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Cristián Samper

Researcher at National Museum of Natural History

Publications -  7
Citations -  732

Cristián Samper is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Ecological niche. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 705 citations.

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Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

TL;DR: The results do not support the hypothesis that fast-growing species are consistently increasing in dominance in tropical tree communities, and suggest that plots may be simultaneously recovering from past disturbances and affected by changes in resource availability.
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Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

Helene C. Muller-Landau, +45 more
- 01 May 2006 - 
TL;DR: This work uses demographic equilibrium theory to derive analytic predictions for tree size distributions corresponding to different growth and mortality functions and tests these predictions using data from 14 large-scale tropical forest plots encompassing censuses of 473 ha and > 2 million trees.
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Planetary boundaries: Rethinking biodiversity

TL;DR: A boundary that expresses the probability of families of species disappearing over time would better reflect our potential impacts on the future of life on Earth is proposed in this article, where the probability is expressed as a probability of a family of species vanishing over time.