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César I.A. Vela
Researcher at National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Publications - 15
Citations - 2181
César I.A. Vela is an academic researcher from National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amazon rainforest & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1660 citations.
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Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Daniel Sabatier,Christopher Baraloto,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Oliver L. Phillips,Carolina V. Castilho,William E. Magnusson,Jean-François Molino,Abel Monteagudo,Percy Núñez Vargas,Juan Carlos Montero,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Timothy J. Killeen,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Rodolfo Vasquez,Rafael L. Assis,Rafael L. Assis,John Terborgh,Florian Wittmann,Ana Andrade,William F. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben Hur Marimon,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,Dairon Cárdenas López,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Hugo Mogollón,Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz,Flávia R. C. Costa,Thaise Emilio,Carolina Levis,Juliana Schietti,Priscila Souza,Alfonso Alonso,Francisco Dallmeier,Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Rogério Gribel,Paul V. A. Fine,Carlos A. Peres,Marisol Toledo,A C Gerardo Aymard,Timothy R. Baker,Carlos Cerón,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,Paul J. M. Maas,Pascal Petronelli,Juliana Stropp,Charles E. Zartman,Doug Daly,David A. Neill,Marcos Silveira,Marcos Ríos Paredes,Jérôme Chave,Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho,Peter M. Jørgensen,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Jochen Schöngart,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,Anthony Di Fiore,E. M. Jimenez,Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora,Juan Fernando Phillips,Gonzalo Rivas,Tinde van Andel,Patricio von Hildebrand,Bruce Hoffman,Egleé L. Zent,Yadvinder Malhi,Adriana Prieto,Agustín Rudas,Ademir R. Ruschell,Natalino Silva,Vincent A. Vos,Stanford Zent,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Angela Cano Schutz,Therany Gonzales,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,César I.A. Vela,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Corine Vriesendorp,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia Baider,Henrik Balslev,Cid Ferreira,Italo Mesones,Armando Torres-Lezama,Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo,Roderick Zagt,Miguel Alexiades,Lionel Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Daniela Pauletto,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,Kyle G. Dexter,Kenneth J. Feeley,Kenneth J. Feeley,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Miles R. Silman +125 more
TL;DR: The finding that Amazonia is dominated by just 227 tree species implies that most biogeochemical cycling in the world’s largest tropical forest is performed by a tiny sliver of its diversity.
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Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Carolina Levis,Flávia R. C. Costa,Frans Bongers,Marielos Peña-Claros,Charles R. Clement,André Braga Junqueira,Eduardo Góes Neves,Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha,Fernando O. G. Figueiredo,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Carolina V. Castilho,William E. Magnusson,Oliver L. Phillips,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Daniel Sabatier,Jean-François Molino,D. Cárdenas López,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Alvaro Duque,P. Núñez Vargas,Charles E. Zartman,Rodolfo Vasquez,Ana Andrade,José Luís Camargo,Ted R. Feldpausch,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Timothy J. Killeen,H. E. Mendonça Nascimento,Juan Carlos Montero,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Iêda Leão do Amaral,I. C. Guimarães Vieira,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,John Terborgh,M. de Jesus Veiga Carim,J. R. da Silva Guimarães,L. de Souza Coelho,F. D. de Almeida Matos,Florian Wittmann,Hugo Mogollón,Gabriel Damasco,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Thaise Emilio,D. de Andrade Lima Filho,Juliana Schietti,Paolla Gabryelle Cavalcante de Souza,Natalia Targhetta,James A. Comiskey,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben-Hur Marimon,David A. Neill,Alfonso Alonso,Luzmila Arroyo,Fernanda Carvalho,F. C. de Souza,Francisco Dallmeier,M. P. Pansonato,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Paul V. A. Fine,Pablo R. Stevenson,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Christopher Baraloto,D. D. do Amaral,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,Paul J. M. Maas,Pascal Petronelli,J. D. Cardenas Revilla,Juliana Stropp,Doug Daly,Rogério Gribel,M. Ríos Paredes,Marcos Silveira,Raquel Thomas-Caesar,Timothy R. Baker,N. F. da Silva,Leandro Valle Ferreira,Carlos A. Peres,Miles R. Silman,Carlos Cerón,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,A. Di Fiore,E. M. Jimenez,M. C. Peñuela Mora,Marisol Toledo,Edelcilio Marques Barbosa,L. C. de Matos Bonates,Nicolás Castaño Arboleda,E. de Sousa Farias,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Jean-Louis Guillaumet,P. Møller Jørgensen,Yadvinder Malhi,I. P. de Andrade Miranda,Juan Fernando Phillips,Adriana Prieto,Agustín Rudas,Ademir Roberto Ruschel,Natalino Silva,P. von Hildebrand,Vincent A. Vos,Egleé L. Zent,Stanford Zent,Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,José Ferreira Ramos,Gonzalo Rivas,Jochen Schöngart,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,G. M. F. van der Heijden,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia Baider,Ángela Cano,William Farfan-Rios,C. Ferreira,Bruce Hoffman,Casimiro Mendoza,Italo Mesones,Armando Torres-Lezama,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,T. R. van Andel,Daniel Villarroel,Roderick Zagt,Miguel Alexiades,Henrik Balslev,Karina Garcia-Cabrera,T. Gonzales,Lionel Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,Angelo Gilberto Manzatto,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Susamar Pansini,Daniela Pauletto,Fredy R. Ramirez Arévalo,N. F. Costa Reis,A. F. Sampaio,L. E. Urrego Giraldo,E. H. Valderrama Sandoval,L. Valenzuela Gamarra,César I.A. Vela,H. ter Steege +151 more
TL;DR: Analysis of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data indicates that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.
