Publications

@article{Araujo2024-ca,

title = {Taller trees exhibit greater hydraulic vulnerability in southern  Amazonian forests},

author = {Igor Araújo and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Carla H L Oliveira and Jose W S Silva and Raiane G Beú and Ivone Vieira Silva and Priscila F Simioni and Julia V Tavares and Oliver L Phillips and Manuel U Gloor and David R Galbraith},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2024.105905},

doi = {10.1016/j.envexpbot.2024.105905},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-01},

urldate = {2024-10-01},

journal = {Environ. Exp. Bot.},

volume = {226},

number = {105905},

pages = {105905},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

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@article{Bialic-Murphy_pmid39361744,

title = {The pace of life for forest trees},

author = {Lalasia Bialic-Murphy and Robert M McElderry and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Johan van den Hoogen and Pieter A Zuidema and Oliver L Phillips and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Patricia Alvarez Loayza and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Luciana F Alves and Vinícius Andrade Maia and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Lidiany Carolina Arantes da Silva and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric Arets and Julen Astigarraga and Fabrício Baccaro and Timothy Baker and Olaf Banki and Jorcely Barroso and Lilian Blanc and Damien Bonal and Frans Bongers and Kauane Maiara Bordin and Roel Brienen and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and José Luís Camargo and Felipe Carvalho Araújo and Carolina V Castilho and Wendeson Castro and Victor Chama Moscoso and James Comiskey and Flávia Costa and Sandra Cristina Müller and Everton Cristo de Almeida and Antonio Carlos Lôla da Costa and Vitor de Andrade Kamimura and Fernanda de Oliveira and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Géraldine Derroire and Kyle Dexter and Anthony Di Fiore and Louis Duchesne and Thaise Emílio and Camila Laís Farrapo and Sophie Fauset and Federick C Draper and Ted R Feldpausch and Rafael Flora Ramos and Valeria Forni Martins and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Miguel Gama Reis and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Bruno Herault and Rafael Herrera and Eurídice Honorio Coronado and Robert Howe and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Katia Janaina Zanini and Carlos Joly and Timothy Killeen and Joice Klipel and Susan G Laurance and William F Laurance and Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes and Wilmar Lopez Oviedo and William E Magnusson and Rubens Manoel Dos Santos and Jose Luis Marcelo Peña and Karla Maria Pedra de Abreu and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Karina Melgaço and Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz and Casimiro Mendoza and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Paulo S Morandi and Fernanda Moreira Gianasi and Henrique Nascimento and Marcelo Nascimento and David Neill and Walter Palacios and Nadir C Pallqui Camacho and Guido Pardo and R Toby Pennington and Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora and Nigel C A Pitman and Lourens Poorter and Adriana Prieto Cruz and Hirma Ramírez-Angulo and Simone Matias Reis and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Carlos Reynel Rodriguez and Agustín Rudas Lleras and Flavio A M Santos and Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin and Juliana Schietti and Gustavo Schwartz and Julio Serrano and André Maciel Silva-Sene and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Hans Ter Steege and John Terborgh and Mathias W Tobler and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Peter J van de Meer and Geertje van der Heijden and Rodolfo Vasquez and Emilio Vilanova and Vincent Antoine Vos and Amy Wolf and Christopher W Woodall and Verginia Wortel and Joeri A Zwerts and Thomas A M Pugh and Thomas W Crowther},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/10/science.adk9616.pdf},

doi = {10.1126/science.adk9616},

issn = {1095-9203},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-01},

urldate = {2024-10-01},

journal = {Science},

volume = {386},

number = {6717},

pages = {92--98},

abstract = {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 the Americas, we reveal considerable variation in life expectancies from 10 centimeters in diameter (ranging from 1.3 to 3195 years) and show that the pace of life for trees can be accurately classified into four demographic functional types. We found emergent patterns in the strength of trade-offs between growth and longevity across a temperature gradient. Furthermore, we show that the diversity of life history traits varies predictably across forest biomes, giving rise to a positive relationship between trait diversity and productivity. Our pan-latitudinal assessment provides new insights into the demographic mechanisms that govern the carbon turnover rate across forest biomes.},

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@article{Bouchard2024-sc,

title = {Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional  composition},

author = {Elise Bouchard and Eric B Searle and Pierre Drapeau and Jingjing Liang and Javier G P Gamarra and Meinrad Abegg and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica Almeyda Zambrano and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Luciana F Alves and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo Aymard and Jean-François Bastin and Philippe Birnbaum and Frans Bongers and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro Brancalion and Eben Broadbent and Filippo Bussotti and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Goran Češljar and Chelsea Chisholm and Emil Cienciala and Connie J Clark and José Javier Corral-Rivas and Thomas W Crowther and Selvadurai Dayanandan and Mathieu Decuyper and André L Gasper and Sergio de-Miguel and Géraldine Derroire and Ben DeVries and Ilija Djordjević and Tran Van Do and Jiri Dolezal and Tom M Fayle and Jonas Fridman and Lorenzo Frizzera and Damiano Gianelle and Andreas Hemp and Bruno Hérault and Martin Herold and Nobuo Imai and Andrzej M Jagodziński and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Tommaso Jucker and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Hyun Seok Kim and Henn Korjus and Florian Kraxner and Diana Laarmann and Simon Lewis and Huicui Lu and Brian S Maitner and Eric Marcon and Andrew R Marshall and Sharif A Mukul and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda and Elena I Parfenova and Minjee Park and Pablo L Peri and Sebastian Pfautsch and Oliver L Phillips and Maria Teresa F Piedade and Daniel Piotto and John R Poulsen and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and Hans Pretzsch and Peter B Reich and Mirco Rodeghiero and Samir Rolim and Francesco Rovero and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Peter Schall and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Jochen Schöngart and Vladimír Sebeň and Plinio Sist and Ferry Slik and Alexandre F Souza and Krzysztof Stereńczak and Miroslav Svoboda and Nadezhda M Tchebakova and Hans Steege and Elena V Tikhonova and Vladimir A Usoltsev and Fernando Valladares and Helder Viana and Alexander C Vibrans and Hua-Feng Wang and Bertil Westerlund and Susan K Wiser and Florian Wittmann and Verginia Wortel and Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki and Mo Zhou and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irié C Zo-Bi and Alain Paquette},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/05/Global-Ecology-and-Biogeography-2023-Bouchard-Global-patterns-and-environmental-drivers-of-forest-functional.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/geb.13790},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-01},

urldate = {2024-02-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

volume = {33},

number = {2},

pages = {303–324},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {AbstractAimTo determine the relationships between the functional 

 trait composition of forest communities and environmental 

 gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species 

 relative abundances in these relationships.LocationGlobal.Time 

 periodRecent.Major taxa studiedTrees.MethodsWe integrated 

 species abundance records from worldwide forest inventories and 

 associated functional traits (wood density, specific leaf area 

 and seed mass) to obtain a data set of 99,953 to 149,285 plots 

 (depending on the trait) spanning all forested continents. We 

 computed community‐weighted and unweighted means of trait values 

 for each plot and related them to three broad environmental 

 gradients and their interactions (energy availability, 

 precipitation and soil properties) at two scales (global and 

 biomes).ResultsOur models explained up to 60% of the variance 

 in trait distribution. At global scale, the energy gradient had 

 the strongest influence on traits. However, within‐biome models 

 revealed different relationships among biomes. Notably, the 

 functional composition of tropical forests was more influenced 

 by precipitation and soil properties than energy availability, 

 whereas temperate forests showed the opposite pattern. Depending 

 on the trait studied, response to gradients was more variable 

 and proportionally weaker in boreal forests. Community 

 unweighted means were better predicted than weighted means for 

 almost all models.Main conclusionsWorldwide, trees require a 

 large amount of energy (following latitude) to produce dense 

 wood and seeds, while leaves with large surface to weight ratios 

 are concentrated in temperate forests. However, patterns of 

 functional composition within‐biome differ from global patterns 

 due to biome specificities such as the presence of conifers or 

 unique combinations of climatic and soil properties. We 

 recommend assessing the sensitivity of tree functional traits to 

 environmental changes in their geographic context. Furthermore, 

 at a given site, the distribution of tree functional traits 

 appears to be driven more by species presence than species 

 abundance.},

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@article{Cooper_pmid38200314,

title = {Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities},

author = {Declan L M Cooper and Simon L Lewis and Martin J P Sullivan and Paulo I Prado and Hans Ter Steege and Nicolas Barbier and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Corneille E N Ewango and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Daniel P P de Aguiar and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Shin-Ichiro Aiba and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and Alfonso Alonso and Christian A Amani and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Iêda Leão do Amaral and Ana Andrade and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Ilondea B Angoboy and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Luzmila Arroyo and Peter Ashton and Gerardo A Aymard C and Cláudia Baider and Timothy R Baker and Michael Philippe Bessike Balinga and Henrik Balslev and Lindsay F Banin and Olaf S Bánki and Chris Baraloto and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Jos Barlow and Jean-Francois Bastin and Hans Beeckman and Serge Begne and Natacha Nssi Bengone and Erika Berenguer and Nicholas Berry and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Jan Bogaert and Bernard Bonyoma and Patrick Boundja and Nils Bourland and Faustin Boyemba Bosela and Fabian Brambach and Roel Brienen and David F R P Burslem and José Luís Camargo and Wegliane Campelo and Angela Cano and Sasha Cárdenas and Dairon Cárdenas López and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Luisa Fernanda Casas and Hernán Castellanos and Carolina V Castilho and Carlos Cerón and Colin A Chapman and Jerome Chave and Phourin Chhang and Wanlop Chutipong and George B Chuyong and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Connie J Clark and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and James A Comiskey and David A Coomes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Diego F Correa and Flávia R C Costa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Pierre Couteron and Heike Culmsee and Aida Cuni-Sanchez and Francisco Dallmeier and Gabriel Damasco and Gilles Dauby and Nállarett Dávila and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Jose Don T De Alban and Rafael L de Assis and Charles De Canniere and Thales De Haulleville and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Layon O Demarchi and Kyle G Dexter and Anthony Di Fiore and Hazimah Haji Mohammad Din and Mathias I Disney and Brice Yannick Djiofack and Marie-Noël K Djuikouo and Tran Van Do and Jean-Louis Doucet and Freddie C Draper and Vincent Droissart and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Julien Engel and Vittoria Estienne and William Farfan-Rios and Sophie Fauset and Kenneth J Feeley and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Ted R Feldpausch and Cid Ferreira and Joice Ferreira and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Christine D Fletcher and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and Alusine Fofanah and Ernest G Foli and Émile Fonty and Gabriella M Fredriksson and Alfredo Fuentes and David Galbraith and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Vitor H F Gomes and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Khalid Rehman Hakeem and Jefferson S Hall and Keith C Hamer and Alan C Hamilton and David J Harris and Rhett D Harrison and Terese B Hart and Andy Hector and Terry W Henkel and John Herbohn and Mireille B N Hockemba and Bruce Hoffman and Milena Holmgren and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Wannes Hubau and Nobuo Imai and Mariana Victória Irume and Patrick A Jansen and Kathryn J Jeffery and Eliana M Jimenez and Tommaso Jucker and André Braga Junqueira and Michelle Kalamandeen and Narcisse G Kamdem and Kuswata Kartawinata and Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu and John M Katembo and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Michael Kessler and Thiri Toe Khaing and Timothy J Killeen and Kanehiro Kitayama and Bente Klitgaard and Nicolas Labrière and Yves Laumonier and Susan G W Laurance and William F Laurance and Félix Laurent and Tinh Cong Le and Trai Trong Le and Miguel E Leal and Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo and Aurora Levesley and Moses B Libalah and Juan Carlos Licona and Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Jeremy A Lindsell and Aline Lopes and Maria Aparecida Lopes and Jon C Lovett and Richard Lowe and José Rafael Lozada and Xinghui Lu and Nestor K Luambua and Bruno Garcia Luize and Paul Maas and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and William E Magnusson and Ni Putu Diana Mahayani and Jean-Remy Makana and Yadvinder Malhi and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Asyraf Mansor and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andrew R Marshall and Maria Pires Martins and Faustin M Mbayu and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Italo Mesones and Faizah Metali and Vianet Mihindou and Jerome Millet and William Milliken and Hugo F Mogollón and Jean-François Molino and Mohd Nizam Mohd Said and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Sam Moore and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Sharif Ahmed Mukul and Pantaleo K T Munishi and Hidetoshi Nagamasu and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and David Neill and Reuben Nilus and Janaína Costa Noronha and Laurent Nsenga and Percy Núñez Vargas and Lucas Ojo and Alexandre A Oliveira and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Fidèle Evouna Ondo and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Ekananda Paudel and Daniela Pauletto and Richard G Pearson and José Luis Marcelo Pena and R Toby Pennington and Carlos A Peres and Andrea Permana and Pascal Petronelli and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Juan Fernando Phillips and Oliver L Phillips and Georgia Pickavance and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Nigel C A Pitman and Pierre Ploton and Andreas Popelier and John R Poulsen and Adriana Prieto and Richard B Primack and Hari Priyadi and Lan Qie and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and José Ferreira Ramos and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and Jan Reitsma and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Terhi Riutta and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Iyan Robiansyah and Maira Rocha and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and M Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ronderos and Francesco Rovero and Andes H Rozak and Agustín Rudas and Ervan Rutishauser and Daniel Sabatier and Le Bienfaiteur Sagang and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Ismayadi Samsoedin and Manichanh Satdichanh and Juliana Schietti and Jochen Schöngart and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Naret Seuaturien and Douglas Sheil and Rodrigo Sierra and Miles R Silman and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and José Renan da Silva Guimarães and Murielle Simo-Droissart and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Plinio Sist and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Dominick V Spracklen and Suzanne M Stas and Robert Steinmetz and Pablo R Stevenson and Juliana Stropp and Rahayu S Sukri and Terry C H Sunderland and Eizi Suzuki and Michael D Swaine and Jianwei Tang and James Taplin and David M Taylor and J Sebastián Tello and John Terborgh and Nicolas Texier and Ida Theilade and Duncan W Thomas and Raquel Thomas and Sean C Thomas and Milton Tirado and Benjamin Toirambe and José Julio de Toledo and Kyle W Tomlinson and Armando Torres-Lezama and Hieu Dang Tran and John Tshibamba Mukendi and Roven D Tumaneng and Maria Natalia Umaña and Peter M Umunay and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Tinde R Van Andel and Martin van de Bult and Jaqueline van de Pol and Geertje van der Heijden and Rodolfo Vasquez and César I A Vela and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Hans Verbeeck and Rizza Karen A Veridiano and Alberto Vicentini and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Daniel Villarroel and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Jason Vleminckx and Patricio von Hildebrand and Vincent Antoine Vos and Corine Vriesendorp and Edward L Webb and Lee J T White and Serge Wich and Florian Wittmann and Roderick Zagt and Runguo Zang and Charles Eugene Zartman and Lise Zemagho and Egleé L Zent and Stanford Zent},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/01/s41586-023-06820-z.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Nature},

abstract = {Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth's 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world's most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.},

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@article{Garcia-Luize2024-xw,

title = {Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of  Amazonian tree communities},

author = {Bruno Garcia-Luize and David Bauman and Hans Steege and Clarisse Palma-Silva and Iêda Leão Amaral and Luiz Souza Coelho and Francisca Dionízia Almeida Matos and Diógenes Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salomão and Florian Wittmann and Carolina V Castilho and Marcelo Jesus Veiga Carim and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Oliver L Phillips and William E Magnusson and Daniel Sabatier and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Jean-François Molino and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan Silva Guimarães and José Ferreira Ramos and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Dairon Cárdenas López and Nigel C A Pitman and Layon O Demarchi and Jochen Schöngart and Evlyn Márcia Moraes Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Flávia R C Costa and Ted R Feldpausch and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Rafael L Assis and Chris Baraloto and Dário Dantas Amaral and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima Queiroz and Gerardo A Aymard C and Roel Brienen and Pablo R Stevenson and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Tim R Baker and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Hugo F Mogollón and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Carlos A Peres and Miles R Silman and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and José Julio Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Freddie C Draper and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Fernando Cornejo Valverd and Alfonso Alonso and Luzmila Arroyo and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and Eliana M Jimenez and David Neill and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Janaína Costa Noronha and Daniel P P Aguiar and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Yennie K Bredin and Rainiellen Sá Carpanedo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Torbjørn Haugaasen and Joseph E Hawes and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Domingos Jesus Rodrigues and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Izaias Brasil Silva and Maria Julia Ferreira and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Carolina Levis and Juan Carlos Licona and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Vincent Antoine Vos and Carlos Cerón and Flávia Machado Durgante and Émile Fonty and Terry W Henkel and John Ethan Householder and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Doug Daly and William Millike and Guido Pardo Molina and Toby Pennington and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Wegliane Campelo and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pena and J Sebastián Tello and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Luciana Oliveira Pereira and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R Andel and Patricio Hildebrand and William Balee and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Stanford Zent and Egleé L Zent and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Guilherme Lobo and Luis Torres Montenegro and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Maihyra Marina Pombo and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Maria Natalia Umaña and Geertje Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Germaine Alexander Parada and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Kyle G Dexter},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/05/Journal-of-Biogeography-2024-Luize-Geography-and-ecology-shape-the-phylogenetic-composition-of-Amazonian-tree.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/jbi.14816  },

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-01},

urldate = {2024-02-01},

journal = {J. Biogeogr.},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {AbstractAimAmazonia hosts more tree species from numerous 

 evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other 

 biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree 

 lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed 

 widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, 

 that lineages should not be strongly associated with either 

 geographic regions or edaphic forest 

 types.LocationAmazonia.TaxonAngiosperms (Magnoliids; Monocots; 

 Eudicots).MethodsData for the abundance of 5082 tree species in 

 1989 plots were combined with a mega‐phylogeny. We applied 

 evolutionary ordination to assess how phylogenetic composition 

 varies across Amazonia. We used variation partitioning and 

 Moran's eigenvector maps (MEM) to test and quantify the separate 

 and joint contributions of spatial and environmental variables 

 to explain the phylogenetic composition of plots. We tested the 

 indicator value of lineages for geographic regions and edaphic 

 forest types and mapped associations onto the 

 phylogeny.ResultsIn the terra firme and várzea forest types, 

 the phylogenetic composition varies by geographic region, but 

 the igapó and white‐sand forest types retain a unique 

 evolutionary signature regardless of region. Overall, we find 

 that soil chemistry, climate and topography explain 24% of the 

 variation in phylogenetic composition, with 79% of that variation being spatially structured (R2 = 19% overall for 

 combined spatial/environmental effects). The phylogenetic 

 composition also shows substantial spatial patterns not related to the environmental variables we quantified (R2 = 28%). A 

 greater number of lineages were significant indicators of 

 geographic regions than forest types.Main ConclusionNumerous 

 tree lineages, including some ancient ones (>66 Ma), show strong 

 associations with geographic regions and edaphic forest types of 

 Amazonia. This shows that specialization in specific edaphic 

 environments has played a long‐standing role in the evolutionary 

 assembly of Amazonian forests. Furthermore, many lineages, even 

 those that have dispersed across Amazonia, dominate within a 

 specific region, likely because of phylogenetically conserved 

 niches for environmental conditions that are prevalent within 

 regions.},

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@article{Householder_pmid38467713,

title = {One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains},

author = {John Ethan Householder and Florian Wittmann and Jochen Schöngart and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Wolfgang J Junk and Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Layon O Demarchi and Guilherme de S Lobo and Daniel P P de Aguiar and Rafael L Assis and Aline Lopes and Pia Parolin and Iêda Leão do Amaral and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salomão and Carolina V Castilho and Juan Ernesto Guevara-Andino and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Oliver L Phillips and Dairon Cárdenas López and William E Magnusson and Daniel Sabatier and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Jean-François Molino and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan da Silva Guimarães and José Ferreira Ramos and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Olaf S Bánki and Carlos A Peres and Nigel C A Pitman and Joseph E Hawes and Everton José Almeida and Luciane Ferreira Barbosa and Larissa Cavalheiro and Márcia Cléia Vilela Dos Santos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Flávia R C Costa and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Ted R Feldpausch and Gerardo A Aymard C and Chris Baraloto and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Roel Brienen and Pablo R Stevenson and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Tim R Baker and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Hugo F Mogollón and Janaína Costa Noronha and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Miles R Silman and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Carolina Levis and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and Freddie C Draper and José Julio de Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Alberto Vicentini and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Alfonso Alonso and Luzmila Arroyo and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and Eliana M Jimenez and David Neill and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Kyle G Dexter and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Juan Carlos Licona and Toby Pennington and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Vincent Antoine Vos and Carlos Cerón and Émile Fonty and Terry W Henkel and Paul Maas and Edwin Pos and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Doug Daly and William Milliken and Guido Pardo Molina and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Wegliane Campelo and Thaise Emilio and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pena and Priscila F Souza and J Sebastián Tello and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Luciana de Oliveira Pereira and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R van Andel and Patricio von Hildebrand and William Balee and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite-Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Stanford Zent and Egleé L Zent and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Maria Natalia Umaña and Geertje van der Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Germaine Alexander Parada and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Hans Ter Steege},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/05/s41559-024-02364-1.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1},

issn = {2397-334X},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-03-01},

urldate = {2024-03-01},

journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},

abstract = {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 still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin. Here we address this gap by taking a spatially explicit look at Amazonia-wide patterns of tree-species turnover and ecological specialization of the region's floodplain forests. We show that the majority of Amazonian tree species can inhabit floodplains, and about a sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is ecologically specialized on floodplains. The degree of specialization in floodplain communities is driven by regional flood patterns, with the most compositionally differentiated floodplain forests located centrally within the fluvial network and contingent on the most extraordinary flood magnitudes regionally. Our results provide a spatially explicit view of ecological specialization of floodplain forest communities and expose the need for whole-basin hydrological integrity to protect the Amazon's tree diversity and its function.},

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@article{Mo2024-lx,

title = {The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their  impact on forest carbon stocks},

author = {Lidong Mo and Thomas W Crowther and Daniel S Maynard and Johan Hoogen and Haozhi Ma and Lalasia Bialic-Murphy and Jingjing Liang and Sergio de-Miguel and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Peter B Reich and Oliver L Phillips and Meinrad Abegg and Yves C Adou Yao and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano and Braulio Vilchez Alvarado and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila and Patricia Alvarez-Loayza and Luciana F Alves and Iêda Amaral and Christian Ammer and Clara Antón-Fernández and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo A Aymard and Timothy R Baker and Radomir Bałazy and Olaf Banki and Jorcely G Barroso and Meredith L Bastian and Jean-Francois Bastin and Luca Birigazzi and Philippe Birnbaum and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Frans Bongers and Coline C F Boonman and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro H S Brancalion and Susanne Brandl and Francis Q Brearley and Roel Brienen and Eben N Broadbent and Helge Bruelheide and Filippo Bussotti and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Ricardo G César and Goran Cesljar and Robin Chazdon and Han Y H Chen and Chelsea Chisholm and Hyunkook Cho and Emil Cienciala and Connie Clark and David Clark and Gabriel D Colletta and David A Coomes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and José J Corral-Rivas and Philip M Crim and Jonathan R Cumming and Selvadurai Dayanandan and André L Gasper and Mathieu Decuyper and Géraldine Derroire and Ben DeVries and Ilija Djordjevic and Jiri Dolezal and Aurélie Dourdain and Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang and Brian J Enquist and Teresa J Eyre and Adandé Belarmain Fandohan and Tom M Fayle and Ted R Feldpausch and Leandro V Ferreira and Leena Finér and Markus Fischer and Christine Fletcher and Lorenzo Frizzera and Javier G P Gamarra and Damiano Gianelle and Henry B Glick and David J Harris and Andrew Hector and Andreas Hemp and Geerten Hengeveld and Bruno Hérault and John L Herbohn and Martin Herold and Peter Hietz and Annika Hillers and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Cang Hui and Thomas Ibanez and Nobuo Imai and Andrzej M Jagodziński and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Vivian Kvist Johannsen and Carlos A Joly and Tommaso Jucker and Ilbin Jung and Viktor Karminov and Kuswata Kartawinata and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Deborah K Kennard and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Timothy J Killeen and Hyun Seok Kim and Kanehiro Kitayama and Michael Köhl and Henn Korjus and Florian Kraxner and Dmitry Kucher and Diana Laarmann and Mait Lang and Simon L Lewis and Yuanzhi Li and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Huicui Lu and Natalia V Lukina and Brian S Maitner and Yadvinder Malhi and Eric Marcon and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andrew R Marshall and Emanuel H Martin and James K McCarthy and Jorge A Meave and Omar Melo-Cruz and Casimiro Mendoza and Irina Mendoza-Polo and Stanislaw Miscicki and Cory Merow and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Vanessa S Moreno and Sharif A Mukul and Philip Mundhenk and María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda and David Neill and Victor J Neldner and Radovan V Nevenic and Michael R Ngugi and Pascal A Niklaus and Petr Ontikov and Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi and Yude Pan and Alain Paquette and Alexander Parada-Gutierrez and Elena I Parfenova and Minjee Park and Marc Parren and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy and Pablo L Peri and Sebastian Pfautsch and Nicolas Picard and Maria Teresa F Piedade and Daniel Piotto and Nigel C A Pitman and Lourens Poorter and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and John R Poulsen and Hans Pretzsch and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Zorayda Restrepo-Correa and Sarah J Richardson and Mirco Rodeghiero and Samir G Rolim and Anand Roopsind and Francesco Rovero and Ervan Rutishauser and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Philippe Saner and Peter Schall and Mart-Jan Schelhaas and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Bernhard Schmid and Jochen Schöngart and Eric B Searle and Vladimír Seben and Josep M Serra-Diaz and Douglas Sheil and Anatoly Z Shvidenko and Ana Carolina Da Silva and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Plinio Sist and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Enio Egon Jr Sosinski and Alexandre F Souza and Krzysztof J Stereńczak and Jens-Christian Svenning and Miroslav Svoboda and Ben Swanepoel and Natalia Targhetta and Nadja Tchebakova and Hans Ter Steege and Raquel Thomas and Elena Tikhonova and Peter M Umunay and Vladimir A Usoltsev and Renato Valencia and Fernando Valladares and Peter M Van Bodegom and Fons Plas and Tran Van Do and Michael E Nuland and Rodolfo M Vasquez and Hans Verbeeck and Helder Viana and Alexander C Vibrans and Simone Vieira and Klaus Gadow and Hua-Feng Wang and James V Watson and Gijsbert D A Werner and Florian Wittmann and Hannsjoerg Woell and Verginia Wortel and Roderick Zagt and Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki and Chunyu Zhang and Xiuhai Zhao and Mo Zhou and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irie C Zo-Bi and Constantin M Zohner},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/10/s41559-024-02564-9.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-01},

urldate = {2024-10-01},

journal = {Nat. Ecol. Evol.},

abstract = {The density of wood is a key indicator of the carbon investment 

 strategies of trees, impacting productivity and carbon storage. 

 Despite its importance, the global variation in wood density and 

 its environmental controls remain poorly understood, preventing 

 accurate predictions of global forest carbon stocks. Here we 

 analyse information from 1.1 million forest inventory plots 

 alongside wood density data from 10,703 tree species to create a 

 spatially explicit understanding of the global wood density 

 distribution and its drivers. Our findings reveal a pronounced 

 latitudinal gradient, with wood in tropical forests being up to 

 30% denser than that in boreal forests. In both angiosperms and 

 gymnosperms, hydrothermal conditions represented by annual mean 

 temperature and soil moisture emerged as the primary factors 

 influencing the variation in wood density globally. This 

 indicates similar environmental filters and evolutionary 

 adaptations among distinct plant groups, underscoring the 

 essential role of abiotic factors in determining wood density in 

 forest ecosystems. Additionally, our study highlights the 

 prominent role of disturbance, such as human modification and 

 fire risk, in influencing wood density at more local scales. 

 Factoring in the spatial variation of wood density notably 

 changes the estimates of forest carbon stocks, leading to 

 differences of up to 21% within biomes. Therefore, our research 

 contributes to a deeper understanding of terrestrial biomass 

 distribution and how environmental changes and disturbances 

 impact forest ecosystems.},

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}

@article{Ngute_pmid38273497,

title = {Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography},

author = {Alain Senghor K Ngute and David S Schoeman and Marion Pfeifer and Geertje M F van der Heijden and Oliver L Phillips and Michiel van Breugel and Mason J Campbell and Chris J Chandler and Brian J Enquist and Rachael V Gallagher and Christoph Gehring and Jefferson S Hall and Susan Laurance and William F Laurance and Susan G Letcher and Wenyao Liu and Martin J P Sullivan and S Joseph Wright and Chunming Yuan and Andrew R Marshall},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/05/Global-Change-Biology-2024-Ngute-Global-dominance-of-lianas-over-trees-is-driven-by-forest-disturbance-climate-and.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.17140},

issn = {1365-2486},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Glob Chang Biol},

volume = {30},

number = {1},

pages = {e17140},

abstract = {Growing evidence suggests that liana competition with trees is threatening the global carbon sink by slowing the recovery of forests following disturbance. A recent theory based on local and regional evidence further proposes that the competitive success of lianas over trees is driven by interactions between forest disturbance and climate. We present the first global assessment of liana-tree relative performance in response to forest disturbance and climate drivers. Using an unprecedented dataset, we analysed 651 vegetation samples representing 26,538 lianas and 82,802 trees from 556 unique locations worldwide, derived from 83 publications. Results show that lianas perform better relative to trees (increasing liana-to-tree ratio) when forests are disturbed, under warmer temperatures and lower precipitation and towards the tropical lowlands. We also found that lianas can be a critical factor hindering forest recovery in disturbed forests experiencing liana-favourable climates, as chronosequence data show that high competitive success of lianas over trees can persist for decades following disturbances, especially when the annual mean temperature exceeds 27.8°C, precipitation is less than 1614 mm and climatic water deficit is more than 829 mm. These findings reveal that degraded tropical forests with environmental conditions favouring lianas are disproportionately more vulnerable to liana dominance and thus can potentially stall succession, with important implications for the global carbon sink, and hence should be the highest priority to consider for restoration management.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Pan2024-ce,

title = {The enduring world forest carbon sink},

author = {Yude Pan and Richard A Birdsey and Oliver L Phillips and Richard A Houghton and Jingyun Fang and Pekka E Kauppi and Heather Keith and Werner A Kurz and Akihiko Ito and Simon L Lewis and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Anatoly Shvidenko and Shoji Hashimoto and Bas Lerink and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Andrea Castanho and Daniel Murdiyarso},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/09/Pan_et_al_The_Global_Forest_Carbon_Sink_Nature_2024.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-024-07602-x},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-07-01},

urldate = {2024-07-01},

journal = {Nature},

volume = {631},

number = {8021},

pages = {563–569},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {The uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) by terrestrial ecosystems is 

 critical for moderating climate change1. To provide a 

 ground-based long-term assessment of the contribution of forests 

 to terrestrial CO2 uptake, we synthesized in situ forest data 

 from boreal, temperate and tropical biomes spanning three 

 decades. We found that the carbon sink in global forests was 

 steady, at 3.6 $±$ 0.4 Pg C yr-1 in the 1990s and 2000s, and 

 3.5 $±$ 0.4 Pg C yr-1 in the 2010s. Despite this global 

 stability, our analysis revealed some major biome-level changes. 

 Carbon sinks have increased in temperate (+30 $±$ 5%) and 

 tropical regrowth (+29 $±$ 8%) forests owing to increases in 

 forest area, but they decreased in boreal (-36 $±$ 6%) and 

 tropical intact (-31 $±$ 7%) forests, as a result of 

 intensified disturbances and losses in intact forest area, 

 respectively. Mass-balance studies indicate that the global land 

 carbon sink has increased2, implying an increase in the 

 non-forest-land carbon sink. The global forest sink is 

 equivalent to almost half of fossil-fuel emissions (7.8 $±$ 

 0.4 Pg C yr-1 in 1990-2019). However, two-thirds of the benefit 

 from the sink has been negated by tropical deforestation (2.2 

 $±$ 0.5 Pg C yr-1 in 1990-2019). Although the global forest 

 sink has endured undiminished for three decades, despite 

 regional variations, it could be weakened by ageing forests, 

 continuing deforestation and further intensification of 

 disturbance regimes1. To protect the carbon sink, land 

 management policies are needed to limit deforestation, promote 

 forest restoration and improve timber-harvesting practices1,3.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Prestes2024-vf,

title = {Impact of the extreme 2015-16 El Niño climate event on  forest and savanna tree species of the Amazonia-Cerrado  transition},

author = {Nayane C C S Prestes and Beatriz S Marimon and Paulo S Morandi and Simone M Reis and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Wesley J A Cruz and Edmar A Oliveira and Lucas H Mariano and Fernando Elias and Denilson M Santos and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/12/Prestes_et_al_Flora_2024.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.flora.2024.152597},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-10-01},

urldate = {2024-10-01},

journal = {Flora},

volume = {319},

number = {152597},

pages = {152597},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Extreme drought events, driven by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), are linked to increased tree mortality and alterations in vegetation structure, dynamics, and floristic composition in tropical forests. Existing analyses, primarily focusing on Africa, Central America, and Amazonia, overlook the floristic impacts on biome transitions. This study evaluates the profound effects of the severe 2015/2016 ENSO event on tree density and floristic composition in the critical transition zone between Amazonia and Cerrado, South America's largest biomes. Our findings not only document significant biodiversity loss but also offer insights into species resilience, guiding conservation strategies under changing climate conditions. We inventoried long-term plots before and after the extreme drought event, sampling 12,465 individuals from 526 species, 224 genera, and 65 families, in Open Ombrophilous Forest (OF), Seasonal Forest (SF), Cerradão (CD), and Typical Cerrado (TC). We document the disappearance from our plots of 97 species after the ENSO, with only 61 new species being recorded. The total loss of individuals across the transition zone was almost 10 %. The SF and CD forest plots showed the greatest replacements, species losses, and reductions in tree density. Their markedly seasonal baseline climate probably drove these changes. In most phytophysiognomies, there was an increase in pioneer species and drier environment habitat specialist species, indicating that although many species are vulnerable to extreme climate events, others benefit, especially those with a short life cycle. We found that the vegetation of the Amazonia-Cerrado transition overall is vulnerable to climate anomalies, with widespread loss of tree density and change in floristic composition. Our study also provides a species-by-species list of the most vulnerable and resistant trees which helps point to overall climate change vulnerabilities and assist with initiatives to recover degraded areas.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sanchez-Martinez2024-qj,

title = {Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional  and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa},

author = {Pablo Sanchez-Martinez and Kyle G Dexter and Freddie C Draper and Chris Baraloto and Iêda Leão do Amaral and Luiz Souza Coelho and Francisca Dionízia Almeida Matos and Diógenes Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salomão and Florian Wittmann and Carolina V Castilho and Marcelo Jesus Veiga Carim and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Oliver L Phillips and William E Magnusson and Daniel Sabatier and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Jean-François Molino and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan Silva Guimarães and José Ferreira Ramos and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Dairon Cárdenas López and Nigel C A Pitman and Layon O Demarchi and Jochen Schöngart and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Flávia R C Costa and Ted R Feldpausch and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Rafael L Assis and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Julien Engel and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Gerardo Aymard and Roel Brienen and Pablo R Stevenson and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Tim R Baker and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Hugo F Mogollón and Carlos A Peres and Miles R Silman and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and José Julio Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Alfonso Alonso and Luzmila Arroyo and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and David Neill and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Janaína Costa Noronha and Daniel P P Aguiar and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Yennie K Bredin and Rainiellen Sá Carpanedo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Torbjørn Haugaasen and Joseph E Hawes and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and John J III Pipoly and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Domingos Jesus Rodrigues and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Izaias Brasil da Silva and Maria Julia Ferreira and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Carolina Levis and Juan Carlos Licona and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Vincent Antoine Vos and Carlos Cerón and Flávia Machado Durgante and Émile Fonty and Terry W Henkel and John Ethan Householder and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Doug Daly and William Milliken and Guido Pardo Molina and Toby Pennington and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Wegliane Campelo and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pena and J Sebastián Tello and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Luciana Oliveira Pereira and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R Andel and Patricio Hildebrand and William Balee and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Stanford Zent and Egleé L Zent and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Guilherme Lobo and Luis Torres Montenegro and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Maihyra Marina Pombo and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Maria Natalia Umaña and Geertje Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Germaine Alexander Parada and Armando Torres-Lezama and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Riley P Fortier and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Masha Sande and Lourens Poorter and Hans Steege},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2025/01/Functional-Ecology-2024-Sanchez‐Martinez-Phylogenetic-conservatism-in-the-relationship-between-functional-and.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2435.14700},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-11-01},

urldate = {2024-11-01},

journal = {Funct. Ecol.},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Abstract 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, wood and demographic characteristics 

 for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and 

 quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their 

 relationships. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic 

 variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis 

 represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource 

 uptake and use, wood density, seed mass, and survival. The 

 second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. 

 Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a 

 constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the 

 second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its 

 variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to 

 phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary 

 lability and coordination. Synthesis. Our results suggest that 

 life history strategies of tropical trees are generally 

 phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some 

 capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating 

 their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest‐scale 

 synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, 

 showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of 

 individual characteristics and their relationships. Read the 

 free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal 

 blog.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Bennett2023,

title = {Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly},

author = {Amy C. Bennett and Thaiane Rodrigues-de-Sousa and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Paulo S. Morandi and Fernanda Coelho-de-Souza and Wendeson Castro and Luisa Fernanda Duque and Gerardo Flores-Llampazo and Rubens Manoel-dos-Santos and Eliana Ramos and Emilio Vilanova-Torre and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Timothy R. Baker and Flavia R. C. Costa and Simon L. Lewis and Beatriz S. Marimon and Juliana Schietti and Benoit Burban and Erika Berenguer and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Zorayda Restrepo-Correa and Wilmar Lopez and Flavia Delgado-Santana and Laura Jessica Viscarra and Fernando Elias and Rodolfo Vasquez-Martinez and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and David Galbraith and Martin J. P. Sullivan and Thaise Emilio and Nayane C. C. S. Prestes and Jos Barlow and Nathalle Cristine Alencar-Fagundes and Edmar Almeida-de-Oliveira and Patricia Alvarez-Loayza and Luciana F. Alves and Simone Aparecida-Vieira and Vinicius Andrade-Maia and Luiz E. O. C. Aragao and Eric J. M. M. Arets and Luzmila Arroyo and Olaf Banki and Christopher Baraloto and Plinio Barbosa-Camargo and Jorcely Barroso and Wilder Bento-da-Silva and Damien Bonal and Alisson Borges Miranda-Santos and Roel J. W. Brienen and Foster Brown and Carolina V. Castilho and Sabina Cerruto-Ribeiro and Victor Chama-Moscoso and Ezequiel Chavez and James A. Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo-Valverde and Nallarett Davila-Cardozo and Natalia de Aguiar-Campos and Lia de-Oliveira-Melo and Jhon del-Aguila-Pasquel and Geraldine Derroire and Mathias Disney and Maria do-Socorro and Aurelie Dourdain and Ted R. Feldpausch and Joice Ferreira and Valeria Forni-Martins and Toby Gardner and Emanuel Gloor and Gloria Gutierrez-Sibauty and Rene Guillen and Eduardo Hase and Bruno Herault and Euridice N. Honorio-Coronado and Walter Huaraca-Huasco and John P. Janovec and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Carlos Joly and Michelle Kalamandeen and Timothy J. Killeen and Camila Lais-Farrapo and Aurora Levesley and Leon Lizon-Romano and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Flavio Antonio Maës-dos-Santos and William E. Magnusson and Yadvinder Malhi and Simone Matias-de-Almeida-Reis and Karina Melgaco and Omar A. Melo-Cruz and Irina Mendoza-Polo and Tatiana Montanez and Jean Daniel Morel and M Percy Nunez-Vargas and Raimunda Oliveira-de-Araujo and Nadir C. Pallqui-Camacho and Alexander Parada-Gutierrez and Toby Pennington and Georgia C. Pickavance and John Pipoly and Nigel C. A. Pitman and Carlos Quesada and Freddy Ramirez-Arevalo and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Rafael Flora-Ramos and James E. Richardson and Cleber Rodrigo-de-Souza and Anand Roopsind and Gustavo Schwartz and Richarlly C. Silva and Javier Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Yhan Soto-Shareva and Marc Steininger and Juliana Stropp and Joey Talbot and Hans ter-Steege and John Terborgh and Raquel Thomas and Luis Valenzuela-Gamarra and Geertje van-der-Heijden and Peter van-der-Hout and Roderick Zagt and Oliver L. Phillips},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01776-4},

doi = {10.1038/s41558-023-01776-4},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-01},

urldate = {2023-09-01},

journal = {Nature Climate Change},

volume = {13},

number = {9},

pages = {967–974},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline conditions may be protected by prior adaptation, or more vulnerable because they operate closer to physiological limits. Here we report that forests in drier South American climates experienced the greatest impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño, indicating greater vulnerability to extreme temperatures and drought. The long-term, ground-measured tree-by-tree responses of 123 forest plots across tropical South America show that the biomass carbon sink ceased during the event with carbon balance becoming indistinguishable from zero (−0.02 ± 0.37 Mg C ha−1 per year). However, intact tropical South American forests overall were no more sensitive to the extreme 2015–2016 El Niño than to previous less intense events, remaining a key defence against climate change as long as they are protected.},

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}

@article{Borges_pmid37386918,

title = {Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?},

author = {Robson Borges-de-Lima and Eric Bastos-Görgens and Diego Armando S da-Silva and Cinthia Pereira-de-Oliveira and Anderson Pedro B Batista and Rinaldo L Caraciolo-Ferreira and Flavia R C Costa and Renato A Ferreira-de-Lima and Perseu da-Silva-Aparício and Jadson Coelho-de-Abreu and José Antônio Aleixo da-Silva and Aretha Franklin-Guimaraes and Philip M Fearnside and Thaiane R Sousa and Ricardo Perdiz and Niro Higuchi and Erika Berenguer and Angélica F Resende and Fernando Elias and Carolina Volkmer-de-Castilho and Marcelo Brilhante-de-Medeiros and João Ramos-de-Matos-Filho and Maurício Alves Sardinha and Márcio André Furtado-Freitas and José Jussian da-Silva and Aldemir Pereira-da-Cunha and Renan Mendes-Santos and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Marcelino Carneiro-Guedes and Reinaldo Imbrózio and Carla Samara Campelo-de-Sousa and Wegliane Campelo da-Silva-Aparício and Breno Marques da-Silva-E-Silva and Celice Alexandre Silva and Beatriz Schwantes-Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Paulo S Morandi and Danielle Storck-Tonon and Ima Célia Guimarães-Vieira and Juliana Schietti and Fernanda Coelho and Danilo R Alves-de-Almeida and Wendeson Castro and Samuel P C Carvalho and Robson Dos-Santos-A-da-Silva and Juliana Silveira and José Luís Camargo and Karina Melgaço and Lucas Jose Mazzei-de-Freitas and Laura Vedovato and Maíra Benchimol and Gabriel de-Oliveira-de-Almeida and Ghillean Prance and Alan Bernardes da-Silveira and Marcelo Fragomeni-Simon and Marcos Leandro Garcia and Marcos Silveira and Marcos Vital and Maryane B T Andrade and Natalino Silva and Raimunda Oliveira-de-Araújo and Larissa Cavalheiro and Rainiellen Carpanedo and Letícia Fernandes and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Ricardo T G de-Andrade and William E Magnusson and Bill Laurance and Bruce Walker-Nelson and Carlos Peres and Douglas C Daly and Domingos Rodrigues and Ana Paula Zopeletto and Edmar Almeida-de-Oliveira and Estelle Dugachard and Flávia Rodrigues-Barbosa and Flavia Santana and Iêda Leão do-Amaral and Leandro V Ferreira and Leandro S Charão and Joice Ferreira and Jos Barlow and Lilian Blanc and Luiz Aragão and Plinio Sist and Rafael de-Paiva-Salomão and Antônio Sérgio Lima-da-Silva and Susan Laurance and Ted R Feldpausch and Toby Gardner and Wagner Santiago and William Balee and William F Laurance and Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L Phillips and Antônio Carlos da-Silva-Zanzini and Clarissa Rosa and Wagner Tadeu-Oliveira and Lucas Pereira-Zanzini and Ricardo José Silva and Ana Luisa Mangabeira-Albernaz},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/07/Giants-of-the-Amazon-How-does-environmental-variation-drive.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.16821},

issn = {1365-2486},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-06-01},

urldate = {2023-06-01},

journal = {Glob Chang Biol},

volume = {2023},

issue = {00},

pages = {1-19},

abstract = {For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm diameter, showing highest species diversity in the wetter western and northern Amazon forests. By contrast, little attention has been paid to patterns and drivers of diversity in the largest canopy and emergent trees, which is surprising given these have dominant ecological functions. Here, we use a machine learning approach to quantify the importance of environmental factors and apply it to generate spatial predictions of the species diversity of all trees (dbh ≥ 10 cm) and for very large trees (dbh ≥ 70 cm) using data from 243 forest plots (108,450 trees and 2832 species) distributed across different forest types and biogeographic regions of the Brazilian Amazon. The diversity of large trees and of all trees was significantly associated with three environmental factors, but in contrasting ways across regions and forest types. Environmental variables associated with disturbances, for example, the lightning flash rate and wind speed, as well as the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, tend to govern the diversity of large trees. Upland rainforests in the Guiana Shield and Roraima regions had a high diversity of large trees. By contrast, variables associated with resources tend to govern tree diversity in general. Places such as the province of Imeri and the northern portion of the province of Madeira stand out for their high diversity of species in general. Climatic and topographic stability and functional adaptation mechanisms promote ideal conditions for species diversity. Finally, we mapped general patterns of tree species diversity in the Brazilian Amazon, which differ substantially depending on size class.},

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@article{Carvalho_pmid37473761,

title = {Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research},

author = {Raquel L Carvalho and Angelica F Resende and Jos Barlow and Filipe M França and Mario R Moura and Rafaella Maciel and Fernanda Alves-Martins and Jack Shutt and Cassio A Nunes and Fernando Elias and Juliana M Silveira and Lis Stegmann and Fabricio B Baccaro and Leandro Juen and Juliana Schietti and Luiz Aragão and Erika Berenguer and Leandro Castello and Flavia R C Costa and Matheus L Guedes and Cecilia G Leal and Alexander C Lees and Victoria Isaac and Rodrigo O Nascimento and Oliver L Phillips and Fernando Augusto-Schmidt and Hans Ter-Steege and Fernando Vaz-de-Mello and Eduardo M Venticinque and Ima Célia-Guimarães Vieira and Jansen Zuanon and Joice Ferreira

},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/08/Carvalho_R_etal_2023_PervasiveGaps.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.077},

issn = {1879-0445},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

urldate = {2023-07-01},

journal = {Current Biology},

volume = {33},

pages = {1-9},

abstract = {Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time, and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space. While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes, vast areas of the tropics remain understudied. In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity, but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases. To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge, it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%-18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost.},

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}

@article{Correa2023-xt,

title = {Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates},

author = {Diego F Correa and Pablo R Stevenson and Maria Natalia Uma na and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salom ao and I^eda Le ao do Amaral and Florian Wittmann and Francisca Dion'izia de Almeida Matos and Carolina V Castilho and Oliver L Phillips and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and William E Magnusson and Daniel Sabatier and Jean-Franc cois Molino and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan da Silva Guimar aes and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Nigel C A Pitman and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and José Ferreira Ramos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Le ao Novo and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John W Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Juan Carlos Montero and Jochen Schöngart and Dairon Cárdenas López and Flávia R C Costa and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Layon O Demarchi and Ted R Feldpausch and Rafael L Assis and Christopher Baraloto and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Lu'is Camargo and Susan G W Laurance and William F Laurance and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalh aes and Henrique Eduardo Mendonc ca Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Gerardo A Aymard C. and Roel Brienen and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Bruno Barc cante Ladvocat Cintra and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Hugo F Mogollón and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and José Julio Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Freddie C Draper and Nicolás Casta no Arboleda and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and David Neill and Daniel P P Aguiar and Luzmila Arroyo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Eliana M Jimenez and Juan Carlos Licona and Maria Cristina Pe nuela Mora and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Carlos Cerón and Émile Fonty and Terry W Henkel and John Ethan Householder and Paul Maas and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Flávia Machado Durgante and Tim R Baker and Doug Daly and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and William Milliken and Toby Pennington and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Pardo Molina and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pe na and Carlos A Peres and Miles R Silman and J Sebastián Tello and Wegliane Campelo and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R Andel and Patricio Hildebrand and Luciana de Oliveira Pereira and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Agust'in Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Vincent Antoine Vos and Stanford Zent and Egleé L Zent and Jana'ina Costa Noronha and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Geertje Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Corine Vriesendorp and Maihyra Marina Pombo and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Germaine Alexander Parada and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Hans Steege},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/03/Correa_et_al_2023_Geographic-patterns-of-tree-dispersal-modes-in-Amazonia_GlobalEcologyBiogeography.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/geb.13596},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory and hydrochory). We examined if the proportional abundance of these dispersal modes could be explained by the availability of dispersal agents (disperser-availability hypothesis) and/or the availability of resources for constructing zoochorous fruits (resource-availability hypothesis).},

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}

@article{Delavaux_pmid37612513,

title = {Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions},

author = {Camille S Delavaux and Thomas W Crowther and Constantin M Zohner and Niamh M Robmann and Thomas Lauber and Johan van den Hoogen and Sara Kuebbing and Jingjing Liang and Sergio de-Miguel and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Peter B Reich and Meinrad Abegg and Yves C Adou Yao and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano and Braulio Vilchez Alvarado and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila and Patricia Alvarez-Loayza and Luciana F Alves and Christian Ammer and Clara Antón-Fernández and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo A Aymard and Timothy R Baker and Radomir Bałazy and Olaf Banki and Jorcely G Barroso and Meredith L Bastian and Jean-Francois Bastin and Luca Birigazzi and Philippe Birnbaum and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Frans Bongers and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro H S Brancalion and Susanne Brandl and Roel Brienen and Eben N Broadbent and Helge Bruelheide and Filippo Bussotti and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Ricardo G César and Goran Cesljar and Robin Chazdon and Han Y H Chen and Chelsea Chisholm and Hyunkook Cho and Emil Cienciala and Connie Clark and David Clark and Gabriel D Colletta and David A Coomes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and José J Corral-Rivas and Philip M Crim and Jonathan R Cumming and Selvadurai Dayanandan and André L de Gasper and Mathieu Decuyper and Géraldine Derroire and Ben DeVries and Ilija Djordjevic and Jiri Dolezal and Aurélie Dourdain and Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang and Brian J Enquist and Teresa J Eyre and Adandé Belarmain Fandohan and Tom M Fayle and Ted R Feldpausch and Leandro V Ferreira and Markus Fischer and Christine Fletcher and Lorenzo Frizzera and Javier G P Gamarra and Damiano Gianelle and Henry B Glick and David J Harris and Andrew Hector and Andreas Hemp and Geerten Hengeveld and Bruno Hérault and John L Herbohn and Martin Herold and Annika Hillers and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Cang Hui and Thomas T Ibanez and Iêda Amaral and Nobuo Imai and Andrzej M Jagodziński and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Vivian Kvist Johannsen and Carlos A Joly and Tommaso Jucker and Ilbin Jung and Viktor Karminov and Kuswata Kartawinata and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Deborah K Kennard and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Timothy J Killeen and Hyun Seok Kim and Kanehiro Kitayama and Michael Köhl and Henn Korjus and Florian Kraxner and Diana Laarmann and Mait Lang and Simon L Lewis and Huicui Lu and Natalia V Lukina and Brian S Maitner and Yadvinder Malhi and Eric Marcon and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andrew R Marshall and Emanuel H Martin and Olga Martynenko and Jorge A Meave and Omar Melo-Cruz and Casimiro Mendoza and Cory Merow and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Vanessa S Moreno and Sharif A Mukul and Philip Mundhenk and María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda and David Neill and Victor J Neldner and Radovan V Nevenic and Michael R Ngugi and Pascal A Niklaus and Jacek Oleksyn and Petr Ontikov and Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi and Yude Pan and Alain Paquette and Alexander Parada-Gutierrez and Elena I Parfenova and Minjee Park and Marc Parren and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy and Pablo L Peri and Sebastian Pfautsch and Oliver L Phillips and Nicolas Picard and Maria Teresa T F Piedade and Daniel Piotto and Nigel C A Pitman and Irina Polo and Lourens Poorter and Axel D Poulsen and Hans Pretzsch and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Zorayda Restrepo-Correa and Mirco Rodeghiero and Samir G Rolim and Anand Roopsind and Francesco Rovero and Ervan Rutishauser and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Philippe Saner and Peter Schall and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Bernhard Schmid and Jochen Schöngart and Eric B Searle and Vladimír Seben and Josep M Serra-Diaz and Douglas Sheil and Anatoly Z Shvidenko and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Plinio Sist and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Alexandre F Souza and Stanislaw Miscicki and Krzysztof J Stereńczak and Jens-Christian Svenning and Miroslav Svoboda and Ben Swanepoel and Natalia Targhetta and Nadja Tchebakova and Hans Ter Steege and Raquel Thomas and Elena Tikhonova and Peter M Umunay and Vladimir A Usoltsev and Renato Valencia and Fernando Valladares and Fons van der Plas and Tran Van Do and Michael E van Nuland and Rodolfo M Vasquez and Hans Verbeeck and Helder Viana and Alexander C Vibrans and Simone Vieira and Klaus von Gadow and Hua-Feng Wang and James V Watson and Gijsbert D A Werner and Susan K Wiser and Florian Wittmann and Hannsjoerg Woell and Verginia Wortel and Roderik Zagt and Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki and Chunyu Zhang and Xiuhai Zhao and Mo Zhou and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irie C Zo-Bi and Daniel S Maynard},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/01/s41586-023-06440-7.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-01},

urldate = {2023-09-01},

journal = {Nature},

volume = {621},

number = {7980},

pages = {773--781},

abstract = {Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species. Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even though they have the potential to transform ecosystems and economies. Here, leveraging global tree databases, we explore how the phylogenetic and functional diversity of native tree communities, human pressure and the environment influence the establishment of non-native tree species and the subsequent invasion severity. We find that anthropogenic factors are key to predicting whether a location is invaded, but that invasion severity is underpinned by native diversity, with higher diversity predicting lower invasion severity. Temperature and precipitation emerge as strong predictors of invasion strategy, with non-native species invading successfully when they are similar to the native community in cold or dry extremes. Yet, despite the influence of these ecological forces in determining invasion strategy, we find evidence that these patterns can be obscured by human activity, with lower ecological signal in areas with higher proximity to shipping ports. Our global perspective of non-native tree invasion highlights that human drivers influence non-native tree presence, and that native phylogenetic and functional diversity have a critical role in the establishment and spread of subsequent invasions.},

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}

@article{Herrera_pmid37438994,

title = {MADERA: A standardized Pan-Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species},

author = {Ximena Herrera-Alvarez and Juan A Blanco and Oliver L Phillips and Vicente Guadalupe and Leonardo D Ortega-López and Hans Ter-Steege and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/07/MADERA_-A-standardized-Pan‐Amazonian-dataset-for-tropical-timber-species-1.pdf},

doi = {10.1002/ecy.4135},

issn = {1939-9170},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

urldate = {2023-07-01},

journal = {Ecology},

pages = {e4135},

abstract = {We compiled and presented a dataset for all timber species reported in the Amazon region from all nine South American Amazonian countries. This was based on official information from every country, as well as from two substantial scientific references. We verified the standard taxonomic names from each individual source, using the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) and considered all Amazonian tree species with diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥10 cm. We also obtained estimates of the current population size for most species from a published approach based on data from 1900 tree inventory plots (1-ha each) distributed across the Amazon region and part from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). We then identified the hyperdominant timber species. In addition, we overlapped our timber species list with data for species that are used for commercial purposes, according to the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) taxa assessment and Red List categories. Finally, we also included IUCN Red List categories based on combined deforestation, and climate change scenarios for these species. Our final Amazonian timber species dataset contains 1112 unique species records, which belong to 337 genera and 72 families from the lowland Amazonian rainforest, with associated information related to population, conservation, and trade status of each species. The authors of this research expect that the information provided will be useful to strengthen the public forestry policies of the Amazon countries, inform ecological studies, as well for forest management purposes. The data are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.},

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tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Hillquat6020033,

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

author = {James Hill and Stuart Black and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Rene Boot and Roel Brienen and Ted Feldpausch and John Leigue and Samaria Murakami and Abel Monteagudo and Guido Pardo and Marielos Peña-Claros and Oliver L. Phillips and Marisol Toledo and Vincent Vos and Pieter Zuidema and Francis E. Mayle},

url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/6/2/33

https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/05/quaternary-06-00033.pdf},

doi = {10.3390/quat6020033},

issn = {2571-550X},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Quaternary},

volume = {6},

number = {2},

abstract = {Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across Amazonia through the Holocene. Yet, its use as a palaeoecological tool is in its infancy in Amazonia and its effectiveness for reconstructing pre-Columbian land-use beyond archaeological sites (i.e., ‘off-site’) has so far received little critical attention. This paper examines both new and previously published soil phytolith data from SW Amazonia to assess the robustness of this proxy for reconstructing pre-Columbian land-use. We conducted the study via off-site soil pits radiating 7.5 km beyond a geoglyph in Acre state, Brazil, and 50 km beyond a ring-ditch in northern Bolivia, spanning the expected gradients in historical land-use intensity. We found that the spatio-temporal patterns in palm phytolith data across our soil-pit transects support the hypothesis that pre-Columbian peoples enriched their forests with palms over several millennia, although phytoliths are limited in their ability to capture small-scale crop cultivation and deforestation. Despite these drawbacks, we conclude that off-site soil phytolith analysis can provide novel insights into pre-Columbian land use, provided it is effectively integrated with other land-use (e.g., charcoal) and archaeological data.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Hordijk2023,

title = {Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness},

author = {Iris Hordijk and Daniel S. Maynard and Simon P. Hart and Mo Lidong and Hans Steege and Jingjing Liang and Sergio de-Miguel and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Peter B. Reich and Meinrad Abegg and C. Yves Adou Yao and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano and Braulio V. Alvarado and Alvarez-Davila Esteban and Patricia Alvarez-Loayza and Luciana F. Alves and Christian Ammer and Clara Antón-Fernández and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo A. Aymard C and Timothy Baker and Radomir Bałazy and Olaf Banki and Jorcely Barroso and Meredith L. Bastian and Jean-Francois Bastin and Luca Birigazzi and Philippe Birnbaum and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Frans Bongers and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro H. S. Brancalion and Susanne Brandl and Roel Brienen and Eben N. Broadbent and Helge Bruelheide and Filippo Bussotti and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Ricardo G. César and Goran Cesljar and Robin Chazdon and Han Y. H. Chen and Chelsea Chisholm and Emil Cienciala and Connie J. Clark and David B. Clark and Gabriel Colletta and David Coomes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Jose J. Corral-Rivas and Philip Crim and Jonathan Cumming and Selvadurai Dayanandan and André L. Gasper and Mathieu Decuyper and Géraldine Derroire and Ben DeVries and Ilija Djordjevic and Amaral Iêda and Aurélie Dourdain and Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier and Brian Enquist and Teresa Eyre and Adandé Belarmain Fandohan and Tom M. Fayle and Leandro V. Ferreira and Ted R. Feldpausch and Leena Finér and Markus Fischer and Christine Fletcher and Lorenzo Frizzera and Javier G. P. Gamarra and Damiano Gianelle and Henry B. Glick and David Harris and Andrew Hector and Andreas Hemp and Geerten Hengeveld and Bruno Hérault and John Herbohn and Annika Hillers and Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado and Cang Hui and Hyunkook Cho and Thomas Ibanez and Il Bin Jung and Nobuo Imai and Andrzej M. Jagodzinski and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Vivian Johanssen and Carlos A. Joly and Tommaso Jucker and Viktor Karminov and Kuswata Kartawinata and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Deborah Kennard and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Timothy Killeen and Hyun Seok Kim and Kanehiro Kitayama and Michael Köhl and Henn Korjus and Florian Kraxner and Diana Laarmann and Mait Lang and Simon Lewis and Huicui Lu and Natalia Lukina and Brian Maitner and Yadvinder Malhi and Eric Marcon and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andrew Robert Marshall and Emanuel Martin and Olga Martynenko and Jorge A. Meave and Omar Melo-Cruz and Casimiro Mendoza and Cory Merow and Miscicki Stanislaw and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Vanessa Moreno and Sharif A. Mukul and Philip Mundhenk and Maria G. Nava-Miranda and David Neill and Victor Neldner and Radovan Nevenic and Michael Ngugi and Pascal A. Niklaus and Jacek Oleksyn and Petr Ontikov and Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi and Yude Pan and Alain Paquette and Alexander Parada-Gutierrez and Elena Parfenova and Minjee Park and Marc Parren and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy and Pablo L. Peri and Sebastian Pfautsch and Oliver L. Phillips and Nicolas Picard and Maria Teresa Piedade and Daniel Piotto and Nigel C. A. Pitman and Irina Polo and Lourens Poorter and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and John R. Poulsen and Hans Pretzsch and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Zorayda Restrepo-Correa and Mirco Rodeghiero and Samir Rolim and Anand Roopsind and Francesco Rovero and Ervan Rutishauser and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Peter Schall and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Bernhard Schmid and Jochen Schöngart and Eric B. Searle and Vladimír Šebeň and Josep M. Serra-Diaz and Douglas Sheil and Anatoly Shvidenko and Javier Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Plinio Sist and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Alexandre F. Souza and Krzysztof Stereńczak and Jens-Christian Svenning and Miroslav Svoboda and Ben Swanepoel and Natalia Targhetta and Nadja Tchebakova and Raquel Thomas and Elena Tikhonova and Peter Umunay and Vladimir Usoltsev and Renato Valencia and Fernando Valladares and Fons Plas and Do Van Tran and Michael E. Van Nuland and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Hans Verbeeck and Helder Viana and Alexander C. Vibrans and Simone Vieira and Klaus Gadow and Hua-Feng Wang and James Watson and Gijsbert D. A. Werner and Susan K. Wiser and Florian Wittmann and Verginia Wortel and Roderick Zagt and Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki and Chunyu Zhang and Xiuhai Zhao and Mo Zhou and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irie Casimir Zo-Bi and Thomas W. Crowther},

url = {https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.14098

https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/05/Journal-of-Ecology-2023-Hordijk-Evenness-mediates-the-global-relationship-between-forest-productivity-and-richness.pdf},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14098},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-02},

urldate = {2023-05-02},

journal = {Journal of Ecology},

abstract = {Abstract 1. Biodiversity is an important component of natural ecosystems, with higher species richness often correlating with an increase in ecosystem productivity. Yet, this relationship varies substantially across environments, typically becoming less pronounced at high levels of species richness. However, species richness alone cannot reflect all important properties of a community, including community evenness, which may mediate the relationship between biodiversity and productivity. If the evenness of a community correlates negatively with richness across forests globally, then a greater number of species may not always increase overall diversity and productivity of the system. Theoretical work and local empirical studies have shown that the effect of evenness on ecosystem functioning may be especially strong at high richness levels, yet the consistency of this remains untested at a global scale. 2. Here, we used a dataset of forests from across the globe, which includes composition, biomass accumulation and net primary productivity, to explore whether productivity correlates with community evenness and richness in a way that evenness appears to buffer the effect of richness. Specifically, we evaluated whether low levels of evenness in speciose communities correlate with the attenuation of the richness–productivity relationship. 3. We found that tree species richness and evenness are negatively correlated across forests globally, with highly speciose forests typically comprising a few dominant and many rare species. Furthermore, we found that the correlation between diversity and productivity changes with evenness: at low richness, uneven communities are more productive, while at high richness, even communities are more productive. 4. Synthesis. Collectively, these results demonstrate that evenness is an integral component of the relationship between biodiversity and productivity, and that the attenuating effect of richness on forest productivity might be partly explained by low evenness in speciose communities. Productivity generally increases with species richness, until reduced evenness limits the overall increases in community diversity. Our research suggests that evenness is a fundamental component of biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships, and is of critical importance for guiding conservation and sustainable ecosystem management decisions.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Labrière2023,

title = {Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications},

author = {Nicolas Labrière and Stuart J Davies and Mathias I Disney and Laura I Duncanson and Martin Herold and Simon L Lewis and Oliver L Phillips and Shaun Quegan and Sassan S Saatchi and Dmitry G Schepaschenko and Klaus Scipal and Plinio Sist and Jérôme Chave},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/03/Labriere_etal_2023_Toward-a-forest-biomass-reference-measurement-system_GCB.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.16497},

issn = {1365-2486},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Glob Chang Biol},

abstract = {Forests contribute to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and uptake, but the extent to which this carbon pool varies in space and time is still poorly known. Several Earth Observation missions have been specifically designed to address this issue, for example, NASA's GEDI, NASA-ISRO's NISAR and ESA's BIOMASS. Yet, all these missions' products require independent and consistent validation. A permanent, global, in situ, site-based forest biomass reference measurement system relying on ground data of the highest possible quality is therefore needed. Here, we have assembled a list of almost 200 high-quality sites through an in-depth review of the literature and expert knowledge. In this study, we explore how representative these sites are in terms of their coverage of environmental conditions, geographical space and biomass-related forest structure, compared to those experienced by forests worldwide. This work also aims at identifying which sites are the most representative, and where to invest to improve the representativeness of the proposed system. We show that the environmental coverage of the system does not seem to improve after at least the 175 most representative sites are included, but geographical and structural coverages continue to improve as more sites are added. We highlight the areas of poor environmental, geographical, or structural coverage, including, but not limited to, Canada, the western half of the USA, Mexico, Patagonia, Angola, Zambia, eastern Russia, and tropical and subtropical highlands (e.g. in Colombia, the Himalayas, Borneo, Papua). For the proposed system to succeed, we stress that (1) data must be collected and processed applying the same standards across all countries and continents; (2) system establishment and management must be inclusive and equitable, with careful consideration of working conditions; and (3) training and site partner involvement in downstream activities should be mandatory.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Matas-Granados_pmid38111128,

title = {Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests},

author = {Laura Matas-Granados and Frederick C Draper and Luis Cayuela and Julia G de Aledo and Gabriel Arellano and Celina Ben Saadi and Timothy R Baker and Oliver L Phillips and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Kalle Ruokolainen and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Katherine H Roucoux and Maximilien Guèze and Elvis Valderrama Sandoval and Paul V A Fine and Carlos A Amasifuen Guerra and Ricardo Zarate Gomez and Pablo R Stevenson Diaz and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Jacob B Socolar and Mathias Disney and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Jim Vega Arenas and José Reyna Huaymacari and Julio M Grandez Rios and Manuel J Macía},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2024/01/Ecology-Letters-2023-Matas‐Granados-Understanding-different-dominance-patterns-in-western-Amazonian-forests.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/ele.14351},

issn = {1461-0248},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-12-01},

urldate = {2023-12-01},

journal = {Ecol Lett},

abstract = {Dominance of neotropical tree communities by a few species is widely documented, but dominant trees show a variety of distributional patterns still poorly understood. Here, we used 503 forest inventory plots (93,719 individuals ≥2.5 cm diameter, 2609 species) to explore the relationships between local abundance, regional frequency and spatial aggregation of dominant species in four main habitat types in western Amazonia. Although the abundance-occupancy relationship is positive for the full dataset, we found that among dominant Amazonian tree species, there is a strong negative relationship between local abundance and regional frequency and/or spatial aggregation across habitat types. Our findings suggest an ecological trade-off whereby dominant species can be locally abundant (local dominants) or regionally widespread (widespread dominants), but rarely both (oligarchs). Given the importance of dominant species as drivers of diversity and ecosystem functioning, unravelling different dominance patterns is a research priority to direct conservation efforts in Amazonian forests.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Mo_pmid37957399,

title = {Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential},

author = {Lidong Mo and Constantin M Zohner and Peter B Reich and Jingjing Liang and Sergio de Miguel and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Susanne S Renner and Johan van den Hoogen and Arnan Araza and Martin Herold and Leila Mirzagholi and Haozhi Ma and Colin Averill and Oliver L Phillips and Javier G P Gamarra and Iris Hordijk and Devin Routh and Meinrad Abegg and Yves C Adou Yao and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano and Braulio Vilchez Alvarado and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila and Patricia Alvarez-Loayza and Luciana F Alves and Iêda Amaral and Christian Ammer and Clara Antón-Fernández and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo A Aymard and Timothy R Baker and Radomir Bałazy and Olaf Banki and Jorcely G Barroso and Meredith L Bastian and Jean-Francois Bastin and Luca Birigazzi and Philippe Birnbaum and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Frans Bongers and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro H S Brancalion and Susanne Brandl and Francis Q Brearley and Roel Brienen and Eben N Broadbent and Helge Bruelheide and Filippo Bussotti and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Ricardo G César and Goran Cesljar and Robin L Chazdon and Han Y H Chen and Chelsea Chisholm and Hyunkook Cho and Emil Cienciala and Connie Clark and David Clark and Gabriel D Colletta and David A Coomes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and José J Corral-Rivas and Philip M Crim and Jonathan R Cumming and Selvadurai Dayanandan and André L de Gasper and Mathieu Decuyper and Géraldine Derroire and Ben DeVries and Ilija Djordjevic and Jiri Dolezal and Aurélie Dourdain and Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang and Brian J Enquist and Teresa J Eyre and Adandé Belarmain Fandohan and Tom M Fayle and Ted R Feldpausch and Leandro V Ferreira and Leena Finér and Markus Fischer and Christine Fletcher and Lorenzo Frizzera and Damiano Gianelle and Henry B Glick and David J Harris and Andrew Hector and Andreas Hemp and Geerten Hengeveld and Bruno Hérault and John L Herbohn and Annika Hillers and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Cang Hui and Thomas Ibanez and Nobuo Imai and Andrzej M Jagodziński and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Vivian Kvist Johannsen and Carlos A Joly and Tommaso Jucker and Ilbin Jung and Viktor Karminov and Kuswata Kartawinata and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Deborah K Kennard and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Timothy J Killeen and Hyun Seok Kim and Kanehiro Kitayama and Michael Köhl and Henn Korjus and Florian Kraxner and Dmitry Kucher and Diana Laarmann and Mait Lang and Huicui Lu and Natalia V Lukina and Brian S Maitner and Yadvinder Malhi and Eric Marcon and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andrew R Marshall and Emanuel H Martin and Jorge A Meave and Omar Melo-Cruz and Casimiro Mendoza and Irina Mendoza-Polo and Stanislaw Miscicki and Cory Merow and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Vanessa S Moreno and Sharif A Mukul and Philip Mundhenk and María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda and David Neill and Victor J Neldner and Radovan V Nevenic and Michael R Ngugi and Pascal A Niklaus and Jacek Oleksyn and Petr Ontikov and Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi and Yude Pan and Alain Paquette and Alexander Parada-Gutierrez and Elena I Parfenova and Minjee Park and Marc Parren and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy and Pablo L Peri and Sebastian Pfautsch and Nicolas Picard and Maria Teresa F Piedade and Daniel Piotto and Nigel C A Pitman and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and John R Poulsen and Hans Pretzsch and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Zorayda Restrepo-Correa and Mirco Rodeghiero and Samir G Rolim and Anand Roopsind and Francesco Rovero and Ervan Rutishauser and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Philippe Saner and Peter Schall and Mart-Jan Schelhaas and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Bernhard Schmid and Jochen Schöngart and Eric B Searle and Vladimír Seben and Josep M Serra-Diaz and Douglas Sheil and Anatoly Z Shvidenko and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Plinio Sist and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Alexandre F Souza and Krzysztof J Stereńczak and Jens-Christian Svenning and Miroslav Svoboda and Ben Swanepoel and Natalia Targhetta and Nadja Tchebakova and Hans Ter Steege and Raquel Thomas and Elena Tikhonova and Peter M Umunay and Vladimir A Usoltsev and Renato Valencia and Fernando Valladares and Fons van der Plas and Tran Van Do and Michael E van Nuland and Rodolfo M Vasquez and Hans Verbeeck and Helder Viana and Alexander C Vibrans and Simone Vieira and Klaus von Gadow and Hua-Feng Wang and James V Watson and Gijsbert D A Werner and Susan K Wiser and Florian Wittmann and Hannsjoerg Woell and Verginia Wortel and Roderik Zagt and Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki and Chunyu Zhang and Xiuhai Zhao and Mo Zhou and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irie C Zo-Bi and George D Gann and Thomas W Crowther},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/11/Mo_et_al_NaturalForestCarbonPotential_Nature2023.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-11-01},

urldate = {2023-11-01},

journal = {Nature},

abstract = {Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from global forests are characterized by considerable uncertainty and we lack a comprehensive ground-sourced evaluation to benchmark these estimates. Here we combine several ground-sourced and satellite-derived approaches to evaluate the scale of the global forest carbon potential outside agricultural and urban lands. Despite regional variation, the predictions demonstrated remarkable consistency at a global scale, with only a 12% difference between the ground-sourced and satellite-derived estimates. At present, global forest carbon storage is markedly under the natural potential, with a total deficit of 226 Gt (model range = 151-363 Gt) in areas with low human footprint. Most (61%, 139 Gt C) of this potential is in areas with existing forests, in which ecosystem protection can allow forests to recover to maturity. The remaining 39% (87 Gt C) of potential lies in regions in which forests have been removed or fragmented. Although forests cannot be a substitute for emissions reductions, our results support the idea that the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of diverse forests offer valuable contributions to meeting global climate and biodiversity targets.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {La impresionante diversidad y estructura del bosque tropical a través de una gradiente altitudinal en la selva central del Perú},

author = {Abel Monteagudo and Maria Villalba and Nadir Pallqui and Oliver L Phillips and Timothy Baker and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Georgia C Pickavance and Wilfredo Chávez and Rodolfo Vásquez and Rocio Rojas and Luis Valenzuela and Victor Chama and Damien Catchpole and Isau Huamantupa and Yahn Soto and Alvaro Ramos and Carolina Ramírez and Miguel Pedraza and Gisela Huari and Karina Banda and Euridice Honorio and William Farfán-Rios and Hugo Dueñas and Rolando Monteagudo and Gloria Calatayud and Jorge Garate and Manuel J Marca-Zevallos},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/08/Impresionante-Diversidad-y-Estructura-del-Yanachaga-Monteagudo-et-al-2023.pdf},

doi = {10.51343/rq.v14i1.1150},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-26},

urldate = {2023-07-26},

journal = {Revista Q’EUÑA},

volume = {14},

issue = {1},

pages = {2412-2297},

abstract = {Los bosques pre-montanos y montanos son poco estudiados y su composición florística es muy poco conocida, aunque últimamente aquí se han descubierto nuevas especies de árboles. Describimos la diversidad, composición florística y estructura del bosque en 13 parcelas permanentes de 1 ha, evaluadas en el 2018 en el Transecto Yanachaga en el Perú (400 a 3170

msnm). Registramos un total de 6998 árboles, 617 especies, 249 géneros y 82 familias. Existe unas altas correlaciones  entre la altitud, la riqueza y diversidad de especies. La mayor riqueza

ocurre en la parcela PNY-05 a 470 msnm con 202 especies y la menor con 43 especies en la parcela PNY-01 a 3170 mnsm. La altura promedio del dosel es mayor entre los 400 y 800 msnm, y disminuye progresivamente a medida que se va subiendo, presentando alturas mínimas entre 2800 y 3170 msnm. Este mismo comportamiento ocurre con respecto al área basal y volumen de madera. Los individuos muestreados están representados por especies de árboles (88%), palmeras (4%), helechos arborescentes (6.5%), lianas (1.5%) y hemiepífitos leñosos (0. 03%). Las f ormas de vi da varí an notablemente en el transecto altitudinal, los árboles y palmeras son más abundantes y diversos en la parte baja, mientras los helechos arborescentes son abundantes por encima de los 1800 m. Existen diferencias en la diversidad, composición y estructura de árboles entre parcelas y también si se compara al llano amazónico. Los bosques del Transecto Yanachaga juegan un papel importante, puesto que conservan una alta diversidad de especies y hábitats.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Peripato_pmid37797008,

title = {More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia},

author = {Vinicius Peripato and Carolina Levis and Guido A Moreira and Dani Gamerman and Hans Ter Steege and Nigel C A Pitman and Jonas G de Souza and José Iriarte and Mark Robinson and André Braga Junqueira and Thiago B Trindade and Fernando O de Almeida and Claide de Paula Moraes and Umberto Lombardo and Eduardo K Tamanaha and Shira Y Maezumi and Jean P H B Ometto and José R G Braga and Wesley A Campanharo and Henrique L G Cassol and Philipe R Leal and Mauro L R de Assis and Adriana M da Silva and Oliver L Phillips and Flávia R C Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and Bruce Hoffman and Terry W Henkel and Maria Natalia Umaña and William E Magnusson and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Jos Barlow and William Milliken and Maria Aparecida Lopes and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Tinde R van Andel and Susan G W Laurance and William F Laurance and Armando Torres-Lezama and Rafael L Assis and Jean-François Molino and Mickaël Mestre and Michelle Hamblin and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Florian Wittmann and Rafael P Salomão and Iêda Leão Amaral and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and Carolina V Castilho and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Dairon Cárdenas López and Daniel Sabatier and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan da Silva Guimarães and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and José Ferreira Ramos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Layon O Demarchi and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Jochen Schöngart and Ted R Feldpausch and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Gerardo A Aymard C and Chris Baraloto and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Rodolfo Vasquez and Lorena M Rincón and Erika Berenguer and Joice Ferreira and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Roel Brienen and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Pablo R Stevenson and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Janaína da Costa de Noronha and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Hugo F Mogollón and Leandro Valle Ferreira and John Ethan Householder and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and Freddie C Draper and José Julio de Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and Eliana M Jimenez and David Neill and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Daniel P P de Aguiar and Luzmila Arroyo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Izaias Brasil da Silva and Maria Julia Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Émile Fonty and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Juan Carlos Licona and Toby Pennington and Carlos A Peres and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Germaine Alexander Parada and Guido Pardo Molina and Vincent Antoine Vos and Carlos Cerón and Paul Maas and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Tim R Baker and Doug Daly and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo-Peña and Miles R Silman and J Sebastián Tello and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Patricio von Hildebrand and Luciana de Oliveira Pereira and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Therany Gonzales and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Egleé L Zent and Stanford Zent and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Guilherme Lobo and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Geertje van der Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Fredy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Luiz E O C Aragão},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/11/Peripato-et-al.-2023-Amazon-earthworks.pdf},

doi = {10.1126/science.ade2541},

issn = {1095-9203},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-01},

urldate = {2023-10-01},

journal = {Science},

volume = {382},

number = {6666},

pages = {103--109},

abstract = {Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across the basin, of 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath the forest canopy. Modeled distribution and abundance of large-scale archaeological sites across Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 and 23,648 sites remain to be discovered and that most will be found in the southwest. We also identified 53 domesticated tree species significantly associated with earthwork occurrence probability, likely suggesting past management practices. Closed-canopy forests across Amazonia are likely to contain thousands of undiscovered archaeological sites around which pre-Columbian societies actively modified forests, a discovery that opens opportunities for better understanding the magnitude of ancient human influence on Amazonia and its current state.},

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tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Phillips_pmid37960066,

title = {Sensing Forests Directly: The Power of Permanent Plots},

author = {Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2025/01/plants-12-03710.pdf},

doi = {10.3390/plants12213710},

issn = {2223-7747},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-01},

urldate = {2023-10-01},

journal = {Plants (Basel)},

volume = {12},

number = {21},

abstract = {The need to measure, monitor, and understand our living planet is greater than ever. Yet, while many technologies are applied to tackle this need, one developed in the 19th century is transforming tropical ecology. Permanent plots, in which forests are directly sensed tree-by-tree and species-by-species, already provide a global public good. They could make greater contributions still by unlocking our potential to understand future ecological change, as the more that computational and remote technologies are deployed the greater the need to ground them with direct observations and the physical, nature-based skills of those who make them. To achieve this requires building profound connections with forests and disadvantaged communities and sustaining these over time. Many of the greatest needs and opportunities in tropical forest science are therefore not to be found in space or in silico, but in vivo, with the people, places and plots who experience nature directly. These are fundamental to understanding the health, predicting the future, and exploring the potential of Earth's richest ecosystems. Now is the time to invest in the tropical field research communities who make so much possible.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Pos2023-eu,

title = {Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum  Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest  ecology},

author = {Edwin Pos and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P. Salomão and Iêda Leão Amaral and Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and Carolina V. Castilho and Oliver L. Phillips and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Dairon Cárdenas López and William E. Magnusson and Florian Wittmann and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and Daniel Sabatier and José Renan da Silva Guimarães and Jean-François Molino and Olaf S. Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Nigel C. A. Pitman and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and José Ferreira Ramos and Joseph E. Hawes and Everton José Almeida and Luciane Ferreira Barbosa and Larissa Cavalheiro and Márcia Cléia Vilela dos Santos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N. Honorio Coronado and Juan Carlos Montero and Beatriz S. Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Ted R. Feldpausch and Alvaro Duque and Chris Baraloto and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J. Killeen and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Rafael L. Assis and Jochen Schöngart and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and Layon O. Demarchi and William F. Laurance and Susan G. W. Laurance and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Gerardo A. C. Aymard and Roel Brienen and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Flávia R. C. Costa and Adriano Quaresma and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Pablo R. Stevenson and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Joost F. Duivenvoorden and Hugo F. Mogollón and Leandro Valle Ferreira and James A. Comiskey and Freddie Draper and José Julio de Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Janaína Costa Noronha and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Thaise Emilio and Carolina Levis and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Juliana Schietti and Priscila Souza and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H. F. Gomes and Jon Lloyd and David Neill and Daniel Praia Portela de Aguiar and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Kenneth J. Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Joice Ferreira and Paul V. A. Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Eliana M. Jimenez and Juan Carlos Licona and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Carlos A. Peres and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Carlos Cerón and Terry W. Henkel and Paul Maas and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas-Caesar and Tim R. Baker and Doug Daly and Kyle G. Dexter and John Ethan Householder and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Toby Pennington and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Alfredo Fuentes and José Luis Marcelo Pena and Miles R. Silman and J. Sebastián Tello and Jerome Chave and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R. van Andel and Patricio von Hildebrand and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Émile Fonty and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Jean-Louis Guillaumet and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R. Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I. A. Vela and Vincent Antoine Vos and Egleé L. Zent and Stanford Zent and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Angela Cano and Diego F. Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and Milena Holmgren and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A. Oliveira and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Maria Natalia Umaña and Geertje van der Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Corine Vriesendorp and Ophelia Wang and Kenneth R. Young and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N. Alexiades and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and William Milliken and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Gerhard Boenisch and Jens Kattge and Nathan Kraft and Aurora Levesley and Karina Melgaço and Georgia Pickavance and Lourens Poorter & Hans ter Steege},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

urldate = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Sci. Rep.},

volume = {13},

number = {1},

pages = {2859},

abstract = {In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines 

 patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for 

 understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained 

 maximization of information entropy provides a framework for the 

 understanding of such complex systems dynamics by a quantitative 

 analysis of important constraints via predictions using least 

 biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two 

 thousand hectares of Amazonian tree inventories across seven 

 forest types and thirteen functional traits, representing major 

 global axes of plant strategies. Results show that constraints 

 formed by regional relative abundances of genera explain eight 

 times more of local relative abundances than constraints based on 

 directional selection for specific functional traits, although 

 the latter does show clear signals of environmental dependency. 

