Bibliography
Helene Muller-Landau
Anujan, Krishna, McMahon, Sean, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Davies, Stuart, Muller-Landau, Helene, Pongpattananurak, Nantachai, and Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina. 2025. "Drought response is not a species trait: Tropical tree drought sensitivity is shaped by drought characteristics, species adaptations, and individual microenvironments." Preprint, https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175136629.97651139/v1.
Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Gora, Evan M., Celes, Carlos H. S., Yanoviak, Stephen P., and Muller‐Landau, Helene C. 2025. "Quantifying Patterns of Lightning‐Caused Canopy Disturbances via Integration of Drone Imagery and Field Surveys." Biotropica, 57, (5). https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70083.
Duque, Alvaro, Gómez-Correa, Luisa F., Barona-Colmenares, Andr, Castaño, Nicolas, Davies, Stuart, Zuleta, Daniel, and Muller-Landau, Helene. 2025. "Local scale carbon stock measurements, including deep soil layers, in a terra firme forest in northwestern Amazon." Journal of Tropical Ecology, 41, (2) 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467424000270.
Gora, Evan M., McGregor, Ian R., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Burchfield, Jeffrey C., Cushman, K. C., Rubio, Vanessa E., Mori, Gisele Biem, Sullivan, Martin J. P., Chmielewski, Matthew W., and Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane. 2025. "Storms Are an Important Driver of Change in Tropical Forests." Ecology Letters, 28, (7) e70157. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70157.
Gora, Evan M., Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Cushman, K. C., Richards, Jeannine H., Bitzer, Phillip M., Burchfield, Jeffery C., Narváez, Pablo, and Yanoviak, Stephen P. 2025. "How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large‐statured trees." New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70062.
Viblanc, Vincent A. and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2025. "Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies." Ecology Letters, 28, (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70072.
Ward, Rachel E., Zhang‐Zheng, Huanyuan, Abernethy, Kate, Adu‐Bredu, Stephen, Arroyo, Luzmilla, Bailey, Andrew, Barlow, Jos, Berenguer, Erika, Chesini‐Rossi, Liana, Cho, Percival, Dahlsjö, Cecilia A. L., Das Neves, Eder Carvalho, De Oliveira Sales, Bianca, Farfan‐Rios, William, Ferreira, Joice Nunes, Freitag, Renata, Girardin, Cécile, Huaraca Huasco, Walter, Joly, Carlos A., Malhi, Yadvinder, Marimon, Beatriz, Marimon Junior, Ben Hur, Morel, Alexandra C., Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Peixoto, Karine Da Silva et al. 2025. "Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally." Ecology Letters, 28, (8). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70191.
Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Wright, S. Joseph, editors. 2024. The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science (Volumes 1 and 2). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.26048527.
Jackson, Toby D., Bittencourt, Paulo, Poffley, Jakob, Anderson, Juliet, Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Ramos, Pablo A. R., Rowland, Lucy, and Coomes, David. 2024. "Wind Shapes the Growth Strategies of Trees in a Tropical Forest." Ecology Letters, 27, (9). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14527.
Meakem, Victoria, Wright, S. Joseph, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2024. "Variation in Forest Structure, Dynamics, and Composition Across 108 ha of Large Forest Plots on Barro Colorado Island." In The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science. Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Wright, S. Joseph, editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.26809618.
Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Svenning, Jens-Christian. 2024. "An Introduction to Landscape-Level Variation Across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument." In The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science. Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Wright, S. Joseph, editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.26814820.
Wright, S. Joseph, Calderón, Osvaldo, Hernández, , Andrés, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2024. "Flower and Seed Production, Seedling Dynamics, and Tree Life Cycles." In The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science. Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Wright, S. Joseph, editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.26882626.
Wright, S. Joseph and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2024. "A Century of Plant and Ecosystem Research at Barro Colorado." In The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science. Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Wright, S. Joseph, editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.27180384.
