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

Publications
selected publications
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2018Divergent 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
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2018Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species. NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 218:1015-1024.
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2018Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 8.
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2017Economically 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
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2017Geographical Variation in Community Divergence: Insights from Tropical Forest Monodominance by Ectomycorrhizal Trees. AMERICAN NATURALIST. 190:S105-S122.
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2016Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES. 30.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005133 Web of Science: 000382582400001
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2016Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests. ELIFE. 5.Full Text via DOI: 10.7554/eLife.21394 Web of Science: 000392106600001
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2016Evolutionary 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
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2016Evolutionary patterns of volatile terpene emissions across 202 tropical tree species. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 6:2854-2864.
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2016GuiaTreeKey, 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
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2016Habitat 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
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2016Interdependency 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
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2016Phylogenetic 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
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2016Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. SCIENCE. 354.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8957 Web of Science: 000387816500036
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2016Rare 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
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2016Taxonomic and functional composition of arthropod assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY. 85:227-239.
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2016There's no place like home: seedling mortality contributes to the habitat specialisation of tree species across Amazonia. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 19:1256-1266.
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2016Variation 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.
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2015Drought 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
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2015Effects 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
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2015Estimating 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
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2015Globally, 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
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2015Optimal 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
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2015Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS. 21:1295-1307.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12357 Web of Science: 000362795700003
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2013Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora. SCIENCE. 342:325-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092 Web of Science: 000325755100034
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2017Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 258-267.
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2015A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 1406-1419.
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Research
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
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
Contact
full name
- Christopher Baraloto
Identifiers
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