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The University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
Office: Biology/Pharmacy 205C
Tel : 860-486-4057
Fax : 860-486-6364
E-mail: robin.chazdon@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Ecology and regeneration of tropical and temperate forests, conservation and restoration of tropical forests, tropical second-growth forests, biodiversity and conservation in agricultural landscapes.
Biographical Note:
Professor Chazdon is a Professor in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Prior to coming to UConn she was a NSF Research Fellow in Environmental Biology at the Univ. California-Berkeley, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dept. of Plant Biology, Stanford, CA (with C.B. Field), and a Postdoctoral Research Botanist, Univ. California-Davis (with R. W. Pearcy).Professor Chazdon received a B.A. in Biology from Grinnell College, Iowa and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University.
Current Research/Selected Publications:
Chazdon, R. L. 2006. Successional vegetation dynamics of tropical forests. In: Carson, W. and S. Schnitzer, Eds. Tropical Forest Community Ecology. Blackwell Publishing, in press.
Palomaki, M. B., R. L. Chazdon, J. P. Arroyo, and S. G. Letcher. 2006. Juvenile tree growth in relation to light availability in second-growth tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22, in press.
Chao, A., R. L. Chazdon, R. K. Colwell, and T.-J. Shen. 2006. Abundance-based similarity indices and their estimation when there are unseen species in samples. Biometrics, in press.
Lusk, C. H., Chazdon, R. L., and G. Hofmann. 2006. A bounded null model explains juvenile tree community structure along light availability gradients in an old-growth temperate rain forest. Oikos 112: 131-137.
Dupuy, J. M. and R. L. Chazdon. 2006. Effects of vegetation cover on seedling and sapling dynamics in secondary tropical wet forests in Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 65-76.
Ruiz, J., M. C. Fandino, and R.L. Chazdon. 2005. Vegetation structure, composition, and species richness across a 56-year chronosequence of dry tropical forest on Providencia Island, Colombia. Biotropica 37: 520-530.
Capers, R. S. R. L. Chazdon, Redondo Brenes, Al, and Vilchez Alvarado, B. 2005. Successional dynamics of woody seedling communities in wet tropical secondary forests. Journal of Ecology 93: 1071-1084.
Cardelus, C. L. and R. L. Chazdon. 2005. Inner-crown microenvironments of two emergent tree species in a lowland wet forest. Biotropica 37: 238-244.
Chazdon, R. L., A. Redondo Brenes, and B. Vilchez Alvarado. 2005. Effects of climate and stand age on annual tree dynamics in tropical second-growth rain forests. Ecology 86: 1808-1815.
Iriarte, S. B. B. and R. L. Chazdon. 2005. Light-dependent seedling survival and growth of four tree species in Costa Rican second-growth rain forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21: 383-395.
Sezen, U. U., R. L. Chazdon & K. E. Holsinger. 2005. Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration. Science 307: 891
Vilchez Alvarado, R. L. Chazdon, and A. Redondo. 2004. Fenologia reproductiva de cinco especies forestales del Bosque Secundario Tropical. Kuru: Revista Forestal Costa Rica 1(2): 1-10.
Redondo Brenes, R. L. Chazdon, and B. Vilchez Alvarado. 2004. Effects of selective logging on dynamics and composition of woody seedlings in a tropical secondary forest. Kuru: Revista Forestal Costa Rica 1(3): 1-11.
Capers, R. S. and R. L. Chazdon. 2004. Rapid assessment of understory light availability in a wet tropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 123: 177-185.
Chazdon, R. L. 2003. Tropical forest recovery: legacies of human impact and natural disturbances. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 6: 51-71.
Chazdon, R. L., S. Careaga, C. Webb, and O. Vargas. 2003. Community and phylogenetic structure of reproductive traits of woody species in wet tropical forests. Ecological Monographs 73: 331-348.
Nicotra, A. B., R. L. Chazdon, and R. A. Montgomery 2003. Sexes show contrasting patterns of leaf and crown carbon gain in a dioecious rainforest shrub. American Journal of Botany 90: 347-355
Chazdon, R. L. and T. C. Whitmore. 2002. Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. University of Chicago Press.
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