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Daniel Zuleta Zapata
Associate Senior Lecturer
Department of Biological & Environmental SciencesAbout Daniel Zuleta Zapata
I am a quantitative forest ecologist interested in how global changes impact forest dynamics, functioning and biodiversity. I primarily use data derived from long-term forest inventories coupled with new technologies (e.g., drones, terrestrial laser scanning) and large-scale biological collections (e.g., botanical records, tree rings) to answer questions aiming to improve predictions of forest responses under environmental change. My current research focuses on understanding the mechanisms driving forest biomass losses via tree mortality and non-lethal damage. I currently coordinate the Tropical Forest Mortality Working Group, the ForestGEO Annual Mortality and Damage Program, and am one of the principal investigators of the long-term Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot in the Amazon forest.
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Major axes of variation in tree demography across global
forests
Melina de Souza Leite, Sean M. McMahon, Paulo Inácio Prado, Stuart J. Davies, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Hannes P. De Deurwaerder, Salomón Aguilar, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Nurfarah Aqilah, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Nicolas Castaño, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Yu Yun Chen, George Chuyong, Keith Clay, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Gregory Gilbert, I. A.U.N. Gunatilleke, C. V.S. Gunatilleke, Robert Howe, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Akira Itoh, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, Yao Tze Leong, James A. Lutz, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, William J. McShea, Mohizah Mohamad, Musalmah Nasardin, Anuttara Nathalang, Geoffrey Parker, Renan Parmigiani, Rolando Pérez, Richard P. Phillips, Pavel Šamonil, I. Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Jill Thompson, María Uriarte, Amy Wolf, Jess Zimmerman, Daniel Zuleta, Marco D. Visser, Lisa Hülsmann
Ecography - 2024 -
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest
communities
Lisa Hülsmann, Ryan A. Chisholm, Liza Comita, Marco D. Visser, Melina de Souza Leite, Salomon Aguilar, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nicolas Castaño, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Stuart J. Davies, Alvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille Ewango, Gregory S. Gilbert, Jan Holík, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Mohizah Mohamad, Musalmah Nasardin, Anuttara Nathalang, Natalia Norden, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Renan Parmigiani, Rolando Perez, Richard P. Phillips, Nantachai Pongpattananurak, I. Fang Sun, Mark E. Swanson, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Amy T. Wolf, Tze Leong Yao, Jess K. Zimmerman, Daniel Zuleta, Florian Hartig
Nature - 2024 -
Contrasting drivers of aboveground woody biomass and aboveground woody productivity in lowland forests of
Colombia
Nicolas Castaño, Miguel A. Peña, Sebastián González-Caro, Ana María Aldana, Luisa Fernanda Casas, Diego F. Correa-Gómez, Juan S. González-Abella, Natalia Pelaez, Pablo Stevenson, Sonia Sua, Daniel Zuleta, Álvaro Duque
Ecography - 2024 -
Mapping distribution of woody plant species richness from field rapid assessment and machine
learning
Bo Hao Perng, Tzeng Yih Lam, Su Ting Cheng, Sheng Hsin Su, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Norman A. Bourg, David F.R.P. Burslem, Nicolas Castaño, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Nimal Gunatilleke, James A. Lutz, William J. McShea, Mohamad Danial M.D. Sabri, Vojtech Novotny, Michael J. O'brien, Glen Reynolds, George D. Weiblen, Daniel Zuleta
Taiwania - 2024 -
Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil
nutrients
José A. Medina-Vega, Daniel Zuleta, Salomón Aguilar, Alfonso Alonso, Pulchérie Bissiengou, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F.R.P. Burslem, Nicolás Castaño, Jérôme Chave, James W. Dalling, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Jonah Filip, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Shawn K.Y. Lum, Jean Remy Makana, Hervé Memiaghe, David Mitre, Mohizah Bt Mohamad, Anuttara Nathalang, Reuben Nilus, Nsalambi V. Nkongolo, Vojtech Novotny, Michael J. O’Brien, Rolando Pérez, Nantachai Pongpattananurak, Glen Reynolds, Sabrina E. Russo, Sylvester Tan, Jill Thompson, María Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Alberto Vicentini, Tze Leong Yao, Jess K. Zimmerman, Stuart J. Davies
Nature Ecology and Evolution - 2024 -
Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical
forests
