Publications

  1. Huanca-Nuñez, N. R.L. Chazdon, S.E. Russo. 2024. Trait-mediated variation in seedling performance in Costa Rican successional forests: comparing above-ground, below-ground, and allocation-based traits. Plants 13(17): 2378, doi.org/10.3390/plants13172378
  2. Zhang, C., R. Gu, L. Lin, S.E. Russo. 2024. Functional traits and ecological niches as correlates of the interspecific growth-mortality trade-off among seedlings of 14 tropical tree species. Functional Ecology 38:1888–1901, doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14624
  3. McNicholg, B., C. Helzer, S. McMahon, R. Wang, S.E. Russo. 2024. Topography-driven microclimate gradients shape forest structure, diversity, and composition in a temperate refugial forest. Plant-Environment Interactions 5(3):e10153, doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10153
  4. Wang, R., J.A. Gamon, S.E. Russo, A.V. Nishimwe, B. Wardlow. 2024. Multitemporal airborne imaging spectrometry and fluorometry reveal contrasting photoprotective responses of trees. Remote Sensing of Environment 311:114295, doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114295
  5. Bin, Y., S.E. Russo, J. Zhang, Y. Li, H. Cao, W. Ye, & J. Lian. 2024. Tree functional traits strongly correlate with individual-level biomass growth and reproductive investment in a subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology, doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14281.
  6. Yang, Y. and S.E. Russo. 2024. Trade-offs in rooting strategy dimensions along an edaphic gradient in a grassland ecosystem. Functional Ecology 38:792–807 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14514
  7. Whitman, M. S.E. Russo. 2024. Biogeographic history and centers of richness define elevational range-size patterns for Malesian flora. Ecography e07043, doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07043
  8. Medina, J., S.J. Davies, et al., including S.E. Russo. 2024. Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil nutrients. Nature Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02298-0
  9. Yadav, P., A. Quattrone, Y. Yang, J. Owens, R. Kiat, T. Kuppusamy, S.E. Russo & K.A. Weber. 2023. Zea mays genotype influences microbial and viral rhizobiome community structure. ISME Comunications 3, 129, doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00335-4
  10. Quattrone, A., Y. Yang, P. Yadav, K.A. Weber, S.E. Russo. 2023. Nutrient and microbiome-mediated plant-soil feedbacks in domesticated and wild Andropogoneae: Implications for agroecosystems. Microorganisms 11(12), 2978, doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11122978
  11. Quattrone, A., M. Lopez-Guerrero, P. Yadav, M.A. Meier, K.A. Weber, S.E. Russo. 2023. Interactions between root hairs and the soil microbial community affect the growth of maize seedlings. Plant Cell and Environment doi.org/10.1111/pce.14755
  12. Huanca-Nuñez, N.H., R.L. Chazdon, S.E. Russo. 2023. Large mammals selectively reduce seedling establishment of larger-seeded species in Costa Rican secondary forests. Journal of Applied Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14531
  13. Delavaux, C.S. et al. including S.E. Russo. 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05410-z
  14. McNichol, B. and S.E. Russo. 2023. Plant species’ capacity for range shifts at the habitat and geographic scales: A trade-off-based framework. Plants 12(6):1248, doi.org/10.3390/plants12061248
  15. Gamon, J.A., R. Wang, R., S.E. Russo. 2023. Contrasting photoprotective responses of forest trees revealed using PRI light responses sampled with airborne imaging spectrometry. New Phytologist 238(3):1318-1332, doi.org/10.1111/nph.18754 and nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.integrative-remote-sensing
  16. Russo, S.E., G. Ledder, E.B Muller, R. Nisbet. 2022. Dynamic energy budget models: Fertile ground for understanding resource allocation in plants in a changing world. Conservation Physiology 10(1):coac061. doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coac061
  17. Russell, A.E., TM Aide, E Braker, CN Ganong, RD Hardin, KD Holl, and others including S.E. Russo. 2022. Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed. PLoS Biology 20 (6), e3001674 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001674
  18. Bin, Y., Y. Li, S.E. Russo, H. Cao, Y. Ni, W. Ye, J. Lian. 2022. Leaf trait expression varies with tree size and ecological strategy along vertical environmental gradients in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology 36:1010– 1022. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14003
