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Forest change in the northern Yucatan lowlands (Mexico) during Maya cultural periods: insights from a paired lake reconstruction (2025)
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Birmingham, A., Whitney, B., Metcalfe, S., Jones, M., Martinez-Dyrzo, H., & Medina-Gonzalez, R. (in press). Forest change in the northern Yucatan lowlands (Mexico) during Maya cultural periods: insights from a paired lake reconstruction. Holocene,

Palaeoecological records from the Maya lowlands indicate that there is an emerging pattern of complex vegetation change across the Terminal Classic Period, a time that was characterised by frequent droughts and collapse of major Maya centres. To full... Read More about Forest change in the northern Yucatan lowlands (Mexico) during Maya cultural periods: insights from a paired lake reconstruction.

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age (2025)
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Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Langdale, S. J., Fisher, J. C., Abad, S.-A., Ancrenaz, M., Angeoletto, F., Auat Cheein, F., Austen, G. E., Bailey, J. J., Baldock, K. C. R., Banin, L. F., Banks-Leite, C., Barau, A. S., Bashyal, R., Bates, A. J., Bicknell, J. E., …Davies, Z. G. (2025). Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(6), 1031-1042. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9

With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrest... Read More about Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age.

Lianas reduce tree height with negative consequences for carbon storage and growth estimates (2025)
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Cao, X., Van Coillie, F., Krishna Moorthy, S. M., Coppieters, K., Coppieters, K., D'hont, B., Schnitzer, S. A., van der Heijden, G., Verbeeck, H., & Meunier, F. (2025). Lianas reduce tree height with negative consequences for carbon storage and growth estimates. Journal of Ecology, 113(7), 1647-1658. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70050

Current evidence suggests that liana (woody vine) competition with trees could be threatening the carbon sink by reducing carbon uptake and storage in tropical forests. Previous studies investigating forest demography in liana removal experiments hav... Read More about Lianas reduce tree height with negative consequences for carbon storage and growth estimates.

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change (2025)
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Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Díaz, S., Rifai, S. W., Corral-Rivas, J. J., Nava-Miranda, M. G., González-M, R., Hurtado-M, A. B., Revilla, N. S., Vilanova, E., Almeida, E., de Oliveira, E. A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alves, L. F., de Andrade, A. C. S., Lola da Costa, A. C., Vieira, S. A., Aragão, L., Arets, E., Aymard C, G. A., Baccaro, F., …Malhi, Y. (2025). Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change. Science, 387(6738), Article eadl5414. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl5414

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Tropical land regions are experiencing rapid climate change, with some scenarios for the tropical Americas projecting temperature increases of up to ~4°C and precipitation reductions of close to 20% by 2100. This would expose current sp... Read More about Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change.

Hydrological isolation accelerates algal blooms in floodplain lakes: Biomarker evidence from Dongting Lake, China and its satellite lake (2025)
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Zeng, L., Panizzo, V. N., Wang, Z., Huang, X., Chen, X., & McGowan, S. (2025). Hydrological isolation accelerates algal blooms in floodplain lakes: Biomarker evidence from Dongting Lake, China and its satellite lake. Water Research, 279, Article 123430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123430

Hydrological disconnection from main channels (either via natural siltation or due to construction of hydrological infrastructures) is modifying biogeochemical cycling in river-floodplain systems. Knowledge on how this process influences phytoplankto... Read More about Hydrological isolation accelerates algal blooms in floodplain lakes: Biomarker evidence from Dongting Lake, China and its satellite lake.

Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems (2025)
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Beierkuhnlein, C., Pugh, B., Justice, S., Schrodt, F., El Serafy, G., Karnieli, A., Manakos, I., Nietsch, L., Peñas de Giles, J., Peterek, A., Poursanidis, D., Zwoliński, Z., White, T., Wozniak, E., Field, R., & Provenzale, A. (2025). Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth-Science Reviews, 264, Article 105075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105075

Challenges related to global change require an integrated approach to managing highly complex natural systems on various scales. Biodiversity and geodiversity are key aspects of nature's diversity, which both interact with each other and affect the d... Read More about Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems.

Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa (2024)
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Sanchez‐Martinez, P., Dexter, K. G., Draper, F. C., Baraloto, C., Leão do Amaral, I., de Souza Coelho, L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Salomão, R. P., Wittmann, F., Castilho, C. V., de Jesus Veiga Carim, M., Guevara, J. E., Phillips, O. L., Magnusson, W. E., Sabatier, D., Cardenas Revilla, J. D., Molino, J., Irume, M. V., Pires Martins, M., …ter Steege, H. (2024). Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa. Functional Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700

Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf... Read More about Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa.

Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms (2024)
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Donald, H. K., Swann, G. E., Rae, J. W., & Foster, G. L. (2024). Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39(11), Article e2024PA004968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024pa004968

The intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation (iNHG) at 2.73Ma is associated with a reorganization of the subarctic Pacific Ocean and abrupt drop in opal mass accumulation rates. Uncertainty, however, remains around the extent to which these... Read More about Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms.

Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia (2024)
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Salgado, J., Jaramillo-Monroy, C., Link, A., Lopera-Congote, L., Velez, M. I., Gonzalez-Arango, C., Yang, H., Panizzo, V. N., & McGowan, S. (2025). Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia. Water Research, 268(Part A), Article 122633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122633

Tropical floodplain lakes are increasingly impacted by human activities, yet their pathways of spatial and temporal degradation, particularly under varying hydrological connectivity regimes and climate change, remain poorly understood. This study exa... Read More about Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia.

