John W. Terborgh | Scholars@Duke

John W. Terborgh
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences

John W. Terborgh is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science and is Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, and for the past thirty-five years, he has been actively involved in tropical ecology and conservation issues. An authority on avian and mammalian ecology in neotropical forests, Dr. Terborgh has published numerous articles and books on conservation themes. Since 1973 he has operated a field station in Peru's Manu National Park where he has overseen the research of more than 100 investigators. Dr. Terborgh earlier served on the faculties of the University of Maryland and Princeton University. In June 1992 he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his distinguished work in tropical ecology, and in April 1996 he was awarded the National Academy of Science Daniel Giraud Elliot medal for his research, and for his book Diversity and the Tropical Rainforest. He has served on several boards and advisory committees related to conservation, including the Wildlands Project, Cultural Survival, The Nature Conservancy, The World Wildlife Fund and both the Primate and Ecology Specialist Groups of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 2015
Professor Emeritus in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 2015

Contact Information

3705C Erwin Rd, Durham, NC 27705-5015
Box 90381, Durham, NC 27708-0381
manu@duke.edu (919) 490-9081

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1963
- M.A., Harvard University 1960
- B.A., Harvard University 1958
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 1989 - 2015
- Research Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 2006 - 2015
- Professor with Tenure, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment 1989 - 2006
- Professor of Biology, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2006
- Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 2003 - 2004
- Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 2000 - 2003
- Adjunct Professor, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 2000
- Professor of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1999 - 2000
- Professor, Basic Science Departments, School of Medicine 1994 - 1999
- Professor, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1994
- Adjunct Professor, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989
Recognition
In the News
- APR 17, 2015 Duke Today
  
  John Terborgh Asks: Which Processes Have Most Effect On Species Diversity: Top-Down Or Bottom-Up?
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Ecuador (Country)
- Research
Research
Selected Grants
- Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu Peru awarded by Conservation International 2013 - 2017
- From fruit to sapling: constructing a long-term, basin-wide,community-level, ontogentically & phenomenologically integrated picture of tree recruitment in western Amazonian lowland rainforests. awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2012
- DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Novel Approaches to the Study of the Community Ecology of Tropical Trees awarded by National Science Foundation 2006 - 2009
- Operation of a Trophic Cascade in Predator-Free Forest Fragments awarded by National Science Foundation 1997 - 2005
- Doctoral Dissertation: Large-Scale Tree Species Distributions and Habitat Associations in Amazonia: Testing Theories of Tropical Forest Community Structure awarded by National Science Foundation 1999 - 2001
- Dissertation Research: Abiotic and Biotic Control of Tree Regeneration: An Experimental Comparison of Sites around Gatun Lake, Panama awarded by National Science Foundation 1998 - 2000
- Termitaria and Avian Coexistence awarded by National Science Foundation 1995 - 1996
- Ecological Impacts of Hyperabundant Species: the Role of a Generalist Herbivore in Plant Recruitment awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1995 - 1996
- Understory Colonization in a Neotropical Rain Forest awarded by National Science Foundation 1994 - 1995
- Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment awarded by US Agency for International Development 1990 - 1995
- What Are Intact Tropical Forests Really Worth? awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1990 - 1991
- Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment awarded by US Agency for International Development 1990
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Pak, Damie, Varun Swamy, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Fernando Cornejo-Valverde, Simon A. Queenborough, Margaret R. Metz, John Terborgh, et al. “Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities.” Ecology 104, no. 5 (May 2023): e4022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4022.
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  - Terborgh, J. “The ‘island syndrome’ is an alternative state.” Journal of Biogeography 50, no. 3 (March 1, 2023): 467–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14530.
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  - Martínez, Ari E., José M. Ponciano, Juan P. Gomez, Thomas Valqui, Jorge Novoa, Mariamercedes Antezana, Gabriela Biscarra, et al. “The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park.” Ecology Letters 26, no. 2 (February 2023): 335–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14159.
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  - Pos, Edwin, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, Iêda Leão Amaral, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, Carolina V. Castilho, et al. “Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.” Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (February 2023): 2859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y.
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  - Correa, D. F., P. R. Stevenson, M. N. Umaña, L. D. S. Coelho, D. D. A. Lima Filho, R. P. Salomão, I. L. D. Amaral, et al. “Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 49–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13596.
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  - Marca-Zevallos, M. J., G. M. Moulatlet, T. R. Sousa, J. Schietti, L. D. S. Coelho, J. F. Ramos, D. D. A. Lima Filho, et al. “Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin.” Ecography 2022, no. 11 (November 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06125.
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  - Sousa, T. R., J. Schietti, I. O. Ribeiro, T. Emílio, R. H. Fernández, H. ter Steege, C. V. Castilho, et al. “Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, no. 8 (August 1, 2022): 1571–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13531.
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  - Whitworth, Andrew, Christopher Beirne, Arianna Basto, Eleanor Flatt, Mathias Tobler, George Powell, John Terborgh, and Adrian Forsyth. “Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release.” Oecologia 199, no. 4 (August 2022): 937–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05233-5.
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  - Steur, Gijs, Hans Ter Steege, René W. Verburg, Daniel Sabatier, Jean-François Molino, Olaf S. Bánki, Hernan Castellanos, et al. “Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types.” Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (April 2022): 5960. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6.
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  - “Correction for Cazzolla Gatti et al., The number of tree species on Earth.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, no. 13 (March 2022): e2202784119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202784119.
