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Jill Thompson is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to the understanding of tropical forest dynamics and ecosystem processes.

Their work covers several subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, forestry, and soil science. These areas intersect in their study of forest ecology, species distribution, and ecosystem responses to climatic factors.

Key research topics explored by Jill Thompson include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Species distribution and climate change

Their recent scholarly publications shed light on their research interests and outputs. Notable papers include:

  • "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)
  • "Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "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)

The frequent venues for Jill Thompson's publications reflect their engagement with journals that focus on ecological and biological sciences, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Communications Biology

Collaboration is a significant component of their research. Frequently co-authoring with other scholars, Jill Thompson has worked extensively with Jess K. Zimmerman, María Uriarte, Stuart J. Davies, Sisira Ediriweera, and Tze Leong Yao. The volume of joint publications with these researchers highlights active participation in collaborative ecological research networks.

Best Publications

  • Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems

    Aaron M. Ellison;Michael S. Bank;Barton D. Clinton;Elizabeth A. Colburn

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

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

  • 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

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo).

    Graeme Barker;Huw Barton;Michael Bird;Patrick Daly

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • THE PROBLEM AND PROMISE OF SCALE DEPENDENCY IN COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

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

  • Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

    María Uriarte;Nathan G. Swenson;Robin L. Chazdon;Liza S. Comita

  • 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

  • Seedling recruitment in a hurricane-driven tropical forest: light limitation, density-dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jess K. Zimmerman
Jess K. Zimmerman University of Puerto Rico
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
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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