John W. Terborgh | Scholars@Duke

John W. Terborgh
James B. Duke 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 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
Duke Appointment History
- 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 1999 - 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, 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
  
  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 integra 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
- (98-0854) Doctoral Dissertation: Large-Scale Tree Species Distributions and Habitat Associations in Amazonia: Testing Th awarded by National Science Foundation 1999 - 2001
- (98-0252) Dissertation Research: Abiotic and Biotic Control of Tree Regeneration: An Experimental Comparison of Sites ar awarded by National Science Foundation 1998 - 2000
- (95-0549) Termitaria and Avian Coexistence awarded by National Science Foundation 1995 - 1996
- (95-1068) Ecological Impacts of Hyperabundant Species: the Role of a Generalist Herbivore in Plant Recruitment awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1995 - 1996
- (94-0123) Understory Colonization in a Neotropical Rain Forest awarded by National Science Foundation 1994 - 1995
- (92-0089) Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment awarded by US Agency for International Development 1990 - 1995
- (91-0020) What Are Intact Tropical Forests Really Worth? awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1990 - 1991
- (90-0733) Policy Assistance on Promoting Sustainable Development and the Environment awarded by US Agency for International Development 1990
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Book Sections
  - Terborgh, J, and Terborgh, J. "ForewordForeword (PublishedPublished)." xi-xviii. January 1, 2015. Full Text
  - Lewis, SL, Phillips, OL, Baker, TR, Lloyd, J, Malhi, Y, Almeida, S, Higuchi, N, Laurance, WF, Neill, DA, Silva, JNM, Terborgh, J, Lezama, AT, Martínez, RV, Brown, S, Chave, J, Kuebler, C, Vargas, PN, and Vinceti, B. "Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests." In Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change. September 1, 2007. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Terborgh, JW, Davenport, LC, Belcon, AU, Katul, G, Swenson, JJ, Fritz, SC, and Baker, PA. "Twenty-three-year timeline of ecological stable states and regime shifts in upper Amazon oxbow lakes." Hydrobiologia 807, no. 1 (February 2018): 99-111. Full Text
  - Gomes, VHF, IJff, SD, Raes, N, Amaral, IL, Salomão, RP, de Souza Coelho, L, de Almeida Matos, FD, Castilho, CV, de Andrade Lima Filho, D, López, DC, Guevara, JE, Magnusson, WE, Phillips, OL, Wittmann, F, de Jesus Veiga Carim, M, Martins, MP, Irume, MV, Sabatier, D, Molino, J-F, Bánki, OS, da Silva Guimarães, JR, Pitman, NCA, Piedade, MTF, Mendoza, AM, Luize, BG, Venticinque, EM, de Leão Novo, EMM, Vargas, PN, Silva, TSF, Manzatto, AG, Terborgh, J, Reis, NFC, Montero, JC, Casula, KR, Marimon, BS, Marimon, B-H, Coronado, ENH, Feldpausch, TR, Duque, A, Zartman, CE, Arboleda, NC, Killeen, TJ, Mostacedo, B, Vasquez, R, Schöngart, J, Assis, RL, Medeiros, MB, Simon, MF, Andrade, A, Laurance, WF, Camargo, JL, Demarchi, LO, Laurance, SGW, de Sousa Farias, E, Nascimento, HEM, Revilla, JDC, Quaresma, A, Costa, FRC, Vieira, ICG, Cintra, BBL, Castellanos, H, Brienen, R, Stevenson, PR, Feitosa, Y, Duivenvoorden, JF, Aymard C, GA, Mogollón, HF, Targhetta, N, Comiskey, JA, Vicentini, A, Lopes, A, Damasco, G, Dávila, N, García-Villacorta, R, Levis, C, Schietti, J, Souza, P, Emilio, T, Alonso, A, Neill, D, Dallmeier, F, Ferreira, LV, Araujo-Murakami, A, Praia, D, do Amaral, DD, Carvalho, FA, de Souza, FC, Feeley, K, Arroyo, L, Pansonato, MP, Gribel, R, Villa, B, Licona, JC, Fine, PVA, Cerón, C, Baraloto, C, Jimenez, EM, Stropp, J, Engel, J, Silveira, M, Mora, MCP, Petronelli, P, Maas, P, Thomas-Caesar, R, Henkel, TW, Daly, D, Paredes, MR, Baker, TR, Fuentes, A, Peres, CA, Chave, J, Pena, JLM, Dexter, KG, Silman, MR, Jørgensen, PM, Pennington, T, Di Fiore, A, Valverde, FC, Phillips, JF, Rivas-Torres, G, von Hildebrand, P, van Andel, TR, Ruschel, AR, Prieto, A, Rudas, A, Hoffman, B, Vela, CIA, Barbosa, EM, Zent, EL, Gonzales, GPG, Doza, HPD, de Andrade Miranda, IP, Guillaumet, J-L, Pinto, LFM, de Matos Bonates, LC, Silva, N, Gómez, RZ, Zent, S, Gonzales, T, Vos, VA, Malhi, Y, Oliveira, AA, Cano, A, Albuquerque, BW, Vriesendorp, C, Correa, DF, Torre, EV, van der Heijden, G, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Ramos, JF, Young, KR, Rocha, M, Nascimento, MT, Medina, MNU, Tirado, M, Wang, O, Sierra, R, Torres-Lezama, A, Mendoza, C, Ferreira, C, Baider, C, Villarroel, D, Balslev, H, Mesones, I, Giraldo, LEU, Casas, LF, Reategui, MAA, Linares-Palomino, R, Zagt, R, Cárdenas, S, Farfan-Rios, W, Sampaio, AF, Pauletto, D, Sandoval, EHV, Arevalo, FR, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Garcia-Cabrera, K, Hernandez, L, Gamarra, LV, Alexiades, MN, Pansini, S, Cuenca, WP, Milliken, W, Ricardo, J, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Pos, E, and Ter Steege, H. "Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data." Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (January 17, 2018): 1003-null. Full Text
  - Bagchi, R, Swamy, V, Latorre Farfan, JP, Terborgh, J, Vela, CIA, Pitman, NCA, and Sanchez, WG. "Defaunation increases the spatial clustering of lowland Western Amazonian tree communities (Accepted)." Journal of Ecology (January 1, 2018). Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Davenport, LC, Ong, L, and Campos-Arceiz, A. "Foraging impacts of Asian megafauna on tropical rain forest structure and biodiversity." Biotropica 50, no. 1 (January 2018): 84-89. Full Text
