William Farfan-Rios

Publications related to postdoctoral work

Aguirre‐Gutiérrez J., and 60+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2022). Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6:878-889. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01747-6 

Aguirre-Gutiérrez, and 40+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2021). Pantropical modeling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment 252:112122. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112122 

Baez, S., and 40+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2022). FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants. Scientific Data. 9: 511. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01626-6 

Baker, T. R., E. Vicuña Miñano, K. Banda‐R, D. Castillo Torres, W. Farfan‐Rios, I. T. Lawson, E. Loja Alemán, N. Pallqui Camacho, M. R. Silman, K. H. Roucoux, O. L. Phillips, E. N. Honorio Coronado, A. Monteagudo Mendoza, and R. Rojas Gonzáles. (2020). From plots to policy: How to ensure long‐term forest plot data supports environmental management in intact tropical forest landscapes. Plants, People, Planet. 3.10154. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10154 

Chacón-Labella, J., M. Boakye, B. J. Enquist, W. Farfan-Rios, R. Gya, A. H. Halbritter, S. L. Middleton, J. von Oppen, S. Pastor-Ploskonka, T. Strydom, V. Vandvik, and S. R. Geange.(2021). From a crisis to an opportunity: Eight insights for doing science in the COVID-19 era and beyond. Ecology and Evolution 11:3588–3596. doi:10.1002/ece3.7026 

Cooper, D.L.M., Lewis, S.L., Sullivan, M.J.P. and 100+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625: 728–734. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

Duque, A., and 40+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2021). Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges. Nature Communications. 12:1-10. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22459-8 

Fadrique, B., J. W. Veldman, J. W. Dalling, L. G. Clark, L. Montti, E. Ruiz‐Sanchez, D. C. Rother, F. Ely, W. Farfan‐Rios, P. Gagnon, C. M. Prada, J. C. Camargo García, S. Saha, T. T. Veblen, X. Londoño, K. J. Feeley, and C. A. Rockwell. (2020). Guidelines for including bamboos in tropical ecosystem monitoring. Biotropica 52:427–443. doi:10.1111/btp.12737 

Fadrique, B., P. Santos-Andrade, W. Farfan-Rios, N. Salinas, M. Silman, and K. J. Feeley. (2021). Reduced tree density and basal area in Andean forests are associated with bamboo dominance. Forest Ecology and Management 480. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118648 

Farfán-Ríos, William, J.A. Myers, J. Sebastián Tello, Kenneth J. Feeley, Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver Phillips, Timothy Baker, Alex Nina-Quispe, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Sassan Satchi, John Terborgh, Nigel Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Rodolfo Vasquez, Norma Salinas, Leslie Cayola, Alfredo F. Fuentes, M. Isabel Loza, Terry Irwin, Percy Nuñez Vargas, Fernando Cornejo & Miles R. Silman. Slow thermophilization across Amazonian and Andean forests: Implications for climate tracking in the tropics. (In Revision)

ForestPlots.net, and 200+ coauthors including W. Farfan-Rios. (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation 260:108849. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849 

Geange, S. R., J. von Oppen, T. Strydom, M. Boakye, T.-L. J. Gauthier, R. Gya, A. H. Halbritter, L. H. Jessup, S. L. Middleton, J. Navarro, M. E. Pierfederici, J. Chacón-Labella, S. Cotner, W. Farfan-Rios, B. S. Maitner, S. T. Michaletz, R. J. Telford, B. J. Enquist, and V. Vandvik. (2021). Next-generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution 11:3577–3587. doi:10.1002/ece3.7009 

Griffiths, A. R., M. R. Silman, W. Farfan Rios, K. J. Feeley, K. García Cabrera, P. Meir, N. Salinas, and K. G. Dexter. (2020). Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon-to-Andes elevation gradient. Biotropica. doi:10.1111/btp.12843 

Griffiths, A. R., M. R. Silman, W. Farfan-Rios, K. J. Feeley, K. G. Cabrera, P. Meir, N. Salinas, R. A. Segovia, and K. G. Dexter. (2021). Evolutionary diversity peaks at mid-elevations along an Amazon-to-Andes elevation gradient. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 0:509. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.680041 

Qui, T., and 50+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2023). Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants 9: 1044-1056. doi: 10.1038/s41477-023-01446-5

Qiu, T., and 60+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2022). Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications. 13:2381. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9 

Qiu, T., and 60+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2021). Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:34. doi:10.1073/pnas.2106130118 

Tommaso Jucker T., and 100+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2022). Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Global Change Biology. 28:5254–5268. doi:10.1111/gcb.16302 

Valentin Journe, R. A., and 100+ coauthors including Farfan-Rios, W. (2022). Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.14012 

Technical Reports

Farfan-Rios, W., Phillips O. L., Baker T., Silman M. R. (2021). The Andean-Amazonian trees are not migrating rapidly in the face of climate change. Policy Brief. Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) and the Climate Action Driving Group of the Academy.

Non-peer Reviewed Publications

Vilca-Bustamante L., Santos-Andrade P., Sallo-Bravo J., Vandvik V., Enquist B., Farfan-Rios W. Common plants of the grasslands of Manu. Environmental & Conservation Program, The Field Museum. Rapid color guide Nº 1452 version 1, pp 1-12.