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  1. Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

    Article • Science, March 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Carlos A. JOLY, Varun Swamy, Dr. Simone Vieira

  2. Defaunation Increases Clustering and Fine‐Scale Spatial Genetic Structure in a Small‐Seeded Palm Despite Remaining Small‐Bodied Frugivores

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2024, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  3. Natural Regeneration Patterns of Woody Vegetation in Post-Gold Mining Landscapes of the Peruvian Amazon

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Varun Swamy

  4. Multiscale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities

    Article • Ecology, March 2023, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  5. Efectos de la caza de vertebrados frugívoros sobre la dispersión de semillas en bosques amazónicos de la cuenca del Río Madre de Dios, Perú

    Article • GENTRYANA, July 2022, Universidad Nacional Amazonica de Madre de Dios

    Varun Swamy

  6. Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2021, Elsevier

    Varun Swamy, Professor Carlos A. Peres

  7. Multi-scale phenological niches of seed fall in diverse Amazonian plant communities

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Varun Swamy

  8. Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Varun Swamy, Dr. Simone Vieira

  9. Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Varun Swamy

  10. Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Article • Science, May 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Varun Swamy

  11. Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale

    Article • GigaScience, March 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Varun Swamy

  12. Bryophyte stable isotope composition, diversity and biomass define tropical montane cloud forest extent

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Varun Swamy

  13. Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale

    Article • June 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Varun Swamy

  14. Defaunation increases the spatial clustering of lowland Western Amazonian tree communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, February 2018, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  15. A pantropical assessment of vertebrate physical damage to forest seedlings and the effects of defaunation

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, July 2017, Elsevier

    Varun Swamy

  16. Forest Composition and Spatial Patterns across a Western Amazonian River Basin: The Influence of Plant-Animal Interactions

    Article • December 2016, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  17. Identifying keystone plant resources in an Amazonian forest using a long-term fruit-fall record

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Varun Swamy

  18. Bushmeat harvest in tropical forests: Knowledge base, gaps and research priorities

    Article • January 2014, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

    Varun Swamy

  19. Variable Density Responses of Primate Communities to Hunting Pressure in a Western Amazonian River Basin

    Article • Neotropical Primates, June 2013, Conservation International

    Varun Swamy

  20. Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2010, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  21. Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2010, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  22. TREE RECRUITMENT IN AN EMPTY FOREST

    Article • Ecology, June 2008, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  23. Salt Marsh Restoration in Connecticut: 20 Years of Science and Management

    Article • Restoration Ecology, September 2002, Wiley

    Varun Swamy

  24. Macroinvertebrate and Fish Populations in a Restored Impounded Salt Marsh 21 Years After the Reestablishment of Tidal Flooding

    Article • Environmental Management, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Varun Swamy