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Hans ter Steege
Ph.D. Utrecht University 1993.
Associate Professor ‘Plant Ecology and Biodiversity’
Dept. of Plant Ecology and Biodiversity
Went Building, Room Z437, P.O. Box 800.84
NL-3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 30 2536877
Fax +31 30 2518366
e-mail:
h.tersteege@uu.nl
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My interest in Tropical rainforest stems from
my MSc time, when I studied the ecology of vascular epiphytes in
standing trees in rain forest I central Guyana. After my MSc I
worked 9 year (in two periods) in Guyana as Programme
Team-leader of the Tropenbos Guyana Programme, during which time
I also worked on my PhD research. The work in Guyana, which
involved the communication with scientists, politicians, local
end-users a.o., helped me to see that good science can also be
applied science. Much of the work of our Programme has helped
policies for Forest Management in Guyana and we also contributed
significantly to the data support of the National Protected
Areas Strategy (http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/Plant_Diversity_Guyana/).
After the Guyana Programme, I worked a while as consultant
mainly in Guyana (see e.g. National Vegetation Map of Guyana
http://www.forestry.gov.gy/vegmap.htm), at the Utrecht
University, as Associate Professor ‘Spatial Analysis of Forest
Conservation and Rehabilitation’, at ITC (2001 – 2002) and
finally came back to Utrecht in 2002 as Associate Professor
Biodiversity Assessment.
At present my research focuses on
understanding the origination and regulation of biodiversity,
which I investigate In the Framework of the Amazon Tree
Diversity Network (http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/ATDN/)
and the RAINFOR Programme (http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/rainfor/).
I am particularly interested in causes for tree alpha- and
beta-diversity. For our research on alpha-diversity we draw on a
network of over 50 researchers across the Amazon and we are
trying to separate actuo from palaeo-signal in our diversity
data. The model of Ricklefs and Schluter (with the addition of
dispersal limitation, ter Steege & Zagt 2002) is my favoured
thought model.
For the study of beta-diversity, our model
ecosystems are the forests on white sand podzols and the
adjacent terra firme forests in the Guianas and Upper Rio Negro.
While trees are my personal pet-plants, my
students work on topics such as biodiversity research of
Herbarium material (how can Herbarium data be used in
biodiversity assessment), Bryophytes (neutral models with no
dispersal limitation), herbivory mediating beta-diversity
between white and brown sand, and vascular epiphytes.
Within the Utrecht University I am
responsible for the courses Evolutionary Biology (1st
year BSc programme, c. 250 students) and Biodiversity and
Landscape (2nd year BSc, c. 40 students), which I
both coordinate. In addition to that, I contribute to the course
‘Evolutionary Biology’ for students of biomedical sciences (c.
30 students); the first year’s course ‘Biodiversity’ and the
course Tropical Ecology.
Publications
Nangendo, G., van Straaten, O., ter Steege,
H. & Bongers, F. (submitted).
Vegetation cover change and the related species distribution
dynamics. Journal of Vegetation Science.
Baker,
T & The RAINFOR Project (submitted). Do species traits determine
patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests? Special Issue:
Biogeochemistry and Function of Amazon Forest. Biogeosciences.
Gloor,
M., Phillips, O.L. Malhi, Y., Lloyd, J.J., Lewis, S.L., Baker,
T.R., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peacock J., Almeida, S., Alvarez, E.,
Alves de Oliveira, A.C., Amaral, I., Andelman, S.,
Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Banki, O.S., Blanc, L., Bonal, D.,
Brando, P., Chao, K.-J., Chave, J., Davila, N., Edwin, T.,
Espejo, J., di Fiore, A., Feldpausch, T., Freitas, A., Herrera,
R., Higuchi, N., Honorio, E., Jiménez, E., Killeen, T.,
Laurance, W., Mendoza, A., Montegudo, H., Nascimento, D.,
Neill, D., Nepstad, P., Núñez Vargas, J., Olivier, M.C.,
Penuela, C., Peña Cruz, A., Prieto, A., Pitman, N., Quesada, C.,
Salamão, R., Schwarz, M., Stropp, J., Ramírez, F., Ramírez, H.,
Rudas, A., ter Steege, H., Silva, N., Torres, A.,
Terborgh, J., Vásquez, R. & van der Heijden. G. (submitted).
Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in
basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?
Global Change Biology
Stropp, J., ter Steege, H., Malhi, Y., ATDN, RAINFOR.
(submitted).
Disentangling regional and local tree
diversity in the Amazon. Ecography.
Raes,
N., van Loon, E.E., Roos, M.C., & ter Steege, H.
(submitted). The phytogeography of Borneo inferred from species
distribution models. Journal of Biogeography.
Mota
de Oliveira, S., ter Steege, H., J.H.C. Cornelissen &
Gradstein, S.R. (submitted). Assembly of epiphytic
bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach.
Journal of Biogeography.
Raes,
N., Roos, M.C., Slik, J.W.F., van Loon, E.E. & ter Steege, H.
(prov. accepted). Botanical richness and endemicity patterns of
Borneo derived from species distribution models. Ecography.
Phillips, O.L., Aragão, L., Fisher, J.B., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd,
J., López-González, G., Malhi, Y,. Monteagudo, A., Peacock, J.,
Quesada, C., van der Heijden, G., Almeida, S., Amaral, I.,
Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Baker, T.R., Banki, O.S., Blanc, L.,
Bonal, D., Brando, P., Chave, J., de Oliveira, A.C., Dávila
Cardozo, N., Espejo, J., Feldpausch, T., Aparecida
Freitas, M., Higuchi, N., Jiménez, E., Meir, P., Mendoza B. C.,
Morel, A., Neill, D., Nepstad, D., Patiño, S., Peñuela, M.C.,
Prieto, A., Ramírez, F., Schwarz, M., Silveira, M., Sota, A.,
ter Steege, H., Stropp, J., Vásquez, R., Zelazowski, P.,
Alvarez Dávila, E., Andelman, S., Erwin, T., di Fiore, A., Chao,
K.-J., Honorio, E., Keeling, H., Killeen, T., Laurance, W.,
Nascimento, H., Peña Cruz, A., Pitman, N., Núñez Vargas, P.,
Ramírez, H., Rudas, A., Salamão, R., Silva, N., Terborgh, J. &
Torres, A. (prov. accepted). Drought sensitivity of the Amazon
rainforest.
Science.
S.P.
Hubbell, He, F., Condit, R., Borda-de-Água, L., Kellner, J. &
ter Steege, H. (2008) How Many Tree Species Are There in the
Amazon and How Many of Them Will Go Extinct?
PNAS 105: 11498-11504.
Saatchi, S., Buerman, W., ter Steege, H., Mori, S. &
Smith, T.B. (2008). Modeling distribution of Amazonian tree
species and diversity using remote sensing Measurements.
Remote Sensing of the Environment 112: 2000-2017.
Raes,
N. & ter Steege, H. (2007). A
null-model for significance testing of presence-only species
distribution models.
Ecography 30: 727-736.
Parmentier, I., Malhi Y., Senterre B., Whittaker R.J., A.T.D.N.
(collective author), Alonso A., Balinga M.P.B., Bakayoko A.,
Bongers F., Chatelain C., Comiskey J., Cortay R., Djuikouo
Kamdem M.N., Doucet J.L., Gauier L., Hawthorne W.D., Issembe
Y.A., Kouamé N.F., Kouka L., Leal M.E., Lejoly J., Lewis S.L.,
Newbery D., Nusbaumer L., Parren M., Peh K.S.-H., Phillips O.L.,
Poorter L., Sheil D., Sonké B., Sosef M.S.M., Sunderland T.,
Stropp J.,
ter Steege H., Swaine M., Tchouto P., van Gemerden B.,
van Valkenburg J., Wöll H. (2007) The odd man out? Might climate
explain the lower tree α-diversity of
African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?
Journal of Ecology
95: 1058-1071.
Hammond, D.S., ter Steege, H. & van der
Borg, K. (2007). Upland soil charcoal in the wet tropical
forests of central Guyana.
Biotropica 39: 153-160.
Chave,
J. Muller-Landau, H.C., Baker, T.R., Easdale, T., ter Steege,
H. & Webb, C.O. (2006). Regional and phylogenetic variation
of wood density across 2456 neotropical tree species.
Ecological Applications 16: 2356-2367.
ter Steege, H.,
Pitman, N.C.A., Phillips, O.L., Chave, J., Sabatier, D., Duque,
A., Molino, J.-F., Prévost, M.-F., Spichiger, R., Castellanos,
C., von Hildebrand, P., & Vasquez, R. (2006).
Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree
composition and function across Amazonia.
Nature 443: 444-447.
Nangendo, G., ter Steege, H. & Bongers,
F. (2006). Tree composition of a
dynamic woodland-forest mosaic in Uganda: implications for
conservation and management.
Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 1467-1495.
Nangendo, G., Stein, A., ter Steege, H., Bongers, F.
(2005). Changes in woody plant composition of three vegetation
types exposed to a similar fire regime for over 46 years.
Forest Ecology and Management 217: 351-364
Leigh, E.G. Jr., Davidar, P., Dick, D.,
Puyravaud, J.-P., Terborgh, J., ter Steege, H. & Wright,
S.J. (2004). Why are there so many kinds of tropical trees?
Biotropica 36: 447-473.
Cornelissen, J.H.C., Lavorel, S., Garnier, E., Díaz, S.,
Buchmann, N., Gurvich, D.E., Reich, P.B., ter
Steege, H., Morgan, H.D., van der Heijden, M.G.A.,
Pausas, J.G. & Poorter, H. (2003). Handbook of protocols for
standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits
worldwide.
Australian Journal of Botany
51: 335-380.
ter Steege, H.,
Pitman , N.C.A., Sabatier, S., Castellanos, H., van der Hout,
P., Daly, D.C., Silveira, M., Phillips, O., Vasquez, R. van
Andel, T., Duivenvoorden, J., de Oliveira, A.A., Ek, R.C.,
Lilwah, R., Thomas, R.A., van Essen, J., Baider, C., Maas,
P.J.M., Mori, S.A., Terborgh J., Nuñez-Vargas, P Mogollón, H. &
Morawetz, W. (2003). A spatial model of tree α-diversity and
-density for the Amazon Region.
Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 2255-2276.
ter Steege, H.,
Welch, I. & Zagt R.J. (2002). Long-term effect of timber
harvesting in the Bartica Triangle - central Guyana.
Forest Ecology and Management 170: 127-144.
ter Steege, H.
& Zagt, R.J. (2002). Density and diversity.
Nature 417: 698-699.
ter Steege, H.
& Hammond, D.S. (2001).
Character convergence, diversity, and disturbance in tropical
rain forest in Guyana.
Ecology 82: 3197-3212.
ter Steege, H.,
Sabatier, S., Castellanos, H., van Andel, T., Duivenvoorden, J.,
de Oliveira, A.A., Ek, R.C., Lilwah, R., Maas, P.J.M., & Mori,
S.A. (2000).
An analysis of Amazonian floristic composition, including those
of the Guiana Shield.
Journal of Tropical Ecology 16: 801-828.
ter Steege, H.,
Jansen-Jacobs, M., & Datadin, V. (2000).
Can botanical collections assist in a National Protected Area
Strategy in Guyana?
Biodiversity and Conservation 9: 215-240.
ter Steege, H.
(1998). The use of forest inventory data for a National
Protected Area Strategy in Guyana.
Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1457-1483.
ter Steege, H.
(1998). Single rope techniques in tropical rain forest trees.
Going down safe and sound.
Biotropica 30: 496-497.
Ek, R.C. & ter Steege, H. (1998). The Flora of the Mabura
Hill Area, Guyana.
Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik Pflanzengeschichte und
Pflanzengeographie.
120: 461-502.
Hammond, D.S. and ter Steege, H. (1998).
Propensity for fires in Guianan rainforests.
Conservation Biology 12: 944-947.
ter Steege, H.,
ter Welle, B.J.H. & P. Laming. (1997). The function of
buttresses in Caryocar nuciferum in Guyana. Ecological
and wood anatomical observations.
IAWA Bulletin 18: 415-431.
Hammond, D.S., Gourlet-Fleury, S., van der Hout, P., ter
Steege, H. & Brown, V.K. (1996). A compilation of known
Guianan timber trees and the significance of their dispersal
mode, seed size and taxonomic affinity to tropical rain forest
management.
