Search Results - "Nytch, Christopher J"

Quantifying soil accumulation of atmospheric mercury using fallout radionuclide chronometry by Landis, Joshua D., Obrist, Daniel, Zhou, Jun, Renshaw, Carl E., McDowell, William H., Nytch, Christopher J., Palucis, Marisa C., Del Vecchio, Joanmarie, Montano Lopez, Fernando, Taylor, Vivien F.

“…Soils are a principal global reservoir of mercury (Hg), a neurotoxic pollutant that is accumulating through anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere and…”
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Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly by Lasky, Jesse R, Bachelot, Bénédicte, Muscarella, Robert, Schwartz, Naomi, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Nytch, Christopher J, Swenson, Nathan G, Thompson, Jill, Zimmerman, Jess K, Uriarte, María

“…Identifying the processes that maintain highly diverse plant communities remains a central goal in ecology. Species variation in growth and survival rates…”
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Interspecific Functional Convergence and Divergence and Intraspecific Negative Density Dependence Underlie the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Tropical Trees by Umaña, Maria Natalia, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Muscarella, Robert, Nytch, Christopher J., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, Maria, Zimmerman, Jess, Swenson, Nathan G.

“…The seed-to-seedling transition constitutes a critical bottleneck in the life history of plants and represents a major determinant of species composition and…”
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Large‐ and small‐seeded species have contrasting functional neighborhoods in a subtropical forest by Umaña, María Natalia, Arellano, Gabriel, Forero‐Montaña, Jimena, Nytch, Christopher J., Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Zimmerman, Jess K.

“…Forest community composition is the outcome of multiple forces, including those that increase taxonomic and functional divergence and those that promote…”
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Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests by Poorter, Lourens, van der Sande, Masha T., Arets, Eric J. M. M., Ascarrunz, Nataly, Enquist, Brian, Finegan, Bryan, Licona, Juan Carlos, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Mazzei, Lucas, Meave, Jorge A., Muñoz, Rodrigo, Nytch, Christopher J., de Oliveira, Alexandre A., Pérez-García, Eduardo A., Prado-Junior, Jamir, Rodríguez-Velázques, Jorge, Ruschel, Ademir Roberto, Salgado-Negret, Beatriz, Schiavini, Ivan, Swenson, Nathan G., Tenorio, Elkin A., Thompson, Jill, Toledo, Marisol, Uriarte, Maria, van der Hout, Peter, Zimmerman, Jess K., Peña-Claros, Marielos

“…Aim: Tropical forests account for a quarter of the global carbon storage and a third of the terrestrial productivity. Few studies have teased apart the…”
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Demographic trade-offs and functional shifts in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest by Umaña, María Natalia, Needham, Jessica, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Nytch, Christopher J, Swenson, Nathan G, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Zimmerman, Jess K

“…Abstract Background and Aims Understanding shifts in the demographic and functional composition of forests after major natural disturbances has become…”
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Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance by Umaña, María Natalia, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Nytch, Christopher J., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Zimmerman, Jess, Swenson, Nathan G.

“…Species composition and community structure in Neotropical forests have been severely affected by increases in climate change and disturbance. Among the most…”
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Effects of hurricanes and climate oscillations on annual variation in reproduction in wet forest, Puerto Rico by Zimmerman, Jess K., Hogan, James Aaron, Nytch, Christopher J., Bithorn, John E.

“…Interannual changes in global climate and weather disturbances may influence reproduction in tropical forests. Phenomena such as the El Niño Southern…”
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Proposing the solar‐wind energy flux hypothesis as a driver of inter‐annual variation in tropical tree reproductive effort by Hogan, J. Aaron, Nytch, Christopher J., Bithorn, John E., Zimmerman, Jess K.

“…Premise The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects tropical environmental conditions, potentially altering ecosystem function as El Niño events interact…”
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Rainfall interception by six urban trees in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Nytch, Christopher J., Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia J., Pérez, María-Eglée, Ortiz-Zayas, Jorge R.

“…Rainfall interception is an important part of the urban hydrological cycle. Understanding is limited about the role of urban trees and other vegetation in the…”
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Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production by Pau, Stephanie, Wolkovich, Elizabeth M., Cook, Benjamin I., Nytch, Christopher J., Regetz, James, Zimmerman, Jess K., Joseph Wright, S.

“…Competing influences on tropical forest productivity, such as changes in temperature, light and precipitation, can be difficult to disentangle. Now, analysis…”
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The interaction of land‐use legacies and hurricane disturbance in subtropical wet forest: twenty‐one years of change by Hogan, James Aaron, Zimmerman, Jess K., Thompson, Jill, Nytch, Christopher J., Uriarte, María

“…Disturbance shapes plant communities over a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales. How natural and anthropogenic disturbance interact to shape ecological…”
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Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community by Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, María, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Comita, Liza S., Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Nytch, Christopher J., Jonckheere, Inge, Zimmerman, Jess K.

“…1. The transition from seed to established seedling (STS) represents a major bottleneck in plant demography with implications for community dynamics and the…”
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Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests by Poorter, Lourens, van der Sande, Masha T., Arets, Eric J. M. M., Ascarrunz, Nataly, Enquist, Brian, Finegan, Bryan, Carlos Licona, Juan, Martínez‐Ramos, Miguel, Mazzei, Lucas, Meave, Jorge A., Muñoz, Rodrigo, Nytch, Christopher J., de Oliveira, Alexandre A., Perez‐García, Eduardo A., Prado‐Junior, Jamir, Rodríguez‐Velazques, Jorge, Roberto Ruschel, Ademir, Salgado‐Negret, Beatriz, Schiavini, Ivan, Swenson, Nathan G., Tenorio, Elkin A., Thompson, Jill, Toledo, Marisol, Uriarte, Maria, van der Hout, Peter, Zimmerman, Jess K., Peña‐Claros, Marielos

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Effects of historical land use and recovery pathways on composition, structure, ecological function, and ecosystem services in a Caribbean secondary forest by Nytch, Christopher J., Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa, Erazo Oliveras, Angélica, Santiago García, Ricardo J., Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia J.

“…•Historical land use drives successional trajectories in tropical secondary forests.•Canopy cover and regeneration pathways affect composition, structure, and…”
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A new index to differentiate tree and grass based on high resolution image and object-based methods by Qian, Yuguo, Zhou, Weiqi, Nytch, Christopher J., Han, Lijian, Li, Zhiqiang

“…[Display omitted] •We developed an index that can effectively differentiate tree and grass at fine scale.•We combined spectral and texture features to…”
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Overcoming barriers to knowledge integration for urban resilience: A knowledge systems analysis of two-flood prone communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Ramsey, Molly M., Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A., Mélendez-Ackerman, Elvia, Nytch, Christopher J., Branoff, Benjamin L., Carrasquillo-Medrano, David

“…•Knowledge systems lens highlights prospect and barriers to knowledge integration.•Formal knowledge systems are retrospective and separate river and stormwater…”
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Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests by Chisholm, Ryan A., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Rahman, Kassim Abdul, Bebber, Daniel P., Bin, Yue, Bohlman, Stephanie A., Bourg, Norman A., Brinks, Joshua, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Butt, Nathalie, Cao, Honglin, Cao, Min, Cárdenas, Dalron, Chang, Li-Wan, Chiang, Jyh-Min, Chuyong, George, Condit, Richard, Dattaraja, Handanakere S., Davies, Stuart, Duque, Alvaro, Fletcher, Christine, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Gunatilleke, Savitri, Hao, Zhanqing, Harrison, Rhett D., Howe, Robert, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Hubbell, Stephen P., Itoh, Akira, Kenfack, David, Kiratiprayoon, Somboon, Larson, Andrew J., Lian, Juyu, Lin, Dunmei, Liu, Haifeng, Lutz, James A., Ma, Keping, Malhi, Yadvinder, McMahon, Sean, McShea, William, Meegaskumbura, Madhava, Razman, Salim Mohd, Morecroft, Michael D., Nytch, Christopher J., Oliveira, Alexandre, Parker, Geoffrey G., Pulla, Sandeep, Punchi-Manage, Ruwan, Romero-Saltos, Hugo, Sang, Weiguo, Schurman, Jon, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Sukumar, Raman, Sun, I-Fang, Suresh, Hebbalalu S., Tan, Sylvester, Thomas, Duncan, Thomas, Sean, Thompson, Jill, Valencia, Renato, Wolf, Amy, Yap, Sandra, Ye, Wanhui, Yuan, Zuoqiang, Zimmerman, Jess K.

“…1. The relationship between species richness and ecosystem function, as measured by productivity or biomass, is of long-standing theoretical and practical…”
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DRY CONDITIONS AND DISTURBANCE PROMOTE LIANA SEEDLING SURVIVAL AND ABUNDANCE by Umaña, María Natalia, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Nytch, Christopher J., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Zimmerman, Jess, Swenson, Nathan G.

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Analysis of the Relations between Land Cover, Drainage Network Structure and Stormwater Discharge in Urban Watersheds by Nytch, Christopher J

“…Stormwater runoff and flooding pose major environmental challenges for cities due to land use change and altered hydrologic regimes. Research is needed to…”
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