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Nimal Gunatilleke
Researcher at University of Peradeniya
Publications - 32
Citations - 4238
Nimal Gunatilleke is an academic researcher from University of Peradeniya. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 31 publications receiving 3740 citations.
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Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species
Richard Condit,Peter S. Ashton,Patrick J. Baker,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Savithri Gunatilleke,Nimal Gunatilleke,Stephen P. Hubbell,Robin B. Foster,Akira Itoh,James V. LaFrankie,Hua-Seng Lee,Elizabeth Losos,N. Manokaran,Raman Sukumar,Takuo Yamakura +14 more
TL;DR: The degree of aggregation in the distribution of 1768 tree species is examined based on the average density of conspecific trees in circular neighborhoods around each tree, and it is found that nearly every species was more aggregated than a random distribution.
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CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Stuart J. Davies,Stuart J. Davies,Amy C. Bennett,Erika Gonzalez-Akre,Helene C. Muller-Landau,S. Joseph Wright,Kamariah Abu Salim,Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano,Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano,Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano,Alfonso Alonso,Jennifer L. Baltzer,Yves Basset,Norman A. Bourg,Eben N. Broadbent,Eben N. Broadbent,Eben N. Broadbent,Warren Y. Brockelman,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,David F. R. P. Burslem,Nathalie Butt,Nathalie Butt,Min Cao,Dairon Cárdenas,George B. Chuyong,Keith Clay,Susan Cordell,H. S. Dattaraja,Xiaobao Deng,Matteo Detto,Xiaojun Du,Alvaro Duque,David L. Erikson,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Gunter A. Fischer,Christine Fletcher,Robin B. Foster,Christian P. Giardina,Gregory S. Gilbert,Gregory S. Gilbert,Nimal Gunatilleke,Savitri Gunatilleke,Zhanqing Hao,William W. Hargrove,Terese B. Hart,Billy C.H. Hau,Fangliang He,Forrest M. Hoffman,Robert W. Howe,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Faith Inman-Narahari,Patrick A. Jansen,Patrick A. Jansen,Mingxi Jiang,Daniel J. Johnson,Mamoru Kanzaki,Abdul Rahman Kassim,David Kenfack,David Kenfack,Staline Kibet,Margaret F. Kinnaird,Lisa Korte,Kamil Král,Jitendra Kumar,Andrew J. Larson,Yide Li,Xiankun Li,Shirong Liu,Shawn K. Y. Lum,James A. Lutz,Keping Ma,Damian M. Maddalena,Jean-Remy Makana,Yadvinder Malhi,Toby R. Marthews,Rafizah Mat Serudin,Sean M. McMahon,Sean M. McMahon,William J. McShea,Hervé Memiaghe,Xiangcheng Mi,Takashi Mizuno,Michael D. Morecroft,Jonathan Myers,Vojtech Novotny,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Perry S. Ong,David A. Orwig,Rebecca Ostertag,Jan den Ouden,Geoffrey G. Parker,Richard P. Phillips,Lawren Sack,Moses N. Sainge,Weiguo Sang,Kriangsak Sri-ngernyuang,Raman Sukumar,I-Fang Sun,Witchaphart Sungpalee,H. S. Suresh,Sylvester Tan,Sean C. Thomas,Duncan W. Thomas,Jill Thompson,Benjamin L. Turner,María Uriarte,Renato Valencia,Marta I. Vallejo,Alberto Vicentini,Tomáš Vrška,Xihua Wang,Xugao Wang,George D. Weiblen,Amy Wolf,Han Xu,Sandra L. Yap,Jess K. Zimmerman +119 more
TL;DR: The broad suite of measurements made at CTFS-ForestGEO sites makes it possible to investigate the complex ways in which global change is impacting forest dynamics, and continued monitoring will provide vital contributions to understanding worldwide forest diversity and dynamics in an era of global change.
