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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
2010
- Anderson, L., Malhi, Y., Aragão, L., Ladle, R., Arai, E., Barbier, N., Phillips, O. 2010. Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies. New Phytologist 187: 733–750.
- Barlow, J., Ewers, R., Anderson, L., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Baker, T.R., Boyd, E., Feldpausch, T., Gloor, E., Hall, A., Malhi, Y., Milliken, W., Mulligan, M., Parry, L., Pennington, T., Peres, C.A., Phillips, O.L., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Tobias, J., T. Gardner. 2010.. Improving the effectiveness of science: a case study of multi-disciplinary research on the Amazon. Biological Reviews.
- Berry, N.J., Phillips, O.L, Lewis, S.L., Hill, J., Edwards, D.P., Tawatao, N.B., Ahmed, N., Magintan, D., Khen, C.V., Maryati, M., Ong, R.C., Hamer, K.C. 2010. The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo. Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 985–997.
- Chave, J., Navarrete, D., Almeida, S., Álvarez, E., Aragão, L., Espejo, S., von Hildebrand, P., Jiménez, E., Patiño, S., Peñuela, M.C., Phillips, O.L., Stevenson, P., Châtelet, P., Y. Malhi. 2010. Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America. Biogeosciences 7: 43-55.
- da Costa, A.C.L., Galbraith, D., Almeida, S., Tanaka Portela, B.T., da Costa, M., de Atahydes Silva, J., Braga, A., de Goncalves, P.H.L., Fisher, R., Phillips, O.L., Metcalfe, D., Levy, P., Meir, P., & de Oliveira, A. 2010. Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest. New Phytologist 187: 579-591.
- Malhado, A.C.M., Whittaker, R J., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R J., ter Steege, H., Phillips, O., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Baker, T.R., Arroyo, L., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Pitman, N.C.A., Prieto, A., Salomao, R.P., Vasquez-Martinez, R., Laurance, W.F., Ramirez-Angulo, H. 2010. Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 852-862.
- Phillips, O.L., van der Heijden, G., López-González, G., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Almeida, S., Alvarez D., E., Amaral, I., Andelman, S., Andrade, A., Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Baker, T.R., Blanc, L., Bonal, D., Alves de Oliveira, A.C., Chao, K.-J., Dávila C., N., da Costa, L., Feldpausch, T.R., Fisher, J.B., Freitas, M.A., Galbraith, D., Gloor, E., Higuchi, N., Honorio, E., Jiménez, E., Keeling, H., Killeen, T.J., Lovett, J.C., Meir, P., Mendoza B., C., Morel, A., Núñez V., P., Patiño, S., Peh, K., Peña Cruz, A., Prieto, A., Quesada, C.A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez, H., Rudas, A., Salamão, R., Schwarz, M., Silva, J., Silveira, M., Sonké, B., Sota Thomas, A., Stropp, J., Vásquez, R., Taplin, J., Vilanova, E. 2010. Drought mortality relationships for tropical forests. New Phytologist 187: 631-646.
- Phillips, O.L., Lewis, S.L., Baker, T.R., and Malhi, Y. 2010. Responses of South American tropical forests to recent atmospheric changes. Ch. Xxx, pp. xxx-xxx. In Tropical Rain Forest Responses to Climate Change (editors M. Bush, J. Flenley) (2nd edition). Springer.
- Polce, C., Kunin, W.E., Biesmeijer, J., Dauber, J, Phillips, O.L. 2010. Alien and native plants show contrasting responses to microclimate and land-use in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00619.x
- van der Heijden, G., Feldpausch, T.R., de la Fuente Herrero, A., van der Velden, N.K., and Phillips, O.L. 2010. Calibrating the liana crown occupancy index in Amazonian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 260: 549-555.
2009
- Anderson, L.O., Y. Malhi, R.J. Ladle, L.E.O.C. Aragão, Y. Shimabukuro, O.L. Phillips, T. Baker, A.C.L. Costa, J.S. Espejo, N. Higuchi, W.F. Laurance, G. López-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo, P. Núñez-Vargas, J. Peacock, C.A. Quesada, S. Almeida, and R. Vásquez. 2009. Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia. Biogeosciences 6: 2039-2083.
- Aragão, L.E.O.C., Y. Malhi, D.B. Metcalfe, J.E. Silva-Espejo, E. Jiménez, D. Navarrete, S. Almeida, A. C.L. Costa, N. Salinas, O.L. Phillips, L.O. Anderson, E. Alvarez, T.R. Baker, P.H. Goncalvez, J. Huamán-Ovalle, M. Mamani-Solórzano, P. Meir, A. Monteagudo, S. Patiño, M.C. Peñuela, A. Prieto, C.A. Quesada, A. Rozas-Dávila, A. Rudas, J.A. Silva Jr., and R. Vásquez. 2009. Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils. Biogeosciences 6: 2759-2778.
- Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., W.F. Laurance, N C.A. Pitman, S. Almeida, L. Arroyo, A. DiFiore, T. Erwin, N. Higuchi, T.J. Killeen, S.G. Laurance, H. Nascimento, A. Monteagudo, D.A. Neill, J.N.M. Silva, Y. Malhi, G. López Gonzalez, J. Peacock, C.A. Quesada, S.L. Lewis, & J. Lloyd. 2009. Do species traits determine patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests? Biogeosciences 6: 297-307.