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  - Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto, Peter B. Reich, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Tom Crowther, Cang Hui, Albert Morera, Jean-Francois Bastin, et al. “The number of tree species on Earth.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, no. 6 (February 2022): e2115329119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115329119.
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  - Forest, P. N., C. Blundo, J. Carilla, R. Grau, A. Malizia, L. Malizia, O. Osinaga-Acosta, et al. “Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots.” Biological Conservation 260 (August 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849.
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  - Draper, Frederick C., Flavia R. C. Costa, Gabriel Arellano, Oliver L. Phillips, Alvaro Duque, Manuel J. Macía, Hans Ter Steege, et al. “Amazon tree dominance across forest strata.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, no. 6 (June 2021): 757–67. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01418-y.
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  - Terborgh, J., and L. Davenport. “Mobile piscivores and the nature of top-down forcing in Upper Amazonian floodplain lakes.” Hydrobiologia 848, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 431–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04451-3.
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  - Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J. W. Brienen, Sophie Fauset, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Timothy R. Baker, Kuo-Jung Chao, et al. “Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests.” Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (January 2021): 209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20537-x.
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  - Terborgh, J. “At 50, Janzen-Connell has come of age.” Bioscience 70, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 1082–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa110.
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  - Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J. W. Brienen, Sophie Fauset, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Timothy R. Baker, Kuo-Jung Chao, et al. “Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (November 2020): 5515. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3.
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  - Muscarella, R., T. Emilio, O. L. Phillips, S. L. Lewis, F. Slik, W. J. Baker, T. L. P. Couvreur, et al. “The global abundance of tree palms.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): 1495–1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13123.
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  - Rozendaal, Danaë M. A., Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Ana Andrade, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, et al. “Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa.” Ecology 101, no. 7 (July 2020): e03052. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3052.
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  - Ter Steege, Hans, Paulo I. Prado, Renato AF de Lima, Edwin Pos, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomão, et al. “Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.” Scientific Reports 10, no. 1 (June 2020): 10130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3.
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  - Sullivan, Martin J. P., Simon L. Lewis, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Carolina Castilho, Flávia Costa, Aida Cuni Sanchez, Corneille E. N. Ewango, et al. “Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 368, no. 6493 (May 2020): 869–74. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7578.
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  - Terborgh, John, Nohemi Huanca Nuñez, Kenneth Feeley, and Harald Beck. “Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity.” Ecology 101, no. 5 (May 2020): e02996. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2996.
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  - Hazelwood, K., C. E. T. Paine, F. H. Cornejo Valverde, E. G. Pringle, H. Beck, and J. Terborgh. “Changes in tree community structure in defaunated forests are not driven only by dispersal limitation.” Ecology and Evolution 10, no. 7 (April 1, 2020): 3392–3401. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6133.
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  - Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Kyle G. Dexter, Oliver L. Phillips, R Toby Pennington, Danilo Neves, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, et al. “Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, no. 12 (December 2019): 1754–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1007-y.
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  - Ter Steege, Hans, Terry W. Henkel, Nora Helal, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andreas Huth, Jürgen Groeneveld, et al. “Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.” Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (September 2019): 13822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9.
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  - Terborgh, John, Kai Zhu, Patricia Alvarez Loayza, and Fernando Cornejo Valverde. “Seed limitation in an Amazonian floodplain forest.” Ecology 100, no. 5 (May 2019): e02642. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2642.
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  - Fauset, S., M. Gloor, N. M. Fyllas, O. L. Phillips, G. P. Asner, T. R. Baker, L. Patrick Bentley, et al. “Individual-based modeling of amazon forests suggests that climate controls productivity while traits control demography.” Frontiers in Earth Science 7 (April 18, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00083.
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  - Levi, Taal, Michael Barfield, Robert D. Holt, and John Terborgh. “Reply to Cannon and Lerdau: Maintenance of tropical forest tree diversity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, no. 17 (April 2019): 8106. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902666116.
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  - Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Timothy R. Baker, Kyle G. Dexter, Simon L. Lewis, Roel J. W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jon Lloyd, et al. “Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change.” Global Change Biology 25, no. 1 (January 2019): 39–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14413.
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  - Levi, Taal, Michael Barfield, Shane Barrantes, Christopher Sullivan, Robert D. Holt, and John Terborgh. “Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, no. 2 (January 2019): 581–86. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813211116.
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  - Bastin, J. F., E. Rutishauser, J. R. Kellner, S. Saatchi, R. Pélissier, B. Hérault, F. Slik, et al. “Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 27, no. 11 (November 1, 2018): 1366–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12803.
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  - Bagchi, R., V. Swamy, J. P. Latorre Farfan, J. Terborgh, C. I. A. Vela, N. C. A. Pitman, and W. G. Sanchez. “Defaunation increases the spatial clustering of lowland Western Amazonian tree communities.” Journal of Ecology 106, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 1470–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12929.
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  - Terborgh, J. W., L. C. Davenport, A. U. Belcon, G. Katul, J. J. Swenson, S. C. Fritz, and P. A. Baker. “Twenty-three-year timeline of ecological stable states and regime shifts in upper Amazon oxbow lakes.” Hydrobiologia 807, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 99–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3384-z.
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  - Terborgh, J., L. C. Davenport, L. Ong, and A. Campos-Arceiz. “Foraging impacts of Asian megafauna on tropical rain forest structure and biodiversity.” Biotropica 50, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 84–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12488.
