Publications

Journal Articles

Zarin, D.J., M.D. Schulze, E.A. Vidal, M. Lentini. 2007. Beyond reaping the first harvest: What are the objectives of managing Amazonian forests for timber production? Conservation Biology 21:916-925.

*Vasconcelos, S., D. Zarin, M.B.S. Rosa, F.A. Oliveira, C.J.R. Carvalho. 2007. Leaf decomposition in a dry season irrigation experiment in Eastern Amazonian Forest Regrowth. Biotropica 35:593-600.

Broadbent, E.N., D.J. Zarin, G.P. Asner, M. Pena-Claros, A. Cooper, R. Littell. 2006. Recovery of forest structure and spectral properties after selective logging in lowland Bolivia. Ecological Applications 16:1148-1163.

Fortini, L.B., F.G. Rabelo, D. J. Zarin. 2006. Mixed potential for sustainable forest use in the tidal floodplain of the Amazon River. Forest Ecology & Management 231:78-85.

Zarin, D.J., E.A. Davidson, E. Brondizio, I.C.G.Vieira, T. Sá, T. Feldpausch, E.A.G. Schuur, R. Mesquita, E. Moran, P. Delamonica, M.J. Ducey, G.C. Hurtt, C. Salimon, M. Denich. 2005. Legacy of fire slows carbon accumulation in Amazonian forest regrowth. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 3:365-369.

Araújo, M.M., Tucker J.M., Vasconcelos, S.S., Zarin, D.J., Oliveira, W., Sampaio, P.D., Rangel-Vasconcelos, L.G.T., Oliveira, F.D.A., Coelho, R.D.F.R., Aragão, D.V., Miranda, I. 2005. Padrão e processo sucessionais em florestas secundárias de diferentes idades na Amazônia oriental [Successional pattern and process in secondary forests of different ages in the Eastern Amazon]. Ciência Florestal 15:343-357.

Schulze, M., E. Vidal, J. Grogan, J. Zweede, D. Zarin. 2005. Madeiras nobres em perigo: Práticas e leis atuais de manejo florestal não garantem exploração sustentável [High-value timber species in danger: Current forest management practices and laws do not guarantee sustainable harvesting]. Ciência Hoje [Science Today] 36:66-69.

Aragão, D.V., L.B. Fortini, S.S. Mulkey, D.J. Zarin, M.M. Araujo, C.J.R. Carvalho. 2005. Correlation but no causation between leaf nitrogen and maximum assimilation: the role of drought and reproduction in gas exchange in an understory tropical plant Miconia ciliata (Melastomataceaea). American Journal of Botany 92:456-461.

Bryant, D.M., M.J. Ducey, J.C. Innes, T.D. Lee, R.T. Eckert. D.J. Zarin. 2004. Forest community analysis and the point-centered quarter method. Plant Ecology 175:193-203.

Vasconcelos, S.S., D.J. Zarin, M. Capanu, R. Littell, E.A. Davidson, F.Y. Ishida, E.B. Santos, M.M. Araújo, D.V. Aragão, L.G.T. Rangel-Vasconcelos, F.A. Oliveira, W.H. McDowell, C.J.R. Carvalho. 2004. Moisture and substrate availability constrain soil trace gas fluxes in an Eastern Amazonian regrowth forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB2009, doi:10.1029/2003GB002210.

Zarin, D.J., M. Schmink, F.E. Putz, K.A. Kainer and S.K. Jacobson. 2003. Integrated graduate education and research in neotropical forest regions. Journal of Forestry 101(6):31-37.

Coelho, R.F.R., D.J. Zarin, I.S. Miranda and J.M.Tucker. 2003. Análise florística e estrutural de uma floresta em diferentes estagios sucessionais no município de Castanhal, Pará [Floristic and structural analysis of different stages of successional forest in the municipality of Castanhal, Pará]. Acta Amazonica 33:563-582.

Coelho, R.F.R., D.J. Zarin, I.S. Miranda and J.M.Tucker. 2003. Ingresso e mortalidade de uma floresta em diferentes estagios sucessionais no município de Castanhal, Pará [Recruitment and mortality of different stages of successional forest in the municipality of Castanhal, Pará]. Acta Amazonica 33:619-630.

