Bryan Finegan

Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie — CR

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

42h-index13.7kcitations248works7.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(77), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(64), Forest ecology and management(42), Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems(33), Plant and animal studies(30)

Publications247 total

Boots on the ground and ears in the canopy: evaluating the effectiveness of a combined monitoring approach in counter poaching in protected areas
2025Open Access
Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities
Ecology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Multi-dimensional temperature sensitivity of protected tropical mountain rain forests
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests
Ecological Modelling·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2023· 22 citedOpen Access
Increasing Biodiversity in Livestock Production Systems: Plant Traits and Natural Regeneration Capacity of Woody Vegetation in Actively Managed Grasslands
2023· 1 cited
Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 58 citedOpen Access
Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests
Science Advances·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests
2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Recuperación de la biodiversidad en bosques neotropicales primarios y perturbados de Costa Rica
Agritrop (Cirad)·2022
Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Science·2021· 411 citedOpen Access
Altitude and community traits explain rain forest stand dynamics over a 2370‐m altitudinal gradient in Costa Rica
Ecosphere·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 116 citedOpen Access
Active restoration of secondary and degraded forests in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 8 cited
Dispersal limitation, soil, and fire affect functional properties of tropical secondary forests on abandoned cattle ranching landscapes
Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Above-ground biomass storage potential in primary rain forests managed for timber production in Costa Rica
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Biomass of timber species in Central American secondary forests: Towards climate change mitigation through sustainable timber harvesting
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 11 cited
Forest cover mediates large and medium-sized mammal occurrence in a critical link of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
PLoS ONE·2021· 20 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robin L. Chazdon(14), Miguel Martínez‐Ramos(12), Frans Bongers(11), Lourens Poorter(11), Michiel van Breugel(10), Jorge A. Meave(10), Marielos Peña‐Claros(10), Susan G. Letcher(9), Rodrigo Muñoz(9), Francisco Mora(8), Jarcilene Silva de Almeida‐Cortez(8), Masha T. van der Sande(7), Juan Manuel Dupuy(7), José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni(7), Natalia Norden(7), Fernando Casanoves(6), Patricia Balvanera(6), Eduardo A. Pérez‐García(6), Danaë M. A. Rozendaal(6), Marisol Toledo(6)