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21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

scientific article (publication date: 14 July 2011)

A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

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Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils

scientific article published in 2009

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Aboveground biomass estimation in tropical forests at single tree level with ALS data

Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

scientific article

Allpahuayo: Floristics, Structure, and Dynamics of a High-Diversity Forest in Amazonian Peru

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Amazon Basin forest pyrogenic carbon stocks: First estimate of deep storage

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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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Amazon palm biomass and allometry

scientific article published in 2013

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests

scientific article published in 2023

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

scientific article published on 25 October 2015

An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

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Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)

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Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest

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Area-based vs tree-centric approaches to mapping forest carbon in Southeast Asian forests from airborne laser scanning data

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Author Correction: Long-term carbon sink in Borneo's forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edges

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest nitrogen-cycling characteristics as inferred from plant and soil15N:14N measurements

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate

scholarly article by N. M. Fyllas et al published 27 November 2009 in Biogeosciences

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Biodiversity conservation: Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply)

scholarly article by Chris D. Thomas et al published 1 July 2004 in Nature Cell Biology

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances

scientific article

Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin

scientific article published in 2009

Calibrating the liana crown occupancy index in Amazonian forests

article published in 2010

Carbon concentration declines with decay class in tropical forest woody debris

scientific article published in 2017

Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations' carbon emissions

scientific article

Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Changes in Amazonian forest biomass, dynamics, and composition, 1980–2002

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Changes in Growth of Tropical Forests: Evaluating Potential Biases

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Changes in the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Plots

scientific article published on October 16, 1998

Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Climate and fragmentation affect forest structure at the southern border of Amazonia

scientific article published in 2018

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Collapse of ecosystem carbon stocks due to forest conversion to soybean plantations at the Amazon-Cerrado transition

scientific article published in 2018

Comparative phylogeography of five widespread tree species: Insights into the history of western Amazonia

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots

scientific article

Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests

scientific article

Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia.

scientific article

Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 14 October 2008

Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies

scientific article published in 2022

Coordination of physiological and structural traits in Amazon forest trees

article

Correction to: Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Corrigendum: Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

scientific article

Development and parameterization of a general forest gap dynamics simulator for the North-eastern Mediterranean Basin (GREek FOrest Species)

article

Differences in leaf thermoregulation and water use strategies between three co-occurring Atlantic forest tree species.

scientific article published on 3 May 2018

Dinámica, biomasa aérea y composición florística en parcelas permanentes Reserva Nacional Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Perú

Disequilibrium and hyperdynamic tree turnover at the forest–cerrado transition zone in southern Amazonia

scientific article published in 2013

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

scientific article

Diversity, abundance and distribution of lianas of the Cerrado–Amazonian forest transition, Brazil

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Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin forests?

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Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?

Dominant tree species drive beta diversity patterns in western Amazonia

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest

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Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

scholarly article by M.K. van der Molen published in July 2011

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia.

scientific article

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements.

scientific article

Drought, dispersal, and distribution in the inner tropics

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

scientific article published on August 2010

Dynamics and species richness of tropical rain forests

scientific article

ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Ecology of Floodplain Campos de Murundus Savanna in Southern Amazonia

scientific article published in 2015

Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change

scientific article

Edaphic controls on ecosystem-level carbon allocation in two contrasting Amazon forests

scholarly article by Eliana M. Jiménez published in September 2014

Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest-savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function

Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function

article by Jonathan Lloyd et al published 18 November 2015 in Biogeosciences

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Effects of long-term increased N deposition on tropical montane forest soil N2 and N2O emissions

Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests

scientific article published in 2003

Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonian forests

scientific article

Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests

scientific article

Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning

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Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.

