Nigel C. A. Pitman

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(116), Plant and animal studies(72), Forest ecology and management(49), Plant Diversity and Evolution(40), Species Distribution and Climate Change(31)

Publications201 total

Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests
Journal of Ecology·2025Open Access
Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Analogous environments across the tropics have similar levels of tree species alpha diversity
National Science Review·2025Open Access
Increasing tree size across Amazonia
Nature Plants·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient
Journal of Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Phragmotheca centinelensis (Malvaceae, Malvoideae or Matisioideae), a newly-discovered, endangered canopy tree species from a cloud forest in Pacific Ecuador
PhytoKeys·2025Open Access
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Science·2025· 27 citedOpen Access
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
Communications Biology·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Wood density variation across an Andes-to-Amazon elevational gradient"
2025
Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming
2024Open Access
Wood density variation across an Andes-to-Amazon elevational gradient
2024Open Access
Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Functional Ecology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Refuting the hypothesis of Centinelan extinction at its place of origin
Nature Plants·2024· 4 cited
The pace of life for forest trees
Science·2024· 26 citedOpen Access
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora
Communications Biology·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Wind dispersed tree species have greater maximum height
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Amalophyllon miraculum (Gesneriaceae), an exceptionally small lithophilous new species from the western Andean slopes of Ecuador
PhytoKeys·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Oliver L. Phillips(32), David Neill(32), Susan G. W. Laurance(28), Timothy R. Baker(25), Yadvinder Malhi(23), Luzmila Arroyo(23), Rafael P. Salomão(22), Marcos Silveira(21), Anthony Di Fiore(21), Simon L. Lewis(20), Rodolfo Vásquez(20), Jon Lloyd(18), Ted R. Feldpausch(18), Hans ter Steege(18), Abel Monteagudo(17), Jérôme Chave(17), Níro Higuchi(17), Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado(17), John Terborgh(17), Timothy J. Killeen(17)