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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kyle E. Harms is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their scientific work include Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Kyle E. Harms has published in a diverse set of scientific journals, with frequent contributions in:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecological Entomology
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Plant-Environment Interactions
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent papers reflect a range of ecological and environmental topics. Selected titles include:

  • "No escape: The influence of substrate sodium on plant growth and tissue sodium responses" (2021), Ecology and Evolution
  • "Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories" (2021), PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Contrasts among cationic phytochemical landscapes in the southern United States" (2022), Plant-Environment Interactions
  • "Butterfly species vary in sex-specific sodium accumulation from larval diets" (2024), Ecological Entomology
  • "Bison outperform cattle at restoring their home on the range" (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario
  • Ana L. Salgado
  • Diego Paredes-Burneo
  • James W. Dalling
  • Christopher Wills

In 2018, Kyle E. Harms was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

    S. P. Hubbell;R. B. Foster;S. T. O'Brien;K. E. Harms

  • Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest

    Harms Ke;Wright Sj;Calderón O;Hernández A

  • Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species

    Robert John;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt

  • Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

    S. Joseph Wright;Kaoru Kitajima;Kaoru Kitajima;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Reich

  • Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot

    Kyle Edward Harms;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

    L. Poorter;S. J. Wright;H. Paz;D. D. Ackerly

  • Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

    S. Joseph Wright;Joseph B. Yavitt;Nina Wurzburger;Nina Wurzburger;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest.

    Michael E. Kaspari;Michael E. Kaspari;Milton N. Garcia;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Mirna Santana

  • Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesis.

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana Andrade

  • Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana C. S. Andrade

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests

    Ian J. Wright;David D. Ackerly;Frans Bongers;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms

  • Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta-analysis.

    Jonathan A. Myers;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms

  • 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

  • Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan‐tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

    Jennifer S Powers;Rebecca A Montgomery;E Carol Adair;Francis Q Brearley

  • 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

  • A LONG-TERM STUDY OF COMPETITION AND DIVERSITY OF CORALS

    Joseph H. Connell;Terence P. Hughes;Carden C. Wallace;Jason E. Tanner

  • Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

    Louis S. Santiago;S. Joseph Wright;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt

  • Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
James W. Dalling
James W. Dalling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph B. Yavitt
Joseph B. Yavitt Cornell University
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Jonathan Myers
Jonathan Myers VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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