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My research is focused on four aspects of tropical rain forests:
(1) Amazonian forest regeneration as a function of land use history;
(2) Ephemeral and lasting effects of El Niños, fires, floods & fragmentation;
(3) Adaptive strategies of trees in wood deposition and biomass allocation;
(4) Comparative tropical dynamics -- how many rainforests are there?
Radtke, M.G., C.R.V. da Fonseca, and G.B. Williamson. 2006. Volume as a predictor for biomass: equations for Neotropical Scarabaeidae. Annals of the Entomology Society of America (In press).
Vargas-Rodriguez, Y. L., J.A. Vazquez-G., and G.B. Williamson. 2005. Environmental correlates of tree and seedling-sapling distributions in a Mexican tropical dry forest. Plant Ecology 180:117-134.
Williamson, G.B., M.G. Radtke, and J.L. Deichmann. 2005. How many tropical rain forests? Tropinet 16:1-3.
Williamson, G. B., and K. Ickes. 2002. Mast fruiting and ENSO cycles - Does the cue betray the cause? Oikos 97: 459-461.
Wiemann, M.C., and G.B. Williamson. 2002. Geographic variation in wood specific gravity: Effects of latitude, temperature, and precipitation. Wood and Fiber 34:96-107.
R.C.G. Mesquita, K. Ickes, G. Ganade, and G.B. Williamson. 2001. Alternative successional pathways following deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Journal of Ecology 89:528-537.
Williamson, G.B., and R.C.G. Mesquita. 2001. Effects of fire on rain forest regeneration in the Amazon Basin. Pp. 325-334 in R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., C. Gascon, Tom Lovejoy and R.C.G. Mesquita (eds.) Lessons from Amazonia: The ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Gascon, C., G.B. Williamson, and G.A.B. da Fonseca. 2000. Receding forest edges and vanishing reserves. Science 288:1356-1358.
Williamson, G.B., and F. Costa. 2000. Dispersal of Amazonian trees: Hydrochory in Pentaclethra macroloba. Biotropica 32:548-552.
Williamson, G.B., W.F. Laurance, A.A. Oliveira, P. Delamônica, C. Gascon, T.E. Lovejoy, and L. Pohl. 2000. Amazonian wet forest resistance to the 1997-98 El Niño drought. Conservation Biology 14:1538-1542.