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Professor FRANZISKA SCHRODT's Outputs (7)

Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function (2015)
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Lloyd, J., Domingues, T. F., Schrodt, F., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Schwarz, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Gilpin, M., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Ratter, J. A., Grace, J., Nardoto, G. B., Veenendaal, E., Arroyo, L., Villarroel, D., Killeen, T. J., Steininger, M., & Phillips, O. L. (2015). Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function. Biogeosciences, 12(22), 6529-6571. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6529-2015

Sampling along a precipitation gradient in tropical South America extending from ca. 0.8 to 2.0 m a−1, savanna soils had consistently lower exchangeable cation concentrations and higher C / N ratios than nearby forest plots. These soil differences we... Read More about Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases (2015)
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Schrodt, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., Reichstein, M., Bönisch, G., Diaz, S., Dickie, J., Gillison, A., Karpatne, A., Lavorel, S., Leadley, P., Wirth, C. B., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J., & Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

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Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherently sparse,... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography (2015)
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Schrodt Williams, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., Reichstein, M., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Dickie, J., Gillison, A., Karpatne, A., Lavorel, S., Leadley, P., Wirth, C. B., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J., & Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

& Sons Ltd. Aim: Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherent... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography.

Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations? (2015)
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Veenendaal, E. M., Torello-Raventos, M., Feldpausch, T. R., Domingues, T. F., Gerard, F., Schrodt, F., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Djagbletey, G., Ford, A., Kemp, J., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Lenza, E., Ratter, J. A., Maracahipes, L., Sasaki, D., Sonké, B., Zapfack, L., Villarroel, D., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?. Biogeosciences, 12(10), 2927-2951. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015

Through interpretations of remote-sensing data and/or theoretical propositions, the idea that forest and savanna represent "alternative stable states" is gaining increasing acceptance. Filling an observational gap, we present detailed stratified flor... Read More about Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?.

Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon (2015)
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Ferreira Domingues, T., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Grace, J., Meir, P., Saiz, G., Sene, O., Schrodt, F., Sonké, B., Taedoumg, H., Veenendaal, E. M., Lewis, S., & Lloyd, J. (2015). Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon. Oecologia, 178(3), 659-672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3250-5

Photosynthesis/nutrient relationships of proximally growing forest and savanna trees were determined in an ecotonal region of Cameroon (Africa). Although area-based foliar N concentrations were typically lower for savanna trees, there was no differen... Read More about Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon.