Publications

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

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

29. Marcilio-Silva, V., Donovan, S., Hobbie, S.E., Guzmán, J.A., Knight, J.F., Cavender-Bares, J. In press. Integrating remote sensing and field inventories to understand determinants of urban forest diversity and structure. Ecology.

28. 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.

27. 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.

26. 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.

25. Pinto-Ledezma J.N., Schweiger A.K., Guzmán J.A., Cavender-Bares J. (2025). Plant diversity across dimensions: coupling biodiversity measures from the ground and the sky. Science Advances. 11: eadr0278. Link

24. 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

23. 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

22. 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

21. 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

20. 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

19. 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

18. 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

17. 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

16. 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

15. 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

14. 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

13. 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

12. 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

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

10. 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

9. 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

8. 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

7. 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

6. 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

5. 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

4. 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

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

2. 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

Manuscripts under consideration and in preparation

• Hernández-Leal, MS., Guzmán, JA., González-Rodríguez A., Cavender-Bares J. Phenotypes in phylogeography: employing foliar spectral signatures to unravel the contribution of local adaptation in the diversification of live oaks (Quercus subsection Virentes). Manuscript in review.

• White, D.M., Cavender-Bares J., Davis C.C., Guzmán J.A., Kothari S., Robles J.M., Meireles J.E. Seeing herbaria in a new light: leaf reflectance spectroscopy unlocks predictive trait and classification modeling in plant biodiversity collections. Manuscript in review.

• Guzmán, JA., Knott J., Pinto-Ledezma J.N., Townsend P.A., Cavender-Bares. Mapping dimensions of forest diversity at sub-continental scale. Manuscript in prep.