Please use this citation for the establishment and general description of the UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot.
Gilbert, G.S., S.G. Carvill, A.R. Krohn, and A.S. Jones. 2024. Three censuses of a mapped plot in coastal California mixed-evergreen and redwood forest. Forests 15(1), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15010164
Hülsmann, L, … Gilbert, G.S., … Hartig, F. 2004. Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities. Nature doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07118-4.
Gilbert, G.S., S.G. Carvill, A.R. Krohn, and A.S. Jones. 2024. Three censuses of a mapped plot in coastal California mixed-evergreen and redwood forest. Forests 15(1), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15010164
Qiu, T., … G.S. Gilbert, … and J.S. Clark. 2023. Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01446-5
Bogdziewicz, M., … G.S. Gilbert, … and J.S. Clark. 2023. Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.13652
Qiu, T., T. Andrus, M.C. Aravena, D. Ascoli, Y. Bergeron, R. Berretti, … G.S. Gilbert, … & J. S. Clark. 2022. Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9
Journé, V., R. Andrus, M.C. Aravena, D. Ascoli, R. Berretti, D. Berveiller, … G.S. Gilbert, … & Clark, J. S. 2022. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14012.
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Sharma, S., R. Andrus, …, G. S. Gilbert, …, and J. S. Clark. 2022. North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119:e2116691118
Gonzalez-Akre, E., …, G. S. Gilbert, … A. I. Huerta, …, and K. J. Anderson-Teixeira. 2021. allodb: An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13756
Qiu, T., … G. S. Gilbert, … and J. S. Clark (61 authors). 2021. Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:e2106130118
Zhong, Y., C. Chu, J. Myers, G. Gilbert, J. Lutz, J. Stillhard, K. Zhu,… & J. Zimmerman. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature Communications 12:3137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23236-3
Sousa, D., J. B. Fisher, F. Fomero Galvan, R.P. Pavlic, S. Cordell, T.W. Giambelluca, C.P. Giardina, G.S. Gilbert, F. Imran-Narahari, C.M. Litton, J.A. Lutz, M.P. North, D.A. Orwig, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, & R. P. Phillips. 2021. Tree canopies reflect mycorrhizal composition. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092764
Clark, J.S. + 62 others. 2021. Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects. Nature Communications. 12(1):1242 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20836-3.
News stories: NPR station KAZU story by Michelle Loxton (2 April 2021). What a decade of counting seeds tells us about future west coast forests. Listen here.
GoodTimes Santa Cruz story by Erin Malsbury (8 Mar 2021). Study finds climate change alters west coast trees. Read it here.
Davies, S.J. + many. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation 253: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108907
Jiang, F., J.A. Lutz, Q. Guo, Z. Hao, X. Wang, G.S. Gilbert, Z. Mao, D.A. Orwig, G.G. Parker, W. Sang, Y. Liu, S. Tian, M.W. Cadotte, and G. Jin. 2020. Mycorrhizal type influences plant density dependence and species richness across 15 temperate forests. Ecology 102(3): e03259 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3259
Krohn, A. R. & A.S. Jones, A. S. 2020. Meta dolloff Levi, 1980 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in cave-like environments. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 96(3), 185-187. doi.org/10.3956/2020-96.3.185
Chacon, A. I., A. Baer, J. K. Wheeler, & J. Pittermann. 2020. Two coastal Pacific evergreens, Arbutus menziesii Pursh. and Quercus agrifolia Née show little water stress during California’s exceptional drought. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0230868.
Crandall, S., N. Saarman, and G.S. Gilbert. 2020. Fungal spore diversity, community structure, and traits across vegetation mosaic. Fungal Ecology 45: 100920. doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100920
Menge, D.N.L. and many. 2019. Patterns of nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia ad America. Journal of Ecology 107(6): 2598-2610 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13199.
Jones, K., & C.J. Law. 2018. Differentiation of craniomandibular morphology in two sympatric Peromyscus mice (Cricetidae: Rodentia). Mammal Research, 63(3), 277-283. doi.org/10.1007/s13364-018-0364-2
Lutz, J. A., T.J. Furniss, D.J. Johnson, S.J. Davies, D. Allen, A. Alonso, … G.S. Gilbert, … & E.M. Blomdahl. 2018. Global importance of large‐diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12747.
Crandall, S.G. and G.S. Gilbert. 2017. Meteorological factors associated with abundance of airborne fungal spores over natural vegetation. Atmospheric Environment 162:87-99. doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.018. (1 2017)
Ricklefs, R.E. and F. He. 2016. Regional effects influence local tree species diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (3) 674-679 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523683113
Feng, G., X. Mi, W.L. Eiserhardt, G. Jin, W. Sang, Z. Lu, X. Wang, X. Li, B. Li, I. Sun, K. Ma, and J-C Svenning. 2015. Assembly of forest communities across East Asia – insights from phylogenetic community structure and species pool scaling. Scientific Reports 5: 9337 doi.org/10.1038/srep09337.
Xiao, X., D.J. McGlinn, and E.P. White. 2015. A strong test of the maximum entropy theory of ecology. The American Naturalist 185 DOI 10.1086/679576.
Anderson_Teixera et al. 2014. CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology doi:10.1111/gcb.12712. PDF
Reid, R.E.B., E.N. Greenwald, Y. Wang, and C.C. Wilmers. 2013. Dietary niche partitioning by sympatric Peromyscus boylii and P. californicus in a mixed evergreen forest. Journal of Mammalogy 94: 1248-1257.
McGlinn, D.J., X. Xiao, and E.P. White. 2013. An empirical evaluation of four variants of a universal species-area relationship. PeerJ 1:e212 DOI 10.7717/peerj.212.
Gilbert, G.S., E. Howard, B. Ayala-Orozco, M. Bonilla-Moheno, J. Cummings, S. Langridge, I.M. Parker, J. Pasari, D. Schweizer, S. Swope. 2010. Beyond the tropics: forest structure in a temperate forest mapped plot. Journal of Vegetation Science 21:388-405 PDF Appendices