Noelle Beckman

Publications | Book Chapters

• Beckman, N.G, Seed dispersal by frugivores on Barro Colorado Island, Panama: The First 100 Years of Research at Barro Colorado – Plant and Ecosystem Biology. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Schneider, G.F, Jos, E.M, Beckman, N.G, The phytochemistry of tropical zoochorous fruit: mediating plant-frugivore interactions within biodiverse communities: The First 100 Years of Research at Barro Colorado – Plant and Ecosystem Biology. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Beckman, N., (2020). Trait-Based Approach For Selecting Species for Aerial Seeding: Automated Forest Restoration: Could Robots Revive Rain Forests? Proceedings of a brain-storming workshop. FORRU-CMU

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Curriculum

• Beckman, N., (2017). The Three-Wattled Bellbird: Corridor, Conservation, and Costa Rica (2016-11). SESYNC Case Study Collection *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Borah, B., Beckman, N., (2024). Impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on seed dispersal by an Afrotropical bird community in an anthropogenic landscape: Insights from movement models. Biological Conservation, 294, 110613. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110613
• Draper, J., Young, J., Beckman, N., Atwood, T., (2024). The Differential Contribution of Coyotes and Passerines on Future Biotic Carbon Storage Through Juniper Seed Dispersal. Ecography
• Beckman, N., Sullivan, L., (2023). The Causes and Consequences of Seed Dispersal. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 54, 403-427.
• Beckman, N., (2023). Bird movement patterns in an agricultural landscape are mediated by both habitat conditions and traits. Biotropica, 55:5, 1069-1080.
• Schneider, G., Carlson, C., Jos, E., Beckman, N., (2023). Compartmentalization of specialized metabolites across vegetative and reproductive tissues in two sympatric Psychotria (Rubiaceae). Americal Journal of Botany, 110:7, e16191.
• Beckman, N., Dybzinksi, R., Tilman, D., (2022). Short-term plant-soil feedback experiment fails to predict outcome of competition observed in long-term field experiment. Ecology
• Draper, J.P, Young , J., Schupp, E.W, Beckman, N., Atwood, T., (2022). Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Carnivorans. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 864864. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.864864
• Whitehead, S., Schneider, G., Nelson, A., Jos, E., Gelambi, M., Dybzinski, R., Beckman, N., (2022). Fruits, frugivores, and the evolution of phytochemical diversity. Oikos
• Borah, B., Beckman, N., (2022). Studying seed dispersal through the lens of movement ecology. Oikos
• Freeman, J., Anderies, J.M, Beckman, N.G, Robinson, E., Baggio, J.A, Bird, D., Nicholson, C., Finley, J.B, Capriles, J., Gil, A.F, Byers, D., Gayo, E., Latorre, C., (2021). Landscape engineering impacts the long-term stability of agricultural populations. Human Ecology, 49, 369-382.
• Draper, J.P, Atwood, T., Beckman, N., Kettenring, K., Young , J., (2021). Mesopredator frugivory has no effect on seed viability and emergence under experimental conditions. Ecosphere, 12:8, e03702.
• Marchand, P., Comita, L.S, Wright, S.J, Condit, R., Hubbell, S.P, Beckman, N., (2020). Seed‐to‐seedling transitions exhibit distance‐dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest. Ecology, 101:2, e02926. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2926
• Stump, S., Marden, J., Beckman, N., Mangan, S., Comita, L., (2020). Resistance-genes affect how pathogens maintain plant abundance and diversity. American Naturalist, 196:4, 472-486.
• Schreiber, S.J, Beckman, N., (2020). Individual variation in dispersal and fecundity increases rates of spatial spread. AoB Plants, 12:3, plaa001.
• Zambrano, J., Cordeiro, N.J, Garzon-Lopez, C., Yeager, L., Fortunel, C., Beckman, N., (2020). Investigating the direct and indirect effects of forest fragmentation on plant functional diversity. PLOS ONE, 15:7, e0235210.
