Publications
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Recent Articles
2025
Cely J., Salgado-Negret B., Norden., Pizano C., Gonzalez-M R., and Umaña, M.N. Accepted. Influence of topography on functional traits and space occupation of tropical dry forest seedlings. Biotropica
Umaña M.N., Thiessen S., Fuentes-Rohwer, T., Desai H., and Ibañez I. 2025. How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO2 fertilization effects on tree seedling performance? A global meta-analysis. Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70133.
Schaffer-Morrison S., Vi A.N., McNutt N., Ibañez I., and Umaña M.N. 2025. The combined effects of low light and low water on seedling growth vary in their severity based upon tree species and seedling traits. Canadian Journal of Forest Research https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2025-003.
ter Stegee H., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2025. Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests. Communications Biology https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8.
Venugopalan Nair Radhamoni H., Vleminckx J., Umaña M.N., Queenborough S., Comita, L., Hebbalalu S., Handanakere D., Kumar S.S., and Raman S. 2025. β-diversity of herbaceous versus woody plant communities across a tropical rainfall gradient. Journal of Vegetation Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70034.
Umaña M.N., Needham J., and Fortunel C. 2025. From seedlings to adults: linking survival and leaf functional traits over ontogeny. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4469.
Correa S., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2025. Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.241441612.
Sanchez Martines P., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2025. Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700.
González A. , Salgado-Negret B., Norden N., González-M R., Benavides J.P., Cely J.M., Abad J., Idárraga Á., Moreno E., Pizano C., Puentes J., Pulido N., Rivera K., Rojas-Bautista F., Solorzano J.F. Umaña M.N. 2025. Linking seedling wood anatomical trade-offs with drought and demography in tropical dry forests. New phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20222.
2024
Schaffer-Morrison S., Ibañez I., Petri L., Weemstra W. and Umaña M.N. 2024. Intraspecific trait variation in seedlings reveals independence between leaf and root traits but a lack of an independent” collaboration axis” belowground. Plant-Environment Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70019.
Puentes-Marín J. , González A. , Salgado-Negret B., González-M R., Norden N., Abad J., Benavides J.P., Cely J.M., Idárraga Á., Moreno E., Pizano C., Pulido N., Rivera K., Rojas-Bautista F., Solorzano J.F. Umaña M.N. 2024. Wood anatomical and growth similarities between liana and tree seedlings in tropical dry forests of Colombia. Plants. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13213023.
Luize B.G., … Umaña M.N., … et al. 2024. Biogeography of the Amazonia tree flora. Communications biology.7:1240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06937-5.
Lamanna J., Hartig F., Myers J.A., Bachelot B., Bagchi R., Comita L.S., DeFilippis D. M., Detto M., Doolittle C.J., Freckleton R. P., Jevon F.V., Johnson D.J., Krishnadas M., Hülsmann L., Magee L.J., Mangan S.A., Milici V.R., Murengera A.L.B., Huanca-Nunez N., Schnitzer S.A., Smith D.J.B., Stein C., Sullivan M.K., Surendra A., Torres E., Umaña M.N., and Delavaux C.S. 2024. Towards a synthetic understanding of local-scale conspecific density dependence and consequences for community dynamics. Ecology Letters. 27: e14506.https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14506.
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.
Shen Y.. 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.
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