Fortini, L., S. Mulkey, D. Zarin, S. Vasconcelos and C. Carvalho. 2003. Drought constraints on leaf gas exchange by Miconia ciliata (Melastomataceae) in the understory of an Eastern Amazonian regrowth forest. American Journal of Botany 90:1064-1070

Frizano, J., D.R. Vann, A.H. Johnson, C.M. Johnson, I.C.G. Vieira and D.J. Zarin. 2003. Labile phosphorus in soils of forest fallows and primary forest in the Bragantina Region, Brazil. Biotropica 35:2-11.

Battles, J.J., J.J. Armesto, D.R. Vann, D.J. Zarin, J.C. Aravena, C. Pérez, and A.H. Johnson. 2002. Vegetation composition, structure, and biomass of two unpolluted watersheds in the Cordillera de Piuchué, Chiloé Island, Chile. Plant Ecology 158:5-19.

Pereira, V.F.G., R.G. Congalton and D.J. Zarin. 2002. Spatial and temporal analysis of a tidal floodplain landscape – Amapá, Brazil, using geographic information systems and remote sensing. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 68:463-472.

Rabelo, F.G., D.J. Zarin and F.A. Oliveira. 2002. Diversidade, composição florística e distribuição diamétrica do povoamento com DAP => 5 cm na região de estuário no Amapá [Diversity, floristic composition and diameter distribution of stems > 5 cm DBH in the Amapá estuary]. Revista de Ciências Agrárias 37:91-112.

Vann, D.R., A. Joshi, C. Pérez, A.H. Johnson, J. Frizano, D.J. Zarin and J.J. Armesto. 2002. Distribution and cycling of C, N, Ca, Mg, K and P in pristine, old-growth forests in the Cordillera de Piuchué, Chile. Biogeochemistry 60:25-47.

Zarin, D.J. 2001. New directions in tropical forest research – Guest Editorial. Forest Ecology and Management 154:351-352.

Zarin, D.J., M.J. Ducey, J.M. Tucker and W.A. Salas. 2001. Potential biomass accumulation in Amazonian regrowth forests. Ecosystems.4:658-668.

Zarin, D.J., V.F.G. Pereira, H. Raffles, M. Pinedo-Vasquez, F.G. Rabelo and R.G. Congalton. 2001. Landscape changes in tidal floodplains near the mouth of the Amazon River. Forest Ecology and Management 154:383-393.

Francescato, V., M. Scotton, D.J. Zarin, J.C. Innes and D.M. Bryant. 2001. Fifty years of natural revegetation on a landslide in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Botany.79:1477-1485.

Johnson, C.M., I.C.G. Vieira, D.J. Zarin, J. Frizano and A.H. Johnson. 2001. Carbon and nutrient storage in primary and secondary forests in eastern Amazônia. Forest Ecology and Management 147:247-254.
Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D.J. Zarin, K. Coffey, C. Padoch and F. Rabelo. 2001. Post-boom logging in Amazonia. Human Ecology 29:219-239.

Applegate, B.T.S., D.J. Zarin, and F.G. Rabelo. 2000. Log and sawn lumber volume relationships for Calycophyllum spruceanum: A naturally regenerating timber resource from Amazonian tidal floodplain forest, Amapá-Brazil. Revista de Ciências Agrárias 33:87-96.

Johnson, C.M., D.J. Zarin, and A.H. Johnson. 2000. Post-disturbance aboveground biomass accumulation in global secondary forests: Climate, soil texture, and forest type effects. Ecology 81:1395-1401.

Rabelo, F.G., D.J. Zarin, F.C.S. Jardim and F.A. Oliveira. 2000. Regeneração natural de florestas estuarinas na região do Baixo Rio Amazonas, Amapá, Brasil. Revista de Ciências Agrárias 34:129-137.

Chestnut, T.J., D.J. Zarin, W.H. McDowell, and M. Keller. 1999. A nitrogen budget for late-successional hillslope tabonuco forest, Puerto Rico. Biogeochemistry 46:85-108.