• Freeman, J., Robinson, E., Beckman, N., Bird, D., Baggio, J.A, Anderies, J.M, (2020). The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density. Journal of Archaeological Science, 120, 105168.
• Beckman, N., Aslan, C., Rogers, H., Kogan, O., Bronstein, J.L, Bullock, J.M, Hartig, F., HilleRisLambers, J., Zhou, Y., Zurell, D., Brodie, J., Bruna, E., Cantrell, S., Decker, R., Efiom, E., Fricke, E., Gurski, K., Hastings, A., Johnson, J., Loiselle, B.A, Miriti, M., Neubert, M.G, Pejchar, L., Poulsen, J., Pufal, G., Razafindrastima, O., Sandor, M.E, Shea, K., Schreiber, S., Schupp, E.W, Snell, R.S, Strickland, C., Zambrano, J., (2020). Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology. AoB Plants, 12:2, plz048. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz048
• Zambrano, J., Beckman, N., Marchand, P., Thompson, J., Uriate, M., Zimmerman , J.K, Umaña, M., Swenson, N.G, (2020). The scale dependency of trait-based tree neighborhood models. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31, 581-593. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12880
• Beckman, N., Aslan, C., Rogers, H., (2020). Introduction to Special Issue: The role of seed dispersal in plant populations: perspectives and advances in a changing world. . AoB Plants, 12:2, plaa010. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa010
• Schupp, E.W, Zwolak, R., Jones, L.R, Snell, R.S, Beckman, N.G, Aslan, C., Cavazos, B.R, Effiom, E., Fricke, E.C, Montaño-Centellas, F., Poulsen, J., Razafindratsima, O.H, Sandor, M.E, Shea, K., (2019). Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal are diverse and pervasive. AoB Plants, 11:6, doi: doi:10.1093/aobpla/plz067
• Zambrano, J., Garzon-Lopez, C.X, Yeager, L., Fortunel, C., Cordeiro, N.J, Beckman, N., (2019). The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on plant functional traits and functional diversity: what do we know so far?. Oecologia, 191:3, 505-518.
• Rogers, H.C, Beckman, N., Hartig, F., Johnson, J.S, Pufal, G., Shea, K., Zurell, D., Bullock, J.M, Cantrell, S., Loiselle, B., Pejchar, L., Razafindratsima, O., Sandor, M., Schupp, E.W, Strickland, C., Zambrano, J., (2019). The total dispersal kernel: a review and future directions. AoB Plants, 11:5, plz042. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plz042
• Snell, R.S, Beckman, N., Fricke, E., Loiselle, B.A, Carvalho, C.S, Jones, L.R, Lichti, N.I, Lustenhouwer, N., Schreiber, S., Strickland, C., Sullivan, L.L, Cavazos, B.R, Giladi, I., Hastings, A., Holbrook, K., Jongejans, E., Kogan, O., Montano-Centellas, F., Rudolph, J., Rogers, H.S, Zwolak, R., , Schupp, E.W, (2019). Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution, and global change. AoB Plants, 11:4, plz016.
• Aslan, C., Beckman, N., Rogers, H., Bronstein, J., Zurell, D., Hartig, F., Shea, K., Pejchar, L., Neubert, M., Poulsen, J., HilleRisLambers, J., Miriti, M., Loiselle, B., Effiom, E., Zambrano, J., Schupp, E.W, Pufal, G., Johnson, J., Bullock, J., Brodie, J., Bruna, E., Cantrell, S., Decker, R., Fricke, E., Gurski, K., Hastings, A., Kogan, O., Powell, J.A, Razafindratsima, O., Sandor, M., Schreiber, S., Snell, R., Strickland, C., Zhou, Y., (2019). Employing plant functional groups to advance seed dispersal ecology and conservation. AoB Plants, 11:2, plz006.
• Krishnadas, M., Beckman, N., Penagos Zuluaga, J.C, Zhu, Y., Whitacre, J., Wenzel, J.W, Queenborough, S.A, Comita, L.S, (2018). Environment and past land-use together predict functional diversity in a temperate forest. Ecological Applications
• Beckman, N., (2018). Seedscapades in Seedscapes: The Arising Researcher. Bulletin Ecological Society of America, 99:3, 311–312. *
• Beckman, N., Bullock, J., Salguero-Gomez, R., (2018). High dispersal ability is related to fast life history strategies. Journal of Ecology, 106, 1349–1362. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12989
• Tiansawat, P., Beckman, N., Dalling, J.W, (2017). Pre-dispersal seed predators and fungi differ in their effect on Luehea seemannii capsule development, seed germination, and dormancy across two Panamanian forests. Biotropica, 49:6, 871–880. doi: 10.1111/btp.12473
