Publications

Recent articles

Shi, Qinru, Jonathan M. Gomes-Selman, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Suresh Andrew Sethi, Alexander S. Flecker, and Carla P. Gomes. 2018. “Efficiently Optimizing for Dendritic Connectivity on Tree-Structured Networks in a Multi-Objective Framework.” In COMPASS. https://doi.org/10.1145/3209811.3209878.

Gomes-Selman, J. M., Shi, Q., Xue, Y., García-Villacorta, R.; Flecker, A., Gomes, C. 2018. 2018. Boosting Efficiency for Computing the Pareto Frontier on Tree Structured Networks. In Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research Pp. 263–279. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93031-2_19.

Wu, X, J Gomes-Selman, Q Shi, Y Xue, Garcia-Villacorta, R., E Anderson, S Sethi, S Steinschneider, A Flecker, and C Gomes. 2018. Efficiently Approximating the Pareto Frontier: Hydropower Dam Placement in the Amazon Basin. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~yexiang/publications/Xiaojian-Wu-et-al-aaai-2018-final.pdf.

Gomes, Vitor H. F., Stéphanie D. IJff, Niels Raes, Iêda Leão Amaral, Rafael P. Salomão, Luiz Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionízia Almeida Matos, et al. 2018. “Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting Presence-Only Models with Plot Abundance Data.” Scientific Reports 8 (1):1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1.

Draper, Frederick C., Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Katherine H. Roucoux, Ian T. Lawson, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Paul V. A. Fine, Oliver L. Phillips, et al. 2018. “Peatland Forests Are the Least Diverse Tree Communities Documented in Amazonia, but Contribute to High Regional Beta-Diversity.” Ecography, January, n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03126.

Pos, Edwin, Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Daniel Sabatier, Jean-François Molino, Nigel Pitman, Hugo Mogollón, David Neill, et al. 2017. “Estimating and Interpreting Migration of Amazonian Forests Using Spatially Implicit and Semi-Explicit Neutral Models.” Ecology and Evolution 7 (12):4254–65. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2930.

García-Villacorta, R., K. G. Dexter, and T. Pennington. 2016. Amazonian White-Sand Forests Show Strong Floristic Links with Surrounding Oligotrophic Habitats and the Guiana Shield. Biotropica 48: 47–57.

ter Steege et al. 2015. Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances. 1(10). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500936.

Heer, K., Kalko, E. K. V., Albretch L., García-Villacorta, R., Staeps, F. C., Herre, E. A. & C. W. Dick. 2015. Spatial Scales of Genetic Structure in Free-Standing and Strangler Figs (Ficus, Moraceae) Inhabiting Neotropical Forests. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0133581. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133581.

Pos, E., Guevara, A. J. E., Sabatier, D., Molino, J.-F., Pitman, N., Mogollón, H., Neill, D. et al. 2014. Are all species necessary to reveal ecologically important patterns?. Ecology and evolution 4, 24: 4626-4636.

ter Steege, H., N. Pitman, D. Sabatier, C. Baraloto et al. 2013. Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora. Science 342(6156):325-342. DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092.

García-Villacorta R., Isaú Huamantupa, Zaleth Cordero, Nigel Pitman, Corine Vriesendorp y Robin Foster. Flora y Vegetación/Flora and Vegetation. 2011. In: Perú: Yaguas-Cotuhé. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 23. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

García-Villacorta R. 2011. Delimitación de las cabeceras de cuencas hidrográficas del departamento de Loreto. Naturaleza y Cultura International (NCI). Loreto, Perú. 42 pp.

García-Villacorta R., Nállarett Dávila, Robin Foster, Isaú Huamantupa y Corine Vriesendorp. Flora y Vegetación/Flora and Vegetation.2010.In: Perú: Maijuna. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 22. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. pp. 176-182.

Fine P., García-Villacorta R., Mesones, I., & N. Pitman. 2009. A floristic study of the white-sand forests of Peru. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 97: 283-305.

García-Villacorta R. 2009. Integral strategy for the protection of ecological and evolutionary processes for conserving the biodiversity in Loreto. PROCREL, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Gobierno Regional de Loreto, Nature and Culture International. 92 pp. (In Spanish).

