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William E. Magnusson

Macquarie University · AU
Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology, Geography, Amazon rainforest, Amazonian, Environmental science, and Biodiversity.
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citations
4,884
works
25
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Science 2025cited by 39position: middledoi
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
Nature 2025cited by 20position: middledoi
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
Nature Communications 2025cited by 12position: middledoi
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 29position: middledoi
The pace of life for forest trees
Science 2024cited by 29position: middledoi
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities
Journal of Biogeography 2024cited by 11position: middledoi
Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Functional Ecology 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly
Nature Climate Change 2023cited by 87position: middledoi
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora
Communications Biology 2023cited by 49position: middledoi
Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2022cited by 24position: middledoi
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2021cited by 63position: middledoi
The ecological importance of crocodylians: towards evidence‐based justification for their conservation
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2020cited by 121position: middledoi
Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data
Scientific Reports 2018cited by 187position: middledoi
Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale
Biodiversity and Conservation 2017cited by 180position: middledoi
Estimating species richness in hyper‐diverse large tree communities
Ecology 2017cited by 24position: middledoi
Low Phylogenetic Beta Diversity and Geographic Neo‐endemism in Amazonian White‐sand Forests
Biotropica 2016cited by 62position: middledoi
Forest structure along a 600 km transect of natural disturbances and seasonality gradients in central‐southern Amazonia
Journal of Ecology 2016cited by 45position: lastdoi
Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2015cited by 589position: middledoi
Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species
Science Advances 2015cited by 206position: middledoi
Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program
Journal for Nature Conservation 2015cited by 107position: middledoi
Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change
Landscape Ecology 2015cited by 61position: middledoi
Markedly divergent estimates of <scp>A</scp> mazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2014cited by 316position: middledoi
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Science 2013cited by 1,401position: middledoi
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Nature 2012cited by 1,199position: middledoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

S. R. Saleska · University of Arizona2 papers (2015–2016)Scott C. Stark · University of Arizona2 papers (2015–2016) · 1 papers (2020–2020) · 1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2016–2016)Henrique M. Pereira · Utrecht University1 papers (2015–2015)Sarah C. Elmendorf · Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research1 papers (2015–2015)Laura J. Martin · Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Rafael P. Salomão · Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi1 papers (2017–2017) · 1 papers (2016–2016)Dirk S. Schmeller · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Steven G. Platt · Balfour Beatty (United Kingdom)1 papers (2020–2020) · 1 papers (2015–2015)James C. Nifong · University of Florida1 papers (2020–2020) · 1 papers (2016–2016)Neil Brummitt · University of Glasgow1 papers (2015–2015)Adam Rosenblatt · University of North Florida1 papers (2020–2020)Mélodie A. McGeoch · Monash University1 papers (2015–2015)