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Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology (2016)
Journal Article
Coelho de Souza, F., Dexter, K. G., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J., Chave, J., Galbraith, D. R., …Baker, T. R. (in press). Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1844), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1587

Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have also played a role in determining trait values. To address the relative importance of these p... Read More about Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology.

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts (2016)
Journal Article
Feldpausch, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J., Gloor, E., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., …Vos, V. A. (2016). Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(7), 964-982. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005133

©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. The Amazon Basin has experienced more variable climate over the last decade, with a severe and widespread drought in 2005 causing large basin-wide losses of biomass. A drought of similar climato... Read More about Amazon forest response to repeated droughts.

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models (2016)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., Galbraith, D., Gloor, M., De Deaurwaerder, H., Guimberteau, M., Rammig, A., …Baker, T. (in press). Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13315

Understanding the processes that determine above-ground biomass (AGB) in Amazonian forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these ecosystems to environmental change and for designing and evaluating dynamic global vegetation models (DGVM... Read More about Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models.

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics (2016)
Journal Article
Esquivel Muelbert, A., Baker, T., Dexter, K., Lewis, S., ter Steege, H., Lopez-Gonzales, G., …Cornejo, F. (2017). Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics. Ecography, 40(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01904

Within the tropics, the species richness of tree communities is strongly and positively associated with precipitation. Previous research has suggested that this macroecological pattern is driven by the negative effect of water-stress on the physiolog... Read More about Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics.

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species (2015)
Journal Article
ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Peres, C. A., Guevara, J. E., …Gamarra, L. V. (in press). Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances, 1(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at... Read More about Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests (2015)
Journal Article
van der Heijden, G. M., Powers, J. S., & Schnitzer, S. A. (2015). Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(43), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504869112

Tropical forests store vast quantities of carbon, account for a third of the carbon fixed by photosynthesis, and are a major sink in the global carbon cycle. Recent evidence suggests that competition between lianas (woody vines) and trees may reduce... Read More about Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests.

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling (2015)
Journal Article
Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo M., A., Brienen, R. J., …Phillips, O. L. (2015). Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7857

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few â € hyperdominantâ €™ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian t... Read More about Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling.

Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest (2014)
Journal Article
Schnitzer, S. A., van der Heijden, G., Mascaro, J., & Carson, W. P. (2014). Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest. Ecology, 95(11), https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1718.1

Treefall gaps are the “engines of regeneration” in tropical forests and are loci of high tree recruitment, growth, and carbon accumulation. Gaps, however, are also sites of intense competition between lianas and trees, whereby lianas can dramatically... Read More about Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest.

Impacts of lianas on forest-level carbon storage and sequestration (2014)
Book Chapter
Van Der Heijden, G. M., Phillips, O. L., & Schnitzer, S. A. (2015). Impacts of lianas on forest-level carbon storage and sequestration. In S. A. Schnitzer, F. Bongers, R. J. Burnham, & F. E. Putz (Eds.), Ecology of Lianas (164-174). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118392409.ch13

© 2015 by JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. The liana-induced reduction in carbon stored in tropical forests is likely caused by: (1) reduced tree growth; (2), increased tree mortality; and (3) a shift in tree species composition due to d... Read More about Impacts of lianas on forest-level carbon storage and sequestration.