Los bosques tropicales varían en su estructura, productividad, las tasas de mortalidad de sus árboles, la relativa abundancia de árboles de distintas alturas, las propiedades de la madera, vulnerabilidad a la sequía, etc. ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos subyacentes a esta variación y cómo podemos capturar estos mecanismos en modelos para comprender mejor y predecir las respuestas de los bosques tropicales a las influencias humanas?
B.A., Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 1995
M.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 1997
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2001
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Martínez Cano I, E. Shevliakova, S. Malyshev, S. J. Wright, M. Detto, S. W. Pacala, and H. C. Muller-Landau. 2020. Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA-TV). Global Change Biology 26:4478-4494. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15188
Gora, E. M., H. C. Muller-Landau, J. C. Burchfield, P. M. Blitzer, S. P. Hubbell, and S. P. Yanoviak. 2020. A mechanistically and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees. Journal of Ecology 108:1956-1966. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13404
Rutishauser, E., S. J. Wright, R. Condit, S. P. Hubbell, S. J. Davies, and H. C. Muller-Landau. 2020. Testing for changes in biomass dynamics in large-scale forest datasets. Global Change Biology 26:1485-1498. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14833
Broekman, M. J. E., H. C. Muller-Landau, M. D. Visser, E. Jongejans, S. J. Wright, and H. de Kroon. 2019. Signs of stabilisation and stable coexistence. Ecology Letters 22:1957-1975. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13349
Muller-Landau, H. C. and M. D. Visser. 2019. How do lianas and vines influence competitive differences and niche differences among tree species? Concepts and a case study in a tropical forest. J. Ecology 107:1469-1481. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13119
Larjavaara, M. and H. C. Muller-Landau. 2010. Rethinking the value of high wood density. Functional Ecology 24:701-705. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01698.x
Muller-Landau, H. C. 2010. The tolerance-fecundity tradeoff and the maintenance of diversity in seed size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:4242-4247. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911637107