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48
Citations
14716
World Ranking
4125
National Ranking
1436

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2007 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests. Science 305:663–665.

Overview

Paul V. A. Fine is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Plant Science; Molecular Biology; and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers key topics including Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Selected recent publications illustrate the diversity and scope of their research:

  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought, 2020, New Phytologist
  • When to update COVID-19 vaccine composition, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Genomic and phenotypic divergence unveil microgeographic adaptation in the Amazonian hyperdominant tree Eperua falcata Aubl. (Fabaceae), 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Natural selection maintains species despite frequent hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent publication venues for Paul V. A. Fine include New Phytologist, Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Collaborations are notable with several frequent coauthors:

  • Freddie C. Draper
  • Juan Ernesto Guevara
  • Italo Mesones
  • Gabriel Damasco
  • Oliver L. Phillips

Throughout their career, Paul V. A. Fine has been recognized with awards such as the Hellman Fellow in 2010 and the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2007. The latter recognized their work on herbivores promoting habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests.

Best Publications

  • The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

    Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Kenneth H Kozak;Paul V.A. Fine;Steven W. Kembel

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

    Catherine H. Graham;Paul V. A. Fine

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests.

    Paul V. A. Fine;Italo Mesones;Phyllis D. Coley

  • The Growth–Defense Trade‐Off And Habitat Specialization By Plants In Amazonian Forests

    Paul V. A. Fine;Paul V. A. Fine;Paul V. A. Fine;Zachariah J. Miller;Italo Mesones;Sebastian Irazuzta

  • Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

    Yusuke Onoda;Mark Westoby;Peter B. Adler;Amy M.F. Choong

  • Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity

    Paul V.A. Fine

  • Strong coupling of plant and fungal community structure across western Amazonian rainforests

    Kabir G Peay;Christopher Baraloto;Paul V A Fine

  • Phylogenetic community structure and phylogenetic turnover across space and edaphic gradients in western Amazonian tree communities

    Paul V. A. Fine;Steven W. Kembel

  • Evidence for a time-integrated species-area effect on the latitudinal gradient in tree diversity

    Paul V. A. Fine;Richard H. Ree

  • Global gradients in vertebrate diversity predicted by historical area-productivity dynamics and contemporary environment.

    Walter Jetz;Paul V. A. Fine

  • The invasibility of tropical forests by exotic plants

    Paul V. A. Fine

  • THE CONTRIBUTION OF EDAPHIC HETEROGENEITY TO THE EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF BURSERACEAE TREES IN THE WESTERN AMAZON

    Paul V A Fine;Paul V A Fine;Douglas C Daly;Gorky Villa Muñoz;Italo Mesones;Italo Mesones

  • Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

    Claire Fortunel;Paul V. A. Fine;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto

  • Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

    C.E. Thimothy Paine;Lucy Amissah;Lucy Amissah;Harald Auge;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto

  • Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Suzanne Rabaud;Suzanne Rabaud;Quentin Molto;Lilian Blanc

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests

    Claire Fortunel;C. E. Timothy Paine;Paul V. A. Fine;Nathan J. B. Kraft

  • Notes and Comments Evidence for a Time-Integrated Species-Area Effect on the Latitudinal Gradient in Tree Diversity

    Paul V. A. Fine;Richard H. Ree

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Roel J. W. Brienen
Roel J. W. Brienen University of Leeds

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