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  - Gomes, Vitor H. F., Stéphanie D. IJff, Niels Raes, Iêda Leão Amaral, Rafael P. Salomão, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos, et al. “Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data.” Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (January 2018): 1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1.
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  - Terborgh, John, Nohemi Huanca Nuñez, Patricia Alvarez Loayza, and Fernando Cornejo Valverde. “Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest.” Ecology 98, no. 11 (November 2017): 2895–2903. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1991.
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  - Johns, D., J. Terborgh, K. F. Beazley, J. A. Estes, D. Foreman, B. Miller, R. Noss, M. Soulé, and W. J. Ripple. “We need a biologically Sound North American conservation plan.” Bioscience 67, no. 8 (August 1, 2017): 685–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix066.
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  - Terborgh, J., and C. A. Peres. “Do community-managed forests work? A biodiversity perspective.” Land 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3390/land6020022.
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  - Esquivel-Muelbert, A., T. R. Baker, K. G. Dexter, S. L. Lewis, H. ter Steege, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo Mendoza, et al. “Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics.” Ecography 40, no. 5 (May 1, 2017): 618–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01904.
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  - Levis, C., F. R. C. Costa, F. Bongers, M. Peña-Claros, C. R. Clement, A. B. Junqueira, E. G. Neves, et al. “Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 355, no. 6328 (March 2017): 925–31. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157.
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  - Phillips, O. L., R. J. W. Brienen, E. Gloor, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, et al. “Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations' carbon emissions.” Carbon Balance and Management 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-016-0069-2.
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  - Ripple, W. J., G. Chapron, J. V. López-Bao, S. M. Durant, D. W. MacDonald, P. A. Lindsey, E. L. Bennett, et al. “Conserving the world's megafauna and biodiversity: The fierce urgency of now.” Bioscience 67, no. 3 (January 1, 2017): 197–200. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw168.
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  - Sullivan, Martin J. P., Joey Talbot, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Lan Qie, Serge K. Begne, Jerôme Chave, et al. “Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome.” Scientific Reports 7 (January 2017): 39102. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39102.
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  - Johnson, Michelle O., David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, et al. “Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models.” Global Change Biology 22, no. 12 (December 2016): 3996–4013. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13315.
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  - Paine, CE Timothy, Harald Beck, and John Terborgh. “How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure.” Ecology 97, no. 12 (December 2016): 3326–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1586.
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  - Estes, James A., Paul K. Dayton, Peter Kareiva, Simon A. Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Bruce A. Menge, Stephen R. Palumbi, Mary E. Power, and John Terborgh. “A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016.” Ecology 97, no. 11 (November 2016): 2905–9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1572.
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  - Ripple, William J., Guillaume Chapron, José Vicente López-Bao, Sarah M. Durant, David W. Macdonald, Peter A. Lindsey, Elizabeth L. Bennett, et al. “Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.” Bioscience 66, no. 10 (October 2016): 807–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw092.
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  - Feldpausch, T. R., O. L. Phillips, R. J. W. Brienen, E. Gloor, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, et al. “Amazon forest response to repeated droughts.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30, no. 7 (July 1, 2016): 964–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005133.
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  - Baker, Timothy R., Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Victor Chama Moscoso, Gilberto Navarro, Abel Monteagudo, Ruy Pinto, Katia Cangani, et al. “Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests.” Journal of Ecology. 104, no. 2 (March 2016): 497–506. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12529.
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  - Smith, F. A., C. E. Doughty, Y. Malhi, J. C. Svenning, and J. Terborgh. “Megafauna in the Earth system.” Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 99–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02156.
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  - Terborgh, J., L. C. Davenport, R. Niangadouma, E. Dimoto, J. C. Mouandza, O. Scholtz, and M. R. Jaen. “Megafaunal influences on tree recruitment in African equatorial forests.” Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 180–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01641.
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  - Terborgh, J., L. C. Davenport, R. Niangadouma, E. Dimoto, J. C. Mouandza, O. Schultz, and M. R. Jaen. “The African rainforest: Odd man out or megafaunal landscape? African and Amazonian forests compared.” Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 1, 2016): 187–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01643.
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  - Malhi, Yadvinder, Christopher E. Doughty, Mauro Galetti, Felisa A. Smith, Jens-Christian Svenning, and John W. Terborgh. “Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 4 (January 2016): 838–46. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502540113.
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  - Svenning, Jens-Christian, Pil B. M. Pedersen, C Josh Donlan, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Søren Faurby, Mauro Galetti, Dennis M. Hansen, et al. “Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 4 (January 2016): 898–906. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502556112.
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  - Svenning, Jens-Christian, Pil B. M. Pedersen, C Josh Donlan, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Søren Faurby, Mauro Galetti, Dennis M. Hansen, et al. “Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 1 (January 2016): E2–3. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521891113.
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  - Honorio Coronado, E. N., K. G. Dexter, R. T. Pennington, J. Chave, S. L. Lewis, M. N. Alexiades, E. Alvarez, et al. “Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities.” Diversity and Distributions 21, no. 11 (November 1, 2015): 1295–1307. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12357.
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  - Ter Steege, Hans, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Timothy J. Killeen, William F. Laurance, Carlos A. Peres, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Rafael P. Salomão, et al. “Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.” Science Advances 1, no. 10 (November 2015): e1500936. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936.
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  - Terborgh, John W. “Toward a trophic theory of species diversity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, no. 37 (September 2015): 11415–22. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501070112.
