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Lucía Sanaphre-Villanueva

Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Publications -  10
Citations -  377

Lucía Sanaphre-Villanueva is an academic researcher from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests & Ecological succession. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 249 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucía Sanaphre-Villanueva include National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

Lourens Poorter, +85 more
TL;DR: Forest recovery is analyzed using 1,403 plots that differ in age since agricultural abandonment from 50 sites across the Neotropics to analyse changes in community composition using species-specific stem wood density (WD), which is a key trait for plant growth, survival and forest carbon storage.
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Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests.

Maga Gei, +75 more
TL;DR: How the abundance of Leguminosae is affected by both recovery from disturbance and large-scale rainfall gradients is shown through a synthesis of forest inventory plots from a network of 42 Neotropical forest chronosequences.
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Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: A test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

Susan G. Letcher, +60 more
- 01 Sep 2015 - 
TL;DR: The niche conservatism evident in the habitat specialization of Neotropical trees suggests a role for radiation into different successional habitats in the evolution of species-rich genera, though the diversity of functional traits that lead to success in differentsuccessional habitats complicates analyses at the community scale.
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β-Diversity of functional groups of woody plants in a tropical dry forest in Yucatan.

TL;DR: Considering different plant functional groups reveals important differences in both α- and β-diversity patterns and correlates that are not apparent when focusing on overall woody plant diversity, and that have important implications for ecological theory and biodiversity conservation.
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Patterns of plant functional variation and specialization along secondary succession and topography in a tropical dry forest

TL;DR: Analysis of 14 functional traits from 65 dominant species indicated that generalists varied from acquisitive strategies of light and water early in succession to conservative strategies in older forests and on hills, indicating that long-term human disturbance may have favored generalists, but this did not result in functional homogenization.