Tamara Heartsill Scalley
Research Ecologist
U.S. Forest Service - IITF, Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba
Rio Piedras, PR 00926
United States
Rio Piedras, PR 00926
United States
0000-0003-0550-4147Featured Publications
- Jiaying Zhang, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Rafael L. Bras. 2022. Forest Structure and Composition Are Critical to Hurricane Mortality
- Tamara Heartsill‐Scalley, Todd A. Crowl. 2021. Tropical forest understory riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use
- Jiaying Zhang, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Rafael L. Bras. 2022. Parsing Long-Term Tree Recruitment, Growth, and Mortality to Identify Hurricane Effects on Structural and Compositional Change in a Tropical Forest
- Amelia Merced, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2022. Guía para las Briofitas de Puerto Rico
- Ariel E. Lugo, Oscar J. A. Martínez, Ernesto Medina, Gerardo Aymard, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2020. Novelty in the tropical forests of the 21st century
- Mei Yu, Elsie Rivera-Ocasio, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Daniel Davila-Casanova, Neftalí Rios-López, Qiong Gao. 2019. Landscape-Level Consequences of Rising Sea-Level on Coastal Wetlands: Saltwater Intrusion Drives Displacement and Mortality in the Twenty-First Century
- T. Heartsill Scalley. 2012. Freshwater resources in the insular Caribbean: an environmental perspective
- T. López-Marrero, T. Heartsill-Scalley. 2012. Get up, stand up:environmental situation, threats, and opportunities in the insular Caribbean
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Saara DeWalt, François Korysko, Guy Van Laere, Kasey Jacobs, Seth Panka, Joseph Torres. 2016. Communication from the Information Sharing Working Group: Agreement for Data Sharing Among Caribbean Foresters
- Tania López-Marrero, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Carlos F. Rivera-López, Isabel A. Escalera-García, Mariangelí Echevarría-Ramos. 2019. Broadening Our Understanding of Hurricanes and Forests on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico: Where and What Should We Study Now?
Other Publications
- Coral Matos, Amelia Merced, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley. 2024. Habitat preferences and distribution of some common bryophytes in a tropical forest at the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2023. Caribbean Islands (Springs of the World: Distribution, Ecology, and Conservation Status)
- Virginia Hudspeth, Alberto Pastor, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2023. High-Light Demanding and Rare Tree Species Define Tropical Riparian Tree Communities
- Neftali Rios, Amelia Merced, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Ariel Lugo. 2022. Acta Científica. Edición Especial. Más allá de la resiliencia: Los efectos de los huracanes Irma y María en Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
- Neftalí Ríos, Amelia Merced, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Ariel Lugo. 2022. Acta CientíficaUna Revista Interdisciplinaria de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
- Jiaying Zhang, Rafael L. Bras, Marcos Longo, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2022. The impact of hurricane disturbances on a tropical forest: implementing a palm plant functional type and hurricane disturbance module in ED2-HuDi V1.0
- Sheng-I Yang, Thomas J. Brandeis, Eileen H. Helmer, Michael P. Oatham, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2022. Characterizing height-diameter relationships for Caribbean trees using mixed-effects random forest algorithm
- Jiaying Zhang, Rafael L. Bras, Marcos Longo, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley. 2022. Future Hurricanes Will Increase Palm Abundance and Decrease Aboveground Biomass in a Tropical Forest
- M.C. Leon , Tamara Heartsill Scalley, I. Santiago, W. H. McDowell. 2021. Hydrological Mapping in the Luquillo Experimental Forest: New Local Datum Improves Watershed Ecological Knowledge
- N.M. Soto-Parrilla, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2021. Missing the Trees for the Forest: Post-Hurricane Understory Vegetation in Relation to Spatial Variation
- William H. McDowell, Miguel C. Leon, Michelle D. Shattuck, Jody D. Potter, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Grizelle Gonzalez, James B. Shanley, Adam S. Wymore. 2021. Luquillo Experimental Forest: Catchment science in the montane tropics
- Lawrence E. Stevens, Anwar A. Aly, Sarah M. Arpin, Iva Apostolova, Gail M. Ashley, Paulo Quadri Barba, Jose Barquín, Aude Beauger, Lahcen Benaabidate, Sami Ullah Bhat, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, Marco Cantonati, Teresa M. Carroll, Russell Death, Kathleen A. Dwire, Miguel Fernandes Felippe, Roderick J. Fensham, Alan E. Fryar, Roger Pascual i Garsaball, Vojsava Gjoni, Douglas S. Glazier, Nico Goldscheider, Joseph T. Gurrieri, Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir, Atzalan Rodriguez Guzman, Michal Hájek, Kristian Hassel, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Jaume Solé i Herce, Dirk Hinterlang, Joseph H. Holway, Jari Ilmonen, Jeffrey Jenness, Jutta Kapfer, Ioannis Karaouzas, Robert L. Knight, Agnes-Katharina Kreiling, Christian Herrera Lameli, Jeri D. Ledbetter, Nataly Levine, Melinda D. Lyons, Robert E. Mace, Angeliki Mentzafou, Pierre Marle, Nils Moosdorf, Monica K. Norton, Allan Pentecost, Guillermo García Pérez, Bianca Perla, Abdullah A. Saber, Donald Sada, Stefano Segadelli, Kamilla Skaalsveen, Abraham E. Springer, Susan K. Swanson, Benjamin F. Schwartz, Peter Sprouse, Memory Tekere, Benjamin W. Tobin, Ernest Azwindini Tshibalo, Olivier Voldoire, . 2021. The Ecological Integrity of Spring Ecosystems: A Global Review
- M. R. Willig, L. Woolbright, S. J. Presley, T. D. Schowalter, R. B. Waide, T. Heartsill Scalley, J. K. Zimmerman, G. González, A. E. Lugo. 2019. Populations are not declining and food webs are not collapsing at the Luquillo Experimental Forest
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Gerónimo Mercado. 2019. Sound Circles/Inmersion
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2017. Insights on Forest Structure and Composition from Long-Term Research in the Luquillo Mountains
- John D. Rothlisberger, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Russell F. Thurow. 2017. The role of wild and scenic rivers in the conservation of aquatic biodiversity
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Grizelle Gonzalez. 2016. Introduction: Caribbean forest dynamics and regional forestry initiatives
- Grizelle Gonzalez, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2016. Building a collaborative network to understand regional forest dynamics and advance forestry initiatives in the Caribbean
- H. Manrique-Hernandez, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, M. Barreto-Orta, C. M. Betancourt-Roman, J. R. Ortiz-Zayas. 2016. Assessing restoration outcomes in light of succession: management implications for tropical riparian forest restoration
- A.E. Lugo, T. Heartsill Scalley. 2014. Research in the Luquillo Experimental Forest has advanced understanding of tropical forests and resolved management issues
- M. Pfeifer, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2014. BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Tania del M. Lopez-Marrero. 2014. Land-cover composition, water resources and land management in the watersheds of the Luquillo Mountains, northeastern Puerto Rico.
- G. E. Ponce Campos, M. S. Moran, A. Huete, Y. Zhang, C. Bresloff, T.E. Huxman, D. Eamus, D. D. Bosch, A. R. Buda, S. A. Gunter, T. Heartsill Scalley, S. G. Kitchen, M. P. McClaran, W. H. McNab, D. S. Montoya, J. A. Morgan, D. P. C. Peters, E. J. Sadler, M. S. Seyfried, P. J. Starks. 2013. Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions
- Nancy L. Harris, Ariel E. Lugo, Sandra Brown, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley. 2012. Luquillo Experimental Forest: Research History and Opportunities
- James M. Vose, Chelcy R. Ford, Stephanie Laseter, Salli Dymond, Ge Sun, Mary Beth Adams, Stephen Sebestyen, John Campbell, Charlie Luce, Devendra Amatya, Kelly Elder, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2012. Can forest watershed management mitigate climate change effects on water resources
- T. Heartsill Scalley, F.N. Scatena, S. Moya, A.E. Lugo. 2012. Long-term dynamics of organic matter and elements exported as coarse particulates from two Caribbean montane watersheds
- T. M. López Marrero, K. Yamane, T. Heartsill Scalley, N. Villanueva Colón. 2012. Cartographic essay: the various shapes of the insular Caribbean: population and environment
- E. López Machado, K. Soto Hidalgo, T. Heartsill-Scalley. 2012. Composición y estructura de un bosque tropical urbano en el karso norteno de Puerto Rico
- James M. Vose, Chelcy R. Ford, Stephanie Laseter, Salli Dymond, GE Sun, Mary Beth Adams, Stephen Sebestyen, John Campbell, Charles Luce, Devendra Amatya, Kelly Elder, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley. 2012. Can forest watershed management mitigate climate change impacts on water resources?
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2012. Vegetation
- Alejandro A. Royo, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Samuel Moya, Fred N. Scatena. 2011. Non-arborescent vegetation trajectories following repeated hurricane disturbance: ephemeral versus enduring responses
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Frederick N. Scatena, Ariel E. Lugo, Samuel Moya, Carlos R. Estrada Ruiz. 2010. Changes in structure, composition, and nutrients during 15 years of hurricane-induced succession in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico
- Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Todd A. Crowl, Jill Thompson. 2009. Tree species distributions in relation to stream distance in mid-montane wet forest, Puerto Rico
- Rachel Pérez, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2008. Root nodulation in the wetland tree Pterocarpus officinalis along coastal and montane systems of Northeast of Puerto Rico
- Tamara Heartsill Scalley, F.N. Scatena, C. Estrada Ruiz, W.H. McDowell, Ariel Lugo. 2007. Disturbance and long-term patterns of rainfall and throughfall nutrient fluxes in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico
- Todd A. Crowl, Vanessa Welsh, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2006. Effects of different types of conditioning on rates of leaf-litter shredding by Xiphocaris elongata, a Neotropical freshwater shrimp.
- Alan P. Covich, Todd A. Crowl, Tamara Heartsill Scalley. 2006. Effects of drought and hurricane disturbances on headwater distributions of palaemonid river shrimp (Macrobrachium spp.) in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico.
- Tamara Heartsill, Carlos R. Estrada Ruiz, Samuel Moya. 2006. Patrones de lluvia, transcolación y flujo de nutrientes en las cuencas de Bisley, Bosque Experimental de Luquillo, Puerto Rico
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