- Chao, K.-J., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T.R., Peacock, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Vásquez Martínez, R., Monteagudo, A., Torres-Lezama, A. 2009. After trees die: quantities and determinants of necromass across Amazonia. Biogeosciences 6:1615-1626.
- Chao, K.-J., Phillips, O.L., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Torres Lezama, A., Vásquez Martínez, R. 2009. How do trees die? Mode of death in two Amazon regions. Journal of Vegetation Science 20:260-268.
- Fyllas, N., S. Patiño, T.R. Baker, G.B. Nardoto, L.A. Martinelli, C. A. Quesada, R. Paiva, M. Schwarz, V. Horna, L.M. Mercado, A. Santos, L. Arroyo, E.M. Jiménez, F.J. Luizão, D.A. Neill, N. Silva, A. Prieto, A. Rudas, M. Silviera, I. Viera, G. López-Gonzalez, Y. Malhi, O.L. Phillips and J. Lloyd. 2009. Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazon forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. Biogeosciences 6: 2677-2708.
- Gloor M., Phillips O.L., Lloyd J., Lewis S.L., Malhi Y., Baker T.R., Lopez-Gonzalez G., Peacock J., Almeida S., de Oliveira A.C.A., I. Amaral, L. Arroyo, G. Aymard, O. Banki, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, P. Brando, K.-J. Chao, J. Chave, N. Davila, T. Edwin, J. Espejo, A. di Fiore, T. Feldpausch, A. Freitas, R. Herrera, N. Higuchi, E. Honorio, E. Jiménez, T. Killeen, W. Laurance, C. Mendoza, A. Monteagudo, A. Andrade, D. Neill, D. Nepstad, P. Núñez Vargas, M.C. Peñuela, A. Peña Cruz, A. Prieto, N. Pitman, C. Quesada, R. Salamão, M. Schwarz, J. Stropp, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez, A. Rudas, H. ter Steege, N. Silva, A. Torres, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez, G. van der Heijden. 2009. Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology 15: 2418-2430.
- Honorio Coronado, E., 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. Almeida, T.J. Killeen, L. Arroyo, P. Núñez Vargas, L. Freitas Alvarado. 2009. Integrating regional and continental scale comparisons of tree composition in Amazonian terra firme forests. Biogeosciences 6: 2719-2731.
- Lewis, S.L., G. Lopez-Gonzalez, B. Sonké, K. Affum-Baffo, T.R. Baker, L.O. Ojo, O.L. Phillips, J. Reitsma, L. White, J.A. Comiskey, C. Ewango, T.R. Feldpausch, A.C. Hamilton, E. Gloor, T. Hart, A. Hladik, M.-N.D. Kamdem, J. Lloyd, J.C. Lovett, J.-R. Makana, Y. Malhi, F.M. Mbago, H.J. Ndangalasi, J. Peacock, K.S.-H. Peh, D. Sheil, T. Sunderland, M.D. Swaine, J. Taplin, D. Taylor, S.C. Thomas, R. Votere, H. Wöll. 2009. Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests. Nature 477: 1003-1006.
- Malhado ACM., Whittaker RJ., Malhi Y., Ladle RJ., ter Steege H., Aragão LEOC., Quesada CA., Araujo AM., Phillips OL., Peacock J., Lopez-Gonzalez G., Baker TR., Butt N., Anderson LO., Arroyo L., Almeida S., Higuchi N., Killeen T., Monteagudo A., Neill D., Pitman N., Prieto A., Salomão R., Silva N., Vásquez Martínez R., Laurance WF, Alexiades MN., Ramírez A. H. 2009. Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees. Biogeosciences 6: 1577-1590.
- Malhado ACM., Malhi Y., Whittaker RJ., Ladle RJ., ter Steege H., Aragão LEOC., Quesada CA., Araujo AM., Phillips OL., Peacock J., Lopez-Gonzalez G., Baker TR., Butt N., Anderson LO., Arroyo L., Almeida S., Higuchi N., Killeen T., Monteagudo A., Neill D., Pitman N., Prieto A., Salomão R., Silva N., Vásquez-Martínez R., Laurance WF. Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees. Biogeosciences 6: 1563-1576.
- Patiño, S., Lloyd, J., Paiva, R., Quesada, C.A., Baker, T.R., Mercado, L., Czimczik, C.I., Schwarz, M., Jens Schmerler, Anne Sota, Alexandre Santos, Horna, V. Peacock, J., Wagner, M., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y, Arroyo, L., Samuel Almeida, Esteban Alvarez, Adriana Aguilar, Jenny Gallo, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Emilio J. Hoyos, Eliana Jiménez, Tim Killeen, Eliane Leal, Flavio Luizão, Patrick Meir, Abel Monteagudo, David Neill, P. Núñez Vargas, Wily Palomino, Antonio Peña-Cruz, Maria C. Peñuela, N. Pitman, Nicholau Priante Filho, Adriana Prieto, S.N. Panfil, Agustin Rudas-Ll, S. Saleska, Rafael Salomão, Natalino Silva, Marcos Silveira, Armando Torres-Lezama, Juan Turriago, Rodolfo Vásquez-Martínez, Ima Vieira, Beatriz Villanueva, Peter Vitzthum. 2009. Branch xylem density variation across the Amazon Basin. Biogeosciences 6: 545-568.
