Publications

Andrew J Muehleisen, Naomi B Schwartz, Simon M Stump, A Carla Staver (2024). Rainfall variability and deciduous-evergreen coexistence in tropical forests. Theoretical Ecology.

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Elise Pletcher, Sarah Smith-Tripp, Damian Evans, Naomi B Schwartz (2024). Evaluating global vegetation products for application in heterogeneous forest-savanna landscapes. International Journal of Remote Sensing.

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Charlotte C Smith, Jos Barlow, John R Healey, Leonardo de Sousa Miranda, Paul J Young, Naomi B Schwartz (2023). Amazonian secondary forests are greatly reducing fragmentation and edge exposure in old-growth forests. Environmental Research Letters.

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Martin Queinnec, Nicholas C Coops, Joanne C White, Verena C Griess, Naomi B Schwartz, Grant McCartney (2023). Mapping dominant boreal tree species groups by combining area-based and individual tree crown LiDAR metrics with Sentinel-2 data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.

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Adrian Dwiputra, Nicholas C Coops, Naomi B Schwartz (2023). GEDI waveform metrics in vegetation mapping—a case study from a heterogeneous tropical forest landscape. Environmental Research Letters.

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Elise Pletcher, Carla Staver, Naomi B Schwartz (2022). The environmental drivers of tree cover and forest--savanna mosaics in Southeast Asia. Ecography.

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Catarina C Jakovac, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2022). Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests. Science advances.

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German Vargas G, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2022). Leaf habit affects the distribution of drought sensitivity but not water transport efficiency in the tropics. Ecology letters.

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Naomi B Schwartz, David Medvigy, Julian Tijerin, Daniel Pérez-Aviles, David Rivera-Polanco, Damaris Pereira, Leland Werden, Dan Du, Logan Arnold, Jennifer S Powers, others (2022). Intra-annual variation in microclimatic conditions in relation to vegetation type and structure in two tropical dry forests undergoing secondary succession. Forest Ecology and Management.

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Jonas J Lembrechts, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology.

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Winslow D Hansen, Naomi B Schwartz, A Park Williams, Katharina Albrich, Lara M Kueppers, Anja Rammig, Christopher PO Reyer, A Carla Staver, Rupert Seidl (2022). Global forests are influenced by the legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability. Environmental Research: Ecology.

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Pedro R Piffer, Adriane Calaboni, Marcos R Rosa, Naomi B Schwartz, Leandro R Tambosi, Marı́a Uriarte (2022). Ephemeral forest regeneration limits carbon sequestration potential in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Global Change Biology.

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Sarah Smith-Tripp, Bianca NI Eskelson, Nicholas C Coops, Naomi B Schwartz (2022). Canopy height impacts on the growing season and monthly microclimate in a burned forest of British Columbia, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

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Bonnie G Waring, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2021). Soil biogeochemistry across Central and South American tropical dry forests. Ecological Monographs.

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Lourens Poorter, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2021). Multidimensional tropical forest recovery. Science.

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Kathryn J Fiorella, Elizabeth R Bageant, Naomi B Schwartz, Shakuntala H Thilsted, Christopher B Barrett (2021). Fishers’ response to temperature change reveals the importance of integrating human behavior in climate change analysis. Science Advances.

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German Vargas G, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2021). Beyond leaf habit: generalities in plant function across 97 tropical dry forest tree species. New Phytologist.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Xiaohui Feng, Robert Muscarella, Nathan G Swenson, Marı́a Natalia Umaña, Jess K Zimmerman, Marı́a Uriarte (2020). Topography and traits modulate tree performance and drought response in a tropical forest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.

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Naomi B Schwartz, T Mitchell Aide, Jordan Graesser, H Ricardo Grau, Marı́a Uriarte (2020). Reversals of reforestation across Latin America limit climate mitigation potential of tropical forests. Frontiers in forests and global change.

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Astrid Helena Huechacona-Ruiz, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Naomi B Schwartz, Jennifer S Powers, Casandra Reyes-Garcı́a, Fernando Tun-Dzul, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni (2020). Mapping tree species deciduousness of tropical dry forests combining reflectance, spectral unmixing, and texture data from high-resolution imagery. Forests.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Benjamin R Lintner, Xue Feng, Jennifer S Powers (2020). Beyond MAP: A guide to dimensions of rainfall variability for tropical ecology. Biotropica.

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Jennifer S Powers, German Vargas G, Timothy J Brodribb, Naomi B Schwartz, Daniel Pérez-Aviles, Chris M Smith-Martin, Justin M Becknell, Filippo Aureli, Roger Blanco, Erick Calderón-Morales, others (2020). A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species. Global Change Biology.

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Lourens Poorter, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2019). Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature ecology & evolution.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Andrew M Budsock, Marı́a Uriarte (2019). Fragmentation, forest structure, and topography modulate impacts of drought in a tropical forest landscape. Ecology.

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Mahew Fagani, Naomi B Schwartz (2019). Exploring the Social and Ecological Trade-offs in Tropical Reforestation: A Role-Playing Exercise. UMBC Faculty Collection.

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Danaë MA Rozendaal, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2019). Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests. Science advances.

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Duncan NL Menge, Anna C MacPherson, Thomas A Bytnerowicz, Andrew W Quebbeman, Naomi B Schwartz, Benton N Taylor, Amelia A Wolf (2018). Logarithmic scales in ecological data presentation may cause misinterpretation. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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Maga Gei, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2018). Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests. Nature ecology & evolution.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Marı́a Uriarte, Ruth DeFries, Victor H Gutiérrez-Vélez, Miguel A Pinedo-Vasquez (2017). Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest. Environmental research letters.

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Benton N Taylor, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2017). Growth and physiology of a dominant understory shrub, Hamamelis virginiana, following canopy disturbance in a temperate hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Marı́a Uriarte, Ruth DeFries, Kristopher M Bedka, Katia Fernandes, Victor Gutiérrez-Vélez, Miguel A Pinedo-Vasquez (2017). Fragmentation increases wind disturbance impacts on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape. Ecological Applications.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Dean L Urban, Peter S White, Aaron Moody, Robert N Klein (2016). Vegetation dynamics vary across topographic and fire severity gradients following prescribed burning in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Forest Ecology and Management.

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Marı́a Uriarte, Naomi B Schwartz, Jennifer S Powers, Erika Mar\ń-Spiotta, Wenying Liao, Leland K Werden (2016). Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories. Biotropica.

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Robin L Chazdon, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2016). Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics. Science Advances.

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Lourens Poorter, and many others + Naomi B Schwartz (2016). Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature.

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Bruno Locatelli, Carla P Catterall, Pablo Imbach, Chetan Kumar, Rodel Lasco, Erika Marı́n-Spiotta, Bernard Mercer, Jennifer S Powers, Naomi B Schwartz, Maria Uriarte (2015). Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon. Restoration Ecology.

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Jesse R Lasky, Bénédicte Bachelot, Robert Muscarella, Naomi B Schwartz, Jimena Forero-Montaña, Christopher J Nytch, Nathan G Swenson, Jill Thompson, Jess K Zimmerman, Marı́a Uriarte (2015). Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology.

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Naomi B Schwartz, Maria Uriarte, Victor H Gutiérrez-Vélez, Walter Baethgen, Ruth DeFries, Katia Fernandes, Miguel A Pinedo-Vasquez (2015). Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon. Global Environmental Change.

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