  19. Segnitz, R.M., S.E. Russo, K.G. Peay. 2022. Interactions with soil fungi alter density-dependence and neighborhood effects in a locally abundant dipterocarp species. Ecology and Evolution 12, e8478. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8478
  20. Anderson-Teixeira, K. A. et al., including S.E. Russo. 2021. Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests. Global Change Biology 28:245–266, doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15934
  21. Whitman, M., R.S. Beaman, R. Repin, K. Kitayama, S.-I. Aiba, S.E. Russo. 2021. Edaphic specialization and vegetation zones define elevation range-sizes for Mt. Kinabalu regional flora. Ecography in press
  22. Huanca Nuñez, N., R.L. Chazdon, S.E. Russo. 2021. Seed-rain–successional feedbacks in wet tropical forests. Ecology 102( 7):e03362. 10.1002/ecy.3362
  23. Davies, S.J., including S.E. Russo. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation 253:108907 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108907
  24. Russo, S.E., S.M. McMahon, M. Detto, S.J. Wright, R.S. Condit, S.J. Davies, S. Bunyavejchewin, C.-H. Chang-Yang, C.E.N. Ewango, C. Fletcher, R.B. Foster, C.V.S. Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke, T. Hart, C.-F. Hsieh, S.P. Hubbell, A. Itoh, A.R. Kassim, Y.-C. Lin, J.-R. Makana, P. Ong, A. Sugiyama, I.-F. Sun, S. Tan, J. Thompson, T. Yamakura, S.L. Yap, J.K. Zimmerman. 2021. The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure.Nature Ecology and Evolution 5:174–183
  25. Busta, L., S.E. Russo. 2020. Integrating disciplines in a plant chemistry laboratory module to enhance interdisciplinary and scientific thinking in undergraduate students.Journal of Chemical Education 97:4406-4413
  26. Ledder, G., S.E. Russo, E.B. Muller, A. Peace, R. Nisbet. 2020. Local control of resource allocation is sufficient to model optimal dynamics in stable, obligate syntrophic systems.Theoretical Ecology 13:481–501
  27. Weemstra, M., K.G. Peay, S. J. Davies, M. Mohamad, A. Itoh, S.E. Russo. 2020. Lithological constraints on resource economies shape the mycorrhizal composition of a Bornean rain forest.New Phytologist 228: 253–268
  28. Segnitz, R.M., S.E. Russo, K.G. Peay. 2020. Ectomycorrhizal fungi drive positive phylogenetic plant-soil feedbacks in a regionally dominant tropical plant family. Ecology 101(8) e03083 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3083
  29. Bin, Y., G. Lin, S.E. Russo, Y. Shen, J. Lian, H. Cao, W. Ye. 2019. Evidence for a colonization-competition trade-off correlated with functional trait variation among tree species in a subtropical forest.Scientific Reports 9:14942 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50604-3
  30. Couvreur V, Ledder G, Manzoni S, Way DA, Muller EB, Russo SE. 2018. Water transport through tall trees: A vertically explicit, analytical model of xylem hydraulic conductance in stems.Plant Cell & Environment 41:1821–1839
  31. Zuleta, D., S.E. Russo, M. Detto, A. Barona, D. Cardenas, N. Castaño, S.J. Davies, S. Sua, B.L. Turner, A. Duque. 2018. Importance of topography for tree species habitat distributions in a terra firme forest in the Colombian Amazon.Plant and Soil https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3878-0
  32. Virlouvet L., Avenson T.J., Du Q., Zhang C., Liu N., Fromm M., Avramova Z. & Russo S.E. 2018. Dehydration Stress Memory: Gene Networks Linked to Physiological Responses During Repeated Stresses of Zea mays. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 24 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01058
  33. Jin, Y., S.E. Russo, M. Yu. 2018. Effects of light and topography on regeneration and coexistence of evergreen and deciduous tree species in a Chinese subtropical forest. Journal of Ecology 106:1634–1645
  34. Fukami, T. M. Nakajima, C. Fortunel, P.V.A. Fine, C. Baraloto, S.E. Russo, K.G. Peay. 2017. Geographical variation in community divergence: Insights from tropical forest monodominance by ectomycorrhizal trees. American Naturalist 190:S105–S122
  35. Russo, S.E. 2016. Seed Dispersal, in Fuentes et al. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Primatology
  36. Russo, S.E. and K. Kitajima. 2016. The ecophysiology of leaf lifespan in tropical forests: adaptive and plastic responses to environmental heterogeneity, in Santiago, L. and G. Goldstein (eds) Tropical Tree Physiology: Adaptations and Responses in a Changing Environment.
