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44
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4966
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10

Overview

Michiel van Breugel is affiliated with Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work covers a range of topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, as well as insect and arachnid ecology and behavior.

Van Breugel's recent papers highlight diverse aspects of tropical forest ecology and recovery. Key publications include:

  • "Multidimensional tropical forest recovery," 2021, Science
  • "Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Legume-microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Localised climate change defines ant communities in human-modified tropical landscapes," 2020, Functional Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with van Breugel include:

  • Jefferson S. Hall
  • Frans Bongers
  • Lourens Poorter
  • Dylan Craven
  • Jorge A. Meave

The scientist has published regularly in venues such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

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

  • Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances

    Robin L Chazdon;Susan G Letcher;Michiel van Breugel;Michiel van Breugel;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human‐modified Tropical Landscapes

    Robin L. Chazdon;Celia A. Harvey;Oliver Komar;Daniel M. Griffith

  • 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

  • Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

    Celia A. Harvey;Oliver Komar;Robin Chazdon;Bruce G. Ferguson

  • A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mapping

    Gregory P. Asner;Joseph Mascaro;Joseph Mascaro;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

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

  • Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

    Sarah A. Batterman;Lars O. Hedin;Michiel van Breugel;Johannes Ransijn;Johannes Ransijn

  • Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

    Natalia Norden;Héctor A. Angarita;Frans Bongers;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • Estimating carbon stock in secondary forests: Decisions and uncertainties associated with allometric biomass models

    Michiel van Breugel;Johannes Ransijn;Johannes Ransijn;Johannes Ransijn;Dylan Craven;Dylan Craven;Frans Bongers

  • Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

    Lourens Poorter;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;Jarcilene S. de Almeida-Cortez

  • Community dynamics during early secondary succession in Mexican tropical rain forests

    M. van Breugel;M. Martinez-Ramos;F.J.J.M. Bongers

  • Functional diversity changes during tropical forest succession

    Madelon Lohbeck;Madelon Lohbeck;Lourens Poorter;Horacio Paz;Laura Pla

  • High-fidelity national carbon mapping for resource management and REDD+.

    Gregory P. Asner;Joseph Mascaro;Christopher Anderson;David E. Knapp

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Species Dynamics During Early Secondary Forest Succession: Recruitment, Mortality and Species Turnover

    Michiel Van Breugel;Michiel Van Breugel;Frans Bongers;Miguel Martínez‐Ramos

  • Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession

    Madelon Lohbeck;Madelon Lohbeck;Lourens Poorter;Miguel Martínez‐Ramos;Jorge Rodriguez‐Velázquez

  • Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests.

    Maga Gei;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers

  • Controls over aboveground forest carbon density on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

    J. Mascaro;J. Mascaro;G. P. Asner;H. C. Muller-Landau;M. van Breugel

  • Early growth and survival of 49 tropical tree species across sites differing in soil fertility and rainfall in Panama

    Michiel van Breugel;Jefferson S. Hall;Dylan J. Craven;Dylan J. Craven;Timothy G. Gregoire

Frequent Co-Authors

Jefferson S. Hall
Jefferson S. Hall Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Dylan Craven
Dylan Craven Universidad Mayor
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Miguel Martínez-Ramos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
G. Bruce Williamson
G. Bruce Williamson Louisiana State University
Robert Muscarella
Robert Muscarella Uppsala University
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Bryan Finegan
Bryan Finegan Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
Jorge A. Meave
Jorge A. Meave National Autonomous University of Mexico

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