  - Phillips, OL, and Brienen, RJW. "Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions." Carbon Balance and Management 12, no. 1 (December 2017). Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Huanca Nuñez, N, Alvarez Loayza, P, and Cornejo Valverde, F. "Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest." Ecology 98, no. 11 (November 2017): 2895-2903. Full Text
  - Johns, D, Terborgh, J, Beazley, KF, Estes, JA, Foreman, D, Miller, B, Noss, R, Soulé, M, and Ripple, WJ. "We Need a Biologically Sound North American Conservation Plan." BioScience 67, no. 8 (August 2017): 685-686. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, and Peres, CA. "Do Community-Managed Forests Work? A Biodiversity Perspective." Land 6, no. 2 (June 2017): 22-22. Full Text
  - Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Baker, TR, Dexter, KG, Lewis, SL, ter Steege, H, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Brienen, R, Feldpausch, TR, Pitman, N, Alonso, A, van der Heijden, G, Peña-Claros, M, Ahuite, M, Alexiaides, M, Álvarez Dávila, E, Murakami, AA, Arroyo, L, Aulestia, M, Balslev, H, Barroso, J, Boot, R, Cano, A, Chama Moscoso, V, Comiskey, JA, Cornejo, F, Dallmeier, F, Daly, DC, Dávila, N, Duivenvoorden, JF, Duque Montoya, AJ, Erwin, T, Di Fiore, A, Fredericksen, T, and Fuentes, A et al. "Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics." Ecography 40, no. 5 (May 2017): 618-629. Full Text
  - Levis, C, Costa, FRC, Bongers, F, Peña-Claros, M, Clement, CR, Junqueira, AB, Neves, EG, Tamanaha, EK, Figueiredo, FOG, Salomão, RP, Castilho, CV, Magnusson, WE, Phillips, OL, Guevara, JE, Sabatier, D, Molino, J-F, López, DC, Mendoza, AM, Pitman, NCA, Duque, A, Vargas, PN, Zartman, CE, Vasquez, R, Andrade, A, Camargo, JL, Feldpausch, TR, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Killeen, TJ, Nascimento, HEM, Montero, JC, Mostacedo, B, Amaral, IL, Guimarães Vieira, IC, Brienen, R, Castellanos, H, and Terborgh, J et al. "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition." Science (New York, N.Y.) 355, no. 6328 (March 2017): 925-931. Full Text
  - Sullivan, MJP, Talbot, J, Lewis, SL, Phillips, OL, Qie, L, Begne, SK, Chave, J, Cuni-Sanchez, A, Hubau, W, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Miles, L, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A, Sonké, B, Sunderland, T, Ter Steege, H, White, LJT, Affum-Baffoe, K, Aiba, S-I, de Almeida, EC, de Oliveira, EA, Alvarez-Loayza, P, Dávila, EÁ, Andrade, A, Aragão, LEOC, Ashton, P, Aymard C, GA, Baker, TR, Balinga, M, Banin, LF, Baraloto, C, Bastin, J-F, Berry, N, Bogaert, J, Bonal, D, Bongers, F, Brienen, R, Camargo, JLC, Cerón, C, Moscoso, VC, Chezeaux, E, Clark, CJ, Pacheco, ÁC, Comiskey, JA, Valverde, FC, Coronado, ENH, Dargie, G, Davies, SJ, De Canniere, C, Djuikouo K, MN, Doucet, J-L, Erwin, TL, Espejo, JS, Ewango, CEN, Fauset, S, Feldpausch, TR, Herrera, R, Gilpin, M, Gloor, E, Hall, JS, Harris, DJ, Hart, TB, Kartawinata, K, Kho, LK, Kitayama, K, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Leal, ME, Lovejoy, T, Lovett, JC, Lukasu, FM, Makana, J-R, Malhi, Y, Maracahipes, L, Marimon, BS, Junior, BHM, Marshall, AR, Morandi, PS, Mukendi, JT, Mukinzi, J, Nilus, R, Vargas, PN, Camacho, NCP, Pardo, G, Peña-Claros, M, Pétronelli, P, Pickavance, GC, Poulsen, AD, Poulsen, JR, Primack, RB, Priyadi, H, Quesada, CA, Reitsma, J, Réjou-Méchain, M, Restrepo, Z, Rutishauser, E, Salim, KA, Salomão, RP, Samsoedin, I, Sheil, D, Sierra, R, Silveira, M, Slik, JWF, Steel, L, Taedoumg, H, Tan, S, Terborgh, JW, Thomas, SC, Toledo, M, Umunay, PM, Gamarra, LV, Vieira, ICG, Vos, VA, Wang, O, Willcock, S, and Zemagho, L. "Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome." Scientific Reports 7 (January 17, 2017): 39102-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Johnson, MO, Galbraith, D, Gloor, M, De Deurwaerder, H, Guimberteau, M, Rammig, A, Thonicke, K, Verbeeck, H, von Randow, C, Monteagudo, A, Phillips, OL, Brienen, RJW, Feldpausch, TR, Lopez Gonzalez, G, Fauset, S, Quesada, CA, Christoffersen, B, Ciais, P, Sampaio, G, Kruijt, B, Meir, P, Moorcroft, P, Zhang, K, Alvarez-Davila, E, Alves de Oliveira, A, Amaral, I, Andrade, A, Aragao, LEOC, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arets, EJMM, Arroyo, L, Aymard, GA, Baraloto, C, Barroso, J, Bonal, D, Boot, R, and Camargo, J 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. Full Text
  - Paine, CET, Beck, H, and Terborgh, J. "How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure." Ecology 97, no. 12 (December 2016): 3326-3336. Full Text
  - Estes, JA, Dayton, PK, Kareiva, P, Levin, SA, Lubchenco, J, Menge, BA, Palumbi, SR, Power, ME, and Terborgh, J. "A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016." Ecology 97, no. 11 (November 2016): 2905-2909. Full Text
  - Ripple, WJ, Chapron, G, López-Bao, JV, Durant, SM, Macdonald, DW, Lindsey, PA, Bennett, EL, Beschta, RL, Bruskotter, JT, Campos-Arceiz, A, Corlett, RT, Darimont, CT, Dickman, AJ, Dirzo, R, Dublin, HT, Estes, JA, Everatt, KT, Galetti, M, Goswami, VR, Hayward, MW, Hedges, S, Hoffmann, M, Hunter, LTB, Kerley, GIH, Letnic, M, Levi, T, Maisels, F, Morrison, JC, Nelson, MP, Newsome, TM, Painter, L, Pringle, RM, Sandom, CJ, Terborgh, J, Treves, A, Van Valkenburgh, B, Vucetich, JA, Wirsing, AJ, Wallach, AD, Wolf, C, Woodroffe, R, Young, H, and Zhang, L. "Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna." Bioscience 66, no. 10 (October 2016): 807-812. Full Text
