John Terborgh

Florida Museum of Natural History — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

77h-index31.3kcitations214works11.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(102), Plant and animal studies(60), Species Distribution and Climate Change(39), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(38), Forest ecology and management(33)

Publications204 total

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
Author response for "Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests"
2025
Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Release of tree species diversity follows loss of elephants from evergreen tropical forests
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
Communications Biology·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Functional Ecology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora
Communications Biology·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024· 28 citedOpen Access
Stem breaks as an indirect measure of megafaunal herbivory in tropical forests: An experimental study
Biotropica·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities
Journal of Biogeography·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora
Communications Biology·2023· 40 citedOpen Access
More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Science·2023· 34 citedOpen Access
Data from: Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
2023Open Access
Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse <scp>A</scp>mazonian plant communities
Ecology·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology
Scientific Reports·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Oliver L. Phillips(17), David Neill(17), Nigel C. A. Pitman(16), Yadvinder Malhi(15), Timothy R. Baker(15), Susan G. W. Laurance(15), Marcos Silveira(12), Simon L. Lewis(11), Luzmila Arroyo(11), Rodolfo Vásquez(11), Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado(11), Rafael P. Salomão(11), Abel Monteagudo(10), Jérôme Chave(10), Ted R. Feldpausch(10), Níro Higuchi(10), Hans ter Steege(10), Anthony Di Fiore(10), Timothy J. Killeen(10), Carlos Alberto Quesada(9)