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A comparative assessment of the financial costs and carbon benefits of REDD+ strategies in Southeast Asia

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A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery

A review of the use of direct seeding and seedling plantings in restoration: what do we know and where should we go?

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Altered Tree Communities in Undisturbed Amazonian Forests: A Consequence of Global Change?1

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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts ⬇️

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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

scientific article

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Apparent environmental synergism drives the dynamics of Amazonian forest fragments

scientific article published in 2014

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

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

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

scientific article

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Changes in Growth of Tropical Forests: Evaluating Potential Biases ⬇️

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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

Conservation: White possums must stay cool to survive

scientific article published in August 2014

Defeating the ‘resource curse’: Key priorities for conserving Papua New Guinea’s native forests

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Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees

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Demographic and life-history correlates for Amazonian trees

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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Drivers of wetland disturbance and biodiversity impacts on a tropical oceanic island

article published in 2012

Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation

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Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Recruitment Patterns in Amazonian Tree Communities

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Effects of landscape disturbance on mosquito community composition in tropical Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Effects of the surrounding matrix on tree recruitment in Amazonian forest fragments

scientific article

Elevated temperature and CO2 cause differential growth stimulation and drought survival responses in eucalypt species from contrasting habitats

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

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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

Forest edge disturbance increases rattan abundance in tropical rain forest fragments

scientific article

Functional Traits and Water Transport Strategies in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Trees

scientific article

Gender differences in science: no support for the ‘Homer Simpson Effect’ among tropical researchers ⬇️

scientific article published on April 7, 2011

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

scientific article published in January 2024

Green labelling, sustainability and the expansion of tropical agriculture: Critical issues for certification schemes

Habitat fragmentation and ecological traits influence the prevalence of avian blood parasites in a tropical rainforest landscape.

scientific article

Habitat fragmentation and the desiccation of forest canopies: A case study from eastern Amazonia

Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesis

scientific article

Homing in on the ‘Homer Simpson Effect’: reply to Dugdale et al

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How do herbivorous insects respond to drought stress in trees?

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora

scientific article

Identifying Rising Stars in Biology: A Response to Bruna

article

Importance of soils, topography and geographic distance in structuring central Amazonian tree communities

article

Incorporating resilience and cost in ecological restoration strategies at landscape scale

scientific article published in 2016

Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots

scientific article

Inferred causes of tree mortality in fragmented and intact Amazonian forests

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Inferred longevity of Amazonian rainforest trees based on a long-term demographic study

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Land Use Influences Mosquito Communities and Disease Risk on Remote Tropical Islands: A Case Study Using a Novel Sampling Technique

scientific article

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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Long-term changes in liana abundance and forest dynamics in undisturbed Amazonian forests

scientific article published on June 2014

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2015

Long-term dynamics of a fragmented rainforest mammal assemblage

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

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

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Native turncoats and indirect facilitation of species invasions. ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2018

Not Everyone Wants Roads: Assessing Indigenous People’s Support for Roads in a Globally Important Tiger Conservation Landscape

scientific article published in 2018

Optimal climate for large trees at high elevations drives patterns of biomass in remote forests of Papua New Guinea.

scientific article

Overcoming the challenges of mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) sampling in remote localities: a comparison of CO2 attractants on mosquito communities in three tropical forest habitats.

scientific article published on January 2014

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)

Peat fires: emissions likely to worsen

scientific article published in November 2015

Persistent effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforest canopy structure after 20 yr of isolation

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

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

scientific article published in March 2017

Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests

scientific article

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

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Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities ⬇️

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Phylogenetic impoverishment of Amazonian tree communities in an experimentally fragmented forest landscape

scientific article

Predicted trajectories of tree community change in Amazonian rainforest fragments

scientific article published in 2016

Predicting Publication Success for Biologists

article

RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF AMAZONIAN TREE COMMUNITIES

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Rain forest fragmentation and the proliferation of successional trees

scientific article published on February 2006

Rain-forest fragmentation and the phenology of Amazonian tree communities

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Rainforest fragmentation and the demography of the economically important palm Oenocarpus bacaba in central Amazonia

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Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees

scientific article published in Nature

Rainforest trees respond to drought by modifying their hydraulic architecture

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments

scholarly article

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Rats and the city: Implications of urbanization on zoonotic disease risk in Southeast Asia

scientific article published in 2022

Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

article

Response of tree biomass and wood litter to disturbance in a Central Amazon forest

scientific article

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

article

Soil types influence predictions of soil carbon stock recovery in tropical secondary forests

scientific article published in 2016

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

article published in 2014

Spatially explicit estimates of forest carbon emissions, mitigation costs and REDD+ opportunities in Indonesia

article

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

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Stability of tropical forest tree carbon‐water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth

scientific article published on 01 September 2021

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

scientific article

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

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The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

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The global abundance of tree palms

scientific article

The intertidal plant communities in north‐eastern Australia, their carbon stores and vulnerability to extreme climate events

scientific article published in 2020

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

Tropical forest fragmentation and greenhouse gas emissions

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Tropical forest regeneration following land abandonment is driven by primary rainforest distribution in an old pastoral region

scientific article published in 2015

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

Tropical wildlife corridors: use of linear rainforest remnants by arboreal mammals

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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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Vegetation and floristics of a lowland tropical rainforest in northeast Australia.

scientific article

Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

scientific article published in 2022

When rare species are not important: linking plot-based vegetation classifications and landscape-scale mapping in Australian savanna vegetation

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Where and how are roads endangering mammals in Southeast Asia's forests?

scientific article

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