Publications
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Recent Articles
2024
Gonçalves-Souza T., Milz B., Sanders N.J., Reich P.R., Maitner B, Chaves L.S. Boldorini G.X., Ferreira N., Gusmão R.A.F., Bernardes Perônico P., Teresa F.B. and Umaña M.N. 2024. Zootraits: an r shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11334.
Yong S.. Estrada S., Umaña M.N., Goodale E., Robinson S., Quan Q., Zhang Q. 2024. Differences in mixed-species bird flocks across forest succession: Combining network analysis and trait-based ecology related to the fast-slow continuum. Functional Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14540.
Householder J.E., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2024. One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1.
Luize B. G., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2024. Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities. Journal of Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14816.
Cooper D., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2024. Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z.
2023
Umaña M.N., Salgado-Negret B., Norden N., Salinas L., Garzon F. Medina S., Rodríguez-M. G., López-Camacho R., Castaño A., Cuadrados H., Franke-Ante R., Avella A., Idarraga, A., Jurado R., Nieto J., Pizano C., Torres A., García H., and Gonzalez-M R. 2023. Upscaling the effect of traits in response to drought: the relative importance of safety-efficiency and acquisitive-conservation functional axes. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14328.
Umaña M.N. 2023. The interplay of drought and hurricanes on tree recovery: insights from dynamic and weak functional responses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1732.
Umaña M.N, and Hulshof C. 2023. Characterizing tree trait variance over spatiotemporal scales. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4126.
Peripato V., … Umaña M.N., and Aragao L.E.OC. 2023. More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.ade254.
Ter Steege H., … Umaña M.N., et al. 2023 Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6.
Metz, M., Wright J., Zimmerman J., Hernández A., Smith S., Swenson N.G., Umaña, M.N., Valencia, R., Waring-Enriquez I., Wordell M. Zambrano M. and Garwood N. 2023. Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade-offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14195.
Pos E., … Umaña M.N., ter Steege H. 2023. Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y.
Hulshof C., and Umaña M.N. 2023. Power laws and plant trait variation in spatiotemporally heterogeneous environments. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org /10.1111/geb.13620.
Umaña M.N, Needham J., Forero-Montaña J., Nytch C., Swenson N.G, Thompson J., Uriarte M., and Zimmerman J. In press. Demographic trade-offs and functional shifts in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad004. **Commentary by Fortunel C.
Worthy S., Umaña M.N., Zhang C. Lin L., Cao M., Swenson N.G. 2023. Decomposing intraspecific phenotypic variation: implications for species and functional diversity. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.20.524990.
Correa, D.F., Stevenson P.R, Umaña M.N. …. Ter Steege. 2023. Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org /10.1111/geb.13596.
Weemstra, M. , Kyuper T., Stark F., and Umaña M.N. 2022. Incorporating belowground traits: Avenues towards a whole-tree perspective on performance. Oikos e08827. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08827.
2022
Marca-Zevallos, M., … Umaña M.N., …et al. 2022. Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin. Ecography e06125. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06125.
Pu X., Weemstra, M. , Jin G. and Umaña M.N. 2022 Tree mycorrhizal type mediates conspecific negative density dependence effects on seedling herbivory, growth, and survival. Oecologia 199: 907-918.
Sezen U., Worthy S., Umaña M.N., Davies S.J., McMahon S.M., and Swenson N.G. 2022. Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas. Biology Open 11: bio059184. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.059184.
Umaña M.N., Zambrano J. and Norden N. 2022. Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time. Journal of Vegetation Science 33: e13116. http://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13116.
Shen, Y., Umaña M.N., Li W., Fang M., Chen Y., Lu H., Yu S. 2022. Linking soil nutrients and traits to seedling growth: A test of the plant economics spectrum. Forest Ecology and Management 505: 119941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119941
Commentaries
Echeverry* A., Guzman* L.M.,Ocampo-peña* N., Umaña M.N*. 2022. Renegotiating identities in international academic careers. Nature Ecology Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01895-9 *Authors contributed equally
Field Guides
Rojas F., Idárraga A., Buelvas V., Díaz J., Ruíz-Marín E., Salgado-Negret B., Cely-Arévalo J., Cuervo-Gómez M. and Umaña M.N. 2024. Plántulas más communes del Bosque Seco Tropical Santuario de Fauna y Flora los Colorados. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides. Link
Rojas F., Idárraga A., and Umaña M.N. 2022.Plántulas más communes del Bosque Seco Tropical de la Estación Agraria Cotové, Santa Fé de Antioquia. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides. Link
Rojas F., Idárraga A., and Umaña M.N. 2022.Plántulas más communes del Bosque Seco Tropical de la Reserva Natural Jabirú. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides. Link
Umana M.N., Cruz de Hoyos R. and Swenson N.G.. 2014. Seedlings of El Yunque, El Verde Field Station, El Yunque National Forest, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides. Link
García, D. Avella-M A., Hurtado-M A.B., Muñoz M.C., Umaña M.N., Nieto J., Salinas V., Idárraga-Piedrahíta A., López R., and Norden N. 2021. RET: Regeneración natural en los bosques Secos. Link