Robin Chazdon

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Professor

Office: BioPharmacy 205C
Voice: (860) 486-4057
Fax: (860) 486-6364
E-mail: robin.chazdon@uconn.edu

Home page:
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/chazdon/

Mailing address:
75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043
Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A.

[edit] Research interests:

Functional ecology of plants; photosynthesis and growth responses to light variation; tropical forest ecology, succession and management.

[edit] Selected publications:

• Capers, R.S., Chazdon, R.L., A. Redondo B. and B. Vilchez A. 2005. Successional dynamics of woody seedling communities in wet tropical secondary forests. Journal of Ecology 93: 1071-1084.
  

• Chao, A., Chazdon, R.L., Colwell, R.K., and Shen, T.-J. 2005. A new statistical approach for assessing compositional similarity based on incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters 8: 148-159.
  

• Chao, A., Chazdon, R.L., Colwell, R.K., and Shen, T.J. 2005. A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters 8: 148-159.
  

• Sezen, U.U., Chazdon, R.L., and Holsinger, K.E. 2005. Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration. Science 307: 891.
  

• Capers, R. S. and Chazdon, R. L. 2004. Rapid assessment of understory light availability in a wet tropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 123: 177-185.
  

• Vilchez, B., Chazdon, R., and Redondo, A. 2004. Fenologia reproductiva de cinco especies forestales del Bosque Secundario Tropical. Kuru: Revista Foresta (Costa Rica) 1: (2).
  

• Chazdon, R. L., and Whitmore, T. C. 2002. Foundations of tropical forest biology: classic papers with commentaries. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  

• Montgomery, R. A., and Chazdon, R. L. 2002. Light gradient partitioning by tropical tree seedlings in the absence of canopy gaps. Oecologia 131: 165- 174.
  

• Chazdon, R. L., and Montgomery, R. A. 2001. Carbon acquisition by tropical forest plants. In Guariguata, M., and Kattan, G. Ecología de Bosque Lluvioso Neotropical. IICA, Costa Rica.
  

• Montgomery, R. A., and Chazdon, R. L. 2001. Forest structure, canopy architecture, and light transmittance in old-growth and second-growth tropical rain forests. Ecology 82: 2707-2718.
  

• Canham, C. D., R. K. Kobe, Latty, E. F. Chazdon, R. L. 1999. Interspecific and intraspecific variation in tree seedling survival: effects of allocation to roots versus carbohydrate reserves. Oecologia 121: 1-11.
  

• Chazdon, R. L., and Coe., F. G. 1999. Ethnobotany of woody species in second-growth, old-growth, and selectively logged forests of northeastern Costa Rica. Conservation Biology 13: 1312-1322.
  

• Chazdon, R. L., Colwell, R. K., and Denslow, J. S. 1999. Tropical tree richness and resource-based niches. Science 285: 1459a.
  

• Nicotra, A. B., Chazdon, R. L., and Iriarte, S. 1999. Spatial heterogeneity of light and woody seedling regeneration in tropical wet forests. Ecology 80: 1908-1926.
  

• Butler, B. J., and Chazdon, R. L. 1998. Species richness, spatial variation, and abundance of the soil seed bank of a secondary tropical rain forest. Biotropica 30: 214-222.
  

• Chazdon, R. L., Colwell, R. K., Denslow, J. S., and Guariguata, M. 1998. Parthenon Press, Paris.
  

• Dupuy, J. M., and Chazdon, R. L. 1998. Long-term effects of forest regrowth and selective logging on the seed bank of tropical forests in NE Costa Rica. Biotropica 30: 223-237.
  

• Guariguata, M. R., Chazdon, R. L., Denslow, J. S., Dupuy, J. M., and Anderson, L. 1997. Structure and floristics of secondary and old-growth forest stands in lowland Costa Rica. Plant Ecology 132: 107-120.
  

• Nicotra, A. B., Chazdon, R. L., and Schlichting, C. D. 1997. Patterns of genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity of light response in two tropical Piper (Piperaceae) species. American Journal of Botany 84: 1542-1553.
  

• Nicotra, A. B., Chazdon, R. L., and Schlichting, C. D. 1997. Patterns of genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity of light response in two tropical Piper species. American Journal of Botany 84: 1542-1552.
  

• Chazdon, R. L. 1996. Spatial heterogeneity in tropical forest structure: canopy palms as landscape mosaics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 8-9.
  

• Chazdon, R. L., Pearcy, R. W., Lee, D. W., and Fetcher, N. 1996. Photosynthetic responses to contrasting light environments. Pages 5-55 in Mulkey, S., Chazdon, R., and Smith, A. P. Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology. Chapman and Hall, New York.
  

• Kabakoff, R. P., and Chazdon, R. L. 1996. Effects of canopy species dominance on understory light availability in tropical secondary rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12: 779-788.