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38
Citations
11766
World Ranking
6502
National Ranking
8

Overview

Alvaro Duque is affiliated with the National University of Colombia in Colombia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Paleontology.

The main research topics addressed by Duque cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Duque include:

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests, 2021, Science
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors, 2021, One Earth
  • The Thermal Tolerances, Distributions, and Performances of Tropical Montane Tree Species, 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Duque frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom the most common are:

  • Daniel Zuleta (23 publications)
  • Stuart J. Davies (18 publications)
  • Sebastian González-Caro (13 publications)
  • Nicolás Castaño (13 publications)
  • Yadvinder Malhi (12 publications)

The scientist has published in various venues with multiple publications in some of these outlets, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 6 publications
  • Nature Communications - 3 publications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution - 3 publications
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) - 3 publications
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change - 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

    Jérôme Chave;Maxime Réjou‐Méchain;Alberto Búrquez;Emmanuel Chidumayo

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

    Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Oliver L. Phillips;Jerome Chave

  • 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

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Tree above-ground biomass allometries for carbon stocks estimation in the natural forests of Colombia

    Esteban Alvarez;Alvaro Duque;Juan Saldarriaga;Kenneth Cabrera

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

    Belén Fadrique;Selene Báez;Álvaro Duque;Agustina Malizia

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests.

    Mónica R. Carvalho;Mónica R. Carvalho;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Felipe de la Parra;Dayenari Caballero-Rodríguez

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

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

  • 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

  • Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

    Alvaro Duque;Pablo R. Stevenson;Kenneth J. Feeley

  • Different floristic patterns of woody understorey and canopy plants in Colombian Amazonia

    Alvaro Duque;Mauricio Sánchez;Jaime Cavelier;Joost F. Duivenvoorden

  • High-resolution mapping of forest carbon stocks in the Colombian Amazon

    G. P. Asner;J. K. Clark;J. Mascaro;G. A. Galindo García

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network.

    Agustina Malizia;Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Oriana Osinaga Acosta

  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors

    Sassan Saatchi;Sassan Saatchi;Marcos Longo;Liang Xu;Yan Yang

  • The Thermal Tolerances, Distributions, and Performances of Tropical Montane Tree Species

    Kenneth Feeley;Kenneth Feeley;Johanna Martinez-Villa;Johanna Martinez-Villa;Timothy Perez;Timothy Perez;Andres Silva Duque

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Joost F. Duivenvoorden
Joost F. Duivenvoorden University of Amsterdam
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Miles R. Silman
Miles R. Silman Wake Forest University
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Alexandre A. de Oliveira
Alexandre A. de Oliveira Universidade de São Paulo

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