Nigel C A Pitman

Biographic Data

ID672516
NAMENigel C A Pitman
GIVEN NAMESNigel C A
FAMILY NAMEPitman
SIGNATUREPITMAN N C A
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
ORCID0000-0002-9211-2880
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Pre-Columbian vegetational and fire history in western Amazonia: Terrestrial soil phytolith and charcoal evidence from three regions

    Open AccessDolores R Piperno, Crystal N H Mcmichael et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2024

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    Open AccessCarolina Levis, Flavia R C Costa et al.ARTICLEScience2017

    Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…

  • Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia

    Open AccessN Galia Selaya, Pieter A Zuidema et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017

    Selaya, N. G., P. A. Zuidema, C. Baraloto, V. A. Vos, R. J. W. Brienen, N. Pitman, F. Brown, A. E. Duchelle, A. Araujo-Murakami, L. A. Oliveira Carillo, G. H. Vasquez Colomo, S. Meo Chupinagua, H. Fuentes Nay, and S. Perz. 2017. Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 22(2):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09297-220240

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    Open AccessRoel Brienen, R J W Brienen et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Open AccessHans Ter Steege, Nigel C A Pitman et al.ARTICLEScience2013

    Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commo…

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    Open AccessWilliam F Laurance, D Carolina Useche et al.ARTICLENature2012

  • Indigenous Perceptions of Tree Species Abundance Across an Upper Amazonian Landscape

    Open AccessNigel C A Pitman, Marcelino Pinedo Cecilio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2011

    Indigenous cultures know a great deal about the landscape they inhabit, and their knowledge can be a valuable tool for ecologists. In order to explore how residents’ knowledge might help characterize a large and diverse forest type in southeastern Peru, we asked plant experts of the local Cashinahua culture to predict whether the tree species recorded in a single 1-ha plot in upland forest were common on the surrounding landscape. We then compare…

  • Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

    Open AccessOliver L Phillips, Luiz Eduardo O C Aragão et al.ARTICLEScience2009

    Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances. We used records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events. Affected forest lost biomass, reversing a large long-term car…