The pace of life for forest trees (2024)
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Bialic-Murphy, L., McElderry, R. M., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., van den Hoogen, J., Zuidema, P. A., Phillips, O. L., de Oliveira, E. A., Loayza, P. A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alves, L. F., Maia, V. A., Vieira, S. A., Arantes da Silva, L. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E., Astigarraga, J., Baccaro, F., Baker, T., Banki, O., Barroso, J., …Crowther, T. W. (2024). The pace of life for forest trees. Science, 386(6717), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9616

Tree growth and longevity trade-offs fundamentally shape the terrestrial carbon balance. Yet, we lack a unified understanding of how such trade-offs vary across the world’s forests. By mapping life history traits for a wide range of species across th... Read More about The pace of life for forest trees.

The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora (2024)
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Luize, B. G., Tuomisto, H., Ekelschot, R., Dexter, K. G., Amaral, I. L., Coelho, L. D. S., Matos, F. D. D. A., Lima Filho, D. D. A., Salomão, R. P., Wittmann, F., Castilho, C. V., Carim, M. D. J. V., Guevara, J. E., Phillips, O. L., Magnusson, W. E., Sabatier, D., Cardenas Revilla, J. D., Molino, J. F., Irume, M. V., Martins, M. P., …ter Steege, H. (2024). The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora. Communications Biology, 7(1), Article 1240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06937-5

We describe the geographical variation in tree species composition across Amazonian forests and show how environmental conditions are associated with species turnover. Our analyses are based on 2023 forest inventory plots (1 ha) that provide abundanc... Read More about The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora.

Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand? (2024)
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Frings, P. J., Panizzo, V. N., Sutton, J. N., & Ehlert, C. (2024). Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Article 108966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108966

Silicon stable isotope ratios (expressed as δ30Si) in biogenic silica have been widely used as a proxy for past and present biogeochemical cycling in both marine and lacustrine settings, in particular for nutrient utilization reconstructions. Yet an... Read More about Diatom silicon isotope ratios in Quaternary research: Where do we stand?.

Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia (2024)
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Trinh, D. A., Do, N. T., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., Salgado, J., Large, A. R., Henderson, A. C., & Vu, T. T. (2024). Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 12, Article 100183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2024.100183

The Red River originating from Yunnan province, China is the second largest river in Vietnam in terms of length and discharge. Combination of water chemistry monitoring data of 4 years (2018–2022) from different sub-basins of the Red River (the Da, L... Read More about Anthropogenic impacts on the water chemistry of a transboundary river system in Southeast Asia.

Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain (2024)
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Zeng, L., Engels, S., Swann, G. E., Chen, X., Huang, X., Cao, Y., & McGowan, S. (2024). Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain. Journal of Hydrology, 641, Article 131839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131839

Dam construction for social-economic benefits has raised substantial biological and ecological concerns. However, contrasting findings have been reported regarding the role of hydrological modification in floodplain lake ecosystems. Here, we evaluate... Read More about Dual impacts of hydrology and damming on eutrophication: Comparison of two Ramsar wetlands in the middle Yangtze floodplain.

South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution (2024)
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Wilkin, J. T., Kender, S., Dejardin, R., Allen, C. S., Peck, V. L., Swann, G. E., McClymont, E. L., Scourse, J. D., Littler, K., & Leng, M. J. (2024). South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 43(1), 165-186. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-165-2024

The subantarctic islands of South Georgia are located in the Southern Ocean, and they may be sensitive to future climate warming. However, due to a lack of well-dated subantarctic palaeoclimate archives, there is still uncertainty about South Georgia... Read More about South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution.

Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology (2024)
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Smith, M. W., Willis, T., Mroz, E., James, W. H., Klaar, M. J., Gosling, S. N., & Thomas, C. J. (2024). Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology. Science, 384(6696), 697-703. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk8755

Changes in climate shift the geographic locations that are suitable for malaria transmission because of the thermal constraints on vector Anopheles mosquitos and Plasmodium spp. malaria parasites and the lack of availability of surface water for vect... Read More about Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology.

Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments (2024)
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Higgins, E. A., Boyd, D. S., Brown, T. W., Owen, S. C., van der Heijden, G. M. F., & Algar, A. C. (2024). Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.393

To understand how ectotherms will respond to warming temperatures, we require information on thermal habitat quality at spatial resolutions and extents relevant to the organism. Measuring thermal habitat quality is either limited to small spatial ext... Read More about Unoccupied aerial vehicles as a tool to map lizard operative temperature in tropical environments.

The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa (2024)
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Kunda, J. J., Gosling, S. N., & Foody, G. M. (2024). The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. International Journal of Biometeorology, 68, 1015-1033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-024-02650-4

This review examines high-quality research evidence that synthesises the effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. Web of Science (WoS) was used to identify research articles on the effects extreme heat, humidity, Wet-bulb Globe Tem... Read More about The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa.

One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (2024)
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Householder, J. E., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Piedade, M. T. F., Junk, W. J., Latrubesse, E. M., Quaresma, A. C., Demarchi, L. O., de S. Lobo, G., Aguiar, D. P., Assis, R. L., Lopes, A., Parolin, P., Leão do Amaral, I., Coelho, L. D. S., de Almeida Matos, F. D., Lima Filho, D. D. A., Salomão, R. P., Castilho, C. V., Guevara-Andino, J. E., …ter Steege, H. (2024). One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8, 901-911. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1

Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is... Read More about One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains.