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Jess K. Zimmerman is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico in the United States. Their research mainly spans areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers several core topics in ecological and environmental research. These include:

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

Zimmerman has contributed to multiple recent research articles across notable scientific journals. Some of the recent papers they are associated with include:

  • Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hurricane-Induced Rainfall is a Stronger Predictor of Tropical Forest Damage in Puerto Rico Than Maximum Wind Speeds, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as María Uriarte, Jill Thompson, Stuart J. Davies, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, and S. Joseph Wright. These collaborations indicate a networked approach to studies within the environmental and ecological sciences.

Zimmerman's research outputs are often published in venues that align with their primary fields of study. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecosphere
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology Letters
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Variation in sexual reproduction in orchids and its evolutionary consequences: a spasmodic journey to diversification

    Raymond L. Tremblay;James D. Ackerman;Jess K. Zimmerman;Ricardo N. Calvo

  • Forest Regeneration in a Chronosequence of Tropical Abandoned Pastures: Implications for Restoration Ecology

    T. Mitchell Aide;Jess K. Zimmerman;John B. Pascarella;John B. Pascarella;Luis Rivera

  • 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

  • Forest recovery in abandoned tropical pastures in Puerto Rico

    T.Mitchell Aide;Jess K. Zimmerman;Luis Herrera;Maydee Rosario

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Responses of Tree Species to Hurricane Winds in Subtropical Wet Forest in Puerto Rico: Implications for Tropical Tree Life Histories

    Jess K. Zimmerman;Edwin M. Everham;Robert B. Waide;D. Jean Lodge

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • The ecological consequences of socioeconomic and land-use changes in postagriculture Puerto Rico

    H. Ricardo Grau;T. Mitchell Aide;Jess K. Zimmerman;John R. Thomlinson

  • THE PROBLEM AND PROMISE OF SCALE DEPENDENCY IN COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Jill Thompson

  • Barriers to Forest Regeneration in an Abandoned Pasture in Puerto Rico

    Jess K. Zimmerman;John B. Pascarella;T. Mitchell Aide

  • 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

  • The influence of spatial and size scale on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities.

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Jill Thompson;Jess K. Zimmerman

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Land use history, environment, and tree composition in a tropical forest

    Jill Thompson;Nicholas Brokaw;Jess K. Zimmerman;Robert B. Waide

  • Forest recovery in abandoned cattle pastures along an elevational gradient in Northeastern Puerto Rico

    T. Mitchell Aide;Jess K. Zimmerman;Maydee Rosario;Humfredo Marcano

  • A NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS OF TREE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL IN A HURRICANE-DRIVEN TROPICAL FOREST

    María Uriarte;Charles D. Canham;Jill Thompson;Jess K. Zimmerman

  • Patterns of fruit production in a neotropical orchid: pollinator vs. resource limitation

    Jess K. Zimmerman;T. Mitchell Aide

  • Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

    Nathan G. Swenson;David L. Erickson;Xiangcheng Mi;Norman Alan Bourg

  • Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of neotropical forests.

    Lourens Poorter;Masha T. van der Sande;Eric J. M. M. Arets;Nataly Ascarrunz

  • A Well-Resolved Phylogeny of the Trees of Puerto Rico Based on DNA Barcode Sequence Data

    Robert Muscarella;María Uriarte;David L. Erickson;Nathan G. Swenson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
T. Mitchell Aide
T. Mitchell Aide University of Puerto Rico
Robert Muscarella
Robert Muscarella Uppsala University
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University

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