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100
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44954
World Ranking
273
National Ranking
110

Overview

Richard Condit is an independent scientist and consultant based in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology. The main fields and subfields of their work include ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The scientist's topical expertise covers a variety of areas within ecological and environmental studies. These areas are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Richard Condit's recent scholarly contributions include:

  • "ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics," 2020, Science
  • "The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests," 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • "Counting niches: Abundance-by-trait patterns reveal niche partitioning in a Neotropical forest," 2020, Ecology

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Forest Ecosystems
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology

In their collaborative work, Richard Condit has coauthored multiple publications with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel P. Costa
  • Stephen P. Hubbell
  • Salomón Aguilar
  • Chia-Hao Chang-Yang
  • S. Joseph Wright

Best Publications

  • Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

    S. P. Hubbell;R. B. Foster;S. T. O'Brien;K. E. Harms

  • Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

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

  • Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Tropical Forest Census Plots: Methods and Results from Barro Colorado Island, Panama and a Comparison with Other Plots

    Richard Condit

  • Tropical Forest Census Plots

    Richard Condit

  • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Liza S. Comita;Richard S. Condit;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

    S. Joseph Wright;Kaoru Kitajima;Kaoru Kitajima;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Reich

  • Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates.

    Jerome Chave;Richard S. Condit;Salomo´n Aguilar;Andres Hernandez

  • Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot

    Kyle Edward Harms;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • Mortality Rates of 205 Neotropical Tree and Shrub Species and the Impact of a Severe Drought

    Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

    L. Poorter;S. J. Wright;H. Paz;D. D. Ackerly

  • Long-Term Studies of Vegetation Dynamics

    Mark Rees;Richard S. Condit;Mick Crawley;Steve Pacala

  • 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

  • SPECIES-AREA AND SPECIES-INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR TROPICAL TREES : A COMPARISON OF THREE 50-HA PLOTS

    Richard Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;James V. Lafrankie;R. Sukumar

  • Spatial and temporal variation of biomass in a tropical forest: results from a large census plot in Panama

    Jerome Chave;Jerome Chave;Richard S. Condit;Suzanne Lao;John P. Caspersen;John P. Caspersen

  • Research in large, long-term tropical forest plots

    Richard S. Condit

  • Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

    Richard Condit;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Delicia Pino;Rolando Pérez

  • Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana C. S. Andrade

  • Predicting Population Trends from Size Distributions: A Direct Test in a Tropical Tree Community

    Richard Condit;R Sukumar;Stephen P Hubbell;Robin B Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Robin B. Foster
Robin B. Foster Field Museum of Natural History
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea

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