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52
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17320
World Ranking
3381
National Ranking
1

Overview

Renato Valencia is affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Ecuador. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

The main subfields of their work include:

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

Key topics covered in their research are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their publication record spans several notable venues. Frequent outlets include:

  • Biotropica
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Among recent papers published by Renato Valencia are:

  • Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests, 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical forests, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade-offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests, 2023, Journal of Ecology

Renato Valencia has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Tze Leong Yao
  • Jess K. Zimmerman
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • Margaret R. Metz
  • Simon A. Queenborough

Best Publications

  • Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

    Richard Condit;Nigel Pitman;Egbert G. Leigh;Jérôme Chave

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Renato Valencia;David D. Ackerly

  • 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

  • Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador

    Renato Valencia;Robin B. Foster;Gorky Villa;Richard Condit;Richard Condit

  • 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

  • High tree alpha-diversity in Amazonian Ecuador

    R. Valencia;H. Balslev

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • A general framework for the distance–decay of similarity in ecological communities

    Helene Morlon;George B. Chuyong;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • 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

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador

    Susana León Yánez;Renato Valencia;Hugo Navarrete Zambrano;Nigel Pitman

  • The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

    Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Peter Ashton;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;H. S. Dattaraja

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • 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

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

    Jérôme Chave;Richard Condit;Helene C Muller-Landau;Sean C Thomas

  • Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Kyle E Harms;Kyle E Harms;Christian O Marks

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

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

  • A general framework for the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities OnlineOpen: This article is available free online at www.blackwell-synergy.com

    Helene Morlon;Richard Condit;Stephen Hubbell;Duncan Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea
Raman Sukumar
Raman Sukumar Indian Institute of Science
Henrik Balslev
Henrik Balslev Aarhus University
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University

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