- Phillips, O.L., L.E.O.C. Aragão, S.L. Lewis, J.B. Fisher, J. Lloyd, G. López-González, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, J. Peacock, C.A. Quesada, G. van der Heijden, S. Almeida, I. Amaral, L. Arroyo, G. Aymard, T.R. Baker, O. Bánki, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, P. Brando, J. Chave, Á.C. Alves de Oliveira, N. Dávila Cardozo, C.I. Czimczik, T.R. Feldpausch, M.A. Freitas, E. Gloor, N. Higuchi, E. Jiménez, G. Lloyd, P. Meir, C. Mendoza B., A. Morel, D.A. Neill, D. Nepstad, S. Patiño, M.C. Peñuela, A. Prieto, F. Ramírez, M. Schwarz, J. Silva, M. Silveira, A. Sota Thomas, H. ter Steege, J. Stropp, R. Vásquez, P. Zelazowski, E. Alvarez Dávila, S. Andelman, A. Andrade, K.-J. Chao, T. Erwin, A. Di Fiore, E. Honorio C., H. Keeling, T.J. Killeen, W.F. Laurance, A. Peña Cruz, N.C.A. Pitman, P. Núñez Vargas, H. Ramírez-Angulo, A. Rudas, R. Salamão, N. Silva, J. Terborgh, A. Torres-Lezama. 2009. Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science 323: 1344-1347.
- Phillips, O.L., N. Higuchi, S. Vieira, T.R. Baker, K.-J. Chao, & S.L. Lewis. 2009. Changes in Amazon forest biomass, dynamics, and composition 1980-2002. Amazonia and Global Change. M. Keller, J. Gash, P. Silva Dias, eds., American Geophysical Union. Geophysical Monograph 186: 373-387.
- Quesada, C.A., J. Lloyd, M. Schwarz, T.R. Baker, O.L. Phillips, S. Patiño, C. Czimczik, M.G. Hodnett, R. Herrera, A. Arneth, G. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, N. Dezzeo, F.J. Luizão, A.J.B. Santos, J. Schmerler, L. Arroyo, M. Silveira, N. Priante Filho, E.M. Jimenez, R. Paiva, I. Vieira, D.A. Neill, N. Silva, M.C. Peñuela, A. Monteagudo, R. Vásquez, A. Prieto, A. Rudas, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, A.T. Lezama, G. López-González, J. Peacock, N.M. Fyllas, E. Alvarez Dávila, T. Erwin, A. di Fiore, K.J. Chao, E. Honorio, T. Killeen, A. Peña Cruz, N. Pitman, P. Núñez Vargas, R. Salomão, J. Terborgh, and H. Ramírez. 2009. Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties. Biogeosciences Discuss. 6, 3993-4057.
- Saatchi, S., Y. Malhi, B. Zutta, W. Buermann, L.O. Anderson, H. ter Steege, A. M. Araujo, O.L. Phillips, J. Peacock, G Lopez-Gonzalez, T. Baker, L. Arroyo, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, T. Killeen, A. Monteagudo, D. Neill, N. Pitman, A. Prieto, R. Salomão, N. Silva, R. Vásquez Martínez, W.F. Laurance, H. Ramírez. 2009. Mapping landscape scale variations of forest structure, biomass, and productivity in Amazonia. Biogeosciences Discussions 6, 5461-5505.
- ter Steege, H., ATDN (collective author) and RAINFOR (collective author). 2009. Contribution of current and historical processes to patterns of tree diversity and composition of the Amazon. In “Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: a look into the past”. Eds., Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Stropp, J., ter Steege, H., Malhi, Y., ATDN and RAINFOR (collective author). 2009. Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon. Ecography 32: 46-54.
- van der Heijden, G., and Phillips, O.L. 2009. Liana infestation impacts tree growth in a lowland tropical moist forest. Biogeosciences 6: 2217-2226.
- van der Heijden, G., and Phillips, O.L. 2009. Environmental effects on Neotropical liana species richness. J. Biogeography 36: 1561-1572.
2008
- Berry, N.J., Hamer, K.C., Phillips, O.L., Ong, R.C. Impacts of selective logging on trees in Bornean rain forests: the importance of spatial scale. Landscape Ecology 23: 915–929
- Butt, N., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L, New, M. 2008. Floristic and functional affiliations of woody plants with climate in Western Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography 35: 939–950.
- Chao, K.-J., Phillips, O.L., and Baker, T.R. 2008. Wood density and stocks of coarse woody debris in a northwest Amazonian landscape. Canadian Journal of Forestry 38: 795-805.
- Chao, K.-J., Phillips, O.L., Gloor, E., Monteagudo, A., Torres-Lezama, A., Vásquez Martínez, R. 2008. Growth and wood density predicts tree mortality in Amazon forests. Journal of Ecology 96: 281-292.