Lee, Calvin Ka Fai, Song, Guangqin, Muller-Landau, Helene, Wu, Shengbiao, Wright, S. J., Cushman, K. C., Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Bohlman, Stephanie, Zhao, Yingyi, Lin, Ziyu, Sun, Zounachuan, Cheng, Peter Chuen Yan, Ng, Michael Kwok-Po, and Wu, Jin. 2023. "Cost-effective and accurate monitoring of flowering across multiple tropical tree species over two years with a time series of high-resolution drone imagery and deep learning." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 201 92–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2023.05.022.
Mitchell, Maria, Muller-Landau, Helene, Vasquez, Vicente, Cushman, Katherine, Garcia, Milton, Ramos, Pablo, and Villareal, Paulino. 2023. [Dataset] Digital Surface Models, Barro Colorado, 2018-2023. Distributed by Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24021381.V2.
Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2023. [Dataset] Combined Band Dendrometer Protocol Used by ForestGEO in Panama. [2187024-Bytes] Distributed by Barro Colorado Island, Panama. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.20010176.V1.
Thrall, Peter H., Chase, Jonathan, Drake, John, Espuno, Nathalie, Hello, Stephane, Ezenwa, Vanessa, Han, Barbara, Mori, Akira, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2023. "From raw data to publication: Introducing data editing at Ecology Letters." Ecology Letters, 26, (6) 829–830. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14210.
Hanbury-Brown, Adam R., Powell, Thomas L., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Wright, S. Joseph, and Kueppers, Lara M. 2022. "Simulating environmentally-sensitive tree recruitment in vegetation demographic models." New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18059.
Zuleta, Daniel, Arellano, Gabriel, Muller-Landau, Helene C., McMahon, Sean M., Aguilar, Salomon, Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Cardenas, Dairon, Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao, Duque, Alvaro, Mitre, David, Nasardin, Musalmah, Perez, Rolando, Sun, I-Fang, Yao, Tze Leong, and Davies, Stuart J. 2022. "Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests." New Phytologist, 233, (2) 705–721. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17832.
Ramos, Pablo, Villareal, Paulino, Condit, Richard S., Cushman, Katherine, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2022. [Dataset] Annual dendrometer data from the Barro Colorado Island 50-ha forest dynamics plot for 2015-2020. Distributed by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.19985066.V1.
Cushman, K. C., Detto, Matteo, Garcia, Milton, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2022. "Soils and topography control natural disturbance rates and thereby forest structure in a lowland tropical landscape." Ecology Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13978.
Needham, Jessica F., Arellano, Gabriel, Fisher, Rosie A., Hammer, Valerie, Knox, Ryan G., Mitre, David, Koven, Charlie D., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Zuleta, Daniel, and Davies, Stuart J. 2022. "Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest." Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16318.
Meunier, Felicien, Visser, Marco D., Shiklomanov, Alexey, Dietze, Michael C., Guzman, J. Antonio Q., Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. Arturo, De Deurwaerder, Hannes P. T., Moorthy, Sruthi M. Krishna, Schnitzer, Stefan A., Marvin, David C., Longo, Marcos, Liu, Chang, Broadbent, Eben N., Zambrano, Angelica M. Almeyda, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Detto, Matteo, and Verbeeck, Hans. 2022. "Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity." Global Change Biology, 1 227–244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15928.
Zuleta, Daniel, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Duque, Alvaro, Caro, Natali, Cardenas, Dairon, Castaño, Nicolas, León-Peláez, Juan Diego, and Feeley, Kenneth J. 2022. "Interspecific and intraspecific variation of tree branch, leaf and stomatal traits in relation to topography in an aseasonal Amazon forest." Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14199.
Piponiot, Camille, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Davies, Stuart J., Allen, David, Bourg, Norman A., Burslem, David F. R. P., Cardenas, Dairon, Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao, Chuyong, George, Cordell, Susan, Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah, Duque, Alvaro, Ediriweera, Sisira, Ewango, Corneille, Ezedin, Zacky, Filip, Jonah, Giardina, Christian P., Howe, Robert, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Hubbell, Stephen P., Inman-Narahari, Faith M., Itoh, Akira, Janik, David, Kenfack, David, Kral, Kamil et al. 2022. "Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world." New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17995.
