Scientific articles

• Marjakangas, E.‐L., Ovaskainen, O., Abrego, N., Grøtan, V., Oliveira, A.A., Prado, P.I., Lima, R.A.F. 2021. Co-occurrences of tropical trees in eastern South America: disentangling abiotic and biotic forces. Plant Ecology.

• Pinho, B.X., Tabarelli, M., ter Braak, C., Wright, S.J., ..., Lima, R.A.F., ..., & Melo, F.P.L. 2021. Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 00: 1– 17.

• Zwiener, V.P., Lima, R.A.F., Sánchez-Tapia, A., Rocha, D.S.B., Marques, M.C.M. 2021. Tree diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Biases and general patterns using different sources of information. Chapter 6 In: Marques M.C.M., Grelle C.E.V. (eds) The Atlantic Forest. Springer, Cham.

• Lima, R.A.F., Oliveira, A.A., Pitta, G.R., Gasper, A.L., Vibrans, A.C., Chave, J., ter Steege, H., Prado, P.I. 2020. The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot. Nature Communications 11: 6347.

• Lima, R.A.F., Souza, V.C., Siqueira, M.F., ter Steege, H. 2020. Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: Tree species in the Atlantic Forest hotspot. Biological Conservation, 252, 108825.

• Lima, R.A.F., Condé, P. A., Banks-Leite, C., Campos, R. C., Hernández, M. I. M., Rodrigues, R. R., & Prado, P. I. (2020). Disentangling the effects of sampling scale and size on the shape of species abundance distributions. PLoS ONE 15 (9), e0238854.

• ter Steege, H., Prado, P.I., Lima, R.A.F., Pos, E., et al. 2020. Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports 10, 10130.

• Marjakangas, E.‐L., Abrego, N., Grøtan, V., Lima, R.A.F., et al. 2020. Fragmented tropical forests lose mutualistic plant–animal interactions. Diversity and Distributions 26(2): 154–168.

• Pansonato, M.P., Lima, R.A.F., Oliveira, A.A., Bertoncello, R., Martini, A.M.Z. 2019. Community structure and species composition of a periodically flooded Restinga forest in Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 19(1): e20170477.

• Marjakangas, E.-L., Genes, L., Pires, M.M., Fernandez, F.A.S., Lima, R.A.F., Oliveira, A.A., et al. 2018. Estimating interaction credit for trophic rewilding in tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373(1761): 20170435.

• Lima, R.A.F., Oliveira, A.A., Colletta, G.D., Flores, T.B., Coelho, R.L.G., Dias, P., et al. 2018. Can plant DNA barcoding be implemented in species-rich tropical regions? A perspective from São Paulo State, Brazil. Genetics and Molecular Biology 41(3): 661-670.

• Brancalion, P.H.S., Bello, C., Chazdon, R.L., Galetti, M. Jordano, P., Lima, R.A.F., Medina, A., Pizo, M.A., Reid, J.L. 2018. Maximizing biodiversity conservation and carbon stocking in restored tropical forests. Conservation Letters 11(4): e12454.

• Lima, R.A.F., Muller-Landau, H.C., Prado, P.I., Condit, R. 2016. How do size distributions relate to concurrently measured demographic rates? Evidence from over 150 tree species in Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32: 179-192.

• Lima, R.A.F., Mori, D.P., Pitta, G., Melito, M.O., Bello, C., Magnago, L.F., Zwiener, V.P., Saraiva, D.D., Marques, M.C.M., Oliveira, A.A., Prado, P.I. 2015. How much do we know about the endangered Atlantic Forest? Reviewing nearly 70 years of information on tree community surveys. Biodiversity & Conservation 24: 2135-2148.

• Lima, R.A.F., Batista, J.L.F., Prado, P. I. 2015. Modeling tree diameter distributions in natural forests: An evaluation of 10 statistical models. Forest Science 61: 320-327.

• Lima, R.A.F., Rando, J.G., Barreto, K.D. 2015. Composição e diversidade no cerrado do leste de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Revista Árvore 39: 9-24.

• Bello, C., Galetti, M., Pizo, M.A., Magnago, L.F.S., Rocha, M.F., Lima, R.A.F., Peres, C.A., Ovaskainen, O., Jordano, P. 2015. Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests. Science Advances 1: e1501105-e1501105.

• Oliveira, A.A., Vicentini, A., Chave, J., Castanho, C.D.T., Davies, S.J., Martini, A.M.Z., Lima, R.A.F., Ribeiro, R.R., Iribar, A., Souza, V.C. 2014. Habitat specialization and phylogenetic structure of tree species in a coastal Brazilian white-sand forest. J. Plant Ecology 7: 134-144.

• Lima, R.A.F., Prado, P.I., Martini, A.M.Z., Fonseca, L.J., Gandolfi, S., Rodrigues, R.R. 2013. Improving methods in gap ecology: Revisiting size and shape distributions using a model selection approach. Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 484-495.

• Brocardo, C.R., Zipparro, V.B., Lima, R.A.F., Guevara, R., Galetti, M. 2013. No changes in seedling recruitment when terrestrial mammals are excluded in a partially defaunated Atlantic rainforest. Biological Conservation 163: 107-114.

• Lima, R.A.F., Rother, D.C., Muler, A.E., Lepsch, I.F., Rodrigues, R.R. 2012. Bamboo overabundance alters forest structure and dynamics in the Atlantic Forest hotspot. Biological Conservation 147: 32-39.

• Lima, R.A.F., Souza, V.C., Dittrich, V.A.O., Salino, A. 2012. Composition, diversity and geographical distribution of vascular plants of an Atlantic rain forest, southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica 12: 241-249.

• Lima, R.A.F., Oliveira, A.A., Martini, A.M.Z., Sampaio, D., Souza, V.C., Rodrigues, R.R. 2011. Structure, diversity, and spatial patterns in a permanent plot of high Restinga forest in Southeastern Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasilica, 25: 633–645.

• Lima, R.A.F., Dittrich, V.A.O.; Souza, V.C., Salino, A., Breier, T.B., Aguiar, O.T. 2011. Vascular flora of the Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 11: 173-214.

• Lima, R.A.F., Gandolfi, S. 2009. Structure of the herb stratum under different light regimes in the Lower Montane Atlantic Rain Forest. Brazilian Journal of Biology 69(1): 631–637.

• Rodrigues, R.R., Lima, R.A.F., Gandolfi, S., Nave, A.G. 2009. On the restoration of high diversity forests: 30 years of experience in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biological Conservation 142(6): 1242–1251.

• Lima, R.A.F., Moura, L.C. 2008. Gap disturbance regime and composition in the Atlantic Montane Rain Forest: the influence of topography. Plant Ecology 197: 239–253.

• Martini, A.M.Z., Lima, R.A.F., Franco, G.A.D.C., Rodrigues, R.R. 2008. The need for full inventories of tree modes of disturbance to improve forest dynamics comprehension: an example from a semideciduous forest in Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management 255(5–6): 1479–1488.

• Lima, R.A.F., Martini, A.M.Z., Gandolfi, S., Rodrigues, R.R. 2008. Repeated disturbances and their influences on canopy disturbance regime in a tropical semi-deciduous forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 1–9.

• Lima, R.A.F., Moura, L.C. 2006. Canopy gap colonization in the Atlantic Montane Rain Forest. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 49(6): 953–965.

• Lima, R.A.F. 2005. Canopy gap structure and regeneration in tropical rain forests. Revista Brasileira de Botânica 28(4): 651–670.

• Lima, R.A.F. 2005. Gap size measurement: the proposal of a new field method. Forest Ecology and Management 214: 413–419.