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Jimena Forero-Montaña
Researcher at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Publications - 21
Citations - 1211
Jimena Forero-Montaña is an academic researcher from University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sexual dimorphism & Abiotic component. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 19 publications receiving 994 citations. Previous affiliations of Jimena Forero-Montaña include University of Puerto Rico & Columbia University.
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The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America
Nathan G. Swenson,Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,Jason Pither,Andrew J. Kerkhoff,Brad Boyle,Michael D. Weiser,James J. Elser,William F. Fagan,Jimena Forero-Montaña,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Nathan J. B. Kraft,Jeffrey K. Lake,Angela T. Moles,Sandra Patiño,Oliver L. Phillips,Charles A. Price,Peter B. Reich,Carlos A. Quesada,James C. Stegen,Renato Valencia,Ian J. Wright,S. Joseph Wright,Sandy J. Andelman,Peter M. Jørgensen,Thomas E. Lacher,Abel Monteagudo,M. Percy Núñez-Vargas,Rodolfo Vásquez-Martínez,Kristen M. Nolting +30 more
TL;DR: The results show that the overall distribution of function does increase towards the equator, but the functional diversity within regional-scale tropical assemblages is higher than that expected given their species richness.
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Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities
Nathan G. Swenson,David L. Erickson,Xiangcheng Mi,Norman A. Bourg,Jimena Forero-Montaña,Xue-Jun Ge,Robert W. Howe,Jeffrey K. Lake,Xiaojuan Liu,Keping Ma,Nancai Pei,Jill Thompson,María Uriarte,Amy Wolf,S. Joseph Wright,Wanhu Ye,Jinlong Zhang,Jess K. Zimmerman,W. John Kress +18 more
TL;DR: The results show that abiotic filtering plays a role in structuring local assemblages and governing spatial turnover in community composition and that phylogenetic measures of alpha and beta diversity are not strong predictors of functional alpha and Beta diversity in the forests studied.
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Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly
María Uriarte,Nathan G. Swenson,Robin L. Chazdon,Liza S. Comita,W. John Kress,David L. Erickson,Jimena Forero-Montaña,Jess K. Zimmerman,Jill Thompson +8 more
TL;DR: Greater functional trait similarity is observed in the neighbourhoods of live trees relative to those of dead trees suggesting that environmental filtering is the major force structuring this tree community at this scale while competitive interactions play a lesser role.
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Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity
Nathan G. Swenson,James C. Stegen,James C. Stegen,Stuart J. Davies,Stuart J. Davies,David L. Erickson,Jimena Forero-Montaña,Allen H. Hurlbert,W. John Kress,Jill Thompson,María Uriarte,S. Joseph Wright,Jess K. Zimmerman +12 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the abiotic environment, which changes due to succession in the disturbed forest, strongly governs the temporal dynamics of disturbed and undisturbed tropical forests, and predicting future changes in the composition of disturbance histories may be tractable when using a functional-trait-based approach.
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Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly
Jesse R. Lasky,Benedicte Bachelot,Robert Muscarella,Naomi B. Schwartz,Jimena Forero-Montaña,Christopher J. Nytch,Nathan G. Swenson,Jill Thompson,Jess K. Zimmerman,María Uriarte +9 more
TL;DR: This work investigated how functional trait associations with growth, survival, and response to competing neighbors differ among seedlings and two size classes of trees in a subtropical rain forest in Puerto Rico.