- Keeling, H., Baker, T.R., Monteagudo, M., Vásquez Martínez, R, and Phillips, O.L. 2008. Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests. Oecologia 158: 521-534.
- Baker, T., Honorio C., E., Phillips, O.L., van der Heijden, G., Martin, J., Garcia, M., Silva Espejo, J. Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a south-western Amazon forest. 2007. Oecologia 152:495-504.
- Fyllas, N., Phillips, O.L., Kunin, W., Matsinos, Y., Troumbis, A. 2007. Development and parameterization of a general forest gap dynamics simulator for the North-Eastern Mediterranean Basin (GREek FOrest Species). Ecological Modelling 204:439-456.
- Keeling, H. and Phillips, O.L. 2007. The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 618–631.
- Keeling, H. and Phillips, O.L. 2007. A calibration method for the crown illumination index for assessing forest light environments. Forest Ecology and Management 242: 431–437.
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., & Baker, T.R. 2007. Impacts of global change on tropical forest structure, dynamics, and composition. In Emerging Threats to Tropical Forests (W.F. Laurance & C. Peres, eds.), Chicago Press, pp. 41-56.
- Parmentier, I., Y. Malhi, B. Senterre, R.J. Whittaker, A.T.D.N., A. Alonso, M.P.B. Balinga, A. Bakayoko, F. Bongers, C. Chatelain, J. Comiskey, R. Corta, M.-N. Djuikouo Kamdem, J.-L. Doucet, L. Gautier, W.D. Hawthorne, Y.A. Issembe, F.N. Kouamé, L.A. Kouka, M.E. Leal, J. Lejoly, S.L. Lewis, D.M. Newbery, L. Nusbaumer, M. Parren, K. S.-H. Peh, O.L. Phillips, L. Poorter, D. Sheil, B. Sonké, M.S.M. Sosef, T.C.H. Sunderland, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, M. D. Swaine, M.G.P. Tchouto, B. S. van Gemerden, J. L.C.H. van Valkenburg, H. Wöll. 2007. The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree a-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? Journal of Ecology 95: 1058–1071.
- Peacock, J, Baker, T., Lewis, S.L., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Phillips, O.L. 2007. The RAINFOR database: monitoring forest biomass and dynamics. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 535-542.
- Phillips, O.L. Drought, dispersal, and distribution in the inner tropics. 2007. Journal of Biogeography 34: 1846-1847.
- Phillips, O.L., S. Rose, A. Monteagudo, P. Núñez Vargas. 2007. Resilience of south-western Amazon forests to anthropogenic edge effects. Conservation Biology 20:1698–1710.
- Phillips, O.L., Vásquez M., R., Monteagudo, A., & T.R. Baker. 2007. Veinte años de cambios en los bosques del sur-oeste de la Amazonia. Revista de la Sociedad Botánica de Cusco, Perú 1: 29-36.
- Weiser, M.D., B.J. Enquist, B. Boyle, T.J. Killeen, P.M. Jorgensen, B. Collantes Meza, G. Fonseca, W. Galiano Sanchez, M. Jennings, A.J. Kerkhoff, T.Lacher, A. Monteagudo, P. Núñez Vargas, O.L. Phillips, R. Vásquez Martinez. 2007. Range size distributions and the latitudinal diversity gradient in new world woody plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:679-688.
2006
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., & Baker, T. 2006. Impacts of global atmospheric change on tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:173-174.
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Malhi, Y., Lloyd, J.J. 2006. Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide. In Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (H.J. Schellnhuber, W.Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T.Wigley, G.Yohe, eds.), pp. 147-153. DEFRA, Cambridge University Press.
- Malhi, Y., Wood, D., Baker, T., Wright, J., Phillips, O.L. et al. 2006. The regional variation of above-ground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology 12:1-32.
- Phillips, O.L., Lewis, S.L., Baker, T.R., and Malhi, Y. 2006. The response of South American tropical forests to contemporary atmospheric change. Pp. 317-332, in Tropical Rain Forest Responses to Climate Change (editors M. Bush, J. Flenley). Springer.
- ter Steege, H., Pitman, N.C.A., Phillips, O.L, Chave, J., Sabatier, D., Duque, A., Molino, J.F., Prévost, M.F., Spichiger, R., Castellanos, H., van Hildebrand, P., & Vásquez, R. 2006. Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia. Nature 443:444-447.
2005
- Bunker, D., De Clerck, F., Bradford, J., Colwell, R., Garden, P., Perfecto, I., Phillips, O.L., Sankaran, M., & Naeem S. 2005. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity loss in a tropical forest. Science 310: 1029-1031.
- Ciais, P., Janssens, I.A., Shvidenko, A., Wirth, C., Malhi, Y., Grace, J., Schulze, E.D., Heimann, M., Phillips, O.L., Dolman, H. 2006. The potential for rising CO2 to account for the observed uptake of carbon by tropical, temperate, and boreal forest biomes. SEB Experimental Biology Series. Griffiths, H.; Jarvis, P.G. (Eds.), The Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes. Garland Science/BIOS Scientific Publishers, London. pp. 109-150.
