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Overview

Terese B. Hart is affiliated with the Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Inc. in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling.

The main topics of their work include primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Terese B. Hart include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • CD4 receptor diversity represents an ancient protection mechanism against primate lentiviruses, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors of Terese B. Hart include:

  • John Hart
  • Corneille E. N. Ewango
  • Hans Beeckman
  • Aida Cuní-Sanchez
  • Lindsay F. Banin

Terese B. Hart has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • Nature
  • American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Science
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • 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

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • Monodominant and Species-Rich Forests of the Humid Tropics: Causes for Their Co-Occurrence

    Terese B. Hart;John A. Hart;Peter G. Murphy

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • 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

  • Stable isotope ecology in the Ituri Forest

    Thure E. Cerling;John A. Hart;Terese B. Hart

  • 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

  • The Ecological Basis of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in African Rain Forests: The Mbuti of Eastern Zaire

    Terese B. Hart;John A. Hart

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

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

  • African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

    Weimin Liu;Yingying Li;Katharina S. Shaw;Gerald H. Learn

  • Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Kyle E Harms;Kyle E Harms;Christian O Marks

  • Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area.

    Saara J. DeWalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Jérôme Chave;Frans Bongers

  • Monospecific dominance in tropical rain forests.

    Terese B. Hart

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • 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

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Seed, seedling and sub-canopy survival in monodominant and mixed forests of the Ituri Forest, Africa

    Terese B. Hart

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean C. Thomas
Sean C. Thomas University of Toronto
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
John Hart
John Hart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Simon Willcock
Simon Willcock Rothamsted Research
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research

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