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Hirma Ramírez-Angulo

Hirma Ramírez-Angulo

Overview

Hirma Ramírez-Angulo is affiliated with Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and has a focused expertise in Environmental Science, with a body of work encompassing 15 publications in this field. Their research integrates several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work spans multiple interconnected topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Tree-ring Climate Responses. These topics reflect a broad engagement with forest ecosystems and their responses to environmental factors.

Significant publications by Ramírez-Angulo include:

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • FunAndes - A functional trait database of Andean plants, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change, 2025, Science
  • The pace of life for forest trees, 2024, Science

Ramírez-Angulo frequently publishes in prominent journals including Nature Communications, Science, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Scientific Data, and Ecography. The scientist has contributed to at least three publications in Nature Communications and two in Science.

They have collaborated extensively with a consistent group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Ben Hur Marimon
  • Emilio Vilanova
  • Anthony Di Fiore
  • Paulo S. Morandi

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • 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

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

    Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Oliver L. Phillips;Roel J.W. Brienen;Sophie Fauset

  • Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Lan Qie;Lan Qie

  • Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)

    N. M. Fyllas;N. M. Fyllas;E. Gloor;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch

  • 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

Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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