Outputs (45)

Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology (2023)
Journal Article

In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provides a frame... Read More about Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.

Editorial: Lianas, ecosystems, and global change (2023)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) are an abundant and diverse plant group in tropical ecosystems (Gentry, 1991; Dewalt et al., 2014). While they enhance forest canopy connectivity and provide food and shelter for tropical fauna (Yanoviak and Schnitzer, 2013; Schn... Read More about Editorial: Lianas, ecosystems, and global change.

Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics (2022)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) are a key component of tropical forests, known to reduce forest carbon storage and sequestration and to be increasing in abundance. Analysing how and why lianas are distributed in forest canopies at landscape scales will help us... Read More about Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics.

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates (2022)
Journal Article

Aim: To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory and hydrochory). We examined if the proportional abundance... Read More about Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates.

Lianas decelerate tropical forest thinning during succession (2022)
Journal Article

The well-established pattern of forest thinning during succession predicts an increase in mean tree biomass with decreasing tree density. The forest thinning pattern is commonly assumed to be driven solely by tree-tree competition. The presence of no... Read More about Lianas decelerate tropical forest thinning during succession.

Making (remote) sense of lianas (2022)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) are abundant and diverse, particularly in tropical ecosystems. Lianas use trees for structural support to reach the forest canopy, often putting leaves above their host tree. Thus they are major parts of many forest canopies. Yet... Read More about Making (remote) sense of lianas.

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests (2022)
Journal Article

Aim: Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soi... Read More about Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests.

Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery (2021)
Journal Article

Lianas (woody vines) play a key role in tropical forest dynamics because of their strong influence on tree growth, mortality and regeneration. Assessing liana infestation over large areas is critical to understand the factors that drive their spatial... Read More about Detection of spatial and temporal patterns of liana infestation using satellite-derived imagery.

Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment (2021)
Journal Article

Lianas are structural parasites of trees that cause a reduction in tree growth and an increase in tree mortality. Thereby, lianas negatively impact forest carbon storage as evidenced by liana removal experiments. In this proof-of-concept study, we ca... Read More about Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment.

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021)
Journal Article

Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Netw... Read More about Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots.