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Ecology and Evolution
Panama
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
22926
World Ranking
2500
National Ranking
881

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
  • 1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robin B. Foster is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research contributes primarily to the field of Environmental Science, focusing on various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, Plant and animal studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their research include OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) hosted by La Trobe University, Biological Conservation, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Global Change Biology, and Taxon.

Recent publications that feature Robin B. Foster as coauthor or contributor include:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Aenigmanu, a new genus of Picramniaceae from Western Amazonia, 2021, Taxon
  • [Dataset:] BCI 50 ha Forest Dynamics Plot - 1990 Census, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent co-authors associated with Robin B. Foster's work include Stephen P. Hubbell, Stuart J. Davies, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, and Corneille E. N. Ewango.

Robin B. Foster was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1961.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Commonness and rarity in a neotropical forest: implications for tropical tree conservation

    S.P. Hubbell;R.B. Foster

  • Sapling Survival, Growth, and Recruitment: Relationship to Canopy Height in a Neotropical Forest

    Charles W. Welden;Steven W. Hewett;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • 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

  • CHANGES IN TREE SPECIES ABUNDANCE IN A NEOTROPICAL FOREST : IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

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

  • Strong density- and diversity-related effects help to maintain tree species diversity in a neotropical forest

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

  • Local neighborhood effects on long-term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest

    Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Jorge A. Ahumada;Richard S. Condit;Robin B. Foster

  • Recruitment near conspecific adults and the maintenance of tree and shrub diversity in a neotropical forest.

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

  • A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses

    Jeffrey J. Gerwing;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Robyn J. Burnham;Frans Bongers

  • Dynamics of the forest communities at Pasoh and Barro Colorado: comparing two 50-ha plots.

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;N. Manokaran;James V. LaFrankie

  • The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Raman Sukumar
Raman Sukumar Indian Institute of Science
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department

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