 These results provide a quantitative insight by inference from 

 large-scale data using cross-disciplinary methods, furthering our 

 understanding of ecological dynamics.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ribeiro-Júnior_pmid36826405,

title = {Anatomical functional traits and hydraulic vulnerability of trees in different water conditions in southern Amazonia},

author = {Norberto G Ribeiro-Júnior and Ben Hur Marimon and Beatriz S Marimon and Wesley J A Cruz and Ivone V Silva and David R Galbraith and Emanuel Gloor and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/04/American-J-of-Botany-2023-Ribeiro‐J-nior-Anatomical-functional-traits-and-hydraulic-vulnerability-of-trees-in-1.pdf},

doi = {10.1002/ajb2.16146},

issn = {1537-2197},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

urldate = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Am J Bot},

pages = {e16146},

abstract = {PREMISE: Understanding tree species' responses to drought is critical for predicting the future of tropical forests, especially in regions where the climate is changing rapidly.



METHODS: We compared anatomical and functional traits of the dominant tree species of two tropical forests in southern Amazonia, one on deep, well-drained soils (cerradão [CD]) and one in a riparian environment (gallery forest [GF]), to examine potential anatomical indicators of resistance or vulnerability to drought.



RESULTS: Leaves of CD species generally had a thicker cuticle, upper epidermis, and mesophyll than those of GF species, traits that are indicative of adaptation to water deficit. In the GF, the theoretical hydraulic conductivity of the stems was significantly higher, indicating lower investment in drought resistance. The anatomical functional traits of CD species indicate a greater potential for surviving water restriction compared to the GF. Even so, it is possible that CD species could also be affected by extreme climate changes due to the more water-limited environment.



CONCLUSIONS: In addition to the marked anatomical and functional differences between these phytophysiognomies, tree diversity within each is associated with a large range of hydraulic morphofunctional niches. Our results suggest the strong potential for floristic and functional compositional shifts under continued climate change, especially in the GF.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Signori-Müller_pmid37584458,

title = {Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees},

author = {Caroline Signori-Müller and David Galbraith and Julia Valentim Tavares and Simone Matias Reis and Francisco Carvalho Diniz and Martin Gilpin and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Geertje M F van der Heijden and Camila Borges and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Sarah Mião and Paulo S Morandi and Alex Nina and Carlos A Salas Yupayccana and Manuel J Marca Zevallos and Eric G Cosio and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Oliver Phillips and Norma Salinas and Rodolfo Vasquez and Maurizio Mencuccini and Rafael S Oliveira},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/11/tpad096.pdf},

doi = {10.1093/treephys/tpad096},

issn = {1758-4469},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-08-01},

urldate = {2023-08-01},

journal = {Tree Physiol},

abstract = {Lianas (woody vines) are important components of tropical forests and are known to compete with host trees for resources, decrease tree growth and increase tree mortality. Given the observed increases in liana abundance in some forests and their impacts on forest function, an integrated understanding of carbon dynamics of lianas and liana-infested host trees is critical for improved prediction of tropical forest responses to climate change. Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) are the main substrate for plant metabolism (e.g., growth, respiration), and have been implicated in enabling tree survival under environmental stress, but little is known of how they vary among life-forms or of how liana infestation impacts host tree NSC. We quantified stem total NSC (NSC) concentrations and its fractions (starch and soluble sugars) in trees without liana infestation, trees with more than 50% of the canopy covered by lianas, and the lianas infesting those trees. We hypothesized that i) liana infestation depletes NSC storage in host trees by reducing carbon assimilation due to competition for resources; ii) trees and lianas, which greatly differ in functional traits related to water transport and carbon uptake, would also have large differences in NSC storage, and that As water availability has a significant role in NSC dynamics of Amazonian tree species, we tested these hypotheses within a moist site in western Amazonia and a drier forest site in southern Amazonia. We did not find any difference in NSC, starch or soluble sugar concentrations between infested and non-infested trees, in either site. This result suggests that negative liana impact on trees may be mediated through mechanisms other than depletion of host tree NSC concentrations. We found lianas have higher stem NSC and starch than trees in both sites. The consistent differences in starch concentrations, a long term NSC reserve, between life forms across sites reflect differences in carbon gain and use of lianas and trees. Soluble sugar concentrations were higher in lianas than in trees in the moist site but indistinguishable between life forms in the dry site. The lack of difference in soluble sugars between trees and lianas in the dry site emphasize the importance of this NSC fraction for plant metabolism of plants occurring in water limited environments. Abstract in Portuguese and Spanish are available in the supplementary material.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Steege_pmid37938615,

title = {Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora},

author = {Hans Ter Steege and Nigel C A Pitman and Iêda Leão do Amaral and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos and Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salomão and Florian Wittmann and Carolina V Castilho and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Oliver L Phillips and William E Magnusson and Daniel Sabatier and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Jean-François Molino and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan da Silva Guimarães and José Ferreira Ramos and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Dairon Cárdenas López and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Layon O Demarchi and Jochen Schöngart and Everton José Almeida and Luciane Ferreira Barbosa and Larissa Cavalheiro and Márcia Cléia Vilela Dos Santos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo and Percy Núñez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Montero and Flávia R C Costa and Ted R Feldpausch and Adriano Costa Quaresma and Nicolás Castaño Arboleda and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Rafael L Assis and Chris Baraloto and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Luís Camargo and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Lorena Maniguaje Rincón and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalhães and Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Gerardo A Aymard C and Roel Brienen and Pablo R Stevenson and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Tim R Baker and Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Hugo F Mogollón and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Carlos A Peres and Miles R Silman and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and Freddie C Draper and José Julio de Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Alfonso Alonso and Luzmila Arroyo and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and Eliana M Jimenez and David Neill and Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora and Janaína Costa Noronha and Daniel P P de Aguiar and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Yennie K Bredin and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Torbjørn Haugaasen and Joseph E Hawes and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Izaias Brasil da Silva and Maria Julia Ferreira and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Carolina Levis and Juan Carlos Licona and Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra and Vincent Antoine Vos and Carlos Cerón and Flávia Machado Durgante and Émile Fonty and Terry W Henkel and John Ethan Householder and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Edwin Pos and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Doug Daly and Kyle G Dexter and William Milliken and Guido Pardo Molina and Toby Pennington and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Wegliane Campelo and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pena and J Sebastián Tello and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Luciana de Oliveira Pereira and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R van Andel and Patricio von Hildebrand and William Balee and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Agustín Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Egleé L Zent and Stanford Zent and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Guilherme Lobo and Luis Torres Montenegro and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Maihyra Marina Pombo and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Maria Natalia Umaña and Geertje van der Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and María José Endara and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Germaine Alexander Parada and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Aurora Levesley and Georgia Pickavance and Karina Melgaço},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/11/42003_2023_Article_5514.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6},

issn = {2399-3642},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-11-01},

urldate = {2023-11-01},

journal = {Commun Biol},

volume = {6},

number = {1},

pages = {1130},

abstract = {Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and investigated drivers for diversity and richness. Using only location, stratified by forest type, as predictor, our spatial model, to the best of our knowledge, provides the most accurate map of tree diversity in Amazonia to date, explaining approximately 70% of the tree diversity and species-richness. Large soil-forest combinations determine a significant percentage of the variation in tree species-richness and tree alpha-diversity in Amazonian forest-plots. We suggest that the size and fragmentation of these systems drive their large-scale diversity patterns and hence local diversity. A model not using location but cumulative water deficit, tree density, and temperature seasonality explains 47% of the tree species-richness in the terra-firme forest in Amazonia. Over large areas across Amazonia, residuals of this relationship are small and poorly spatially structured, suggesting that much of the residual variation may be local. The Guyana Shield area has consistently negative residuals, showing that this area has lower tree species-richness than expected by our models. We provide extensive plot meta-data, including tree density, tree alpha-diversity and tree species-richness results and gridded maps at 0.1-degree resolution.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Tavares37100901,

title = {Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests},

author = {Julia Valentim Tavares and Rafael S Oliveira and Maurizio Mencuccini and Caroline Signori-Müller and Luciano Pereira and Francisco Carvalho Diniz and Martin Gilpin and Manuel J Marca Zevallos and Carlos A Salas Yupayccana and Martin Acosta and Flor M Pérez Mullisaca and Fernanda de V Barros and Paulo Bittencourt and Halina Jancoski and Marina Corrêa Scalon and Beatriz S Marimon and Imma Oliveras Menor and Ben Hur Marimon and Max Fancourt and Alexander Chambers-Ostler and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Lucy Rowland and Patrick Meir and Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa and Alex Nina and Jesus M B Sanchez and Jose S Tintaya and Rudi S C Chino and Jean Baca and Leticia Fernandes and Edwin R M Cumapa and João Antônio R Santos and Renata Teixeira and Ligia Tello and Maira T M Ugarteche and Gina A Cuellar and Franklin Martinez and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Everton Almeida and Wesley Jonatar Alves da Cruz and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Luís Aragāo and Timothy R Baker and Plinio Barbosa de Camargo and Roel Brienen and Wendeson Castro and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Eric G Cosio and Nallaret Davila Cardozo and Richarlly da Costa Silva and Mathias Disney and Javier Silva Espejo and Ted R Feldpausch and Leandro Ferreira and Leandro Giacomin and Niro Higuchi and Marina Hirota and Euridice Honorio and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Simon Lewis and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Yadvinder Malhi and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Paulo Morandi and Victor Chama Moscoso and Robert Muscarella and Deliane Penha and Mayda Cecília Rocha and Gleicy Rodrigues and Ademir R Ruschel and Norma Salinas and Monique Schlickmann and Marcos Silveira and Joey Talbot and Rodolfo Vásquez and Laura Vedovato and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Oliver L Phillips and Emanuel Gloor and David R Galbraith},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/04/s41586-023-05971-3.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-04-01},

urldate = {2023-04-01},

journal = {Nature},

abstract = {Tropical forests face increasing climate risk, yet our ability to predict their response to climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although xylem embolism resistance thresholds (for example, [Formula: see text]) and hydraulic safety margins (for example, HSM) are important predictors of drought-induced mortality risk, little is known about how these vary across Earth's largest tropical forest. Here, we present a pan-Amazon, fully standardized hydraulic traits dataset and use it to assess regional variation in drought sensitivity and hydraulic trait ability to predict species distributions and long-term forest biomass accumulation. Parameters [Formula: see text] and HSM vary markedly across the Amazon and are related to average long-term rainfall characteristics. Both [Formula: see text] and HSM influence the biogeographical distribution of Amazon tree species. However, HSM was the only significant predictor of observed decadal-scale changes in forest biomass. Old-growth forests with wide HSM are gaining more biomass than are low HSM forests. We propose that this may be associated with a growth-mortality trade-off whereby trees in forests consisting of fast-growing species take greater hydraulic risks and face greater mortality risk. Moreover, in regions of more pronounced climatic change, we find evidence that forests are losing biomass, suggesting that species in these regions may be operating beyond their hydraulic limits. Continued climate change is likely to further reduce HSM in the Amazon, with strong implications for the Amazon carbon sink.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Teixeira-Silva2023,

title = {Mapping wood volume in seasonally dry vegetation of Caatinga in Bahia State, Brazil},

author = {Thaine Teixeira-Silva and Robson Borges-de-Lima and Rafael L. Figueiredo de Souza and Peter W. Moonlight and Domingos Cardoso and Héveli Kalini Viana Santos and Cinthia Pereira de Oliveira and Elmar Veenendaal and Luciano Paganucci-de -Queiroz and Priscyla Maria Silva-Rodrigues and Rubens M. dos-Santos and Tiina Sarkinen and Alessandro de-Paula and Patrícia Anjos-Bittencourt

Barreto-Garcia and Toby Pennington and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1590/1678-992X-2022-0161},

issn = {1678-992X},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Scientia Agricola},

volume = {80},

pages = {20220161},

abstract = {The Caatinga biome in Brazil comprises the largest and most continuous expanse

of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) worldwide; nevertheless, it is among the most

threatened and least studied, despite its ecological and biogeographical importance. The spatial

distribution of volumetric wood stocks in the Caatinga and the relationship with environmental

factors remain unknown. Therefore, this study intends to quantify and analyze the spatial

distribution of wood volume as a function of environmental variables in Caatinga vegetation

in Bahia State, Brazil. Volumetric estimates were obtained at the plot and fragment level. The

multiple linear regression techniques were adopted, using environmental variables in the area

as predictors. Spatial modeling was performed using the geostatistical kriging approach with

the model residuals. The model developed presented a reasonable fit for the volume m3 ha

with r2 of 0.54 and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 10.9 m3 ha–1. The kriging of ordinary

residuals suggested low error estimates in unsampled locations and balance in the under and

overestimates of the model. The regression kriging approach provided greater detailing of the

global wood volume stock map, yielding volume estimates that ranged from 0.01 to 109 m3

ha–1. Elevation, mean annual temperature, and precipitation of the driest month are strong

environmental predictors for volume estimation. This information is necessary to development

action plans for sustainable management and use of the Caatinga SDTF in Bahia State, Brazil.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Vedovato2023-uy,

title = {Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance},

author = {Laura B Vedovato and Lidiany C S Carvalho and Luiz E. O. C. Aragão and Michael Bird and Oliver L Phillips and Patrícia Alvarez and Jos Barlow and David C Bartholomew and Erika Berenguer and Wendeson Castro and Joice Ferreira and Filipe M França and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Júnior and Abel Monteagudo and Edmar A Oliveira and Luciana O Pereira and Aline Pontes-Lopes and Carlos A Quesada and Camila V J Silva and Javier E Silva Espejo and Marcos Silveira and Ted R Feldpausch},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2023/03/Vedovato_et_al_Ancient-fires-enhance-Amazon-drought-resistance_FFGC_2023.pdf},

doi = {10.3389/ffgc.2023.1024101},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-01},

urldate = {2023-02-01},

journal = {Front. For. Glob. Chang.},

volume = {6},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

abstract = {Drought and fire reduce productivity and increase tree mortality 

 in tropical forests. Fires also produce pyrogenic carbon (PyC), 

 which persists in situ for centuries to millennia, and 

 represents a legacy of past fires, potentially improving soil 

 fertility and water holding capacity and selecting for the 

 survival and recruitment of certain tree life-history (or 

 successional) strategies. We investigated whether PyC is 

 correlated with physicochemical soil properties, wood density, 

 aboveground carbon (AGC) dynamics and forest resistance to 

 severe drought. To achieve our aim, we used an Amazon-wide, 

 long-term plot network, in forests without known recent fires, 

 integrating site-specific measures of forest dynamics, soil 

 properties and a unique soil PyC concentration database. We 

 found that forests with higher concentrations of soil PyC had 

 both higher soil fertility and lower wood density. Soil PyC was 

 not associated with AGC dynamics in non-drought years. However, 

 during extreme drought events (10% driest years), forests with 

 higher concentrations of soil PyC experienced lower reductions 

 in AGC gains (woody growth and recruitment), with this 

 drought-immunizing effect increasing with drought severity. 

 Forests with a legacy of ancient fires are therefore more likely 

 to continue to grow and recruit under increased drought 

 severity. Forests with high soil PyC concentrations (third 

 quartile) had 3.8% greater AGC gains under mean drought, but 

 33.7% greater under the most extreme drought than forests with 

 low soil PyC concentrations (first quartile), offsetting losses 

 of up to 0.68 Mg C ha--1yr--1 of AGC under extreme drought 

 events. This suggests that ancient fires have legacy effects on 

 current forest dynamics, by altering soil fertility and favoring 

 tree species capable of continued growth and recruitment during 

 droughts. Therefore, mature forest that experienced fires 

 centuries or millennia ago may have greater resistance to 

 current short-term droughts.},

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tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Aguirre-Gutiérrez2022,

title = {Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change},

author = {Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez and Erika Berenguer and Imma Oliveras Menor and David Bauman and Jose Javier Corral-Rivas and Maria Guadalupe Nava-Miranda and Sabine Both and Josué Edzang Ndong and Fidèle Evouna Ondo and Natacha N'ssi Bengone and Vianet Mihinhou and James W Dalling and Katherine Heineman and Axa Figueiredo and Roy González-M and Natalia Norden and Ana Belén Hurtado-M and Diego González and Beatriz Salgado-Negret and Simone Matias Reis and Marina Maria Moraes de Seixas and William Farfan-Rios and Alexander Shenkin and Terhi Riutta and Cécile A J Girardin and Sam Moore and Kate Abernethy and Gregory P Asner and Lisa Patrick Bentley and David F R P Burslem and Lucas A Cernusak and Brian J Enquist and Robert M Ewers and Joice Ferreira and Kathryn J Jeffery and Carlos A Joly and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Roberta E Martin and Paulo S Morandi and Oliver L Phillips and Amy C Bennett and Simon L Lewis and Carlos A Quesada and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and W Daniel Kissling and Miles Silman and Yit Arn Teh and Lee J T White and Norma Salinas and David A Coomes and Jos Barlow and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Yadvinder Malhi},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/Functional-susceptibility-of-tropical-forests-to-climate-change.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-022-01747-6},

issn = {2397-334X},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-05-01},

urldate = {2022-05-01},

journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},

abstract = {Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, yet their functioning is threatened by anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. Global actions to conserve tropical forests could be enhanced by having local knowledge on the forests' functional diversity and functional redundancy as proxies for their capacity to respond to global environmental change. Here we create estimates of plant functional diversity and redundancy across the tropics by combining a dataset of 16 morphological, chemical and photosynthetic plant traits sampled from 2,461 individual trees from 74 sites distributed across four continents together with local climate data for the past half century. Our findings suggest a strong link between climate and functional diversity and redundancy with the three trait groups responding similarly across the tropics and climate gradient. We show that drier tropical forests are overall less functionally diverse than wetter forests and that functional redundancy declines with increasing soil water and vapour pressure deficits. Areas with high functional diversity and high functional redundancy tend to better maintain ecosystem functioning, such as aboveground biomass, after extreme weather events. Our predictions suggest that the lower functional diversity and lower functional redundancy of drier tropical forests, in comparison with wetter forests, may leave them more at risk of shifting towards alternative states in face of further declines in water availability across tropical regions.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{AlmeidadeOliveira_De_Oliveira2022-la,

title = {Soil pyrogenic carbon in southern Amazonia: Interaction between soil, climate, and above-ground biomass},

author = {Edmar Almeida-de-Oliveira and Ted R Feldpausch and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Paulo Sérgio Morandi and Oliver L Phillips and Michael Bird and Alejandro Araujo Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Carlos Alberta Quesada and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/10/Almeida-et-al-Soil-pyrogenic-carbon-Southern-Amazon_FFGC_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.3389/ffgc.2022.880963},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-10-01},

urldate = {2022-10-01},

journal = {Front. For. Glob. Chang.},

volume = {5},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

abstract = {The Amazon forest represents one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. Here, we evaluated the role of soil texture, climate, vegetation, and distance to savanna on the distribution and stocks of soil pyrogenic carbon (PyC) in intact forests with no history of recent fire spanning the southern Amazonia forest-Cerrado Zone of Transition (ZOT). In 19 one hectare forest plots, including three Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE, terra preta) sites with high soil PyC, we measured all trees and lianas with diameter $geq$ 10 cm and analyzed soil physicochemical properties, including texture and PyC stocks. We quantified PyC stocks as a proportion of total organic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis. We used multiple linear regression and variance partitioning to determine which variables best explain soil PyC variation. For all forests combined, soil PyC stocks ranged between 0.9 and 6.8 Mg/ha to 30 cm depth (mean 2.3 $pm$ 1.5 Mg/ha) and PyC, on average, represented 4.3% of the total soil organic carbon (SOC). The most parsimonious model (based on AICc) included soil clay content and above-ground biomass (AGB) as the main predictors, explaining 71% of soil PyC variation. After removal of the ADE plots, PyC stocks ranged between 0.9 and 3.8 Mg/ha (mean 1.9 $pm$ 0.8 Mg/ha--1) and PyC continued to represent ∼4% of the total SOC. The most parsimonious models without ADE included AGB and sand as the best predictors, with sand and PyC having an inverse relationship, and sand explaining 65% of the soil PyC variation. Partial regression analysis did not identify any of the components (climatic, environmental, and edaphic), pure or shared, as important in explaining soil PyC variation with or without ADE plots. We observed a substantial amount of soil PyC, even excluding ADE forests; however, contrary to expectations, soil PyC stocks were not higher nearer to the fire-dependent Cerrado than more humid regions of Amazonia. Our findings that soil texture and AGB explain the distribution and amount of soil PyC in ZOT forests will help to improve model estimates of SOC change with further climatic warming.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{deCastroLima2022-bs,

title = {Primary modes of tree mortality in southwestern Amazon forests},

author = {Égon Fabricio de Castro Lima and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and Henrique Augusto Mews and Richarlly Silva Costa and N Galia Selaya Garvizu and Irving Foster Brown and Stephen George Perz and Fernando Augusto Schmidt and Marcos Silveira and Oliver L Phillips and Wendeson Castro and Timothy R Baker and Jon Lloyd and Pl'inio Barbosa Camargo and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Carlos Quesada and Juliana Stropp and Ted Feldpausch},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/12/Lima-et-al_Mode_of_tree_death_SW_Amazon_published_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.tfp.2021.100180},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-03-01},

urldate = {2022-03-01},

journal = {Trees, Forests and People},

volume = {7},

number = {100180},

pages = {100180},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{deLima-pmid35411093,

title = {Making forest data fair and open},

author = {Renato A F de Lima and Oliver L Phillips and Alvaro Duque and J Sebastian Tello and Stuart J Davies and Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira and Sandra Muller and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Emilio Vilanova and Aida Cuni-Sanchez and Timothy R Baker and Casey M Ryan and Agustina Malizia and Simon L Lewis and Hans Ter Steege and Joice Ferreira and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Hong Truong Luu and Gerard Imani and Luzmila Arroyo and Cecilia Blundo and David Kenfack and Moses N Sainge and Bonaventure Sonké and Rodolfo Vásquez},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/06/Lima_Phillips_et_al_Making_Data_Fair_NatureEcolEvo2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-022-01738-7},

issn = {2397-334X},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-06-01},

urldate = {2022-06-01},

journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},

volume = {6},

number = {6},

pages = {656--658},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Feldpausch2022-ou,

title = {Forest fire history in Amazonia inferred from intensive soil charcoal sampling and radiocarbon dating},

author = {Ted R Feldpausch and Lidiany Carvalho and Kita D Macario and Philippa L Ascough and César F Flores and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Michelle Kalamandeen and Oliver L Phillips and Richard A. Staff},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/12/Feldpausch_et_al_Forest_fire_history_Amazonia_FFGC_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.3389/ffgc.2022.815438},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-05-01},

urldate = {2022-05-01},

journal = {Front. For. Glob. Chang.},

volume = {5},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

abstract = {Fire has a historical role in tropical forests related to past climate and ancient land use spanning the Holocene; however, it is unclear from charcoal records how fire varied at different spatiotemporal scales and what sampling strategies are required to determine fire history and their effects. We evaluated fire variation in structurally intact, terra-firme Amazon forests, by intensive soil charcoal sampling from three replicate soil pits in sites in Guyana and northern and southern Peru. We used radiocarbon (14C) measurement to assess (1) locally, how the timing of fires represented in our sample varied across the surface of forest plots and with soil depth, (2) basin-wide, how the age of fires varies across climate and environmental gradients, and (3) how many samples are appropriate when applying the 14C approach to assess the date of last fire. Considering all 14C dates (n = 33), the most recent fires occurred at a similar time at each of the three sites (median ages: 728--851 cal years BP), indicating that in terms of fire disturbance at least, these forests could be considered old-growth. The number of unique fire events ranged from 1 to 4 per pit and from 4 to 6 per site. Based upon our sampling strategy, the N-Peru site---with the highest annual precipitation---had the most fire events. Median fire return intervals varied from 455 to 2,950 cal years BP among sites. Based on available dates, at least three samples (1 from the top of each of 3 pits) are required for the sampling to have a reasonable likelihood of capturing the most recent fire for forests with no history of a recent fire. The maximum fire return interval for two sites was shorter than the time since the last fire, suggesting that over the past ∼800 years these forests have undergone a longer fire-free period than the past 2,000--3,500 years. Our analysis from terra-firme forest soils helps to improve understanding of changes in fire regime, information necessary to evaluate post-fire legacies on modern vegetation and soil and to calibrate models to predict forest response to fire under climate change.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Gatti2022,

title = {The number of tree species on Earth},

author = {Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Peter B Reich and Javier G P Gamarra and Tom Crowther and Cang Hui and Albert Morera and Jean-Francois Bastin and Sergio de-Miguel and Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Jens-Christian Svenning and Josep M Serra-Diaz and Cory Merow and Brian Enquist and Maria Kamenetsky and Junho Lee and Jun Zhu and Jinyun Fang and Douglass F Jacobs and Bryan Pijanowski and Arindam Banerjee and Robert A Giaquinto and Giorgio Alberti and Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Valerio Avitabile and Gerardo A Aymard and Radomir Balazy and Chris Baraloto and Jorcely G Barroso and Meredith L Bastian and Philippe Birnbaum and Robert Bitariho and Jan Bogaert and Frans Bongers and Olivier Bouriaud and Pedro H S Brancalion and Francis Q Brearley and Eben North Broadbent and Filippo Bussotti and Wendeson Castro da Silva and Ricardo Gomes César and Goran sljar and V'ictor Chama Moscoso and Han Y H Chen and Emil Cienciala and Connie J Clark and David A Coomes and Selvadurai Dayanandan and Mathieu Decuyper and Laura E Dee and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Géraldine Derroire and Marie Noel Kamdem Djuikouo and Tran Van Do and Jiri Dolezal and Ilija DJ DJordjevi'c and Julien Engel and Tom M Fayle and Ted R Feldpausch and Jonas K Fridman and David J Harris and Andreas Hemp and Geerten Hengeveld and Bruno Herault and Martin Herold and Thomas Ibanez and Andrzej M Jagodzinski and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Kathryn J Jeffery and Vivian Kvist Johannsen and Tommaso Jucker and Ahto Kangur and Victor N Karminov and Kuswata Kartawinata and Deborah K Kennard and Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas and Gunnar Keppel and Mohammed Latif Khan and Pramod Kumar Khare and Timothy J Kileen and Hyun Seok Kim and Henn Korjus and Amit Kumar and Ashwani Kumar and Diana Laarmann and Nicolas Labri`ere and Mait Lang and Simon L Lewis and Natalia Lukina and Brian S Maitner and Yadvinder Malhi and Andrew R Marshall and Olga V Martynenko and Abel L Monteagudo Mendoza and Petr V Ontikov and Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi and Nadir C Pallqui Camacho and Alain Paquette and Minjee Park and Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy and Pablo Luis Peri and Pascal Petronelli and Sebastian Pfautsch and Oliver L Phillips and Nicolas Picard and Daniel Piotto and Lourens Hirma Poorter and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Mirco Rodeghiero and Roc'io Del Pilar Rojas Gonzáles and Samir G Rolim and Francesco Rovero and Ervan Rutishauser and Purabi Saikia and Christian Salas-Eljatib and Dmitry Schepaschenko and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Vladim'ir n and Marcos Silveira and Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Alexandre F Souza and Krzysztof Jan Stere'nczak and Miroslav Svoboda and Hermann Taedoumg and Nadja Tchebakova and John Terborgh and Elena Tikhonova and Armando Torres-Lezama and Fons Plas and Rodolfo Vásquez and Helder Viana and Alexander C Vibrans and Emilio Vilanova and Vincent A Vos and Hua-Feng Wang and Bertil Westerlund and Lee J T White and Susan K Wiser and Tomasz Zawiła-Nied'zwiecki and Lise Zemagho and Zhi-Xin Zhu and Irié C Zo-Bi and Jingjing Liang},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/12/Gatti_et_al_The-number-of-tree-species-on-Earth_PNAS_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1073/pnas.2115329119},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-02-01},

urldate = {2022-02-01},

journal = {Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.},

volume = {119},

number = {6},

pages = {e2115329119},

publisher = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},

abstract = {Öne of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties connected to the species concept definition, the global numbers of species, including those of important and well-studied life forms such as trees, still remain largely unknown. Here, based on global ground-sourced data, we estimate the total tree species richness at global, continental, and biome levels. Our results indicate that there are ∼73,000 tree species globally, among which ∼9,000 tree species are yet to be discovered. Roughly 40% of undiscovered tree species are in South America. Moreover, almost one-third of all tree species to be discovered may be rare, with very low populations and limited spatial distribution (likely in remote tropical lowlands and mountains). These findings highlight the vulnerability of global forest biodiversity to anthropogenic changes in land use and climate, which disproportionately threaten rare species and thus, global tree richness."},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Hidalgo_Pizango2022-rr,

title = {Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests},

author = {C Gabriel Hidalgo-Pizango and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Jhon Águila-Pasquel and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Johan Jong and César J Córdova Oroche and José M Reyna Huaymacari and Steve J Carver and Dennis Castillo Torres and Frederick C Draper and Oliver L Phillips and Katherine H Roucoux and Sytze Bruin and Marielos Pe na-Claros and Marieke Zon and Gordon Mitchell and Jon Lovett and Gabriel Garc'ia Mendoza and Leticia Gatica Saboya and Julio Irarica Pacaya and Manuel Mart'in Bra nas and Eliseo Ram'irez Paredes and Timothy R Baker},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/s41893-022-00858-z.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41893-022-00858-z},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-04-01},

urldate = {2022-04-01},

journal = {Nat. Sustain.},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Marca-Zevallos2022-bp,

title = {Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin},

author = {Manuel J Marca-Zevallos and Gabriel M Moulatlet and Thaiane R Sousa and Juliana Schietti and Luiz de Souza Coelho and José Ferreira Ramos and Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Francisca Dion'izia Almeida Matos and Lorena M Rincón and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Rogério Gribel and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Rafael P Salom ao and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Dário Dantas do Amaral and Nigel C A Pitman and Corine Vriesendorp and Tim R Baker and Roel Brienen and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and José Renan da Silva Guimar aes and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Ana Andrade and José Lu'is Camargo and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Rodolfo Vasquez and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Hugo F Mogollón and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Beatriz S Marimon and Timothy J Killeen and Emanuelle de Sousa Farias and David Neill and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and John Terborgh and Juan Carlos Montero and Juan Carlos Licona and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Daniel Villarroel and Nállarett Dávila and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and James A Comiskey and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Alexandre A Oliveira and Carolina V Castilho and Jon Lloyd and Ted R Feldpausch and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Nicolás Casta no Arboleda and Dairon Cárdenas López and Gerardo A Aymard Corredor and Anthony Di Fiore and Agust'in Rudas and Adriana Prieto and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Jana'ina Costa Noronha and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Carlos A Peres and William Milliken and Alfredo Fuentes and J Sebastián Tello and Carlos Cerón and Bente Klitgaard and Milton Tirado and Rodrigo Sierra and Kenneth R Young and Gonzalo Francisco Rivas-Torres and Pablo R Stevenson and Angela Cano and Ophelia Wang and Cláudia Baider and Jos Barlow and Joice Ferreira and Erika Berenguer and Juliana Stropp and Henrik Balslev and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Italo Mesones and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Therany Gonzales and Susamar Pansini and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Vincent Antoine Vos and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and William Farfan-Rios and Miles R Silman and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Patricio Hildebrand and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Juan Fernando Phillips and César I A Vela and José Julio Toledo and Daniela Pauletto and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Maria Natalia Uma na and Oliver L Phillips and William E Magnusson and Hans Steege and Flávia R C Costa},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/12/Ecography-2022-Marca‐Zevallos-Local-hydrological-conditions-influence-tree-diversity-and-composition-across-the.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/ecog.06125},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-09-01},

urldate = {2022-09-01},

journal = {Ecography (Cop.)},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the water supplied by precipitation. Nevertheless, within the same climatic regime, water availability is modulated by local topography and soil characteristics (hereafter referred to as local hydrological conditions), varying from saturated and poorly drained to well-drained and potentially dry areas. While these conditions may be expected to influence species distribution, the impacts of local hydrological conditions on tree diversity and composition remain poorly understood at the whole Amazon basin scale. Using a dataset of 443 1-ha non-flooded forest plots distributed across the basin, we investigate how local hydrological conditions influence 1) tree alpha diversity, 2) the community-weighted wood density mean (CWM-wd) – a proxy for hydraulic resistance and 3) tree species composition. We find that the effect of local hydrological conditions on tree diversity depends on climate, being more evident in wetter forests, where diversity increases towards locations with well-drained soils. CWM-wd increased towards better drained soils in Southern and Western Amazonia. Tree species composition changed along local soil hydrological gradients in Central-Eastern, Western and Southern Amazonia, and those changes were correlated with changes in the mean wood density of plots. Our results suggest that local hydrological gradients filter species, influencing the diversity and composition of Amazonian forests. Overall, this study shows that the effect of local hydrological conditions is pervasive, extending over wide Amazonian regions, and reinforces the importance of accounting for local topography and hydrology to better understand the likely response and resilience of forests to increased frequency of extreme climate events and rising temperatures.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Reis2022-ox,

title = {Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests},

author = {Simone M Reis and Beatriz S Marimon and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Ben Hur Jr Marimon and Paulo S Morandi and Fernando Elias and Edmar A Oliveira and David Galbraith and Ted R Feldpausch and Imma O Menor and Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/Reis_et_al_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2745.13849},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-04-01},

urldate = {2022-04-01},

journal = {J. Ecol.},

volume = {110},

number = {4},

pages = {876--888},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Rozendaal2022-sp,

