Rakan A. Zahawi, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 
Area:
Terrestrial ecology, tropical ecology

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2024 Ortega MA, Cayuela L, Griffith DM, Camacho A, Coronado IM, Del Castillo RF, Figueroa-Rangel BL, Fonseca W, Garibaldi C, Kelly DL, Letcher SG, Meave JA, Merino-Martín L, Meza VH, Ochoa-Gaona S, ... ... Zahawi RA, et al. Climate change increases threat to plant diversity in tropical forests of Central America and southern Mexico. Plos One. 19: e0297840. PMID 38422027 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297840  0.38
2024 Blake S, Cabrera F, Rivas-Torres G, Deem SL, Nieto-Claudin A, Zahawi RA, Bastille-Rousseau G. Invasion by threatens long distance migration of Galapagos tortoises. Ecology and Evolution. 14: e10994. PMID 38357592 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10994  0.472
2022 Kulikowski AJ, Zahawi RA, Werden LK, Zhu K, Holl KD. Restoration interventions mediate tropical tree recruitment dynamics over time. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 378: 20210077. PMID 36373915 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0077  0.467
2022 San-José M, Werden LK, Joyce FH, Reid JL, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Effects of landscape structure on restoration success in tropical premontane forest. Scientific Reports. 12: 13452. PMID 35927554 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16542-3  0.573
2022 Jones FA, Hadley AS, Bonner K, Zahawi RA, Robinson WD, Kormann U, Betts MG. Elevated inbreeding in Heliconia tortuosa is determined by tropical forest stand age, isolation, and loss of hummingbird functional diversity. Molecular Ecology. PMID 35808851 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16607  0.533
2021 San-José M, Werden L, Peterson CJ, Oviedo-Brenes F, Zahawi RA. Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve. Oecologia. PMID 34613464 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05048-w  0.53
2020 Zahawi RA, Reid JL, Fagan ME. Potential impacts of COVID-19 on tropical forest recovery. Biotropica. 52: 803-807. PMID 33173235 DOI: 10.1111/btp.12851  0.43
2020 Powers JS, Bruna EM, Campos-Arceiz A, Delamonica Sampaio P, DeWalt SJ, Lohmann LG, Zahawi RA. Tropical biology and conservation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biotropica. 52: 399. PMID 32536692 DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12802  0.32
2020 Werden LK, Holl KD, Rosales JA, Sylvester JM, Zahawi RA. Effects of dispersal- and niche-based factors on tree recruitment in tropical wet forest restoration. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. PMID 32335980 DOI: 10.1002/Eap.2139  0.553
2020 Fagan ME, Reid JL, Holland MB, Drew JG, Zahawi RA. How feasible are global forest restoration commitments? Conservation Letters. 13. DOI: 10.1111/Conl.12700  0.558
2020 Holl KD, Reid JL, Cole RJ, Oviedo‐Brenes F, Rosales JA, Zahawi RA. Applied nucleation facilitates tropical forest recovery: Lessons learned from a 15-year study Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13684  0.419
2020 Werden LK, Sugii NC, Weisenberger L, Keir MJ, Koob G, Zahawi RA. Ex situ conservation of threatened plant species in island biodiversity hotspots: A case study from Hawai‘i Biological Conservation. 243: 108435. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2020.108435  0.413
2019 Fagan M, Reid JL, Zahawi RA. Forests: questioning carbon stores after restoration. Nature. 570: 446. PMID 31239567 DOI: 10.1038/D41586-019-01975-0  0.461
2019 Cadavid-Florez L, Laborde J, Zahawi RA. Using landscape composition and configuration metrics as indicators of woody vegetation attributes in tropical pastures Ecological Indicators. 101: 679-691. DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLIND.2019.01.072  0.352
2018 Reid JL, Fagan ME, Zahawi RA. Positive site selection bias in meta-analyses comparing natural regeneration to active forest restoration. Science Advances. 4: eaas9143. PMID 29774239 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aas9143  0.493
2018 Slik JWF, Franklin J, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Field R, Aguilar S, Aguirre N, Ahumada J, Aiba SI, Alves LF, K A, Avella A, Mora F, Aymard C GA, Báez S, Balvanera P, ... ... Zahawi RA, et al. Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29432167 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1714977115  0.574
2018 Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Applied nucleation is a straightforward, cost‐effective forest restoration approach: reply to Ramírez‐Soto et al. (2018) Restoration Ecology. 26: 618-619. DOI: 10.1111/Rec.12701  0.381
2018 Reid JL, Fagan ME, Lucas J, Slaughter J, Zahawi RA. The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica Conservation Letters. 12: e12607. DOI: 10.1111/Conl.12607  0.593
2018 Lanuza O, Casanoves F, Zahawi RA, Celentano D, Delgado D, Holl KD. Litterfall and nutrient dynamics shift in tropical forest restoration sites after a decade of recovery Biotropica. 50: 491-498. DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12533  0.489
2018 Holl KD, Reid JL, Oviedo-Brenes F, Kulikowski AJ, Zahawi RA. Rules of thumb for predicting tropical forest recovery Applied Vegetation Science. 21: 669-677. DOI: 10.1111/Avsc.12394  0.598
2018 Zahawi RA, Leighton Reid J. Tropical secondary forest enrichment using giant stakes of keystone figs Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 16: 133-138. DOI: 10.1016/J.Pecon.2018.06.001  0.573
2017 Zahawi RA, Oviedo-Brenes F, Peterson CJ. A degradation debt? Large-scale shifts in community composition and loss of biomass in a tropical forest fragment after 40 years of isolation. Plos One. 12: e0183133. PMID 28832611 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0183133  0.572
2017 Reid JL, Wilson SJ, Bloomfield GS, Cattau ME, Fagan ME, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. How Long Do Restored Ecosystems Persist? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 102: 258-265. DOI: 10.3417/2017002  0.488
2016 Holste EK, Holl KD, Zahawi RA, Kobe RK. Reduced aboveground tree growth associated with higher arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in tropical forest restoration. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 7253-7262. PMID 28725395 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.2487  0.581
2016 Cole RJ, Holl KD, Zahawi RA, Wickey P, Townsend AR. Leaf litter arthropod responses to tropical forest restoration. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 5158-68. PMID 27551373 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.2220  0.616
2016 Reid JL, Chaves-Fallas JM, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Tropical forest restoration enriches vascular epiphyte recovery Applied Vegetation Science. 19: 508-517. DOI: 10.1111/Avsc.12234  0.667
2016 Holl KD, Reid JL, Chaves-Fallas JM, Oviedo-Brenes F, Zahawi RA. Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover Journal of Applied Ecology. 54: 1091-1099. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12814  0.635
2015 Zahawi RA, Duran G, Kormann U. Sixty-Seven Years of Land-Use Change in Southern Costa Rica. Plos One. 10: e0143554. PMID 26599325 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0143554  0.59
2015 Reid JL, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Seed dispersal limitations shift over time in tropical forest restoration. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 25: 1072-82. PMID 26465043 DOI: 10.1890/14-1399.1  0.622
2015 Slik JW, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Aiba S, Alvarez-Loayza P, Alves LF, Ashton P, Balvanera P, Bastian ML, Bellingham PJ, van den Berg E, Bernacci L, da Conceição Bispo P, Blanc L, Böhning-Gaese K, Boeckx P, ... ... Zahawi RA, et al. An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 7472-7. PMID 26034279 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1423147112  0.546
2015 Zahawi RA, Eckert C, Chaves-Fallas JM, Schwanitz L, Rosales JA, Holl KD. The Effect of Restoration Treatment Soils and Parent Tree on Tropical Forest Tree Seedling Growth Open Journal of Forestry. 5: 154-161. DOI: 10.4236/Ojf.2015.52015  0.443
2015 Reid JL, Mendenhall CD, Zahawi RA, Holl KD. Scale-dependent effects of forest restoration on Neotropical fruit bats Restoration Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/Rec.12235  0.643
2015 Paine CET, Amissah L, Auge H, Baraloto C, Baruffol M, Bourland N, Bruelheide H, Daïnou K, de Gouvenain RC, Doucet JL, Doust S, Fine PVA, Fortunel C, Haase J, Holl KD, ... ... Zahawi RA, et al. Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why Journal of Ecology. 103: 978-989. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12401  0.614
2015 Zahawi RA, Dandois JP, Holl KD, Nadwodny D, Reid JL, Ellis EC. Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery Biological Conservation. 186: 287-295. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2015.03.031  0.48
2015 Reid JL, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Seed dispersal limitations shift over time in tropical forest restoration Ecological Applications. 25: 1072-1082.  0.495
2014 Reid JL, Mendenhall CD, Rosales JA, Zahawi RA, Holl KD. Landscape context mediates avian habitat choice in tropical forest restoration Plos One. 9. PMID 24595233 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0090573  0.62
2014 Zahawi RA, Reid JL, Holl KD. Hidden Costs of Passive Restoration Restoration Ecology. 22: 284-287. DOI: 10.1111/Rec.12098  0.336
2014 Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Factors explaining variability in woody above-ground biomass accumulation in restored tropical forest Forest Ecology and Management. 319: 36-43. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2014.01.024  0.577
2014 Reid JL, Holste EK, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Does any bat box facilitate forest recovery? - Reply to Kelm Biological Conservation. 170: 330-331. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2013.11.019  0.575
2013 Holl KD, Stout VM, Reid JL, Zahawi RA. Testing heterogeneity-diversity relationships in tropical forest restoration Oecologia. 173: 569-578. PMID 23525802 DOI: 10.1007/S00442-013-2632-9  0.614
2013 Zahawi RA, Holl KD, Cole RJ, Reid JL. Testing applied nucleation as a strategy to facilitate tropical forest recovery Journal of Applied Ecology. 50: 88-96. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12014  0.646
2013 Reid JL, Holste EK, Zahawi RA. Artificial bat roosts did not accelerate forest regeneration in abandoned pastures in southern Costa Rica Biological Conservation. 167: 9-16. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2013.06.026  0.606
2012 Cayuela L, Gálvez-Bravo L, Pérez Pérez R, de Albuquerque F, Golicher D, Zahawi R, Ramírez-Marcial N, Garibaldi C, Field R, Rey Benayas J, González-Espinosa M, Balvanera P, Ángel Castillo M, Figueroa-Rangel B, Griffith D, et al. The Tree Biodiversity Network (BIOTREE-NET): prospects for biodiversity research and conservation in the Neotropics Biodiversity & Ecology. 4: 211-224. DOI: 10.7809/B-E.00078  0.503
2012 Reid L, Holste E, Zahawi R. Bat roosts do not accelerate tropical forest regeneration F1000research. 3. DOI: 10.7490/F1000Research.1092335.1  0.576
2012 Reid JL, Harris JBC, Zahawi RA. Avian Habitat Preference in Tropical Forest Restoration in Southern Costa Rica Biotropica. 44: 350-359. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.2011.00814.X  0.522
2012 Lindell CA, Cole RJ, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Migratory bird species in young tropical forest restoration sites: Effects of vegetation height, planting design, and season Bird Conservation International. 22: 94-105. DOI: 10.1017/S0959270911000177  0.558
2011 Celentano D, Zahawi RA, Finegan B, Casanoves F, Ostertag R, Cole RJ, Holl KD. Tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica: The effect of several strategies on litter production, accumulation and decomposition | Restauración ecológica de bosques tropicales en Costa Rica: Efecto de varios modelos en la producción, acumulación y descomposición de hojarasca Revista De Biologia Tropical. 59: 1323-1336. PMID 22017136  0.47
2011 Celentano D, Zahawi RA, Finegan B, Ostertag R, Cole RJ, Holl KD. Litterfall dynamics under different tropical forest restoration strategies in Costa Rica Biotropica. 43: 279-287. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.2010.00688.X  0.624
2011 Holl KD, Zahawi RA, Cole RJ, Ostertag R, Cordell S. Planting Seedlings in Tree Islands Versus Plantations as a Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration Strategy Restoration Ecology. 19: 470-479. DOI: 10.1111/J.1526-100X.2010.00674.X  0.572
2011 Cole RJ, Holl KD, Keene CL, Zahawi RA. Direct seeding of late-successional trees to restore tropical montane forest Forest Ecology and Management. 261: 1590-1597. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2010.06.038  0.624
2010 Cole RJ, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Seed rain under tree islands planted to restore degraded lands in a tropical agricultural landscape. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 20: 1255-69. PMID 20666248 DOI: 10.1890/09-0714.1  0.568
2010 Zahawi RA, Holl KD. Bridging the gap between scientific research and tropical forest restoration: A multifaceted research, conservation, education, and outreach program in Southern Costa Rica Ecological Restoration. 28: 143-146. DOI: 10.3368/Er.28.2.143  0.38
2010 Sady GC, Holl KD, Cole RJ, Zahawi RA. Germination and survival of tree seeds in a tropical montane forest restoration study (Costa Rica) Ecological Restoration. 28: 121-124. DOI: 10.3368/Er.28.2.121  0.575
2010 Celentano D, Zahawi RA, Finegan B, Casanoves F, Ostertag R, Cole RJ, Holl KD. Restauración ecológica de bosques tropicales en Costa Rica: efecto de varios modelos en la producción, acumulación y descomposición de hojarasca Revista De Biologia Tropical. 59: 1323-1336. DOI: 10.15517/Rbt.V0I0.3402  0.534
2010 Morrison EB, Lindell CA, Holl KD, Zahawi RA. Patch size effects on avian foraging behaviour: Implications for tropical forest restoration design Journal of Applied Ecology. 47: 130-138. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2664.2009.01743.X  0.512
2009 Zahawi RA, Holl KD. Comparing the performance of tree stakes and seedlings to restore abandoned tropical pastures Restoration Ecology. 17: 854-864. DOI: 10.1111/J.1526-100X.2008.00423.X  0.552
2009 Fink RD, Lindell CA, Morrison EB, Zahawi RA, Holl KD. Patch size and tree species influence the number and duration of bird visits in forest restoration plots in southern Costa Rica Restoration Ecology. 17: 479-486. DOI: 10.1111/J.1526-100X.2008.00383.X  0.619
2008 Zahawi RA, Holl K. Tropical forest restoration research opportunities in southern Costa Rica Ecological Restoration. 26: 299-300. DOI: 10.3368/Er.26.4.299  0.532
2008 Schlawin JR, Zahawi RA. 'Nucleating' succession in recovering neotropical wet forests: The legacy of remnant trees Journal of Vegetation Science. 19: 485-492. DOI: 10.3170/2008-8-18387  0.524
2008 Reid JL, Harris JBC, Martin LJ, Barnett JR, Zahawi RA. Distribution and abundance of nearctic-neotropical songbird migrants in a forest restoration site in southern Costa Rica Journal of Tropical Ecology. 24: 685-688. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467408005415  0.402
2008 Zahawi RA. Instant trees: Using giant vegetative stakes in tropical forest restoration Forest Ecology and Management. 255: 3013-3016. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2008.02.009  0.602
2007 Goldsmith GR, Zahawi RA. The function of stilt roots in the growth strategy of Socratea exorrhiza (Arecaceae) at two neotropical sites. Revista De Biología Tropical. 55: 787-93. PMID 19086384 DOI: 10.15517/Rbt.V55I3-4.5955  0.452
2006 Zahawi RA, Augspurger CK. Tropical forest restoration: tree islands as recruitment foci in degraded lands of Honduras. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 16: 464-78. PMID 16711037 DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0464:Tfrtia]2.0.Co;2  0.745
2006 García-C. JM, Zahawi RA. Predation by a Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) on a hummingbird Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 118: 261-263. DOI: 10.1676/05-015.1  0.308
2005 Zahawi RA. Establishment and growth of living fence species: An overlooked tool for the restoration of degraded areas in the tropics Restoration Ecology. 13: 92-102. DOI: 10.1111/J.1526-100X.2005.00011.X  0.525
1999 Zahawi RA, Augspurger CK. Early plant succession in abandoned pastures in Ecuador Biotropica. 31: 540-552. DOI: 10.1111/J.1744-7429.1999.Tb00401.X  0.664
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