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47
Citations
13533
World Ranking
4341
National Ranking
1510

Overview

Liza S. Comita is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and primarily conducts research in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics encompass Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Liza S. Comita are:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats, 2021, Plant Ecology
  • Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-16 El Niño, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities, 2024, Nature
  • Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings, 2022, Ecology

Liza S. Comita frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Biotropica
  • Nature
  • Ecology Letters

Collaborations are observed with co-authors such as Simon A. Queenborough, S. Joseph Wright, F. Andrew Jones, Eric Manzané-Pinzón, and Salomón Aguilar, with the highest number of joint works (13) being with Simon A. Queenborough.

Best Publications

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Liza S. Comita;Richard S. Condit;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community.

    Liza S. Comita;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Salomo´n Aguilar;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta‐analysis of experimental evidence for distance‐ and density‐dependent seed and seedling survival

    Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Simon A. Queenborough;Stephen J. Murphy;Janelle L. Eck

  • When and where plant-soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta-analysis.

    Kerri M. Crawford;Jonathan T. Bauer;Liza S. Comita;Maarten B. Eppinga

  • Developmental changes in habitat associations of tropical trees

    Liza S. Comita;Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank.

    Liza S. Comita;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • 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

  • Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity?

    Lívia Dorneles Audino;Julio Louzada;Julio Louzada;Liza Comita;Liza Comita

  • Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

    Marco D. Visser;Marco D. Visser;Marjolein Bruijning;S. Joseph Wright;Helene C. Muller‐Landau

  • Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest.

    Liza S. Comita;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest

    Lei Chen;Xiangcheng Mi;Liza S. Comita;Liwen Zhang

  • Conspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest

    Yan Zhu;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Keping Ma

  • Above-ground biomass is driven by mass-ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest

    Alexander T. Fotis;Stephen J. Murphy;Raleigh D. Ricart;Meghna Krishnadas

  • Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest.

    Liza S. Comita;Maria Uriarte;Jill Thompson;Inge Jonckheere

  • PAPER Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities

    James C. Stegen;James C. Stegen;Amy L. Freestone;Thomas O. Crist;Marti J. Anderson

  • Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community

    Nadja Rüger;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Drew Purves

  • Data from: Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

    Visser;M. Bruijning;S.J. Wright;H.C. Muller-Landau

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Jess K. Zimmerman
Jess K. Zimmerman University of Puerto Rico
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht
Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht University of Bayreuth
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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