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John Terborgh

Duke University · US
Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.
h-index
47
citations
13,059
works
102
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
Nature Communications 2020cited by 158position: middledoi
Gaps present a trade‐off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity
Ecology 2020cited by 13position: firstdoi
Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
Global Change Biology 2018cited by 489position: middledoi
Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now
BioScience 2016cited by 94position: middledoi
Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores
Science Advances 2015cited by 1,204position: middledoi
Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015cited by 600position: middledoi
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Nature 2012cited by 1,199position: middledoi

Grants

From Fruit to Sapling: An Ontogenetically Integrated, Landscape-level, Community-wide, Long-term Study of Tree Recruitment in Lowland Western Amazonia
NSF0742830$399,9992008–2012PIRePORTER
Operation of a Trophic Cascade in Predator-free Forest Fragments
NSF0108107$199,9582001–2005PIRePORTER
U.S.-Ecuador Doctoral Dissertation: Large-scale Tree Species Distributions and Habitat Associations in Amazonia; Testing Theories of Tropical Forest Community Structure
NSF9813827$10,6701999–2001PIRePORTER
Dissertation Research: Abiotic and Biotic Control of Tree Regeneration: An Experimental Comparison of Sites Around Gatun Lake, Panama
NSF9801320$3,0191998–2000PIRePORTER
Vegetation Dynamics of Isolated Forest Fragments
NSF9707281$230,0001997–2001PIRePORTER
Dissertation Research: Termitaria and Avian Coexistence
NSF9520800$4,4021995–1997PIRePORTER
Dissertation Research: Understory Colonization in a Neotropical Rain Forest
NSF9321829$9,0271994–1995PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: The Role of Interspecific Aggressionin Structuring Amazonian Bird Communities
NSF8506371$185,0041985–1989PIRePORTER
The Spatial Organization of a Tropical Forest Bird Community
NSF8207002$110,0001982–1985PIRePORTER
Doctoral Dissertation Research in Population Biology
NSF8025975$3,4831981–1983PIRePORTER
The Ecology of Two Species of Tamarins
NSF7904750$100,0121979–1981PIRePORTER
Foraging Ecology of Five Neotropical Primates
NSF7609831$84,1561976–1978PIRePORTER
Doctoral Dissertation Research in Ecology
NSF7616646$3,0001976–1978PIRePORTER
Doctoral Dissertation Research in Ecology
NSF7612287$1,8001976–1978PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Christopher J. Sandom · Aarhus University2 papers (2015–2015)Mauro Galetti · Florida International University2 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Kenneth J. Feeley · University of Miami1 papers (2020–2020)C. Josh Donlan · Cornell University1 papers (2015–2015)Yadvinder Malhi · Leverhulme Trust1 papers (2015–2015)Taal Levi · University of Florida1 papers (2015–2015)Blaire Van Valkenburgh · University of California, Los Angeles1 papers (2015–2015)Thomas M. Newsome · The University of Sydney1 papers (2015–2015)Peter A. Lindsey · Griffith University1 papers (2015–2015)Christopher Wolf · Oregon State University1 papers (2015–2015)Luke E. Painter · Oregon State University1 papers (2015–2015)Pil Birkefeldt Møller Pedersen · University of Leicester1 papers (2015–2015)William J. Ripple · Oregon State University1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2020–2020)Rasmus Ejrnæs · Aarhus University1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Brody Sandel · Aarhus University1 papers (2015–2015)David W. Macdonald · Hebrew University of Jerusalem1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2020–2020)