 16(3): 15. PDF
  • Bruna, E.M., T. Izzo, B. Inouye, M. Uriarte, and H. Vasconcelos. 2011. Estimating the dispersal capability of Amazonian plant-ant queens using inverse modeling. PLoS One 6: e22937- e22937. PDF
  • Fernandes, K., W. Baethgen, S. Bernardes, R. Defries, D. DeWitt,  L. Goddard, W. Lavado, D. Lee, C. Padoch, M. Pinedo- Vasquez and M. Uriarte. 2011. North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L12701. PDF
  • Press: http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0718-amazon_fernandes.html
  • *Yackulic, C. B., S. Blake, S. Deem, M. Kock, and M. Uriarte. 2011. One size does not fit all: flexile models are required to understand animal movement across scales. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 1088-1096. PDF
  • Received 2010 E.C. Pielou Student in Statistical Ecology from Ecological Society of America. Recommended Faculty 100: http://f1000.com/prime/13370052
  • *Dueker, E., K. C. Weathers, G. O’Mullan, A. Juhl, and M. Uriarte.2011. Environmental controls on coastal coarse aerosols: implications for microbial aerosol content and deposition at the waterfront. Environmental Science & Technology 45:3386-92. PDF
  • *Yackulic, C. B., E. W. Sanderson, and M. Uriarte. 2011. Anthropogenic and intrinsic drivers of intra-specific variation in extinction risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108: 2044-4029. PDF
  • *Lin, B.B., D. F.B. Flynn, M. M. McGinty, D. E. Bunker, A. Weidman, P. Olmsted, M. I. Palmer, M. Uriarte,  S. Naeem. 2011. Contraction and displacement of trait space following agricultural conversion in Great Plains landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. PDF
  • *Nuñez-Avila, M., M. Uriarte, P. A. Marquet, and J.J. Armesto. 2011. Microsatellite markers for the relict tree Aextoxicon punctatum (Aextoxicaceae) from Chilean temperate rainforests. American Journal of Botany  98:e30-e32. PDF
  • Gagnon, P.R., E. M. Bruna, P. Rubim, M. Darrigo, R. C. Littlel, M. Uriarte, and W. J. Kress. 2011. Chronically reduced plant growth in Amazonian forest fragments. Biological Conservation 144: 830-835. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., M. Anciães, M. T.B. da Silva, P. Rubim, and E. M. Bruna. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of reduced long distance dispersal by birds in an experimentally-fragmented. Ecology 94:924-937. PDF
  • Received 2012 Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology Award from the US Association for Landscape Ecology.
2010
  • Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2010. Improvements in the application of DNA barcodes in building a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot. PLoS One 15. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., N. Swenson, R. Chazdon, L.S. Comita, D. L. Erickson, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Trait similarity, shared ancestry, and the structure of neighborhood interactions in a subtropical forest: Implications for community assembly. Ecology Letters 13: 1503-1514. PDF
  • Zimmerman, J.K., L.S. Comita, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and N. V. Brokaw. 2010. Patch dynamics and community meta-stability in a tropical forest: Compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use. Landscape Ecology 25:1099–1111. PDF
  • DeFries, R., T. K. Rudel, M. Uriarte, and J. Hansen. 2010. Pressures on tropical forests in the 21st century. Nature Geosciences 3: 178-181. PDF
  • Press: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/focus/5th-anniversary/index.html
  • Recommended Faculty 100: http://f1000.com/prime/2839959
  • Uriarte, M., E. M. Bruna, P. Rubim, M. Anciães, and I. Jonckheere. 2010. Effects of forest fragmentation on seedling recruitment of an understory herb: Assessing seed vs. safe-site limitation. Ecology 91:1317-1328. PDF
  • ¥Comita, L.S, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, I. Jonckheere, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Land use history alters post-hurricane seedling dynamics in a tropical forest. Ecological Applications 20: 1270–1284. PDF
  • Russo, S.E., K.L. Jenkins, S.K. Wiser, M. Uriarte, R. Duncan, and D.A. Coomes. 2010. Interspecific relationships among tree growth and mortality rates and wood traits. Functional Ecology 24: 253–262. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., L. Schneider, and T.K. Rudel. 2010. Land use transitions in the tropics: Going beyond the case studies. Biotropica 42:1:2. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., L. Schneider, and T.K. Rudel. 2010. Synthesis: Land use transitions in the tropics. Biotropica 42:59:62. PDF
  • Canham, CD, J. Thompson, J.K. Zimmerman, and M. Uriarte. 2010. Variation in susceptibility to hurricane damage as a function of storm severity in Puerto Rican tree species. Biotropica 42: 87-94. PDF
  • * Flynn DBF, M. Uriarte, T. Crk, J. B. Pascarella, J. K. Zimmerman, and M. Caraballo. 2010. Hurricane disturbance alters secondary forest recovery and introduced species dynamics. Biotropica 42: 149-157. PDF
2009
  • Rudel, T.K., L. Schneider, M. Uriarte, B.L. Turner II, R. DeFries, D. Lawrence,  J. Geoghegan, S. Hecht, A. Ickowitz, E. F. Lambin,  T. Birkenholtz, S. Baptista, Ricardo Grau.  2009. Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 20675–20680. PDF
  • ¥Comita, L.S, M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, I. Jonckheere, C.D. Canham, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2009. Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 97: 1346–1359. PDF
