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A model of botanical collectors' behavior in the field: never the same species twice

scientific article

A null-model for significance testing of presence-only species distribution models

scientific article published in 2007

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

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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts ⬇️

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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity

scientific article (publication date: 12 November 2010)

Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Are all species necessary to reveal ecologically important patterns?

scientific article

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

article

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

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Botanical richness and endemicity patterns of Borneo derived from species distribution models

article

Bryophyte communities in the Amazon forest are regulated by height on the host tree and site elevation

article by Sylvia Mota de Oliveira & Hans ter Steege published 19 January 2015 in Journal of Ecology

Carbon-diversity hotspots and their owners in Brazilian southeastern Savanna, Atlantic Forest and Semi-Arid Woodland domains

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Changes in woody plant composition of three vegetation types exposed to a similar fire regime for over 46 years

article

Climate change threatens native potential agroforestry plant species in Brazil

scientific article published on 10 February 2022

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Colloquium paper: how many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?

scientific article

Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Composition of Woody Species in a Dynamicforest–woodland–savannah Mosaic in Uganda: Implications for Conservation and Management

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Composition, diversity and structure of vascular epiphytes in two contrasting Central Amazonian floodplain ecosystems

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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change ⬇️

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Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees

scientific article published on 12 January 2024

Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

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 published in September 2006

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

scientific article published in 2024

Defaunation changes leaf trait composition of recruit communities in tropical forests in French Guiana

scientific article published in 2022

Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: Tree species in the Atlantic Forest hotspot ⬇️

scientific article published in 2020

Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon

scientific article published on 3 April 2009

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome ⬇️

scientific article

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

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

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Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2009)

Ecology: density and diversity

scientific article published in June 2002

Estimating and interpreting migration of Amazonian forests using spatially implicit and semi-explicit neutral models

scientific article

Estimating species richness in hyper-diverse large tree communities.

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees ⬇️

scientific article

Finding needles in the haystack: where to look for rare species in the American tropics

article by Alexander Zizka et al published 1 March 2017 in Ecography

Flooding and drought tolerance in seeds and seedlings of two Mora species segregated along a soil hydrological gradient in the tropical rain forest of Guyana

scientific article published on December 1994

Forest conservation: Humans' handprints

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates

scientific article published in 2022

Going north and south: The biogeographic history of two Malvaceae in the wake of Neogene Andean uplift and connectivity between the Americas

scholarly article by Carina Hoorn et al published May 2019 in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Herbivory and habitat association of tree seedlings in lowland evergreen rainforest on white-sand and terra-firme in the upper Rio Negro

scientific article published on 06 February 2013

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Incorporating phylogenetic information for the definition of floristic districts in hyperdiverse Amazon forests: Implications for conservation

scientific article

Integrating climate change into agroforestry conservation: A case study on native plant species in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

scientific article published in 2023

Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

article

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2015

Long-term effect of timber harvesting in the Bartica Triangle, Central Guyana

scientific article published on 09 September 2002

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

article

Making forest data fair and open

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

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

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Modeling distribution of Amazonian tree species and diversity using remote sensing measurements

scientific article published in 2008

Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long‐term climate change during the Mid‐Late Holocene

scientific article published in 2020

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

Niche assembly of epiphytic bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Patterns and Determinants of Floristic Variation across Lowland Forests of Bolivia

scholarly article by Marisol Toledo et al published 11 October 2010 in Biotropica

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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Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species

scientific article

Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types

scientific article published in 2022

Reply to Feeley and Silman: Extinction risk estimates are approximations but are not invalid.

scholarly article

Response to Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition".

scientific article published in October 2017

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

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics ⬇️

article

Soil Fungal Community Composition Correlates with Site-Specific Abiotic Factors, Tree Community Structure, and Forest Age in Regenerating Tropical Rainforests

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

article

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

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Species abundance, distribution and diversity in time and space after centuries of botanical collecting in the Guianas

scientific article published on April 2010

Species richness, composition, and spatial distribution of vascular epiphytes in Amazonian black-water floodplain forests

article

THE EPIPHYTIC BRYOPHYTE FLORA OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON

scientific article published in 2015

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

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 Possible function of Buttresses in Caryocar Nuciferum (Caryocaraceae) in Guyana: Ecological and Wood Anatomical Observations

scientific article published in 1997

The contribution of environmental and dispersal filters on phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity patterns in Amazonian tree communities

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

scientific article

The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

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

article

The pitfalls of biodiversity proxies: Differences in richness patterns of birds, trees and understudied diversity across Amazonia

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

The role of recruitment and dispersal limitation in tree community assembly in Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2018

The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia

scientific article published in 2021

Towards a dynamic list of Amazonian tree species

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Tree communities of white-sand and terra-firme forests of the upper Rio Negro

article by Juliana Stropp et al published 2011 in Acta Amazonica

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates ⬇️

article

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Trees of Amazonian Ecuador: a taxonomically verified species list with data on abundance and distribution

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

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

scientific article

Water availability drives gradients of tree diversity, structure and functional traits in the Atlantic–Cerrado–Caatinga transition, Brazil

article

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

Why Do Some Tropical Forests Have So Many Species of Trees?

scientific article

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