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Alfonso Alonso is affiliated with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology, and remote sensing technologies.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their subfields of study highlight a focus on:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Insect Science

Alonso's research topics cover a range of ecological and remote sensing subjects, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Recent publications by Alfonso Alonso include:

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • The NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of current and future space missions, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests, 2020, Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors working with Alonso include:

  • Nicolás Castaño Arboleda
  • Francisco Dallmeier
  • Rodolfo Vásquez
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos

Alonso regularly publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Communications Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Scientific Data
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of ecosystems.

    David A. Keith;David A. Keith;Jon Paul Rodríguez;Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark;Emily Nicholson

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Impacts of Roads and Hunting on Central African Rainforest Mammals

    William F. Laurance;Barbara M. Croes;Landry Tchignoumba;Sally A. Lahm

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Why do microbes exhibit weak biogeographic patterns

    Kyle M. Meyer;Hervé Memiaghe;Lisa Korte;David Kenfack

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α‐diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

    Ingrid Parmentier;Ingrid Parmentier;Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Bruno Senterre;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Impacts of Roads, Hunting, and Habitat Alteration on Nocturnal Mammals in African Rainforests

    William F. Laurance;Barbara M. Croes;Barbara M. Croes;Nicaise Guissouegou;Ralph Buij

  • Arboreal camera trapping: Taking a proven method to new heights

    Tremaine Gregory;Farah Carrasco Rueda;Farah Carrasco Rueda;Jessica L. Deichmann;Joseph Kolowski

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Density and activity patterns of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in northern Peru and the impact of oil exploration activities

    J.M. Kolowski;A. Alonso

  • Monitoring arthropods in a tropical landscape: relative effects of sampling methods and habitat types on trap catches

    Olivier Missa;Yves Basset;Alfonso Alonso;Scott E. Miller

  • Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests

    Yves Basset;Jacques F. Mavoungou;Jean Bruno Mikissa;Olivier Missa

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Distribution of a community of mammals in relation to roads and other human disturbances in Gabon, central Africa.

    Hadrien P. A. Vanthomme;Joseph Kolowski;Lisa Korte;Alfonso Alonso

Frequent Co-Authors

David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Alexandre A. de Oliveira
Alexandre A. de Oliveira Universidade de São Paulo
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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