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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species
J. W. Ferry Slik,Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez,Shin-ichiro Aiba,Patricia Alvarez-Loayza,Luciana F. Alves,Peter S. Ashton,Patricia Balvanera,Meredith L. Bastian,Peter J. Bellingham,Eduardo van den Berg,Luís Carlos Bernacci,Polyanna da Conceição Bispo,Lilian Blanc,Katrin Böhning-Gaese,Pascal Boeckx,Frans Bongers,Brad Boyle,Matt Bradford,Francis Q. Brearley,Mireille Breuer-Ndoundou Hockemba,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Darley C.L. Matos,Miguel Angel Castillo-Santiago,Eduardo Luís Martins Catharino,Shauna-Lee Chai,Yukai Chen,Robert K. Colwell,Robert K. Colwell,Robin L. Chazdon,Connie J. Clark,David B. Clark,Deborah A. Clark,Heike Culmsee,Kipiro Damas,H. S. Dattaraja,Gilles Dauby,Priya Davidar,Saara J. DeWalt,Jean-Louis Doucet,Alvaro Duque,Giselda Durigan,Karl A. O. Eichhorn,Pedro V. Eisenlohr,Eduardo Schmidt Eler,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Nina Farwig,Kenneth J. Feeley,Leandro Valle Ferreira,Richard Field,Ary Teixeira de Oliveira Filho,Christine Fletcher,Olle Forshed,Geraldo Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco,Gabriella Fredriksson,Thomas R. Gillespie,Jean-François Gillet,Giriraj Amarnath,Daniel M. Griffith,James Grogan,Nimal Gunatilleke,David Harris,Rhett D. Harrison,Rhett D. Harrison,Andy Hector,Jürgen Homeier,Nobuo Imai,Akira Itoh,Patrick A. Jansen,Carlos Alfredo Joly,Bernardus H. J. de Jong,Kuswata Kartawinata,Elizabeth Kearsley,Daniel L. Kelly,David Kenfack,Michael Kessler,Kanehiro Kitayama,Robert M. Kooyman,Eileen Larney,Yves Laumonier,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Michael J. Lawes,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Susan G. Letcher,Jeremy A. Lindsell,Xinghui Lu,Asyraf Mansor,Antti Marjokorpi,Emanuel H. Martin,Henrik Meilby,Felipe P. L. Melo,Daniel J. Metcalfe,Vincent P. Medjibe,Jean Paul Metzger,Jérôme Millet,D. Mohandass,Juan Carlos Montero,Márcio de Morisson Valeriano,Badru Mugerwa,Hidetoshi Nagamasu,Reuben Nilus,Susana Ochoa-Gaona,Onrizal,Navendu V. Page,Pia Parolin,Marc P. E. Parren,Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy,Ekananda Paudel,Andrea Permana,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Lourens Poorter,Axel Dalberg Poulsen,John R. Poulsen,Jennifer S. Powers,Rama Chandra Prasad,Jean-Philippe Puyravaud,Jean-Claude Razafimahaimodison,Jan Reitsma,João Roberto dos Santos,Wilson Roberto Spironello,Hugo Romero-Saltos,Francesco Rovero,Andes Hamuraby Rozak,Kalle Ruokolainen,Ervan Rutishauser,Felipe Zamborlini Saiter,Philippe Saner,Bráulio A. Santos,Fernanda Santos,Swapan Kumar Sarker,Manichanh Satdichanh,Christine B. Schmitt,Jochen Schöngart,Mark Schulze,Marcio Seiji Suganuma,Douglas Sheil,Douglas Sheil,Eduardo da Silva Pinheiro,Plinio Sist,Tariq Stévart,Raman Sukumar,I Fang Sun,Terry Sunderland,H. S. Suresh,Eizi Suzuki,Marcelo Tabarelli,Jangwei Tang,Natalia Targhetta,Ida Theilade,Duncan W. Thomas,Peguy Tchouto,Johanna Hurtado,Renato Valencia,Johan van Valkenburg,Tran Van Do,R. Vásquez,Hans Verbeeck,Victor A. J. Adekunle,Simone Aparecida Vieira,Campbell O. Webb,Timothy J. S. Whitfeld,Serge A. Wich,John N. Williams,Florian Wittmann,Hannsjoerg Wöll,Xiaobo Yang,C. Yves Adou Yao,Sandra L. Yap,Tsuyoshi Yoneda,Rakan A. Zahawi,Rahmad Zakaria,Runguo Zang,Rafael L. Assis,Rafael L. Assis,Bruno Garcia Luize,Eduardo Martins Venticinque +176 more
TL;DR: It is shown that most tree species are extremely rare, meaning that they may be under serious risk of extinction at current deforestation rates, and a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees is provided that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa.
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Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests
Helene C. Muller-Landau,Richard Condit,Jérôme Chave,Sean C. Thomas,Stephanie A. Bohlman,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Stuart J. Davies,Robin B. Foster,Savitri Gunatilleke,Nimal Gunatilleke,Kyle E. Harms,Kyle E. Harms,Terese B. Hart,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Akira Itoh,Abd Rahman Kassim,James V. LaFrankie,Hua Seng Lee,Elizabeth Losos,Jean-Remy Makana,Tatsuhiro Ohkubo,Raman Sukumar,I-Fang Sun,M. N. Nur Supardi,Sylvester Tan,Jill Thompson,Renato Valencia,Gorky Villa Muñoz,Christopher Wills,Takuo Yamakura,George B. Chuyong,H. S. Dattaraja,Shameema Esufali,Pamela Hall,Pamela Hall,Consuelo Hernandez,David Kenfack,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,Duncan W. Thomas,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Peter S. Ashton +42 more
TL;DR: There are no universal scaling relationships of growth or mortality with size among trees in tropical forests, and a set of alternative predictions were developed that retained some assumptions of metabolic ecology while also considering how availability of a key limiting resource, light, changes with tree size.
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Species Associations in a Heterogeneous Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest
TL;DR: This article used point pattern analysis to examine the spatial distribution of 46 common tree species (diameter at breast height 110 cm) in a fully mapped -m tropical forest plot in Sin- 500 # 500 haraja, Sri Lanka.