  37. Wilson, M.C., X.-Y. Chen, R.T. Corlett, R.K. Didham, P. Ding, R.D. Holt, M. Holyoak, L. Jiang, G. Hu, A.C. Hughes, W.F. Laurance, J. Liu, S.L. Pimm, S.K Robinson, S.E. Russo, X. Si, D.S. Wilcove, J. Wu, and M. Yu. 2015. Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: Key findings and future challenges Landscape Ecology 31:219-227
  38. Heineman, K.D., S.E. Russo, I.C. Baillie, J. D. Mamit, P. P-K. Chai, L. Chai, E. W. Hindley, L.B. Ting, S. Tan, P.S. Ashton. 2015. Evaluation of stem rot in 339 Bornean tree species: implications of size, taxonomy, and soil-related variation for aboveground biomass estimates.Biogeosciences 12: 5735-5751
  39. Peay, K.G., S.E. Russo, K. Mcguire, Z. Lim, J.P. Chan, S. Tan, S.J. Davies. 2015. Lack of host specificity leads to independent assortment of dipterocarps and ectomycorrhizal fungi across a soil fertility gradient. Ecology Letters 18: 807-816
  40. Roccaforte, K., D. Pilson, S.E. Russo. 2015. Hybridization and reproductive isolation between diploid Erythronium mesochoreum and its tetraploid congener E. albidum (Liliaceae). Evolution, in press
  41. Paine, C.E.T., et al. including S.E. Russo. 2015. Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why. Journal of Ecology, in press
  42. Stephenson, N., A. Das, R. Condit, S.E. Russo, P. Becker, D.A. Coomes, et al. 2014. Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size. Nature 507:90-93.
  43. Kenfack, D., G. Chuyong, R. Condit, S.E. Russo, D.W. Thomas. 2014. Demographic variation and habitat specialization of tree species in a diverse tropical forest of Cameroon. Forest Ecosystems 1:1-13.
  44. Russo, S.E., A. Kochsiek, J. Olney, L. Thompson, A.E. Miller, and S. Tan. 2013. Nitrogen uptake strategies of edaphically specialized Bornean tree species. Plant Ecology 214:1405–1416.
  45. Kochsiek, S. Tan, and S.E. Russo. 2013.  Fine root dynamics in relation to nutrients in oligotrophic Bornean forest soils.  Plant Ecology 214: 869-882.
  46. Russo, S.E., R. Legge, K. Weber, E. Brodie, K.C. Goldfarb, A. Benson, and S. Tan. 2012. Bacterial community structure of contrasting soils underlying Bornean rain forests: inferences from microarray and next-generation sequencing methods. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 55: 48-59.
  47. Russo, S.E., L. Zhang, and S. Tan. 2012. Covariation between understorey light environments and soil resources in Bornean mixed dipterocarp rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28:33-44.
  48. Heineman, K., E. Jensen, B. Bogenrief, A. Shapland, S. Tan, R. Rebarber, S.E. Russo. 2011. The effect of belowground resources on aboveground growth and allometry in six Bornean tree species. Forest Ecology and Management 261:1820-1832.
