2025

Cinoğlu, D, N Rüger, RR Decker, and CE Farrior. Small disturbances and subsequent competition for light can maintain a diversity of demographic strategies in a neotropical forest: Results from model–data integration. Journal of Ecology Publisher's Version PDF.

2024

Lichstein, JW, T Zhang, E Weng, CE Farrior, R Dybzinski, S Malyshev, E Shevliakova, RA Birdsey, SW Pacala. Effects of water limitation and competition on tree carbon allocation in an Earth system modelling framework. Journal of Ecology 112(11):2522-2539. Publisher's Version

Schorn, ME, S Kambach, RL Chazdon, D Craven, CE Farrior, JA Meave, R Muñoz, M Van Breugel, L Amissah, F Bongers, B Hérault, CC Jakovac, N Norden, L Poorter, MT van der Sande, C Wirth, Diego Delgado, DH Dent, SJ DeWalt, JM Dupuy, B Finegan, JS Hall, JL Hernández-Stefanoni, OR Lopez, and N Rüger. Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities. Ecology 105(7)e4321. Publisher's Version

Van Breugel, M, F Bongers, N Norden, JA Meave, L Amissah, W Chanthorn, R Chazdon, D Craven, C Farrior, JS Hall, B Hérault, C Jakovac, E Lebrija-Trejos, M Martínez-Ramos, R Muñoz, L Poorter, N Rüger, M van Der Sande, DH Dent. Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework. Biological Reviews 99(3):928-949. Publisher's Version

2023

Francis EJ, Lutz JA, Farrior CE. Elevated mortality rates of large trees allow for increased frequency of intermediate trees: A hypothesis supported by demographic model comparison with plot and LiDAR data. Forest Ecology and Management 540:121035. Publisher's Version

Ohse B, Compagnoni A, Farrior CE, McMahon SM, Salguero-Gómez R, Rüger N, Knight TM. Demographic synthesis for global tree species conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 3115:12. Publisher's Version

Mueller, UG, AG Himler, and CE Farrior. Life history, nest longevity, sex ratio, and nest architecture of the fungus-growing ant Mycetosoritis hartmanni (Formicidae: Attina). PLOS One 18(7):e0289146. Publisher's Version

Rüger, N, ME Schorn, S Kambach, RL Chazdon, CE Farrior, JA Meave, R Muñoz, M Van Breugel, L Amissah, F Bongers, D Craven, B Hérault, CC Jakovac, N Norden, L Poorter, MT van der Sande, C Wirth, D Delgado, DH Dent, SJ DeWalt, JM Dupuy, B Finegan, JS Hall, JL Hernández-Stefanoni, and OR Lopez. Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(6):1002-1014. Publisher's Version

2022

Weng E, Aleinov I, Singh R, Puma MJ, McDermid SS, Kiang NY, Kelley M, et al. Modeling demographic-driven vegetation dynamics and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling in NASA GISS's Earth system model (ModelE-BiomeE v.1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 15(22):8153-8180. Publisher's Version

2021

Poorter L, Craven D, Jakovac CC, van der Sande MT, Amissah L, Bongers F, Chazdon RL, Farrior CE, et al. Multidimensional tropical forest recovery. Science 374(6573):1370-1376. Publisher's Version

Rakowski CJ, Farrior CE, Manning SR, Leibold MA. Predator complementarity dampens variability of phytoplankton biomass in a diversity–stability trophic cascade. Ecology :e03534. Publisher's Version

Crawford MS, Barry KE, Clark AT, Farrior CE, Hines J, Ladouceur E, Lichstein JW, Marechaux I, May F, Mori AS, et al. The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters 24(9):1762-1775. Publisher's Version

Northup AP, Keitt TH, Farrior CE. Cavitation-resistant junipers cease transpiration earlier than cavitation-vulnerable oaks under summer dry conditions. Ecohydrology :e2337. Publisher's Version

Phillips ZI, Reding L, Farrior CE. The early life of a leaf-cutter ant colony constrains symbiotic vertical transmission and favors horizontal transmission. Ecology and Evolution 11:11718-11729. Publisher's Version

Reiskind MOB, Moody ML, Bolnick DI, Hanifin CT, Farrior CE. Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of biology. Bioscience 71(4):370-38. Publisher's Version

2020

Lu Y, Duursma RA, Farrior CE, Medlyn BE, Feng X. Optimal stomatal drought response shaped by competition for water and hydraulic risk can explain plant trait covariation. New Phytologist 225(3):1206-1217. Publisher's Version

Ruger N, Condit R, Dent DH, DeWalt SJ, Hubbell SP, Lichstein JW, Lopez OR, Wirth C, Farrior CE. Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics. Science 368(6487):165-168. Publisher's Version

Franklin O, Harrison SP, Dewar R, Farrior CE, Brannstrom A, Dieckmann U, Pietsch S, Falster D, et al. Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics. Nature Plants 6:444-453. Publisher's Version

2019

Weng, Dybzinski, Farrior, Pacala. Competition alters predicted forest carbon cycle responses to nitrogen availability and elevated CO2: simulations using an explicitly competitive, game-theoretic vegetation demographic model. Biogeosciences 16:4577-4599. Publisher's Version

Farrior. Theory predicts plants grow roots to compete with only their closest neighbours. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286(1912):20191129. Publisher's Version

Lu, Duursma, Farrior, Medlyn, Feng. Optimal stomatal drought response shaped by competition for water and hydraulic risk can explain plant trait covariation. New Phytologist 10.1111/nph.16207. Publisher's Version

Beckage, Bucini, Gross, Platt, Higgins, Fowler, Slocum, Farrior. Water limitation, fire, and savanna persistence: A conceptual model. Savanna woody plants and large herbivores 643-659. Publisher's Version

Dybzinski, Kelvakis, McCabe, Panock, Anuchitlertchon, Vasarhelyi, McCormack, McNickle, Poorter, Trinder, et al. How are nitrogen availability, fine‐root mass, and nitrogen uptake related empirically? Implications for models and theory. Global Change Biology 25(3):885-899. Publisher's Version

2018

Fisher, Koven, Anderegg, Christoffersen, Dietz, Farrior, Holm, Hurtt, et al. Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities. Global Change Biology 24(1):35-54. Publisher's Version

2016

Weng E, Farrior CE, Dybzinski R, Pacala SW. Predicting vegetation type through physiological and environmental interactions with leaf traits: evergreen and deciduous forests in an earth system modeling framework. Global Change Biology Publisher's Version

Farrior CE, Bohlman SA, Hubbell S, Pacala SW. Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests. Science 351(6269):155-157. Publisher's Version Simulation code supplement

2015

Farrior CE, Rodriguez-Iturbe I, Dybzinski R, Levin SA, Pacala SW. Decreased water limitation under elevated CO2 amplifies potential for forest carbon sinks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201506262. PDF.

Dybzinski R, Farrior CE, Pacala SW. Increased forest carbon storage with increased atmospheric CO2 despite nitrogen limitation: a game-theoretic allocation model for trees in competition for nitrogen and light. Global Change Biology 21:1182–1196. PDF.

Weng ES, Malyshev S, Lichstein JW, Farrior CE, Dybzinski R, Zhang T, Shevliakova E, Pacala SW. Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition. Biogeosciences 12: 2655–2694. PDF

2014

Farrior CE. Competitive optimization models, attempting to understand the diversity of life. New Phytologist 203: 1025–1027. PDF.

2013

Farrior CE, Dybzinski R, Levin SA, Pacala SW. Competition for water and light in closed-canopy forests: a tractable model of carbon allocation with implications for carbon sinks. The American Naturalist 181: 314–330. PDF.

Dybzinski R, Farrior CE, Ollinger S, Pacala SW. Interspecific vs intraspecific patterns in leaf nitrogen of forest trees across nitrogen availability gradients. New Phytologist 200: 112–121. PDF.

Farrior CE, Tilman D, Dybzinski R, Reich PB, Levin SA, Pacala SW. Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions. Ecology 94: 2505–2517. PDF.

2011

Dybzinski R, Farrior CE, Wolf A, Reich PB, Pacala SW. Evolutionarily stable strategy carbon allocation to foliage, wood, and fine roots in trees competing for light and nitrogen: an analytically tractable, individual-based model and quantitative comparisons to data. The American Naturalist 177: 153–166. PDF.