Timothy Paine
Research interests
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Publications
Research interests
Community structure, diversity, functional traits, species coexistence, plant growth
See also http://manuplants.org/paine
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Education and professional positions
| 2010 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2008 - 2010 | Postdoctoral Researcher with the BRIDGE Project, Kourou, French Guiana |
| 2002 - 2007 | Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA |
| 2005 | Likelihood Methods in Forest Ecology , Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Dartmouth Field Course in Tropical Ecology, Costa Rica and Jamaica |
| 1995 - 1999 | B.A., Departments of Biology and Earth Sciences, Dartmouth Collegee, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA |
Publications
Paine, CET, C Stahl, EA Courtois, S Patiño, C Sarmiento, C Baraloto (2010) Functional explanations for variation in bark thickness in tropical rain forest trees. Functional Ecology 24: 1202-1210.
Gagnon, P, H Passmore, W Platt, J Myers, C. E. T Paine, and K Harms (2010) Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants? Ecology 91: 3481–3486.
Baraloto, C, CET Paine, S Patiño, D. Bonal, B. Hérault and J. Chave (2010) Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich communities. Functional Ecology 24: 208-216.
Gonzalez, M, A Roger, E Courtois, F Jabot, N Norden, CET Paine, C Baraloto, C Thébaud and J Chave (2010) Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density-dependence in a lowland rain forest. Journal of Ecology 98: 137-146.
Paine, CET and KE Harms (2009) What shapes tropical seedling community structure? Seed dispersal versus environmental conditions. Oecologia 160: 139-150.
Paine, CET, KE Harms, and J Ramos (2009) Water availability increases seedling performance and diversity in a tropical forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25: 171-180.
Courtois, E, CET Paine, P-A Blandinières, D. Stein, J-M Bessière, E Houël, C Baraloto, J Chave (2009) Diversity of the volatile organic compounds emitted by 55 species of tropical trees: A survey in French Guiana. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35: 1349-1362.
Paine, CET, KE Harms, SA Schnitzer, and WP Carson (2008) Weak competition among tropical tree seedlings: implications for species coexistence. Biotropica 40: 432-440.
This paper was selected for the 2009 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation.
Terborgh, J, G Nuñez, N. Pitman, F Cornejo, P Alvarez, V Swamy, B Pringle, and CET Paine (2008) Tree recruitment in an "empty" forest. Ecology 89: 1757-1768. (Cover article)
Paine, CET, and H Beck (2007) Seed predation by Neotropical rainforest mammals increases diversity in seedling recruitment. Ecology 88: 3076-3087.
Harms, KE and CET Paine (2003) Regeneración de árboles tropicales e implicaciones para el manejo de bosques naturales. Ecosistemas 2003/3.
