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Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita
Researcher at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Publications - 3
Citations - 145
Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita is an academic researcher from Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Canopy & Understory. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 118 citations.
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Persistent effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforest canopy structure after 20 yr of isolation.
Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida,Scott C. Stark,Juliana Schietti,José Luís Camargo,Nino Tavares Amazonas,Eric Bastos Gorgens,Diogo M. Rosa,Marielle N. Smith,Ruben Valbuena,Ruben Valbuena,Scott R. Saleska,Ana Andrade,Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Eben N. Broadbent,Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro,Geoffrey G. Parker,Michael A. Lefsky,Carlos A. Silva,Pedro H. S. Brancalion +21 more
TL;DR: This investigation investigated the influence of edge distance and fragment size on canopy structure, aboveground woody biomass (AGB), and AGB turnover in the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in central Amazon, Brazil, after 22+ years of fragment isolation by combining canopy variables collected with lidar-derived canopy surface variables.
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Reproductive Phenology of Central Amazon Pioneer Trees
TL;DR: The pioneer community showed a variety of phenological patterns but as a whole tended to be characterized by annual flowering and fruiting, either continuously or seasonally, thereby fitting generalizations of pioneer species relative to mature forest species.
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Seed Rain and Advance Regeneration in Secondary Succession in the Brazilian Amazon
Lindsay M. Wieland,Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita,Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec,Tony Vizcarra Bentos,G. Bruce Williamson,G. Bruce Williamson +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how advance regeneration and limited seed dispersal may contribute to the arrested succession in Vismia-dominated stands in abandoned pastures in the Brazilian Amazon.