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Ecology and Evolution
Panama
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
19917
World Ranking
1121
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award

Overview

Stuart J. Davies is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research primarily addresses topics in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, plant and animal studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

Their recent scientific contributions include:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors, 2021, One Earth

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sean M. McMahon, Tze Leong Yao, Álvaro Duque, Daniel Zuleta, and Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, reflecting a consistent collaborative network.

Davies has published extensively in several key scientific venues, most notably:

  • Global Change Biology (5 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (4 publications)
  • New Phytologist (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (4 publications)

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, including a notable work titled The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia, planned for release in 2025 by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.

Their subfields of study include nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and molecular biology, spanning a broad interdisciplinary range.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • The role of wood density and stem support costs in the growth and mortality of tropical trees

    David A. King;Stuart James Davies;Sylvester Tan;Nur Supardi Md.Noor

  • Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees

    Kenneth J. Feeley;S. Joseph Wright;M. N. Nur Supardi;Abd Rahman Kassim

  • 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

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • 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

  • Soil-related performance variation and distributions of tree species in a Bornean rain forest

    Sabrina E. Russo;Stuart James Davies;David A. King;Sylvester Tan

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

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

  • 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

  • Tree growth is related to light interception and wood density in two mixed dipterocarp forests of Malaysia

    D. A. King;S. J. Davies;M. N. Nur Supardi;S. Tan

  • Comparative ecology of 11 sympatric species of Macaranga in Borneo: tree distribution in relation to horizontal and vertical resource heterogeneity

    Stuart James Davies;Peter A. Palmiotto;Peter S. Ashton;Hua Seng Lee

  • Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

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

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Increases in intrahepatic CD68 positive cells, MAC387 positive cells, and proinflammatory cytokines (particularly interleukin 18) in chronic hepatitis C infection.

    P H McGuinness;D Painter;S Davies;G W McCaughan

  • What controls tropical forest architecture: testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

    L. Banin;L. Banin;T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

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

  • CODIVERSIFICATION IN AN ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM: STEM TEXTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST USE IN CREMATOGASTER (FORMICIDAE: MYRMICINAE) INHABITANTS OF MACARANGA (EUPHORBIACEAE)

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Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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