Barrera-Bello, Á.M., Lucas, J.M., and Gora, E.M. 2023. Suspended Sections Within Downed Deadwood Are Drier, Have Altered Decomposer Communities, and Slower Decomposition. Ecosystems 28:77-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-023-00874-w
Gora, E.M., S.A. Schnitzer, P.M. Bitzer, J.C. Burchfield, C. Gutierrez, and S.P. Yanoviak. 2023. Lianas increase lightning-caused disturbance severity in a tropical forest. New Phytologist 238:1865-1875. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18856
DeLavaux, C.S., T.W. Crowther, J.D. Bever, P. Weigelt, and E.M. Gora. 2024. Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands. Nature 627:335-339. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07110-y
Narvaez, J., Yanoviak, S.P., Bitzer, P.M., Burchfield, J.C., and Gora, E.M. 2024. Effects of urbanization on cloud-to-ground lightning strike frequency: A global perspective. J.R. Soc. Interface 21:20240257 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0257
Gora. E.M., H.C. Muller-Landau, K.C. Cushman, J.H. Richards, P.M. Bitzer, J.C. Burchfield, P. Narváez, and S.P. Yanoviak. 2025. How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees. New Phytologist 246 (4):1554-1556. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70062
Gora, E.M., I.R. McGregor, H.C. Muller-Landau, J.C. Burchfield, K.C. Cushman, V.E. Rubio, G. Biem Mori, M.J.P. Sullivan, M.W. Chmielewski, and E. Esquivel-Muelbert. 2025. Storms Are an Important Driver of Change in Tropical Forests. Ecology Letters 28 (7) e70157. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70157
Medvigy, D., E.M. Gora, and S.P. Yanoviak. 2025. Compositional Acclimation Can Lessen Tropical Forest Change in Response to Increasing Lightning Frequency: Insights From Simulation Modeling. Global Change Biology 31:e70635 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70635
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A lengthy, myriad-authored White Paper: The PAN tropical investigation of bioGeochemistry and Ecological Adaptation (PANGEA): Scoping a NASA-Sponsored Field Campaign. Final Report – December 2024.