Susan G. Letcher

College of the Atlantic — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

28h-index7.2kcitations67works24.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(44), Plant and animal studies(25), Forest ecology and management(15), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(13), Species Distribution and Climate Change(11)

Publications62 total

Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Climate change increases threat to plant diversity in tropical forests of Central America and southern Mexico
PLoS ONE·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography
Global Change Biology·2024· 33 citedOpen Access
Extracted raw data from: Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate, and topography
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Extracted raw data from: Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate, and topography
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Drought diminishes aboveground biomass accumulation rate during secondary succession in a tropical forest on Hainan Island, China
Forest Ecology and Management·2023· 5 cited
Landscape-scale forest cover drives the predictability of forest regeneration across the Neotropics
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
<b>Dataset: Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate, and topography</b>
Figshare·2023Open Access
Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests
Science Advances·2022· 24 citedOpen Access
A ten-year record reveals the importance of tree species’ habitat specialization in driving successional trajectories on Hainan Island, China
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 14 cited
Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Science·2021· 411 citedOpen Access
Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 116 citedOpen Access
Relaxation of putative plant defenses in a tropical agroecosystem
Ecology and Evolution·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Tree functional traits as predictors of microburst‐associated treefalls in tropical wet forests
Biotropica·2020· 8 cited
Diversity, distribution and dynamics of large trees across an old-growth lowland tropical rain forest landscape
PLoS ONE·2019· 28 citedOpen Access
Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2019· 217 citedOpen Access
Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests
Science Advances·2019· 515 citedOpen Access
Three decades of annual growth, mortality, physical condition, and microsite for ten tropical rainforest tree species
Ecology·2018· 6 citedOpen Access
Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2018· 170 citedOpen Access
Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018· 192 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robin L. Chazdon(24), Frans Bongers(16), Michiel van Breugel(16), Jorge A. Meave(15), Patricia Balvanera(14), Miguel Martínez‐Ramos(14), Susana Ochoa‐Gaona(14), Ben de Jong(12), Saara J. DeWalt(12), Jefferson S. Hall(12), Bryan Finegan(12), Jarcilene Silva de Almeida‐Cortez(11), Juan Manuel Dupuy(11), José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni(11), Francisco Mora(11), Rodrigo Muñoz(11), Justin M. Becknell(10), Pedro H. S. Brancalion(10), Deborah Kennard(10), Daisy H. Dent(9)