  - Feldpausch, TR, Phillips, OL, Brienen, RJW, Gloor, E, Lloyd, J, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A, Malhi, Y, Alarcón, A, Álvarez Dávila, E, Alvarez-Loayza, P, Andrade, A, Aragao, LEOC, Arroyo, L, Aymard C., GA, Baker, TR, Baraloto, C, Barroso, J, Bonal, D, Castro, W, Chama, V, Chave, J, Domingues, TF, Fauset, S, Groot, N, Honorio Coronado, E, Laurance, S, Laurance, WF, Lewis, SL, Licona, JC, Marimon, BS, Marimon-Junior, BH, Mendoza Bautista, C, Neill, DA, and Oliveira, EA et al. "Amazon forest response to repeated droughts." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30, no. 7 (July 2016): 964-982. Full Text
  - Baker, TR, Vela Díaz, DM, Chama Moscoso, V, Navarro, G, Monteagudo, A, Pinto, R, Cangani, K, Fyllas, NM, Lopez Gonzalez, G, Laurance, WF, Lewis, SL, Lloyd, J, Ter Steege, H, Terborgh, JW, and Phillips, OL. "Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests." The Journal of Ecology 104, no. 2 (March 2016): 497-506. Full Text
  - Smith, FA, Doughty, CE, Malhi, Y, Svenning, J-C, and Terborgh, J. "Megafauna in the Earth system." Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 2016): 99-108. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Davenport, LC, Niangadouma, R, Dimoto, E, Mouandza, JC, Scholtz, O, and Jaen, MR. "Megafaunal influences on tree recruitment in African equatorial forests." Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 2016): 180-186. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Davenport, LC, Niangadouma, R, Dimoto, E, Mouandza, JC, Schultz, O, and Jaen, MR. "The African rainforest: odd man out or megafaunal landscape? African and Amazonian forests compared." Ecography 39, no. 2 (February 2016): 187-193. Full Text
  - Malhi, Y, Doughty, CE, Galetti, M, Smith, FA, Svenning, J-C, and Terborgh, JW. "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): 838-846. (Review) Full Text
  - Svenning, J-C, Pedersen, PBM, Donlan, CJ, Ejrnæs, R, Faurby, S, Galetti, M, Hansen, DM, Sandel, B, Sandom, CJ, Terborgh, JW, and Vera, FWM. "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. Full Text
  - Svenning, J-C, Pedersen, PBM, Donlan, CJ, Ejrnæs, R, Faurby, S, Galetti, M, Hansen, DM, Sandel, B, Sandom, CJ, Terborgh, JW, and Vera, FWM. "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-E3. (Letter) Full Text
  - Ter Steege, H, Pitman, NCA, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, WF, Peres, CA, Guevara, JE, Salomão, RP, Castilho, CV, Amaral, IL, de Almeida Matos, FD, de Souza Coelho, L, Magnusson, WE, Phillips, OL, de Andrade Lima Filho, D, de Jesus Veiga Carim, M, Irume, MV, Martins, MP, Molino, J-F, Sabatier, D, Wittmann, F, López, DC, da Silva Guimarães, JR, Mendoza, AM, Vargas, PN, Manzatto, AG, Reis, NFC, Terborgh, J, Casula, KR, Montero, JC, Feldpausch, TR, Honorio Coronado, EN, Montoya, AJD, and Zartman, CE et al. "Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species." Science advances 1, no. 10 (November 20, 2015): e1500936-. Full Text
  - Honorio Coronado, EN, Dexter, KG, Pennington, RT, Chave, J, Lewis, SL, Alexiades, MN, Alvarez, E, Alves de Oliveira, A, Amaral, IL, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arets, EJMM, Aymard, GA, Baraloto, C, Bonal, D, Brienen, R, Cerón, C, Cornejo Valverde, F, Di Fiore, A, Farfan-Rios, W, Feldpausch, TR, Higuchi, N, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Laurance, SG, Laurance, WF, López-Gonzalez, G, Marimon, BS, Marimon-Junior, BH, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Neill, D, Palacios Cuenca, W, Peñuela Mora, MC, Pitman, NCA, and Prieto, A et al. "Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities." Edited by MC Fitzpatrick. Diversity and Distributions 21, no. 11 (November 2015): 1295-1307. Full Text
  - Terborgh, JW. "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): 11415-11422. Full Text
  - Ripple, WJ, Newsome, TM, Wolf, C, Dirzo, R, Everatt, KT, Galetti, M, Hayward, MW, Kerley, GIH, Levi, T, Lindsey, PA, Macdonald, DW, Malhi, Y, Painter, LE, Sandom, CJ, Terborgh, J, and Van Valkenburgh, B. "Collapse of the world's largest herbivores." Science Advances 1, no. 4 (May 1, 2015): e1400103-e1400103. Full Text
  - Brienen, RJW, Phillips, OL, Feldpausch, TR, Gloor, E, Baker, TR, Lloyd, J, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A, Malhi, Y, Lewis, SL, Vásquez Martinez, R, Alexiades, M, Álvarez Dávila, E, Alvarez-Loayza, P, Andrade, A, Aragão, LEOC, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arets, EJMM, Arroyo, L, Aymard C, GA, Bánki, OS, Baraloto, C, Barroso, J, Bonal, D, Boot, RGA, Camargo, JLC, Castilho, CV, Chama, V, Chao, KJ, Chave, J, Comiskey, JA, Cornejo Valverde, F, da Costa, L, de Oliveira, EA, Di Fiore, A, Erwin, TL, Fauset, S, Forsthofer, M, Galbraith, DR, Grahame, ES, Groot, N, Hérault, B, Higuchi, N, Honorio Coronado, EN, Keeling, H, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, WF, Laurance, S, Licona, J, Magnussen, WE, Marimon, BS, Marimon-Junior, BH, Mendoza, C, Neill, DA, Nogueira, EM, Núñez, P, Pallqui Camacho, NC, Parada, A, Pardo-Molina, G, Peacock, J, Peña-Claros, M, Pickavance, GC, Pitman, NCA, Poorter, L, Prieto, A, Quesada, CA, Ramírez, F, Ramírez-Angulo, H, Restrepo, Z, Roopsind, A, Rudas, A, Salomão, RP, Schwarz, M, Silva, N, Silva-Espejo, JE, Silveira, M, Stropp, J, Talbot, J, ter Steege, H, Teran-Aguilar, J, Terborgh, J, Thomas-Caesar, R, Toledo, M, Torello-Raventos, M, Umetsu, RK, van der Heijden, GMF, van der Hout, P, Guimarães Vieira, IC, Vieira, SA, Vilanova, E, Vos, VA, and Zagt, RJ. "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink." Nature 519, no. 7543 (March 2015): 344-348. Full Text