- Lawrence, A., Phillips, O.L., Reategui, A., López, M., Rose, S., Wood, D. & José Farfan, A. 2005. Local values for harvested forest plants in Madre de Dios, Peru: towards a more contextualised interpretation of quantitative ethnobotanical data. Biodiversity and Conservation 14: 45-79.
- Maslin, M., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., & Cowling, S. 2005. New views on an old forest: assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30: 477-499.
- Phillips, O.L., Vásquez Martínez, R., Monteagudo, A., Baker, T., & Núñez, P. 2005. Large lianas as hyperdynamic elements of the tropical forest canopy. Ecology 86:1250-1258.
- Baker T., Phillips O.L., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Monteagudo, A. Neill, D. A., Vargas, P. N., Pitman, N. C. A., Silva, N. M., Martínez, R. V. 2005. Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots. Pp. 129-142 in, Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
- Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. 2005. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests. Pp. 41-56 in, Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Neill, D., Silva, N., Terborgh, J., Torres Lezama, A., Vásquez M., R., Brown, S., Chave, J., Kuebler, C., Núñez, P., & Vinceti, B. 2005. Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of Amazonian forest plots. Pp. 143-154 in Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
- Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. (Editors) 2005. Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
- Phillips, O.L., T. Baker, L. Arroyo, N. Higuchi, T. Killeen, W.F. Laurance, S.L. Lewis, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, D. Neill, P. Núñez Vargas, N. Silva, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez Martínez, M. Alexiades, S. Almeida, S. Brown, J. Chave, J.A. Comiskey, C.I. Czimczik, A. Di Fiore, T. Erwin, C. Kuebler, S.G. Laurance, H.E.M. Nascimento, J. Olivier, W. Palacios, S. Patiño, N.C.A. Pitman, C.A. Quesada, M. Saldias, A. Torres Lezama, B. Vinceti. Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover. 2005. Pp. 107-128 in Tropical forests and global atmospheric change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
- Phillips, O.L. & Malhi, Y. 2005. Preface. Pp. v-vii in Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press. 260pp.
- Phillips, O.L. & Malhi, Y. 2005. The prospects for tropical forests in the twenty-first century atmosphere. Pp. 215-226 in Tropical forests and global atmospheric change (editors Y. Malhi and O.L. Phillips). Oxford University Press.
2004
- Baker, T., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Di Fiore, A., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Lloyd, J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Patiño, S., Pitman, N. C. A., Silva, N., & Vásquez Martínez, R. 2004. Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass. Global Change Biology 10: 545-562.
- Baker, T., Phillips O.L., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Monteagudo, A. Neill, D. A., Vargas, P. N., Pitman, N. C. A., Silva, N. M., Martínez, R. V. 2004. Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 353-365.
- Harley, P., Vasconcellos, P., Vierling, L., Cleomir de S. Pinheiro, C., Greenberg, J., Guenther, A, Klinger, L., Almeida, S., Neill, D., Baker, T., Phillips, O.L., & Malhi, Y. 2004. Variation in potential for isoprene emissions among Neotropical forest sites. Global Change Biology 10: 630-650.
- Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. 2004. Fingerprinting the impacts of global change on tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 437-462.
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Sheil, D. Vinceti, B., Baker, T., Brown, S., Graham, A.W., Higuchi, N., Hilbert, D.W., Laurance, W., Lejoly, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Nunez Vargas, P., Sonké, B., Surpardi, N., Terborgh, J., Vásquez Martinez, R. 2004. Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation, and comparison when census intervals vary. Journal of Ecology 92: 929-944.
- Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Neill, D., Silva, N., Terborgh, J., Torres Lezama, A., Vásquez M., R., Brown, S., Chave, J., Kuebler, C., Núñez, P., & Vinceti, B. 2004. Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 421-436.
- Malhi, Y., Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., Almeida, S, Alvarez, E., Arroyo, L., Chave, J., Czimczik, C.I., Di Fiore, A., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Laurance, S.G., Laurance, W.F., Lewis, S.L., Mercado, L.M., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Núñez Vargas, P., Patiño, S., Pitman, N.C.A., Alberto Quesada, C., Silva, N., Torres Lezama, A., Vásquez Martínez, R., Terborgh, J., Vinceti, B., & Lloyd, J. 2004. The above-ground coarse woody productivity of 104 neotropical forest plots. Global Change Biology 10: 563-591.
- Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. 2004. Introduction to theme issue “Tropical forests and global atmospheric change”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 309-310.
- Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. 2004. Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 549-555.
- Malhi, Y., & Phillips, O.L. (Editors) 2004. Tropical forests and global atmospheric change. Papers of a theme issue compiled and edited by Y.Malhi and O.L. Phillips. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359, number 1443, pages 205-555.
- Miles, L., Grainger, A., and Phillips, O.L. 2004. The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13: 553-565.
- Phillips, O.L., T.R. Baker, L. Arroyo, N. Higuchi, T. Killeen, W.F. Laurance, S.L. Lewis, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, D. Neill, P. Núñez Vargas, N. Silva, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez Martínez, M. Alexiades, S. Almeida, S. Brown, J. Chave, J.A. Comiskey, C.I. Czimczik, A. Di Fiore, T. Erwin, C. Kuebler, S.G. Laurance, H.E.M. Nascimento, J. Olivier, W. Palacios, S. Patiño, N. Pitman, C.A. Quesada, M. Saldias, A. Torres Lezama, B. Vinceti. 2004. Pattern and process in Amazon forest dynamics, 1976-2001. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 359: 381-407.
