Baraloto, Christopher

Christopher Baraloto
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Associate Professor, Biological Sciences , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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cbaralot@fiu.edu

selected publications

Article
- 2018
  
  Divergent Secondary Metabolites and Habitat Filtering Both Contribute to Tree Species Coexistence in the Peruvian Amazon. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00836 Web of Science: 000435670900001
- 2018
  
  Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 218:1015-1024.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/nph.15058 PMID: 29457226 Web of Science: 000430127000017
- 2018
  
  Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 8.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1 PMID: 29343741 Web of Science: 000422716900137
- 2017
  
  Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/srep39102 PMID: 28094794 Web of Science: 000391933300001
- 2017
  
  Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY. 22.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.5751/ES-09297-220240 Web of Science: 000404997600031
- 2017
  
  Geographical Variation in Community Divergence: Insights from Tropical Forest Monodominance by Ectomycorrhizal Trees. AMERICAN NATURALIST. 190:S105-S122.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/692439 PMID: 28731828 Web of Science: 000406102900008
- 2017
  
  Nutrient-cycling mechanisms other than the direct absorption from soil may control forest structure and dynamics in poor Amazonian soils. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/srep45017 PMID: 28332608 Web of Science: 000397134200001
- 2016
  
  Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES. 30.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005133 Web of Science: 000382582400001
- 2016
  
  Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests. ELIFE. 5.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.7554/eLife.21394 Web of Science: 000392106600001
- 2016
  
  Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations. AMBIO. 45:29-41.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13280-015-0685-1 PMID: 26264716 Web of Science: 000368038800003
- 2016
  
  Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 283.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1587 Web of Science: 000390404200010
- 2016
  
  Evolutionary patterns of volatile terpene emissions across 202 tropical tree species. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 6:2854-2864.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1810 PMID: 27069586 Web of Science: 000376149400019
- 2016
  
  GuiaTreeKey, a multi-access electronic key to identify tree genera in French Guiana. PHYTOKEYS. 27-44.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.68.8707 Web of Science: 000381355900003
- 2016
  
  Habitat Endemism in White-sand Forests: Insights into the Mechanisms of Lineage Diversification and Community Assembly of the Neotropical Flora. BIOTROPICA. 48:24-33.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/btp.12301 Web of Science: 000372510300003
- 2016
  
  Interdependency of plants and animals in controlling the sodium balance of ecosystems and the impacts of global defaunation. ECOGRAPHY. 39:204-212.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01589 Web of Science: 000368793700011
- 2016
  
  Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Lepidoptera Communities of Amazonian White-sand Forests. BIOTROPICA. 48:101-109.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/btp.12294 Web of Science: 000372510300010
- 2016
  
  Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. NATURE. 529:204-U174.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/nature16476 PMID: 26700807 Web of Science: 000368015700035
- 2016
  
  Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. SCIENCE. 354.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8957 Web of Science: 000387816500036
- 2016
  
  Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 283.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0084 Web of Science: 000375965600014
- 2016
  
  Taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 85:227-239.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12445 PMID: 26346553 Web of Science: 000368141400022
- 2016
  
  The global spectrum of plant form and function. NATURE. 529:167-U73.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/nature16489 PMID: 26700811 Web of Science: 000368015700027
- 2016
  
  There's no place like home: seedling mortality contributes to the habitat specialisation of tree species across Amazonia. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 19:1256-1266.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ele.12661 PMID: 27600657 Web of Science: 000382543100008
- 2016
  
  Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 22:3996-4013.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13315 PMID: 27082541 Web of Science: 000387813300015
- 2015
  
  Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY. 29:1268-1277.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12452 Web of Science: 000362395400004
- 2015
  
  Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION. 191:674-681.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.08.024 Web of Science: 000364257100076
- 2015
  
  Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. SCIENCE ADVANCES. 1.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500936 Web of Science: 000216599300024
- 2015
  
  Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 103:978-989.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12401 Web of Science: 000356630600020
- 2015
  
  Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 6.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7857 PMID: 25919449 Web of Science: 000353703400024
- 2015
  
  Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. NATURE. 519:344-+.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/nature14283 PMID: 25788097 Web of Science: 000351171900039
- 2015
  
  Optimal strategies for sampling functional traits in species-rich forests. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY. 29:1325-1331.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12433 Web of Science: 000362395400010
- 2015
  
  Pervasive Local-Scale Tree-Soil Habitat Association in a Tropical Forest Community. PLOS ONE. 10.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141488 PMID: 26535570 Web of Science: 000364298400067
- 2015
  
  Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS. 21:1295-1307.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12357 Web of Science: 000362795700003
- 2013
  
  Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora. SCIENCE. 342:325-+.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092 Web of Science: 000325755100034
Letter
- 2015
  
  Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests. CURRENT BIOLOGY. R787-R788.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.034 PMID: 26394096 Web of Science: 000361885100005
Review
- 2017
  
  Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 258-267.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007 PMID: 28214038 Web of Science: 000398227300011
- 2015
  
  A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 1406-1419.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ele.12508 PMID: 26415616 Web of Science: 000364519000014

principal investigator on

Dissertation Research: Asymmetric character displacement in evolutionary-novel Anolis lizards. awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2018
Research Support Agreement with USDA-ARS SHRS awarded by Agricultural Research Service 2016 - 2017

teaching activities

BSC3941-U01: Biological Sciences Research Internship Fall Term 2019
BSC3941-U01: Biological Sciences Research Internship Spring Term 2019
BSC4915-U01: Honors Research Fall Term 2019
BSC4915-U01: Honors Research Spring Term 2019

full name

Christopher Baraloto

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7322-8581 (confirmed)

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publication subject areas

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biodiversity & Conservation
Cell Biology
Engineering
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics & Heredity
Geology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Plant Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Zoology

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