| Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale RL Sinsabaugh, CL Lauber, MN Weintraub, B Ahmed, SD Allison, ... Ecology letters 11 (11), 1252-1264, 2008 | 971 | 2008 |
| Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests L Poorter, F Bongers, TM Aide, AMA Zambrano, P Balvanera, JM Becknell, ... Nature 530 (7589), 211, 2016 | 339 | 2016 |
| Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives M Quesada, GA Sanchez-Azofeifa, M Alvarez-Anorve, KE Stoner, ... Forest Ecology and Management 258 (6), 1014-1024, 2009 | 283 | 2009 |
| Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan‐tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient JS Powers, RA Montgomery, EC Adair, FQ Brearley, SJ DeWalt, ... Journal of Ecology 97 (4), 801-811, 2009 | 217 | 2009 |
| Relationships among soil carbon distributions and biophysical factors at nested spatial scales in rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica JS Powers, WH Schlesinger Geoderma 109 (3-4), 165-190, 2002 | 205 | 2002 |
| An estimate of the number of tropical tree species JWF Slik, V Arroyo-Rodríguez, SI Aiba, P Alvarez-Loayza, LF Alves, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (24), 7472-7477, 2015 | 180 | 2015 |
| Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation JS Powers, MD Corre, TE Twine, E Veldkamp Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (15), 6318-6322, 2011 | 179 | 2011 |
| Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics RL Chazdon, EN Broadbent, DMA Rozendaal, F Bongers, ... Science Advances 2 (5), e1501639, 2016 | 176 | 2016 |
| Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers JS Powers, JM Becknell, J Irving, D Perez-Aviles Forest Ecology and Management 258 (6), 959-970, 2009 | 173 | 2009 |
| Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen after contrasting land-use transitions in northeastern Costa Rica JS Powers Ecosystems 7 (2), 134-146, 2004 | 169 | 2004 |
| The effect of overstory composition on understory woody regeneration and species richness in 7-year-old plantations in Costa Rica JS Powers, JP Haggar, RF Fisher Forest Ecology and Management 99 (1-2), 43-54, 1997 | 165 | 1997 |
| Increased litterfall in tropical forests boosts the transfer of soil CO2 to the atmosphere EJ Sayer, JS Powers, EVJ Tanner PLoS One 2 (12), e1299, 2007 | 132 | 2007 |
| Spatial variation of throughfall volume in an old-growth tropical wet forest, Costa Rica HW Loescher, JS Powers, SF Oberbauer Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (3), 397-407, 2002 | 113 | 2002 |
| Spatial variation of throughfall volume in an old-growth tropical wet forest, Costa Rica HW Loescher, JS Powers, SF Oberbauer Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (3), 397-407, 2002 | 113 | 2002 |
| Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests X Xu, D Medvigy, JS Powers, JM Becknell, K Guan New Phytologist 212 (1), 80-95, 2016 | 105 | 2016 |
| Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis JM Becknell, LK Kucek, JS Powers Forest Ecology and Management 276, 88-95, 2012 | 105 | 2012 |
| Fine roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and soil nutrients in four neotropical rain forests: patterns across large geographic distances JS Powers, KK Treseder, MT Lerdau New Phytologist 165 (3), 913-921, 2005 | 105 | 2005 |
| Geographic and vertical patterns of stable carbon isotopes in tropical rain forest soils of Costa Rica JS Powers, WH Schlesinger Geoderma 109 (1-2), 141-160, 2002 | 105 | 2002 |
| Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest JM Becknell, JS Powers Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44 (6), 604-613, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
| Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches JS Powers, P Tiffin Functional Ecology 24 (4), 927-936, 2010 | 91 | 2010 |
Kyle E. HarmsProfessor of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State UniversityVerified email at lsu.edu