  • Rudel T, L.C. Schneider, M. Uriarte. 2009. Forest transitions: An introduction. Land Use Policy 27:95-97. PDF
  • * Crk, T., M. Uriarte, F. Corsi, DBF Flynn. 2009. Tropical forest recovery in Puerto Rico. What is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables? Landscape Ecology 24: 629-642. PDF
  • *Cortes, M. C., V. Gowda, W. J. Kress, E.M. Bruna, and M. Uriarte. 2009. Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understory Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1261-1264. PDF
  • *Uriarte, M, C. Yackulic, T. Cooper, D. Flynn, M. Cortes, T. Crk, G. Cullman, M. McGinty, and J Sircely. 2009. Sugarcane, fires, and respiratory health in São Paulo, Brazil: Assessing the sustainability of biofuel production. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 132: 48-56. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., C. D. Canham, J. Thompson, J. K. Zimmerman. 2009. Understanding natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tree community dynamics in a subtropical wet forest: Results from a forest simulator. Ecological Monographs 79:423-443. PDF
  • *Uriarte, M. and C. Yackulic. 2009. Preaching to the unconverted. Ecological Applications 19: 592-596. PDF
Before 2009
  • Uriarte, M. and M. Papaik. 2007. Hurricane impacts on dynamics, structure, and carbon sequestration of forest ecosystems in Southern New England. Tellus 59A:519-528. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., H. Ewing, V.E. Eviner, and K. C. Weathers. 2007. Scientific culture, diversity, and society: suggestions for the development and adoption of a broader value system in science. Bioscience 57: 71-78. PDF
  • Canham, C.D., M. Papaik, M. Uriarte and W. McWilliams.  2006. Neighborhood analyses of canopy tree competition along environmental gradients in New England forests. Ecological Applications 16:540–554. PDF
  • Canham, C.D. and M. Uriarte.  2006. Likelihood methods, inverse modeling and the analysis of neighborhood processes in forests. Ecological Applications 16:62-73. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., C.D. Canham, J. Thompson and J.K. Zimmerman. 2005. Seedling recruitment in a hurricane-driven tropical forest: light limitation, density dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees. Journal of Ecology 93: 291-304. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., C.D. Canham, J. Thompson and J.K. Zimmerman. 2004. A maximum-likelihood, spatially-explicit analysis of tree growth and survival in a hurricane-driven tropical forest.  Ecological Monographs 71: 591-614. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., L. W.  Rivera, J. K. Zimmerman, T. M. Aide, A. G. Power and A. Flecker.  2004.  Interactions between land use history and hurricane damage in a neotropical forest.  Plant Ecology 174: 49-58. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., R. Condit, C.D. Canham, and S.P. Hubbell. 2004. A spatially-explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: Does the identity of neighbours matter?  Journal of Ecology 92: 348-360. PDF
  • Uriarte, M. and H. K. Reeve.  2003. Matchmaking and species marriage: A game theory model of community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100: 1979-1982. PDF
  • Recommended Faculty 100: http://f1000.com/prime/1108104
  • Hatch, L.T., M. Uriarte, D. Fink, L. Aldrich-Wolfe, R.G. Allen, C. T. Webb, K. Zamudio, A. G. Power.  2002.  Federal Jurisdiction over Endangered Species’ Habitat: The Impacts of People and Property on Recovery Planning.  Ecological Applications 12: 690-700. PDF
  • Uriarte, M., C. Canham and R.B. Root.  2002.  A simulation model of the simultaneous evolution of competitive ability and herbivore resistance in a perennial plant population. Ecology 83: 2649- 2663. PDF
  • Uriarte, M.  2000.  Nitrogen-mediated interactions between goldenrod (Solidago altissima, L) and its insect herbivore (Trirhabda virgata): implications for nitrogen cycling and succession.  Oecologia 122: 479-486. PDF
  • Uriarte, M. and O.J. Schmitz.  1998.  Trophic control across a natural productivity gradient: a test of the exploitation hypothesis. Oikos 82: 552-560. PDF
  • Beckerman, A.P., M. Uriarte and O.J. Schmitz.  1997.  Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 94: 10735-10738. PDF
  • Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
  • Perkins, S. Altizer, O. Bjornstad, J. Burdon, K. Clay, L. Gomez-Aparicio, J. Jeschke, P. Johnson, K. Lafferty, C. Malstrom, P. Martin, A. Power, P. Thrall, D. Strayer, and M. Uriarte.  2006. Infectious disease in invasion biology. In R. Ostfeld, F. Keesing and V. E. Eviner. Infectious Disease Ecology Effects of disease on ecosystems and of ecosystems on disease. Cary Conference Proceedings. PDF
  • Ogle, K., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, J. Johnstone, A. Jones, Y. Lin, E.McIntire, and J. Zimmerman. 2006. Implications of vulnerability to hurricane damage for long-term survival of tropical tree species: A Bayesian hierarchical analysis. Pages 98-123 in: J.S. Clark and A.E. Gelfand (Eds.) Applications of Computational Statistics in the Environmental Sciences: Hierarchical Bayes and MCMC Methods. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. PDF
  • Uriarte, M, S.P. Hubbell, R. John, R. Condit, and C.D. Canham.  2005. Neighborhood effects on sapling growth and survival in a neotropical forest and the ecological equivalence hypothesis. In Burslem, D.F.R.P., Pinard, M.A. and Hartley, S.E., eds. Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity. Cambridge University Press. UK. PDF