Fang, Yilin, Leung, L. Ruby, Koven, Charles D., Bisht, Gautam, Detto, Matteo, Cheng, Yanyan, McDowell, Nate, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Wright, S. Joseph, and Chambers, Jeffrey Q. 2022. "Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics." Geoscientific Model Development, 15, (20) 7879–7901. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7879-2022.
Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Grubinger, Samuel, Celes, Carlos Henrique Souza, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I., Garcia, Milton, Dandois, Jonathan P., and Muller-Landau, Helene. 2021. "Strong temporal variation in treefall and branchfall rates in a tropical forest is related to extreme rainfall: results from 5 years of monthly drone data for a 50 ha plot." Biogeosciences, 18, (24) 6517–6531. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6517-2021.
Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Grubinger, Samuel, Celes, Carlos Henrique Souza, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I., Garcia, Milton, Dandois, Jonathan P., and Muller-Landau, Helene. 2021. Strong temporal variation in treefall and branchfall rates in a tropical forest is explained by rainfall: results from five years of monthly drone data for a 50-ha plot. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Terrestrial. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2021-102.
Davies, Stuart J., Abiem, Iveren, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Aguilar, Salomon, Allen, David, Alonso, Alfonso, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Andrade, Ana, Arellano, Gabriel, Ashton, Peter S., Baker, Patrick J., Baker, Matthew E., Baltzer, Jennifer L., Basset, Yves, Bissiengou, Pulcherie, Bohlman, Stephanie, Bourg, Norman A., Brockelman, Warren Y., Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Burslem, David F. R. P., Cao, Min, Cardenas, Dairon, Chang, Li-Wan, Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao, Chao, Kuo-Jung et al. 2021. "ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network." Biological Conservation, 253 108907–108907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108907.
Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Herrmann, Valentine, Banbury Morgan, Rebecca, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Cook-Patton, Susan C., Ferson, Abigail E., Muller-Landau, Helene C., and Wang, Maria M. H. 2021. "Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally." Environmental Research Letters, 16, (5). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abed01.
Banbury Morgan, Rebecca, Herrmann, Valentine, Kunert, Norbert, Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Muller-Landau, Helene C., and Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. 2021. "Global patterns of forest autotrophic carbon fluxes." Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15574.
Cushman, K. C., Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh, Cardenas, Dairon, Condit, Richard, Davies, Stuart J., Duque, Alvaro, Hubbell, Stephen P., Kiratiprayoon, Somboon, Lum, Shawn K. Y., and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2021. "Variation in trunk taper of buttressed trees within and among five lowland tropical forests." Biotropica, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12994.
Muller-Landau, Helene C., Cushman, K. C., Arroyo, Eva E., Cano, Isabel Martinez, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., and Backiel, Bogumila. 2021. "Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass." New Phytologist, 229, (6) 3065–3087. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17084.
Grubinger, Samuel, Araujo, Raquel F., Garcia, Milton, Dandois, Jonathan P., and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2021. [Dataset] Color orthomosaics of the 50-ha plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, for 2014-2019. Distributed by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.16869259.V1.
Grubinger, Samuel, Araujo, Raquel F., Garcia, Milton, Dandois, Jonathan P., and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2021. [Dataset] Surface elevation models and associated canopy height change models for the 50-ha plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, for 2014-2019. Distributed by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.14417933.V1.
Grubinger, Samuel, Araujo, Raquel F., Garcia, Milton, Dandois, Jonathan P., and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2021. [Dataset] Shapefiles of canopy disturbances for the 50-ha plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, for 2014-2019. Distributed by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.14417915.V1.
Sack, Lawren, Kunert, Norbert, Herrmann, Valentine, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Wright, S. Joseph, McMahon, Sean M., Condit, Richard C., Hubbell, Steven P., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Davies, Stuart J., Perez, Rolando, and Zailaa, Joseph. 2021. "Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees." New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17187.