  - Fauset, S, Johnson, MO, Gloor, M, Baker, TR, Monteagudo M, A, Brienen, RJW, Feldpausch, TR, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Malhi, Y, ter Steege, H, Pitman, NCA, Baraloto, C, Engel, J, Pétronelli, P, Andrade, A, Camargo, JLC, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Chave, J, Allie, E, Vargas, PN, Terborgh, JW, Ruokolainen, K, Silveira, M, Aymard C, GA, Arroyo, L, Bonal, D, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Araujo-Murakami, A, Neill, D, Hérault, B, Dourdain, A, Torres-Lezama, A, Marimon, BS, Salomão, RP, and Comiskey, JA et al. "Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling." Nature communications 6 (January 2015): 6857-. Full Text
  - Miller, B, Soulé, ME, and Terborgh, J. "‘New conservation’ or surrender to development?." Animal Conservation 17, no. 6 (December 2014): 509-515. Full Text
  - Pitman, NCA, Andino, JEG, Aulestia, M, Cerón, CE, Neill, DA, Palacios, W, Rivas-Torres, G, Silman, MR, and Terborgh, JW. "Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian Ecuador." Ecography 37, no. 9 (September 2014): 902-915. Full Text
  - Mitchard, ETA, Feldpausch, TR, Brienen, RJW, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Monteagudo, A, Baker, TR, Lewis, SL, Lloyd, J, Quesada, CA, Gloor, M, Ter Steege, H, Meir, P, Alvarez, E, Araujo-Murakami, A, Aragão, LEOC, Arroyo, L, Aymard, G, Banki, O, Bonal, D, Brown, S, Brown, FI, Cerón, CE, Chama Moscoso, V, Chave, J, Comiskey, JA, Cornejo, F, Corrales Medina, M, Da Costa, L, Costa, FRC, Di Fiore, A, Domingues, TF, Erwin, TL, Frederickson, T, Higuchi, N, Honorio Coronado, EN, Killeen, TJ, and Laurance, WF 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): 935-946. Full Text
  - Diaz-Martin, Z, Swamy, V, Terborgh, J, Alvarez-Loayza, P, and Cornejo, F. "Identifying keystone plant resources in an Amazonian forest using a long-term fruit-fall record." Journal of Tropical Ecology 30, no. 04 (July 2014): 291-301. Full Text
  - Baker, TR, Pennington, RT, Magallon, S, Gloor, E, Laurance, WF, Alexiades, M, Alvarez, E, Araujo, A, Arets, EJMM, Aymard, G, de Oliveira, AA, Amaral, I, Arroyo, L, Bonal, D, Brienen, RJW, Chave, J, Dexter, KG, Di Fiore, A, Eler, E, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, L, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, van der Heijden, G, Higuchi, N, Honorio, E, Huamantupa, I, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, S, Leaño, C, Lewis, SL, Malhi, Y, Marimon, BS, Marimon Junior, BH, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Neill, D, Peñuela-Mora, MC, and Pitman, N et al. "Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees." Ecology letters 17, no. 5 (May 2014): 527-536. (Letter) Full Text
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  - Orihuela, G, Terborgh, J, Ceballos, N, and Glander, K. "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-. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Pitman, NCA, Andino, JEG, Aulestia, M, Cerón, CE, Neill, DA, Palacios, W, Rivas-Torres, G, Silman, MR, and Terborgh, JW. "Distribution and abundance of tree species in swamp forests of Amazonian ecuador." Ecography 37, no. 9 (January 1, 2014): 902-915. Full Text
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  - Pitman, NCA, Silman, MR, and Terborgh, JW. "Oligarchies in Amazonian tree communities: a ten-year review." Ecography 36, no. 2 (February 2013): 114-123. Full Text
  - Emilio, T, Quesada, CA, Costa, FRC, Magnusson, WE, Schietti, J, Feldpausch, TR, Brienen, RJW, Baker, TR, Chave, J, Álvarez, E, Araújo, A, Bánki, O, Castilho, CV, Eurídice, NHC, Killeen, TJ, Malhi, Y, Mendoza, EMO, Monteagudo, A, Neill, D, Parada, GA, Peña-Cruz, A, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Schwarz, M, Silveira, M, Steege, HT, Terborgh, JW, Thomas, R, Torres-Lezama, A, Vilanova, E, and Phillips, OL. "Soil physical conditions limit palm and tree basal area in Amazonian forests." Plant Ecology and Diversity (2013). Full Text
  - Greenwald, N, Dellasala, DA, and Terborgh, JW. "Nothing new in Kareiva and Marvier." BioScience 63, no. 4 (2013): 241--. Full Text
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  - Socolar, SJ, Robinson, SK, and Terborgh, J. "Bird diversity and occurrence of bamboo specia lists in two bamboo die -offs in sout heastern Peru." Condor 115, no. 2 (2013): 253-262. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "Using Janzen-Connell to predict the consequences of defaunation and other disturbances of tropical forests." Biological Conservation (2013). Full Text
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  - Dexter, KG, Terborgh, JW, and Cunningham, CW. "Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109, no. 20 (May 15, 2012): 7787-7792. Full Text Link to Item
  - Estes, JA, Terborgh, J, Power, ME, and Carpenter, SR. "Reply to cucherousset et al." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10, no. 8 (2012): 408--. Full Text
  - Feldpausch, TR, Lloyd, J, Lewis, SL, Brienen, RJW, Gloor, M, Mendoza, AM, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Banin, L, Salim, KA, Affum-Baffoe, K, Alexiades, M, Almeida, S, Amaral, I, Andrade, A, Aragão, LEOC, Murakami, AA, Arets, EJM, Arroyo, L, C, GAA, Baker, TR, Bánki, OS, Berry, NJ, Cardozo, N, Chave, J, Comiskey, JA, Alvarez, E, Oliveira, AD, Fiore, AD, Djagbletey, G, Domingues, TF, Erwin, TL, Fearnside, PM, França, MB, Freitas, MA, Higuchi, N, C, EH, Iida, Y, Jiménez, E, Kassim, AR, and Killeen, TJ et al. "Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates." Biogeosciences 9, no. 8 (2012): 3381-3403. Full Text
