All publications and sources

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Tropical Forest Restoration Publications:
  • Werden L, Cole, R., Schönhofer, K., Holl, K., Zahawi, R., Averill, C., Schweizer, D., Calvo-Alvarado, J.C., Hamilton, D., Joyce, F.H., San-José, M., Hofhansi, F., Briggs, L., Rodriguez, D., Tingle, J., Chiriboga, F., Broadbent, E.N., Quirós-Cedaño, G.J., and Crowther, T.W.  2024. Assessing simple innovations to improve forest restoration outcomes at scale. One Earth, July 2024. 
  • Hamilton, D.A., Molina Rojas, V. and Donovan, T.M., 2026. Advancing ecosystem recovery with diverse species plantings in tropical forest restoration. Forests, 17(5), p.617.
  • Hamilton, D.A., Parshall, T.M., Vargas Berocal, L., Alvarado Mendez, R., Goldsmith, G.R., and Donovan, T.M. 2026. Evaluating seedling traits, maintenance, and effective-cost to support tropical forest restoration practices. Ecological Evidence and Solutions.

Carbon Sequestration Capabilities of restored tropical forest plots
  • Hamilton, D.A., 2022. Offsetting Destruction: The Important Functional Contribution of Carbon Sequestration in the Restoration of a Tropical Forest in Monteverde, Costa Rica. In: DellaSala, D.A., Goldstein, M.I. (Eds.), Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, vol. 3. Elsevier, pp. 125–138. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00198-7
Soil  and below-ground microbiome recovery with tropical forest restoration
  • Eaton, W.D. and Hamilton, D.A., Lemenze, A., Soteropoulos, P. 2024. Natural regeneration or tree planting in a tropical forest-to-pasture damaged area: Which is more efficacious for soil ecosystem recovery? Restoration Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/rec.14127
  • Differences in composition and complexity of fungal communities within soils of different ages of Inga punctata in a Monteverde, Costa Rica reforestation site. Restoration Ecology submitted January 2024.
  • Eaton, W.D., Hamilton, D.A., Chen, W., Lemenze, A. and Soteropoulos, P., 2024. Use of high throughput DNA analysis to characterize the nodule-associated bacterial community from four ages of Inga punctata trees in a Costa Rican cloud forest. AIMS Microbiology, 10(3), pp.572-595.
  • Eaton, W.D. and Hamilton, D.A., 2023. Enhanced carbon, nitrogen and associated bacterial community compositional complexity, stability, evenness, and differences within the tree-soils of Inga punctata along an age gradient of planted trees in reforestation plots. Plant and Soil, 484(1), pp.327-346.
  • Tanner, L.H., Wilckens, M.T., Nivison, M.A. and Johnson, K.M., 2016. Research Article Biomass and Soil Carbon Stocks in Wet Montane Forest, Monteverde Region, Costa Rica: Assessments and Challenges for Quantifying Accumulation Rates.

Threatened Species
See Bellbird section below
Landscape scale conservation
  • Nielsen, K. and D. Hamilton.  2014. Windbreaks as Corridors for Birds in Wheelwright, N. and Nadkarni, N. (editors), “Monteverde:  Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest”.  Bowdoin’s Scholars’ Bookshelf 3.  http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/scholars-bookshelf/3/.
  • Harvey, C.A, C. Guindon, W.Haber, D.Hamilton, K.G. Murray.  2008. Importancia de los fragmentos de Bosque, los Arboles Dispersos and las Cortinas Rompevientos para la Biodiversidad Local y Regional in Evaluación y conservación de biodiversidad en paisajes fragmentados de Mesoamérica.  Editorial  INBio. Costa Rica. 
  • Harvey, C., C.F. Guindon, W. A. Haber, D. Hamilton DeRosier, K. Greg Murray.  2000. The importance of forest patches, isolated trees and agricultural windbreaks for local and regional biodiversity:  the case of Monteverde, Costa Rica.  XXI  IUFRO World Congress 2000, pp. 787-798.
  • Young, B., D. DeRosier (Hamilton), and G.V.N. Powell.  1998. Diversity and Conservation of Understory Birds in the Tilaran Mountains, Costa Rica.  ​The Auk 115:998-1016.
  • Allen, B., L. Lines, D. Hamilton.  2008.​ The economic importance of extending habitat protection beyond park boundaries:  a case study from Costa Rica.  The George Wright Forum, Vol .25, No. 1: 30-35.​
Three-wattled Bellbird (Procnias Tricarunculatus) Publications:
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  • Powell, G.V. and Bjork, R.D., 2004. Habitat linkages and the conservation of tropical biodiversity as indicated by seasonal migrations of Three‐wattled Bellbirds. Conservation Biology, 18(2), pp.500-509.
  • Hamilton, D., R. Singleton, and J.D. Joslin.  2018.  Resource tracking and its conservation implications for an obligate frugivore (Procnias tricarunculatus, the three-wattled bellbird). Biotropica. 1-11 2018 DOI: 10.1111/btp.12502​
  • Hamilton, D., V. Molina, P.Bosques and G. Powell.  2003.  El estatus del pájaro campana (Procnias tricarunculata): Un ave en peligro de extinción. Zeledonia 7: 15-24.

Books:
  •  Kroodsma, D., 2015. Birdsong by the seasons: a year of listening to birds. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Stap, D., 2006. Birdsong: a natural history. Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Kroodsma, D. 2005. The Singing Life of Birds: the art and science of listening to birdson. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA ISBN: 0618405682
Bellbird Dialects:
  • Kroodsma, D., D. Hamilton, J. Sanchez, B.Byers, G.Fandino, D.Stemple, J.Trainor, G.Powell.  2012.  Behavioral evidence for song learning in the Suboscine bellbirds (Procnias spp.;  Cotingidae).  Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 1-14.  DOI: 10.2307/41932830 
  • Saranathan V., D. Hamilton, G.V.N. Powell, D. Kroodsma, R. Prum. 2007.​ Genetic evidence supports song learning in the three-wattled bellbird Procnias tricarunculata (Cotingidae). Molecular Ecology. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03415.x