Daniel Zuleta, Gabriel Arellano, Sean M. McMahon, Salomón Aguilar, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nicolas Castaño, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Alvaro Duque, David Mitre, Musalmah Nasardin, Rolando Pérez, I. Fang Sun, Tze Leong Yao, Renato Valencia, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Hans Verbeeck, Stuart J. Davies
Global Change Biology - 2023 -
Canopy tree mortality depends on the proportion of crown exposed to sunlight, but this effect varies with species' wood
density
Luisa F. Gómez-Correa, Camila Jaramillo-Hernández, Alvaro Duque, Raquel Fernandes Araujo, Gabriel Arellano, Stuart J. Davies, Nicolas Castaño, Jörg Haarpaintner, Fabian Enßle, Daniel Zuleta
Biotropica - 2023 -
Phylogenetic diversity and the structure of host-epiphyte interactions across the
Neotropics
Marcio R. Pie, Fernanda S. Caron, Thom Dallimore, Helena Einzmann, Peter Hietz, Michael Kessler, Flavio Nunes Ramos, João Pedro Costa Elias, Holger Kreft, Thorsten Krömer, Maria Judith Carmona Higuita, Daniel Zuleta, Giesta Machado, André Luís de Gasper, Gerhard Zotz, Glenda Mendieta Leiva, Derio Antonio Jimenez-Lopez, Alex Fernando Mendes, Pedro Brancalion, Sara Mortara, Christopher Thomas Blum, Mariana Victória Irume, Nayely Martínez Meléndez Nayely, Ana Maria Benavides, Carlos Renato Boelter, Sven Batke
PeerJ - 2023 -
Vertical distribution of trunk and crown volume in tropical
trees
Daniel Zuleta, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Gabriel Arellano, Hans Verbeeck, Stuart J. Davies
Forest Ecology and Management - 2022 -
Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the
world
Camille Piponiot, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Stuart J. Davies, David Allen, Norman A. Bourg, David F.R.P. Burslem, Dairon Cárdenas, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, George Chuyong, Susan Cordell, Handanakere Shivaramaiah Dattaraja, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille Ewango, Zacky Ezedin, Jonah Filip, Christian P. Giardina, Robert Howe, Chang Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Akira Itoh, David Janík, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, James A. Lutz, Jean Remy Makana, Sean M. McMahon, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Mohizah Bt. Mohamad, Vojtěch Novotný, Michael J. O'Brien, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey Parker, Rolando Pérez, Haibao Ren, Glen Reynolds, Mohamad Danial Md Sabri, Lawren Sack, Ankur Shringi, Sheng Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I. Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, John Vandermeer, Yunquan Wang, Ian M. Ware, George D. Weiblen, Timothy J.S. Whitfeld, Amy Wolf, Tze Leong Yao, Mingjian Yu, Zuoqiang Yuan, Jess K. Zimmerman, Daniel Zuleta, Helene C. Muller-Landau
New Phytologist - 2022 -
Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical
forests
Jessica F. Needham, Daniel J. Johnson, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Norman Bourg, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Yu Yun Chen, George Chuyong, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Stuart J. Davies, Alvaro Duque, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Edwino S. Fernando, Rosie Fisher, Christine D. Fletcher, Robin Foster, Zhanqing Hao, Terese Hart, Chang Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, David Kenfack, Charles D. Koven, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, William McShea, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Marthews, Mohizah Bt. Mohamad, Michael D. Morecroft, Natalia Norden, Geoffrey Parker, Ankur Shringi, Raman Sukumar, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, I. Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Tze Leong Yao, Sandra L. Yap, Zuoqiang Yuan, Hu Yuehua, Jess K. Zimmerman, Daniel Zuleta, Sean M. McMahon
Global Change Biology - 2022 -
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North
America
Manuel Bernal-Escobar, Daniel Zuleta, Kenneth J. Feeley
Ecography - 2022 -
Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical
forest
Jessica F. Needham, Gabriel Arellano, Stuart J. Davies, Rosie A. Fisher, Valerie Hammer, Ryan G. Knox, David Mitre, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Daniel Zuleta, Charlie D. Koven
Global Change Biology - 2022 -
Changing forests under climate
change
Kenneth J. Feeley, Daniel Zuleta
Nature Plants - 2022 -
Interspecific and intraspecific variation of tree branch, leaf and stomatal traits in relation to topography in an aseasonal Amazon
forest
Daniel Zuleta, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Alvaro Duque, Natali Caro, Dairon Cardenas, Nicolas Castaño, Juan Diego León-Peláez, Kenneth J. Feeley
Functional Ecology - 2022 -
Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical
forests