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

author = {Dana"e M A Rozendaal and Daniela Requena Suarez and Veronique De Sy and Valerio Avitabile and Sarah Carter and C Y Adou Yao and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Kristina Anderson-Teixeira and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Benjamin Barca and Timothy R Baker and Luca Birigazzi and Frans Bongers and Anne Branthomme and Roel J W Brienen and Jo ao M B Carreiras and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti and Susan C Cook-Patton and Mathieu Decuyper and Ben DeVries and Andres B Espejo and Ted R Feldpausch and Julian Fox and Javier G P Gamarra and Bronson W Griscom and Nancy Harris and Bruno Hérault and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Inge Jonckheere and Eric Konan and Sara M Leavitt and Simon L Lewis and Jeremy A Lindsell and Justin Kassi N'Dja and Anny Estelle N'Guessan and Beatriz Marimon and Edward T A Mitchard and Abel Monteagudo and Alexandra Morel and Anssi Pekkarinen and Oliver L Phillips and Lourens Poorter and Lan Qie and Ervan Rutishauser and Casey M Ryan and Maurizio Santoro and Dos Santos Silayo and Plinio Sist and J W Ferry Slik and Bonaventure Sonké and Martin J P Sullivan and Gaia Vaglio Laurin and Emilio Vilanova and Maria M H Wang and Eliakimu Zahabu and Martin Herold},

doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/ac45b3},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Environ. Res. Lett.},

volume = {17},

number = {1},

pages = {014047},

publisher = {IOP Publishing},

abstract = {Abstract For monitoring and reporting forest carbon stocks and fluxes, many countries in the tropics and subtropics rely on default values of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. Default IPCC forest AGB values originated from 2006, and are relatively crude estimates of average values per continent and ecological zone. The 2006 default values were based on limited plot data available at the time, methods for their derivation were not fully clear, and no distinction between successional stages was made. As part of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for GHG Inventories, we updated the default AGB values for tropical and subtropical forests based on AGB data from >25 000 plots in natural forests and a global AGB map where no plot data were available. We calculated refined AGB default values per continent, ecological zone, and successional stage, and provided a measure of uncertainty. AGB in tropical and subtropical forests varies by an order of magnitude across continents, ecological zones, and successional stage. Our refined default values generally reflect the climatic gradients in the tropics, with more AGB in wetter areas. AGB is generally higher in old-growth than in secondary forests, and higher in older secondary (regrowth >20 years old and degraded/logged forests) than in young secondary forests (⩽20 years old). While refined default values for tropical old-growth forest are largely similar to the previous 2006 default values, the new default values are 4.0--7.7-fold lower for young secondary forests. Thus, the refined values will strongly alter estimated carbon stocks and fluxes, and emphasize the critical importance of old-growth forest conservation. We provide a reproducible approach to facilitate future refinements and encourage targeted efforts to establish permanent plots in areas with data gaps.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sabatini-pmid36050293,

title = {Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity},

author = {FM Sabatini and B Jiménez-Alfaro and U Jandt and M Chytrý and R Field and M Kessler and J Lenoir and F Schrodt and SK Wiser and MAS Arfin Khan and F Attorre and L Cayuela and M De Sanctis and J Dengler and S Haider and MZ Hatim and A Indreica and F Jansen and A Pauchard and RK Peet and P Petřík and VD Pillar and B Sandel and M Schmidt and Z Tang and P van Bodegom and K Vassilev and C Violle and E Alvarez-Davila and P Davidar and J Dolezal and B Hérault and A Galán-de-Mera and J Jiménez and S Kambach and S Kepfer-Rojas and H Kreft and F Lezama and R Linares-Palomino and A Monteagudo Mendoza and JK N'Dja and OL Phillips and G Rivas-Torres and P Sklenář and K Speziale and BJ Strohbach and R Vásquez Martínez and HF Wang and K Wesche and H Bruelheide},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z},

issn = {2041-1723},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-09-01},

urldate = {2022-09-01},

journal = {Nat Commun},

volume = {13},

number = {1},

pages = {4683},

abstract = {Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (local species richness) for vascular plants at three different spatial grains, for forests and non-forests. We show that alpha diversity is consistently high across grains in some regions (for example, Andean-Amazonian foothills), but regional 'scaling anomalies' (deviations from the positive correlation) exist elsewhere, particularly in Eurasian temperate forests with disproportionally higher fine-grained richness and many African tropical forests with disproportionally higher coarse-grained richness. The influence of different climatic, topographic and biogeographical variables on alpha diversity also varies across grains. Our multi-grain maps return a nuanced understanding of vascular plant biodiversity patterns that complements classic maps of biodiversity hotspots and will improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.},

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}

@article{Signori-Muller2022-nn,

title = {Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast--slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees},

author = {Caroline Signori-Müller and Rafael S Oliveira and Julia Valentim Tavares and Francisco Carvalho Diniz and Martin Gilpin and Fernanda V. Barros and Manuel J Marca Zevallos and Carlos A Salas Yupayccana and Alex Nina and Mauro Brum and Timothy R Baker and Eric G Cosio and Yadvinder Malhi and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Oliver L Phillips and Lucy Rowland and Norma Salinas and Rodolfo Vasquez and Maurizio Mencuccini and David Galbraith},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/12/SignoriMuller_etal_Variation_NSCs_FunctionalEcology_2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2435.13971},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-02-01},

urldate = {2022-02-01},

journal = {Funct. Ecol.},

volume = {36},

number = {2},

pages = {341--355},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sousa2022-qf,

title = {Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests},

author = {Thaiane R Sousa and Juliana Schietti and Igor O Ribeiro and Thaise Em'ilio and Rafael Herrera Fernández and Hans Steege and Carolina V Castilho and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Timothy Baker and Aline Pontes-Lopes and Camila V J Silva and Juliana M Silveira and Géraldine Derroire and Wendeson Castro and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Ademir Ruschel and Adriana Prieto and Adriano José Nogueira Lima and Agust'in Rudas and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Alexander Parada Gutierrez and Ana Andrade and Anand Roopsind and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Anthony Di Fiore and Armando Torres-Lezama and Aurélie Dourdain and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon and Benoit Burban and Bert Ulft and Bruno Herault and Carlos Quesada and Casimiro Mendoza and Clement Stahl and Damien Bonal and David Galbraith and David Neill and Edmar A Oliveira and Eduardo Hase and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Emilio Vilanova and Eric Arets and Erika Berenguer and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Everton Almeida and Fernanda Coelho and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Fernando Elias and Foster Brown and Frans Bongers and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Geertje Heijden and Gerardo A Aymard C. and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Guido Pardo and Hirma Ram'irez-Angulo and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and James A Comiskey and James Singh and Javier Silva Espejo and Jhon Aguila-Pasquel and Joeri Alexander Zwerts and Joey Talbot and John Terborgh and Joice Ferreira and Jorcely G Barroso and Jos Barlow and José Lu'is Camargo and Juliana Stropp and Julie Peacock and Julio Serrano and Karina Melgac co and Leandro V Ferreira and Lilian Blanc and Lourens Poorter and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Luiz Arag ao and Luzmila Arroyo and Marcos Silveira and Maria Cristina Pe nuela-Mora and Mario Percy N'u nez Vargas and Marisol Toledo and Mat Disney and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Michel Baisie and Michelle Kalamandeen and Nadir Pallqui Camacho and Nállarett Dávila Cardozo and Natalino Silva and Nigel Pitman and Niro Higuchi and Olaf Banki and Patricia Alvarez Loayza and Paulo M L A Grac ca and Paulo S Morandi and Peter J Meer and Peter Hout and Pétrus Naisso and Pl'inio Barbosa Camargo and Rafael Salom ao and Raquel Thomas and Rene Boot and Ricardo Keichi Umetsu and Richarlly Costa Silva and Robyn Burnham and Roderick Zagt and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Roel Brienen and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and Simon L Lewis and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Simone Matias Almeida Reis and Sophie Fauset and Susan Laurance and Ted Feldpausch and Terry Erwin and Timothy Killeen and Verginia Wortel and Victor Chama Moscoso and Vincent Vos and Walter Huaraca Huasco and William Laurance and Yadvinder Malhi and William E Magnusson and Oliver L Phillips and Flávia R C Costa and John-Arvid Grytnes},

url = {https://forestplots.net/upload/publication-store/2022/Sousa_etalWater_table_depth_modulates_Amazon_productivity_and%20biomass_GEB2022.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/geb.13531},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-05-01},

urldate = {2022-05-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Steur-pmid35395860,

title = {Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types},

author = {Gijs Steur and Hans Ter Steege and René W Verburg and Daniel Sabatier and Jean-François Molino and Olaf S Bánki and Hernan Castellanos and Juliana Stropp and Émile Fonty and Sofie Ruysschaert and David Galbraith and Michelle Kalamandeen and Tinde R van Andel and Roel Brienen and Oliver L Phillips and Kenneth J Feeley and John Terborgh and Pita A Verweij},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/Steur_ScientificReports.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-09786-6},

issn = {2045-2322},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Sci Rep},

volume = {12},

number = {1},

pages = {5960},

abstract = {Despite increasing attention for relationships between species richness and ecosystem services, for tropical forests such relationships are still under discussion. Contradicting relationships have been reported concerning carbon stock, while little is known about relationships concerning timber stock and the abundance of non-timber forest product producing plant species (NTFP abundance). Using 151 1-ha plots, we related tree and arborescent palm species richness to carbon stock, timber stock and NTFP abundance across the Guiana Shield, and using 283 1-ha plots, to carbon stock across all of Amazonia. We analysed how environmental heterogeneity influenced these relationships, assessing differences across and within multiple forest types, biogeographic regions and subregions. Species richness showed significant relationships with all three ecosystem services, but relationships differed between forest types and among biogeographical strata. We found that species richness was positively associated to carbon stock in all biogeographical strata. This association became obscured by variation across biogeographical regions at the scale of Amazonia, resembling a Simpson's paradox. By contrast, species richness was weakly or not significantly related to timber stock and NTFP abundance, suggesting that species richness is not a good predictor for these ecosystem services. Our findings illustrate the importance of environmental stratification in analysing biodiversity-ecosystem services relationships.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Aguirre-Gutierrez2021-yf,

title = {Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data},

author = {Jesus Äguirre-Gutiérrez and Sami Rifai and Alexander Shenkin and Imma Oliveras and Lisa Patrick Bentley and Martin Svátek and Cécile A J Girardin and Sabine Both and Terhi Riutta and Erika Berenguer and W Daniel Kissling and David Bauman and Nicolas Raab and Sam Moore and William Farfan-Rios and Axa Emanuelle Sim oes Figueiredo and Simone Matias Reis and Josué Edzang Ndong and Fid`ele Evouna Ondo and Natacha N'ssi Bengone and Vianet Mihindou and Marina Maria Moraes de Seixas and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Katharine Abernethy and Gregory P Asner and Jos Barlow and David F R P Burslem and David A Coomes and Lucas A Cernusak and Greta C Dargie and Brian J Enquist and Robert M Ewers and Joice Ferreira and Kathryn J Jeffery and Carlos A Joly and Simon L Lewis and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Roberta E Martin and Paulo S Morandi and Oliver L Phillips and Carlos A Quesada and Norma Salinas and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Miles Silman and Yit Arn Teh and Lee J T White and Yadvinder" Malhi},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/AguirreGutierrez_et_al_RSE_2021.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.rse.2020.112122},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Remote Sens. Environ.},

volume = {252},

number = {112122},

pages = {112122},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{AlvesdaCruz2021-ui,

title = {Functional diversity and regeneration traits of tree communities in the Amazon-Cerrado transition},

author = {Wesley Jonatar Alves-da-Cruz and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Izabel Amorim and Paulo S Morandi and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/Da-Cruz-et-al-Functional-Traits-Regeneration_AmazonCerradoFlora_2021.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.flora.2021.151952},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-01},

urldate = {2021-12-01},

journal = {Flora},

volume = {285},

number = {151952},

pages = {151952},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Dalagnolpmid33446809,

title = {Large-scale variations in the dynamics of Amazon forest canopy gaps from airborne lidar data and opportunities for tree mortality estimates},

author = {Ricardo Dalagnol and Fabien H Wagner and Lênio S Galvão and Annia S Streher and Oliver L Phillips and Emanuel Gloor and Thomas A M Pugh and Jean P H B Ometto and Luiz E O C Aragão},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/Large-scale-variations-in-the-dynamics-of-Amazon-forest-canopy-gaps-from-airborne-lidar-data-and-opportunities-for-tree-mortality-estimates.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-80809-w},

issn = {2045-2322},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Sci Rep},

volume = {11},

number = {1},

pages = {1388},

abstract = {We report large-scale estimates of Amazonian gap dynamics using a novel approach with large datasets of airborne light detection and ranging (lidar), including five multi-temporal and 610 single-date lidar datasets. Specifically, we (1) compared the fixed height and relative height methods for gap delineation and established a relationship between static and dynamic gaps (newly created gaps); (2) explored potential environmental/climate drivers explaining gap occurrence using generalized linear models; and (3) cross-related our findings to mortality estimates from 181 field plots. Our findings suggest that static gaps are significantly correlated to dynamic gaps and can inform about structural changes in the forest canopy. Moreover, the relative height outperformed the fixed height method for gap delineation. Well-defined and consistent spatial patterns of dynamic gaps were found over the Amazon, while also revealing the dynamics of areas never sampled in the field. The predominant pattern indicates 20-35% higher gap dynamics at the west and southeast than at the central-east and north. These estimates were notably consistent with field mortality patterns, but they showed 60% lower magnitude likely due to the predominant detection of the broken/uprooted mode of death. While topographic predictors did not explain gap occurrence, the water deficit, soil fertility, forest flooding and degradation were key drivers of gap variability at the regional scale. These findings highlight the importance of lidar in providing opportunities for large-scale gap dynamics and tree mortality monitoring over the Amazon.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Draper2021-qe,

title = {Amazon tree dominance across forest strata},

author = {Frederick C Draper and Flavia R C Costa and Gabriel Arellano and Oliver L Phillips and Alvaro Duque and Manuel J Mac'ia and Hans Ter Steege and Gregory P Asner and Erika Berenguer and Juliana Schietti and Jacob B Socolar and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Kyle G Dexter and Peter M Jørgensen and J Sebastian Tello and William E Magnusson and Timothy R Baker and Carolina V Castilho and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Paul V A Fine and Kalle Ruokolainen and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Gerardo Aymard and Nállarett Dávila and Mauricio Sánchez Sáenz and Marcos A Rios Paredes and Julien Engel and Claire Fortunel and C E Timothy Paine and Jean-Yves Goret and Aurelie Dourdain and Pascal Petronelli and Elodie Allie and Juan E Guevara Andino and Roel J W Brienen and Leslie Cayola Pérez and ^Angelo G Manzatto and Narel Y Paniagua Zambrana and Jean-Franc cois Molino and Daniel Sabatier and Jer^ome Chave and Sophie Fauset and Roosevelt Garcia Villacorta and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Paul E Berry and Karina Melgac co and Ted R Feldpausch and Elvis Valderamma Sandoval and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Italo Mesones and André B Junqueira and Katherine H Roucoux and José J Toledo and Ana C Andrade and José Lu'is Camargo and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Flávia D Santana and William F Laurance and Susan G Laurance and Thomas E Lovejoy and James A Comiskey and David R Galbraith and Michelle Kalamandeen and Gilberto E Navarro Aguilar and Jim Vega Arenas and Carlos A Amasifuen Guerra and Manuel Flores and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Luis A Torres Montenegro and Ricardo Zarate Gomez and Marcelo P Pansonato and Victor Chama Moscoso and Jason Vleminckx and Oscar J Valverde Barrantes and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Sidney Ara'ujo Sousa and Luzmila Arroyo and Ricardo O Perdiz and Jessica Soares Cravo and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Gabriel Damasco and Mathias Disney and Marcos Salgado Vital and Pablo R Stevenson Diaz and Alberto Vicentini and Henrique Nascimento and Niro Higuchi and Tinde Van Andel and Yadvinder Malhi and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and John W Terborgh and Raquel S Thomas and Francisco Dallmeier and Adriana Prieto and Renato R Hilário and Rafael P Salom ao and Richarlly da Costa Silva and Luisa F Casas and Ima C Guimar aes Vieira and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Fredy Ramirez Arevalo and Hirma Ram'irez-Angulo and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Maria C Pe nuela and Timothy J Killeen and Guido Pardo and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Wenderson Castro and Darcy Galiano Cabrera and John Pipoly and Thaiane Rodrigues Sousa and Marcos Silvera and Vincent Vos and David Neill and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Dilys M Vela and Luiz E O C Arag ao and Ricardo Keichi Umetsu and Rodrigo Sierra and Ophelia Wang and Kenneth R Young and Nayane C C S Prestes and Klécia G Massi and José Reyna Huaymacari and Germaine A Parada Gutierrez and Ana M Aldana and Miguel N Alexiades and Fabr'icio Baccaro and Carlos Céron and Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Julio M Grandez Rios and Antonio S Lima and Jonathan L Lloyd and Nigel C A Pitman and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Cesar J Cordova Oroche and Alfredo F Fuentes and Walter Palacios and Sandra Pati no and Armando Torres-Lezama and Christopher Baraloto},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/Draper21.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-021-01418-y},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-06-01},

urldate = {2021-06-01},

journal = {Nat. Ecol. Evol.},

volume = {5},

number = {6},

pages = {757--767},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of how this extraordinary biodiversity is spatially organized is urgently required to develop effective conservation strategies. Most Amazonian tree species are extremely rare but a few are common across the region. Indeed, just 227 'hyperdominant' species account for >50% of all individuals >10 cm diameter at 1.3 m in height. Yet, the degree to which the phenomenon of hyperdominance is sensitive to tree size, the extent to which the composition of dominant species changes with size class and how evolutionary history constrains tree hyperdominance, all remain unknown. Here, we use a large floristic dataset to show that, while hyperdominance is a universal phenomenon across forest strata, different species dominate the forest understory, midstory and canopy. We further find that, although species belonging to a range of phylogenetically dispersed lineages have become hyperdominant in small size classes, hyperdominants in large size classes are restricted to a few lineages. Our results demonstrate that it is essential to consider all forest strata to understand regional patterns of dominance and composition in Amazonia. More generally, through the lens of 654 hyperdominant species, we outline a tractable pathway for understanding the functioning of half of Amazonian forests across vertical strata and geographical locations.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Duquepmid33837222,

title = {Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges},

author = {Alvaro Duque and Miguel A Peña and Francisco Cuesta and Sebastián González-Caro and Peter Kennedy and Oliver L Phillips and Marco Calderón-Loor and Cecilia Blundo and Julieta Carilla and Leslie Cayola and William Farfán-Ríos and Alfredo Fuentes and Ricardo Grau and Jürgen Homeier and María I Loza-Rivera and Yadvinder Malhi and Agustina Malizia and Lucio Malizia and Johanna A Martínez-Villa and Jonathan A Myers and Oriana Osinaga-Acosta and Manuel Peralvo and Esteban Pinto and Sassan Saatchi and Miles Silman and J Sebastián Tello and Andrea Terán-Valdez and Kenneth J Feeley},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/09/s41467-021-22459-8.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-021-22459-8},

issn = {2041-1723},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Nat Commun},

volume = {12},

number = {1},

pages = {2138},

abstract = {It is largely unknown how South America's Andean forests affect the global carbon cycle, and thus regulate climate change. Here, we measure aboveground carbon dynamics over the past two decades in 119 monitoring plots spanning a range of >3000 m elevation across the subtropical and tropical Andes. Our results show that Andean forests act as strong sinks for aboveground carbon (0.67 ± 0.08 Mg C ha y) and have a high potential to serve as future carbon refuges. Aboveground carbon dynamics of Andean forests are driven by abiotic and biotic factors, such as climate and size-dependent mortality of trees. The increasing aboveground carbon stocks offset the estimated C emissions due to deforestation between 2003 and 2014, resulting in a net total uptake of 0.027 Pg C y. Reducing deforestation will increase Andean aboveground carbon stocks, facilitate upward species migrations, and allow for recovery of biomass losses due to climate change.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{ForestPlotsnet2021-lz,

title = {Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots},

author = {ForestPlots.net and Cecilia Blundo and Julieta Carilla and Ricardo Grau and Agustina Malizia and Lucio Malizia and Oriana Osinaga-Acosta and Michael Bird and Matt Bradford and Damien Catchpole and Andrew Ford and Andrew Graham and David Hilbert and Jeanette Kemp and Susan Laurance and William Laurance and Francoise Yoko Ishida and Andrew Marshall and Catherine Waite and Hannsjoerg Woell and Jean-Francois Bastin and Marijn Bauters and Hans Beeckman and Pfascal Boeckx and Jan Bogaert and Charles De Canniere and Thales Haulleville and Jean-Louis Doucet and Olivier Hardy and Wannes Hubau and Elizabeth Kearsley and Hans Verbeeck and Jason Vleminckx and Steven W Brewer and Alfredo Alarcón and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric Arets and Luzmila Arroyo and Ezequiel Chavez and Todd Fredericksen and René Guillén Villaroel and Gloria Gutierrez Sibauty and Timothy Killeen and Juan Carlos Licona and John Lleigue and Casimiro Mendoza and Samaria Murakami and Alexander Parada Gutierrez and Guido Pardo and Marielos Pe na-Claros and Lourens Poorter and Marisol Toledo and Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo and Laura Jessica Viscarra and Vincent Vos and Jorge Ahumada and Everton Almeida and Jarcilene Almeida and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Wesley Alves Cruz and Atila Alves Oliveira and Fabr'icio Alvim Carvalho and Flávio Amorim Obermuller and Ana Andrade and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Ana Carla Aquino and Luiz Arag ao and Ana Claudia Ara'ujo and Marco Antonio Assis and Jose Ataliba Mantelli Aboin Gomes and Fabr'icio Baccaro and Pl'inio Barbosa Camargo and Paulo Barni and Jorcely Barroso and Luis Carlos Bernacci and Kauane Bordin and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Igor Broggio and José Lu'is Camargo and Domingos Cardoso and Maria Antonia Carniello and Andre Luis Casarin Rochelle and Carolina Castilho and Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro and Wendeson Castro and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and Flávia Costa and Rodrigo Costa Oliveira and Italo Coutinho and John Cunha and Lola Costa and Lucia Costa Ferreira and Richarlly Costa Silva and Marta Zacarias Simbine and Vitor Andrade Kamimura and Haroldo Cavalcante Lima and Lia Oliveira Melo and Luciano Queiroz and José Romualdo Sousa Lima and Mário Esp'irito Santo and Tomas Domingues and Nayane Cristina Santos Prestes and Steffan Eduardo Silva Carneiro and Fernando Elias and Gabriel Eliseu and Thaise Emilio and Camila La'is Farrapo and Let'icia Fernandes and Gustavo Ferreira and Joice Ferreira and Leandro Ferreira and Socorro Ferreira and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Maria Aparecida Freitas and Queila S Garc'ia and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Paulo Grac ca and Frederico Guilherme and Eduardo Hase and Niro Higuchi and Mariana Iguatemy and Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa and Margarita Jaramillo and Carlos Joly and Joice Klipel and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Carolina Levis and Antonio S Lima and Maur'icio Lima Dan and Aline Lopes and Herison Madeiros and William E Magnusson and Rubens Manoel Santos and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Roberta Marotti Martelletti Grillo and Luiz Martinelli and Simone Matias Reis and Salom ao Medeiros and Milton Meira-Junior and Thiago Metzker and Paulo Morandi and Natanael Moreira Nascimento and Magna Moura and Sandra Cristina Müller and Laszlo Nagy and Henrique Nascimento and Marcelo Nascimento and Adriano Nogueira Lima and Raimunda Oliveira Ara'ujo and Jhonathan Oliveira Silva and Marcelo Pansonato and Gabriel Pavan Sabino and Karla Maria Pedra Abreu and Pablo José Francisco Pena Rodrigues and Maria Piedade and Domingos Rodrigues and José Roberto Rodrigues Pinto and Carlos Quesada and Eliana Ramos and Rafael Ramos and Priscyla Rodrigues and Thaiane Rodrigues Sousa and Rafael Salom ao and Flávia Santana and Marcos Scaranello and Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin and Juliana Schietti and Jochen Schöngart and Gustavo Schwartz and Natalino Silva and Marcos Silveira and Cristiana Sim ao Seixas and Marta Simbine and Ana Claudia Souza and Priscila Souza and Rodolfo Souza and Tereza Sposito and Edson Stefani Junior and Julio Daniel Vale and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Dora Villela and Marcos Vital and Haron Xaud and Katia Zanini and Charles Eugene Zartman and Nur Khalish Hafizhah Ideris and Faizah Binti Hj Metali and Kamariah Abu Salim and Muhd Shahruney Saparudin and Rafizah Mat Serudin and Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri and Serge Begne and George Chuyong and Marie Noel Djuikouo and Christelle Gonmadje and Murielle Simo-Droissart and Bonaventure Sonké and Hermann Taedoumg and Lise Zemagho and Sean Thomas and Fid`ele Baya and Gustavo Saiz and Javier Silva Espejo and Dexiang Chen and Alan Hamilton and Yide Li and Tushou Luo and Shukui Niu and Han Xu and Zhang Zhou and Esteban Álvarez-Dávila and Juan Carlos Andrés Escobar and Henry Arellano-Pe na and Jaime Cabezas Duarte and Jhon Calderón and Lina Maria Corrales Bravo and Borish Cuadrado and Hermes Cuadros and Alvaro Duque and Luisa Fernanda Duque and Sandra Milena Espinosa and Rebeca Franke-Ante and Hernando Garc'ia and Alejandro Gómez and Roy González-M. and Álvaro Idárraga-Piedrah'ita and Eliana Jimenez and Rubén Jurado and Wilmar López Oviedo and René López-Camacho and Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz and Irina Mendoza Polo and Edwin Paky and Karen Pérez and Angel Pijachi and Camila Pizano and Adriana Prieto and Laura Ramos and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and James Richardson and Elkin Rodr'iguez and Gina M Rodriguez M. and Agust'in Rudas and Pablo Stevenson and Markéta Chudomelová and Martin Dancak and Radim Hédl and Stanislav Lhota and Martin Svatek and Jacques Mukinzi and Corneille Ewango and Terese Hart and Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu and Janvier Lisingo and Jean-Remy Makana and Faustin Mbayu and Benjamin Toirambe and John Tshibamba Mukendi and Lars Kvist and Gustav Nebel and Selene Báez and Carlos Céron and Daniel M Griffith and Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino and David Neill and Walter Palacios and Maria Cristina Pe nuela-Mora and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Gorky Villa and Sheleme Demissie and Tadesse Gole and Techane Gonfa and Kalle Ruokolainen and Michel Baisie and Fabrice Bénédet and Wemo Betian and Vincent Bezard and Damien Bonal and Jer^ome Chave and Vincent Droissart and Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury and Annette Hladik and Nicolas Labri`ere and Pétrus Naisso and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Plinio Sist and Lilian Blanc and Benoit Burban and Géraldine Derroire and Aurélie Dourdain and Clement Stahl and Natacha Nssi Bengone and Eric Chezeaux and Fid`ele Evouna Ondo and Vincent Medjibe and Vianet Mihindou and Lee White and Heike Culmsee and Cristabel Durán Rangel and Viviana Horna and Florian Wittmann and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Ernest Foli and Michael Balinga and Anand Roopsind and James Singh and Raquel Thomas and Roderick Zagt and Indu K Murthy and Kuswata Kartawinata and Edi Mirmanto and Hari Priyadi and Ismayadi Samsoedin and Terry Sunderland and Ishak Yassir and Francesco Rovero and Barbara Vinceti and Bruno Hérault and Shin-Ichiro Aiba and Kanehiro Kitayama and Armandu Daniels and Darlington Tuagben and John T Woods and Muhammad Fitriadi and Alexander Karolus and Kho Lip Khoon and Noreen Majalap and Colin Maycock and Reuben Nilus and Sylvester Tan and Almeida Sitoe and Indiana Coronado G. and Lucas Ojo and Rafael Assis and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and Douglas Sheil and Karen Arévalo Pezo and Hans Buttgenbach Verde and Victor Chama Moscoso and Jimmy Cesar Cordova Oroche and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Massiel Corrales Medina and Nallaret Davila Cardozo and Jano Rutte Corzo and Jhon Aguila Pasquel and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Luis Freitas and Darcy Galiano Cabrera and Roosevelt Garc'ia Villacorta and Karina Garcia Cabrera and Diego Garc'ia Soria and Leticia Gatica Saboya and Julio Miguel Grandez Rios and Gabriel Hidalgo Pizango and Eur'idice Honorio Coronado and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Yuri Tomas Huillca Aedo and Jose Luis Marcelo Pe na and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Vanesa Moreano Rodriguez and 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url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/ForestPlotsnet_Taking_the_pulse_of_forests_plot_networks_BiolCons_2021.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-01},

urldate = {2021-08-01},

journal = {Biol. Conserv.},

volume = {260},

number = {108849},

pages = {108849},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Abstract

Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Networking is essential to discover the answers to questions that transcend borders and the horizons of funding agencies. Here we show how a global community is responding to the challenges of tropical ecosystem research with diverse teams measuring forests tree-by-tree in thousands of long-term plots. We review the major scientific discoveries of this work and show how this process is changing tropical forest science. Our core approach involves linking long-term grassroots initiatives with standardized protocols and data management to generate robust scaled-up results. By connecting tropical researchers and elevating their status, our Social Research Network model recognises the key role of the data originator in scientific discovery. Conceived in 1999 with RAINFOR (South America), our permanent plot networks have been adapted to Africa (AfriTRON) and Southeast Asia (T-FORCES) and widely emulated worldwide. Now these multiple initiatives are integrated via ForestPlots.net cyber-infrastructure, linking colleagues from 54 countries across 24 plot networks. Collectively these are transforming understanding of tropical forests and their biospheric role. Together we have discovered how, where and why forest carbon and biodiversity are responding to climate change, and how they feedback on it. This long-term pan-tropical collaboration has revealed a large long-term carbon sink and its trends, as well as making clear which drivers are most important, which forest processes are affected, where they are changing, what the lags are, and the likely future responses of tropical forests as the climate continues to change. By leveraging a remarkably old technology, plot networks are sparking a very modern revolution in tropical forest science. In the future, humanity can benefit greatly by nurturing the grassroots communities now collectively capable of generating unique, long-term understanding of Earth's most precious forests.



Resumen

Los bosques tropicales son los ecosistemas más diversos y productivos del mundo y entender su funcionamiento es crítico para nuestro futuro colectivo. Sin embargo, hasta hace muy poco, los esfuerzos para medirlos y monitorearlos han estado muy desconectados. El trabajo en redes es esencial para descubrir las respuestas a preguntas que trascienden las fronteras y los plazos de las agencias de financiamiento. Aquí mostramos cómo una comunidad global está respondiendo a los desafíos de la investigación en ecosistemas tropicales a través de diversos equipos realizando mediciones árbol por árbol en miles de parcelas permanentes de largo plazo. Revisamos los descubrimientos más importantes de este trabajo y discutimos cómo este proceso está cambiando la ciencia relacionada a los bosques tropicales. El enfoque central de nuestro esfuerzo implica la conexión de iniciativas locales de largo plazo con protocolos estandarizados y manejo de datos para producir resultados que se puedan trasladar a múltiples escalas. Conectando investigadores tropicales, elevando su posición y estatus, nuestro modelo de Red Social de Investigación reconoce el rol fundamental que tienen, para el descubrimiento científico, quienes generan o producen los datos. Concebida en 1999 con RAINFOR (Suramérica), nuestras redes de parcelas permanentes han sido adaptadas en África (AfriTRON) y el sureste asiático (T-FORCES) y ampliamente replicadas en el mundo. Actualmente todas estas iniciativas están integradas a través de la ciber-infraestructura de ForestPlots.net, conectando colegas de 54 países en 24 redes diferentes de parcelas. Colectivamente, estas redes están transformando nuestro conocimiento sobre los bosques tropicales y el rol de éstos en la biósfera. Juntos hemos descubierto cómo, dónde y porqué el carbono y la biodiversidad de los bosques tropicales está respondiendo al cambio climático y cómo se retroalimentan. Esta colaboración pan-tropical de largo plazo ha expuesto un gran sumidero de carbono y sus tendencias, mostrando claramente cuáles son los factores más importantes, qué procesos se ven afectados, dónde ocurren los cambios, los tiempos de reacción y las probables respuestas futuras mientras el clima continúa cambiando. Apalancando lo que realmente es una tecnología antigua, las redes de parcelas están generando una verdadera y moderna revolución en la ciencia tropical. En el futuro, la humanidad puede beneficiarse enormemente si se nutren y cultivan comunidades de investigadores de base, actualmente con la capacidad de generar información única y de largo plazo para entender los que probablemente son los bosques más preciados de la tierra.



Resumo

Florestas tropicais são os ecossistemas mais diversos e produtivos da Terra. Embora uma boa compreensão destas florestas seja crucial para o nosso futuro coletivo, até muito recentemente os esforços de medições e monitoramento tem sido amplamente desconexos. É essencial formarmos redes para obtermos respostas que transcendam as fronteiras e horizontes das agências financiadoras. Neste estudo nós mostramos como uma comunidade global está respondendo aos desafios da pesquisa de ecossistemas tropicais, com equipes diversas medindo florestas, árvore por árvore, em milhares de parcelas monitoradas a longo prazo. Nós revisamos as maiores descobertas científicas deste esforço global, e mostramos também como este processo vem mudando a ciência de florestas tropicais. Nossa abordagem principal envolve unir iniciativas de base a protocolos padronizados e gerenciamento de dados a fim de gerar resultados robustos em grandes escalas. Ao conectar pesquisadores tropicais e elevar seus status, nosso modelo de Rede de Pesquisa Social reconhece o papel chave do produtor dos dados na descoberta científica. Concebida em 1999 com o RAINFOR (América do Sul), nossa rede de parcelas permanentes foi adaptada para África (AfriTRON) e Sudeste Asiático (T-FORCES), e tem sido extensamente reproduzida em todo o mundo. Agora estas múltiplas iniciativas estão integradas através da infraestrutura cibernética do ForestPlots.net, conectando colegas de 54 países e 24 redes de parcelas. Estas iniciativas estão transformando coletivamente o entendimento das florestas tropicais e seus papéis na biosfera. Juntos nós descobrimos como, onde e por que o carbono e a biodiversidade da floresta estão respondendo às mudanças climáticas, e seus efeitos de retroalimentação. Esta duradoura colaboração pantropical revelou um grande sumidouro de carbono persistente e suas tendências, assim como tem evidenciado quais os fatores que influenciam essas tendências, quais processos florestais são mais afetados, onde eles estão mudando, seus atrasos no tempo de resposta, e as prováveis respostas das florestas tropicais conforme o clima continua a mudar. Dessa forma, aproveitando uma notável tecnologia antiga, redes de parcelas acendem as faíscas de uma moderna revolução na ciência das florestas tropicais. No futuro a humanidade pode se beneficiar incentivando estas comunidades locais que agora são coletivamente capazes de gerar conhecimentos únicos e duradouros sobre as florestas mais preciosas da Terra.



Résume

Les forêts tropicales sont les écosystèmes les plus diversifiés et les plus productifs de la planète. Si une meilleure compréhension de ces forêts est essentielle pour notre avenir collectif, jusqu'à tout récemment, les efforts déployés pour les mesurer et les surveiller ont été largement déconnectés. La mise en réseau est essentielle pour découvrir les réponses à des questions qui dépassent les frontières et les horizons des organismes de financement. Nous montrons ici comment une communauté mondiale relève les défis de la recherche sur les écosystèmes tropicaux avec diverses équipes qui mesurent les forêts arbre après arbre dans de milliers de parcelles permanentes. Nous passons en revue les principales découvertes scientifiques de ces travaux et montrons comment ce processus modifie la science des forêts tropicales. Notre approche principale consiste à relier les initiatives de base à long terme à des protocoles standardisés et une gestion de données afin de générer des résultats solides à grande échelle. En reliant les chercheurs tropicaux et en élevant leur statut, notre modèle de réseau de recherche sociale reconnaît le rôle clé de l'auteur des données dans la découverte scientifique. Conçus en 1999 avec RAINFOR (Amérique du Sud), nos réseaux de parcelles permanentes ont été adaptés à l'Afrique (AfriTRON) et à l'Asie du Sud-Est (T-FORCES) et largement imités dans le monde entier. Ces multiples initiatives sont désormais intégrées via l'infrastructure ForestPlots.net, qui relie des collègues de 54 pays à travers 24 réseaux de parcelles. Ensemble, elles transforment la compréhension des forêts tropicales et de leur rôle biosphérique. Ensemble, nous avons découvert comment, où et pourquoi le carbone forestier et la biodiversité réagissent au changement climatique, et comment ils y réagissent. Cette collaboration pan-tropicale à long terme a révélé un important puits de carbone à long terme et ses tendances, tout en mettant en évidence les facteurs les plus importants, les processus forestiers qui sont affectés, les endroits où ils changent, les décalages et les réactions futures probables des forêts tropicales à mesure que le climat continue de changer. En tirant parti d'une technologie remarquablement ancienne, les réseaux de parcelles déclenchent une révolution très moderne dans la science des forêts tropicales. À l'avenir, l'humanité pourra grandement bénéficier du soutien des communautés de base qui sont maintenant collectivement capables de générer une compréhension unique et à long terme des forêts les plus précieuses de la Terre.



