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I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke

I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
11131
World Ranking
4759
National Ranking
1

Best Publications

  • Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • 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

  • Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

    Richard Law;Janine Barbel Illian;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;Georg Gratzer

  • 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

  • Species Associations in a Heterogeneous Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest

    Thorsten Wiegand;Savithri Gunatilleke;Nimal Gunatilleke

  • The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

    Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Peter Ashton;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;H. S. Dattaraja

  • 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

  • Analyzing the spatial structure of a Sri Lankan tree species with multiple scales of clustering.

    Thorsten Wiegand;Savitri Gunatilleke;Nimal Gunatilleke;Toshinori Okuda

  • Restoration pathways for rain forest in southwest Sri Lanka: a review of concepts and models

    Mark S Ashton;C.V.S Gunatilleke;B.M.P Singhakumara;I.A.U.N Gunatilleke

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

    Jérôme Chave;Richard Condit;Helene C Muller-Landau;Sean C Thomas

  • Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

    Christopher Wills;Kyle E. Harms;Richard Condit;David King

  • 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

  • A brief overview of the Western Ghats - Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

    Nihara R. Gunawardene;A. E. Dulip Daniels;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;C. V. S. Gunatilleke

  • Species-habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest

    C. V. S. Gunatilleke;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;S. Esufali;K. E. Harms

  • Restoration of a Sri Lankan rainforest : using Caribbean pine Pinus caribaea as a nurse for establishing late-successional tree species

    P. M. S. Ashton;S. Gamage;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;C. V. S. Gunatilleke

  • The Effects of Selective Logging on Inbreeding in Shorea megistophylla (Dipterocarpaceae) from Sri Lanka

    Darlyne A. Murawski;I.A.U. Nimal Gunatilleke;Kamaljit S. Bawa

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. R. P. Burslem
David F. R. P. Burslem University of Aberdeen
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Mark S. Ashton
Mark S. Ashton Yale University
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Raman Sukumar
Raman Sukumar Indian Institute of Science
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University
Sean C. Thomas
Sean C. Thomas University of Toronto

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