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  - Ripple, William J., Thomas M. Newsome, Christopher Wolf, Rodolfo Dirzo, Kristoffer T. Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Matt W. Hayward, et al. “Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.” Science Advances 1, no. 4 (May 2015): e1400103. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400103.
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  - Fauset, Sophie, Michelle O. Johnson, Manuel Gloor, Timothy R. Baker, Abel Monteagudo M, Roel J. W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, et al. “Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.” Nature Communications 6 (April 2015): 6857. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7857.
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  - Brienen, R. J. W., O. L. Phillips, T. R. Feldpausch, E. Gloor, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, et al. “Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink.” Nature 519, no. 7543 (March 2015): 344–48. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14283.
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  - Miller, B., M. E. Soulé, and J. Terborgh. “'New conservation' or surrender to development?” Animal Conservation 17, no. 6 (December 1, 2014): 509–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12127.
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  - Mitchard, Edward T. A., Ted R. Feldpausch, Roel J. W. Brienen, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Abel Monteagudo, Timothy R. Baker, Simon L. Lewis, et al. “Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites.” Global Ecology and Biogeography : A Journal of Macroecology 23, no. 8 (August 2014): 935–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12168.
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  - Baker, Timothy R., R Toby Pennington, Susana Magallon, Emanuel Gloor, William F. Laurance, Miguel Alexiades, Esteban Alvarez, et al. “Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees.” Ecology Letters 17, no. 5 (May 2014): 527–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12252.
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  - Terborgh, John, Kai Zhu, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, and Fernando Cornejo Valverde. “How many seeds does it take to make a sapling?” Ecology 95, no. 4 (April 2014): 991–99. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0764.1.
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  - Baker, T. R., R. T. Pennington, S. Magallon, E. Gloor, W. F. Laurance, M. Alexiades, E. Alvarez, et al. “Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees.” Ecology Letters 17, no. 5 (2014): 527–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12252.
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  - Diaz-Martin, Z., V. Swamy, J. Terborgh, P. Alvarez-Loayza, and F. Cornejo. “Identifying keystone plant resources in an Amazonian forest using a long-term fruit-fall record.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 30, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 291–301. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467414000248.
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  - Orihuela, Gabriela, John Terborgh, Natalia Ceballos, and Kenneth Glander. “When top-down becomes bottom up: behaviour of hyperdense howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) trapped on a 0.6 ha island.” Plos One 9, no. 4 (January 2014): e82197. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082197.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., J. E. G. Andino, M. Aulestia, C. E. Cerón, D. A. Neill, W. Palacios, G. Rivas-Torres, M. R. Silman, and J. W. Terborgh. “Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian ecuador.” Ecography 37, no. 9 (January 1, 2014): 902–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00774.
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  - Steege, Hans ter, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Daniel Sabatier, Christopher Baraloto, Rafael P. Salomão, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Oliver L. Phillips, et al. “Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6156 (October 2013): 1243092. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243092.
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  - Jacob Socolar, S., S. K. Robinson, and J. Terborgh. “Bird diversity and occurrence of bamboo specia lists in two bamboo die -offs in sout heastern Peru.” Condor 115, no. 2 (June 10, 2013): 253–62. https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2013.120061.
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  - Greenwald, N., D. A. Dellasala, and J. W. Terborgh. “Nothing new in Kareiva and Marvier.” Bioscience 63, no. 4 (April 1, 2013): 241. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.4.18.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., M. R. Silman, and J. W. Terborgh. “Oligarchies in Amazonian tree communities: A ten-year review.” Ecography 36, no. 2 (February 1, 2013): 114–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00083.x.
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  - Emilio, T., C. A. Quesada, F. R. C. Costa, W. E. Magnusson, J. Schietti, T. R. Feldpausch, R. J. W. Brienen, et al. “Soil physical conditions limit palm and tree basal area in Amazonian forests.” Plant Ecology and Diversity, 2013.
  - Estes, J. A., J. Terborgh, M. E. Power, and S. R. Carpenter. “Reply to cucherousset et al.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10, no. 8 (October 1, 2012): 408. https://doi.org/10.1890/12.WB.019.
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  - Laurance, William F., D Carolina Useche, Julio Rendeiro, Margareta Kalka, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Sean P. Sloan, Susan G. Laurance, et al. “Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas.” Nature 489, no. 7415 (September 2012): 290–94. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11318.
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  - Quesada, C. A., O. L. Phillips, M. Schwarz, C. I. Czimczik, T. R. Baker, S. Patiño, N. M. Fyllas, et al. “Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate.” Biogeosciences 9, no. 6 (July 6, 2012): 2203–46. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-2203-2012.
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  - Dexter, Kyle G., John W. Terborgh, and Clifford W. Cunningham. “Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 20 (May 2012): 7787–92. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203523109.
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  - Terborgh, John. “Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests.” The American Naturalist 179, no. 3 (March 2012): 303–14. https://doi.org/10.1086/664183.
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  - Feldpausch, T. R., J. Lloyd, S. L. Lewis, R. J. W. Brienen, M. Gloor, A. Monteagudo Mendoza, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, et al. “Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates.” Biogeosciences 9, no. 8 (January 1, 2012): 3381–3403. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-3381-2012.
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  - Osorio, D., J. Terborgh, A. Alvarez, H. Ortega, R. Quispe, V. Chipollini, and L. C. Davenport. “Lateral migration of fish between an oxbow lake and an Amazonian headwater river.” Ecology of Freshwater Fish 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 619–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.2011.00511.x.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., M. P. Cecilio, M. P. Pudicho, J. G. Graham, M. P. Núñez V., M. Valenzuela, and J. W. Terborgh. “Indigenous perceptions of tree species abundance across an upper Amazonian landscape.” Journal of Ethnobiology 31, no. 2 (September 1, 2011): 233–43. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-31.2.233.