Daniel Zuleta, Gabriel Arellano, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Sean M. McMahon, Salomón Aguilar, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Dairon Cárdenas, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Alvaro Duque, David Mitre, Musalmah Nasardin, Rolando Pérez, I. Fang Sun, Tze Leong Yao, Stuart J. Davies
New Phytologist - 2022 -
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical
forests
Gabriel Arellano, Daniel Zuleta, Stuart J. Davies
Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS) - 2021 -
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory
network
Stuart J. Davies, Iveren Abiem, Kamariah Abu Salim, Salomón Aguilar, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Ana Andrade, Gabriel Arellano, Peter S. Ashton, Patrick J. Baker, Matthew E. Baker, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Yves Basset, Pulchérie Bissiengou, Stephanie Bohlman, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F.R.P. Burslem, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Li Wan Chang, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Kuo Jung Chao, Wei Chun Chao, Hazel Chapman, Yu Yun Chen, Ryan A. Chisholm, Chengjin Chu, George Chuyong, Keith Clay, Liza S. Comita, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira, Jan den Ouden, Matteo Detto, Christopher Dick, Xiaojun Du, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Erle C. Ellis, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Shameema Esufali, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Edwino S. Fernando, Jonah Filip, Gunter A. Fischer, Robin Foster, Thomas Giambelluca, Christian Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Erika Gonzalez-Akre, I. A.U.N. Gunatilleke, C. V.S. Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, Billy C.H. Hau, Fangliang He, Hongwei Ni, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Andreas Huth, Faith Inman-Narahari, Akira Itoh, David Janík, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Daniel J. Johnson, F. Andrew Jones, Mamoru Kanzaki, David Kenfack, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Kamil Král, Lauren Krizel, Suzanne Lao, Andrew J. Larson, Yide Li, Xiankun Li, Creighton M. Litton, Yu Liu, Shirong Liu, Shawn K.Y. Lum, Matthew S. Luskin, James A. Lutz, Hong Truong Luu, Keping Ma, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Adam Martin, Caly McCarthy, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, David Mitre, Mohizah Mohamad, Logan Monks, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Daniel Zuleta
Biological Conservation - 2021 -
Selective activity of Carapa guianensis and Swietenia macrophylla (Meliaceae) against the corn and rice strains of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera,
Noctuidae)
Daniela Álvarez, Daniel Zuleta, Clara Saldamando, Tatiana Lobo-Echeverri
International Journal of Pest Management - 2021 -
EpIG-DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the
Neotropics
Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Flavio N. Ramos, João P.C. Elias, Gerhard Zotz, Margoth Acuña-Tarazona, Francine Seehaber Alvim, Daniel E.F. Barbosa, Geicilaine A. Basílio, Sven P. Batke, Ana María Benavides, Christopher T. Blum, Carlos R. Boelter, Pedro H.S. Brancalion, María Judith Carmona, Luciana P. Carvalho, Edilia de la Rosa-Manzano, Helena J.R. Einzmann, Manuel Fernández, Samyra G. Furtado, André L. de Gasper, Valeria Guzmán-Jacob, Peter Hietz, Mariana V. Irume, Derio Antonio Jiménez-López, Michael Kessler, Holger Kreft, Thorsten Krömer, Giesta Maria O. Machado, Nayely Martínez-Meléndez, Pedro Luiz S.S. Martins, Rodrigo de Macêdo Mello, Alex F. Mendes, Luiz Menini Neto, Sara R. Mortara, Camila Nardy, Rodolfo de Paula Oliveira, Ana Clara Ana, Luis Pillaca, Adriano C. Quaresma, Calixto Rodríguez Quiel, Edier Soto Medina, Amanda Taylor, Michael S. Vega, Katrin Wagner, Márcio S. Werneck, Florian A. Werner, Jan H.D. Wolf, Charles E. Zartman, Daniel Zuleta, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Journal of Vegetation Science - 2020 -
Importance of topography for tree species habitat distributions in a terra firme forest in the Colombian
Amazon
Daniel Zuleta, Sabrina E. Russo, Andrés Barona, Juan S. Barreto-Silva, Dairon Cardenas, Nicolas Castaño, Stuart J. Davies, Matteo Detto, Sonia Sua, Benjamin L. Turner, Alvaro Duque
Plant and Soil - 2020 -
Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant
communities
K. J. Feeley, C. Bravo-Avila, B. Fadrique, T. M. Perez, Daniel Zuleta
Nature Climate Change - 2020 -
Drought-induced mortality patterns and rapid biomass recovery in a terra firme forest in the Colombian
Amazon
Daniel Zuleta, Alvaro Duque, Dairon Cardenas, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Stuart J. Davies
Ecology - 2017 -
Local and regional determinants of vascular epiphyte mortality in the Andean mountains of
Colombia
Daniel Zuleta, Ana M. Benavides, Victor López-Rios, Alvaro Duque
Journal of Ecology - 2016