Liza S. Comita - Publications

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School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University, New Haven, CT 

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2024 Hülsmann L, Chisholm RA, Comita L, Visser MD, de Souza Leite M, Aguilar S, Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Bourg NA, Brockelman WY, Bunyavejchewin S, Castaño N, Chang-Yang CH, Chuyong GB, Clay K, Davies SJ, et al. Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities. Nature. PMID 38418889 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07118-4  0.538
2023 Vleminckx J, Hogan JA, Metz MR, Comita LS, Queenborough SA, Wright SJ, Valencia R, Zambrano M, Garwood NC. Flower production decreases with warmer and more humid atmospheric conditions in a western Amazonian forest. The New Phytologist. PMID 37984822 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19388  0.373
2023 Comita LS, Aguilar S, Hubbell SP, Pérez R. Long-term seedling and small sapling census data from the Barro Colorado Island 50 ha Forest Dynamics Plot, Panama. Ecology. e4140. PMID 37461360 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4140  0.45
2022 Barker W, Comita LS, Wright SJ, Phillips OL, Sedio BE, Batterman SA. Widespread herbivory cost in tropical nitrogen-fixing tree species. Nature. PMID 36477532 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05502-6  0.368
2022 Estrada-Villegas S, Stevenson PR, López O, DeWalt SJ, Comita LS, Dent DH. Animal seed dispersal recovery during passive restoration in a forested landscape. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 378: 20210076. PMID 36373921 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0076  0.483
2022 Álvarez-Cansino L, Comita LS, Jones FA, Manzané-Pinzón E, Browne L, Engelbrecht BMJ. Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings. Ecology. e3700. PMID 35352828 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3700  0.497
2021 Browne L, Markesteijn L, Engelbrecht BMJ, Jones FA, Lewis OT, Manzané-Pinzón E, Wright SJ, Comita LS. Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-16 El Niño. Global Change Biology. PMID 34273223 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15809  0.441
2020 Stump SM, Marden JH, Beckman NG, Mangan SA, Comita LS. Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity. The American Naturalist. 196: 472-486. PMID 32970465 DOI: 10.1086/710486  0.586
2020 Muehleisen AJ, Engelbrecht BMJ, Jones FA, Manzané-Pinzón E, Comita LS. Local adaptation to herbivory within tropical tree species along a rainfall gradient. Ecology. e03151. PMID 32730633 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3151  0.391
2020 Krishnadas M, Agarwal K, Comita LS. Edge effects alter the role of fungi and insects in mediating functional composition and diversity of seedling recruits in a fragmented tropical forest. Annals of Botany. PMID 32710752 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaa138  0.461
2019 Marchand P, Comita LS, Wright SJ, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Beckman NG. Seed-to-seedling transitions exhibit distance-dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest. Ecology. e02926. PMID 31729025 DOI: 10.1002/Ecy.2926  0.652
2019 Krishnadas M, Kumar AN, Comita LS. Edge effects reduce α-diversity but not β-diversity during community assembly in a human-modified tropical forest. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. PMID 31495013 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1996  0.447
2019 Crawford KM, Bauer JT, Comita LS, Eppinga MB, Johnson DJ, Mangan SA, Queenborough SA, Strand AE, Suding KN, Umbanhowar J, Bever JD. When and where plant-soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters. PMID 31149765 DOI: 10.1111/Ele.13278  0.335
2019 Eck JL, Stump SM, Delavaux CS, Mangan SA, Comita LS. Evidence of within-species specialization by soil microbes and the implications for plant community diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30842279 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1810767116  0.451
2018 Krishnadas M, Bagchi R, Sridhara S, Comita LS. Weaker plant-enemy interactions decrease tree seedling diversity with edge-effects in a fragmented tropical forest. Nature Communications. 9: 4523. PMID 30375390 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-06997-2  0.477
2018 Krishnadas M, Beckman NG, Peñagos Zuluaga JC, Zhu Y, Whitacre J, Wenzel JW, Queenborough SA, Comita LS. Environment and past land-use together predict functional diversity in a temperate forest. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. PMID 30198191 DOI: 10.1002/Eap.1802  0.643
2018 Sugiyama A, Comita LS, Masaki T, Condit R, Hubbell SP. Resolving the paradox of clumped seed dispersal: positive density and distance dependence in a bat-dispersed species. Ecology. PMID 30182375 DOI: 10.1002/Ecy.2512  0.447
2018 Stump SM, Comita LS. Interspecific variation in conspecific negative density dependence can make species less likely to coexist. Ecology Letters. 21: 1541-1551. PMID 30129216 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13135  0.524
2018 Rüger N, Comita LS, Condit R, Purves D, Rosenbaum B, Visser MD, Joseph Wright S, Wirth C. Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community. Ecology Letters. PMID 29744992 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12974  0.439
2018 Krishnadas M, Comita LS. Influence of soil pathogens on early regeneration success of tropical trees varies between forest edge and interior. Oecologia. 186: 259-268. PMID 29134399 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-4006-1  0.514
2017 Johnson DJ, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Comita LS. Abiotic niche partitioning and negative density dependence drive tree seedling survival in a tropical forest. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 29237862 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2017.2210  0.559
2017 Murphy SJ, Wiegand T, Comita LS. Distance-dependent seedling mortality and long-term spacing dynamics in a neotropical forest community. Ecology Letters. PMID 28980377 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12856  0.463
2017 Audino LD, Murphy SJ, Zambaldi L, Louzada J, Comita LS. Drivers of community assembly in tropical forest restoration sites: role of local environment, landscape and space. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. PMID 28434188 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1562  0.411
2017 Du Y, Queenborough SA, Chen L, Wang Y, Mi X, Ma K, Comita LS. Intraspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent seedling recruitment in a subtropical evergreen forest. Oecologia. PMID 28238049 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3842-3  0.494
2017 Bruijning M, Visser MD, Muller-Landau HC, Wright SJ, Comita LS, Hubbell SP, de Kroon H, Jongejans E. Surviving in a Cosexual World: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dioecy in Tropical Trees. The American Naturalist. 189: 297-314. PMID 28221824 DOI: 10.1086/690137  0.599
2016 Murphy SJ, Salpeter K, Comita LS. Higher β-diversity observed for herbs over woody plants is driven by stronger habitat filtering in a tropical understory. Ecology. 97: 2074-2084. PMID 27859202 DOI: 10.1890/15-1801.1  0.505
2016 Murphy SJ, Xu K, Comita LS. Tree seedling richness, but not neighborhood composition, influences insect herbivory in a temperate deciduous forest community. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 6310-6319. PMID 27648245 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2336  0.478
2015 Murphy SJ, Audino LD, Whitacre J, Eck JL, Wenzel JW, Queenborough SA, Comita LS. Species associations structured by environment and land-use history promote beta-diversity in a temperate forest. Ecology. 96: 705-15. PMID 26236867 DOI: 10.1890/14-0695.1  0.476
2015 Calinger K, Calhoon E, Chang HC, Whitacre J, Wenzel J, Comita L, Queenborough S. Historic Mining and Agriculture as Indicators of Occurrence and Abundance of Widespread Invasive Plant Species. Plos One. 10: e0128161. PMID 26046534 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0128161  0.491
2014 Comita LS, Queenborough SA, Murphy SJ, Eck JL, Xu K, Krishnadas M, Beckman N, Zhu Y, Gómez-Aparicio L. Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival. The Journal of Ecology. 102: 845-856. PMID 25253908 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12232  0.648
2013 Piao T, Comita LS, Jin G, Kim JH. Density dependence across multiple life stages in a temperate old-growth forest of northeast China. Oecologia. 172: 207-17. PMID 23053238 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2481-y  0.485
2012 Uriarte M, Clark JS, Zimmerman JK, Comita LS, Forero-Montaña J, Thompson J. Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest. Ecology. 93: 191-205. PMID 22486099 DOI: 10.1890/10-2422.1  0.503
2012 Wang X, Comita LS, Hao Z, Davies SJ, Ye J, Lin F, Yuan Z. Local-scale drivers of tree survival in a temperate forest. Plos One. 7: e29469. PMID 22347996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029469  0.494
2011 Kraft NJ, Comita LS, Chase JM, Sanders NJ, Swenson NG, Crist TO, Stegen JC, Vellend M, Boyle B, Anderson MJ, Cornell HV, Davies KF, Freestone AL, Inouye BD, Harrison SP, et al. Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science (New York, N.Y.). 333: 1755-8. PMID 21940897 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1208584  0.46
2010 Uriarte M, Swenson NG, Chazdon RL, Comita LS, John Kress W, Erickson D, Forero-Montaña J, Zimmerman JK, Thompson J. Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly. Ecology Letters. 13: 1503-14. PMID 21054732 DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2010.01541.X  0.46
2010 Comita LS, Thompson J, Uriarte M, Jonckheere I, Canham CD, Zimmerman JK. Interactive effects of land use history and natural disturbance on seedling dynamics in a subtropical forest. Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America. 20: 1270-84. PMID 20666249 DOI: 10.1890/09-1350.1  0.462
2010 Comita LS, Muller-Landau HC, Aguilar S, Hubbell SP. Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community. Science (New York, N.Y.). 329: 330-2. PMID 20576853 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1190772  0.647
2010 Chen L, Mi X, Comita LS, Zhang L, Ren H, Ma K. Community-level consequences of density dependence and habitat association in a subtropical broad-leaved forest. Ecology Letters. 13: 695-704. PMID 20412278 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01468.x  0.498
2009 Comita LS, Engelbrecht BM. Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest. Ecology. 90: 2755-65. PMID 19886485 DOI: 10.1890/08-1482.1  0.495
2009 Comita LS, Hubbell SP. Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank Ecology. 90: 328-334. PMID 19323215 DOI: 10.1890/08-0451.1  0.537
2007 Engelbrecht BM, Comita LS, Condit R, Kursar TA, Tyree MT, Turner BL, Hubbell SP. Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests. Nature. 447: 80-2. PMID 17476266 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05747  0.426
2006 Wills C, Harms KE, Condit R, King D, Thompson J, He F, Muller-Landau HC, Ashton P, Losos E, Comita L, Hubbell S, Lafrankie J, Bunyavejchewin S, Dattaraja HS, Davies S, et al. Nonrandom processes maintain diversity in tropical forests. Science (New York, N.Y.). 311: 527-31. PMID 16439661 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1117715  0.66
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