Abstrak

Hutan tropika adalah di antara ekosistem yang paling produktif dan mempunyai kepelbagaian biodiversiti yang tinggi di seluruh dunia. Walaupun pemahaman mengenai hutan tropika amat penting untuk masa depan kita, usaha-usaha untuk mengkaji dan mengawas hutah-hutan tersebut baru sekarang menjadi lebih diperhubungkan. Perangkaian adalah sangat penting untuk mencari jawapan kepada soalan-soalan yang menjangkaui sempadan dan batasan agensi pendanaan. Di sini kami menunjukkan bagaimana sebuah komuniti global bertindak balas terhadap cabaran penyelidikan ekosistem tropika melalui penglibatan pelbagai kumpulan yang mengukur hutan secara pokok demi pokok dalam beribu-ribu plot jangka panjang. Kami meninjau semula penemuan saintifik utama daripada kerja ini dan menunjukkan bagaimana proses ini sedang mengubah bidang sains hutan tropika. Teras pendekatan kami memberi tumpuan terhadap penghubungan inisiatif akar umbi jangka panjang dengan protokol standar serta pengurusan data untuk mendapatkan hasil skala besar yang kukuh. Dengan menghubungkan penyelidik-penyelidik tropika dan meningkatkan status mereka, model Rangkaian Penyelidikan Sosial kami mengiktiraf kepentingan peranan pengasas data dalam penemuan saintifik. Bermula dengan pengasasan RAINFOR (Amerika Selatan) pada tahun 1999, rangkaian-rangkaian plot kekal kami kemudian disesuaikan untuk Afrika (AfriTRON) dan Asia Tenggara (T-FORCES) dan selanjutnya telah banyak dicontohi di seluruh dunia. Kini, inisiatif-inisiatif tersebut disepadukan melalui infrastruktur siber ForestPlots.net yang menghubungkan rakan sekerja dari 54 negara di 24 buah rangkaian plot. Secara kolektif, rangkaian ini sedang mengubah pemahaman tentang hutan tropika dan peranannya dalam biosfera. Kami telah bekerjasama untuk menemukan bagaimana, di mana dan mengapa karbon serta biodiversiti hutan bertindak balas terhadap perubahan iklim dan juga bagaimana mereka saling bermaklum balas. Kolaborasi pan-tropika jangka panjang ini telah mendedahkan sebuah sinki karbon jangka panjang serta arah alirannya dan juga menjelaskan pemandu-pemandu perubahan yang terpenting, di mana dan bagaimana proses hutan terjejas, masa susul yang ada dan kemungkinan tindakbalas hutan tropika pada perubahan iklim secara berterusan di masa depan. Dengan memanfaatkan pendekatan lama, rangkaian plot sedang menyalakan revolusi yang amat moden dalam sains hutan tropika. Pada masa akan datang, manusia sejagat akan banyak mendapat manfaat jika memupuk komuniti-komuniti akar umbi yang kini berkemampuan secara kolektif menghasilkan pemahaman unik dan jangka panjang mengenai hutan-hutan yang paling berharga di dunia.},

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@article{Aguirre-Gutiérrezpmid32620761,

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

author = {Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez and Yadvinder Malhi and Simon L Lewis and Sophie Fauset and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Timothy R Baker and Agne Gvozdevaite and Wannes Hubau and Sam Moore and Theresa Peprah and Kasia Ziemińska and Oliver L Phillips and Imma Oliveras},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-16973-4},

issn = {2041-1723},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Nat Commun},

volume = {11},

number = {1},

pages = {3346},

abstract = {Tropical ecosystems adapted to high water availability may be highly impacted by climatic changes that increase soil and atmospheric moisture deficits. Many tropical regions are experiencing significant changes in climatic conditions, which may induce strong shifts in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of forest communities. However, it remains unclear if and to what extent tropical forests are shifting in these facets of diversity along climatic gradients in response to climate change. Here, we show that changes in climate affected all three facets of diversity in West Africa in recent decades. Taxonomic and functional diversity increased in wetter forests but tended to decrease in forests with drier climate. Phylogenetic diversity showed a large decrease along a wet-dry climatic gradient. Notably, we find that all three facets of diversity tended to be higher in wetter forests. Drier forests showed functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogenization. Understanding how different facets of diversity respond to a changing environment across climatic gradients is essential for effective long-term conservation of tropical forest ecosystems.},

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}

@article{Baker2020-ya,

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

author = {Timothy R Baker and Edgar Vicu na Mi nano and Karina Banda-R and Dennis Castillo Torres and William Farfan-Rios and Ian T Lawson and Eva Loja Alemán and Nadir Pallqui Camacho and Miles R Silman and Katherine H Roucoux and Oliver L Phillips and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Roc'io Rojas Gonzáles},

doi = {10.1002/ppp3.10154},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-01},

urldate = {2020-10-01},

journal = {Plants People Planet},

number = {ppp3.10154},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Esquivel-Muelbert_pmid33168823,

title = {Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests},

author = {Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Oliver L Phillips and Roel J W Brienen and Sophie Fauset and Martin J P Sullivan and Timothy R Baker and Kuo-Jung Chao and Ted R Feldpausch and Emanuel Gloor and Niro Higuchi and Jeanne Houwing-Duistermaat and Jon Lloyd and Haiyan Liu and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Lourens Poorter and Marcos Silveira and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Esteban Alvarez Dávila and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Everton Almeida and Patricia Alvarez Loayza and Ana Andrade and Luiz E O C Aragão and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric Arets and Luzmila Arroyo and Gerardo A Aymard C and Michel Baisie and Christopher Baraloto and Plínio Barbosa Camargo and Jorcely Barroso and Lilian Blanc and Damien Bonal and Frans Bongers and René Boot and Foster Brown and Benoit Burban and José Luís Camargo and Wendeson Castro and Victor Chama Moscoso and Jerome Chave and James Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Antonio Lola da Costa and Nallaret Davila Cardozo and Anthony Di Fiore and Aurélie Dourdain and Terry Erwin and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Rafael Herrera and Eurídice Honorio Coronado and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Timothy Killeen and Susan Laurance and William Laurance and Aurora Levesley and Simon L Lewis and Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço Ladvocat and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Thomas Lovejoy and Patrick Meir and Casimiro Mendoza and Paulo Morandi and David Neill and Adriano José Nogueira Lima and Percy Nuñez Vargas and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Nadir Pallqui Camacho and Guido Pardo and Julie Peacock and Marielos Peña-Claros and Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora and Georgia Pickavance and John Pipoly and Nigel Pitman and Adriana Prieto and Thomas A M Pugh and Carlos Quesada and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Simone Matias de Almeida Reis and Maxime Rejou-Machain and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Lily Rodriguez Bayona and Agustín Rudas and Rafael Salomão and Julio Serrano and Javier Silva Espejo and Natalino Silva and James Singh and Clement Stahl and Juliana Stropp and Varun Swamy and Joey Talbot and Hans Ter Steege and John Terborgh and Raquel Thomas and Marisol Toledo and Armando Torres-Lezama and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Geertje van der Heijden and Peter van der Meer and Peter van der Hout and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo and Vincent Vos and Roderick Zagt and Pieter Zuidema and David Galbraith},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/AEM_s41467-020-18996-3.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3},

issn = {2041-1723},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Nat Commun},

volume = {11},

number = {1},

pages = {5515},

abstract = {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 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted-modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth-survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.},

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}

@article{Hubaupmid32132693,

title = {Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests},

author = {Wannes Hubau and Simon L Lewis and Oliver L Phillips and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Hans Beeckman and Aida Cuní-Sanchez and Armandu K Daniels and Corneille E N Ewango and Sophie Fauset and Jacques M Mukinzi and Douglas Sheil and Bonaventure Sonké and Martin J P Sullivan and Terry C H Sunderland and Hermann Taedoumg and Sean C Thomas and Lee J T White and Katharine A Abernethy and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Christian A Amani and Timothy R Baker and Lindsay F Banin and Fidèle Baya and Serge K Begne and Amy C Bennett and Fabrice Benedet and Robert Bitariho and Yannick E Bocko and Pascal Boeckx and Patrick Boundja and Roel J W Brienen and Terry Brncic and Eric Chezeaux and George B Chuyong and Connie J Clark and Murray Collins and James A Comiskey and David A Coomes and Greta C Dargie and Thales de Haulleville and Marie Noel Djuikouo Kamdem and Jean-Louis Doucet and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Ted R Feldpausch and Alusine Fofanah and Ernest G Foli and Martin Gilpin and Emanuel Gloor and Christelle Gonmadje and Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury and Jefferson S Hall and Alan C Hamilton and David J Harris and Terese B Hart and Mireille B N Hockemba and Annette Hladik and Suspense A Ifo and Kathryn J Jeffery and Tommaso Jucker and Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Alexander Koch and Miguel E Leal and Aurora Levesley and Jeremy A Lindsell and Janvier Lisingo and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Jon C Lovett and Jean-Remy Makana and Yadvinder Malhi and Andrew R Marshall and Jim Martin and Emanuel H Martin and Faustin M Mbayu and Vincent P Medjibe and Vianet Mihindou and Edward T A Mitchard and Sam Moore and Pantaleo K T Munishi and Natacha Nssi Bengone and Lucas Ojo and Fidèle Evouna Ondo and Kelvin S-H Peh and Georgia C Pickavance and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and John R Poulsen and Lan Qie and Jan Reitsma and Francesco Rovero and Michael D Swaine and Joey Talbot and James Taplin and David M Taylor and Duncan W Thomas and Benjamin Toirambe and John Tshibamba Mukendi and Darlington Tuagben and Peter M Umunay and Geertje M F van der Heijden and Hans Verbeeck and Jason Vleminckx and Simon Willcock and Hannsjörg Wöll and John T Woods and Lise Zemagho},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/Hubau_et-al-Nature-2020_op3.pdf},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Nature},

volume = {579},

number = {7797},

pages = {80--87},

abstract = {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 carbon dioxide emissions. Climate-driven vegetation models typically predict that this tropical forest 'carbon sink' will continue for decades. Here we assess trends in the carbon sink using 244 structurally intact African tropical forests spanning 11 countries, compare them with 321 published plots from Amazonia and investigate the underlying drivers of the trends. The carbon sink in live aboveground biomass in intact African tropical forests has been stable for the three decades to 2015, at 0.66 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year (95 per cent confidence interval 0.53-0.79), in contrast to the long-term decline in Amazonian forests. Therefore the carbon sink responses of Earth's two largest expanses of tropical forest have diverged. The difference is largely driven by carbon losses from tree mortality, with no detectable multi-decadal trend in Africa and a long-term increase in Amazonia. Both continents show increasing tree growth, consistent with the expected net effect of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and air temperature. Despite the past stability of the African carbon sink, our most intensively monitored plots suggest a post-2010 increase in carbon losses, delayed compared to Amazonia, indicating asynchronous carbon sink saturation on the two continents. A statistical model including carbon dioxide, temperature, drought and forest dynamics accounts for the observed trends and indicates a long-term future decline in the African sink, whereas the Amazonian sink continues to weaken rapidly. Overall, the uptake of carbon into Earth's intact tropical forests peaked in the 1990s. Given that the global terrestrial carbon sink is increasing in size, independent observations indicating greater recent carbon uptake into the Northern Hemisphere landmass reinforce our conclusion that the intact tropical forest carbon sink has already peaked. This saturation and ongoing decline of the tropical forest carbon sink has consequences for policies intended to stabilize Earth's climate.},

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@article{Kalamandeen2020-eg,

title = {Limited biomass recovery from gold mining in Amazonian forests},

author = {Michelle Kalamandeen and Emanuel Gloor and Isaac Johnson and Shenelle Agard and Martin Katow and Ashmore Vanbrooke and David Ashley and Sarah A Batterman and Guy Ziv and Kaslyn Holder-Collins and Oliver L Phillips and Eduardo S Brondizio and Ima Vieira and David Galbraith},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2664.13669},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-01},

journal = {J. Appl. Ecol.},

volume = {57},

number = {9},

pages = {1730--1740},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Kattge2020-rf,

title = {TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access},

author = {Jens Kattge and Gerhard Bönisch and Sandra D'iaz and Sandra Lavorel and Iain Colin Prentice and Paul Leadley and Susanne Tautenhahn and Gijsbert D A Werner and Tuomas Aakala and Mehdi Abedi and Alicia T R Acosta and George C Adamidis and Kairi Adamson and Masahiro Aiba and Cécile H Albert and Julio M Alcántara and Carolina Alcázar C and Izabela Aleixo and Hamada Ali and Bernard Amiaud and Christian Ammer and Mariano M Amoroso and Madhur Anand and Carolyn Anderson and Niels Anten and Joseph Antos and Deborah Mattos Guimar aes Apgaua and Tia-Lynn Ashman and Degi Harja Asmara and Gregory P Asner and Michael Aspinwall and Owen Atkin and Isabelle Aubin and Lars Baastrup-Spohr and Khadijeh Bahalkeh and Michael Bahn and Timothy Baker and William J Baker and Jan P Bakker and Dennis Baldocchi and Jennifer Baltzer and Arindam Banerjee and Anne Baranger and Jos Barlow and Diego R Barneche and Zdravko Baruch and Denis Bastianelli and John Battles and William Bauerle and Marijn Bauters and Erika Bazzato and Michael Beckmann and Hans Beeckman and Carl Beierkuhnlein and Renee Bekker and Gavin Belfry and Michael Belluau and Mirela Beloiu and Raquel Benavides and Lahcen Benomar and Mary Lee Berdugo-Lattke and Erika Berenguer and Rodrigo Bergamin and Joana Bergmann and Marcos Bergmann Carlucci and Logan Berner and Markus Bernhardt-Römermann and Christof Bigler and Anne D Bjorkman and Chris Blackman and Carolina Blanco and Benjamin Blonder and Dana Blumenthal and Kelly T Bocanegra-González and Pascal Boeckx and Stephanie Bohlman and Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Laura Boisvert-Marsh and William Bond and Ben Bond-Lamberty and Arnoud Boom and Coline C F Boonman and Kauane Bordin and Elizabeth H Boughton and Vanessa Boukili and David M J S Bowman and Sandra Bravo and Marco Richard Brendel and Martin R Broadley and Kerry A Brown and Helge Bruelheide and Federico Brumnich and Hans Henrik Bruun and David Bruy and Serra W Buchanan and Solveig Franziska Bucher and Nina Buchmann and Robert Buitenwerf and Daniel E Bunker and Jana Bürger and Sabina Burrascano and David F R P Burslem and Bradley J Butterfield and Chaeho Byun and Marcia Marques and Marina C Scalon and Marco Caccianiga and Marc Cadotte and Maxime Cailleret and James Camac and Jes'us Julio Camarero and Courtney Campany and Giandiego Campetella and Juan Antonio Campos and Laura Cano-Arboleda and Roberto Canullo and Michele Carbognani and Fabio Carvalho and Fernando Casanoves and Bastien Castagneyrol and Jane A Catford and Jeannine Cavender-Bares and Bruno E L Cerabolini and Marco Cervellini and Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal and Kenneth Chapin and F Stuart Chapin and Stefano Chelli and Si-Chong Chen and Anping Chen and Paolo Cherubini and Francesco Chianucci and Brendan Choat and Kyong-Sook Chung and Milan Chytr'y and Daniela Ciccarelli and Llu'is Coll and Courtney G Collins and Luisa Conti and David Coomes and Johannes H C Cornelissen and William K Cornwell and Piermaria Corona and Marie Coyea and Joseph Craine and Dylan Craven and Joris P G M Cromsigt and Anikó Csecserits and Katarina Cufar and Matthias Cuntz and Ana Carolina Silva and Kyla M Dahlin and Matteo Dainese and Igor Dalke and Michele Dalle Fratte and Anh Tuan Dang-Le and Jir'i Danihelka and Masako Dannoura and Samantha Dawson and Arend Jacobus Beer and Angel De Frutos and Jonathan R De Long and Benjamin Dechant and Sylvain Delagrange and Nicolas Delpierre and Géraldine Derroire and Arildo S Dias and Milton Hugo Diaz-Toribio and Panayiotis G Dimitrakopoulos and Mark Dobrowolski and Daniel Doktor and Pavel Dv revojan and Ning Dong and John Dransfield and Stefan Dressler and Leandro Duarte and Emilie Ducouret and Stefan Dullinger and Walter Durka and Remko Duursma and Olga Dymova and Anna E-Vojtkó and Rolf Lutz Eckstein and Hamid Ejtehadi and James Elser and Thaise Emilio and Kristine Engemann and Mohammad Bagher Erfanian and Alexandra Erfmeier and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Gerd Esser and Marc Estiarte and Tomas F Domingues and William F Fagan and Jaime Fag'undez and Daniel S Falster and Ying Fan and Jingyun Fang and Emmanuele Farris and Fatih Fazlioglu and Yanhao Feng and Fernando Fernandez-Mendez and Carlotta Ferrara and Joice Ferreira and Alessandra Fidelis and Bryan Finegan and Jennifer Firn and Timothy J Flowers and Dan F B Flynn and Veronika Fontana and Estelle Forey and Cristiane Forgiarini and Louis Franc cois and Marcelo Frangipani and Dorothea Frank and Cedric Frenette-Dussault and Grégoire T Freschet and Ellen L Fry and Nikolaos M Fyllas and Guilherme G Mazzochini and Sophie Gachet and Rachael Gallagher and Gislene Ganade and Francesca Ganga and Pablo Garc'ia-Palacios and Verónica Gargaglione and Eric Garnier and Jose Luis Garrido and André Lu'is Gasper and Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo and David Gibson and Andrew N Gillison and Aelton Giroldo and Mary-Claire Glasenhardt and Sean Gleason and Mariana Gliesch and Emma Goldberg and Bastian Göldel and Erika Gonzalez-Akre and Jose L Gonzalez-Andujar and Andrés González-Melo and Ana González-Robles and Bente Jessen Graae and Elena Granda and Sarah Graves and Walton A Green and Thomas Gregor and Nicolas Gross and Greg R Guerin and Angela Günther and Alvaro G Gutiérrez and Lillie Haddock and Anna Haines and Jefferson Hall and Alain Hambuckers and Wenxuan Han and Sandy P Harrison and Wesley Hattingh and Joseph E Hawes and Tianhua He and Pengcheng He and Jacob Mason Heberling and Aveliina Helm and Stefan Hempel and Jörn Hentschel and Bruno Hérault and Ana-Maria Herec s and Katharina Herz and Myriam Heuertz and Thomas Hickler and Peter Hietz and Pedro Higuchi and Andrew L Hipp and Andrew Hirons and Maria Hock and James Aaron Hogan and Karen Holl and Olivier Honnay and Daniel Hornstein and Enqing Hou and Nate Hough-Snee and Knut Anders Hovstad and Tomoaki Ichie and Boris Igi'c and Estela Illa and Marney Isaac and Masae Ishihara and Leonid Ivanov and Larissa Ivanova and Colleen M Iversen and Jordi Izquierdo and Robert B Jackson and Benjamin Jackson and Hervé Jactel and Andrzej M Jagodzinski and Ute Jandt and Steven Jansen and Thomas Jenkins and Anke Jentsch and Jens Rasmus Plantener Jespersen and Guo-Feng Jiang and Jesper Liengaard Johansen and David Johnson and Eric J Jokela and Carlos Alfredo Joly and Gregory J Jordan and Grant Stuart Joseph and Decky Junaedi and Robert R Junker and Eric Justes and Richard Kabzems and Jeffrey Kane and Zdenek Kaplan and Teja Kattenborn and Lyudmila Kavelenova and Elizabeth Kearsley and Anne Kempel and Tanaka Kenzo and Andrew Kerkhoff and Mohammed I Khalil and Nicole L Kinlock and Wilm Daniel Kissling and Kaoru Kitajima and Thomas Kitzberger and Rasmus Kjøller and Tamir Klein and Michael Kleyer and Jitka Klimev sová and Joice Klipel and Brian Kloeppel and Stefan Klotz and Johannes M H Knops and Takashi Kohyama and Fumito Koike and Johannes Kollmann and Benjamin Komac and Kimberly Komatsu and Christian König and Nathan J B Kraft and Koen Kramer and Holger Kreft and Ingolf Kühn and Dushan Kumarathunge and Jonas Kuppler and Hiroko Kurokawa and Yoko Kurosawa and Shem Kuyah and Jean-Paul Laclau and Benoit Lafleur and Erik Lallai and Eric Lamb and Andrea Lamprecht and Daniel J Larkin and Daniel Laughlin and Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet and Guerric Maire and Peter C Roux and Elizabeth Roux and Tali Lee and Frederic Lens and Simon L Lewis and Barbara Lhotsky and Yuanzhi Li and Xine Li and Jeremy W Lichstein and Mario Liebergesell and Jun Ying Lim and Yan-Shih Lin and Juan Carlos Linares and Chunjiang Liu and Daijun Liu and Udayangani Liu and Stuart Livingstone and Joan Llusi`a and Madelon Lohbeck and Álvaro López-Garc'ia and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Zdev nka Lososová and Frédérique Louault and Balázs A Lukács and Petr Lukev s and Yunjian Luo and Michele Lussu and Siyan Ma and Camilla Maciel Rabelo Pereira and Michelle Mack and Vincent Maire and Annikki Mäkelä and Harri Mäkinen and Ana Claudia Mendes Malhado and Azim Mallik and Peter Manning and Stefano Manzoni and Zuleica Marchetti and Luca Marchino and Vinicius Marcilio-Silva and Eric Marcon and Michela Marignani and Lars Markesteijn and Adam Martin and Cristina Mart'inez-Garza and Jordi Mart'inez-Vilalta and Tereza Mav sková and Kelly Mason and Norman Mason and Tara Joy Massad and Jacynthe Masse and Itay Mayrose and James McCarthy and M Luke McCormack and Katherine McCulloh and Ian R McFadden and Brian J McGill and Mara Y McPartland and Juliana S Medeiros and Belinda Medlyn and Pierre Meerts and Zia Mehrabi and Patrick Meir and Felipe P L Melo and Maurizio Mencuccini and Céline Meredieu and Julie Messier and Ilona Mészáros and Juha Metsaranta and Sean T Michaletz and Chrysanthi Michelaki and Svetlana Migalina and Ruben Milla and Jesse E D Miller and Vanessa Minden and Ray Ming and Karel Mokany and Angela T Moles and Attila 5th Molnár and Jane Molofsky and Martin Molz and Rebecca A Montgomery and Arnaud Monty and Lenka Moravcová and Alvaro Moreno-Mart'inez and Marco Moretti and Akira S Mori and Shigeta Mori and Dave Morris and Jane Morrison and Ladislav Mucina and Sandra Mueller and Christopher D Muir and Sandra Cristina Müller and Franc cois Munoz and Isla H Myers-Smith and Randall W Myster and Masahiro Nagano and Shawna Naidu and Ayyappan Narayanan and Balachandran Natesan and Luka Negoita and Andrew S Nelson and Eike Lena Neuschulz and Jian Ni and Georg Niedrist and Jhon Nieto and Ülo Niinemets and Rachael Nolan and Henning Nottebrock and Yann Nouvellon and Alexander Novakovskiy and Nutrient Network and Kristin Odden Nystuen and Anthony O'Grady and Kevin O'Hara and Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Simon Oakley and Walter Oberhuber and Toshiyuki Ohtsuka and Ricardo Oliveira and Kinga Öllerer and Mark E Olson and Vladimir Onipchenko and Yusuke Onoda and Renske E Onstein and Jenny C Ordonez and Noriyuki Osada and Ivika Ostonen and Gianluigi Ottaviani and Sarah Otto and Gerhard E Overbeck and Wim A Ozinga and Anna T Pahl and C E Timothy Paine and Robin J Pakeman and Aristotelis C Papageorgiou and Evgeniya Parfionova and Meelis Pärtel and Marco Patacca and Susana Paula and Juraj Paule and Harald Pauli and Juli G Pausas and Bego na Peco and Josep Penuelas and Antonio Perea and Pablo Luis Peri and Ana Carolina Petisco-Souza and Alessandro Petraglia and Any Mary Petritan and Oliver L Phillips and Simon Pierce and Valério D Pillar and Jan Pisek and Alexandr Pomogaybin and Hendrik Poorter and Angelika Portsmuth and Peter Poschlod and Catherine Potvin and Devon Pounds and A Shafer Powell and Sally A Power and Andreas Prinzing and Giacomo Puglielli and Petr Pyv sek and Valerie Raevel and Anja Rammig and Johannes Ransijn and Courtenay A Ray and Peter B Reich and Markus Reichstein and Douglas E B Reid and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Victor Resco Dios and Sabina Ribeiro and Sarah Richardson and Kersti Riibak and Matthias C Rillig and Fiamma Riviera and Elisabeth M R Robert and Scott Roberts and Bjorn Robroek and Adam Roddy and Arthur Vinicius Rodrigues and Alistair Rogers and Emily Rollinson and Victor Rolo and Christine Römermann and Dina Ronzhina and Christiane Roscher and Julieta A Rosell and Milena Fermina Rosenfield and Christian Rossi and David B Roy and Samuel Royer-Tardif and Nadja Rüger and Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado and Sabine B Rumpf and Graciela M Rusch and Masahiro Ryo and Lawren Sack and Angela Salda na and Beatriz Salgado-Negret and Roberto Salguero-Gomez and Ignacio Santa-Regina and Ana Carolina Santacruz-Garc'ia and Joaquim Santos and Jordi Sardans and Brandon Schamp and Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and Matthias Schleuning and Bernhard Schmid and Marco Schmidt and Sylvain Schmitt and Julio V Schneider and Simon D Schowanek and Julian Schrader and Franziska Schrodt and Bernhard Schuldt and Frank Schurr and Galia Selaya Garvizu and Marina Semchenko and Colleen Seymour and Julia C Sfair and Joanne M Sharpe and Christine S Sheppard and Serge Sheremetiev and Satomi Shiodera and Bill Shipley and Tanvir Ahmed Shovon and Alrun Siebenkäs and Carlos Sierra and Vasco Silva and Mateus Silva and Tommaso Sitzia and Henrik Sjöman and Martijn Slot and Nicholas G Smith and Darwin Sodhi and Pamela Soltis and Douglas Soltis and Ben Somers and Grégory Sonnier and Mia Vedel Sørensen and Enio Egon Jr Sosinski and Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia and Alexandre F Souza and Marko Spasojevic and Marta Gaia Sperandii and Amanda B Stan and James Stegen and Klaus Steinbauer and Jörg G Stephan and Frank Sterck and Dejan B Stojanovic and Tanya Strydom and Maria Laura Suarez and Jens-Christian Svenning and Ivana Svitková and Marek Svitok and Miroslav Svoboda and Emily Swaine and Nathan Swenson and Marcelo Tabarelli and Kentaro Takagi and Ulrike Tappeiner and Rubén Tarifa and Simon Tauugourdeau and Cagatay Tavsanoglu and Mariska Te Beest and Leho Tedersoo and Nelson Thiffault and Dominik Thom and Evert Thomas and Ken Thompson and Peter E Thornton and Wilfried Thuiller and Lubom'ir Tich'y and David Tissue and Mark G Tjoelker and David Yue Phin Tng and Joseph Tobias and Péter Török and Tonantzin Tarin and José M Torres-Ruiz and Béla Tóthmérész and Martina Treurnicht and Valeria Trivellone and Franck Trolliet and Volodymyr Trotsiuk and James L Tsakalos and Ioannis Tsiripidis and Niklas Tysklind and Toru Umehara and Vladimir Usoltsev and Matthew Vadeboncoeur and Jamil Vaezi and Fernando Valladares and Jana Vamosi and Peter M Bodegom and Michiel Breugel and Elisa Van Cleemput and Martine Weg and Stephni Merwe and Fons Plas and Masha T Sande and Mark Kleunen and Koenraad Van Meerbeek and Mark Vanderwel and Kim André Vanselow and Angelica Vårhammar and Laura Varone and Maribel Yesenia Vasquez Valderrama and Kiril Vassilev and Mark Vellend and Erik J Veneklaas and Hans Verbeeck and Kris Verheyen and Alexander Vibrans and Ima Vieira and Jaime Villac'is and Cyrille Violle and Pandi Vivek and Katrin Wagner and Matthew Waldram and Anthony Waldron and Anthony P Walker and Martyn Waller and Gabriel Walther and Han Wang and Feng Wang and Weiqi Wang and Harry Watkins and James Watkins and Ulrich Weber and James T Weedon and Liping Wei and Patrick Weigelt and Evan Weiher and Aidan W Wells and Camilla Wellstein and Elizabeth Wenk and Mark Westoby and Alana Westwood and Philip John White and Mark Whitten and Mathew Williams and Daniel E Winkler and Klaus Winter and Chevonne Womack and Ian J Wright and S Joseph Wright and Justin Wright and Bruno X Pinho and Fabiano Ximenes and Toshihiro Yamada and Keiko Yamaji and Ruth Yanai and Nikolay Yankov and Benjamin Yguel and Kátia Janaina Zanini and Amy E Zanne and David Zelen'y and Yun-Peng Zhao and Jingming Zheng and Ji Zheng and Kasia Ziemi'nska and Chad R Zirbel and Georg Zizka and Irié Casimir Zo-Bi and Gerhard Zotz and Christian Wirth},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.14904},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Glob. Chang. Biol.},

volume = {26},

number = {1},

pages = {119--188},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Plant traits-the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants-determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and landscape management, restoration, biogeography and earth system modelling. Since its foundation in 2007, the TRY database of plant traits has grown continuously. It now provides unprecedented data coverage under an open access data policy and is the main plant trait database used by the research community worldwide. Increasingly, the TRY database also supports new frontiers of trait-based plant research, including the identification of data gaps and the subsequent mobilization or measurement of new data. To support this development, in this article we evaluate the extent of the trait data compiled in TRY and analyse emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness. Best species coverage is achieved for categorical traits-almost complete coverage for 'plant growth form'. However, most traits relevant for ecology and vegetation modelling are characterized by continuous intraspecific variation and trait-environmental relationships. These traits have to be measured on individual plants in their respective environment. Despite unprecedented data coverage, we observe a humbling lack of completeness and representativeness of these continuous traits in many aspects. We, therefore, conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements. This can only be achieved in collaboration with other initiatives.},

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@article{Marimon-Junior2020-hw,

title = {Soil water-holding capacity and monodominance in Southern Amazon tropical forests},

author = {Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and John Du Vall Hay and Imma Oliveras and Halina Jancoski and Ricardo K Umetsu and Ted R Feldpausch and David R Galbraith and Emanuel U Gloor and Oliver L Phillips and Beatriz S Marimon},

doi = {10.1007/s11104-019-04257-w},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-05-01},

urldate = {2020-05-01},

journal = {Plant Soil},

volume = {450},

number = {1-2},

pages = {65--79},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Marimon2020-nr,

title = {Drought generates large, long-term changes in tree and liana regeneration in a monodominant Amazon forest},

author = {Beatriz S Marimon and Claudinei Oliveira-Santos and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Fernando Elias and Edmar A Oliveira and Paulo S Morandi and Nayane C C dos S. Prestes and Lucas H Mariano and Oriales R Pereira and Ted R Feldpausch and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1007/s11258-020-01047-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-08-01},

urldate = {2020-08-01},

journal = {Plant Ecol.},

volume = {221},

number = {8},

pages = {733--747},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Marselis2020-xs,

title = {Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness},

author = {Suzanne M Marselis and Katharine Abernethy and Alfonso Alonso and John Armston and Timothy R Baker and Jean‐francois Bastin and Jan Bogaert and Doreen S Boyd and Pascal Boeckx and David F R P Burslem and Robin Chazdon and David B Clark and David Coomes and Laura Duncanson and Steven Hancock and Ross Hill and Chris Hopkinson and Elizabeth Kearsley and James R Kellner and David Kenfack and Nicolas Labri`ere and Simon L Lewis and David Minor and Hervé Memiaghe and Abel Monteagudo and Reuben Nilus and Michael O'Brien and Oliver L Phillips and John Poulsen and Hao Tang and Hans Verbeeck and Ralph Dubayah},

doi = {10.1111/geb.13158},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-10-01},

urldate = {2020-10-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

volume = {29},

number = {10},

pages = {1799--1816},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Marshall2020-pq,

title = {Conceptualising the global forest response to Liana proliferation},

author = {Andrew R Marshall and Philip J Platts and Robin L Chazdon and Hamidu Seki and Mason J Campbell and Oliver L Phillips and Roy E Gereau and Robert Marchant and Jingjing Liang and John Herbohn and Yadvinder Malhi and Marion Pfeifer},

doi = {10.3389/ffgc.2020.00035},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-04-01},

urldate = {2020-04-01},

journal = {Front. For. Glob. Chang.},

volume = {3},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Moonlight2020-fv,

title = {Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests: The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots},

author = {Peter W Moonlight and Karina Banda-R and Oliver L Phillips and Kyle G Dexter and R Toby Pennington and Tim R Baker and Haroldo C. de Lima and Laurie Fajardo and Roy González-M. and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Jon Lloyd and Marcelo Nascimento and Darién Prado and Catalina Quintana and Ricarda Riina and Gina M Rodr'iguez M. and Dora Maria Villela and Ana Carla M M Aquino and Luzmila Arroyo and Cidney Bezerra and Alexandre Tadeu Brunello and Roel J W Brienen and Domingos Cardoso and Kuo-Jung Chao and 'Italo Ant^onio Cotta Coutinho and John Cunha and Tomas Domingues and Mário Marcos Esp'irito Santo and Ted R Feldpausch and Moabe Ferreira Fernandes and Zo"e A Goodwin and Eliana Mar'ia Jiménez and Aurora Levesley and Leonel Lopez-Toledo and Beatriz Marimon and Raquel C Miatto and Marcelo Mizushima and Abel Monteagudo and Magna Soelma Beserra de Moura and Alejandro Murakami and Danilo Neves and Renata Nicora Chequ'in and Tony César de Sousa Oliveira and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Luciano P. de Queiroz and Alan Pilon and Desirée Marques Ramos and Carlos Reynel and Priscyla M S Rodrigues and Rubens Santos and Tiina Särkinen and Valdemir Fernando da Silva and Rodolfo M S Souza and Rodolfo Vasquez and Elmar Veenendaal},

doi = {10.1002/ppp3.10112},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

urldate = {2020-07-01},

journal = {Plants People Planet},

number = {ppp3.10112},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Muscarella2020-yr,

title = {The global abundance of tree palms},

author = {Robert Muscarella and Thaise Emilio and Oliver L Phillips and Simon L Lewis and Ferry Slik and William J Baker and Thomas L P Couvreur and Wolf L Eiserhardt and Jens-Christian Svenning and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Shin-Ichiro Aiba and Everton C Almeida and Samuel S Almeida and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Esteban Álvarez-Dávila and Luciana F Alves and Carlos Mariano Alvez-Valles and Fabr'icio Alvim Carvalho and Fernando Alzate Guarin and Ana Andrade and Luis E O C Arag ao and Alejandro Araujo Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Peter S Ashton and Gerardo A Aymard Corredor and Timothy R Baker and Plinio Barbosa Camargo and Jos Barlow and Jean-Franc cois Bastin and Natacha Nssi Bengone and Erika Berenguer and Nicholas Berry and Lilian Blanc and Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Damien Bonal and Frans Bongers and Matt Bradford and Fabian Brambach and Francis Q Brearley and Steven W Brewer and Jose L C Camargo and David G Campbell and Carolina V Castilho and Wendeson Castro and Damien Catchpole and Carlos E Cerón Mart'inez and Shengbin Chen and Phourin Chhang and Percival Cho and Wanlop Chutipong and Connie Clark and Murray Collins and James A Comiskey and Massiel Nataly Corrales Medina and Flávia R C Costa and Heike Culmsee and Heriberto David-Higuita and Priya Davidar and Jhon Aguila-Pasquel and Géraldine Derroire and Anthony Di Fiore and Tran Van Do and Jean-Louis Doucet and Aurélie Dourdain and Donald R Drake and Andreas Ensslin and Terry Erwin and Corneille E N Ewango and Robert M Ewers and Sophie Fauset and Ted R Feldpausch and Joice Ferreira and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Markus Fischer and Janet Franklin and Gabriella M Fredriksson and Thomas W Gillespie and Martin Gilpin and Christelle Gonmadje and Arachchige Upali Nimal Gunatilleke and Khalid Rehman Hakeem and Jefferson S Hall and Keith C Hamer and David J Harris and Rhett D Harrison and Andrew Hector and Andreas Hemp and Bruno Herault and Carlos Gabriel Hidalgo Pizango and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Wannes Hubau and Mohammad Shah Hussain and Faridah-Hanum Ibrahim and Nobuo Imai and Carlos A Joly and Shijo Joseph and Anitha and Kuswata Kartawinata and Justin Kassi and Timothy J Killeen and Kanehiro Kitayama and Bente Bang Klitgård and Robert Kooyman and Nicolas Labri`ere and Eileen Larney and Yves Laumonier and Susan G Laurance and William F Laurance and Michael J Lawes and Aurora Levesley and Janvier Lisingo and Thomas Lovejoy and Jon C Lovett and Xinghui Lu and Anne Mette Lykke and William E Magnusson and Ni Putu Diana Mahayani and Yadvinder Malhi and Asyraf Mansor and Jose Luis Marcelo Pe na and Ben H Marimon-Junior and Andrew R Marshall and Karina Melgaco and Casimiro Mendoza Bautista and Vianet Mihindou and Jér^ome Millet and William Milliken and D Mohandass and Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo Mendoza and Badru Mugerwa and Hidetoshi Nagamasu and Laszlo Nagy and Naret Seuaturien and Marcelo T Nascimento and David A Neill and Luiz Menini Neto and Rueben Nilus and Mario Percy N'u nez Vargas and Eddy Nurtjahya and R Nazaré O Ara'ujo and Onrizal Onrizal and Walter A Palacios and Sonia Palacios-Ramos and Marc Parren and Ekananda Paudel and Paulo S Morandi and R Toby Pennington and Georgia Pickavance and John J III Pipoly and Nigel C A Pitman and Erny Poedjirahajoe and Lourens Poorter and John R Poulsen and P Rama Chandra Prasad and Adriana Prieto and Jean-Philippe Puyravaud and Lan Qie and Carlos A Quesada and Hirma Ram'irez-Angulo and Jean Claude Razafimahaimodison and Jan Meindert Reitsma and Edilson J Requena-Rojas and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Carlos Reynel Rodriguez and Anand Roopsind and Francesco Rovero and Andes Rozak and Agust'in Rudas Lleras and Ervan Rutishauser and Gemma Rutten and Ruwan Punchi-Manage and Rafael P Salom ao and Hoang Van Sam and Swapan Kumar Sarker and Manichanh Satdichanh and Juliana Schietti and Christine B Schmitt and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Feyera Senbeta and Lila Nath Sharma and Douglas Sheil and Rodrigo Sierra and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Marcos Silveira and Bonaventure Sonké and Marc K Steininger and Robert Steinmetz and Tariq Stévart and Raman Sukumar and Aisha Sultana and Terry C H Sunderland and Hebbalalu Satyanarayana Suresh and Jianwei Tang and Edmund Tanner and Hans Steege and John W Terborgh and Ida Theilade and Jonathan Timberlake and Armando Torres-Lezama and Peter Umunay and Mar'ia Uriarte and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Martin Bult and Peter Hout and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Simone A Vieira and Emilio Vilanova and Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo and Ophelia Wang and Campbell O Webb and Edward L Webb and Lee White and Timothy J S Whitfeld and Serge Wich and Simon Willcock and Susan K Wiser and Kenneth R Young and Rahmad Zakaria and Runguo Zang and Charles E Zartman and Irié Casimir Zo-Bi and Henrik Balslev},

doi = {10.1111/geb.13123},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

volume = {29},

number = {9},

pages = {1495--1514},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Quesada2020-mi,

title = {Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wide Amazon forest soil carbon concentrations},

author = {Carlos Alberto Quesada and Claudia Paz and Erick Oblitas Mendoza and Oliver Lawrence Phillips and Gustavo Saiz and Jon Lloyd},

doi = {10.5194/soil-6-53-2020},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-02-01},

urldate = {2020-02-01},

journal = {SOIL},

volume = {6},

number = {1},

pages = {53--88},

publisher = {Copernicus GmbH},

abstract = {Abstract. We investigate the edaphic, mineralogical and climatic controls of soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration utilising data from 147 primary forest soils (0--30 cm depth) sampled in eight different countries across the Amazon Basin. Sampled across 14 different World Reference Base soil groups, our data suggest that stabilisation mechanism varies with pedogenetic level. Specifically, although SOC concentrations in Ferralsols and Acrisols were best explained by simple variations in clay content -- this presumably being due to their relatively uniform kaolinitic mineralogy -- this was not the case for less weathered soils such as Alisols, Cambisols and Plinthosols for which interactions between Al species, soil pH and litter quality are argued to be much more important. Although for more strongly weathered soils the majority of SOC is located within the aggregate fraction, for the less weathered soils most of the SOC is located within the silt and clay fractions. It thus seems that for highly weathered soils SOC storage is mostly influenced by surface area variations arising from clay content, with physical protection inside aggregates rendering an additional level of protection against decomposition. On the other hand, most of the SOC in less weathered soils is associated with the precipitation of aluminium--carbon complexes within the fine soil fraction, with this mechanism enhanced by the presence of high levels of aromatic, carboxyl-rich organic matter compounds. Also examined as part of this study were a relatively small number of arenic soils (viz. Arenosols and Podzols) for which there was a small but significant influence of clay and silt content variations on SOM storage, with fractionation studies showing that particulate organic matter may account for up to 0.60 of arenic soil SOC. In contrast to what were in all cases strong influences of soil and/or litter quality properties, after accounting for these effects neither wood productivity, above-ground biomass nor precipitation/temperature variations were found to exert any significant influence on SOC stocks. These results have important implications for our understanding of how Amazon forest soils are likely to respond to ongoing and future climate changes.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Reis2020-gh,

title = {Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia},

author = {Simone Matias Reis and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Paulo S Morandi and Fernando Elias and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Sophie Fauset and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Geertje M F Heijden and David Galbraith and Ted R Feldpausch and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2745.13470},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-11-01},

urldate = {2020-11-01},

journal = {J. Ecol.},

volume = {108},

number = {6},

pages = {2184--2197},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Rozendaal_pmid32239762,

