John Terborgh

Duke University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(51), Plant and animal studies(29), Species Distribution and Climate Change(22), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(21), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(17)

Publications95 total

Increasing tree size across Amazonia
Nature Plants·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient
Journal of Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Asian elephants as ecological filters in Sundaic forests
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2023· 20 citedOpen Access
Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release
Oecologia·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (5515), 10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3)
Nature Communications·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
Nature Communications·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
Nature Communications·2020· 149 citedOpen Access
Where Have All the Birds Gone?
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020· 351 cited
At 50, Janzen–Connell Has Come of Age
BioScience·2020· 29 citedOpen Access
Changes in tree community structure in defaunated forests are not driven only by dispersal limitation
Ecology and Evolution·2020· 12 citedOpen Access
Gaps present a trade‐off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity
Ecology·2020· 13 citedOpen Access
Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2019· 63 citedOpen Access
Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography
Frontiers in Earth Science·2019· 31 citedOpen Access
Reply to Cannon and Lerdau: Maintenance of tropical forest tree diversity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2019· 5 citedOpen Access
Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018· 84 citedOpen Access
Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
Global Change Biology·2018· 472 citedOpen Access
Defaunation increases the spatial clustering of lowland Western Amazonian tree communities
Journal of Ecology·2018· 58 citedOpen Access
ÁRBOLES COMUNES DE LOS BOSQUES INUNDADOS DE MADRE DE DIOS
2017· 2 cited
Do Community-Managed Forests Work? A Biodiversity Perspective
Land·2017· 51 citedOpen Access
Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now
BioScience·2016· 94 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Nigel C. A. Pitman(13), Yadvinder Malhi(6), David Neill(6), Susan G. W. Laurance(5), Anthony Di Fiore(5), Mauro Galetti(5), Marcos Silveira(5), Hans ter Steege(5), Percy Núñez Vargas(5), Luzmila Arroyo(4), Rodolfo Dirzo(4), Taal Levi(4), Christopher J. Sandom(4), Timothy R. Baker(4), Roel Brienen(4), Ted R. Feldpausch(4), Jorcely Barroso(4), Wendeson Castro(4), Fernando Cornejo Valverde(4), Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado(4)