  - Quesada, CA, Phillips, OL, Schwarz, M, Czimczik, CI, Baker, TR, Patiño, S, Fyllas, NM, Hodnett, MG, Herrera, R, Almeida, S, Dávila, EA, Arneth, A, Arroyo, L, Chao, KJ, Dezzeo, N, Erwin, T, Fiore, AD, Higuchi, N, Coronado, EH, Jimenez, EM, Killeen, T, Lezama, AT, Lloyd, G, Löpez-González, G, Luizão, FJ, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo, A, Neill, DA, Vargas, PN, Paiva, R, Peacock, J, Peñuela, MC, Cruz, AP, Pitman, N, Filho, NP, Prieto, A, Ramírez, H, Rudas, A, Salomão, R, Santos, AJB, Schmerler, J, and Silva, N et al. "Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate." Biogeosciences 9, no. 6 (2012): 2203-2246. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests." American Naturalist 179, no. 3 (2012): 303-314. Full Text
  - Alvarez-Loayza, P, and Terborgh, J. "Fates of seedling carpets in an Amazonian floodplain forest: Intra-cohort competition or attack by enemies?." Journal of Ecology 99, no. 4 (2011): 1045-1054. Full Text
  - Estes, JA, Terborgh, J, Brashares, JS, Power, ME, Berger, J, Bond, WJ, Carpenter, SR, Essington, TE, Holt, RD, Jackson, JBC, Marquis, RJ, Oksanen, L, Oksanen, T, Paine, RT, Pikitch, EK, Ripple, WJ, Sandin, SA, Scheffer, M, Schoener, TW, Shurin, JB, Sinclair, ARE, Soulé, ME, Virtanen, R, and Wardle, DA. "Trophic downgrading of planet earth." Science 333, no. 6040 (2011): 301-306. Full Text
  - Forero-Medina, G, Terborgh, J, Socolar, SJ, and Pimm, SL. "Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures." Plos One 6, no. 12 (January 2011): e28535-null. Full Text
  - Osorio, D, Terborgh, J, Alvarez, A, Ortega, H, Quispe, R, Chipollini, V, and Davenport, LC. "Lateral migration of fish between an oxbow lake and an Amazonian headwater river." Ecology of Freshwater Fish 20, no. 4 (2011): 619-627. Full Text
  - Pitman, NCA, Cecilio, MP, Pudicho, MP, Graham, JG, V, MPN, Valenzuela, M, and Terborgh, JW. "Indigenous perceptions of tree species abundance across an upper Amazonian landscape." Journal of Ethnobiology 31, no. 2 (2011): 233-243. Full Text
  - Swamy, V, Terborgh, J, Dexter, KG, Best, BD, Alvarez, P, and Cornejo, F. "Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest." Ecology Letters 14, no. 2 (2011): 195-201. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Alvarez-Loayza, P, Dexter, K, Cornejo, F, and Carrasco, C. "Decomposing dispersal limitation: Limits on fecundity or seed distribution?." Journal of Ecology 99, no. 4 (2011): 935-944. Full Text
  - Swaisgood, RR, Terborgh, JW, and Blumstein, DT. "Funding should come to those who wait." Science 329, no. 5989 (July 16, 2010): 276-. (Letter) Full Text Link to Item
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  - Swamy, V, and Terborgh, JW. "Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest." Journal of Ecology 98, no. 5 (2010): 1096-1107. Full Text
  - Terborgh, JW. "Perspecitives on the issue of people in parks." Conservation and Society (2010). (Academic Article)
  - Terborgh, JW. "All seeds are not equal, distance matters: ontogenetically integrated evidence from a lowland Amazonian rainforest (Accepted)." Ecological Letters (2010). (Academic Article)
  - Thompson, S, Alvarez-Loayza, P, Terborgh, J, and Katul, G. "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 (2010): 1434-1446. Full Text
  - Gloor, M, Phillips, OL, Lloyd, JJ, Lewis, SL, Malhi, Y, Baker, TR, López-Gonzalez, G, Peacock, J, Almeida, S, Oliveira, ACAD, Alvarez, E, Amaral, I, Arroyo, L, Aymard, G, Banki, O, Blanc, L, Bonal, D, Brando, P, Chao, K-J, Chave, J, Dávila, N, Erwin, T, Silva, J, Fiore, AD, Feldpausch, TR, Freitas, A, Herrera, R, Higuchi, N, Honorio, E, Jiménez, E, Killeen, T, Laurance, W, Mendoza, C, Monteagudo, A, Andrade, A, Neill, D, Nepstad, D, Vargas, PN, Peñuela, MC, Cruz, AP, Prieto, A, and Pitman, N et al. "Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?." Global Change Biology 15, no. 10 (2009): 2418-2430. Full Text
  - Phillips, OL, Aragão, LEOC, Lewis, SL, Fisher, JB, Lloyd, J, López-González, G, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo, A, Peacock, J, Quesada, CA, Heijden, GVD, Almeida, S, Amaral, I, Arroyo, L, Aymard, G, Baker, TR, Bánki, O, Blanc, L, Bonal, D, Brando, P, Chave, J, Oliveira, ÁCAD, Cardozo, ND, Czimczik, CI, Feldpausch, TR, Freitas, MA, Gloor, E, Higuchi, N, Jiménez, E, Lloyd, G, Meir, P, Mendoza, C, Morel, A, Neill, DA, Nepstad, D, Patiño, S, Peñuela, MC, Prieto, A, Ramírez, F, Schwarz, M, and Silva, J et al. "Drought sensitivity of the amazon rainforest." Science 323, no. 5919 (2009): 1344-1347. Full Text
  - Quesada, CA, Lloyd, J, Schwarz, M, Baker, TR, Phillips, OL, Patiño, S, Czimczik, C, Hodnett, MG, Herrera, R, Arneth, A, Lloyd, G, Malhi, Y, Dezzeo, N, Luizão, FJ, Santos, AJB, Schmerler, J, Arroyo, L, Silveira, M, Priante Filho, N, Jimenez, EM, Paiva, R, Vieira, I, Neill, DA, Silva, N, Peñuela, MC, Monteagudo, A, Vásquez, R, Prieto, A, Rudas, A, Almeida, S, Higuchi, N, Lezama, AT, López-González, G, Peacock, J, Fyllas, NM, Alvarez Dávila, E, Erwin, T, di Fiore, A, Chao, KJ, and Honorio, E 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 (2009): 3993-4057. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "The trophic cascade on islands." The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited (2009): 116-142.