scientific article

Estimation of biomass and carbon stocks: the case of the Atlantic Forest

scientific article published in 2008

Evaluating the tropical forest carbon sink

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

Evidence for arrested succession in a liana-infested Amazonian forest

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Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology

scientific article published in December 2016

Extensive 21st‐Century Woody Encroachment in South America's Savanna

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Extinction risk from climate change

scientific article, 2014

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees

scientific article

Fates of atmospheric deposited nitrogen in an Asian tropical primary forest

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Ficus insipida subsp. insipida (Moraceae) reveals the role of ecology in the phylogeography of widespread Neotropical rain forest tree species

scientific article

Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Fingerprinting the impacts of global change on tropical forests

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Fires increase Amazon forest productivity through increases in diffuse radiation

scholarly article

Floristic and functional affiliations of woody plants with climate in western Amazonia

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Floristics and biogeography of vegetation in seasonally dry tropical regions

scholarly article by K.G. Dexter et al published 1 August 2015 in International Forestry Review

Forest biomass density across large climate gradients in northern South America is related to water availability but not with temperature.

scientific article

Forest turnover, diversity and CO(2).

scientific article published in October 1997

ForestPlots.net: a web application and research tool to manage and analyse tropical forest plot data

article by Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez et al published 6 July 2011 in Journal of Vegetation Science

From plots to policy: How to ensure long‐term forest plot data supports environmental management in intact tropical forest landscapes

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests

scientific article published on November 2011

Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography

scientific article published in January 2024

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

scientific article published in September 2022

Global species-energy relationship in forest plots: role of abundance, temperature and species climatic tolerances

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Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

scientific article published in 2008

Habitat association among Amazonian tree species: a landscape-scale approach

article published in 2003

Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

article by T. R. Feldpausch et al published 5 May 2011 in Biogeosciences

High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

scientific article published on 25 August 2021

High nitrogen isotope fractionation of nitrate during denitrification in four forest soils and its implications for denitrification rate estimates

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How do trees die? Mode of death in northern Amazonia

article by Kuo-Jung Chao et al published 25 March 2009 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Idiosyncratic soil-tree species associations and their relationships with drought in a monodominant Amazon forest

scientific article published in 2018

Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities

scientific article published in 2018

Impacts of Fire on Forest Biomass Dynamics at the Southern Amazon Edge

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Impacts of global atmospheric change on tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 February 2006

Impacts of lianas on forest-level carbon storage and sequestration

scholarly article published 18 October 2014

Impacts of selective logging on tree diversity across a rainforest landscape: the importance of spatial scale

scholarly article by Nicholas J. Berry et al published 31 July 2008 in Landscape Ecology

Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots

scientific article

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

scientific article published on February 2009

Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

scientific article

Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests

scientific article published on February 1994

Individual tree crown delineation in a highly diverse tropical forest using very high resolution satellite images

Infestation of trees by lianas in a tropical forest in Amazonian Peru

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Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia

scientific article published in 2009

Intensification of the Amazon hydrological cycle over the last two decades

article by M. Gloor et al published 14 May 2013 in Geophysical Research Letters

Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests

scientific article

Introduction

Land cover change and carbon emissions over 100 years in an African biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Large-scale patterns of turnover and Basal area change in Andean forests.

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in Amazon tree turnover

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Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of Amazonian forest plots

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Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of South American forests

Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World woody plants

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Leaf traits from stomata to morphology are associated with climatic and edaphic variables for dominant tropical forest evergreen oaks

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru

scientific article

Limited biomass recovery from gold mining in Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2020

Long-term carbon sink in Borneo's forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

scientific article published on March 2015

Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Low Phylogenetic Beta Diversity and Geographic Neo-endemism in Amazonian White-sand Forests

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Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a southwest Amazonian forest

scientific article

Making forest data fair and open

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Mapping tropical forest functional variation at satellite remote sensing resolutions depends on key traits

scientific article published in 2022

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges

scientific article

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists

scientific article

Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots

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More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

New views on an old forest: assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest

scholarly article by Mark Maslin et al published December 2005 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests

scientific article

Notes on economic plants

scientific article published in 1990

On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

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Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Patterns of tree species composition at watershed-scale in the Amazon ‘arc of deforestation’: implications for conservation