- Thomas, C.D., Cameron, A., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.J., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., Ferreira de Siqueira, M., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., S. van Jaarsveld, A., Midgley, G.F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., Phillips, O.L., & Williams, S.E. 2004. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427: 145–148.
- Thomas, C.D., Williams, S.E., Cameron, A., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.J., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., Ferreira de Siqueira, M., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., S. van Jaarsveld, A., Midgley, G.F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., & Phillips, O.L. 2004. Biodiversity conservation: uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/ effects of changes in climate and land use/ climate change and extinction risk (reply). Nature 430 doi:10.1038/nature02719.
2003
- Miles, L., Grainger, A., and Phillips, O.L. 2003. The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia. Pp 11-12 in Global Climate Change and Biodiversity, Edited by R. E. Green, M. Harley, L. Miles, J. Scharlemann, A. Watkinson, O. Watts. Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
- Phillips, O.L., Vásquez Martínez, R., Núñez Vargas, P., Lorenzo Monteagudo, A., Chuspe Zans, M.-E., Galiano Sánchez, W., Peña Cruz, A., Timaná, M., Yli-Halla, M., & Rose, S. 2003. Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19: 629-645.
- Phillips, O.L., Núñez Vargas, P., Lorenzo Monteagudo, A, Peña Cruz, A., Chuspe Zans, M.-E., Galiano Sánchez, W., Yli-Halla, M., & Rose, S. 2003. Habitat association among Amazonian tree species: a landscape-scale approach. Journal of Ecology 91: 757-775.
- ter Steege, H., Pitman, N., Sabatier, D., Castellanos, H., Van Der Hout, P., Daly D.C., Silveira, M., Phillips, O.L., Vasquez, R., Van Andel, T., Duivenvoorden, J., Adalardo De Oliveira, A., Ek, R., Lilwah, R., Thomas, R., Van Essen, J., Baider, C., Maas, P., Mori, S., Terborgh, J., Núñez Vargas, P., Mogollón, H. & Horchler, P.J. 2003. A spatial model of tree a-diversity and -density for the Amazon region. Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 2255-2277.
2002
- Phillips, O.L. & Miller, J. 2002. Global patterns of forest diversity: the dataset of Alwyn H. Gentry. Monographs in Systematic Botany 89. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. 319 pp.
- Phillips, O.L., Vásquez Martínez, R., Arroyo, L., Baker, T.R., Killeen, T., Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Núñez Vargas, P., Alexiades, M., Cerón, C., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Jardim, A., Palacios, W., Saldias, M., & Vinceti, B. 2002. Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests. Nature 418: 770-774.
- Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Almeida, S., Frederiksen, T., Grace, J., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T., Laurance, W.F., Leaño, C., Lloyd, J., Meir, P., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Núñez Vargas, P., Panfil, S., Pitman, N., Rudas-Ll., A., Salomão, R., Saleska, S., Silva, N., Silveira, M., Sombroek, W.G., Valencia, R., Vásquez Martínez, R., Vieira, I., & Vinceti, B. 2002. An international network to understand the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR). Journal of Vegetation Science 13: 439-450.
- Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Vinceti, B., Baker, T., Lewis, S.L., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Núñez V, P., Vásquez M., R., Laurance, S.G., Ferreira, L.V., Stern, M., Brown, S., Grace, J. 2002. Changes in the biomass of tropical forests: evaluating potential biases. Ecological Applications 12: 576-587.
2000
- Phillips, O.L., Núñez V., P., & Vásquez M., R. 2000. Un sumidero de carbón en la Amazonía Peruana. Boletin de la Sociedad Geográfica de Lima 113: 31-44.
- Vásquez, R., & Phillips, O.L. 2000. Floristics, structure, and dynamics of a high diversity forest in Amazonian Peru. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 87: 499-527.
- Vormisto, J., Phillips, O.L., Ruokolainen, K., Tuomisto, H., & Vásquez M., R. 2000. A comparison of small-scale distribution patterns of four plant groups in an Amazonian rainforest. Ecography 23: 349-359.
1998
- Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Nuñez V., P., Vásquez M., R., Laurance, S.G., Ferreira, L.V., Stern, M., Brown, S., & Grace, J. 1998. Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forest: evidence from long-term plots. Science 282:439-442.
- Phillips, O.L., Nuñez V., P., & Timaná, M. 1998. Tree mortality and collecting botanical vouchers in tropical forests. Biotropica 30: 298-305.
- Phillips, O.L. Increasing tree turnover in tropical forests as measured in permanent plots. 1998. In Forest Biodiversity, Research, Monitoring and Modeling (F. Dallmeier & J. Comiskey, eds.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 221-246.
- Phillips, O.L., & Meilleur, B. 1998. Economic potential of the rare and endangered plants of North America. Economic Botany 52:57-67.
1997
- Phillips, O.L., Hall, P., Sawyer, S.A., & Vásquez, R. 1997. Species richness, tropical forest dynamics and sampling: response to Sheil. Oikos 79: 183-187.
- Phillips, O.L. 1997. The changing ecology of tropical forests: the invisible threats. Biodiversity and Conservation 6: 291-311.
- Phillips, O.L., & Sheil, D. 1997. Forest turnover, diversity, and CO2: further comments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 404.
1996
- Phillips, O.L 1996. Long-term environmental change in tropical forests: increasing tree turnover. Environmental Conservation 23: 235-248.
- Phillips, O.L. 1996. Some analytical methods in quantitative ethnobotany. In Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A Field Manual, (M. Alexiades, Ed.), pp. 171-198, New York Botanical Garden, New York, U.S.A.. Advances in Economic Botany, vol.10.
1995
- Ruokolainen, K., Vasquez, R., Phillips, O.L., Ortíz, R., & Rebata, L. 1995. Tree species distributions in Peruvian high diversity rain forests: correlation with edaphic factors and satellite image patterns. In Floristic and Environmental Variation in the Rain Forests of Peruvian Amazonia, (K. Ruokolainen, Ph.D. thesis). Report No. 50, Department of Biology, University of Turku. Turku, Finland.
- Phillips, O.L. 1995. Evaluating turnover in tropical forests. Science 268: 894-895.
- Clinebell, R., Phillips, O.L., Gentry, A.H., Stark, N., & Zuuring, H. 1995. Prediction of tree and liana species richness in Neotropical forests using soil and climatic data. Biodiversity and Conservation 4: 56-90.
1994
- Phillips, O.L., & Gentry, A.H. 1994. Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests. Science 263: 954-958.
- Phillips, O.L., Hall, P., Gentry, A.H., Sawyer, S.A., & Vásquez, R. 1994. Dynamics and species richness of tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 91: 2805-2809.
- Phillips, O.L., Gentry, A.H., Reynel, C., Wilkin, P., & Gálvez Durand B., C. 1994. Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation. Conservation Biology 8: 225-248.
1993
- Phillips, O.L. 1993. The potential for harvesting fruits in tropical rainforests: new data from Amazonian Peru. Biodiversity and Conservation 2: 18-38.
- Phillips, O.L. 1993. Using and conserving the rainforest. Conservation Biology 7: 6-7.
- Phillips, O.L., & Gentry, A.H. 1993. The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru. I: Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique. Economic Botany 47:15-32.
- Phillips, O.L., & Gentry, A.H. 1993. The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru. II: Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany. Economic Botany 47:33-43.
1992
- Phillips, O.L. 1992. Ficus insipida Willd. (Moraceae): ecología e etnobotánica de un antihelmíntico Amazónico. Revista Forestal del Perú 19: 91-95.
1991
- Phillips, O.L. 1991. The ethnobotany and economic botany of tropical vines. In Biology of Vines, (F. Putz and H. Mooney, Eds.), pp. 415-462, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K..
1990
- Phillips, O.L. 1990. Ficus insipida Willd. (Moraceae): ethnobotany and ecology of an Amazonian anthelmintic. Economic Botany 44: 534-536.
Other Scientific Publications/ Reports:
- Rowland, L.M., Kay, G.L., Betts, R.A ., Phillips, O.L., Booth, B.B ,Jones. C.D. 2009. Assessing Amazonian carbon fluxes: a data - model inter-comparison. Hadley Centre Technical Series….
- Cameron, A., Thomas, C.D., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.J., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., Ferreira de Siqueira, M., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., S. van Jaarsveld, A., Midgley, G.F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., Phillips, O.L., & Williams, S.E. 2004. Will climate change catch us off guard? Conservation in Practice 5: 28-29.
- Phillips O.L., Baker, T.B., y Monteagudo, A. 2003. Metodología para el establecimiento y remedición de parcelas permanentes, RAINFOR. Cantua 12:85-93. [Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abada del Cusco].
- Dymond, C., Carver, S., & Phillips, O.L. 2003. Investigating the environmental cause of global wilderness and species richness distributions. In Watson, A., and Sproull, J. (eds.) Seventh World Wliderness Congress symposium: science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values; 2001 November 2-8; Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Proc. RMRS–P-000. Ogden, Utah: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Pp. 231-237.
- Núñez V., P., Phillips, O.L., Vásquez M., R., & Malhi, Y. 2001. Amazonía Peruana – el efecto sumidero. Investigacion y Ciencia 281: 60-63.
- Phillips, O.L., Wood, D., Reategui Ismodes, A., López, M. & José Farfan, A. 1999. Proyecto Biodiversidad y Comunidad: La metodología de las evaluaciónes sociologicas, botanicas y forestales de los recursos del bosque". Instituto para Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
- Phillips, O.L. 1999. An Integrated Approach to Forest Biodiversity Conservation, Assessment and Use. ETFRN News 29:20-21.
- Phillips, O.L. & Sheil, D. 1997. Cross-Cutting Issues in Biodiversity Assessment. Report for Department for International Development (Forest Research Programme).
- Phillips, O.L. & Raven, P.H. 1997. A strategy for sampling neotropical forests. In Neotropical Biodiversity and Conservation (A. Gibson, ed.), University of California Los Angeles. pp. 141-165.