• Burnside, W.R, Randell, H., Beckman, N., Zambrano, J., Howard, A., (2016). RE: A socio-environmental perspective on international migration. Science eLetter *
• Beckman, N., Dybzinski, R., Tilman, G.D, (2014). Neighborhoods have little effect on fungal attack or insect predation of developing seeds in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Oecologia, 174:2, 521-532.
• Stephenson, N.L, Das, A.J, Condit, R., Russo, S.E, Baker, P.J, Beckman, N., Coomes, D.A, Lines, E.R, Morris, W.K, Rüger, N., Álvarez, E., Blundo, C., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chuyong, G., Davies, S.J, Duque, Á., Ewango, C.N, Flores, O., Franklin, J.F, Grau, H.R, Hao, Z., Harmon, M.E, Hubbell, S.P, Kenfack, D., Lin, Y., Makana, J.R, Malizia, A., Malizia, L.R, Pabst, R.J, Pongpattananurak, N., Su, S.H, Sun, I.F, Tan, S., Thomas, D., Van Mantgem, P.J, Wang, X., Wiser, S.K, Zavala, M.A, (2014). Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size. Nature, 507:7490, 90-93.
• Comita, L.S, Queenborough, S.A, Murphy, S.J, Eck, J.L, Xu, K., Krishnadas, M., Beckman, N., Zhu, Y., (2014). Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: A meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival. Journal of Ecology, 102:4, 845-856.
• Beckman, N., Rogers, H.S, (2013). Consequences of seed dispersal for plant recruitment in tropical forests: Interactions within the seedscape. Biotropica, 45:6, 666-681.
• Beckman, N., (2013). The Distribution of Fruit and Seed Toxicity during Development for Eleven Neotropical Trees and Vines in Central Panama. PLoS ONE, 8:7
• Beckman, N., Neuhauser, C., Muller-Landau, H.C, (2012). The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns. Journal of Ecology, 100:4, 862-873.
• Beckman, N., Muller-Landau, H.C, (2011). Linking fruit traits to variation in predispersal vertebrate seed predation, insect seed predation, and pathogen attack. Ecology, 92:11, 2131-2140.
• Mollov, D.S, Hayslett, M.C, Eichstaedt, K.A, Beckman, N., Daughtrey, M.L, Lockhart, B.E, (2007). Identification and characterization of a carlavirus causing veinal necrosis of coleus. Plant Disease, 91:6, 754-757.
• Beckman, N., Muller-Landau, H.C, (2007). Differential effects of hunting on pre-dispersal seed predation and primary and secondary seed removal of two neotropical tree species. Biotropica, 39:3, 328-339.
• Wright, S.J, Stoner, K.E, Beckman, N., Corlett, R.T, Dirzo, R., Muller-Landau, H.C, Nuñez-Iturri, G., Peres, C.A, Wang, B.C, (2007). The plight of large animals in tropical forests and the consequences for plant regeneration. Biotropica, 39:3, 289-291.
• Marsh, D.M, Page, R.B, Hanlon, T.J, Bareke, H., Corritone, R., Jetter, N., Beckman, N., Gardner, K., Seifert, D.E, Cabe, P.R, (2007). Ecological and genetic evidence that low-order streams inhibit dispersal by red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85:3, 319-327.
• Marsh, D.M, Milam, G.S, Gorham, N.P, Beckman, N., (2005). Forest roads as partial barriers to terrestrial salamander movement. Conservation Biology, 19:6, 2004-2008.
• Marsh, D.M, Beckman, N., (2004). Effects of forest roads on the abundance and activity of terrestrial salamanders. Ecological Applications, 14:6, 1882-1891.
• Beckman, N., Hurd, L.E, (2003). Pollen feeding and fitness in praying mantids: The vegetarian side of a tritrophic predator. Environmental Entomology, 32:4, 881-885.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Other

• Beckman, N., (2017). Capsule development, seed germination and dormancy of Luehea seemannii (Tiliaceae) in two forests in Panama 2008. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
• Schneider, G., Carlson, C., Jos, E., Beckman, N., (2023). Compartmentalization of specialized metabolites across vegetative and reproductive tissues in two sympatric Psychotria. Zenodo
• Dybzinski, R., Beckman, N., (2022). Greenhouse plant-soil feedback experiment at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Dryad Digital Repository
• Beckman, N., (2013). Data from: The distribution of fruit and seed toxicity during development for eleven Neotropical trees and vines in Central Panama. Dryad Digital Repository

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.