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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert,Timothy R. Baker,Kyle G. Dexter,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Roel J. W. Brienen,Ted R. Feldpausch,Jon Lloyd,Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza,Luzmila Arroyo,Esteban Álvarez-Dávila,Niro Higuchi,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben Hur Marimon-Junior,Marcos Silveira,Emilio Vilanova,Emilio Vilanova,Emanuel Gloor,Yadvinder Malhi,Jérôme Chave,Jos Barlow,Jos Barlow,Damien Bonal,Nallaret Davila Cardozo,Terry L. Erwin,Sophie Fauset,Bruno Hérault,Susan G. Laurance,Lourens Poorter,Lan Qie,Clément Stahl,Martin J. P. Sullivan,Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Vincent A. Vos,Pieter A. Zuidema,Everton Cristo de Almeida,Edmar Almeida de Oliveira,Ana Andrade,Simone Aparecida Vieira,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Eric Arets,Gerardo A. Aymard C,Christopher Baraloto,Plínio Barbosa de Camargo,Jorcely Barroso,Frans Bongers,René G. A. Boot,José Luís Camargo,Wendeson Castro,Victor Chama Moscoso,James A. Comiskey,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa,Jhon del Aguila Pasquel,Jhon del Aguila Pasquel,Anthony Di Fiore,Luisa Fernanda Duque,Fernando Elias,Julien Engel,Julien Engel,Gerardo Flores Llampazo,David W. Galbraith,Rafael Herrera Fernández,Rafael Herrera Fernández,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Wannes Hubau,Eliana Jimenez-Rojas,Adriano José Nogueira Lima,Ricardo Keichi Umetsu,William F. Laurance,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz,Paulo S. Morandi,David A. Neill,Percy Núñez Vargas,Nadir Pallqui Camacho,Alexander Parada Gutierrez,Guido Pardo,Julie Peacock,Marielos Peña-Claros,Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora,Pascal Petronelli,Georgia Pickavance,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Adriana Prieto,Carlos A. Quesada,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Zorayda Restrepo Correa,Anand Roopsind,Agustín Rudas,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Natalino Silva,Javier Silva Espejo,James Singh,Juliana Stropp,John Terborgh,Raquel Thomas,Marisol Toledo,Armando Torres-Lezama,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,Peter J. van de Meer,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Peter van der Hout,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,César I.A. Vela,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Oliver L. Phillips +111 more
TL;DR: A slow shift to a more dry‐affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics consistent with climate‐change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole‐community composition.
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Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert,Timothy R. Baker,Kyle G. Dexter,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Hans ter Steege,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,Roel J. W. Brienen,Ted R. Feldpausch,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Alfonso Alonso,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Marielos Peña-Claros,Manuel Ahuite,Miguel Alexiaides,Esteban Alvarez Dávila,Alejandro Araujo Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Milton Aulestia,Henrik Balslev,Jorcely Barroso,René G. A. Boot,Ángela Cano,Victor Chama Moscoso,James A. Comiskey,Fernando Cornejo,Francisco Dallmeier,Douglas C. Daly,Nállarett Dávila,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya,Terry L. Erwin,Anthony Di Fiore,Todd S. Fredericksen,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Therany Gonzales,Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,Rojas Eliana Maria Jiménez,Timothy J. Killeen,Yadvinder Malhi,Casimiro Mendoza,Hugo Mogollón,Peter M. Jørgensen,Juan Carlos Montero,Bonifacio Mostacedo,William Nauray,David A. Neill,Percy Núñez Vargas,Sonia Palacios,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Nadir Pallqui Camacho,Julie Peacock,Juan Fernando Phillips,Georgia Pickavance,Carlos A. Quesada,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Zorayda Restrepo,Carlos Reynel Rodriguez,Marcos Ríos Paredes,Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora,Rodrigo Sierra,Marcos Silveira,Pablo R. Stevenson,Juliana Stropp,John Terborgh,Milton Tirado,Marisol Toledo,Armando Torres-Lezama,María Natalia Umaña,Ligia E. Urrego,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,César I.A. Vela,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Vincent A. Vos,Patricio von Hildebrand,Corine Vriesendorp,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Charles E. Zartman,Oliver L. Phillips +84 more
TL;DR: It is found that the distributions of tree taxa are indeed nested along precipitation gradients in the western Neotropics, and the results suggest that the ‘dry tolerance’ hypothesis has broad applicability in the world's most species-rich forests.
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Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Carlos A. Peres,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Carolina V. Castilho,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos,Luiz de Souza Coelho,William E. Magnusson,Oliver L. Phillips,Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho,Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim,Mariana Victória Irume,Maria Pires Martins,Jean-François Molino,Daniel Sabatier,Florian Wittmann,Dairon Cárdenas López,José Renan da Silva Guimarães,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,Percy Núñez Vargas,Angelo Gilberto Manzatto,Neidiane Farias Costa Reis,John Terborgh,Katia Regina Casula,Juan Carlos Montero,Juan Carlos Montero,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya,Charles E. Zartman,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Rodolfo Vasquez,Rafael L. Assis,Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros,Marcelo F. Simon,Ana Andrade,José Luís Camargo,Susan G. Laurance,Henrique E. M. Nascimento,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben-Hur Marimon,Flávia R. C. Costa,Natalia Targhetta,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Hugo Mogollón,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,A C Gerardo Aymard,James A. Comiskey,Gabriel Damasco,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz,Alberto Vincentini,Thaise Emilio,Thaise Emilio,Carolina Levis,Juliana Schietti,Priscila Souza,Alfonso Alonso,Francisco Dallmeier,Leandro Valle Ferreira,David A. Neill,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Fernanda Carvalho,Fernanda Coelho de Souza,Dário Dantas do Amaral,Rogério Gribel,Bruno Garcia Luize,M. P. Pansonato,Eduardo Martins Venticinque,Paul V. A. Fine,Marisol Toledo,Christopher Baraloto,Christopher Baraloto,Carlos Cerón,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,E. M. Jimenez,Paul J. M. Maas,Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora,Pascal Petronelli,Juan David Cardenas Revilla,Marcos Silveira,Juliana Stropp,Raquel Thomas-Caesar,Timothy R. Baker,Doug Daly,Marcos Ríos Paredes,Naara Ferreira da Silva,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Peter M. Jørgensen,Jochen Schöngart,Miles R. Silman,Nicolás Castaño Arboleda,Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,Anthony Di Fiore,Juan Fernando Phillips,Tinde van Andel,Patricio von Hildebrand,Edelcilio Marques Barbosa,Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates,Deborah de Castro,Emanuelle de Sousa Farias,Therany Gonzales,Jean-Louis Guillaumet,Bruce Hoffman,Yadvinder Malhi,Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda,Adriana Prieto,Agustín Rudas,Ademir R. Ruschell,Natalino Silva,César I.A. Vela,Vincent A. Vos,Egleé L. Zent,Stanford Zent,Ángela Cano,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,José Ferreira Ramos,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Corine Vriesendorp,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia Baider,Henrik Balslev,Natalia de Castro,William Farfan-Rios,Cid Ferreira,Casimiro Mendoza,Italo Mesones,Armando Torres-Lezama,Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo,Daniel Villarroel,Roderick Zagt,Miguel Alexiades,Karina Garcia-Cabrera,Lionel Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Susamar Pansini,Daniela Pauletto,Freddy Ramirez Arevalo,Adeilza Felipe Sampaio,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra +163 more
TL;DR: A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.