  - Thompson, S, Katul, G, Terborgh, J, and Alvarez-Loayza, P. "Spatial organization of vegetation arising from non-local excitation with local inhibition in tropical rainforests." Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238, no. 13 (2009): 1061-1067. Full Text
  - Feeley, KJ, and Terborgh, JW. "Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments." Animal Conservation 11, no. 5 (2008): 353-360. Full Text
  - Feeley, KJ, and Terborgh, JW. "Trophic drivers of species loss from fragments." Animal Conservation 11, no. 5 (2008): 366-368. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Nuñez-Iturri, G, Pitman, NCA, Valverde, FHC, Alvarez, P, Swamy, V, Pringle, EG, and Paine, CET. "Tree recruitment in an empty forest." Ecology 89, no. 6 (2008): 1757-1768. Full Text
  - Lopez, L, and Terborgh, J. "Seed predation and seedling herbivory as factors in tree recruitment failure on predator-free forested islands." Journal of Tropical Ecology 23, no. 2 (2007): 129-137. Full Text
  - Pringle, EG, Álvarez-Loayza, P, and Terborgh, J. "Seed characteristics and susceptibility to pathogen attack in tree seeds of the Peruvian Amazon." Plant Ecology 193, no. 2 (2007): 211-222. Full Text
  - Feeley, KJ, and Terborgh, JW. "Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness." Ecology 87, no. 1 (January 2006): 144-150. Link to Item
  - Malhi, Y, Wood, D, Baker, TR, Wright, J, Phillips, OL, Cochrane, T, Meir, P, Chave, J, Almeida, S, Arroyo, L, Higuchi, N, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, SG, Laurance, WF, Lewis, SL, Monteagudo, A, Neill, DA, Vargas, PN, Pitman, NCA, Quesada, CA, Salomão, R, Silva, JNM, Lezama, AT, Terborgh, J, Martínez, RV, and Vinceti, B. "The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests." Global Change Biology 12, no. 7 (2006): 1107-1138. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Feeley, K, Silman, M, Nuñez, P, and Balukjian, B. "Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands." Journal of Ecology 94, no. 2 (2006): 253-263. Full Text
  - Andrade, GI, and Terborgh, J. "Science and society at the World Parks Congress (multiple letters)." Conservation Biology 19, no. 1 (2005): 4-6. Full Text
  - Feeley, KJ, Gillespie, TW, and Terborgh, JW. "The utility of spectral indices from Landsat ETM+ for measuring the structure and composition of tropical dry forests." Biotropica 37, no. 4 (2005): 508-519. Full Text
  - Feeley, KJ, and Terborgh, JW. "The effects of herbivore density on soil nutrients and tree growth in tropical forest fragments." Ecology 86, no. 1 (2005): 116-124.
  - Lopez, GO, Terborgh, J, and Ceballos, N. "Food selection by a hyperdense population of red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus)." Journal of Tropical Ecology 21, no. 4 (2005): 445-450. Full Text
  - Peters, HA, Pauw, A, Silman, MR, and Terborgh, JW. "Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities." Proceedings. Biological Sciences 271 Suppl 5 (August 2004): S367-S369. Full Text
  - Jr, EGL, Davidar, P, Dick, CW, Puyravaud, J-P, Terborgh, J, Steege, HT, and Wright, SJ. "Why do some tropical forests have so many species of trees?." Biotropica 36, no. 4 (2004): 447-473.
  - Lewis, SL, Phillips, OL, Baker, TR, Lloyd, J, Malhi, Y, Almeida, S, Higuchi, N, Laurance, WF, Neill, DA, Silva, JNM, Terborgh, J, Lezama, AT, Martínez, RV, Brown, S, Chave, J, Kuebler, C, Vargas, PN, and Vinceti, B. "Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: Evidence from 50 South American long-term plots." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 359, no. 1443 (2004): 421-436. Full Text
  - Lewis, SL, Phillips, OL, Sheil, D, Vinceti, B, Baker, TR, Brown, S, Graham, AW, Higuchi, N, Hilbert, DW, Laurance, WF, Lejoly, J, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo, A, Vargas, PN, Sonké, B, Supardi, MNN, Terborgh, JW, and Martínez, RV. "Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: Calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary." Journal of Ecology 92, no. 6 (2004): 929-944. Full Text
  - Malhi, Y, Baker, TR, Phillips, OL, Almeida, S, Alvarez, E, Arroyo, L, Chave, J, Czimczik, CI, Fiore, AD, Higuchi, N, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, SG, Laurance, WF, Lewis, SL, Montoya, LMM, Monteagudo, A, Neill, DA, Vargas, PN, Patino, S, Pitman, NCA, Quesada, CA, Salomao, R, Silva, JNM, Lezama, AT, Martínez, RV, Terborgh, J, Vinceti, B, and Lloyd, J. "The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots." Global Change Biology 10, no. 5 (2004): 563-591. Full Text
  - Phillips, OL, Baker, TR, Arroyo, L, Higuchi, N, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, WF, Lewis, SL, Lloyd, J, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo, A, Neill, DA, Vargas, PN, Silva, JNM, Terborgh, J, Martínez, RV, Alexiades, M, Almeida, S, Brown, S, Chave, J, Comiskey, JA, Czimczik, CI, Fiore, AD, Erwin, T, Kuebler, C, Laurance, SG, Nascimento, HEM, Olivier, J, Palacios, W, Patiño, S, Pitman, NCA, Quesada, CA, Saldias, M, Lezama, AT, and Vinceti, B. "Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 359, no. 1443 (2004): 381-407. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "Reflections of a Scientist on the World Parks Congress." Conservation Biology 18, no. 3 (2004): 619-620. Full Text
  - Aponte, C, Barreto, GR, and Terborgh, J. "Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation on Age Structure and Life History in a Tortoise Population." Biotropica 35, no. 4 (2003): 550-555.
