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Patrick A. Jansen

Researcher at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Publications -  142
Citations -  7162

Patrick A. Jansen is an academic researcher from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Seed dispersal & Population. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 124 publications receiving 5697 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick A. Jansen include Smithsonian Institution & Wageningen University and Research Centre.

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CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, +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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Seed mass and mast seeding enhance dispersal by a neotropical scatter-hoarding rodent

TL;DR: It is concluded that scatter-hoarding rodents can select for both large seed crops and large seeds, which may reinforce mast seeding.
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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

J. W. Ferry Slik, +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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Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method to estimate activity level with time-of-detection data from camera traps, fitting a flexible circular distribution to these data to describe the underlying activity schedule, and calculating overall proportion of time active from this.
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Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that communities of rodents can in fact provide highly effective long-distance seed dispersal, suggesting that thieving scatter-hoarding rodents could substitute for extinct megafaunal seed dispersers of tropical large-seeded trees.