John Terborgh

Summary

Affiliation: Duke University Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments
    J Terborgh
    Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, Box 90381, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Science 294:1923-6. 2001
  2. ncbi Tree recruitment in an empty forest
    John Terborgh
    Duke University Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Ecology 89:1757-68. 2008
  3. ncbi Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests
    John Terborgh
    Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Am Nat 179:303-14. 2012
  4. ncbi Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest
    Varun Swamy
    Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
    Ecol Lett 14:195-201. 2011
  5. ncbi Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures
    German Forero-Medina
    Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e28535. 2011

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Publications5

  1. ncbi Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments
    J Terborgh
    Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, Box 90381, Durham, NC 27708, USA
    Science 294:1923-6. 2001
    ..The densities of seedlings and saplings of canopy trees are severely reduced on herbivore-affected islands, providing evidence of a trophic cascade unleashed in the absence of top-down regulation...
  2. ncbi Tree recruitment in an empty forest
    John Terborgh
    Duke University Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Ecology 89:1757-68. 2008
    ..Our results suggest that the best, and perhaps only, way to prevent compositional change and probable loss of diversity in tropical tree communities is to prohibit hunting...
  3. ncbi Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests
    John Terborgh
    Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
    Am Nat 179:303-14. 2012
    ..I conclude that Janzen and Connell were essentially correct and that diversity maintenance results from top-down forcing acting in a spatially nonuniform fashion...
  4. ncbi Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest
    Varun Swamy
    Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
    Ecol Lett 14:195-201. 2011
    ..Our results provide strong support for the spatially explicit predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis...
  5. ncbi Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures
    German Forero-Medina
    Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e28535. 2011
    ..There are few data to suggest that they do. Yet, the greatest loss of species from climate disruption may be for tropical montane species...