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

author = {Danaë M A Rozendaal and Oliver L Phillips and Simon L Lewis and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Ana Andrade and Luiz E O C Aragão and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Timothy R Baker and Olaf Bánki and Roel J W Brienen and José Luis C Camargo and James A Comiskey and Marie Noël Djuikouo Kamdem and Sophie Fauset and Ted R Feldpausch and Timothy J Killeen and William F Laurance and Susan G W Laurance and Thomas Lovejoy and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben-Hur Marimon Junior and Andrew R Marshall and David A Neill and Percy Núñez Vargas and Nigel C A Pitman and Lourens Poorter and Jan Reitsma and Marcos Silveira and Bonaventure Sonké and Terry Sunderland and Hermann Taedoumg and Hans Ter Steege and John W Terborgh and Ricardo K Umetsu and Geertje M F van der Heijden and Emilio Vilanova and Vincent Vos and Lee J T White and Simon Willcock and Lise Zemagho and Mark C Vanderwel},

doi = {10.1002/ecy.3052},

issn = {1939-9170},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Ecology},

volume = {101},

number = {7},

pages = {e03052},

abstract = {Competition among trees is an important driver of community structure and dynamics in tropical forests. Neighboring trees may impact an individual tree's growth rate and probability of mortality, but large-scale geographic and environmental variation in these competitive effects has yet to be evaluated across the tropical forest biome. We quantified effects of competition on tree-level basal area growth and mortality for trees ≥10-cm diameter across 151 ~1-ha plots in mature tropical forests in Amazonia and tropical Africa by developing nonlinear models that accounted for wood density, tree size, and neighborhood crowding. Using these models, we assessed how water availability (i.e., climatic water deficit) and soil fertility influenced the predicted plot-level strength of competition (i.e., the extent to which growth is reduced, or mortality is increased, by competition across all individual trees). On both continents, tree basal area growth decreased with wood density and increased with tree size. Growth decreased with neighborhood crowding, which suggests that competition is important. Tree mortality decreased with wood density and generally increased with tree size, but was apparently unaffected by neighborhood crowding. Across plots, variation in the plot-level strength of competition was most strongly related to plot basal area (i.e., the sum of the basal area of all trees in a plot), with greater reductions in growth occurring in forests with high basal area, but in Amazonia, the strength of competition also varied with plot-level wood density. In Amazonia, the strength of competition increased with water availability because of the greater basal area of wetter forests, but was only weakly related to soil fertility. In Africa, competition was weakly related to soil fertility and invariant across the shorter water availability gradient. Overall, our results suggest that competition influences the structure and dynamics of tropical forests primarily through effects on individual tree growth rather than mortality and that the strength of competition largely depends on environment-mediated variation in basal area.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{SerpaMeira_Junior2020-zc,

title = {The impact of long dry periods on the aboveground biomass in a tropical forests: 20 years of monitoring},

author = {Milton Serpa-Meira-Junior and José Roberto Rodrigues Pinto and Natália Oliveira Ramos and Eder Pereira Miguel and Ricardo de Oliveira Gaspar and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1186/s13021-020-00147-2},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-05-01},

urldate = {2020-05-01},

journal = {Carbon Balance Manag.},

volume = {15},

number = {1},

pages = {12},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {BACKGROUND: Long-term studies of community and population dynamics indicate that abrupt disturbances often catalyse changes in vegetation and carbon stocks. These disturbances include the opening of clearings, rainfall seasonality, and drought, as well as fire and direct human disturbance. Such events may be super-imposed on longer-term trends in disturbance, such as those associated with climate change (heating, drying), as well as resources. Intact neotropical forests have recently experienced increased drought frequency and fire occurrence, on top of pervasive increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but we lack long-term records of responses to such changes especially in the critical transitional areas at the interface of forest and savanna biomes. Here, we present results from 20 years monitoring a valley forest (moist tropical forest outlier) in central Brazil. The forest has experienced multiple drought events and includes plots which have and which have not experienced fire. We focus on how forest structure (stem density and aboveground biomass carbon) and dynamics (stem and biomass mortality and recruitment) have responded to these disturbance regimes.

RESULTS: Overall, the biomass carbon stock increased due to the growth of the trees already present in the forest, without any increase in the overall number of tree stems. Over time, both recruitment and especially mortality of trees tended to increase, and periods of prolonged drought in particular resulted in increased mortality rates of larger trees. This increased mortality was in turn responsible for a decline in aboveground carbon toward the end of the monitoring period. 

CONCLUSION: Prolonged droughts influence the mortality of large trees, leading to a decline in aboveground carbon stocks. Here, and in other neotropical forests, recent droughts are capable of shutting down and reversing biomass carbon sinks. These new results add to evidence that anthropogenic climate changes are already adversely impacting tropical forests.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sousa2020-ws,

title = {Palms and trees resist extreme drought in Amazon forests with shallow water tables},

author = {Thaiane R Sousa and Juliana Schietti and Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Igor O Ribeiro and Thaise Em'ilio and Pedro A C L Pequeno and Oliver Phillips and Flavia R C Costa},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2745.13377},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-01},

urldate = {2020-09-01},

journal = {J. Ecol.},

volume = {108},

number = {5},

pages = {2070--2082},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Sullivan2020-iz,

title = {Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests},

author = {Martin J P Sullivan and Simon L Lewis and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Carolina Castilho and Flávia Costa and Aida Cuni Sanchez and Corneille E N Ewango and Wannes Hubau and Beatriz Marimon and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Lan Qie and Bonaventure Sonké and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Timothy R Baker and Roel J W Brienen and Ted R Feldpausch and David Galbraith and Manuel Gloor and Yadvinder Malhi and Shin-Ichiro Aiba and Miguel N Alexiades and Everton C Almeida and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Esteban Álvarez Dávila and Patricia Alvarez Loayza and Ana Andrade and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Luiz E O C Arag ao and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric J M M Arets and Luzmila Arroyo and Peter Ashton and Gerardo Aymard C and Fabr'icio B Baccaro and Lindsay F Banin and Christopher Baraloto and Pl'inio Barbosa Camargo and Jos Barlow and Jorcely Barroso and Jean-Franc cois Bastin and Sarah A Batterman and Hans Beeckman and Serge K Begne and Amy C Bennett and Erika Berenguer and Nicholas Berry and Lilian Blanc and Pascal Boeckx and Jan Bogaert and Damien Bonal and Frans Bongers and Matt Bradford and Francis Q Brearley and Terry Brncic and Foster Brown and Benoit Burban and José Lu'is Camargo and Wendeson Castro and Carlos Céron and Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro and Victor Chama Moscoso and Jer^ome Chave and Eric Chezeaux and Connie J Clark and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Murray Collins and James A Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Massiel Corrales Medina and Lola Costa and Martin Danv cák and Greta C Dargie and Stuart Davies and Nallaret Davila Cardozo and Thales Haulleville and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Géraldine Derroire and Anthony Di Fiore and Jean-Louis Doucet and Aurélie Dourdain and Vincent Droissart and Luisa Fernanda Duque and Romeo Ekoungoulou and Fernando Elias and Terry Erwin and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Sophie Fauset and Joice Ferreira and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Ernest Foli and Andrew Ford and Martin Gilpin and Jefferson S Hall and Keith C Hamer and Alan C Hamilton and David J Harris and Terese B Hart and Radim Hédl and Bruno Herault and Rafael Herrera and Niro Higuchi and Annette Hladik and Eur'idice Honorio Coronado and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Kathryn J Jeffery and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Michelle Kalamandeen and Marie No"el Kamdem Djuikouo and Elizabeth Kearsley and Ricardo Keichi Umetsu and Lip Khoon Kho and Timothy Killeen and Kanehiro Kitayama and Bente Klitgaard and Alexander Koch and Nicolas Labri`ere and William Laurance and Susan Laurance and Miguel E Leal and Aurora Levesley and Adriano J N Lima and Janvier Lisingo and Aline P Lopes and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Tom Lovejoy and Jon C Lovett and Richard Lowe and William E Magnusson and Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte and ^Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Ben Hur Jr Marimon and Andrew R Marshall and Toby Marthews and Simone Matias Almeida Reis and Colin Maycock and Karina Melgac co and Casimiro Mendoza and Faizah Metali and Vianet Mihindou and William Milliken and Edward T A Mitchard and Paulo S Morandi and Hannah L Mossman and Laszlo Nagy and Henrique Nascimento and David Neill and Reuben Nilus and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Walter Palacios and Nadir Pallqui Camacho and Julie Peacock and Colin Pendry and Maria Cristina Pe nuela Mora and Georgia C Pickavance and John Pipoly and Nigel Pitman and Maureen Playfair and Lourens Poorter and John R Poulsen and Axel Dalberg Poulsen and Richard Preziosi and Adriana Prieto and Richard B Primack and Hirma Ram'irez-Angulo and Jan Reitsma and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Thaiane Rodrigues Sousa and Lily Rodriguez Bayona and Anand Roopsind and Agust'in Rudas and Ervan Rutishauser and Kamariah Abu Salim and Rafael P Salom ao and Juliana Schietti and Douglas Sheil and Richarlly C Silva and Javier Silva Espejo and Camila Silva Valeria and Marcos Silveira and Murielle Simo-Droissart and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and James Singh and Yahn Carlos Soto Shareva and Clement Stahl and Juliana Stropp and Rahayu Sukri and Terry Sunderland and Martin Svátek and Michael D Swaine and Varun Swamy and Hermann Taedoumg and Joey Talbot and James Taplin and David Taylor and Hans Ter Steege and John Terborgh and Raquel Thomas and Sean C Thomas and Armando Torres-Lezama and Peter Umunay and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Geertje Heijden and Peter Hout and Peter Meer and Mark Nieuwstadt and Hans Verbeeck and Ronald Vernimmen and Alberto Vicentini and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Jason Vleminckx and Vincent Vos and Ophelia Wang and Lee J T White and Simon Willcock and John T Woods and Verginia Wortel and Kenneth Young and Roderick Zagt and Lise Zemagho and Pieter A Zuidema and Joeri A Zwerts and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/Sullivan-et-al-2020-Science.pdf},

doi = {10.1126/science.aaw7578},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-05-01},

urldate = {2020-05-01},

journal = {Science},

volume = {368},

number = {6493},

pages = {869--874},

publisher = {Ämerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},

abstract = {The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is unknown if such effects translate into long-term responses. Here, we analyze 590 permanent plots measured across the tropics to derive the equilibrium climate controls on forest carbon. Maximum temperature is the most important predictor of aboveground biomass (-9.1 megagrams of carbon per hectare per degree Celsius), primarily by reducing woody productivity, and has a greater impact per °C in the hottest forests (>32.2°C). Our results nevertheless reveal greater thermal resilience than observations of short-term variation imply. To realize the long-term climate adaptation potential of tropical forests requires both protecting them and stabilizing Earth's climate.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ter_Steege2020-bo,

title = {Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora},

author = {Hans Ter-Steege and Paulo I Prado and Renato A F de Lima and Edwin Pos and Luiz Souza Coelho and Diogenes Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salom ao and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Francisca Dion'izia Almeida Matos and Carolina V Castilho and Oliver L Phillips and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Marcelo Jesus Veiga Carim and Dairon Cárdenas López and William E Magnusson and Florian Wittmann and Maria Pires Martins and Daniel Sabatier and Mariana Victória Irume and José Renan aes and Jean-Franc cois Molino and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Nigel C A Pitman and José Ferreira Ramos and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Bruno Garcia Luize and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Evlyn Márcia Moraes Novo and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Juan Carlos Montero and Alvaro Duque and Flávia R C Costa and Nicolás Casta no Arboleda and Jochen Schöngart and Charles Eugene Zartman and Timothy J Killeen and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Layon O Demarchi and Ted R Feldpausch and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Chris Baraloto and Rafael L Assis and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Adriano Quaresma and Susan G W Laurance and Lorena M Rincón and Ana Andrade and Thaiane R Sousa and José Lu'is Camargo and Juliana Schietti and William F Laurance and Helder Lima Queiroz and Henrique Eduardo Mendonc ca Nascimento and Maria Aparecida Lopes and Emanuelle Sousa Farias and José Leonardo Lima Magalh aes and Roel Brienen and Gerardo A Aymard C and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Bruno Barc cante Ladvocat Cintra and Pablo R Stevenson and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Hugo F Mogollón and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and José Julio Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Aline Lopes and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Freddie Draper and Alberto Vicentini and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Jon Lloyd and Vitor H F Gomes and David Neill and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Rogerio Gribel and Luzmila Arroyo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Daniel Praia Portela Aguiar and Dário Dantas Amaral and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Kenneth J Feeley and Erika Berenguer and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Jos Barlow and Joice Ferreira and Boris Villa and Maria Cristina Pe nuela Mora and Eliana M Jimenez and Juan Carlos Licona and Carlos Cerón and Raquel Thomas and Paul Maas and Marcos Silveira and Terry W Henkel and Juliana Stropp and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Kyle G Dexter and Doug Daly and Tim R Baker and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and William Milliken and Toby Pennington and J Sebastián Tello and José Luis Marcelo Pena and Carlos A Peres and Bente Klitgaard and Alfredo Fuentes and Miles R Silman and Anthony Di Fiore and Patricio Hildebrand and Jerome Chave and Tinde R Andel and Renato Richard Hilário and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Jana'ina Costa Noronha and Adriana Prieto and Therany Gonzales and Rainiellene Sá Carpanedo and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Domingos Jesus Rodrigues and Egleé L Zent and Ademir R Ruschel and Vincent Antoine Vos and Émile Fonty and André Braga Junqueira and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Bruce Hoffman and Stanford Zent and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Yadvinder Malhi and Luiz Carlos Matos Bonates and Ires Paula Andrade Miranda and Natalino Silva and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and César I A Vela and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Agust'in Rudas and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Maria Natalia Uma na and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Geertje Heijden and Kenneth R Young and Milton Tirado and Diego F Correa and Rodrigo Sierra and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Maira Rocha and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Ophelia Wang and Alexandre A Oliveira and Michelle Kalamandeen and Corine Vriesendorp and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Milena Holmgren and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and David Galbraith and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Angela Cano and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Italo Mesones and Cláudia Baider and Casimiro Mendoza and Roderick Zagt and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Cid Ferreira and Daniel Villarroel and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and William Farfan-Rios and William Farfan-Rios and Luisa Fernanda Casas and Sasha Cárdenas and Henrik Balslev and Armando Torres-Lezama and Miguel N Alexiades and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Lionel Hernandez and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Susamar Pansini and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Daniela Pauletto and Aurora Levesley and Karina Melgac co and Georgia Pickavance},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-06-01},

urldate = {2020-06-01},

journal = {Sci. Rep.},

volume = {10},

number = {1},

pages = {10130},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {Ämazonian 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 an extended database of forest plots with up-to-date taxonomy. We show that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals, where aggregation increases with rarity. By averaging several methods to estimate total richness, we confirm that over 15,000 tree species are expected to occur in Amazonia. We also show that using ten times the number of plots would result in an increase to just ~50% of those 15,000 estimated species. To get a more complete sample of all tree species, rigorous field campaigns may be needed but the number of trees in Amazonia will remain an estimate for years to come."},

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@article{Wagner_pmid32109946,

title = {Mapping Atlantic rainforest degradation and regeneration history with indicator species using convolutional network},

author = {Fabien H Wagner and Alber Sanchez and Marcos P M Aidar and André L C Rochelle and Yuliya Tarabalka and Marisa G Fonseca and Oliver L Phillips and Emanuel Gloor and Luiz E O C Aragão},

doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0229448},

issn = {1932-6203},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {PLoS One},

volume = {15},

number = {2},

pages = {e0229448},

abstract = {The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil is one of the global terrestrial hotspots of biodiversity. Despite having undergone large scale deforestation, forest cover has shown signs of increases in the last decades. Here, to understand the degradation and regeneration history of Atlantic rainforest remnants near São Paulo, we combine a unique dataset of very high resolution images from Worldview-2 and Worldview-3 (0.5 and 0.3m spatial resolution, respectively), georeferenced aerial photographs from 1962 and use a deep learning method called U-net to map (i) the forest cover and changes and (ii) two pioneer tree species, Cecropia hololeuca and Tibouchina pulchra. For Tibouchina pulchra, all the individuals were mapped in February, when the trees undergo mass-flowering with purple and pink blossoms. Additionally, elevation data at 30m spatial resolution from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and annual mean climate variables (Terraclimate datasets at ∼ 4km of spatial resolution) were used to analyse the forest and species distributions. We found that natural forests are currently more frequently found on south-facing slopes, likely because of geomorphology and past land use, and that Tibouchina is restricted to the wetter part of the region (southern part), which annually receives at least 1600 mm of precipitation. Tibouchina pulchra was found to clearly indicate forest regeneration as almost all individuals were found within or adjacent to forests regrown after 1962. By contrast, Cecropia hololeuca was found to indicate older disturbed forests, with all individuals almost exclusively found in forest fragments already present in 1962. At the regional scale, using the dominance maps of both species, we show that at least 4.3% of the current region's natural forests have regrown after 1962 (Tibouchina dominated, ∼ 4757 ha) and that ∼ 9% of the old natural forests have experienced significant disturbance (Cecropia dominated).},

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@article{Wagner2020-pz,

title = {Regional mapping and spatial distribution analysis of canopy palms in an Amazon forest using deep learning and VHR images},

author = {Fabien H Wagner and Ricardo Dalagnol and Ximena Tagle Casapia and Annia S Streher and Oliver L Phillips and Emanuel Gloor and Luiz E O C Arag ao},

doi = {10.3390/rs12142225},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-01},

urldate = {2020-07-01},

journal = {Remote Sens. (Basel)},

volume = {12},

number = {14},

pages = {2225},

publisher = {MDPI AG},

abstract = {Mapping plant species at the regional scale to provide information for ecologists and forest managers is a challenge for the remote sensing community. Here, we use a deep learning algorithm called U-net and very high-resolution multispectral images (0.5 m) from GeoEye satellite to identify, segment and map canopy palms over ∼3000 km 2 of Amazonian forest. The map was used to analyse the spatial distribution of canopy palm trees and its relation to human disturbance and edaphic conditions. The overall accuracy of the map was 95.5% and the F1-score was 0.7. Canopy palm trees covered 6.4% of the forest canopy and were distributed in more than two million patches that can represent one or more individuals. The density of canopy palms is affected by human disturbance. The post-disturbance density in secondary forests seems to be related to the type of disturbance, being higher in abandoned pasture areas and lower in forests that have been cut once and abandoned. Additionally, analysis of palm trees' distribution shows that their abundance is controlled naturally by local soil water content, avoiding both flooded and waterlogged areas near rivers and dry areas on the top of the hills. They show two preferential habitats, in the low elevation above the large rivers, and in the slope directly below the hill tops. Overall, their distribution over the region indicates a relatively pristine landscape, albeit within a forest that is critically endangered because of its location between two deforestation fronts and because of illegal cutting. New tree species distribution data, such as the map of all adult canopy palms produced in this work, are urgently needed to support Amazon species inventory and to understand their distribution and diversity.},

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@article{Aguirre-Gutiérrezpmid30828955,

title = {Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought},

author = {Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez and Imma Oliveras and Sami Rifai and Sophie Fauset and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Timothy R Baker and Ted R Feldpausch and Agne Gvozdevaite and Wannes Hubau and Nathan J B Kraft and Simon L Lewis and Sam Moore and Ülo Niinemets and Theresa Peprah and Oliver L Phillips and Kasia Ziemińska and Brian Enquist and Yadvinder Malhi},

doi = {10.1111/ele.13243},

issn = {1461-0248},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-05-01},

urldate = {2019-05-01},

journal = {Ecol Lett},

volume = {22},

number = {5},

pages = {855--865},

abstract = {Climatic changes have profound effects on the distribution of biodiversity, but untangling the links between climatic change and ecosystem functioning is challenging, particularly in high diversity systems such as tropical forests. Tropical forests may also show different responses to a changing climate, with baseline climatic conditions potentially inducing differences in the strength and timing of responses to droughts. Trait-based approaches provide an opportunity to link functional composition, ecosystem function and environmental changes. We demonstrate the power of such approaches by presenting a novel analysis of long-term responses of different tropical forest to climatic changes along a rainfall gradient. We explore how key ecosystem's biogeochemical properties have shifted over time as a consequence of multi-decadal drying. Notably, we find that drier tropical forests have increased their deciduous species abundance and generally changed more functionally than forests growing in wetter conditions, suggesting an enhanced ability to adapt ecologically to a drying environment.},

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@article{Bruelheide2019-op,

title = {sPlot -- A new tool for global vegetation analyses},

author = {Helge Bruelheide and Jürgen Dengler and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Oliver Purschke and Stephan M Hennekens and Milan Chytr'y and Valério D Pillar and Florian Jansen and Jens Kattge and Brody Sandel and Isabelle Aubin and Idoia Biurrun and Richard Field and Sylvia Haider and Ute Jandt and Jonathan Lenoir and Robert K Peet and Gwendolyn Peyre and Francesco Maria Sabatini and Marco Schmidt and Franziska Schrodt and Marten Winter and Svetlana A'ci'c and Emiliano Agrillo and Miguel Alvarez and Didem Ambarli and Pierangela Angelini and Iva Apostolova and Mohammed A S Arfin Khan and Elise Arnst and Fabio Attorre and Christopher Baraloto and Michael Beckmann and Christian Berg and Yves Bergeron and Erwin Bergmeier and Anne D Bjorkman and Viktoria Bondareva and Peter Borchardt and Zoltán Botta-Dukát and Brad Boyle and Amy Breen and Henry Brisse and Chaeho Byun and Marcelo R Cabido and Laura Casella and Luis Cayuela and Tomáv s Cern'y and Victor Chepinoga and János Csiky and Michael Curran and Renata 'Cuv sterevska and Zora Daji'c Stevanovi'c and Els De Bie and Patrice Ruffray and Michele De Sanctis and Panayotis Dimopoulos and Stefan Dressler and Rasmus Ejrnæs and Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh and Brian Enquist and Jörg Ewald and Jaime Fag'undez and Manfred Finckh and Xavier Font and Estelle Forey and Georgios Fotiadis and Itziar Garc'ia-Mijangos and André Luis Gasper and Valentin Golub and Alvaro G Gutierrez and Mohamed Z Hatim and Tianhua He and Pedro Higuchi and Dana Holubová and Norbert Hölzel and Jürgen Homeier and Adrian Indreica and Deniz Ic sik Gürsoy and Steven Jansen and John Janssen and Birgit Jedrzejek and Martin Jirouv sek and Norbert Jürgens and Zygmunt Kk acki and Ali Kavgaci and Elizabeth Kearsley and Michael Kessler and Ilona Knollová and Vitaliy Kolomiychuk and Andrey Korolyuk and Maria Kozhevnikova and Łukasz Kozub and Daniel Krstonov si'c and Hjalmar Kühl and Ingolf Kühn and Anna Kuzemko and Filip Küzmiv c and Flavia Landucci and Michael T Lee and Aurora Levesley and Ching-Feng Li and Hongyan Liu and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Tatiana Lysenko and Armin Macanovi'c and Parastoo Mahdavi and Peter Manning and Corrado Marcen`o and Vassiliy Martynenko and Maurizio Mencuccini and Vanessa Minden and Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund and Marco Moretti and Jonas V Müller and Jér^ome Munzinger and Ülo Niinemets and Marcin Nobis and Jalil Noroozi and Arkadiusz Nowak and Viktor Onyshchenko and Gerhard E Overbeck and Wim A Ozinga and Anibal Pauchard and Hristo Pedashenko and Josep Pe nuelas and Aaron Pérez-Haase and Tomáv s Peterka and Petr Petv r'ik and Oliver L Phillips and Vadim Prokhorov and Valerijus Rav somaviv cius and Rasmus Revermann and John Rodwell and Eszter Ruprecht and Solvita R=usic na and Cyrus Samimi and Joop H J Schaminée and Ute Schmiedel and Jozef Sib'ik and Urban Silc and v Zeljko Skvorc and Anita Smyth and Tenekwetche Sop and Desislava Sopotlieva and Ben Sparrow and Zvjezdana Stanv ci'c and Jens-Christian Svenning and Grzegorz Swacha and Zhiyao Tang and Ioannis Tsiripidis and Pavel Dan Turtureanu and Emin Uu gurlu and Domas Uogintas and Milan Valachoviv c and Kim André Vanselow and Yulia Vashenyak and Kiril Vassilev and Eduardo Vélez-Martin and Roberto Venanzoni and Alexander Christian Vibrans and Cyrille Violle and Risto Virtanen and Henrik Wehrden and Viktoria Wagner and Donald A Walker and Desalegn Wana and Evan Weiher and Karsten Wesche and Timothy Whitfeld and Wolfgang Willner and Susan Wiser and Thomas Wohlgemuth and Sergey Yamalov and Georg Zizka and Andrei Zverev},

doi = {10.1111/jvs.12710},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-03-01},

journal = {J. Veg. Sci.},

volume = {30},

number = {2},

pages = {161--186},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Chave2019-hd,

title = {Ground data are essential for biomass remote sensing missions},

author = {Jérome Chave and Stuart J Davies and Oliver L Phillips and Simon L Lewis and Plinio Sist and Dmitry Schepaschenko and John Armston and Tim R Baker and David Coomes and Mathias Disney and Laura Duncanson and Bruno Hérault and Nicolas Labri`ere and Victoria Meyer and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Klaus Scipal and Sassan Saatchi},

doi = {10.1007/s10712-019-09528-w},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-07-01},

urldate = {2019-07-01},

journal = {Surv. Geophys.},

volume = {40},

number = {4},

pages = {863--880},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Coelhopmid31712699,

title = {Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests},

author = {Fernanda Coelho de Souza and Kyle G Dexter and Oliver L Phillips and R Toby Pennington and Danilo Neves and Martin J P Sullivan and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Átila Alves and Ieda Amaral and Ana Andrade and Luis E O C Aragao and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric J M M Arets and Luzmilla Arroyo and Gerardo A Aymard C and Olaf Bánki and Christopher Baraloto and Jorcely G Barroso and Rene G A Boot and Roel J W Brienen and Foster Brown and José Luís C Camargo and Wendeson Castro and Jerome Chave and Alvaro Cogollo and James A Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo-Valverde and Antonio Lola da Costa and Plínio B de Camargo and Anthony Di Fiore and Ted R Feldpausch and David R Galbraith and Emanuel Gloor and Rosa C Goodman and Martin Gilpin and Rafael Herrera and Niro Higuchi and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Timothy J Killeen and Susan Laurance and William F Laurance and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Thomas E Lovejoy and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Casimiro Mendoza and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and David A Neill and Percy Núñez Vargas and Maria C Peñuela Mora and Georgia C Pickavance and John J Pipoly and Nigel C A Pitman and Lourens Poorter and Adriana Prieto and Freddy Ramirez and Anand Roopsind and Agustin Rudas and Rafael P Salomão and Natalino Silva and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Juliana Stropp and Hans Ter Steege and John Terborgh and Raquel Thomas-Caesar and Ricardo K Umetsu and Rodolfo V Vasquez and Ima Célia-Vieira and Simone A Vieira and Vincent A Vos and Roderick J Zagt and Timothy R Baker},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-019-1007-y},

issn = {2397-334X},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},

volume = {3},

number = {12},

pages = {1754--1761},

abstract = {Higher levels of taxonomic and evolutionary diversity are expected to maximize ecosystem function, yet their relative importance in driving variation in ecosystem function at large scales in diverse forests is unknown. Using 90 inventory plots across intact, lowland, terra firme, Amazonian forests and a new phylogeny including 526 angiosperm genera, we investigated the association between taxonomic and evolutionary metrics of diversity and two key measures of ecosystem function: aboveground wood productivity and biomass storage. While taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity were not important predictors of variation in biomass, both emerged as independent predictors of wood productivity. Amazon forests that contain greater evolutionary diversity and a higher proportion of rare species have higher productivity. While climatic and edaphic variables are together the strongest predictors of productivity, our results show that the evolutionary diversity of tree species in diverse forest stands also influences productivity. As our models accounted for wood density and tree size, they also suggest that additional, unstudied, evolutionarily correlated traits have significant effects on ecosystem function in tropical forests. Overall, our pan-Amazonian analysis shows that greater phylogenetic diversity translates into higher levels of ecosystem function: tropical forest communities with more distantly related taxa have greater wood productivity.},

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}

@article{Draper2019-yy,

title = {Imaging spectroscopy predicts variable distance decay across contrasting Amazonian tree communities},

author = {Frederick C Draper and Christopher Baraloto and Philip G Brodrick and Oliver L Phillips and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Timothy R Baker and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Carlos A Amasifuen Guerra and Manuel Flores and Roosevelt Garcia Villacorta and Paul V. A. Fine and Luis Freitas and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Roel J. W Brienen and Gregory P Asner},

doi = {10.1111/1365-2745.13067},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-03-01},

urldate = {2019-03-01},

journal = {J. Ecol.},

volume = {107},

number = {2},

pages = {696--710},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {1. The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse on Earth, yet accurately quantifying how species composition varies through space (i.e., beta‐diversity) remains a significant challenge. Here, we use high‐fidelity airborne imaging spectroscopy from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory to quantify a key component of beta‐diversity, the distance decay in species similarity through space, across three landscapes in Northern Peru. We then compared our derived distance decay relationships to theoretical expectations obtained from a Poisson Cluster Process, known to match well with empirical distance decay relationships at local scales.

2. We used an unsupervised machine learning approach to estimate spatial turnover in species composition from the imaging spectroscopy data. We first validated this approach across two landscapes using an independent dataset of forest composition in 49 forest census plots (0.1--1.5 ha). We then applied our approach to three landscapes, which together represented terra firme clay forest, seasonally flooded forest and white‐sand forest. We finally used our approach to quantify landscape‐scale distance decay relationships and compared these with theoretical distance decay relationships derived from a Poisson Cluster Process.

3. We found a significant correlation of similarity metrics between spectral data and forest plot data, suggesting that beta‐diversity within and among forest types can be accurately estimated from airborne spectroscopic data using our unsupervised approach. We also found that estimated distance decay in species similarity varied among forest types, with seasonally flooded forests showing stronger distance decay than white‐sand and terra firme forests. Finally, we demonstrated that distance decay relationships derived from the theoretical Poisson Cluster Process compare poorly with our empirical relationships.

4. Synthesis. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of using high‐fidelity imaging spectroscopy to estimate beta‐diversity and continuous distance decay in lowland tropical forests. Furthermore, our findings suggest that distance decay relationships vary substantially among forest types, which has important implications for conserving these valuable ecosystems. Finally, we demonstrate that a theoretical Poisson Cluster Process poorly predicts distance decay in species similarity as conspecific aggregation occurs across a range of nested scales within larger landscapes.},

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}

@article{Draperpmid30693479,

title = {Dominant tree species drive beta diversity patterns in western Amazonia},

author = {Frederick C Draper and Gregory P Asner and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Timothy R Baker and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and Nigel C A Pitman and Paul V A Fine and Oliver L Phillips and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Carlos A Amasifuén Guerra and Manuel Flores Arévalo and Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez and Roel J W Brienen and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Luis A Torres Montenegro and Elvis Valderrama Sandoval and Katherine H Roucoux and Fredy R Ramírez Arévalo and Ítalo Mesones Acuy and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Ximena Tagle Casapia and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and Massiel Corrales Medina and José Reyna Huaymacari and Christopher Baraloto},

doi = {10.1002/ecy.2636},

issn = {1939-9170},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Ecology},

volume = {100},

number = {4},

pages = {e02636},

abstract = {The forests of western Amazonia are among the most diverse tree communities on Earth, yet this exceptional diversity is distributed highly unevenly within and among communities. In particular, a small number of dominant species account for the majority of individuals, whereas the large majority of species are locally and regionally extremely scarce. By definition, dominant species contribute little to local species richness (alpha diversity), yet the importance of dominant species in structuring patterns of spatial floristic turnover (beta diversity) has not been investigated. Here, using a network of 207 forest inventory plots, we explore the role of dominant species in determining regional patterns of beta diversity (community-level floristic turnover and distance-decay relationships) across a range of habitat types in northern lowland Peru. Of the 2,031 recorded species in our data set, only 99 of them accounted for 50% of individuals. Using these 99 species, it was possible to reconstruct the overall features of regional beta diversity patterns, including the location and dispersion of habitat types in multivariate space, and distance-decay relationships. In fact, our analysis demonstrated that regional patterns of beta diversity were better maintained by the 99 dominant species than by the 1,932 others, whether quantified using species-abundance data or species presence-absence data. Our results reveal that dominant species are normally common only in a single forest type. Therefore, dominant species play a key role in structuring western Amazonian tree communities, which in turn has important implications, both practically for designing effective protected areas, and more generally for understanding the determinants of beta diversity patterns.},

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}

@article{Duncansonpmid31395994,

title = {The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation},

author = {L Duncanson and J Armston and M Disney and V Avitabile and N Barbier and K Calders and S Carter and J Chave and M Herold and T W Crowther and M Falkowski and J R Kellner and N Labrière and R Lucas and N MacBean and R E McRoberts and V Meyer and E Næsset and J E Nickeson and K I Paul and O L Phillips and M Réjou-Méchain and M Román and S Roxburgh and S Saatchi and D Schepaschenko and K Scipal and P R Siqueira and A Whitehurst and M Williams},

doi = {10.1007/s10712-019-09538-8},

issn = {0169-3298},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Surv Geophys},

volume = {40},

number = {4},

pages = {979--999},

abstract = {Several upcoming satellite missions have core science requirements to produce data for accurate forest aboveground biomass mapping. Largely because of these mission datasets, the number of available biomass products is expected to greatly increase over the coming decade. Despite the recognized importance of biomass mapping for a wide range of science, policy and management applications, there remains no community accepted standard for satellite-based biomass map validation. The Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS) is developing a protocol to fill this need in advance of the next generation of biomass-relevant satellites, and this paper presents a review of biomass validation practices from a CEOS perspective. We outline the wide range of anticipated user requirements for product accuracy assessment and provide recommendations for the validation of biomass products. These recommendations include the collection of new, high-quality in situ data and the use of airborne lidar biomass maps as tools toward transparent multi-resolution validation. Adoption of community-vetted validation standards and practices will facilitate the uptake of the next generation of biomass products.},

keywords = {},

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}

@article{Esquivel-Muelbert2019-qw,

title = {A spatial and temporal risk assessment of the impacts of El Ni~no on the tropical forest carbon cycle: Theoretical framework, scenarios, and implications},

author = {Esquivel-Muelbert and Bennett and Sullivan and Baker and Gavish and Johnson and Wang and Chambers-Ostler and Giannichi and Gomes and Kalamandeen and Pattnayak and Fauset},

doi = {10.3390/atmos10100588},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-01},

urldate = {2019-09-01},

journal = {Ätmosphere (Basel)},

volume = {10},

number = {10},

pages = {588},

publisher = {MDPI AG},

abstract = {Strong El Ni~no events alter tropical climates and may lead to a negative carbon balance in tropical forests and consequently a disruption to the global carbon cycle. The complexity of tropical forests and the lack of data from these regions hamper the assessment of the spatial distribution of El Niño impacts on these ecosystems. Typically, maps of climate anomaly are used to detect areas of greater risk, ignoring baseline climate conditions and forest cover. Here, we integrated climate anomalies from the 1982--1983, 1997--1998, and 2015--2016 El Niño events with baseline climate and forest edge extent, using a risk assessment approach to hypothetically assess the spatial and temporal distributions of El Niño risk over tropical forests under several risk scenarios. The drivers of risk varied temporally and spatially. Overall, the relative risk of El Niño has been increasing driven mainly by intensified forest fragmentation that has led to a greater chance of fire ignition and increased mean annual air temperatures. We identified areas of repeated high risk, where conservation efforts and fire control measures should be focused to avoid future forest degradation and negative impacts on the carbon cycle.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Esquivelpmid30406962,

title = {Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change},

author = {Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Timothy R Baker and Kyle G Dexter and Simon L Lewis and Roel J W Brienen and Ted R Feldpausch and Jon Lloyd and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Luzmila Arroyo and Esteban Álvarez-Dávila and Niro Higuchi and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Marcos Silveira and Emilio Vilanova and Emanuel Gloor and Yadvinder Malhi and Jerôme Chave and Jos Barlow and Damien Bonal and Nallaret Davila Cardozo and Terry Erwin and Sophie Fauset and Bruno Hérault and Susan Laurance and Lourens Poorter and Lan Qie and Clement Stahl and Martin J P Sullivan and Hans Ter Steege and Vincent Antoine Vos and Pieter A Zuidema and Everton Almeida and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Ana Andrade and Simone Aparecida Vieira and Luiz Aragão and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Eric Arets and Gerardo A Aymard C and Christopher Baraloto and Plínio Barbosa Camargo and Jorcely G Barroso and Frans Bongers and Rene Boot and José Luís Camargo and Wendeson Castro and Victor Chama Moscoso and James Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa and Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel and Anthony Di Fiore and Luisa Fernanda Duque and Fernando Elias and Julien Engel and Gerardo Flores Llampazo and David Galbraith and Rafael Herrera Fernández and Eurídice Honorio Coronado and Wannes Hubau and Eliana Jimenez-Rojas and Adriano José Nogueira Lima and Ricardo Keichi Umetsu and William Laurance and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Thomas Lovejoy and Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz and Paulo S Morandi and David Neill and Percy Núñez Vargas and Nadir C Pallqui Camacho and Alexander Parada Gutierrez and Guido Pardo and Julie Peacock and Marielos Peña-Claros and Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora and Pascal Petronelli and Georgia C Pickavance and Nigel Pitman and Adriana Prieto and Carlos Quesada and Hirma Ramírez-Angulo and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Zorayda Restrepo Correa and Anand Roopsind and Agustín Rudas and Rafael Salomão and Natalino Silva and Javier Silva Espejo and James Singh and Juliana Stropp and John Terborgh and Raquel Thomas and Marisol Toledo and Armando Torres-Lezama and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Peter J van de Meer and Geertje van der Heijden and Peter van der Hout and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Cesar Vela and Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.14413},

issn = {1365-2486},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Glob Chang Biol},

volume = {25},

number = {1},

pages = {39--56},

abstract = {Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate-induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this issue for lowland tropical ecosystems. Here we investigate whether the floristic and functional composition of intact lowland Amazonian forests have been changing by evaluating records from 106 long-term inventory plots spanning 30 years. We analyse three traits that have been hypothesized to respond to different environmental drivers (increase in moisture stress and atmospheric CO concentrations): maximum tree size, biogeographic water-deficit affiliation and wood density. Tree communities have become increasingly dominated by large-statured taxa, but to date there has been no detectable change in mean wood density or water deficit affiliation at the community level, despite most forest plots having experienced an intensification of the dry season. However, among newly recruited trees, dry-affiliated genera have become more abundant, while the mortality of wet-affiliated genera has increased in those plots where the dry season has intensified most. Thus, a slow shift to a more dry-affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics (recruits and mortality) consistent with climate-change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole-community composition. The Amazon observational record suggests that the increase in atmospheric CO is driving a shift within tree communities to large-statured species and that climate changes to date will impact forest composition, but long generation times of tropical trees mean that biodiversity change is lagging behind climate change.},