  49. Russo, S.E., W.L. Cannon, C. Elowsky, S. Tan, S.J. Davies. 2010. Variation in leaf stomatal traits of 28 tree species in relation to water-use efficiency along an edaphic gradient in Bornean rain forest. American Journal of Botany 97: 1109-1120.
  50. Russo, S.E., K. Jenkins, S. Wiser, D.A. Coomes. 2010. Relationships between wood traits and growth and mortality rates of New Zealand tree species. Functional Ecology 24: 253-262.
  51. Russo, S.E., P. Brown, S. Tan, S.J. Davies. 2008. Interspecific demographic trade-offs and soil-related habitat associations of tree species along resource gradients. Journal of Ecology 96:192-203.
  52. Russo, S.E., S.W. Wiser, D.A. Coomes. 2007. Growth-size scaling relationships of woody plant species differ from predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model. Ecology letters, 10: 889-901.
  53. Russo, S.E., Potts, M.D., Davies, S.J. & S.Tan. 2007. Determinants of tree species distributions: Comparing the roles of dispersal, seed size, and soil specialization in a Bornean rain forest. In: Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World (eds. Dennis, A., Schupp, E.W., Green, R. & Wescott, D.). CAB International, New York.
  54. Russo, S.E., S. Portnoy, C.K. Augspurger. 2006. Incorporating animal behavior into seed dispersal models: Implications for seed shadows and an example for a primate-dispersed tree.  Ecology 87:3160-3174.
  55. Chapman, C.A. and S.E. Russo. 2006. Primate seed dispersal: Linking behavioral ecology with forest community structure. In Primates in Perspective (eds. C.J. Campbell, A.F. Fuentes, K.C. MacKinnon, M. Panger, and S. Bearder). Oxford University Press.
  56. Condit, R., P. Ashton, S. Bunyavejchewin, H. S. Dattaraja, S. Davies, S. Esufali, C. Ewango, R. Foster, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, P. Hall, K. E. Harms, T. Hart, C. Hernandez, S. Hubbell, A. Itoh, S. Kiratiprayoon, J. LaFrankie, S. L. d. Lao, J. Makana, M. N. S. Noor, A. R. Kassim, S. Russo, R. Sukumar, C. Samper, H. S. Suresh, S. Tan, S. Thomas, R. Valencia, M. Vallejo, G. Villa, and T. Zillio. 2006. Importance of demographic niches to tree diversity. Science 313:98-101.
  57. Baillie I.C., Ashton P.S., Chin S.P., Davies S.J., Palmiotto P.A., Russo S.E. & Tan S. 2006. Spatial associations of humus, nutrients, and soils in mixed dipterocarp forest at Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:543-553.
  58. Russo, S. E., S. J. Davies, D. A. King, and S. Tan. 2005. Soil-related performance variation and distributions of tree species in a Bornean rain forest. Journal of Ecology 93:879-889.
  59. Russo, S., C. Campbell, J. Dew, P. Stevenson, and S. Suarez. 2005. A multi-forest comparison of dietary preferences and seed dispersal by Ateles spp. International Journal of Primatology 26:1017-1037.
  60. Russo, S. E. 2005. Linking seed fate to dispersal patterns: identifying factors affecting predation and scatter-hoarding of seeds of Virola calophylla in Peru. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:243-253.
  61. Russo, S. E., and C. K. Augspurger. 2004. Aggregated seed dispersal by spider monkeys limits recruitment to clumped patterns in Virola calophylla. Ecology Letters 7:1058-1067.
  62. Russo, S. E. 2003. Responses of dispersal agents to tree and fruit traits in Virola calophylla (Myristicaceae): Implications for selection. Oecologia 136:80-87.
  63. Russo, S. E., S. K. Robinson, and J. Terborgh. 2003. Size-abundance relationships in an Amazonian bird community: Implications for the energetic equivalence rule. The American Naturalist 161:267-283.