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2705

Overview

Duncan W. Thomas is affiliated with Washington State University Vancouver in the United States. Their research spans across multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics.

The scientist's recent publications include the following notable papers:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests, 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities, 2024, Nature
  • A map of African humid tropical forest aboveground biomass derived from management inventories, 2020, Scientific Data

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • David Kenfack
  • George B. Chuyong
  • Jean-Remy Makana
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • Chia-Hao Chang-Yang

Duncan W. Thomas has contributed multiple publications to prominent venues such as:

  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • PLoS Computational Biology

The main fields of study for this scientist cover:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their work includes notable subfields such as:

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

Their research topics focus on an array of subjects including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Jerome Chave;Sean C Thomas

  • 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

  • Soil resources and topography shape local tree community structure in tropical forests

    Claire A. Baldeck;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt;Robert John

  • 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

  • Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Kyle E Harms;Kyle E Harms;Christian O Marks

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

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

  • Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area.

    Saara J. DeWalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Jérôme Chave;Frans Bongers

  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Renato Valencia;Min Cao

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • 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

  • Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Ryan A. Chisholm;Richard Condit;K. Abd. Rahman;Patrick J. Baker

  • How Effective Are DNA Barcodes in the Identification of African Rainforest Trees

    Ingrid Parmentier;Jérôme Duminil;Jérôme Duminil;Maria Kuzmina;Morgane Philippe

  • Habitat specificity and diversity of tree species in an African wet tropical forest

    George B. Chuyong;David Kenfack;Kyle E. Harms;Duncan W. Thomas

  • Rarity and Abundance in a Diverse African Forest

    David Kenfack;Duncan W. Thomas;George B. Chuyong;Richard S. Condit

Frequent Co-Authors

David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea
Pierre Couteron
Pierre Couteron Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Nicolas Barbier
Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier
Uta Berger
Uta Berger TU Dresden
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

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