  - Lambert, TD, Adler, GH, Riveros, CM, Lopez, L, Ascanio, R, and Terborgh, J. "Rodents on tropical land-bridge islands." Journal of Zoology 260, no. 2 (2003): 179-187. Full Text
  - Russo, SE, Robinson, SK, and Terborgh, J. "Size-abundance relationships in an Amazonian bird community: Implications for the energetic equivalence rule." American Naturalist 161, no. 2 (2003): 267-283. Full Text
  - Silman, MR, Terborgh, JW, and Kiltie, RA. "Population regulation of a dominant rain forest tree by a major seed predator." Ecology 84, no. 2 (2003): 431-438.
  - Steege, HT, Pitman, N, Sabatier, D, Castellanos, H, Hout, PVD, Daly, DC, Silveira, M, Phillips, O, Vasquez, R, Andel, TV, Duivenvoorden, J, Oliveira, AAD, Ek, R, Lilwah, R, Thomas, R, Essen, JV, Baider, C, Maas, P, Mori, S, Terborgh, J, Vargas, PN, Mogollón, H, and Morawetz, W. "A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon." Biodiversity and Conservation 12, no. 11 (2003): 2255-2277. Full Text
  - Beck, H, and Terborgh, J. "Groves versus isolates: How spatial aggregation of Astrocaryum murumuru palms affects seed removal." Journal of Tropical Ecology 18, no. 2 (2002): 275-288. Full Text
  - Condit, R, Pitman, N, Jr, EGL, Chave, J, Terborgh, J, Foster, RB, Núñez, PV, Aguilar, S, Valencia, R, Villa, G, Muller-Landau, HC, Losos, E, and Hubbell, SP. "Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees." Science 295, no. 5555 (2002): 666-669. Full Text
  - Henkel, TW, Terborgh, J, and Vilgalys, RJ. "Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their leguminous hosts in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana." Mycological Research 106, no. 5 (2002): 515-531. Full Text
  - Pitman, NCA, Terborgh, JW, Silman, MR, Percy, NV, Neill, DA, Cerón, CE, Palacios, WA, and Aulestia, M. "A comparison of tree species diversity in two upper Amazonian forests." Ecology 83, no. 11 (2002): 3210-3224.
  - Pitman, NCA, Terborgh, JW, Silman, MR, Núñez V, P, Neill, DA, Cerón, CE, Palacios, WA, and Aulestia, M. "DOMINANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TREE SPECIES IN UPPER AMAZONIAN TERRA FIRME FORESTS." Ecology 82, no. 8 (August 2001): 2101-2117. Full Text
  - Rao, M, Terborgh, J, and Nuñez, P. "Increased herbivory in forest isolates: Implications for plant community structure and composition." Conservation Biology 15, no. 3 (2001): 624-633. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, Lopez, L, Nuñez, PV, Rao, M, Shahabuddin, G, Orihuela, G, Riveros, M, Ascanio, R, Adler, GH, Lambert, TD, and Balbas, L. "Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments." Science 294, no. 5548 (2001): 1923-1926. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, and Davenfort, L. "Endogenous and exogenous control of leaf morphology in iriartea deltoidea (palmae)." Journal of Tropical Ecology 17, no. 5 (2001): 695-703.
  - Cintra, R, and Terborgh, JW. "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. (Academic Article)
  - Terborgh, J. "The fate of tropical forests: A matter of stewardship." Conservation Biology 14, no. 5 (2000): 1358-1361. Full Text
  - Terborgh, JW. "In the company of humans." Natural History 109 (2000): 54-62. (Academic Article)
  - Shahabuddin, G, and Terborgh, JW. "Frugivorous butterflies in Venezuelan forest fragments: abundance, diversity and the effects of isolation." Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 6 (November 1999): 703-722. Full Text
  - Terborgh, JW. "Trouble in paradise: an exchange." New York Review of Books 46 (August 1999): 60-. (Academic Article)
  - Asquith, NM, Terborgh, J, Arnold, AE, and Riveros, CM. "The fruits the agouti ate: Hymenaea courbaril seed fate when its disperser is absent." Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 2 (1999): 229-235. Full Text
  - Pitman, NCA, Terborgh, J, Silman, MR, and Percy, NV. "Tree species distributions in an upper Amazonian forest." Ecology 80, no. 8 (1999): 2651-2661.
  - Soulé, ME, and Terborgh, J. "Conserving nature at regional and continental scales - A scientific program for North America." BioScience 49, no. 10 (1999): 809-817.
  - Terborgh, J, and Mathews, J. "Partitioning of the understorey light environment by two Amazonian treelets." Journal of Tropical Ecology 15, no. 6 (1999): 751-763. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, and Andresen, E. "The composition of Amazonian forests: Patterns at local and regional scales." Journal of Tropical Ecology 14, no. 5 (1998): 645-664. Full Text
  - Yu, DW, Terborgh, JW, and Potts, MD. "Can high tree species richness be explained by Hubbell's null model?." Ecology Letters 1, no. 3 (1998): 193-199.
  - Terborgh, J, Cesar, FN, Mueller, P, and Davenport, L. "Estimating the ages of successional stands of tropical trees from growth increments." Journal of Tropical Ecology 13, no. 6 (1997): 833-856.
  - Terborgh, J, Lopez, L, and Tello, SJ. "Bird communities in transition: The Lago Guri islands." Ecology 78, no. 5 (1997): 1494-1501.
  - Goldizen, AW, Mendelson, J, Vlaardingen, MV, and Terborgh, J. "Saddle-back tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis) reproductive strategies: Evidence from a thirteen-year study of a marked population." American Journal of Primatology 38, no. 1 (1996): 57-83.
  - Terborgh, J, Foster, RB, and Nuñez, VP. "Tropical tree communities: A test of the nonequilibrium hypothesis." Ecology 77, no. 2 (1996): 561-567.
  - Peres, CA, and Terborgh, JW. "Amazonian nature reserves: An analysis of the defensibility status of existing conservation units and design criteria for the future." Conservation Biology 9, no. 1 (1995): 34-36. Full Text
  - Robinson, SK, Fitzpatrick, JW, and Terborgh, J. "Distribution and habitat use of Neotropical migrant landbirds in the Amazon basin and Andes." Bird Conservation International 5, no. 2-3 (1995): 305-323.
  - Robinson, SK, and Terborgh, J. "Interspecific aggression and habitat selection by Amazonian birds." Journal of Animal Ecology 64, no. 1 (1995): 1-11.
  - Terborgh, J, and Wright, SJ. "Effects of mammalian herbivores on plant recruitment in two neotropical forests." Ecology 75, no. 6 (1994): 1829-1833.
  - van Schaik, CP, Terborgh, JW, and Wright, SJ. "The Phenology of Tropical Forests: Adaptive Significance and Consequences for Primary Consumers." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24, no. 1 (November 1993): 353-377. Full Text
  - Salafsky, N, Dugelby, BL, and Terborgh, JW. "Can extractive reserves save the rain forest? An ecological and socioeconomic comparison of nontimber forest product extraction systems in Peten, Guatemala, and west Kalimantan, Indonesia." Conservation Biology 7, no. 1 (1993): 39-52.
  - Terborgh, J, Losos, E, Riley, MP, and Riley, MB. "Predation by vertebrates and invertebrates on the seeds of five canopy tree species of an Amazonian forest." Vegetatio 107-108, no. 1 (1993): 375-386. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "Maintenance of diversity in tropical forests." Biotropica 24, no. 2 B (1992): 283-292.
  - Terborgh, J. "Why American songbirds are vanishing." Scientific American 266, no. 5 (1992): 98-104.
  - Terborgh, J, and Petren, K. "Development of habitat structure through succession in an Amazonian floodplain forest." Habitat structure (1991): 28-46.
  - Terborgh, J, Robinson, SK, III, TAP, Munn, CA, and Pierpont, N. "Structure and organization of an Amazonian forest bird community." Ecological Monographs 60, no. 2 (1990): 213-238.
  - Terborgh, J. "Mixed flocks and polyspecific associations: Costs and benefits of mixed groups to birds and monkeys." American Journal of Primatology 21, no. 2 (1990): 87-100. Full Text
  - Goldizen, AW, and Terborgh, J. "Demography and dispersal patterns of a tamarin population: possible causes of delayed breeding." American Naturalist 134, no. 2 (1989): 208-224. Full Text
  - Goldizen, AW, Terborgh, J, Cornejo, F, Porras, DT, and Evans, R. "Seasonal food shortage, weight loss, and the timing of births in saddle-back tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis)." Journal of Animal Ecology 57, no. 3 (1988): 893-901.
  - Terborgh, J, and Stern, M. "The surreptitious life of the saddle-backed tamarin." American Scientist 75, no. 3 (1987): 260-269.
  - Hauge, P, Terborgh, J, Winter, B, and Parkinson, J. "Conservation priorities in the Philippine Archipelago." Forktail 2 (1986): 83-91.
  - Landeau, L, and Terborgh, J. "Oddity and the 'confusion effect' in predation." Animal Behaviour 34, no. 5 (1986): 1372-1380.
  - Terborgh, J, and Janson, CH. "The socioecology of primate groups." Annual review of ecology and systematics. Vol. 17 (1986): 111-136.
  - Terborgh, J, and Goldizen, AW. "On the mating system of the cooperatively breeding saddle-backed tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis)." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16, no. 4 (1985): 293-299. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J. "The role of ecotones in the distribution of Andean birds." Ecology 66, no. 4 (1985): 1237-1246.
  - Terborgh, J. "Habitat selection in Amazonian birds." Habitat selection in birds (1985): 311-338.
  - Terborgh, J. "The vertical component of plant species diversity in temperate and tropical forests." American Naturalist 126, no. 6 (1985): 760-776.
  - Kiltie, RA, and Terborgh, J. "Observations on the Behavior of Rain Forest Peccaries in Perú: Why do White-lipped Peccaries Form Herds?." Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 62, no. 3 (January 12, 1983): 241-255. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, and Winter, B. "A method for siting parks and reserves with special reference to Columbia and Ecuador." Biological Conservation 27, no. 1 (1983): 45-58.
  - Terborgh, J. "Effects of red and blue light on the growth and morphogenesis of acetabularia crenulata." Nature 207, no. 5004 (1965): 1360-1363. Full Text
  - Terborgh, JW, and Thimann, KV. "The control of development in Acetabularia crenulata by light." Planta 64, no. 3 (1965): 241-253. Full Text
  - Terborgh, J, and Thimann, KV. "Interactions between daylength and light intensity in the growth and chlorophyll content of Acetabularia crenulata." Planta 63, no. 1 (1964): 83-98. Full Text
  - Ripple, WJ, Chapron, G, López-Bao, JV, Durant, SM, Macdonald, DW, Lindsey, PA, Bennett, EL, Beschta, RL, Bruskotter, JT, Campos-Arceiz, A, Corlett, RT, Darimont, CT, Dickman, AJ, Dirzo, R, Dublin, HT, Estes, JA, Everatt, KT, Galetti, M, Goswami, VR, Hayward, MW, Hedges, S, Hoffmann, M, Hunter, LTB, Kerley, GIH, Letnic, M, Levi, T, Maisels, F, Morrison, JC, Nelson, MP, Newsome, TM, Painter, L, Pringle, RM, Sandom, CJ, Terborgh, J, Treves, A, Van Valkenburgh, B, Vucetich, JA, Wirsing, AJ, Wallach, AD, Wolf, C, Woodroffe, R, Young, H, and Zhang, L. "Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now(Published online)." Bioscience : biw168-biw168. Full Text
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