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334

Overview

María Uriarte is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States, where their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work explores complex interactions in ecosystems, with a focus on forest dynamics, species distribution, and the impacts of environmental changes on vegetation.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications in well-regarded journals addressing various environmental and ecological topics. Selected recent papers include:

  • Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors associated with visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic review, 2020, Parasitology Research
  • Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency, 2020, Nature Communications
  • 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
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with María Uriarte include:

  • Jess K. Zimmerman
  • Jill Thompson (26 joint publications)
  • Robert Muscarella (14 joint publications)
  • James A. Lutz (14 joint publications)
  • Stuart J. Davies (14 joint publications)

Publication venues where María Uriarte has most frequently contributed include:

  • Ecology Letters (5 publications)
  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • Ecosystems (4 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (4 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 publications)

The scientist's research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their subfields of study reveal specializations as follows:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling

Key topics in María Uriarte's work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Best Publications

  • ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models

    Robert Muscarella;Peter J. Galante;Mariano Soley‐Guardia;Robert A. Boria

  • Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

    Ruth S. DeFries;Thomas Rudel;Maria Uriarte;Matthew Hansen

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

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

  • Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

    Thomas K. Rudel;Laura Schneider;Maria Uriarte;Billie Turner

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • 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

  • DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation.

    W. John Kress;Carlos García-Robledo;Maria Uriarte;David L. Erickson

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

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

  • Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain.

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Maria Uriarte;Oswald J. Schmitz

  • A spatially explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: does the identity of neighbours matter?

    Maria Uriarte;Richard S. Condit;Richard S. Condit;Charles D. Canham;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Neighborhood Analyses Of Canopy Tree Competition Along Environmental Gradients In New England Forests

    Charles D. Canham;Michael J. Papaik;María Uriarte;William H. McWilliams

  • Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

    Patricia Balvanera;María Uriarte;Lucía Almeida-Leñero;Alice Altesor

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

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

  • Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Renato Crouzeilles;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem

  • Influence of land use on water quality in a tropical landscape: a multi-scale analysis

    María Uriarte;Charles B. Yackulic;Yili Lim;Javier A. Arce-Nazario

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

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

  • Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain (herbivore-mediated effectsypredationyold field food chainsygrasshoppers)

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Maria Uriarte;Oswald J. Schmitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jess K. Zimmerman
Jess K. Zimmerman University of Puerto Rico
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Robert Muscarella
Robert Muscarella Uppsala University
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore

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