Publications

   
Delgado, D. L., J. Figueroa and C. Restrepo. 2016. Using multiple traits to assess the potential of introduced and native species to proliferate in a tropical region. Ecology and Evolutiony. URL

 

McAdams, B. C., A. M. Trierweiler, S. A. Welch, C. Restrepo, and A. E. Carey. 2015. Two sides to every range: Orographic influences on CO2 consumption by silicate weathering. Applied Geochemistry. pdf

   
Monmany, A.C., M. Yu, C. Restrepo and J. K. Zimmerman. 2015. How are landscape complexity and vegetation structure related across an agricultural fronier in the subtropical Chaco, NW Argentina? Journal of Arid Environments. pdf

 


Xu, L. E. J. Bedrick, T. Hanson, and C. Restrepo. 2014. A comparison of statistical tools for identifying modality in body mass distributions. Journal of Data Science 12: 175-196. pdf

   
Sutton, L. and and C. Restrepo. 2013. Natural hazards, diverse economy and livelihoods in the Sierra de Las Minas, Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography 12: 137-164. pdf
 

Delgado, D. L., M. E. Perez, A. Galindo-Cardona, T. Giray, and C. Restrepo. 2012. Forecasting the influence of climate change on agroecosystem services: Potential impacts on honey yields in a small-island developing state. Psyche. doi:10.1155/2012/951215. pdf



 

 

Ramos-Scharron, C., E. Castellanos, and C. Restrepo. 2012. The role of shallow landslides in the downslope transfer of organic matter and its implications on the residence time of carbon in a tropical mountain system. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 117, G03016. doi:10.1029/2011JG001838. pdf request

   
Xu, L., T. Hanson, E. Bedrick, and C. Restrepo. 2010. Hypothesis tests on mixture model components with application to ecological and agricultural data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 15:308-326. pdf


 
Restrepo, C., L. Walker, A. Shiels, R. Bussman, L. Claessens, S. Fisch, P. Lozano, G. Negi, L. Paolini, G. Poveda, C. Ramos-Scharron, M. Richter, E. Velazquez. 2009. Landsliding and its multi-scale influence on mountainscapes.
BioScience. 59:1-14. pdf

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Restrepo, C. and N. Arango. 2008. Discontinuities in the Geographical Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies: A Biogeographical Test of the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis. Pages 101-135 in C. Allen, G. Peterson, and C. S. Holling (eds.). Cross-scale Structure and Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, US. pdf

   
Delgado-Acevedo, J. and C. Restrepo. 2008. The effect of habitat loss on body size, allometry, and bilateral asymmetry in two Eleutherodactylus species of Puerto Rico. Conservation Biology 22:773-782. Doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00930.x. pdf

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Allen, A., B. T. Milne, W. Pockman, A. Tyler, and C. Restrepo. 2008. Allometry, growth, and population regulation of the desert shrub Larrea tridentata. Functional Ecology 22:197-204. pdf

   
Acevedo, M. and C. Restrepo. 2008. Land-use change and the large-scale organization of bird assemblages in the island of Puerto Rico. Diversity and Distributions 14:114-122. pdf

   
Cuervo, A. and C. Restrepo. 2007. Assemblage and population-level consequences of forest fragmentation on bilateral asymmetry in tropical montane birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92:119-133.pdf

   
Allen C. R., A. S. Garmestani, T. D. Havlicek, P. A. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. A. Stowe, B. Weeks. 2006. Keystone processes and ecological organization: Evaluating alternative explanations for patters in body size distribution. Ecological Letters 9:630-643. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and N. Alvarez. 2006. Landslides and their impact on land-cover in the mountains of Mexico and Central America. Biotropica 38:446-457. pdf

   
Restrepo, C., P. Vitousek, and P. Neville. 2003. Landslides significantly alter land cover and the distribution of biomass: An example from the Ninole ridges of Hawai’i. Plant Ecology 166:131-143. pdf

   
Milne, B. T., V. K. Gupta, and C. Restrepo. 2002. A scale invariant infiltration law that couples plants, water, and energy. EcoScience 9:191-199. pdf

   
Brown, J. H., V. K. Gupta, B-L. Li, B. T. Milne, C. Restrepo, and G. B. West. 2002. The fractal nature of nature: Power laws, ecological complexity, and biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 357:619-629. pdf

   
Restrepo, C., S. Sargent, D. Levey, and D. Watson. 2002 The role of vertebrates in the diversification of New World mistletoes. Pages 83-98, in D. J. Levey, W. R. Silva, and M. Galetti, eds. Seed Dispersal and Frugivory: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. 2002. Frugivoria: Mucho mas que un habito alimenticio/Frugivory: More than a feeding habit. in M. Guariguata and G. Kattan, editors. Tropical Ecology. CATIE, Costa Rica. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and P. Vitousek. 2001. Landslides, alien species, and the diversity of a Hawaiian montane mesic ecosystem. Biotropica 33:409-420. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and A. Vargas. 1999. The influence of treefall gaps and anthropogenic edges on seed germination and seedling growth of two understory Neotropical shrubs. Oecologia 119:419-426. pdf

   
Restrepo, C., N. Gomez, and S. Heredia. 1999. Anthropogenic edges, treefall gaps, and fruit-frugivore interactions in a Neotropical montane forest. Ecology 80:668-685. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and N. Gomez. 1998. Responses of understory birds to anthropogenic edges in a Neotropical cloud forest. Ecological Applications 8:170-183. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and M. Mondragon. 1998. Cooperative breeding in the frugivorous Toucan Barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus: Capitoninae: Ramphastidae). The Auk 115:4-15. pdf

   
Restrepo, C., L. M. Renjifo, and P. Marples. 1997. Frugivorous birds in fragmented Neotropical montane forests: Landscape pattern and body mass distribution. Pages 171-189, in W.F. Laurance and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., editors. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. pdf

   
Laurence, W. F., R. O. Bierregaard Jr., C. Gascon, R. K. Dirham, A. P. Smith, A. J. Lynam, V. M. Viana, T. E. Lovejoy, K. E. Sieving, J. W. Sites Jr., M. Andersen, M. D. Tocher, E. Kramer, C. Restrepo, and C. Moritz. 1997. Tropical forest fragmentation: Synthesis of a diverse and dynamic discipline. Pages 502-514, in W.F. Laurance and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., editors. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

   
Bierregaard, R. O. Jr., W. F. Laurance, J. W. Sites Jr., A. J. Lynam, R. K. Dirham, M. Andersen, C. Gascon, M. D. Tocher, A. P. Smith, V. M. Viana, T. E. Lovejoy, K. E. Sieving, E. A. Kramer, C. Restrepo, and C. Mortiz. T. 1997. Key priorities for the study of fragmented tropical ecosystems. Pates 515-526, in W.F. Laurance and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., editors. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

   
Martinez del Rio, C. and C. Restrepo. 1993. Ecological and behavioral consequences of digestion in frugivorous animals. Vegetatio 107/108:205-206.

   
Restrepo, C. y A. Duque. 1992. Plant communities of the Llano de Paletara paramo, Cordillera Central, Colombia. Caldasia 17:21-34.

   
Restrepo, C. y L. G. Naranjo. 1992. Changes in the distribution of aquatic ecosystems and birds in the Valle del Cauca, Colombia, between 1950-1980. Proceedings of the III Neotropical Ornithological Congress, Cali, Colombia.

   
Restrepo, C. 1987. Seed dispersal of five species of mistletoes by birds. Humboldtia 1: 6-16. pdf

   
Restrepo, C. and A. S. H. Breure. 1987. Drymaeus zingarensis, a new land-snail from Colombia (Gasteropoda: Pulmonata: Bulimulidae). Basteria 51:141-144.

   
Kattan, G., C. Restrepo y M. Giraldo. 1984. Structure and composition of a tropical cloud forest in the Cordillera Occidental, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Cespedesia 13:23-43. (in spanish)

   
Restrepo, C., M.Giraldo y F. J. Borrero. 1983. Land-snails of the interandean Cauca dry forest. Cespedesia 12:111-124. (in spanish)

   
     
Outreach

   
Restrepo, C. , P. Salaman, y Andres Cuervo. 2002. Pipreola chlorolepidota. En: Renjifo, L. M., A. M. Franco-Maya, J. D. Amaya-Espinel, G. Kattan y B. Lopez-Lanus (eds.). 2002. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia. Serie Libros Rojos de Especies Amenazadas de Colombia. Instituto de Investigacion de Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt y Ministerio del Medio Ambiente. Bogota, Colombia.










Restrepo, C. 1993. La region colombiana del Choco: Un mundo por descubrir, un mundo para preservar. Paginas 811-815, in P. Leyva, editor. Colombia: Pacifico. Fondo FEN, Bogota, Colombia. online

   
Restrepo, C. and M. Mondragon. 1988. The Toucan Barbet Semnornis ramphastinus, a threatened bird species. Trochilus 9:116-117. (in German)

   

 

 
 

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