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  - Alvarez-Loayza, P., and J. Terborgh. “Fates of seedling carpets in an Amazonian floodplain forest: Intra-cohort competition or attack by enemies?” Journal of Ecology 99, no. 4 (July 1, 2011): 1045–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01835.x.
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  - Estes, James A., John Terborgh, Justin S. Brashares, Mary E. Power, Joel Berger, William J. Bond, Stephen R. Carpenter, et al. “Trophic downgrading of planet Earth.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333, no. 6040 (July 2011): 301–6. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1205106.
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  - Terborgh, J., P. Alvarez-Loayza, K. Dexter, F. Cornejo, and C. Carrasco. “Decomposing dispersal limitation: Limits on fecundity or seed distribution?” Journal of Ecology 99, no. 4 (July 1, 2011): 935–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01836.x.
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  - Forero-Medina, German, John Terborgh, S Jacob Socolar, and Stuart L. Pimm. “Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures.” Plos One 6, no. 12 (January 2011): e28535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028535.
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  - Swamy, V., J. Terborgh, K. G. Dexter, B. D. Best, P. Alvarez, and F. Cornejo. “Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest.” Ecology Letters 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 195–201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01571.x.
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  - Thompson, Sally, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, John Terborgh, and Gabriel Katul. “The effects of plant pathogens on tree recruitment in the Western Amazon under a projected future climate: a dynamical systems analysis.” Journal of Ecology. 98, no. 6 (November 2010): 1434–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01726.x.
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  - Swamy, V., and J. W. Terborgh. “Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest.” Journal of Ecology 98, no. 5 (September 1, 2010): 1096–1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01686.x.
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  - Miller, Greg. “Forensics. Familial DNA testing scores a win in serial killer case.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, no. 5989 (July 2010): 262. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.329.5989.262.
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  - Swaisgood, Ronald R., John W. Terborgh, and Daniel T. Blumstein. “Funding should come to those who wait.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, no. 5989 (July 2010): 276. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.329.5989.276-a.
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  - Gleick, P. H., R. M. Adams, R. M. Amasino, E. Anders, D. J. Anderson, W. W. Anderson, L. E. Anselin, et al. “Climate change and the integrity of science.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328, no. 5979 (May 2010): 689–90. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.328.5979.689.
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  - Terborgh, J. W. “Perspecitives on the issue of people in parks.” Conservation and Society, 2010.
  - Terborgh, J. W. “All seeds are not equal, distance matters: ontogenetically integrated evidence from a lowland Amazonian rainforest (Accepted).” Ecological Letters, 2010.
  - Terborgh, J. “The trophic cascade on islands,” October 19, 2009, 116–42.
  - Thompson, S., G. Katul, J. Terborgh, and P. Alvarez-Loayza. “Spatial organization of vegetation arising from non-local excitation with local inhibition in tropical rainforests.” Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238, no. 13 (June 15, 2009): 1061–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2009.03.004.
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  - Phillips, Oliver L., Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Simon L. Lewis, Joshua B. Fisher, Jon Lloyd, Gabriela López-González, Yadvinder Malhi, et al. “Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323, no. 5919 (March 2009): 1344–47. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164033.
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  - Gloor, M., O. L. Phillips, J. J. Lloyd, S. L. Lewis, Y. Malhi, T. R. Baker, G. López-Gonzalez, et al. “Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?” Global Change Biology 15, no. 10 (January 1, 2009): 2418–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01891.x.
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  - Quesada, C. A., J. Lloyd, M. Schwarz, T. R. Baker, O. L. Phillips, S. Patiño, C. Czimczik, et al. “Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties.” Biogeosciences Discussions 6, no. 2 (January 1, 2009): 3993–4057. https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-6-3993-2009.
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  - Feeley, K. J., and J. W. Terborgh. “Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments.” Animal Conservation 11, no. 5 (October 23, 2008): 353–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2008.00182.x.
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  - Feeley, K. J., and J. W. Terborgh. “Trophic drivers of species loss from fragments.” Animal Conservation 11, no. 5 (October 22, 2008): 366–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2008.00207.x.
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  - Terborgh, John, Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Fernando H Cornejo Valverde, Patricia Alvarez, Varun Swamy, Elizabeth G. Pringle, and CE Timothy Paine. “Tree recruitment in an empty forest.” Ecology 89, no. 6 (June 2008): 1757–68. https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0479.1.
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  - Pringle, E. G., P. Álvarez-Loayza, and J. Terborgh. “Seed characteristics and susceptibility to pathogen attack in tree seeds of the Peruvian Amazon.” Plant Ecology 193, no. 2 (December 1, 2007): 211–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-006-9259-4.
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  - Lopez, L., and J. Terborgh. “Seed predation and seedling herbivory as factors in tree recruitment failure on predator-free forested islands.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 23, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 129–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467406003828.
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  - Malhi, Y., D. Wood, T. R. Baker, J. Wright, O. L. Phillips, T. Cochrane, P. Meir, et al. “The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests.” Global Change Biology 12, no. 7 (July 1, 2006): 1107–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01120.x.