Araujo, Raquel Fernandes, Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Souza Celes, Carlos Henrique, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Ferreira dos Santos, Ana Paula, Emmert, Fabiano, Ribeiro, Gabriel H. P. M., Gimenez, Bruno Oliva, Lima, Adriano J. N., Campos, Moacir A. A., and Higuchi, Niro. 2020. "Integrating high resolution drone imagery and forest inventory to distinguish canopy and understory trees and quantify their contributions to forest structure and dynamics." Plos One, 15, (12) Article e0243079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243079.
Gora, Evan M., Burchfield, Jeffrey C., Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Bitzer, Phillip M., and Yanoviak, Stephen P. 2020. "Pantropical geography of lightning‐caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests." Global Change Biology, 26, (9) 5017–5026. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15227.
Gora, Evan M., Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Burchfield, Jeffrey C., Bitzer, Phillip M., Hubbell, Stephen P., and Yanoviak, Stephen P. 2020. "A mechanistic and empirically-supported lightning risk model for forest trees." Journal of Ecology, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13404.
Koven, Charles D., Knox, Ryan G., Fisher, Rosie A., Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Christoffersen, Bradley O., Davies, Stuart J., Detto, Matteo, Dietze, Michael C., Faybishenko, Boris, Holm, Jennifer, Huang, Maoyi, Kovenock, Marlies, Kueppers, Lara M., Lemieux, Gregory, Massoud, Elias, McDowell, Nathan G., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Needham, Jessica F., Norby, Richard J., Powell, Thomas, Rogers, Alistair, Serbin, Shawn P., Shuman, Jacquelyn K., Swann, Abigail L. S., Varadharajan, Charuleka et al. 2020. "Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama." Biogeosciences, 17, (11) 3017–3044. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3017-2020.
Martínez Cano, Isabel, Shevliakova, Elena, Malyshev, Sergey, Wright, S. J., Detto, Matteo, Pacala, Stephen W., and Muller‐Landau, Helene C. 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, (8) 4478–4494. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15188.
Muller-Landau, Helene and Pacala, Stephen W. 2020. "What determines the abundance of lianas and vines?" In Unsolved problems in Ecology. Dobson, Andrew, Tilman, David, and Holt, Robert D., editors. 239–264. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs9fh2n.23.
Rutishauser, Ervan, Wright, S. Joseph, Condit, Richard, Hubbell, Stephen P., Davies, Stuart J., and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2020. "Testing for changes in biomass dynamics in large-scale forest datasets." Global Change Biology, 26, (3) 1485–1498. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14833.
Yanoviak, Stephen P., Gora, Evan M., Bitzer, Phillip M., Burchfield, Jeffrey C., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Detto, Matteo, Paton, Steven, and Hubbell, Stephen P. 2020. "Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland Neotropical forest." The New Phytologist, 225, (5) 1936–1944. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16260.
Broekman, Maarten J. E., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Visser, Marco D., Jongejans, Eelke, Wright, S. Joseph, and de Kroon, Hans. 2019. "Signs of stabilisation and stable coexistence." Ecology Letters, 22, (11) 1957–1975. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13349.
Gora, Evan M., Kneale, Riley C., Larjavaara, Markku, and Muller-Landau, Helene C. 2019. "Dead Wood Necromass in a Moist Tropical Forest: Stocks, Fluxes, and Spatiotemporal Variability." Ecosystems, 22 1189–1205. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00341-5.
Martínez Cano, Isabel, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Wright, S. Joseph, Bohlman, Stephanie A., and Pacala, Stephen W. 2019. "Tropical tree height and crown allometries for the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama: a comparison of alternative hierarchical models incorporating interspecific variation in relation to life history traits." Biogeosciences, 16, (4) 847–862. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-847-2019.
Muller-Landau, Helene C. and Visser, Marco D. 2019. "How do lianas and vines influence competitive differences and niche differences among tree species? Concepts and a case study in a tropical forest." Journal of Ecology, 107 1469–1481. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13119.
Park, John Y., Muller-Landau, Helene C., Lichstein, Jeremy W., Rifai, Sami W., Dandois, Jonathan P., and Bohlman, Stephanie A. 2019. "Quantifying Leaf Phenology of Individual Trees and Species in a Tropical Forest Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images." Remote Sensing, 11, (13) 1534. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11131534.