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@article{Fauset2019-to,

title = {Individual-based modeling of Amazon forests suggests that climate controls productivity while traits control demography},

author = {Sophie Fauset and Manuel Gloor and Nikolaos M Fyllas and Oliver L Phillips and Gregory P Asner and Timothy R Baker and Lisa Patrick Bentley and Roel J W Brienen and Bradley O Christoffersen and Jhon Aguila-Pasquel and Christopher E Doughty and Ted R Feldpausch and David R Galbraith and Rosa C Goodman and Cécile A J Girardin and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo and Norma Salinas and Alexander Shenkin and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Geertje Heijden and Rodolfo Vasquez and Esteban Alvarez-Davila and Luzmila Arroyo and Jorcely G Barroso and Foster Brown and Wendeson Castro and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Nallarett Davila Cardozo and Anthony Di Fiore and Terry Erwin and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Percy N'u nez Vargas and David Neill and Nadir Pallqui Camacho and Alexander Parada Gutierrez and Julie Peacock and Nigel Pitman and Adriana Prieto and Zorayda Restrepo and Agust'in Rudas and Carlos A Quesada and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and John Terborgh and Simone A Vieira and Yadvinder Malhi},

doi = {10.3389/feart.2019.00083},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-04-01},

urldate = {2019-04-01},

journal = {Front. Earth Sci.},

volume = {7},

publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},

abstract = {Climate, species composition, and soils are thought to control carbon cycling and forest structure in Amazonian forests. Here, we add a demographics scheme (tree recruitment, growth, and mortality) to a recently developed non-demographic model - the Trait-based Forest Simulator (TFS) -- to explore the roles of climate and plant traits in controlling forest productivity and structure. We compared two sites with differing climates (seasonal versus aseasonal precipitation) and plant traits. Through an initial validation simulation, we assessed whether the model converges on observed forest properties (productivity, demographic and structural variables) using datasets of functional traits, structure, and climate to model the carbon cycle at the two sites. In a second set of simulations, we tested the relative importance of climate and plant traits for forest properties within the TFS framework using the climate from the two sites with hypothetical trait distributions representing two axes of functional variation (`fast' versus `slow' leaf traits, and high versus low wood density). The adapted model with demographics reproduced observed variation in gross (GPP) and net (NPP) primary production, and respiration. However NPP and respiration at the level of plant organs (leaf, stem, and root) were poorly simulated. Mortality and recruitment rates were underestimated. The equilibrium forest structure differed from observations of stem numbers suggesting either that the forests are not currently at equilibrium or that mechanisms are missing from the model. Findings from the second set of simulations demonstrated that differences in productivity were driven by climate, rather than plant traits. Contrary to expectation, varying leaf traits had no influence on GPP. Drivers of simulated forest structure were complex, with a key role for wood density mediated by its link to tree mortality. Modelled mortality and recruitment rates were linked to plant traits alone, drought-related mortality was not accounted for. In future, model development should focus on improving allocation, mortality, organ respiration, simulation of understory trees and adding hydraulic traits. This type of model that incorporates diverse tree strategies, detailed forest structure and realistic physiology is necessary if we are to be able to simulate tropical forest responses to global change scenarios.},

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@article{Funk2019-qj,

title = {Securing the climate benefits of stable forests},

author = {Jason M Funk and Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui and William Baldwin-Cantello and Jonah Busch and Evgeny Chuvasov and Tom Evans and Bryna Griffin and Nancy Harris and Mariana Napolitano Ferreira and Karen Petersen and Oliver Phillips and Muri G Soares and Richard J A Hoff},

doi = {10.1080/14693062.2019.1598838},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

journal = {Clim. Policy},

volume = {19},

number = {7},

pages = {845--860},

publisher = {Informa UK Limited},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Honoriopmid31380054,

title = {Comparative phylogeography of five widespread tree species: Insights into the history of western Amazonia},

author = {Eurídice N Honorio-Coronado and Kyle G Dexter and Michelle L Hart and Oliver L Phillips and R Toby Pennington},

doi = {10.1002/ece3.5306},

issn = {2045-7758},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-06-01},

urldate = {2019-06-01},

journal = {Ecol Evol},

volume = {9},

number = {12},

pages = {7333--7345},

abstract = {Various historical processes have been put forth as drivers of patterns in the spatial distribution of Amazonian trees and their population genetic variation. We tested whether five widespread tree species show congruent phylogeographic breaks and similar patterns of demographic expansion, which could be related to proposed Pleistocene refugia or the presence of geological arches in western Amazonia. We sampled  (Myristicaceae), , ,  (all Moraceae), and  (Caricaceae) across the western Amazon Basin. Plastid DNA (H-A; 674 individuals from 34 populations) and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers (ITS; 214 individuals from 30 populations) were sequenced to assess genetic diversity, genetic differentiation, population genetic structure, and demographic patterns. Overall genetic diversity for both markers varied among species, with higher values in populations of shade-tolerant species than in pioneer species. Spatial analysis of molecular variance (SAMOVA) identified three genetically differentiated groups for the plastid marker for each species, but the areas of genetic differentiation were not concordant among species. Fewer SAMOVA groups were found for ITS, with no detectable genetic differentiation among populations in pioneers. The lack of spatially congruent phylogeographic breaks across species suggests no common biogeographic history of these Amazonian tree species. The idiosyncratic phylogeographic patterns of species could be due instead to species-specific responses to geological and climatic changes. Population genetic patterns were similar among species with similar biological features, indicating that the ecological characteristics of species impact large-scale phylogeography.},

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@article{Marques2019-xk,

title = {Redefining the Cerrado--Amazonia transition: implications for conservation},

author = {Eduardo Q Marques and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Beatriz S Marimon and Eraldo A T Matricardi and Henrique A Mews and Guarino R Colli},

doi = {10.1007/s10531-019-01720-z},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-02-01},

urldate = {2019-02-01},

journal = {Biodivers. Conserv.},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Nogueira2019,

title = {Impacts of fire on forest biomass dynamics at the southern Amazon edge},

author = {Denis S Nogueira and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Edmar A Oliveira and Paulo Morandi and Simone M Reis and Fernando Elias and Eder C Neves and Ted R Feldpausch and Jon Lloyd and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1017/S0376892919000110},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-12-01},

urldate = {2019-12-01},

journal = {Environ. Conserv.},

volume = {46},

number = {4},

pages = {285--292},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},

abstract = {SummaryOver recent decades, biomass gains in remaining old-growth Amazonia forests have declined due to environmental change. Amazonia's huge size and complexity makes understanding these changes, drivers, and consequences very challenging. Here, using a network of permanent monitoring plots at the Amazon--Cerrado transition, we quantify recent biomass carbon changes and explore their environmental drivers. Our study area covers 30 plots of upland and riparian forests sampled at least twice between 1996 and 2016 and subject to various levels of fire and drought. Using these plots, we aimed to: (1) estimate the long-term biomass change rate; (2) determine the extent to which forest changes are influenced by forest type; and (3) assess the threat to forests from ongoing environmental change. Overall, there was no net change in biomass, but there was clear variation among different forest types. Burning occurred at least once in 8 of the 12 riparian forests, while only 1 of the 18 upland forests burned, resulting in losses of carbon in burned riparian forests. Net biomass gains prevailed among other riparian and upland forests throughout Amazonia. Our results reveal an unanticipated vulnerability of riparian forests to fire, likely aggravated by drought, and threatening ecosystem conservation at the Amazon southern margins.},

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}

@article{Phillipspmid31395992,

title = {Species Matter: Wood Density Influences Tropical Forest Biomass at Multiple Scales},

author = {Oliver L Phillips and Martin J P Sullivan and Tim R Baker and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Percy Núñez Vargas and Rodolfo Vásquez},

doi = {10.1007/s10712-019-09540-0},

issn = {0169-3298},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Surv Geophys},

volume = {40},

number = {4},

pages = {913--935},

abstract = {The mass of carbon contained in trees is governed by the volume and density of their wood. This represents a challenge to most remote sensing technologies, which typically detect surface structure and parameters related to wood volume but not to its density. Since wood density is largely determined by taxonomic identity this challenge is greatest in tropical forests where there are tens of thousands of tree species. Here, using pan-tropical literature and new analyses in Amazonia with plots with reliable identifications we assess the impact that species-related variation in wood density has on biomass estimates of mature tropical forests. We find impacts of species on forest biomass due to wood density at all scales from the individual tree up to the whole biome: variation in tree species composition regulates how much carbon forests can store. Even local differences in composition can cause variation in forest biomass and carbon density of 20% between subtly different local forest types, while additional large-scale floristic variation leads to variation in mean wood density of 10-30% across Amazonia and the tropics. Further, because species composition varies at all scales and even vertically within a stand, our analysis shows that bias and uncertainty always result if individual identity is ignored. Since sufficient inventory-based evidence based on botanical identification now exists to show that species composition matters biome-wide for biomass, we here assemble and provide mean basal-area-weighted wood density values for different forests across the lowand tropical biome. These range widely, from 0.467 to 0.728 g cm with a pan-tropical mean of 0.619 g cm. Our analysis shows that mapping tropical ecosystem carbon always benefits from locally validated measurement of tree-by-tree botanical identity combined with tree-by-tree measurement of dimensions. Therefore whenever possible, efforts to map and monitor tropical forest carbon using remote sensing techniques should be combined with tree-level measurement of species identity by botanists working in inventory plots.},

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@article{Pospmid30938488,

title = {Scaling issues of neutral theory reveal violations of ecological equivalence for dominant Amazonian tree species},

author = {Edwin Pos and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Jean-François Molino and Daniel Sabatier and Olaf S Bánki and Nigel C A Pitman and Hugo F Mogollón and Roosevelt García-Villacorta and David Neill and Oliver L Phillips and Carlos Cerón and Marcos Ríos Paredes and Percy Núñez Vargas and Nállarett Dávila and Anthony Di Fiore and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Raquel Thomas-Caesar and Corine Vriesendorp and Kenneth R Young and Milton Tirado and Ophelia Wang and Rodrigo Sierra and Italo Mesones and Roderick Zagt and Rodolfo Vasquez and Manuel A Ahuite Reategui and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Hans Ter Steege},

doi = {10.1111/ele.13264},

issn = {1461-0248},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-07-01},

urldate = {2019-07-01},

journal = {Ecol Lett},

volume = {22},

number = {7},

pages = {1072--1082},

abstract = {Neutral models are often used as null models, testing the relative importance of niche versus neutral processes in shaping diversity. Most versions, however, focus only on regional scale predictions and neglect local level contributions. Recently, a new formulation of spatial neutral theory was published showing an incompatibility between regional and local scale fits where especially the number of rare species was dramatically under-predicted. Using a forward in time semi-spatially explicit neutral model and a unique large-scale Amazonian tree inventory data set, we show that neutral theory not only underestimates the number of rare species but also fails in predicting the excessive dominance of species on both regional and local levels. We show that although there are clear relationships between species composition, spatial and environmental distances, there is also a clear differentiation between species able to attain dominance with and without restriction to specific habitats. We conclude therefore that the apparent dominance of these species is real, and that their excessive abundance can be attributed to fitness differences in different ways, a clear violation of the ecological equivalence assumption of neutral theory.},

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@article{Requenapmid31310673,

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

author = {Daniela Requena Suarez and Danaë M A Rozendaal and Veronique De Sy and Oliver L Phillips and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila and Kristina Anderson-Teixeira and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Timothy R Baker and Frans Bongers and Roel J W Brienen and Sarah Carter and Susan C Cook-Patton and Ted R Feldpausch and Bronson W Griscom and Nancy Harris and Bruno Hérault and Eurídice N Honorio Coronado and Sara M Leavitt and Simon L Lewis and Beatriz S Marimon and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Justin Kassi N'dja and Anny Estelle N'Guessan and Lourens Poorter and Lan Qie and Ervan Rutishauser and Plinio Sist and Bonaventure Sonké and Martin J P Sullivan and Emilio Vilanova and Maria M H Wang and Christopher Martius and Martin Herold},

doi = {10.1111/gcb.14767},

issn = {1365-2486},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Glob Chang Biol},

volume = {25},

number = {11},

pages = {3609--3624},

abstract = {As countries advance in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting for climate change mitigation, consistent estimates of aboveground net biomass change (∆AGB) are needed. Countries with limited forest monitoring capabilities in the tropics and subtropics rely on IPCC 2006 default ∆AGB rates, which are values per ecological zone, per continent. Similarly, research into forest biomass change at a large scale also makes use of these rates. IPCC 2006 default rates come from a handful of studies, provide no uncertainty indications and do not distinguish between older secondary forests and old-growth forests. As part of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, we incorporate ∆AGB data available from 2006 onwards, comprising 176 chronosequences in secondary forests and 536 permanent plots in old-growth and managed/logged forests located in 42 countries in Africa, North and South America and Asia. We generated ∆AGB rate estimates for younger secondary forests (≤20 years), older secondary forests (>20 years and up to 100 years) and old-growth forests, and accounted for uncertainties in our estimates. In tropical rainforests, for which data availability was the highest, our ∆AGB rate estimates ranged from 3.4 (Asia) to 7.6 (Africa) Mg ha  year in younger secondary forests, from 2.3 (North and South America) to 3.5 (Africa) Mg ha  year in older secondary forests, and 0.7 (Asia) to 1.3 (Africa) Mg ha  year in old-growth forests. We provide a rigorous and traceable refinement of the IPCC 2006 default rates in tropical and subtropical ecological zones, and identify which areas require more research on ∆AGB. In this respect, this study should be considered as an important step towards quantifying the role of tropical and subtropical forests as carbon sinks with higher accuracy; our new rates can be used for large-scale GHG accounting by governmental bodies, nongovernmental organizations and in scientific research.},

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@article{Schepaschenko2019-ym,

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

author = {Dmitry Schepaschenko and Jér^ome Chave and Oliver L Phillips and Simon L Lewis and Stuart J Davies and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Plinio Sist and Klaus Scipal and Christoph Perger and Bruno Herault and Nicolas Labri`ere and Florian Hofhansl and Kofi Affum-Baffoe and Alexei Aleinikov and Alfonso Alonso and Christian Amani and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and John Armston and Luzmila Arroyo and Nataly Ascarrunz and Celso Azevedo and Timothy Baker and Radomir Bałazy and Caroline Bedeau and Nicholas Berry and Andrii M Bilous and Svitlana Yu Bilous and Pulchérie Bissiengou and Lilian Blanc and Kapitolina S Bobkova and Tatyana Braslavskaya and Roel Brienen and David F R P Burslem and Richard Condit and Aida Cuni-Sanchez and Dilshad Danilina and Dennis Del Castillo Torres and Géraldine Derroire and Laurent Descroix and Eleneide Doff Sotta and Marcus V N dÓliveira and Christopher Dresel and Terry Erwin and Mikhail D Evdokimenko and Jan Falck and Ted R Feldpausch and Ernest G Foli and Robin Foster and Steffen Fritz and Antonio Damian Garcia-Abril and Aleksey Gornov and Maria Gornova and Ernest Gothard-Bassébé and Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury and Marcelino Guedes and Keith C Hamer and Farida Herry Susanty and Niro Higuchi and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Wannes Hubau and Stephen Hubbell and Ulrik Ilstedt and Viktor V Ivanov and Milton Kanashiro and Anders Karlsson and Viktor N Karminov and Timothy Killeen and Jean-Claude Konan Koffi and Maria Konovalova and Florian Kraxner and Jan Krejza and Haruni Krisnawati and Leonid V Krivobokov and Mikhail A Kuznetsov and Ivan Lakyda and Petro I Lakyda and Juan Carlos Licona and Richard M Lucas and Natalia Lukina and Daniel Lussetti and Yadvinder Malhi and José Antonio Manzanera and Beatriz Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Olga V Martynenko and Maksym Matsala and Raisa K Matyashuk and Lucas Mazzei and Hervé Memiaghe and Casimiro Mendoza and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Olga V Moroziuk and Liudmila Mukhortova and Samsudin Musa and Dina I Nazimova and Toshinori Okuda and Luis Claudio Oliveira and Petr V Ontikov and Andrey F Osipov and Stephan Pietsch and Maureen Playfair and John Poulsen and Vladimir G Radchenko and Kenneth Rodney and Andes H Rozak and Ademir Ruschel and Ervan Rutishauser and Linda See and Maria Shchepashchenko and Nikolay Shevchenko and Anatoly Shvidenko and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Bonaventure Sonké and Cintia Souza and Krzysztof Stere'nczak and Leonid Stonozhenko and Martin J P Sullivan and Justyna Szatniewska and Hermann Taedoumg and Hans Ter Steege and Elena Tikhonova and Marisol Toledo and Olga V Trefilova and Ruben Valbuena and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Sergey Vasiliev and Estella F Vedrova and Sergey V Verhovets and Edson Vidal and Nadezhda A Vladimirova and Jason Vleminckx and Vincent A Vos and Foma K Vozmitel and Wolfgang Wanek and Thales A P West and Hannsjorg Woell and John T Woods and Verginia Wortel and Toshihiro Yamada and Zamah Shari Nur Hajar and Irié Casimir Zo-Bi},

doi = {10.1038/s41597-019-0196-1},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-10-01},

journal = {Sci. Data},

volume = {6},

number = {1},

pages = {198},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth's ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment of renewable energy potential, and for developing climate change mitigation policies such as REDD+, among others. Wall-to-wall mapping of aboveground biomass (AGB) is now possible with satellite remote sensing (RS). However, RS methods require extant, up-to-date, reliable, representative and comparable in situ data for calibration and validation. Here, we present the Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database. AGB and canopy height estimates with their associated uncertainties are derived at a 0.25 ha scale from field measurements made in permanent research plots across the world's forests. All plot estimates are geolocated and have a size that allows for direct comparison with many RS measurements. The FOS offers the potential to improve the accuracy of RS-based biomass products while developing new synergies between the RS and ground-based ecosystem research communities.},

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@article{Steidingerpmid31092941,

title = {Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses},

author = {B S Steidinger and T W Crowther and J Liang and M E Van Nuland and G D A Werner and P B Reich and G J Nabuurs and S de-Miguel and M Zhou and N Picard and B Herault and X Zhao and C Zhang and D Routh and K G Peay},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-019-1128-0},

issn = {1476-4687},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

urldate = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Nature},

volume = {569},

number = {7756},

pages = {404--408},

abstract = {The identity of the dominant root-associated microbial symbionts in a forest determines the ability of trees to access limiting nutrients from atmospheric or soil pools, sequester carbon and withstand the effects of climate change. Characterizing the global distribution of these symbioses and identifying the factors that control this distribution are thus integral to understanding the present and future functioning of forest ecosystems. Here we generate a spatially explicit global map of the symbiotic status of forests, using a database of over 1.1 million forest inventory plots that collectively contain over 28,000 tree species. Our analyses indicate that climate variables-in particular, climatically controlled variation in the rate of decomposition-are the primary drivers of the global distribution of major symbioses. We estimate that ectomycorrhizal trees, which represent only 2% of all plant species, constitute approximately 60% of tree stems on Earth. Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis dominates forests in which seasonally cold and dry climates inhibit decomposition, and is the predominant form of symbiosis at high latitudes and elevation. By contrast, arbuscular mycorrhizal trees dominate in aseasonal, warm tropical forests, and occur with ectomycorrhizal trees in temperate biomes in which seasonally warm-and-wet climates enhance decomposition. Continental transitions between forests dominated by ectomycorrhizal or arbuscular mycorrhizal trees occur relatively abruptly along climate-driven decomposition gradients; these transitions are probably caused by positive feedback effects between plants and microorganisms. Symbiotic nitrogen fixers-which are insensitive to climatic controls on decomposition (compared with mycorrhizal fungi)-are most abundant in arid biomes with alkaline soils and high maximum temperatures. The climatically driven global symbiosis gradient that we document provides a spatially explicit quantitative understanding of microbial symbioses at the global scale, and demonstrates the critical role of microbial mutualisms in shaping the distribution of plant species.},

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@article{Ter_Steege2019-zq,

title = {Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests},

author = {Hans Ter Steege and Terry W Henkel and Nora Helal and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Andreas Huth and Jürgen Groeneveld and Daniel Sabatier and Luiz de Souza Coelho and Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho and Rafael P Salom ao and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Francisca Dion'izia de Almeida Matos and Carolina V Castilho and Oliver L Phillips and Juan Ernesto Guevara and Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim and Dairon Cárdenas López and William E Magnusson and Florian Wittmann and Mariana Victória Irume and Maria Pires Martins and José Renan da Silva Guimar aes and Jean-Franc cois Molino and Olaf S Bánki and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Nigel C A Pitman and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and José Ferreira Ramos and Bruno Garcia Luize and Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Le ao Novo and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and John Terborgh and Katia Regina Casula and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Juan Carlos Montero and Ted R Feldpausch and Alvaro Duque and Flávia R C Costa and Nicolás Casta no Arboleda and Jochen Schöngart and Timothy J Killeen and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Layon O Demarchi and Rafael L Assis and Chris Baraloto and Julien Engel and Pascal Petronelli and Hernán Castellanos and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Adriano Quaresma and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and José Lu'is Camargo and Susan G W Laurance and William F Laurance and Lorena M Rincón and Juliana Schietti and Thaiane R Sousa and Emanuelle Sousa Farias and Maria Aparecida Lopes and José Leonardo Lima Magalh aes and Henrique Eduardo Mendonc ca Nascimento and Helder Lima de Queiroz and Gerardo A Aymard C and Roel Brienen and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Bruno Barc cante Ladvocat Cintra and Pablo R Stevenson and Yuri Oliveira Feitosa and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Hugo F Mogollón and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Leandro Valle Ferreira and José Rafael Lozada and James A Comiskey and José Julio Toledo and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Freddie Draper and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and Alberto Vicentini and Alfonso Alonso and Francisco Dallmeier and Vitor H F Gomes and Jon Lloyd and David Neill and Daniel Praia Portela Aguiar and Luzmila Arroyo and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Dário Dantas Amaral and Kenneth J Feeley and Rogerio Gribel and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Joice Ferreira and Paul V A Fine and Marcelino Carneiro Guedes and Eliana M Jimenez and Juan Carlos Licona and Maria Cristina Pe nuela Mora and Boris Villa and Carlos Cerón and Paul Maas and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Tim R Baker and Doug Daly and Kyle G Dexter and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and William Milliken and Toby Pennington and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Alfredo Fuentes and Bente Klitgaard and José Luis Marcelo Pena and Carlos A Peres and Miles R Silman and J Sebastián Tello and Jerome Chave and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Anthony Di Fiore and Renato Richard Hilário and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Tinde R Andel and Patricio Hildebrand and Jana'ina Costa Noronha and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa and Luiz Carlos Matos Bonates and Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Émile Fonty and Ricardo GómeZárate Z and Therany Gonzales and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and André Braga Junqueira and Yadvinder Malhi and Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Adriana Prieto and Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Agust'in Rudas and Ademir R Ruschel and Natalino Silva and César I A Vela and Vincent Antoine Vos and Egleé L Zent and Stanford Zent and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Angela Cano and Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez and Diego F Correa and Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa and Bernardo Monteiro Flores and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Alexandre A Oliveira and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller and Rodrigo Sierra and Milton Tirado and Maria Natalia Uma na Medina and Geertje Heijden and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Corine Vriesendorp and Ophelia Wang and Kenneth R Young and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Cláudia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha Cárdenas and Luisa Fernanda Casas and William Farfan-Rios and Cid Ferreira and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Armando Torres-Lezama and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Miguel N Alexiades and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Aurora Levesley and Georgia Pickavance and Karina Melgac co},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-01},

journal = {Sci. Rep.},

volume = {9},

number = {1},

pages = {13822},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

abstract = {Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such ``monodominant'' forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric of at least half of the trees $geq$ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, we found only a few occurrences of monodominance in Amazonia, and the phenomenon was not significantly linked to previously hypothesized life history traits such wood density, seed mass, ectomycorrhizal associations, or Rhizobium nodulation. In our analysis, coppicing (the formation of sprouts at the base of the tree or on roots) was the only trait significantly linked to monodominance. While at specific locales coppicing or ectomycorrhizal associations may confer a considerable advantage to a tree species and lead to its monodominance, very few species have these traits. Mining of the ATDN dataset suggests that monodominance is quite rare in Amazonia, and may be linked primarily to edaphic factors.},

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@article{Vicuna_Minano2019-dg,

title = {EL SUMIDERO DE CARBONO EN LOS BOSQUES PRIMARIOS AMAZÓNICOS ES UNA OPORTUNIDAD PARA LOGRAR LA SOSTENIBILIDAD DE SU CONSERVACIÓN},

author = {Edgar Vicu-na-Mi-nano and Tim R Baker and Karina Banda-R. and Eur'idice Honorio Coronado and Abel Monteagudo and Oliver L Phillips and Dennis Castillo Torres and William Farfan Rios and Gerardo Flores and David Huaman and Keysa Tantte Huaman and Gabriel Hidalgo Pizango and Eva Lojas Aleman and Joana B Melo and Georgia C Pickavance and Marcos Rios and Mar'ia Rojas and Norma Salinas and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/Vicuna_Minano_etal_2019.pdf},

doi = {10.24841/fa.v27i1.456},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-02-01},

urldate = {2019-02-01},

journal = {Folia amaz.},

volume = {27},

number = {1},

pages = {101--109},

publisher = {Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana - IIAP},

abstract = {Los bosques primarios intactos de la Amazon'ia peruana se comportan como sumideros de carbono: un servicio ecosistémico clave a nivel mundial. Este sumidero fue cuantificado en 0.54 Mg C ha-1 a~no-1 (1990-2017) para los bosques amazónicos intactos de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANPs) de Per'u y las zonas de amortiguamiento. En otras palabras, la conservación de bosques intactos en ANPs ayudó a remover 9.6 millones de toneladas de carbono de la atmósfera por a~no, lo cual equivale aproximadamente al 85% de las emisiones de la quema de combustibles fósiles del pa'is durante el 2012. Este servicio de remoción de CO2 atmosférico es necesario incluir en el inventario nacional de gases de efecto invernadero, y en los compromisos nacionales de reducción de emisiones, por dos razones. Primero, debido a ser un flujo importante, nos ayudar'ia a tener una aproximación más real del balance de carbono en Per'u. Segundo, fortalecer'ia la necesidad de mantener la integridad de estos bosques tanto por el servicio de almacenamiento de carbono (evitar emisiones) como el servicio de sumidero (remoción de emisiones) y la diversidad biológica que albergan. La provisión del servicio de sumidero solo se asegurará con una gestión efectiva y adaptativa de las ANPs. El reporte de este servicio ambiental a nivel nacional debe ser implementado a través del monitoreo a largo plazo de la dinámica del carbono y el impacto del cambio climático a través de la red de parcelas forestales permanentes de RAINFOR (Red Amazónica de Inventarios Forestales) y el proyecto MonANPeru. El establecimiento de este sistema de monitoreo permitirá el desarrollo de los mecanismos financieros para cerrar la brecha y lograr la sostenibilidad de la conservación de los bosques en las ANPs de Per'u.},

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@article{Wagner2019-mg,

title = {Using the U‐net convolutional network to map forest types and disturbance in the Atlantic rainforest with very high resolution images},

author = {Fabien H Wagner and Alber Sanchez and Yuliya Tarabalka and Rodolfo G Lotte and Matheus P Ferreira and Marcos P M Aidar and Emanuel Gloor and Oliver L Phillips and Luiz E O C Arag ao},

doi = {10.1002/rse2.111},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-12-01},

urldate = {2019-12-01},

journal = {Remote Sens. Ecol. Conserv.},

volume = {5},

number = {4},

pages = {360--375},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Alfaro_Curitumay2018-ii,

title = {Dinámica, biomasa aérea y variables poblacionales de dos parcelas permanentes en bosques montanos de Wi~naywayna, Santuario Histórico de Machupicchu, Cusco, Peru},

author = {Lucero E" Älfaro-Curitumay},

doi = {10.22497/arnaldoa.252.25217},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-08-01},

urldate = {2018-08-01},

journal = {Ärnaldoa},

volume = {25},

number = {2},

publisher = {Üniversidad Privada Antenor Orrego},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Aragãopmid29440640,

title = {21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions},

author = {Luiz E O C Aragão and Liana O Anderson and Marisa G Fonseca and Thais M Rosan and Laura B Vedovato and Fabien H Wagner and Camila V J Silva and Celso H L Silva Junior and Egidio Arai and Ana P Aguiar and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Merritt N Deeter and Lucas G Domingues and Luciana Gatti and Manuel Gloor and Yadvinder Malhi and Jose A Marengo and John B Miller and Oliver L Phillips and Sassan Saatchi},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-02771-y},

issn = {2041-1723},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Nat Commun},

volume = {9},

number = {1},

pages = {536},

abstract = {Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest clearing processes. Yet, emissions from drought-induced forest fires are, usually, not included in national-level carbon emission inventories. Here we examine Brazilian Amazon drought impacts on fire incidence and associated forest fire carbon emissions over the period 2003-2015. We show that despite a 76% decline in deforestation rates over the past 13 years, fire incidence increased by 36% during the 2015 drought compared to the preceding 12 years. The 2015 drought had the largest ever ratio of active fire counts to deforestation, with active fires occurring over an area of 799,293 km. Gross emissions from forest fires (989 ± 504 Tg CO year) alone are more than half as great as those from old-growth forest deforestation during drought years. We conclude that carbon emission inventories intended for accounting and developing policies need to take account of substantial forest fire emissions not associated to the deforestation process.},

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@article{Barbosa2018-ex,

title = {Savanna turning into forest: concerted vegetation change at the ecotone between the Amazon and ''Cerrado'' biomes},

author = {Fábio Barbosa-Passos and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Oliver L Phillips and Paulo Sérgio Morandi and Eder Carvalho Neves and Fernando Elias and Simone Matias Reis and Bianca Oliveira and Ted R Feldpausch and Ben Hur Marimon Junior},

doi = {10.1007/s40415-018-0470-z},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-09-01},

urldate = {2018-09-01},

journal = {Rev. Bras. Bot.},

volume = {41},

number = {3},

pages = {611--619},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Bastin2018-kf,

title = {Pan‐tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees},

author = {Jean-François Bastin and Ervan Rutishauser and James R Kellner and Sassan Saatchi and Raphael Pélissier and Bruno Hérault and Ferry Slik and Jan Bogaert and Charles De Canni`ere and Andrew R Marshall and John Poulsen and Patricia Alvarez-Loyayza and Ana Andrade and Albert Angbonga-Basia and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Narayanan Ayyappan and Celso Paulo Azevedo and Olaf Banki and Nicolas Barbier and Jorcely G Barroso and Hans Beeckman and Robert Bitariho and Pascal Boeckx and Katrin Boehning-Gaese and Hilandia Brand ao and Francis Q Brearley and Mireille Breuer Ndoundou Hockemba and Roel Brienen and Jose Luis C Camargo and Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz and Benoit Cassart and Jér^ome Chave and Robin Chazdon and Georges Chuyong and David B Clark and Connie J Clark and Richard Condit and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Priya Davidar and Thal`es Haulleville and Laurent Descroix and Jean-Louis Doucet and Aurelie Dourdain and Vincent Droissart and Thomas Duncan and Javier Silva Espejo and Santiago Espinosa and Nina Farwig and Adeline Fayolle and Ted R Feldpausch and Antonio Ferraz and Christine Fletcher and Krisna Gajapersad and Jean-Franc cois Gillet and I^eda Le ao do Amaral and Christelle Gonmadje and James Grogan and David Harris and Sebastian K Herzog and Jürgen Homeier and Wannes Hubau and Stephen P Hubbell and Koen Hufkens and Johanna Hurtado and Narcisse G Kamdem and Elizabeth Kearsley and David Kenfack and Michael Kessler and Nicolas Labri`ere and Yves Laumonier and Susan Laurance and William F Laurance and Simon L Lewis and Moses B Libalah and Gauthier Ligot and Jon Lloyd and Thomas E Lovejoy and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Emmanuel H Martin and Paulus Matius and Victoria Meyer and Casimero Mendoza Bautista and Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza and Arafat Mtui and David Neill and Germaine Alexander Parada Gutierrez and Guido Pardo and Marc Parren and N Parthasarathy and Oliver L Phillips and Nigel C A Pitman and Pierre Ploton and Quentin Ponette and B R Ramesh and Jean-Claude Razafimahaimodison and Maxime Réjou-Méchain and Samir Gonc calves Rolim and Hugo Romero Saltos and Luiz Marcelo Brum Rossi and Wilson Roberto Spironello and Francesco Rovero and Philippe Saner and Denise Sasaki and Mark Schulze and Marcos Silveira and James Singh and Plinio Sist and Bonaventure Sonke and J Daniel Soto and Cintia Rodrigues Souza and Juliana Stropp and Martin J P Sullivan and Ben Swanepoel and Hans Ter Steege and John Terborgh and Nicolas Texier and Takeshi Toma and Renato Valencia and Luis Valenzuela and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Tinde R Van Andel and Rodolfo Vasque and Hans Verbeeck and Pandi Vivek and Jason Vleminckx and Vincent A Vos and Fabien H Wagner and Papi Puspa Warsudi and Verginia Wortel and Roderick J Zagt and Donatien Zebaze},

doi = {10.1111/geb.12803},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-11-01},

urldate = {2018-11-01},

journal = {Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.},

volume = {27},

number = {11},

pages = {1366--1383},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Aim: Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations, offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely and to investigate their variations on broad scales. However, despite rapid development of metrics to characterize the forest canopy from remotely sensed data, a gap remains between aerial and field inventories. To close this gap, we propose a new pan‐tropical model to predict plot‐level forest structure properties and biomass from only the largest trees. Location: Pan‐tropical. Time period: Early 21st century. Major taxa studied: Woody plants. Methods: Using a dataset of 867 plots distributed among 118 sites across the tropics, we tested the prediction of the quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey's height, community wood density and aboveground biomass (AGB) from the ith largest trees. Results: Measuring the largest trees in tropical forests enables unbiased predictions of plot‐ and site‐level forest structure. The 20 largest trees per hectare predicted quadratic mean diameter, basal area, Lorey's height, community wood density and AGB with 12, 16, 4, 4 and 17.7% of relative error, respectively. Most of the remaining error in biomass prediction is driven by differences in the proportion of total biomass held in medium‐sized trees (50--70 cm diameter at breast height), which shows some continental dependency, with American tropical forests presenting the highest proportion of total biomass in these intermediate‐diameter classes relative to other continents. Main conclusions: Our approach provides new information on tropical forest structure and can be used to generate accurate field estimates of tropical forest carbon stocks to support the calibration and validation of current and forthcoming space missions. It will reduce the cost of field inventories and contribute to scientific understanding of tropical forest ecosystems and response to climate change.},

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}

@article{Bonini2018-wp,

title = {Collapse of ecosystem carbon stocks due to forest conversion to soybean plantations at the Amazon-Cerrado transition},

author = {Isabelle Bonini and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Eraldo Matricardi and Oliver Phillips and Fabiano Petter and Bianca Oliveira and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon},

doi = {10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.038},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-04-01},

urldate = {2018-04-01},

journal = {For. Ecol. Manage.},

volume = {414},

pages = {64--73},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Deforestation to establish monocrops in the tropics is causing massive reductions in ecosystem C stocks. Amazonia is a principal targets of this process, owing to the expansion of the agribusiness frontier throughout the transition with the Cerrado biome, the zone known as the ``Arc of Deforestation''. In this vast contact region between the two largest South American biomes, the conversion of primary forest to soybean and pasture systems has led to the deforestation of nearly five million hectares since 1980. Despite this, we lack precise understanding of the effects of land use on ecosystem C stocks and pools in this region. Addressing this knowledge gap is crucial to improve predictions and fit models for different land use scenarios in Amazonia. To reduce uncertainty regarding the magnitude of the impacts of deforestation on the C cycle, we evaluated ecosystem C stocks in contrasting land-use systems across a topographically, climatically, and edaphically near-homogeneous landscape in southern Amazonia. We investigated the soil, litter, fine root and aboveground biomass (AGB) C stocks of soybean plantations and compared them to those of remnant native forests and rubber plantations; the latter is considered a priori as a cropping system with low impact on the C cycle. We found that the conversion of native forest to soybean plantation caused a 130.5 Mg C ha−1 loss, about threefold higher than the loss when forest is converted to rubber plantations, 48.5 Mg C ha−1. While 30-year old rubber plantations had recovered 84% of forest carbon stocks, all plantation types induced sustained losses of at least one-third of the original soil carbon. Fine root allocation changed sharply in the two crops following conversion, indicating an alteration in plant nutrient dynamics. Our results show that perennial and annual monocrops have very different impacts on the C cycle, which need to be accounted for in carbon-climate models as well as in public policies regulating land use in Amazonia. Our results show that while silviculture has the potential to restore most of the above-ground C stocks of previously forested areas, but neither silviculture nor conventional agriculture may ever restore Amazon soil C stocks once they become vulnerable and oxidized after deforestation. If such conversion-driven soil carbon losses were scaled across the Amazon they would induce a cumulative loss of more than 5 Pg in soil carbon by 2050.},

