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Overview

Timothy J. Killeen is affiliated with the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Bolivia. Their work spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing 37 and 13 publications respectively.

Their research focuses on a variety of topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Subfields engaged in by Killeen include:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • History

Recent papers by Killeen cover diverse environmental and ecological topics, such as:

  • "Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa," 2020, Ecology
  • "sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora," 2023, Communications Biology

Killeen frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography (2 publications)
  • Science (2 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)

Collaborations are a significant part of Killeen's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • William F. Laurance (22 joint works)
  • José Luís Camargo (21 joint works)
  • Ted R. Feldpausch (21 joint works)
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon (21 joint works)
  • Ben Hur Marimon (21 joint works)

Killeen has also published a book titled A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness in 2022, available through White Horse Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

    Yadvinder Malhi;J. Timmons Roberts;Richard A. Betts;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests

    Francis E. Mayle;Rachel Burbridge;Timothy J. Killeen

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • 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

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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