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Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses (2021)
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Chandler, C. J., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Boyd, D. S., Cutler, M. E. J., Costa, H., Nilus, R., & Foody, G. M. (2021). Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 7(3), 397-410. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.197

The ability to accurately assess liana (woody vine) infestation at the landscape level is essential to quantify their impact on carbon dynamics and help inform targeted forest management and conservation action. Remote sensing techniques provide pote... Read More about Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses.

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (2020)
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Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J. W., Fauset, S., Sullivan, M. J. P., Baker, T. R., …Galbraith, D. (2020). Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 5515. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3

The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120... Read More about Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests.

Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia (2020)
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Reis, S. M., Marimon, B. S., Morandi, P. S., Elias, F., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Marimon Junior, B. H., …Phillips, O. L. (2020). Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia. Journal of Ecology, 108(6), 2184-2197. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13470

© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society Lianas, a key component of tropical forests, can limit growth of trees, impacting both the structure and functioning of forests, and a... Read More about Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia.

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests (2020)
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Philipson, C. D., Cutler, M. E. J., Brodrick, P. G., Asner, G. P., Boyd, D. S., Costa, P. M., …Burslem, D. F. R. P. (2020). Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests. Science, 369(6505), 838-841. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay4490

More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity and carbon losses. Restoration could accelerate recovery of aboveground car... Read More about Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests.

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora (2020)
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Feitosa, Y. O., Zartman, C. E., Killeen, T. J., Fine, P. V. A., Guedes, M. C., Barlow, J., …van der Heijden, G. (2020). Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 10130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3

© 2020, The Author(s). Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation to... Read More about Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests (2020)
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Erwin, T., Arets, E. J., Costa, F., Sullivan, M. J. P., Lewis, S. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., …Phillips, O. L. (2020). Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. Science, 368(6493), 869-874. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7578

Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predi... Read More about Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests.

Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests (2020)
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Hubau, W., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Beeckman, H., Cuní-Sanchez, A., …Zemagho, L. (2020). Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests. Nature, 579(7797), 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic... Read More about Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests.

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests (2019)
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ter Steege, H., Henkel, T. W., Helal, N., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Huth, A., …Melgaço, K. (2019). Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9

Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such “monodominant” forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurr... Read More about Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.

The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions (2019)
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Shenkin, A., Chandler, C. J., Boyd, D. S., Jackson, T., Disney, M., Majalap, N., …Malhi, Y. (2019). The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00032

Here we report the recent discovery of the world's tallest tropical tree (Shorea faguetiana), possibly the world's tallest angiosperm (flowering plant), located in the rainforests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In addition, we provide a novel three-dime... Read More about The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions.

Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography (2019)
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Fauset, S., Gloor, M., Fyllas, N. M., Phillips, O. L., Asner, G. P., Baker, T. R., …Malhi, Y. (2019). Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00083

Climate, species composition, and soils are thought to control carbon cycling and forest structure in Amazonian forests. Here, we add a demographics scheme (tree recruitment, growth, and mortality) to a recently developed non-demographic model—the Tr... Read More about Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography.