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(links to PDFs underlined) In Press Bush, M. B., M. R. Silman, M. B. de Toledo C. M. C. S. Listopad W. D. Gosling, C. Williams, P. E. de Oliveira, C. Krisel. In Press. Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: a spatial perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Bush, M. B., M. R. Silman, and C. M. C. S. Listopad. In Press. Climate change and human occupation in Peruvian Amazonia: a paleoecological perspective. Journal of Biogeography. 2006 Silman, M. R. and C. Krisel. In Press. Getting to the root of tree neighborhoods: hectare-scale root zones of a Neotropical fig. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 727-730. Silman, M.R. 2006. Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests. ch. 11 in Bush, M. and Flenly, J. eds. Tropical Rain Forest Responses to Climate Change. Praxis Publishing, Springer-Praxis, London. Wright, I. J., D. D. Ackerly, F. Bongers, K. E. Harms, G. Ibarra-Manriquez, M. Martinez-Ramos, S.J. Mazer, H. C. Muller-Landau, H. Paz, N. C. A. Pitman, L. Poorter, M. R. Silman, C.F.. Vriesendorp, C. O. Webb, M. Westoby, and S. J. Wright. 2006. Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. Annals of Botany. Ann Bot:mcl066 Silman, M.R., A. Aruajo Murakami, H. Pariamo, M. Bush, D. Urrego. 2006. Changes in tree community structure at the southern limits of Amazonia: Manu and Madidi. Ecologia en Bolivia 40(3) 443-452 Terborgh, J., , K. Feeley, M. R. Silman, P. Núñez and V.B. Balukjian. 2006. Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands. Journal of Ecology 94: 253-263. 2005 Urrego, D., M. R. Silman, M. B. Bush. 2005. The last glacial maximum: stability and change in an Andean cloud forest. Journal of Quaternary Science. 20: 693–701 Bush, M.B., Hanson, B., Rodbell, D., Seltzer, G.O., Young, K., Leon, B., M.R. Silman, Gosling, W.D. 2005. A 17,000 year history of Andean climatic and vegetation change from Laguna Negra, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science. 20: 703–714 Johnson, D. M., W. K. Smith and M. R. Silman. 2005. Elevation, CO2, and plant functions characters: comment. Geology. 2004 Bush, M. B. and M. R. Silman. 2004. Observations on Late-Pleistocene cooling and precipitation in the Neotropics. Journal of Quaternary Science 18(7): 677-684. Wyatt, J. L. and M. R. Silman. 2004. Distance-dependence in two Neotropical palms: effects of spatial and temporal variation in seed predator communities. Oecologia 140:26-35. Peters, H., A. Pauw, M. R. Silman, and J. Terborgh. 2004. Falling palm fronds structure tropical rain forest plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Suppl.) 271, S367–S369 *Bush, M.B.,*M. R. Silman, and D. Urrego. 2004. 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hotspot. Science 303:827-829. also, Supporting Online Material. Weng, C., M. B. Bush, and M. R. Silman. 2004. Elevational characteristics of modern pollen rain recorded in moss-polsters and surface sediments in the Rio Manu watershed, Peru. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20:113-124. 2003 Silman, M. R., E. J. Ancaya, and J. Brinson. 2003. Bamboo forests of western Amazonia. In: Alto Purus: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management. R. Leite, N. Pitman, P. Alvarez eds. Center for Tropical Conservation Press. (Titles appear in Spanish). Baker, P., M. B. Bush, S. Fritz, C. Rigsby, G. O. Seltzer and M. R. Silman. 2003. Last Glacial Maximum in an Andean cloud forest environment (Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia): Comment. Geology. Online Forum: e26. Silman, M. R., J. Terborgh, and R. Kiltie. 2003. Population regulation of a dominant rain forest tree by a major seed predator. Ecology 84(2): 431-438. 2002 Pitman, N. C. A., J. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, P. Núñez V., D. A. Neill, C. E. Cerón, W. A. Palacios, and M. Aulestia. 2002. A Comparison of tree species diversity in two upper Amazonian forests. Ecology 83:3210-3224. Pitman, N.C.A., J. W. Terborgh, P. Núñez V., and M. R. Silman. 2002. Árboles comunes de la selva baja del departamento de Madre de Diós, Perú. In L. O. Rodríguez, ed. Manu. APECO, Lima. Terborgh, J., Pitman, N. C. A., M. R. Silman, H. Schlichter, P. Núñez V. 2002. Maintenance of diversity in tropical forests. In D. Levey ed. Frugivory and Seed Dispersal. 2001 Pitman, N. C. A., J. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, P. Núñez V., D. A. Neill, C. E. Cerón, W. A. Palacios, and M. Aulestia. 2001. Dominance and diversity of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests. Ecology, 82(8), 2001, pp. 2101–2117 (W.S. Cooper Award Winner, Ecological Society of America,2002; Lead article in Concepts and Synthesis: Directions for the Future of Ecology) 2000 and prior Pitman, N. C. A., J. Terborgh, M. R. Silman, and P. Nunez. 1999. Tree-species diversity in an upper-Amazonian forest. Ecology 80(8): 2651-2661 (Highlighted by Sugden, A. 2000. Editor’s choice: Highlights of the recent literature. Tropical tree communities. Science 287: 193, and by Ricklefs, R.E. 2000. Rarity and diversity in Amazonian forest trees. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 83-84) Silman, M. R. 1999. Global change and climate change. Pp. 54-60 in Major Scientific and Technological Developments of the Twentieth Century. Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem. Clark, J., M. R. Silman, R. Kern, E. Macklin, J. HilleRisLambers. 1999. Seed dispersal near and far: Patterns across temperate and tropical forests. Ecology 80(5): 1475–1494. Silman, M. R. 1998. Making Arks that won't float? Trends in Plant Science 3(2): 74-75. Silman, M. R. 1996. Long-term ecological research in Peru. in: Proceedings of the 2nd Latin American International Long-Term Ecological Research Workshop. NSF, Washington. Silman, M. R. 1996. Regeneration from seed in a Neotropical rain forest. Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC. |