Robert Muscarella
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Plant Ecology and Evolution
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 28 61
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 73 49
- E-mail:
- Robert.Muscarella@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3039-1076
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Short presentation
I study plant communities – especially tropical forests – by mixing field studies, biodiversity databases, and statistical models. My research explores how environmental heterogeneity influences plant diversity and dynamics across various spatial and temporal scales. I am interested in diversity patterns, species range dynamics, the responses of biological communities to natural and anthropogenic disturbances, and the implications for ecosystem services.
Keywords
- biogeography
- climate change
- community ecology
- functional traits
- macroecology
- range dynamics
- species distributions
- tropical ecology
Research
Please see details at: https://bobmuscarella.weebly.com
Publications
Recent publications
- Chronic Winds Reduce Tropical Forest Structural Complexity Regardless of Climate, Topography, or Forest Age (2024)
- Height-diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico (2024)
- Drone microrelief analysis to predict the presence of naturally regenerated seedlings (2024)
- Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics (2024)
- Survival, growth, and functional traits of tropical wet forest tree seedlings across an experimental soil moisture gradient in Puerto Rico (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Chronic Winds Reduce Tropical Forest Structural Complexity Regardless of Climate, Topography, or Forest Age (2024)
- Height-diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico (2024)
- Drone microrelief analysis to predict the presence of naturally regenerated seedlings (2024)
- Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics (2024)
- Survival, growth, and functional traits of tropical wet forest tree seedlings across an experimental soil moisture gradient in Puerto Rico (2024)
- Water-limited environments affect the association between functional diversity and forest productivity (2023)
- Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest (2023)
- Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability (2023)
- Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests (2023)
- Climate biogeography of Arabidopsis thaliana (2023)
- Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane (2023)
- Ten simple rules for managing communications with a large number of coauthors (2022)
- ENM2020 (2022)
- Hurricanes increase tropical forest vulnerability to drought (2022)
- Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021)
- ENMeval 2.0 (2021)
- Edaphic heterogeneity and the evolutionary trajectory of Amazonian plant communities (2021)
- Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests (2021)
- History as grounds for interdisciplinarity (2021)
- Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant (2020)
- Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions (2020)
- Hurricane-Induced Rainfall is a Stronger Predictor of Tropical Forest Damage in Puerto Rico Than Maximum Wind Speeds (2020)
- The global abundance of tree palms (2020)
- Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context (2020)
- Topography and Traits Modulate Tree Performance and Drought Response in a Tropical Forest (2020)
- Palm community transects and soil properties in western Amazonia (2019)
- Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time (2019)
- Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics (2016)
