Hi, I'm Antonio 👋

A dreamer with a Ph.D. in ecology-remote sensing

J. Antonio Guzmán Q.

Hi, I'm Antonio 👋

A dreamer with a Ph.D. in ecology-remote sensing

Publications

Below you will find a list of my publications. For more details take a look at my CV or my GoogleScholar profile.


  1. Guzmán, J.A., Park MH., Williams LJ., Cavender-Bares J. In press. Seasonal structural stability promoted by forest diversity and composition explains overyielding. Ecology.

  1. Pinto-Ledezma J.N., Schweiger A.K., Guzmán J.A., Cavender-Bares J. In press. Plant diversity across dimensions: coupling biodiversity measures from the ground and the sky. Science Advances.

  1. Visser M.D., Detto M., Meunier F., Wu J., Foster J., Marvin D.C., Bongalov B., Nunes M.H., Coomes D., Verbeeck H., Guzmán J.A., Sanchez-Azofeifa A., Chandler C.J., van der Heijden G., Boyd D.S., Foody G.M., Cutler M., Broadbent E.N., Serbin S.S., Schnitzer S., Rodríguez-Ronderos M.E., Pacala S. In press. When can we detect lianas from space? Towards a mechanistic understanding of liana-infested forest optics. Ecology.

  1. Williams L.J., Kovach K.R., Guzmán JA., Stefanski A., Bermudez R., Butler E.E., Coq—Etchegaray D., Glenn-Stone C., Hajek P., Klama J., Medlyn B.E., Messier C., Moradi A., Paquette A., Park M.H., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Townsend P.A., Reich P.B., Cavender-Bares J., Schuman M.C. In press. Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests. Ecology.

  1. Stefanski, A., Butler EE., Williams LJ., Bermudez R., Guzmán J.A., Larson A., Townsend PA., Montgomery R., Cavender-Bares J., Reich PB. In press. All the light we cannot see: Climate change leaves short and long-lasting signatures in spectral reflectance of trees. Ecology.

  1. Cavender-Bares, J., Grossman, J.J., Guzmán, J.A., Hobbie, S.E., Kaproth, M.A., Kothari, S., Lapadat, C.N., Montgomery, R. A., Park, M. (2024). Forest and Biodiversity 2: A tree diversity experiment to understand the consequences of multiple dimensions of diversity and composition for long-term ecosystem function and resilience. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15:2400–2414. Link

  1. Sapes, G., Schroeder, L., Scott, A., Clark, I., Juzwik, J., Montgomery, R.A., Guzmán, J.A., Cavender-Bares, J. (2024). Mechanistic links between physiology and spectral reflectance enable previsual detection of oak wilt and drought stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121: e2316164121. Link

  1. Guzmán, J.A., Hamann, H.F., Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G.A. (2024). Multi-decadal trends of low clouds at the Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Ecological Indicators. 158: 111599. Link

  1. Guzmán, J.A., Pinto-Ledezma, J.N., Frantz, D., Townsend, P.A., Juzwik, J., Cavender-Bares, J. (2023). Mapping oak wilt disease from space using land surface phenology. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 298: 113794. Link

  1. Meunier, F., Visser, M.D., Shiklomanov, A., Dietze, M.C., Guzmán, J.A., Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., De Deurwaerder, H.P.T., Krishna Moorthy, S.M., Schnitzer, S.A., Marvin, D.C., Longo, M., Liu, C., Broadbent, E.N., Almeyda Zambrano, A.M., Muller-Landau, H.C., Detto, M., & Verbeeck, H. (2021). Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity. Global Change Biology. 28: 227-244. Link

  1. Harrison, D, Guzmán, JA., Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G.A. (2021). Leaf anatomical traits of lianas and trees at the canopy of two contrasting lowland tropical forests in the context of leaf economic spectrum. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4: 720813. Link

  1. Guzmán, JA., Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G.A. (2021). Prediction of leaf traits of lianas and trees via the integration of wavelet spectra in the visible-near infrared and thermal infrared domains. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 259: 112406. PDF