Honorio, E. N., T. R. Baker, O. L. Phillips, N. C. A. Pitman, R. T. Pennington, R. Vásquez Martínez, A. Monteagudo, H. Mogollón, N. Dávila Cardozo, M. Ríos, R. García-Villacorta, E. Valderrama, M. Ahuite, I. Huamantupa, D. A. Neill, W. F.

Laurance, H. E. M. Nascimento, S. Soares de Almeida, T. J. Killeen, L. Arroyo, P. Núñez, and L. Freitas Alvarado. 2009. Integrating regional and continental scale comparisons of tree composition in Amazonian terra firme forests. Biogeosciences

Discussions 6:1421-1451.

García-Villacorta R. & Gagliardi G. 2009. Identificación de los procesos ecológicos y evolutivos para la conservación de la biodiversidad en Loreto, Amazonía, Perú. Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon, Gobierno Regional Loreto, PROCREL, NCI. 133 pp.

García-Villacorta, R. 2009. Diversidad, florística y estructura de un hábitat altamente amenazado: los bosques estacionalmente secos de Tarapoto, San Martín, Perú. Revista Peruana de Biología 16(1): 81-92.

Pitman, N. C. A., Mogollón, H., Dávila, N., Ríos, M., García-Villacorta, R., Guevara, J., Ahuite, M., Aulestia, M., Cardenas, D., Cerón, C. E., Loizeau, P.-A., Neill, D. A., Núñez, P. V., Palacios, W. A., Phillips, O. L., Spichiger, R., Valderrama, E. & Vásquez-Martínez, R. 2008. Tree community change across 700 km of lowland Amazonian forest from the Andean foothills to Brazil. Biotropica 40: 525-535.

García-Villacorta, R. 2006. White-sand forests in upper Amazonia: conservation of its endemic avifauna and flora. Report for Conservation Leadership Programme. 59 pp.

García-Villacorta, R. & Hammel B. 2004. A noteworthy new species of Tovomita(Clusiaceae) from Amazonian White Sand Forests of Peru and Colombia. Brittonia 56(2): 52-55.

García-Villacorta, R., M. Ahuite Reátegui & M. Olórtegui Zumaeta. 2003. Classification of the white sand forests of the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve (ZRAM), Peruvian Amazonia. Folia Amazónica 14 (1-2): 11-28.

García-Villacorta, R., M. Ahuite Reátegui & M. Olórtegui Zumaeta. 2002. The vegetation on the white sand soils of the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve (ZRAM), Loreto, Peru. Memoirs of the IX Peruvian National Congress of Botany. p. 263.

Ahuite R., García Villacorta, R. & K. Ruokolainen. 2003. Preferencia de cuatro especies de plantas al drenaje y la altura en los bosques de arena blanca (varillales). Folia Amazonica 14 (1-2): 143-150.

Llerena N., R. García Villacorta, A. Monteagudo, C. Rodríguez, H. Soplín, P. Tuesta & K. Ruokolainen. 2003. Melastomataceae composition and its relation to the forest basal area. In: Biological diversity of the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve, Iquitos: Relationship between distribution, abundance and types of habitat. Rodríguez J. J. (editor). Folia Amazonica 14 (1-2): 11-116.

Book chapters

  1. Encarnacion F., Beltran H. & García-Villacorta R. 2005. Floristic and Vegetative Aspects of the Upper and Middle Sections of the Pastaza River, Peru. In: A Rapid Biological Assessment Of The Aquatic Ecosystems Of The Pastaza River Basin, Ecuador and Peru. P.W. Willink (ed.). University of Chicago Press. Pp. 41-55.
  2. Janovec J. & García-Villacorta R. 2004. Myristicaceae. In: The Encyclopedia of Forest Science Elsevier, J. Evans, J. A. Youngquist & J. Burley (eds.). Academic Press. Oxford, London.
  3. Pitman, N., H. Beltrán, R. Foster, R. García-Villacorta, C. Vriesendorp, & M. Ahuite. 2003. Flora y vegetación/Flora and vegetation. In Pitman, N., D. K. Moskovits & C. Vriesendorp (eds.), Peru: Yavarí. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 11. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 282 pp.