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397

Overview

Andrew R. Marshall is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as economics and econometrics.

Their published work covers a variety of topics centered on ecology and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology and management, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, economic and environmental valuation, fire effects on ecosystems, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew R. Marshall are:

  • "Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests" (2020, Nature)
  • "The number of tree species on Earth" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa" (2020, Ecology)
  • "Measuring human wellbeing: A protocol for selecting local indicators" (2020, Environmental Science & Policy)
  • "Conceptualising the Global Forest Response to Liana Proliferation" (2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Marion Pfeifer, Deo D. Shirima, Alain Senghor K. Ngute, Susannah M. Sallu, and Catherine E. Waite.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in the following publication venues:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates

    Francesco Rovero;Andrew R. Marshall

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling.

    R D Swetnam;B Fisher;B Fisher;B P Mbilinyi;P K T Munishi

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges

    Neil D. Burgess;Bruno Bahane;Tim Clairs;Finn Danielsen

  • The use of camera-trap data to model habitat use by antelope species in the Udzungwa Mountain forests, Tanzania

    Andrew E. Bowkett;Francesco Rovero;Andrew R. Marshall

  • Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient

    A.R. Marshall;S. Willcock;P.J. Platts;P.J. Platts;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett

  • Selection of line-transect methods for estimating the density of group-living animals: lessons from the primates.

    A.R. Marshall;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett;P.C.L. White

  • Carbon storage, structure and composition of miombo woodlands in Tanzania's Eastern Arc Mountains

    Deo D. Shirima;Pantaleo K. T. Munishi;Simon L. Lewis;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess

  • 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

  • Conservation and the botanist effect

    Antje Ahrends;Antje Ahrends;Carsten Rahbek;Mark T. Bulling;Mark T. Bulling;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess

  • Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

    Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher;R. Kerry Turner;Neil D. Burgess;Ruth D. Swetnam

  • Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics

    Anand M. Osuri;Anand M. Osuri;Jayashree Ratnam;Varun Varma;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Jon C. Lovett
Jon C. Lovett University of Leeds
Simon Willcock
Simon Willcock Rothamsted Research
Francesco Rovero
Francesco Rovero University of Florence
Neil D. Burgess
Neil D. Burgess University of Copenhagen
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Rob Marchant
Rob Marchant University of York
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University

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