  1. Stan, K., Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G.A., Duran, S., Guzmán, JA., Hesketh, M,, Laakso, K., Portillo-Quintero, C., Rankine, C., Dotterl, S. (2021). Tropical Dry Forest resilience and Water Use Efficiency: an analysis of productivity under climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 16: 054027. Link

  1. Guzmán, JA., Sharp, I., Alencastro, F., Sánchez‐Azofeifa, G.A. (2020). On the relationship of fractal geometry and tree‐stand metrics on point clouds derived from Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 1309-1318. PDF

  1. Yuan, Xu., Laakso, K., Davis, CD., Guzmán, JA., Meng, Q., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA. (2020). Monitoring the Water Stress of an Indoor Living Wall System Using the “Triangle Method”. Sensors, 20: 3261. Link

  1. Guzmán, JA., Laakso, K., López-Rodríguez, J., Rivard, B., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA. (2020). Using visible-near-infrared spectroscopy to classify lichens at a Neotropical Dry Forest. Ecological Indicators, 111: 105999. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA., Espírito-Santo, MM. (2019). MODIS and PROBA-V NDVI products differ when compared with observations from phenological towers at four tropical dry forests in the Americas. Remote Sensing, 11: 2316. Link

  1. Guzmán, JA., Rivard, B., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA. (2018). Discrimination of liana and tree leaves from a Neotropical Dry Forest using visible-near infrared and longwave infrared reflectance spectra. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 219: 135-144. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA., Rivard, B. (2018). Differences in leaf temperature between lianas and trees in the Neotropical canopy. Forest. 9: 307. PDF

  1. Rankine, C., Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA., Guzmán, JA., Espirito Santo, M., Sharp, I. (2017). Comparing MODIS and Near-Surface Vegetation Indexes for monitoring tropical dry forest phenology along a successional gradient using optical phenology towers. Environmental Research Letters. 12: 105007. PDF

  1. Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA, Guzmán, JA., Campos, CA, Castro, S., Garcia-Millan, V., Nightingale, J, Rankine, C. (2017). Twenty-first century remote sensing technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forests. Biotropica. 49: 604-619. PDF

  1. Sánchez-Azofeifa, GA., Guzmán, JA., Vega-Araya, M., Campos-Vargas, C., Durán, S., D’Souzaa, N., Gianoli, T., Portillo-Quintero, C., Sharp, I. (2017). Can Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and hemispherical photographs predict Tropical Dry Forest Succession with liana abundance?. Biogeosciences. 14: 977-988. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Cordero, RA. (2016). Neighborhood structure and light availability influence the variations in plant design of shrubs in two cloud forests of different successional status. Annals of Botany. 118: 23-24. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Cordero, RA. (2016). Neighborhood structure influences the convergence in light capture efficiency and carbon gain: An architectural approach for cloud forest shrubs. Tree Physiology. 36: 712-724. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Cordero, RA., Corea, E. (2016). Biomass allocation and gas exchange are affected by light conditions in endangered Cedrela salvadorensis (Meliaceae) seedlings. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. 64: 1143-1154. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Vega, H. (2015). Is forest cover conserved and restored by protected areas?: The case of two wild protected areas in the Central Pacific of Costa Rica. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. 63: 579-590. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA. (2015). Ecological advantage of the leaf heteroblasty traits in Costus pulverulentus (Costaceae). Botany. 93: 151-158. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Rodríguez-Corrales, A. (2014). Efecto de la regeneración del bosque nuboso sobre la morfología floral y polinización del arbusto heterostílico Palicourea padifolia (Rubiaceae). Cuadernos de Investigacion UNED. 6: 197-204. PDF

  1. Guzmán, JA., Cordero, RA. (2013). Growth and photosynthetic performance of five tree seedlings species in response to natural light regimes from the Central Pacific of Costa Rica. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation. 3: 1433-1444. PDF

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