Example Publications
Fang, Y., da Silva, C. S., Collins, A., Gimenez, B. O., Jardine, K., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Oliveira, R., Menezes, V. D. S., Solander, K., Spanner, G., Warren, J. M., Wright, C. L., Zambrano, A., Lima, A., Higuchi, N., Chambers, J. Q., Koven, C., Leung, L. R., & McDowell, N. G. (2026). Multivariate environmental and trait-based controls of transpiration in the Central Amazon Rainforest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 376, Article 110914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110914

Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Wehner, M. F., Dias, A. M., Ullrich, P. A., Chambers, J. Q., & Riley, W. J. (2024). CMIP6 HighResMIP extreme-rainfall bias drives underestimation of Amazonian precipitation. Environmental Research Communications, 6(6), 061002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad6ff9

Gimenez, B. O., Souza, D. C., Higuchi, Niro, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I., de Jesus Sampaio-Filho, Israel, Araújo, Alessandro C., Lima, Adriano J. N., Fontes, Clarissa G., Jardine, Kolby J., Koven, Charles D., Meng, Lin, Pastorello, Gilberto Z., McDowell, Nate G., & Chambers, Jeffrey Q. (2024). Hysteresis area at the canopy level during and after a drought event in the Central Amazon. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 353, 110052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110052

Lamour, J., Souza, D. C., Gimenez, B. O., Higuchi, N., Chave, J., Chambers, J. Q., & Rogers, A. (2023). Wood-density has no effect on stomatal control of leaf-level water use efficiency in an Amazonian forest. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46(12), 3806–3821. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14704

Feng, Y., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Romps, D. M., & Chambers, J. Q. (2023). Amazon windthrow disturbances are likely to increase with storm frequency under global warming. Nature Communications, 14(1), 101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35570-1

Jardine, K. J., Cobello, L. O., Teixeira, L. M., East, M. M. S., Levine, S., Gimenez, B. O., Robles, E., Spanner, G., Koven, C., Xu, C., Warren, J. M., Higuchi, N., McDowell, N. G., Pastorello, G. Z., & Chambers, J. Q. (2022). Stem respiration and growth in a central Amazon rainforest. Trees – Structure and Function, 36(3), 991–1004. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-022-02265-5

Meng, L., Chambers, J. Q., Koven, C. D., Pastorello, G., Gimenez, B. O., Jardine, K., Tang, Y., McDowell, N. G., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Longo, M., Araújo, A., Tomasella, J., Fontes, C. G., Mohan, M., & Higuchi, N. (2022). Soil moisture thresholds explain a shift from light-limited to water-limited sap velocity in the Central Amazon during the 2015–16 El Niño drought. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 064023. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6f6d

Araujo, R. F., Chambers, J. Q., Celes, C. H. S., Muller-Landau, H. C., dos Santos, A. P. F., Emmert, F., Ribeiro, G. H. P. M., Gimenez, B. O., Lima, A. J. N., Campos, M. A. A., & Higuchi, N. (2020). Integrating high resolution drone imagery and forest inventory to distinguish canopy and understory trees and quantify their contributions to forest structure and dynamics. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0243079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243079

Fontes, C. G., Fine, P. V. A., Wittmann, F., Bittencourt, P. R. L., Fernandez Piedade, M. T., Higuchi, N., Chambers, J. Q., & Dawson, T. E. (2020). Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought. New Phytologist, 228(1), 106–120. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16675

Feng, Y., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., & Chambers, J. Q. (2020). Remote sensing and statistical analysis of the effects of Hurricane María on the forests of Puerto Rico. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, 111940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111940

Chambers, J. Q., Gorman, C., Feng, Y., Torn, M. S., & Stapp, J. R. (2019). Rapid remote sensing assessment of landscape-scale impacts from the California Camp Fire. PeerJ Preprints, 7, e27654v1. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27654v1

Marra, D. M., Trumbore, S. E., Higuchi, N., Ribeiro, G. H. P. M., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Holzwarth, F., Rifai, S. W., dos Santos, J., Lima, A. J. N., Kinupp, V. F., Chambers, J. Q., & Wirth, C. (2018). Windthrows control biomass patterns and functional composition of Amazon forests. Global Change Biology, 24(12), 5867–5881. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14457

Henkel, T. K., Chambers, J. Q., & Baker, D. A. (2016). Delayed tree mortality and Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) population explosion in a Louisiana bottomland hardwood forest following Hurricane Katrina. Forest Ecology and Management, 380, 171–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.036

Koven, C. D., Chambers, J. Q., Georgiou, K., Knox, R., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Riley, W. J., Arora, V. K., Brovkin, V., Friedlingstein, P., & Jones, C. D. (2015). Controls on terrestrial carbon feedbacks by productivity versus turnover in the CMIP5 Earth System Models. Biogeosciences, 12(17), 5211–5228. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5211-2015

Chambers, J. Q., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Magnabosco Marra, D. M., Di Vittorio, A., Tews, J., Roberts, D., Ribeiro, G. H. P. M., Trumbore, S. E., & Higuchi, N. (2013). The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth Central Amazon forest landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(10), 3949–3954. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202894110

Ballantyne, A. P., Baker, P. A., Chambers, J. Q., Villalba, R., & Argollo, J. (2011). Regional differences in South American monsoon precipitation inferred from the growth and isotopic composition of tropical trees. Earth Interactions, 15(5), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010EI277.1

Chambers, J. Q., Robertson, A. L., Carneiro, V. M. C., Lima, A. J. N., Smith, M.-L., Plourde, L. C., & Higuchi, N. (2009). Hyperspectral remote detection of niche partitioning among canopy trees driven by blowdown gap disturbances in the Central Amazon. Oecologia, 160, 107–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-008-1274-9

Chambers, J. Q., Fisher, J. I., Zeng, H., Chapman, E. L., Baker, D. B., & Hurtt, G. C. (2007). Hurricane Katrina’s carbon footprint on U.S. Gulf Coast forests. Science, 318(5853), 1107. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1148913

Chambers, J. Q., Asner, G. P., Morton, D. C., Anderson, L. O., Saatchi, S. S., Espírito-Santo, F. D. B., Palace, M., & Souza, C. (2007). Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22(8), 414–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.05.001

Vieira, S. A., Trumbore, S. E., Camargo, P. B., Selhorst, D., Chambers, J. Q., Higuchi, N., Martinelli, L. A., Brown, I. F., dos Santos, J., & Wofsy, S. C. (2005). Slow growth rates of Amazonian trees: Consequences for carbon cycling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(51), 18502–18507. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0505966102

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