Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

Sousa, Thaiane R.; Schietti, Juliana; Ribeiro, Igor O.; Emílio, Thaise; Fernández, Rafael Herrera; ter Steege, Hans; Castilho, Carolina V.; Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane; Baker, Timothy; Pontes-Lopes, Aline; Silva, Camila V.J.; Silveira, Juliana M.; Derroire, Géraldine; Castro, Wendeson; Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo; Ruschel, Ademir; Prieto, Adriana; Lima, Adriano José Nogueira; Rudas, Agustín; Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro; Gutierrez, Alexander Parada; Andrade, Ana; Roopsind, Anand; Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto; Di Fiore, Anthony; Torres-Lezama, Armando; Dourdain, Aurélie; Marimon, Beatriz; Marimon, Ben Hur; Burban, Benoit; van Ulft, Bert; Herault, Bruno; Quesada, Carlos; Mendoza, Casimiro; Stahl, Clement; Bonal, Damien; Galbraith, David; Neill, David; de Oliveira, Edmar A.; Hase, Eduardo; Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana; Vilanova, Emilio; Arets, Eric; Berenguer, Erika; Alvarez-Davila, Esteban; Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N.; Almeida, Everton; Coelho, Fernanda; Valverde, Fernando Cornejo; Elias, Fernando; Brown, Foster; Bongers, Frans; Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez; Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela; van der Heijden, Geertje; Aymard C., Gerardo A.; Llampazo, Gerardo Flores; Pardo, Guido; Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma; do Amaral, Iêda Leão; Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau; Comiskey, James A.; Singh, James; Espejo, Javier Silva; del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon; Zwerts, Joeri Alexander; Talbot, Joey; Terborgh, John; Ferreira, Joice; Barroso, Jorcely G.; Barlow, Jos; Camargo, José Luís; Stropp, Juliana; Peacock, Julie; Serrano, Julio; Melgaço, Karina; Ferreira, Leandro V.; Blanc, Lilian; Poorter, Lourens; Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela; Aragão, Luiz; Arroyo, Luzmila; Silveira, Marcos; Peñuela-Mora, Maria Cristina; Vargas, Mario Percy Núñez; Toledo, Marisol; Disney, Mat; Réjou-Méchain, Maxime; Baisie, Michel; Kalamandeen, Michelle; Camacho, Nadir Pallqui; Cardozo, Nállarett Dávila; Silva, Natalino; Pitman, Nigel; Higuchi, Niro; Banki, Olaf; Loayza, Patricia Alvarez; Graça, Paulo M.L.A.; Morandi, Paulo S.

doi:10.1111/geb.13531

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Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics (2022)
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Waite, C. E., van der Heijden, G. M., Field, R., Burslem, D. F., Dalling, J. W., Nilus, R., …Boyd, D. S. (2023). Landscape-scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics. Journal of Ecology, 111(1), 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14015

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)
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Correa, D. F., Stevenson, P. R., Umaña, M. N., Coelho, L. D. S., Lima Filho, D. D. A., Salomão, R. P., …ter Steege, H. (2023). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13596

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
Medina-Vega, J. A., van der Heijden, G. M., & Schnitzer, S. A. (2022). Lianas decelerate tropical forest thinning during succession. Ecology Letters, 25(6), 1432-1441. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14008

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)
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van der Heijden, G. M., Proctor, A. D., Calders, K., Chandler, C., Field, R., Foody, G. M., …Boyd, D. S. (2022). Making (remote) sense of lianas. Journal of Ecology, 110(3), 498-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13844

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
Sousa, T. R., Schietti, J., Ribeiro, I. O., Emílio, T., Fernández, R. H., ter Steege, H., …Morandi, P. S. (2022). Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13531

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.