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Peatland forests are the least diverse tree communities documented in Amazonia, but contribute to high regional beta-diversity

article by Frederick C. Draper et al published 16 January 2018 in Ecography

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition.

scientific article published in March 2017

Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities

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Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests

Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Recent Amazon climate as background for possible ongoing and future changes of Amazon humid forests

article by M. Gloor et al published September 2015 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Recent progress in understanding climate thresholds

scholarly article

Reconciling the contribution of environmental and stochastic structuring of tropical forest diversity through the lens of imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Regional Mapping and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Canopy Palms in an Amazon Forest Using Deep Learning and VHR Images

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America

scientific article published in 2010

Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies

scientific article published on August 2010

Residence times of woody biomass in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2013

Resilience of southwestern Amazon forests to anthropogenic edge effects

scientific article

Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink

scientific article

Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth

scientific article published on 24 September 2023

Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

SAR tomography for the retrieval of forest biomass and height: Cross-validation at two tropical forest sites in French Guiana

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Savanna turning into forest: concerted vegetation change at the ecotone between the Amazon and “Cerrado” biomes

Scaling issues of neutral theory reveal violations of ecological equivalence for dominant Amazonian tree species

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Scaling leaf respiration with nitrogen and phosphorus in tropical forests across two continents

scientific article

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

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Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests

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Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

scholarly article by Chris Huntingford et al published 10 March 2013 in Nature Geoscience

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

scientific article

Soil physical conditions limit palm and tree basal area in Amazonian forests

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Soil-induced impacts on forest structure drive coarse woody debris stocks across central Amazonia

article published in 2014

Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient

scientific article

Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees

scientific article published in 2009

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data.

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Species Matter: Wood Density Influences Tropical Forest Biomass at Multiple Scales

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 20 October 2005

Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

article by E. M. Veenendaal et al published 21 May 2015 in Biogeosciences

Studying the Amazon: the experience of the Amazon Forest Inventory Network

scholarly article

Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests

scientific article published in 2022

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

scientific article

The 2010 Amazon drought

scientific article

The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

The RAINFOR database: monitoring forest biomass and dynamics

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The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

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The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

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The carbon balance of South America: a review of the status, decadal trends and main determinants

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The changing Amazon forest

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2008)

The changing ecology of tropical forests

The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The global relationship between forest productivity and biomass

scientific article published in 2007

The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo

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The impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia

scholarly article by Lera Miles et al published November 2004 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

The importance of crown dimensions to improve tropical tree biomass estimates

scientific article published on June 2014

The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

The number of tree species on Earth

scientific article

The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

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The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory

scientific article published in 2019

The potential for rising CO2 to account for the observed uptake of carbon by tropical, temperate, and boreal forest biomes.

scientific article published on January 2005

The production, storage, and flow of carbon in Amazonian forests

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The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru

scientific article published in 2013

The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests

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The seasonal cycle of productivity, metabolism and carbon dynamics in a wet aseasonal forest in north-west Amazonia (Iquitos, Peru)

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The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest

scientific article

The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Tightening up on tree carbon estimates

scientific article published in Nature

Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes

article

Towards regional, error-bounded landscape carbon storage estimates for data-deficient areas of the world

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Tree Community Change across 700 km of Lowland Amazonian Forest from the Andean Foothills to Brazil

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Tree diversity and above-ground biomass in the South America Cerrado biome and their conservation implications

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

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Tropical forest wood production: a cross-continental comparison

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Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis

scientific article (publication date: 29 March 2004)

Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits

preprint

Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits

scientific article published on 06 November 2021

Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon

scientific article

Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest

scientific article published in 2015

Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

scientific article published in 2011

Variation in potential for isoprene emissions among Neotropical forest sites

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models.

scientific article

Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

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Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees

scientific article

Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and modelled rates of photosynthetic carbon supply

scientific article published in November 2011

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

article by L. Banin et al published 20 July 2012 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Wood density and stocks of coarse woody debris in a northwestern Amazonian landscape

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sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

scientific article published on 21 June 2021