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  • 2002 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Dominance and distribution of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests. Ecology 82:2101–2117.

Overview

David A. Neill is affiliated with the Missouri Botanical Garden in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to tropical forests, biodiversity, and ecological dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • "Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa," 2020, Ecology
  • "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Long-term ecological legacies in western Amazonia," 2020, Journal of Ecology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with David A. Neill include Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Ted R. Feldpausch, and Ana Andrade.

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Communications Biology, Science, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Their work encompasses several subfields of study, including:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecological Modeling

The main topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

David A. Neill received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2002 for work on the dominance and distribution of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests.

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • DOMINANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TREE SPECIES IN UPPER AMAZONIAN TERRA FIRME FORESTS

    Nigel C. A. Pitman;John W. Terborgh;Miles R. Silman;V Percy Nunez

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

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

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

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • 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

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas.

    Carmen Ulloa Ulloa;Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez;Stephan Beck;Manuel J. Belgrano

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots

    S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;J. Lloyd

  • Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate.

    N. M. Fyllas;S. Patiño;S. Patiño;T. R. Baker;G. Bielefeld Nardoto

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Luzmila Arroyo
Luzmila Arroyo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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