Gora, E. M., Muller-Landau, H. C., Cushman, K. C., Richards, J. H., Bitzer, P. M., Burchfield, J. C., Narváez, P., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2025). How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: Evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees. New Phytologist, 246(4), 1554–1566. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70062Richards, J. H., Gora, E. M., Gutierrez, C., Burchfield, J. C., Bitzer, P. M., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2022). Tropical tree species differ in damage and mortality from lightning. Nature Plants, 8, 1007–1013. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01230-xGora, E. M., Schnitzer, S. A., Bitzer, P. M., Burchfield, J. C., Gutierrez, C., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2023). Lianas increase lightning-caused disturbance severity in a tropical forest. New Phytologist, 238(5), 1865–1875. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18856Yanoviak, S. P., Gora, E. M., Burchfield, J. C., Bitzer, P. M., Detto, M., Jarvis, R., & Muller-Landau, H. C. (2020). Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest. New Phytologist, 225(4), 1936–1944. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16260Gora, E. M., Bitzer, P. M., Burchfield, J. C., Gutierrez, C., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2021). The contributions of lightning to biomass turnover, gap formation, and plant mortality in a tropical forest. Ecology, 102(12), e03541. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3541Gora, E. M., Burchfield, J. C., Muller-Landau, H. C., Bitzer, P. M., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2020). Pantropical geography of lightning-caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests. Global Change Biology, 26(9), 5017–5026. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15227Gora, E. M., Bitzer, P. M., Burchfield, J. C., Schnitzer, S. A., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2020). A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees. Journal of Ecology, 108(5), 1956–1966. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13404Gora, E. M., Bitzer, P. M., Burchfield, J. C., Schnitzer, S. A., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2017). Effects of lightning on trees: A predictive model based on in situ electrical resistivity. Ecology and Evolution, 7(21), 8523–8534. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3347Yanoviak, S. P., Gora, E. M., Burchfield, J. M., Bitzer, P. M., & Detto, M. (2017). Quantification and identification of lightning damage in tropical forests. Ecology and Evolution, 7(14), 5111–5122. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3095Gora, E. M., & Yanoviak, S. P. (2015). Electrical properties of temperate forest trees: A review and quantitative comparison with vines. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45(3), 236–245. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2014-0380Gora, E. M., & Esquivel-Muelbert, A. (2021). Implications of size-dependent tree mortality for tropical forest carbon dynamics. Nature Plants, 7, 384–391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00879-0Hietz, P., Rosner, S., Hietz-Seifert, U., & Wright, S. J. (2017). Wood traits related to size and life history of trees in a Panamanian rainforest. New Phytologist, 213(1), 170–180. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14123▲ 点击卡片关注,了解更多官方动态▲原创文章版权归微信公众号“把科学带回家”所有