Forest Ecology and Management 83: 99-116.
ter Steege, H.,
Boot, R.G.A., Brouwer, L., Hammond, D.S., van der Hout, P.,
Jetten, V.G., Khan, Z., Polak, A.M., Raaimakers, D. & Zagt, R.J.
(1995). Basic
and applied research for sustainable rain forest management: the
Tropenbos Programme Guyana.
Ecological Applications 5: 904-910.
ter Steege, H.
(1994). Flooding and drought tolerance of seedlings of two
Mora species, segregated along a soil hydrological gradient
in the tropical rain forest of Guyana.
Oecologia 100: 356-367.
ter Steege, H.
(1994). Seedling growth. of Mora gonggrijpii, a large
seeded climax species, under different soil and light
conditions.
Vegetatio 112: 161-170.
ter Steege, H.
(1993) Rain forest types on a sandy watershed in Guyana.
Acta Botanica
Neerlandica
43: 398-399.
ter Steege, H.,
Jetten, V.G., Polak, M. & Werger, M.J.A. (1993).
The tropical rain forest types and soils of a watershed in
Guyana, South America.
Journal of Vegetation Science
4: 705-716.
ter Steege, H.,
Bokdam, C., Boland, M., Dobbelsteen, J. & Verburg.
I. (1994). The effects of man made gaps on germination, early
survival, and morphology of Chlorocardium rodiei
seedlings in Guyana.
Journal of Tropical Ecology 10: 245-260.
ter Steege, H.
& Persaud, C.A. (1991). The phenology of Guyanese timber
species: a compilation of a century of observations.
Vegetatio 95: 177-198.
ter Steege, H.
& Cornelissen, J.H.C. (1989). Distribution and ecology of
vascular epiphytes in lowland rain forest in Guyana.
Biotropica 21: 331-339.
Cornelissen, J.H.C. & ter Steege, H. (1989). Distribution
and ecology of epiphytic bryophytes and lichens in dry evergreen
forest in Guyana.
Journal of Tropical Ecology 5: 131-150.
ter Steege, H.
& Cornelissen, J.H.C. (1988). Collecting and studying bryophytes
in the canopy of standing rain forest trees. In: Glime JM (ed.)
Methods in Bryology. Proc. Bryol. Meth. Workshop, Mainz.
Pp 295-290.
Hattori Bot. Lab., Nichinan.
Books (http://www.tropenbos.nl/)
ter Steege, H.
(ed.) (2003). Long-term changes in tropical tree diversity:
Studies from the Guiana Shield, Africa, Borneo and Melanesia.
Tropenbos Series 22. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, The
Netherlands. 215 pp.
ter Steege, H.
& collaborators (2000). Plant diversity in Guyana. With
recommendations for a National Protected Area Strategy.
Tropenbos Series 18. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen, The
Netherlands. 220 pp.
ter Steege, H.,
Boot, R.G.A., Brouwer, L.C., Caesar, J.C., Ek, R.C., Hammond,
D.S., Haripersaud, P.P., van der Hout, P., Jetten, V.G., van
Kekem, A.J., Kellman, M.A., Khan, Z., Polak, A.M., Pons, T.L.,
Pulles, J., Raaimakers, D., Rose, S.A., van der Sanden, J.J. &
Zagt, R.J. (1996). Ecology and logging in a tropical rain
forest in Guyana. With recommendations for forest management.
Tropenbos Series 14. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen, The
Netherlands. 123 pp.
Websites
Haripersaud, P. & ter Steege, H. (2003) Virtual Tree
Guide of the Guianas.
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/VTGG/Main.htm
ter Steege, H.
(2003).
Flora of the Guianas.
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/Flora_of_the_Guianas/index.htm
ter Steege, H.
(2003). Amazon Tree Diversity Network.
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/Amazon_plot_network/Index.htm
ter Steege, H.
(2000). Winphot download site.
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/winphot/wp_index.htm
ter Steege, H.,
Zagt, J., Bertilsson, P. & Singh, J. (2000).
Plant Diversity in Guyana
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/Plant_Diversity_Guyana/index.htm
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