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Overview

Rhett D. Harrison is affiliated with World Agroforestry, Zambia. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Recent publications by Rhett D. Harrison include:

  • Invasiveness, biology, ecology, and management of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (2022) published in Entomologia Generalis
  • The global abundance of tree palms (2020) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes (2021) published in Current Biology
  • Hemiepiphytes revisited (2021) published in Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Global scientific progress and shortfalls in biological control of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (2024) published in Biological Control

Frequent co-authors involved in collaborative research with Rhett D. Harrison include:

  • Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa
  • Finn Kjellberg
  • Jean-Yves Rasplus
  • Jianchu Xu
  • Douglas Schaefer

The main publication venues where Rhett's work appears most often are:

  • World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF Dataverse
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Biological Control
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Pollination biology in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. I. Characteristics of the plant-pollinator community in a lowland dipterocarp forest

    Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu;Makoto Kato

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

    Astrid Cruaud;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Bhanumas Chantarasuwan;Lien Siang Chou

  • Agro-ecological options for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith) management: Providing low-cost, smallholder friendly solutions to an invasive pest.

    Rhett D. Harrison;Christian Thierfelder;Frédéric Baudron;Peter Chinwada

  • 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

  • Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

    Rhett D Harrison;Rhett D Harrison;Sylvester Tan;Joshua B. Plotkin;Ferry Slik

  • Figs and the Diversity of Tropical Rainforests

    Rhett D. Harrison

  • Impacts of hunting on tropical forests in Southeast Asia

    Rhett D. Harrison;Rhett D. Harrison;Rachakonda Sreekar;Rachakonda Sreekar;Jedediah F. Brodie;Sarah Brook

  • Irregular droughts trigger mass flowering in aseasonal tropical forests in asia

    Shoko Sakai;Rhett D. Harrison;Kuniyasu Momose;Koichiro Kuraji

  • Repercussions of El Niño: drought causes extinction and the breakdown of mutualism in Borneo.

    Rhett D. Harrison

  • Emptying the Forest: Hunting and the Extirpation of Wildlife from Tropical Nature Reserves

    Rhett D. Harrison

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Pseudoreplication in Tropical Forests and the Resulting Effects on Biodiversity Conservation

    Benjamin S. Ramage;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Hannah M.W. Salim;Christine Fletcher

  • Dispersal of fig pollinators in Asian tropical rain forests

    Rhett D. Harrison;Jean-Yves Rasplus

  • Using metabarcoding to ask if easily collected soil and leaf-litter samples can be used as a general biodiversity indicator

    Chenxue Yang;Chenxue Yang;Xiaoyang Wang;Jeremy A. Miller;Marleen de Blécourt

  • Fig wasp dispersal and the stability of a keystone plant resource in Borneo

    Rhett D. Harrison

  • The global abundance of tree palms

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Shifting baselines on a tropical forest frontier: extirpations drive declines in local ecological knowledge.

    Zhang Kai;Teoh Shu Woan;Li Jie;Eben Goodale

  • Drought and the consequences of El Niño in Borneo: a case study of figs

    Rhett D. Harrison

  • Colonization of an island volcano, Long Island, Papua New Guinea, and an emergent island, Motmot, in its caldera lake. V. Colonization by figs (Ficus spp.), their dispersers and pollinators

    M. Shanahan;R. D. Harrison;R. Yamuna;W. Boen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
J. W. Ferry Slik
J. W. Ferry Slik Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Kun-Fang Cao
Kun-Fang Cao Guangxi University
Eben Goodale
Eben Goodale Guangxi University
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Jean-Yves Rasplus
Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA Biology Center for Population Management (CBGP)
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Charles H. Cannon
Charles H. Cannon Morton Arboretum

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