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Robert Muscarella

Robert Muscarella

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
8910
World Ranking
7493
National Ranking
190

Overview

Robert Muscarella is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and general Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas, highlighting a focus on ecological dynamics and plant studies. These topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Their publication record features contributions to notable academic venues. Frequent journals in which they have published include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Functional Ecology

Muscarella has coauthored multiple papers with several researchers, including María Uriarte, Jess K. Zimmerman, Jill Thompson, Timothy R. Baker, and Janet Franklin.

Selected recent papers showcase a range of ecological and environmental research topics:

  • ENMeval 2.0: Redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species' niches and distributions, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions, 2020, BioScience
  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models

    Robert Muscarella;Peter J. Galante;Mariano Soley‐Guardia;Robert A. Boria

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

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

  • 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

  • ENMeval 2.0: Redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions

    Jamie M. Kass;Jamie M. Kass;Robert Muscarella;Peter J. Galante;Corentin L. Bohl

  • The Role of Frugivorous Bats in Tropical Forest Succession

    Robert Muscarella;Theodore H. Fleming

  • Wallace: A flexible platform for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions built for community expansion

    Jamie M. Kass;Bruno Vilela;Matthew E. Aiello‐Lammens;Robert Muscarella

  • A Well-Resolved Phylogeny of the Trees of Puerto Rico Based on DNA Barcode Sequence Data

    Robert Muscarella;María Uriarte;David L. Erickson;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

    Robert Muscarella;María Uriarte

  • 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

  • Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions

    Forrest Fleischman;Shishir Basant;Ashwini Chhatre;Eric A Coleman

  • The challenge of modeling niches and distributions for data‐poor species: a comprehensive approach to model complexity

    Peter J. Galante;Peter J. Galante;Babatunde Alade;Robert Muscarella;Sharon A. Jansa

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

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

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

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Samira Kolyaie;Douglas C. Morton;Jess K. Zimmerman

  • The global abundance of tree palms

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

  • Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests.

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

  • Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration.

    María Uriarte;Robert Muscarella;Jess K. Zimmerman

  • Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly

    Jesse R. Lasky;Bénédicte Bachelot;Robert Muscarella;Naomi B. Schwartz

  • Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: A test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

    Susan G. Letcher;Jesse R. Lasky;Robin L. Chazdon;Natalia Norden

  • Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant.

    Emily S. Bellis;Emily S. Bellis;Elizabeth A. Kelly;Claire M. Lorts;Huirong Gao

  • Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;María Uriarte;T. Mitchell Aide;David L. Erickson

Frequent Co-Authors

María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore
Jess K. Zimmerman
Jess K. Zimmerman University of Puerto Rico
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Robert P. Anderson
Robert P. Anderson City College of New York
Jefferson S. Hall
Jefferson S. Hall Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
G. Bruce Williamson
G. Bruce Williamson Louisiana State University
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Dylan Craven
Dylan Craven Universidad Mayor

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