Studying the processes shaping tropical plant communities
at local, regional, and global scales
at local, regional, and global scales
photos by Christian Ziegler
Labs news
July 2025 - Current and former lab members presented their research at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Oaxaca, Mexico.
November 2024 - New paper out with former postdoc Sergio Estrada-Villegas on Liana versus tree seedling responses to spatial and temporal variation in dry season severity, plus new book chapters reviewing studies of long-term seedling dynamics and conspecific density dependence on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
September 2024 - We are excited to welcome three new graduate students, María Alejandra, Shuo, and Stanley, to the lab!
June 2024 - Check out our new paper on within-species variation in drought resistance of tropical trees in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We combined field experiments at 4 sites, functional traits measurements, and estimates of gene flow to assess responses to water availability in 16 species across a strong rainfall gradient in Panama. And the results were not what we expected....
February 2024 - New paper out in Nature on Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities, with collaborator Lisa Hülsmann and many others, examining conspecific negative density dependence across 23 ForestGEO plots.
May 2023 - Congratulations to Cameron on graduating with his Masters of Forest Science. Read more about Cam's thesis and his contributions to YSE here.
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New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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