S. Joseph Wright
Staff Scientist
e-mail: wrightj@si.edu
Address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Box 0843-03092
Balboa, Ancon
Republic of Panama
or
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
Telephone: +507 212-8132
FAX: +507 212-8148
Publications
Publications by S. Joseph Wright in STRI Bibliography
Research Interests
Forest Ecology, Plant Ecology, Plant Phenology
Current Research
Education and Degrees
B.A., Princeton University, 1974.
Ph. D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1980.
Selected Bibliography
Wright, S. J. 2002. Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence. Oecologia 130: 1-14.
DeSteven, D. and S. J. Wright. 2002. Consequences of variable reproduction for seedling recruitment in three neotropical tree species. Ecology 83: 2315-2327.
Wright, S. J., H. Zeballos, I. Domínguez, M. M. Gallardo, M. C. Moreno and R. Ibáñez. 2000. Poachers alter mammal abundance, seed dispersal and seed predation in a Neotropical forest. Conservation Biology 14: 227-239.
Harms, K.E., S.J. Wright, O. Calderón, A. Hernandéz and E. A. Herre. 2000. Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest. Nature 404: 493-495.
Wright, S. J., C. Carrasco, O. Calderón and S. Paton. 1999. The El Niño Southern Oscillation, variable fruit production and famine in a tropical forest. Ecology 80: 1632-1647.
Wright, S. J., H. Zeballos, I. Dominguez, M. M. Gallardo, M. C. Moreno and R. Ibáñez. In press. Poachers alter mammal abundance, seed dispersal and seed predation in a Neotropical forest. Conservation Biology XX:
Wright, S. J., C. Carrasco, O. Calderón and S. Paton. 1999. The El Niño Southern Oscillation, variable fruit production and famine in a tropical forest. Ecology 80(5)
Poulin, B., S. J. Wright, G. Lefebvre and O. Calderon. 1999. Synchrony and asynchrony in fruiting phenologies: implications for avian dispersers in Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 15:213-227.
Hubbell, S. P., R. B. Foster, S. T. O'Brien, K. E. Harms, R. Condit, B. Weschler, S. J. Wright and S. Loo de Lao. 1999. Light gap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in a nontropical ffirest. Science 283: 554-557.
Wright, S. J. 1999. Plant diversity in tropical forests. Pages 449-472 in F. I. Pugnaire and F. Valladares, editors. Handbook of Functional Plant Ecology. M. Dekker, New York.