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  - Terborgh, J., K. Feeley, M. Silman, P. Nuñez, and B. Balukjian. “Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands.” Journal of Ecology 94, no. 2 (March 1, 2006): 253–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01106.x.
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  - Feeley, Kenneth J., and John W. Terborgh. “Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness.” Ecology 87, no. 1 (January 2006): 144–50. https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0652.
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  - Feeley, K. J., T. W. Gillespie, and J. W. Terborgh. “The utility of spectral indices from Landsat ETM+ for measuring the structure and composition of tropical dry forests.” Biotropica 37, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 508–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00069.x.
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  - Lopez, G. O., J. Terborgh, and N. Ceballos. “Food selection by a hyperdense population of red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus).” Journal of Tropical Ecology 21, no. 4 (July 1, 2005): 445–50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467405002415.
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  - Andrade, G. I., and J. Terborgh. “Science and society at the World Parks Congress (multiple letters).” Conservation Biology 19, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.l08_1.x.
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  - Feeley, K. J., and J. W. Terborgh. “The effects of herbivore density on soil nutrients and tree growth in tropical forest fragments.” Ecology 86, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 116–24. https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0657.
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  - Lewis, S. L., O. L. Phillips, D. Sheil, B. Vinceti, T. R. Baker, S. Brown, A. W. Graham, et al. “Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: Calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary.” Journal of Ecology 92, no. 6 (December 1, 2004): 929–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00923.x.
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  - Peters, Halton A., Anton Pauw, Miles R. Silman, and John W. Terborgh. “Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 271 Suppl 5 (August 2004): S367–69. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2004.0197.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Reflections of a Scientist on the World Parks Congress.” Conservation Biology 18, no. 3 (June 1, 2004): 619–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.01837.x.
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  - Malhi, Y., T. R. Baker, O. L. Phillips, S. Almeida, E. Alvarez, L. Arroyo, J. Chave, et al. “The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots.” Global Change Biology 10, no. 5 (May 1, 2004): 563–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00778.x.
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  - Lewis, S. L., O. L. Phillips, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, et al. “Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 359, no. 1443 (March 2004): 421–36. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1431.
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  - Phillips, O. L., T. R. Baker, L. Arroyo, N. Higuchi, T. J. Killeen, W. F. Laurance, S. L. Lewis, et al. “Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 359, no. 1443 (March 2004): 381–407. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1438.
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  - Leigh, E. G., P. Davidar, C. W. Dick, J. P. Puyravaud, J. Terborgh, H. Ter Steege, and S. J. Wright. “Why do some tropical forests have so many species of trees?” Biotropica 36, no. 4 (January 1, 2004): 447–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00342.x.
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  - Ter Steege, H., N. Pitman, D. Sabatier, H. Castellanos, P. Van Der Hout, D. C. Daly, M. Silveira, et al. “A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon.” Biodiversity and Conservation 12, no. 11 (November 1, 2003): 2255–77. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024593414624.
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  - Lambert, T. D., G. H. Adler, C. M. Riveros, L. Lopez, R. Ascanio, and J. Terborgh. “Rodents on tropical land-bridge islands.” Journal of Zoology 260, no. 2 (June 1, 2003): 179–87. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903003637.
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  - Russo, Sabrina E., Scott K. Robinson, and John Terborgh. “Size-abundance relationships in an Amazonian bird community: implications for the energetic equivalence rule.” The American Naturalist 161, no. 2 (February 2003): 267–83. https://doi.org/10.1086/345938.
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  - Silman, M. R., J. W. Terborgh, and R. A. Kiltie. “Population regulation of a dominant rain forest tree by a major seed predator.” Ecology 84, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): 431–38. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0431:PROADR]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Aponte, C., G. R. Barreto, and J. Terborgh. “Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation on Age Structure and Life History in a Tortoise Population.” Biotropica 35, no. 4 (January 1, 2003): 550–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2003.tb00612.x.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., J. W. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, P. Núñez V., D. A. Neill, C. E. Cerón, W. A. Palacios, and M. Aulestia. “A comparison of tree species diversity in two upper Amazonian forests.” Ecology 83, no. 11 (November 1, 2002): 3210–24. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3210:ACOTSD]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Henkel, T. W., J. Terborgh, and R. J. Vilgalys. “Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their leguminous hosts in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana.” Mycological Research. 106, no. 5 (May 2002): 515–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0953756202005919.
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  - Beck, H., and J. Terborgh. “Groves versus isolates: How spatial aggregation of Astrocaryum murumuru palms affects seed removal.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 18, no. 2 (March 19, 2002): 275–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467402002183.
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  - Condit, Richard, Nigel Pitman, Egbert G. Leigh, Jérôme Chave, John Terborgh, Robin B. Foster, Percy Núñez, et al. “Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295, no. 5555 (January 2002): 666–69. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1066854.
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  - Terborgh, J., L. Lopez, P. Nuñez, M. Rao, G. Shahabuddin, G. Orihuela, M. Riveros, et al. “Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294, no. 5548 (November 2001): 1923–26. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1064397.
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  - Rao, M., J. Terborgh, and P. Nuñez. “Increased herbivory in forest isolates: Implications for plant community structure and composition.” Conservation Biology 15, no. 3 (June 23, 2001): 624–33. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015003624.x.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., J. W. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, P. V. Núñez, D. A. Neill, C. E. Cerón, W. A. Palacios, and M. Aulestia. “Dominance and distribution of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests.” Ecology 82, no. 8 (January 1, 2001): 2101–17. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2101:DADOTS]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Terborgh, J., and L. Davenfort. “Endogenous and exogenous control of leaf morphology in iriartea deltoidea (palmae).” Journal of Tropical Ecology 17, no. 5 (January 1, 2001): 695–703. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467401001511.