- Healey, J., Phillips, O., Hall, J., Sheil, D., Garwood, N., Gillison, A., Kapos, V., Hawthorne, W., Newton, A. & Argent, G. 1997. Rapid Assessment of Plant Biodiversity – A Discussion Paper. Report for Department for International Development (Forest Research Programme).
- Miller, J., Barkley, T.M., Iltis, H.H., Lewis, W.H., Forero, E., Plotkin, M., Phillips, O.L., Rueda, R., & Raven, P.H. 1996. Alwyn Howard Gentry, 1945-1993: a tribute. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83: 433-460.
- Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Castro, G, Maravia, E. 1996. Identifying Gaps in Botanical Information for Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proceedings of a Workshop, April 7-9 1996, in Washington D.C. (O. Phillips, Contributing regional expert: Amazonia / Orinoco Bioregion). World Wildlife Fund - US, Washington D.C.
- Phillips, O.L., & B. Meilleur. 1996. Economic Potential of the Rare and Endangered Plants of America. Center for Plant Conservation report to the Surdna Foundation. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri.
- Phillips, O.L., & Meilleur, B. 1995. What are our endangered plants worth? Diversity 11:10-11.
- Foster, R., Parker III, T., Gentry, A.H., Emmons, L., Chicchón, A., Schulenberg, T., Rodríguez, L., Lamas, G., Ortega, H., Icochea, J., Phillips, O.L., Wust, W., Romo, M., Alban Castillo, J., Reynel, C., Satter, A., Donahue, P., and Barkley, L. 1994. The Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone of Southeastern Peru: A Biological Assessment. Rapid Assessment Program Working Papers No. 6, Conservation International, Washington D.C..
- Phillips, O.L. 1993. Comparative Valuation of Tropical Forests in Amazonian Peru. Ph.D. thesis, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Journalistic articles and Research Manuals:
- 2010. “Climate Change and the Amazon”, in "The Fragile Forest: inside Brazilian Amazonia", D.K. Bhaskar, pp 113-118, 'International Fine Art Gallery, Augusta, Georgia, USA, pp. 188.
- 2009. Guardian, Response “The threat to the Amazon rainforest should not be overstated”
- Yadvinder Malhi & Oliver Phillips, responding to a front-page report claiming that Amazon forests are doomed to destruction by climate change (and therefore by implication that there is little point to conservation efforts); 7 April 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/07/amazon-rainforest-global-warming
- 2008, 2009, 2010. Several field manuals for tropical forest research, RAINFOR.
- 2004, 2005, 2006. Several field manuals for tropical forest research, Project for Advancement of Networked Science in Amazonia. www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/ecodynamics/panamazonia/res-documents.html
- 2005 Floristic and functional change in Amazon forests. Featured research in Leverhulme Trust Annual Report 2005-6.
- 2005 Unlocking the secrets of the Amazon. University of Leeds Reporter.
- 2000. Analysis: Amazon. Alumni magazine. (January)
- 1993. Librarians of the Peruvian rain forest. People and the Planet. (August)
- 1990. Fruits of the forest. Tropical Fruit Journal. [with A.H. Gentry]
- 1990. Costa Rican rainforests: trees for the people. Forest World.
- 1990. Cooperation needed to save the rainforests. World Wood.
- 1990. The future of Costa Rican rainforests. Timber Trades Journal.
- 1988. Eye-witness for the future. Timber Trades Journal.
- 1987. No Trees - No Life. WWF-UK/ International Centre for Conservation Education tropical rainforest audiovisual for schools. [with P. Steele]
- 1985. New monkey from old. BBC Wildlife (January).
- 1984. Old man of the Amazon. BBC Wildlife (December).
Book Reviews
- Phillips, O.L. 2006. A new look at rainforests. Review of Tropical Rain Forests: an ecological and biogeographical comparison. R. Primack and R. Corlett. Journal of Biogeography 33:188-192.
- Phillips, O.L. 1999. Potential Impacts of Climatic Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems, Ed. A. Markham. Holocene.
- Phillips, O.L. 1998. Land Degradation in the Tropics, Eds. M.J. Eden and J. Parry. Holocene.
- Phillips, O.L. 1998. Dynamics of Tropical Communities: 37th Symposium of the British Ecological Society, Eds. D.M. Newbery, H.H.T. Prins, and N. Brown. Environmental Conservation 25.
- Phillips, O.L. 1996. A Field Guide to the Woody Plants of Northwest South America, A.H. Gentry. Chicago University Press. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12:722.
- Phillips, O.L. 1996. Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Forests: Proceedings of the Neotropical Montane Forest Biodiversity and Conservation Symposium, the New York Botanical Garden, 21-26 June 1993, Eds., Steven P.Churchill, Henrik Balslev, Enrique Forero, and James L. Luteyn. Biodiversity and Conservation xx: xxx-xxx.
- Phillips, O.L. 1996. A tale of biographic diversity. Review of “A Passion for Plants: The Life and Vision of Ghillean Prance”. Times Higher Education Supplement No. 1210, Feb 23, p. 23.
- Phillips, O.L. 1994. Making biodiversity profitable. Review of "Biodiversity Prospecting" by W. Reid et al., Conservation Biology 8: 319-320.
