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- 34. McCulloch L.A., Dalling, J.W., Zalamea P-C. In review. Seed permeability: an essential trait for classifying seed dormancy type. Seed Science Research.
- 33. Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Arnold A.E., Kuo V., Delevich C., Davis A.S., Brown T. A., Dalling, J.W. 2023. Decadal survival of tropical pioneer seeds in the soil seed bank is accompanied by fungal infection and dormancy release. Functional Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14476
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- 31. Brenes‐Arguedas T., Arnold A.E., Coley P.D., Spear E.R., Zalamea P-C. 2022. Amazon Forest. In: Global Plant Health Assessment, An international peer‐reviewed evaluation of the state of plant health across ecoregions of the world, and of the effects of plant disease on ecosystem services, pages 176-181. International Society for Plant Pathology. ISBN: 978-91-988233-1-8.
- 30. Zalamea P-C. Sarmiento C., Dalling J.W. In press. Cecropia: a myrmecophytic genus of dioecious pioneer trees. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany.
- 29. Zalamea P-C. In press. Insights on seed defenses and seed dormancy from the trees of Barro Colorado Island. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany.
- 28. Harrington A.H., Sarmiento C., Zalamea P-C., Dalling J.W., Ferrer A., Davis A.S., Arnold A.E. 2022. Acrogenospora terricola sp. nov., a fungal species associated with seeds of pioneer trees in the soil seedbank of a lowland forest in Panama. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 72 (1) doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005558
- 27. Zanne A., … (107 authors), Zalamea P-C. 2022. Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates. Science, 377 (6613), 1440-1444. DOI: 10.1126/science.abo3856
- 26. Treiber E.L., Zalamea P-C., Torres M., Madriñán S., Weiblen G.W. 2022. Molecular Systematics, Species Concepts and Myrmecophytism in Cecropia (Cecropieae: Urticaceae): Insights from Restriction-Site Associated DNA. Systematic Botany.
- 25. Dalling J.W., Cernusak L.A., Chen Y-Y., Slot M., Sarmiento C., Zalamea P-C. 2022. Effect of climate change on regeneration of plants from seeds in tropical wet forests. In: Plant regeneration from seeds: a global warming perspective (eds. Baskin C., Baskin J.) pages: 157-168. Elsevier.
- 24. Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Arnold A.E., Davis A.S., Ferrer A. and Dalling J.W. 2021. Closely related tree species support distinct communities of seed-associated fungi in a lowland tropical forest. Journal of Ecology, 109(4): 1858–1872.
- 23. Ruzi S., Zalamea P-C., Roche D., Achury R., Dalling J.W., Suarez A. 2021. Can variation in seed removal patterns of Neotropical pioneer tree species be explained by local ant community composition? Biotropica, 53(2): 619–631.
- 20. Stump S.M., Sarmiento C., Zalamea P-C., Dalling J.W., Davis A., Shaffer J.P., Arnold A.E. 2019. Colonization of seeds by soilborne fungi: linking seed dormancy-defense syndromes, evolutionary constraints, and fungal traits. In: Seed Endophytes: Biology and Biotechnology (eds. Verma S., White J.) pages: 465 – 481 Springer publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10504-4_22.
- 19. Shaffer J.P., Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Gallery R.E., Dalling J.W., Davis A., Baltrus D.A., Arnold A.E. 2018. Context-dependent and variable effects of endohyphal bacteria on interactions between fungi and seeds. Fungal Ecology, 36: 117-127.
- 18. Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Dalling J.W., Arnold A.E., Davis A.S. 2018. Tropical pioneer seeds have different dormancy-defense syndromes that help them to survive in the soil seed bank. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1451.
- 17. Zalamea P-C., Dalling J.W., Sarmiento C., Arnold A.E., Delevich C., Berhow M.A., Ndobegang A., Gripenberg S., Davis A.S. 2018. Dormancy-defense syndromes and trade-offs between physical and chemical defenses in seeds of pioneer species. Ecology, 99(9): 1988–1998.
- 16. Gripenberg S., Rota J., Kim J., Wright S.J., Garwood N.C., Fricke E.C., Zalamea, P-C., Salminen J-P. 2018. Seed polyphenols in a diverse tropical plant community. Journal of Ecology, 106: 87-100.
- 15. Sarmiento C., Zalamea P-C., Dalling J.W., Davis A.S., Stump S.M., U’Ren J., Arnold A.E. 2017. Soilborne fungi have strong host-affinity and host-specific effects on seed germination and survival in a lowland tropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(43): 11458-11463.
- 14. Turner B.L., Zalamea P-C., Condit R., Winter K., Wright S.J., Dalling J.W. 2017. No evidence that boron influences tree species distributions in lowland tropical forests. New Phytologist, 214 (1): 108-119.
- 13. Ruzi S., Roche D., Zalamea P-C., Robison A., Dalling J.W. 2017. Species identity influences secondary removal of seeds of Neotropical pioneer tree species. Plant Ecology, 218: 983–995.
- 12. Zalamea P-C., Turner B.L., Winter K., Jones F.A., Sarmiento C., Dalling, J.W. 2016. Seedling growth responses to phosphorus reflect adult distribution patterns of tropical trees. New Phytologist, 212 (2): 400-408.
- 11. Shaffer J.P., Sarmiento C., Zalamea P-C., Gallery R.E., Davis A., Baltrus D.A., Arnold A.E. 2016. Diversity, specificity, and phylogenetic relationships of endohyphal bacteria in fungi that inhabit tropical seeds and leaves. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4:116. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00116.
- 10. Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Arnold A.E., Davis A., Dalling J.W. 2015. Do soil microbes and abrasion by soil particles influence persistence and loss of physical dormancy in seeds of tropical pioneers? Frontiers in Plant Science, 5:799. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00799.
- 9. Quintero I., Gonzalez-Caro S., Zalamea P-C., Cadena C. D. 2014. Asynchrony of seasons: genetic differentiation associated with geographic variation in climatic seasonality and reproductive phenology. The American Naturalist, 184(3): 352–363.
- 8. Tiansawat P., Davis A.S., Berhow M.A., Zalamea P-C., Dalling, J.W. 2014. Investment in seed physical defense is associated with species’ light requirement for regeneration and seed persistence: Evidence from Macaranga species in Borneo. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e99691. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099691.
- 7. Zalamea P-C., Sarmiento C., Rodríguez M†., Nicolini E., Stevenson P., Heuret P. 2013. Effect of rainfall seasonality on the growth of Cecropia sciadophylla: intra-annual variation in leaf production and node length. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 29 (4): 361–365. † undergraduate student author.
- 6. Zalamea P-C., Heuret P., Rodríguez M., Berthouly A., Sarmiento C., Nicolini E., Guitet S., Delnatte C., Barthélémy D., Stevenson P. 2012. The genus Cecropia: a biological clock to estimate the age of recent disturbed areas in the Neotropics. PLoS ONE, 7(8): e42643. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042643.
- 5. Letort V, Heuret P., Zalamea P-C., de Reffey P., Nicolini E. 2012. Analyzing the effects of local environment on the source-sink balance of Cecropia sciadophylla: a new methodology based on model inversion. Annals of Forest Science, 69(2): 167–180.
- 4. Webber B.L., Born C., Conn B.J., Hadiah J.T., Zalamea P-C. 2011. What is in a name? That which we call Cecropia peltata by any other name would be as invasive? Plant Ecology & Diversity, 4 (2-3): 289–293.
- 3. Zalamea P-C., Munoz F., Stevenson P., Paine C.E.T., Sarmiento C., Sabatier D., Heuret P. 2011. Continental-scale patterns of Cecropia reproductive phenology: Evidence from herbarium specimens. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1717): 2437–2445.
- 2. Letort V, Heuret P., Zalamea P-C., Nicolini E., de Reffey P. 2009. Analysis of Cecropia sciadophylla morphogenesis based on a sink-source dynamic model. In: Plant Growth Modelling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications (eds. L. Baogou, M. Jaeger & Y. Guo) pp 10-17. IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services, Beijing (CHINA), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3988-1.
- 1. Zalamea P-C., Stevenson P., Madriñán S., Aubert P-M., Heuret P. 2008. Growth pattern and age determination for Cecropia sciadophylla (Urticaceae). American Journal of Botany, 95 (3): 263–271.