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  - Cintra, R., and J. W. Terborgh. “Microspatial heterogeneity and seed and seedling survival of the palm, Astrocaryum murumuru, and the legume, Dipteryx micrantha, in an Amazonian forest.” Ecotropica 6 (2000): 77–88.
  - Terborgh, J. W. “In the company of humans.” Natural History 109 (2000): 54–62.
  - Terborgh, J. “The fate of tropical forests: A matter of stewardship.” Conservation Biology 14, no. 5 (January 1, 2000): 1358–61. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.00136.x.
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  - Shahabuddin, G., and J. W. Terborgh. “Frugivorous butterflies in Venezuelan forest fragments: Abundance, diversity and the effects of isolation.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 6 (November 1, 1999): 703–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467499001121.
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  - Terborgh, J., and J. Mathews. “Partitioning of the understorey light environment by two Amazonian treelets.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 6 (November 1, 1999): 751–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467499001157.
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  - Terborgh, J. W. “Trouble in paradise: an exchange.” New York Review of Books 46 (August 1999): 60.
  - Asquith, N. M., J. Terborgh, A. E. Arnold, and C. M. Riveros. “The fruits the agouti ate: Hymenaea courbaril seed fate when its disperser is absent.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 229–35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467499000772.
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  - Pitman, N. C. A., J. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, and P. Nuñez V. “Tree species distributions in an upper Amazonian forest.” Ecology 80, no. 8 (January 1, 1999): 2651–61. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2651:TSDIAU]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Soulé, M. E., and J. Terborgh. “Conserving nature at regional and continental scales - A scientific program for North America.” Bioscience 49, no. 10 (January 1, 1999): 809–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/1313572.
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  - Terborgh, J., and E. Andresen. “The composition of Amazonian forests: Patterns at local and regional scales.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 14, no. 5 (September 1, 1998): 645–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467498000455.
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  - Yu, D. W., J. W. Terborgh, and M. D. Potts. “Can high tree species richness be explained by Hubbell's null model?” Ecology Letters 1, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 193–99. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00036.x.
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  - Terborgh, J., C. Flores N., P. Mueller, and L. Davenport. “Estimating the ages of successional stands of tropical trees from growth increments.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 13, no. 6 (January 1, 1997): 833–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400011020.
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  - Terborgh, J., L. Lopez, and S. José Tello. “Bird communities in transition: The Lago Guri islands.” Ecology 78, no. 5 (January 1, 1997): 1494–1501. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1494:BCITTL]2.0.CO;2.
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  - Goldizen, A. W., J. Mendelson, M. van Vlaardingen, and J. Terborgh. “Saddle-back tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis) reproductive strategies: Evidence from a thirteen-year study of a marked population.” American Journal of Primatology 38, no. 1 (January 1996): 57–83. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1996)38:1<57::aid-ajp6>3.0.co;2-s.
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  - Terborgh, J., R. B. Foster, and V. Percy Nuñez. “Tropical tree communities: A test of the nonequilibrium hypothesis.” Ecology 77, no. 2 (January 1, 1996): 561–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/2265630.
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  - Peres, C. A., and J. W. Terborgh. “Amazonian Nature Reserves: An Analysis of the Defensibility Status of Existing Conservation Units and Design Criteria for the Future.” Conservation Biology 9, no. 1 (February 1, 1995): 34–46. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1995.09010034.x.
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  - Robinson, S. K., J. W. Fitzpatrick, and J. Terborgh. “Distribution and habitat use of Neotropical migrant landbirds in the Amazon basin and Andes.” Bird Conservation International 5, no. 2–3 (January 1, 1995): 305–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270900001064.
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  - Robinson, S. K., and J. Terborgh. “Interspecific aggression and habitat selection by Amazonian birds.” Journal of Animal Ecology 64, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.2307/5822.
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  - Terborgh, J., and S. J. Wright. “Effects of mammalian herbivores on plant recruitment in two neotropical forests.” Ecology 75, no. 6 (January 1, 1994): 1829–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/1939641.
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  - Terborgh, J., E. Losos, M. P. Riley, and M. B. Riley. “Predation by vertebrates and invertebrates on the seeds of five canopy tree species of an Amazonian forest.” Vegetatio 107–108, no. 1 (June 1, 1993): 375–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052236.
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  - Salafsky, N., B. L. Dugelby, and J. W. Terborgh. “Can Extractive Reserves Save the Rain Forest? An Ecological and Socioeconomic Comparison of Nontimber Forest Product Extraction Systems in Petén, Guatemala, and West Kalimantan, Indonesia.” Conservation Biology 7, no. 1 (March 1, 1993): 39–52. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1993.07010039.x.
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  - Van Schaik, C. P., J. W. Terborgh, and S. J. Wright. “The phenology of tropical forests: Adaptive significance and consequences for primary consumers.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 353–77. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.24.110193.002033.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Maintenance of diversity in tropical forests.” Biotropica 24, no. 2 B (January 1, 1992): 283–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/2388523.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Why American songbirds are vanishing.” Scientific American 266, no. 5 (January 1, 1992): 98–104. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0592-98.
