All Outputs (7)

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa (2020)
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Rozendaal, D. M., Phillips, O. L., Lewis, S. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Alvarez Dávila, E., Andrade, A., …Vanderwel, M. C. (2020). Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3052

© 2020 The Authors. Ecology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Ecological Society of America Competition among trees is an important driver of community structure and dynamics in tropical forests. Neighboring trees may impact an individu... Read More about Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa.

Asynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests (2020)
Journal Article
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.