Thomas, S.M., A.H. Johnson, J. Frizano, D.R. Vann, D.J. Zarin, and A. Joshi. 1999. Phosphorus fractions in montane forest soils of the Cordillera de Piuchué, Chile: Biogeochemical implications. Plant and Soil 211:139-148.

Zarin, D.J., A.L. Duchesne, and M. Hiraoka. 1998. Shifting cultivation on the tidal floodplains of Amazônia: Impacts on soil nutrient status. Agroforestry Systems 41:307-311.

Zarin, D.J., A.H. Johnson, S.M. Thomas. 1998. Soil organic carbon and nutrient status in old-growth montane coniferous forest watersheds, Isla Chiloé, Chile. Plant and Soil 201:253-260.

Walker, L.R., D.J. Zarin, N. Fetcher, R.W. Myster and A.H. Johnson. 1996. Ecosystem development and plant succession on landslides in the Caribbean. Biotropica 28:566-576.

Zarin, D.J. and A.H. Johnson. 1995. Base saturation, nutrient cation, and organic matter increases during early pedogenesis in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Geoderma 65:317-330.

Zarin, D.J. and A.H. Johnson. 1995. Nutrient accumulation during primary succession in a montane tropical forest, Puerto Rico. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59:1444-1452.

Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D. Zarin, and P. Jipp. 1992. Economic returns from forest conversion in the Peruvian Amazon. Ecological Economics 6:163-173.

Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D. Zarin and P. Jipp. 1990. Land use in the Amazon. Nature 348:397.

Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D. Zarin, P. Jipp and J. Chota-Inuma. 1990. Use-values of tree species in a communal forest reserve in northeast Peru. Conservation Biology 4:405-416.

Zarin, D.J. 1987. Searching for pennies in piles of trash: municipal refuse utilization in the United States, 1870-1930. Environmental Review 11:207-222.

Edited Volumes

Zarin, D.J., J.R.R. Alavalapati, F.E. Putz & M. Schmink, eds. 2004. Working Forests in the Neotropics: Conservation through Sustainable Management? New York: Columbia University Press. (437 pp).

Zarin, D.J., ed. 2001. New Directions in Tropical Forest Research. Forest Ecology and Management (special issue). Vol 154, No. 3 (115 pp).

Book Chapters

Zarin, D.J. 2004. Neotropical working forests: Concepts and realities. Pp 1-12 in Zarin, D.J., J.R.R. Alavalapati, F.E. Putz & M. Schmink, eds. Working Forests in the Neotropics: Conservation through Sustainable Management? New York: Columbia University Press.

Alavalapati, J. and D.J. Zarin. 2004. Tropical working forests – for what and for whom? Pp. 279-289 in Zarin, D.J., J.R.R. Alavalapati, F.E. Putz & M. Schmink, eds. Working Forests in the Neotropics: Conservation through Sustainable Management? New York: Columbia University Press.

Zarin, D.J., G. Huijun and L. Enu-Kwesi. 2002. Guidelines on the assessment of plant species diversity in agricultural landscapes. Pp 57-69 in H. Brookfield, C. Padoch, H. Parson and M. Stocking, eds. Cultivating Biodiversity: The Understanding, Analysis and Use of Agrodiversity. ITDG Publications, London.

Zarin, D.J. 1999. Spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of some Amazonian floodplain soils. Pp. 313-321 in C. Padoch, J.M Ayres, M. Pinedo-Vasquez and A. Henderson, eds. Várzea: Diversity, Development, and Conservation of Amazonia’s Whitewater Floodplains. New York Botanical Garden Press, New York.

Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D. Zarin and P. Jipp. 1995. Local management of forest resources in a rural community in northeast Peru. Pp. 238-249 in T. Nishizawa and J.I. Uitto, eds. The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Changing Environments and their Sustainable Management. United Nations University Press, Tokyo.

Pinedo-Vasquez, M., D. Zarin and P. Jipp. 1992. Community forest and lake reserves in the Peruvian Amazon. Pp. 79-86 in D. Nepstad and S. Schwartzman, eds. Non Timber Products from Tropical Forests: Evaluation of a Conservation and Development Strategy. New York Botanical Garden Press.