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  - Terborgh, J., and K. Petren. “Development of habitat structure through succession in an Amazonian floodplain forest.” Habitat Structure, January 1, 1991, 28–46. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3076-9_2.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Mixed flocks and polyspecific associations: Costs and benefits of mixed groups to birds and monkeys.” American Journal of Primatology 21, no. 2 (January 1, 1990): 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.1350210203.
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  - Terborgh, J., S. K. Robinson, T. A. Parker, C. A. Munn, and N. Pierpont. “Structure and organization of an Amazonian forest bird community.” Ecological Monographs 60, no. 2 (January 1, 1990): 213–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/1943045.
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  - Goldizen, A. W., and J. Terborgh. “Demography and dispersal patterns of a tamarin population: possible causes of delayed breeding.” American Naturalist 134, no. 2 (January 1, 1989): 208–24. https://doi.org/10.1086/284976.
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  - Goldizen, A. W., J. Terborgh, F. Cornejo, D. T. Porras, and R. Evans. “Seasonal food shortage, weight loss, and the timing of births in saddle-back tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis).” Journal of Animal Ecology 57, no. 3 (January 1, 1988): 893–901. https://doi.org/10.2307/5099.
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  - Terborgh, J., and M. Stern. “The surreptitious life of the saddle-backed tamarin.” American Scientist 75, no. 3 (January 1, 1987): 260–69.
  - Hauge, P., J. Terborgh, B. Winter, and J. Parkinson. “Conservation priorities in the Philippine Archipelago.” Forktail 2 (January 1, 1986): 83–91.
  - Landeau, L., and J. Terborgh. “Oddity and the 'confusion effect' in predation.” Animal Behaviour 34, no. 5 (January 1, 1986): 1372–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-3472(86)80208-1.
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  - Terborgh, J., and C. H. Janson. “The socioecology of primate groups.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol. 17, January 1, 1986, 111–36. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.17.110186.000551.
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  - Terborgh, J., and A. W. Goldizen. “On the mating system of the cooperatively breeding saddle-backed tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis).” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 293–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00295541.
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  - Terborgh, J. “The role of ecotones in the distribution of Andean birds.” Ecology 66, no. 4 (January 1, 1985): 1237–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1939177.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Habitat selection in Amazonian birds.” Habitat Selection in Birds, January 1, 1985, 311–38.
  - Terborgh, J. “The vertical component of plant species diversity in temperate and tropical forests.” American Naturalist 126, no. 6 (January 1, 1985): 760–76. https://doi.org/10.1086/284452.
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  - Terborgh, J., and B. Winter. “A method for siting parks and reserves with special reference to Columbia and Ecuador.” Biological Conservation 27, no. 1 (January 1, 1983): 45–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(83)90005-8.
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  - Kiltie, R. A., and J. Terborgh. “Observations on the Behavior of Rain Forest Peccaries in Perú: Why do White‐lipped Peccaries Form Herds?” Zeitschrift Für Tierpsychologie 62, no. 3 (January 1, 1983): 241–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1983.tb02154.x.
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  - WESKE, J. S., and J. W. TERBORGH. “OTUS-MARSHALLI, A NEW SPECIES OF SCREECH-OWL FROM PERU.” Auk 98, no. 1 (1981): 1–7.
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  - Terborgh, John W., and John Faaborg. “Saturation of Bird Communities in the West Indies.” The American Naturalist 116, no. 2 (August 1980): 178–95. https://doi.org/10.1086/283621.
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  - FITZPATRICK, J. W., D. E. WILLARD, and J. W. TERBORGH. “NEW SPECIES OF HUMMINGBIRD FROM PERU.” Wilson Bulletin 91, no. 2 (1979): 177–86.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Bird species diversity on an andean elev ational gradient.” Ecology 58, no. 5 (January 1, 1977): 1007–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/1936921.
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  - FITZPATRICK, J. W., J. W. TERBORGH, and D. E. WILLARD. “NEW SPECIES OF WOOD-WREN FROM PERU.” Auk 94, no. 2 (1977): 195–201.
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  - Hellebust, J. A., and J. Terborgh. “EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE RATE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SOME PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES IN DUNALIELLA TERTIOLECTA BUTCHER.” Limnology and Oceanography 12, no. 4 (January 1, 1967): 559–67. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1967.12.4.0559.
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  - Terborgh, J. W., and K. V. Thimann. “The control of development in Acetabularia crenulata by light.” Planta 64, no. 3 (September 1, 1965): 241–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394952.
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  - Terborgh, J. “Effects of red and blue light on the growth and morphogenesis of Acetabularia crenulata.” Nature 207, no. 5004 (September 1965): 1360–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/2071360a0.
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  - Terborgh, J., and K. V. Thimann. “Interactions between daylength and light intensity in the growth and chlorophyll content of Acetabularia crenulata.” Planta 63, no. 1 (March 1, 1964): 83–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883513.
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- Book Sections
  - Terborgh, J. “Foreword,” xi–xvii, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-551-9.
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  - Lewis, S. L., O. L. Phillips, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, et al. “Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests.” In Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567066.003.0012.
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- Conference Papers
  - TERBORGH, J. W. “POPULATION-DENSITIES OF AMAZONIAN BIRDS - IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION.” In Ibis, 128:165–66, 1986.
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  - JANSON, C. H., and J. W. TERBORGH. “AGE, SEX, AND INDIVIDUAL SPECIALIZATION OF FORAGING TECHNIQUE IN THE CAPUCHIN, CEBUS-APELLA.” In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 50:452–452, 1979.
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