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}

@article{Bruelheidepmid30455437,

title = {Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities},

author = {Helge Bruelheide and Jürgen Dengler and Oliver Purschke and Jonathan Lenoir and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Stephan M Hennekens and Zoltán Botta-Dukát and Milan Chytrý and Richard Field and Florian Jansen and Jens Kattge and Valério D Pillar and Franziska Schrodt and Miguel D Mahecha and Robert K Peet and Brody Sandel and Peter van Bodegom and Jan Altman and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila and Mohammed A S Arfin Khan and Fabio Attorre and Isabelle Aubin and Christopher Baraloto and Jorcely G Barroso and Marijn Bauters and Erwin Bergmeier and Idoia Biurrun and Anne D Bjorkman and Benjamin Blonder and Andraž Čarni and Luis Cayuela and Tomáš Černý and J Hans C Cornelissen and Dylan Craven and Matteo Dainese and Géraldine Derroire and Michele De Sanctis and Sandra Díaz and Jiří Doležal and William Farfan-Rios and Ted R Feldpausch and Nicole J Fenton and Eric Garnier and Greg R Guerin and Alvaro G Gutiérrez and Sylvia Haider and Tarek Hattab and Greg Henry and Bruno Hérault and Pedro Higuchi and Norbert Hölzel and Jürgen Homeier and Anke Jentsch and Norbert Jürgens and Zygmunt Kącki and Dirk N Karger and Michael Kessler and Michael Kleyer and Ilona Knollová and Andrey Y Korolyuk and Ingolf Kühn and Daniel C Laughlin and Frederic Lens and Jacqueline Loos and Frédérique Louault and Mariyana I Lyubenova and Yadvinder Malhi and Corrado Marcenò and Maurizio Mencuccini and Jonas V Müller and Jérôme Munzinger and Isla H Myers-Smith and David A Neill and Ülo Niinemets and Kate H Orwin and Wim A Ozinga and Josep Penuelas and Aaron Pérez-Haase and Petr Petřík and Oliver L Phillips and Meelis Pärtel and Peter B Reich and Christine Römermann and Arthur V Rodrigues and Francesco Maria Sabatini and Jordi Sardans and Marco Schmidt and Gunnar Seidler and Javier Eduardo Silva Espejo and Marcos Silveira and Anita Smyth and Maria Sporbert and Jens-Christian Svenning and Zhiyao Tang and Raquel Thomas and Ioannis Tsiripidis and Kiril Vassilev and Cyrille Violle and Risto Virtanen and Evan Weiher and Erik Welk and Karsten Wesche and Marten Winter and Christian Wirth and Ute Jandt},

doi = {10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8},

issn = {2397-334X},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},

volume = {2},

number = {12},

pages = {1906--1917},

abstract = {Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can facilitate co-existence within communities. A key question is to what extent community-level trait composition is globally filtered and how well it is related to global versus local environmental drivers. Here, we perform a global, plot-level analysis of trait-environment relationships, using a database with more than 1.1 million vegetation plots and 26,632 plant species with trait information. Although we found a strong filtering of 17 functional traits, similar climate and soil conditions support communities differing greatly in mean trait values. The two main community trait axes that capture half of the global trait variation (plant stature and resource acquisitiveness) reflect the trade-offs at the species level but are weakly associated with climate and soil conditions at the global scale. Similarly, within-plot trait variation does not vary systematically with macro-environment. Our results indicate that, at fine spatial grain, macro-environmental drivers are much less important for functional trait composition than has been assumed from floristic analyses restricted to co-occurrence in large grid cells. Instead, trait combinations seem to be predominantly filtered by local-scale factors such as disturbance, fine-scale soil conditions, niche partitioning and biotic interactions.},

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@article{Draper2018-cl,

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

author = {Frederick C Draper and Eur'idice N Honorio Coronado and Katherine H Roucoux and Ian T Lawson and Nigel C A. Pitman and Paul V A. Fine and Oliver L Phillips and Luis A Torres Montenegro and Elvis Valderrama Sandoval and Italo Mesones and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Fredy R Ramirez Arévalo and Timothy R Baker},

doi = {10.1111/ecog.03126},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-08-01},

urldate = {2018-08-01},

journal = {Ecography (Cop.)},

volume = {41},

number = {8},

pages = {1256--1269},

publisher = {Wiley},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Elias2018-nx,

title = {Idiosyncratic soil-tree species associations and their relationships with drought in a monodominant Amazon forest},

author = {Fernando Elias and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Jean Carlos Budke and Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Paulo Sérgio Morandi and Simone Matias Reis and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1016/j.actao.2018.07.004},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-08-01},

urldate = {2018-08-01},

journal = {Äcta Oecol. (Montrouge)},

volume = {91},

pages = {127--136},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Monodominant forests are characterized by the strong influence of a single species on the structure and diversity of the community. In the tropics, monodominant forests are rare exceptions within the generally highly diverse tropical forest biome. Some studies have shown that tree monodominance may be a transient state caused by successional and demographic variation among species over time. Working in a Brosimum rubescens Taub. (Moraceae) monodominant forest at the southern edge of Amazonia, we tested the hypotheses that local-scale variation in intra- and interspecific spatial patterns of dominant tree species is affected by i) demographic rates of recruitment and mortality following severe droughts, ii) local variation in edaphic properties, and iii) occupation of species in the vertical layer of the forest. We quantified intra- and interspecific spatial patterns and edaphic associations of the five most abundant species using aggregation and association distance indices, and examined changes over time. We found some support for all hypotheses. Thus, intra- and interspecific spatial patterns of most species varied over time, principally after severe drought, emphasizing species-level variability and their interactions in sensitivity to this disturbance, even as B. rubescens monodominance was maintained. While positive and negative spatial associations with edaphic properties provide evidence of habitat specialization, the absence of negative spatial associations of B. rubescens with edaphic properties indicates that this species experiences little environmental restriction, and this may be one of the factors that explain its monodominance. Spatial repulsion and attraction between species in the same and in different vertical layers, respectively, indicates niche overlap and differentiation, while changes over time indicate that the relationships between species are dynamic and affected by drought disturbance.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Gomes2018-ra,

title = {Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data},

author = {Vitor H F Gomes and Stéphanie D IJff and Niels Raes and I^eda Le ao Amaral and Rafael P Salom ao and Luiz Souza Coelho and Francisca Dion'izia Almeida Matos and Carolina V Castilho and Diogenes Andrade Lima Filho and Dairon Cárdenas López and Juan Ernesto Guevara and William E Magnusson and Oliver L Phillips and Florian Wittmann and Marcelo Jesus Veiga Carim and Maria Pires Martins and Mariana Victória Irume and Daniel Sabatier and Jean-Franc cois Molino and Olaf S Bánki and José Renan aes and Nigel C A Pitman and Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Bruno Garcia Luize and Eduardo Martins Venticinque and Evlyn Márcia Moraes Novo and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva and Angelo Gilberto Manzatto and John Terborgh and Neidiane Farias Costa Reis and Juan Carlos Montero and Katia Regina Casula and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben-Hur Marimon and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Ted R Feldpausch and Alvaro Duque and Charles Eugene Zartman and Nicolás Casta no Arboleda and Timothy J Killeen and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Rodolfo Vasquez and Jochen Schöngart and Rafael L Assis and Marcelo Brilhante Medeiros and Marcelo Fragomeni Simon and Ana Andrade and William F Laurance and José Lu'is Camargo and Layon O Demarchi and Susan G W Laurance and Emanuelle Sousa Farias and Henrique Eduardo Mendonc ca Nascimento and Juan David Cardenas Revilla and Adriano Quaresma and Flavia R C Costa and Ima Célia Guimar aes Vieira and Bruno Barc cante Ladvocat Cintra and Hernán Castellanos and Roel Brienen and Pablo R Stevenson and Yuri Feitosa and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Gerardo A Aymard C. and Hugo F Mogollón and Natalia Targhetta and James A Comiskey and Alberto Vicentini and Aline Lopes and Gabriel Damasco and Nállarett Dávila and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Carolina Levis and Juliana Schietti and Priscila Souza and Thaise Emilio and Alfonso Alonso and David Neill and Francisco Dallmeier and Leandro Valle Ferreira and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Daniel Praia and Dário Dantas Amaral and Fernanda Antunes Carvalho and Fernanda Coelho Souza and Kenneth Feeley and Luzmila Arroyo and Marcelo Petratti Pansonato and Rogerio Gribel and Boris Villa and Juan Carlos Licona and Paul V A Fine and Carlos Cerón and Chris Baraloto and Eliana M Jimenez and Juliana Stropp and Julien Engel and Marcos Silveira and Maria Cristina Pe nuela Mora and Pascal Petronelli and Paul Maas and Raquel Thomas-Caesar and Terry W Henkel and Doug Daly and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Tim R Baker and Alfredo Fuentes and Carlos A Peres and Jerome Chave and Jose Luis Marcelo Pena and Kyle G Dexter and Miles R Silman and Peter Møller Jørgensen and Toby Pennington and Anthony Di Fiore and Fernando Cornejo Valverde and Juan Fernando Phillips and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and Patricio Hildebrand and Tinde R Andel and Ademir R Ruschel and Adriana Prieto and Agust'in Rudas and Bruce Hoffman and César I A Vela and Edelcilio Marques Barbosa and Egleé L Zent and George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales and Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza and Ires Paula Andrade Miranda and Jean-Louis Guillaumet and Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto and Luiz Carlos Matos Bonates and Natalino Silva and Ricardo Zárate Gómez and Stanford Zent and Therany Gonzales and Vincent A Vos and Yadvinder Malhi and Alexandre A Oliveira and Angela Cano and Bianca Weiss Albuquerque and Corine Vriesendorp and Diego Felipe Correa and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Geertje Heijden and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and José Ferreira Ramos and Kenneth R Young and Maira Rocha and Marcelo Trindade Nascimento and Maria Natalia Uma na Medina and Milton Tirado and Ophelia Wang and Rodrigo Sierra and Armando Torres-Lezama and Casimiro Mendoza and Cid Ferreira and Cláudia Baider and Daniel Villarroel and Henrik Balslev and Italo Mesones and Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo and Luisa Fernanda Casas and Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Roderick Zagt and Sasha Cárdenas and William Farfan-Rios and Adeilza Felipe Sampaio and Daniela Pauletto and Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval and Freddy Ramirez Arevalo and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and Miguel N Alexiades and Susamar Pansini and Walter Palacios Cuenca and William Milliken and Joana Ricardo and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Edwin Pos and Hans Steege},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-12-01},

journal = {Sci. Rep.},

volume = {8},

number = {1},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{Good2018-vl,

title = {Recent progress in understanding climate thresholds},

author = {Peter Good and Jonathan Bamber and Kate Halladay and Anna B Harper and Laura C Jackson and Gillian Kay and Bart Kruijt and Jason A Lowe and Oliver L Phillips and Jeff Ridley and Meric Srokosz and Carol Turley and Phillip Williamson},

doi = {10.1177/0309133317751843},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-02-01},

urldate = {2018-02-01},

journal = {Prog. Phys. Geogr.},

volume = {42},

number = {1},

pages = {24--60},

publisher = {SAGE Publications},

abstract = {This article reviews recent scientific progress, relating to four major systems that could exhibit threshold behaviour: ice sheets, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), tropical forests and ecosystem responses to ocean acidification. The focus is on advances since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5). The most significant developments in each component are identified by synthesizing input from multiple experts from each field. For ice sheets, some degree of irreversible loss (timescales of millennia) of part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may have already begun, but the rate and eventual magnitude of this irreversible loss is uncertain. The observed AMOC overturning has decreased from 2004--2014, but it is unclear at this stage whether this is forced or is internal variability. New evidence from experimental and natural droughts has given greater confidence that tropical forests are adversely affected by drought. The ecological and socio-economic impacts of ocean acidification are expected to greatly increase over the range from today's annual value of around 400, up to 650 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere (reached around 2070 under RCP8.5), with the rapid development of aragonite undersaturation at high latitudes affecting calcifying organisms. Tropical coral reefs are vulnerable to the interaction of ocean acidification and temperature rise, and the rapidity of those changes, with severe losses and risks to survival at 2 °C warming above pre-industrial levels. Across the four systems studied, however, quantitative evidence for a difference in risk between 1.5 and 2 °C warming above pre-industrial levels is limited.},

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@article{McDowellpmid29451313,

title = {Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests},

author = {Nate McDowell and Craig D Allen and Kristina Anderson-Teixeira and Paulo Brando and Roel Brienen and Jeff Chambers and Brad Christoffersen and Stuart Davies and Chris Doughty and Alvaro Duque and Fernando Espirito-Santo and Rosie Fisher and Clarissa G Fontes and David Galbraith and Devin Goodsman and Charlotte Grossiord and Henrik Hartmann and Jennifer Holm and Daniel J Johnson and Abd Rahman Kassim and Michael Keller and Charlie Koven and Lara Kueppers and Tomo'omi Kumagai and Yadvinder Malhi and Sean M McMahon and Maurizio Mencuccini and Patrick Meir and Paul Moorcroft and Helene C Muller-Landau and Oliver L Phillips and Thomas Powell and Carlos A Sierra and John Sperry and Jeff Warren and Chonggang Xu and Xiangtao Xu},

doi = {10.1111/nph.15027},

issn = {1469-8137},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {New Phytol},

volume = {219},

number = {3},

pages = {851--869},

abstract = {Tree mortality rates appear to be increasing in moist tropical forests (MTFs) with significant carbon cycle consequences. Here, we review the state of knowledge regarding MTF tree mortality, create a conceptual framework with testable hypotheses regarding the drivers, mechanisms and interactions that may underlie increasing MTF mortality rates, and identify the next steps for improved understanding and reduced prediction. Increasing mortality rates are associated with rising temperature and vapor pressure deficit, liana abundance, drought, wind events, fire and, possibly, CO fertilization-induced increases in stand thinning or acceleration of trees reaching larger, more vulnerable heights. The majority of these mortality drivers may kill trees in part through carbon starvation and hydraulic failure. The relative importance of each driver is unknown. High species diversity may buffer MTFs against large-scale mortality events, but recent and expected trends in mortality drivers give reason for concern regarding increasing mortality within MTFs. Models of tropical tree mortality are advancing the representation of hydraulics, carbon and demography, but require more empirical knowledge regarding the most common drivers and their subsequent mechanisms. We outline critical datasets and model developments required to test hypotheses regarding the underlying causes of increasing MTF mortality rates, and improve prediction of future mortality under climate change.},

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}

@article{Morandi2018-mk,

title = {Tree diversity and above-ground biomass in the South America Cerrado biome and their conservation implications},

author = {Paulo S Morandi and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and James A Ratter and Ted R Feldpausch and Guarino Rinaldi Colli and Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz and Manoel Cláudio Silva J'unior and Edson Souza Lima and Ricardo Flores Haidar and Luzmila Arroyo and Alejandro Araujo Murakami and Fabiana Góis Aquino and Bruno Machado Teles Walter and José Felipe Ribeiro and Renata Franc coso and Fernando Elias and Edmar Almeida Oliveira and Simone Matias Reis and Bianca Oliveira and Eder Carvalho Neves and Denis Silva Nogueira and Herson Souza Lima and Tatiane Pires Carvalho and Silvo Alves Rodrigues and Daniel Villarroel and Jeanine M Felfili and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1007/s10531-018-1589-8},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

urldate = {2018-06-01},

journal = {Biodivers. Conserv.},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Phillips2018,

title = {Rainforests and the Carbon Cycle, Recent Research in the Amazon},

author = {Phillips, OP and Esquivel Muelbert, A},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-04-02},

urldate = {2018-04-02},

journal = {Geography Review},

number = {4},

issue = {31},

pages = {22-25},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Rammig2018-aj,

title = {A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region},

author = {Anja Rammig and Jens Heinke and Florian Hofhansl and Hans Verbeeck and Timothy R Baker and Bradley Christoffersen and Philippe Ciais and Hannes De Deurwaerder and Katrin Fleischer and David Galbraith and Matthieu Guimberteau and Andreas Huth and Michelle Johnson and Bart Krujit and Fanny Langerwisch and Patrick Meir and Phillip Papastefanou and Gilvan Sampaio and Kirsten Thonicke and Celso Randow and Christian Zang and Edna Rödig},

doi = {10.5194/gmd-11-5203-2018},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-12-01},

urldate = {2018-12-01},

journal = {Geosci. Model Dev.},

volume = {11},

number = {12},

pages = {5203--5215},

publisher = {Copernicus GmbH},

abstract = {Abstract. Comparing model output and observed data is an  important step for assessing model performance and quality of  simulation results. However, such comparisons are often hampered  by differences in spatial scales between local point  observations and large-scale simulations of grid cells or  pixels. In this study, we propose a generic approach for a  pixel-to-point comparison and provide statistical measures  accounting for the uncertainty resulting from landscape  variability and measurement errors in ecosystem variables. The  basic concept of our approach is to determine the statistical  properties of small-scale (within-pixel) variability and  observational errors, and to use this information to correct for  their effect when large-scale area averages (pixel) are compared  to small-scale point estimates. We demonstrate our approach by  comparing simulated values of aboveground biomass, woody  productivity (woody net primary productivity, NPP) and residence  time of woody biomass from four dynamic global vegetation models  (DGVMs) with measured inventory data from permanent plots in the  Amazon rainforest, a region with the typical problem of low data  availability, potential scale mismatch and thus high model  uncertainty. We find that the DGVMs under- and overestimate  aboveground biomass by 25 % and up to 60 %, respectively. Our  comparison metrics provide a quantitative measure for  model--data agreement and show moderate to good agreement with  the region-wide spatial biomass pattern detected by plot  observations. However, all four DGVMs overestimate woody  productivity and underestimate residence time of woody biomass  even when accounting for the large uncertainty range of the  observational data. This is because DGVMs do not represent the  relation between productivity and residence time of woody  biomass correctly. Thus, the DGVMs may simulate the correct  large-scale patterns of biomass but for the wrong reasons. We  conclude that more information about the underlying processes  driving biomass distribution are necessary to improve DGVMs. Our  approach provides robust statistical measures for any  pixel-to-point comparison, which is applicable for evaluation of  models and remote-sensing products.},

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@article{Reis2018-zr,

title = {Climate and fragmentation affect forest structure at the southern border of Amazonia},

author = {Simone Matias Reis and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Paulo S Morandi and Edmar Almeida de Oliveira and Fernando Elias and Eder Carvalho das Neves and Bianca de Oliveira and Denis da Silva Nogueira and Ricardo Keichi Umetsu and Ted R Feldpausch and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1080/17550874.2018.1455230},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Plant Ecol. Divers.},

volume = {11},

number = {1},

pages = {13--25},

publisher = {Informa UK Limited},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Rifaipmid30297475,

title = {ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics},

author = {Sami W Rifai and Cécile A J Girardin and Erika Berenguer and Jhon Del Aguila-Pasquel and Cecilia A L Dahlsjö and Christopher E Doughty and Kathryn J Jeffery and Sam Moore and Imma Oliveras and Terhi Riutta and Lucy M Rowland and Alejandro Araujo Murakami and Shalom D Addo-Danso and Paulo Brando and Chad Burton and Fidèle Evouna Ondo and Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi and Filio Farfán Amézquita and Renata Freitag and Fernando Hancco Pacha and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Forzia Ibrahim and Armel T Mbou and Vianet Mihindou Mihindou and Karine S Peixoto and Wanderley Rocha and Liana C Rossi and Marina Seixas and Javier E Silva-Espejo and Katharine A Abernethy and Stephen Adu-Bredu and Jos Barlow and Antonio C L da Costa and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben H Marimon-Junior and Patrick Meir and Daniel B Metcalfe and Oliver L Phillips and Lee J T White and Yadvinder Malhi},

doi = {10.1098/rstb.2017.0410},

issn = {1471-2970},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci},

volume = {373},

number = {1760},

abstract = {Meteorological extreme events such as El Niño events are expected to affect tropical forest net primary production (NPP) and woody growth, but there has been no large-scale empirical validation of this expectation. We collected a large high-temporal resolution dataset (for 1-13 years depending upon location) of more than 172 000 stem growth measurements using dendrometer bands from across 14 regions spanning Amazonia, Africa and Borneo in order to test how much month-to-month variation in stand-level woody growth of adult tree stems (NPP) can be explained by seasonal variation and interannual meteorological anomalies. A key finding is that woody growth responds differently to meteorological variation between tropical forests with a dry season (where monthly rainfall is less than 100 mm), and aseasonal wet forests lacking a consistent dry season. In seasonal tropical forests, a high degree of variation in woody growth can be predicted from seasonal variation in temperature, vapour pressure deficit, in addition to anomalies of soil water deficit and shortwave radiation. The variation of aseasonal wet forest woody growth is best predicted by the anomalies of vapour pressure deficit, water deficit and shortwave radiation. In total, we predict the total live woody production of the global tropical forest biome to be 2.16 Pg C yr, with an interannual range 1.96-2.26 Pg C yr between 1996-2016, and with the sharpest declines during the strong El Niño events of 1997/8 and 2015/6. There is high geographical variation in hotspots of El Niño-associated impacts, with weak impacts in Africa, and strongly negative impacts in parts of Southeast Asia and extensive regions across central and eastern Amazonia. Overall, there is high correlation ( = -0.75) between the annual anomaly of tropical forest woody growth and the annual mean of the El Niño 3.4 index, driven mainly by strong correlations with anomalies of soil water deficit, vapour pressure deficit and shortwave radiation.This article is part of the discussion meeting issue 'The impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial tropical carbon cycle: patterns, mechanisms and implications'.},

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@article{Sullivan_pmid29938017,

title = {Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation},

author = {Martin J P Sullivan and Simon L Lewis and Wannes Hubau and Lan Qie and Timothy R Baker and Lindsay F Banin and Jerôme Chave and Aida Cuni-Sanchez and Ted R Feldpausch and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Eric Arets and Peter Ashton and Jean-François Bastin and Nicholas J Berry and Jan Bogaert and Rene Boot and Francis Q Brearley and Roel Brienen and David F R P Burslem and Charles de Canniere and Markéta Chudomelová and Martin Dančák and Corneille Ewango and Radim Hédl and Jon Lloyd and Jean-Remy Makana and Yadvinder Malhi and Beatriz S Marimon and Ben Hur Marimon Junior and Faizah Metali and Sam Moore and Laszlo Nagy and Percy Nuñez Vargas and Colin A Pendry and Hirma Ramírez-Angulo and Jan Reitsma and Ervan Rutishauser and Kamariah Abu Salim and Bonaventure Sonké and Rahayu S Sukri and Terry Sunderland and Martin Svátek and Peter M Umunay and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Ronald R E Vernimmen and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Jason Vleminckx and Vincent Vos and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1111/2041-210X.12962},

issn = {2041-210X},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-05-01},

urldate = {2018-05-01},

journal = {Methods Ecol Evol},

volume = {9},

number = {5},

pages = {1179--1189},

abstract = {Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although substantial site-to-site variation in height-diameter allometries has been documented, the time consuming nature of measuring all tree heights in an inventory plot means that most studies do not include height, or else use generic pan-tropical or regional allometric equations to estimate height.Using a pan-tropical dataset of 73 plots where at least 150 trees had in-field ground-based height measurements, we examined how the number of trees sampled affects the performance of locally derived height-diameter allometries, and evaluated the performance of different methods for sampling trees for height measurement.Using cross-validation, we found that allometries constructed with just 20 locally measured values could often predict tree height with lower error than regional or climate-based allometries (mean reduction in prediction error = 0.46 m). The predictive performance of locally derived allometries improved with sample size, but with diminishing returns in performance gains when more than 40 trees were sampled. Estimates of stand-level biomass produced using local allometries to estimate tree height show no over- or under-estimation bias when compared with biomass estimates using field measured heights. We evaluated five strategies to sample trees for height measurement, and found that sampling strategies that included measuring the heights of the ten largest diameter trees in a plot outperformed (in terms of resulting in local height-diameter models with low height prediction error) entirely random or diameter size-class stratified approaches.Our results indicate that even limited sampling of heights can be used to refine height-diameter allometries. We recommend aiming for a conservative threshold of sampling 50 trees per location for height measurement, and including the ten trees with the largest diameter in this sample.},

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}

@article{Vilanova29927972,

title = {Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests},

author = {Emilio Vilanova and Hirma Ramírez-Angulo and Armando Torres-Lezama and Gerardo Aymard and Luis Gámez and Cristabel Durán and Lionel Hernández and Rafael Herrera and Geertje van der Heijden and Oliver L Phillips and Gregory J Ettl},

doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0198489},

issn = {1932-6203},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {PLoS One},

volume = {13},

number = {6},

pages = {e0198489},

abstract = {Using data from 50 long-term permanent plots from across Venezuelan forests in northern South America, we explored large-scale patterns of stem turnover, aboveground biomass (AGB) and woody productivity (AGWP), and the relationships between them and with potential climatic drivers. We used principal component analysis coupled with generalized least squares models to analyze the relationship between climate, forest structure and stem dynamics. Two major axes associated with orthogonal temperature and moisture gradients effectively described more than 90% of the environmental variability in the dataset. Average turnover was 1.91 ± 0.10% year-1 with mortality and recruitment being almost identical, and close to average rates for other mature tropical forests. Turnover rates were significantly different among regions (p < 0.001), with the lowland forests in Western alluvial plains being the most dynamic, and Guiana Shield forests showing the lowest turnover rates. We found a weak positive relationship between AGB and AGWP, with Guiana Shield forests having the highest values for both variables (204.8 ± 14.3 Mg C ha-1 and 3.27 ± 0.27 Mg C ha-1 year-1 respectively), but AGB was much more strongly and negatively related to stem turnover. Our data suggest that moisture is a key driver of turnover, with longer dry seasons favoring greater rates of tree turnover and thus lower biomass, having important implications in the context of climate change, given the increases in drought frequency in many tropical forests. Regional variation in AGWP among Venezuelan forests strongly reflects the effects of climate, with greatest woody productivity where both precipitation and temperatures are high. Overall, forests in wet, low elevation sites and with slow turnover stored the greatest amounts of biomass. Although faster stand dynamics are closely associated with lower carbon storage, stem-level turnover rates and woody productivity did not show any correlation, indicating that stem dynamics and carbon dynamics are largely decoupled from one another.},

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@article{Álvarez-Dávila_pmid28301482,

title = {Forest biomass density across large climate gradients in northern South America is related to water availability but not with temperature},

author = {Esteban Álvarez-Dávila and Luis Cayuela and Sebastián González-Caro and Ana M Aldana and Pablo R Stevenson and Oliver Phillips and Álvaro Cogollo and Maria C Peñuela and Patricio von Hildebrand and Eliana Jiménez and Omar Melo and Ana Catalina Londoño-Vega and Irina Mendoza and Oswaldo Velásquez and Fernando Fernández and Marcela Serna and Cesar Velázquez-Rua and Doris Benítez and José M Rey-Benayas},

doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0171072},

issn = {1932-6203},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

journal = {PLoS One},

volume = {12},

number = {3},

pages = {e0171072},

abstract = {Understanding and predicting the likely response of ecosystems to climate change are crucial challenges for ecology and for conservation biology. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the tropics as these forests store more than half the total atmospheric carbon stock in their biomass. Biomass is determined by the balance between biomass inputs (i.e., growth) and outputs (mortality). We can expect therefore that conditions that favor high growth rates, such as abundant water supply, warmth, and nutrient-rich soils will tend to correlate with high biomass stocks. Our main objective is to describe the patterns of above ground biomass (AGB) stocks across major tropical forests across climatic gradients in Northwestern South America. We gathered data from 200 plots across the region, at elevations ranging between 0 to 3400 m. We estimated AGB based on allometric equations and values for stem density, basal area, and wood density weighted by basal area at the plot-level. We used two groups of climatic variables, namely mean annual temperature and actual evapotranspiration as surrogates of environmental energy, and annual precipitation, precipitation seasonality, and water availability as surrogates of water availability. We found that AGB is more closely related to water availability variables than to energy variables. In northwest South America, water availability influences carbon stocks principally by determining stand structure, i.e. basal area. When water deficits increase in tropical forests we can expect negative impact on biomass and hence carbon storage.},

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}

@article{Baharpmid27389684,

title = {Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru},

author = {Nur H A Bahar and F Yoko Ishida and Lasantha K Weerasinghe and Rossella Guerrieri and Odhran S O'Sullivan and Keith J Bloomfield and Gregory P Asner and Roberta E Martin and Jon Lloyd and Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L Phillips and Patrick Meir and Norma Salinas and Eric G Cosio and Tomas F Domingues and Carlos A Quesada and Felipe Sinca and Alberto Escudero Vega and Paola P Zuloaga Ccorimanya and Jhon Del Aguila-Pasquel and Katherine Quispe Huaypar and Israel Cuba Torres and Rosalbina Butrón Loayza and Yulina Pelaez Tapia and Judit Huaman Ovalle and Benedict M Long and John R Evans and Owen K Atkin},

doi = {10.1111/nph.14079},

issn = {1469-8137},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-05-01},

urldate = {2017-05-01},

journal = {New Phytol},

volume = {214},

number = {3},

pages = {1002--1018},

abstract = {We examined whether variations in photosynthetic capacity are linked to variations in the environment and/or associated leaf traits for tropical moist forests (TMFs) in the Andes/western Amazon regions of Peru. We compared photosynthetic capacity (maximal rate of carboxylation of Rubisco (V ), and the maximum rate of electron transport (J )), leaf mass, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) per unit leaf area (M , N and P , respectively), and chlorophyll from 210 species at 18 field sites along a 3300-m elevation gradient. Western blots were used to quantify the abundance of the CO -fixing enzyme Rubisco. Area- and N-based rates of photosynthetic capacity at 25°C were higher in upland than lowland TMFs, underpinned by greater investment of N in photosynthesis in high-elevation trees. Soil [P] and leaf P were key explanatory factors for models of area-based V and J but did not account for variations in photosynthetic N-use efficiency. At any given N and P , the fraction of N allocated to photosynthesis was higher in upland than lowland species. For a small subset of lowland TMF trees examined, a substantial fraction of Rubisco was inactive. These results highlight the importance of soil- and leaf-P in defining the photosynthetic capacity of TMFs, with variations in N allocation and Rubisco activation state further influencing photosynthetic rates and N-use efficiency of these critically important forests.},

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}

@article{Baker_pmid28214038,

title = {Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists},

author = {Timothy R Baker and R Toby Pennington and Kyle G Dexter and Paul V A Fine and Helen Fortune-Hopkins and Euridice N Honorio and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Bente B Klitgård and Gwilym P Lewis and Haroldo C de Lima and Peter Ashton and Christopher Baraloto and Stuart Davies and Michael J Donoghue and Maria Kaye and W John Kress and Caroline E R Lehmann and Abel Monteagudo and Oliver L Phillips and Rodolfo Vasquez},

doi = {10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007},

issn = {1872-8383},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Trends Ecol Evol},

volume = {32},

number = {4},

pages = {258--267},

abstract = {Closer collaboration among ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists working in tropical forests, centred on studies within long-term permanent plots, would be highly beneficial for their respective fields. With a key unifying theme of the importance of vouchered collection and precise identification of species, especially rare ones, we identify four priority areas where improving links between these communities could achieve significant progress in biodiversity and conservation science: (i) increasing the pace of species discovery; (ii) documenting species turnover across space and time; (iii) improving models of ecosystem change; and (iv) understanding the evolutionary assembly of communities and biomes.},

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tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{David-Higuita2017-qx,

title = {Riqueza total de especies de plantas vasculares en un bosque andino de la Cordillera central de Colombia},

author = {Heriberto David-Higuita and Esteban Alvarez-Dávila},

doi = {10.15517/rbt.v66i1.27548},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-12-01},

urldate = {2017-12-01},

journal = {Rev. Biol. Trop.},

volume = {66},

number = {1},

pages = {227},

publisher = {Üniversidad de Costa Rica},

abstract = {Studies of plant diversity in tropical forests are usually restricted to trees or other groups of woody plants above a certain stem diameter. However, surveys that include all forms of live plants with no restrictions on their sizes, clearly indicate that non-woody plants are equally important. In this study, we reported the total species richness of vascular plants species (TSR) in one hectare plot in an Andean forest in Northwestern Colombia (6º 12' 48'' N & 75º 29' 32'' W). We evaluated the relative contribution of the different growth habits and the effect of the plant size, to TSR. We measured all individuals with diameter (D) $geq$ 5 cm in the hectare and all the vascular plants of all sizes, including epiphytes, in a subsample of 0.25 ha. A total of 14 545 individuals distributed in 318 species, 72 families (considering Pteridophyta as one group) and 171 genera were registered. Most of the species showed a (D)},

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@article{Esquivel-Muelbert2017-vb,

title = {Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics},

author = {Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Timothy R Baker and Kyle G Dexter and Simon L Lewis and Hans Steege and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Abel Monteagudo Mendoza and Roel Brienen and Ted R Feldpausch and Nigel Pitman and Alfonso Alonso and Geertje Heijden and Marielos Pe na-Claros and Manuel Ahuite and Miguel Alexiaides and Esteban Álvarez Dávila and Alejandro Araujo Murakami and Luzmila Arroyo and Milton Aulestia and Henrik Balslev and Jorcely Barroso and Rene Boot and Angela Cano and Victor Chama Moscoso and James A Comiskey and Fernando Cornejo and Francisco Dallmeier and Douglas C Daly and Nallarett Dávila and Joost F Duivenvoorden and Alvaro Javier Duque Montoya and Terry Erwin and Anthony Di Fiore and Todd Fredericksen and Alfredo Fuentes and Roosevelt Garc'ia-Villacorta and Therany Gonzales and Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino and Euridice N Honorio Coronado and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Rojas Eliana Maria Jiménez and Timothy J Killeen and Yadvinder Malhi and Casimiro Mendoza and Hugo Mogollón and Peter Møller Jørgensen and Juan Carlos Montero and Bonifacio Mostacedo and William Nauray and David Neill and Percy N'u nez Vargas and Sonia Palacios and Walter Palacios Cuenca and Nadir Carolina Pallqui Camacho and Julie Peacock and Juan Fernando Phillips and Georgia Pickavance and Carlos Alberto Quesada and Hirma Ram'irez-Angulo and Zorayda Restrepo and Carlos Reynel Rodriguez and Marcos R'ios Paredes and Maria Cristina Pe nuela-Mora and Rodrigo Sierra and Marcos Silveira and Pablo Stevenson and Juliana Stropp and John Terborgh and Milton Tirado and Marisol Toledo and Armando Torres-Lezama and Mar'ia Natalia Uma na and Ligia Estela Urrego and Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez and Luis Valenzuela Gamarra and César I A Vela and Emilio Vilanova Torre and Vincent Vos and Patricio Hildebrand and Corine Vriesendorp and Ophelia Wang and Kenneth R Young and Charles Eugene Zartman and Oliver L Phillips},

url = {https://rainfor.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/129/2022/07/Muelbert-et-al-2016-Seasonal-drought-limits-tree-species-across-the-Neotropics-ecog1904.pdf},

doi = {10.1111/ecog.01904},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-05-01},

urldate = {2017-05-01},

journal = {Ecography (Cop.)},

volume = {40},

number = {5},

pages = {618--629},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Within the tropics, the species richness of tree communities is strongly and positively associated with precipitation. Previous research has suggested that this macroecological pattern is driven by the negative effect of water-stress on the physiological processes of most tree species. This process implies that the range limits of taxa are defined by their ability to occur under dry conditions, and thus in terms of species distributions it predicts a nested pattern of taxa distribution from wet to dry areas. However, this `dry-tolerance' hypothesis has yet to be adequately tested at large spatial and taxonomic scales. Here, using a dataset of 531 inventory plots of closed canopy forest distributed across the Western Neotropics we investigated how precipitation, evaluated both as mean annual precipitation and as the maximum climatological water deficit, influences the distribution of tropical tree species, genera and families. We find that the distributions of tree taxa are indeed nested along precipitation gradients in the western Neotropics. Taxa tolerant to seasonal drought are disproportionally widespread across the precipitation gradient, with most reaching even the wettest climates sampled; however, most taxa analysed are restricted to wet areas. Our results suggest that the `dry tolerance' hypothesis has broad applicability in the world's most species-rich forests. In addition, the large number of species restricted to wetter conditions strongly indicates that an increased frequency of drought could severely threaten biodiversity in this region. Overall, this study establishes a baseline for exploring how tropical forest tree composition may change in response to current and future environmental changes in this region.},

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@article{Esquivel-Muelbertpmid28827613,

title = {Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances},

author = {Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and David Galbraith and Kyle G Dexter and Timothy R Baker and Simon L Lewis and Patrick Meir and Lucy Rowland and Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa and Daniel Nepstad and Oliver L Phillips},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-08105-8},

issn = {2045-2322},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Sci Rep},

volume = {7},

number = {1},

pages = {8334},

abstract = {High levels of species diversity hamper current understanding of how tropical forests may respond to environmental change. In the tropics, water availability is a leading driver of the diversity and distribution of tree species, suggesting that many tropical taxa may be physiologically incapable of tolerating dry conditions, and that their distributions along moisture gradients can be used to predict their drought tolerance. While this hypothesis has been explored at local and regional scales, large continental-scale tests are lacking. We investigate whether the relationship between drought-induced mortality and distributions holds continentally by relating experimental and observational data of drought-induced mortality across the Neotropics to the large-scale bioclimatic distributions of 115 tree genera. Across the different experiments, genera affiliated to wetter climatic regimes show higher drought-induced mortality than dry-affiliated ones, even after controlling for phylogenetic relationships. This pattern is stronger for adult trees than for saplings or seedlings, suggesting that the environmental filters exerted by drought impact adult tree survival most strongly. Overall, our analysis of experimental, observational, and bioclimatic data across neotropical forests suggests that increasing moisture-stress is indeed likely to drive significant changes in floristic composition.},

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}

@article{Fyllaspmid28464375,

title = {Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient},

author = {Nikolaos M Fyllas and Lisa Patrick Bentley and Alexander Shenkin and Gregory P Asner and Owen K Atkin and Sandra Díaz and Brian J Enquist and William Farfan-Rios and Emanuel Gloor and Rossella Guerrieri and Walter Huaraca Huasco and Yoko Ishida and Roberta E Martin and Patrick Meir and Oliver Phillips and Norma Salinas and Miles Silman and Lasantha K Weerasinghe and Joana Zaragoza-Castells and Yadvinder Malhi},

doi = {10.1111/ele.12771},

issn = {1461-0248},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-05-02},

urldate = {2017-05-02},

journal = {Ecology Letters},

volume = {20},

issue = {6},

pages = {730--740},

abstract = {One of the major challenges in ecology is to understand how ecosystems respond to changes in environmental conditions, and how taxonomic and functional diversity mediate these changes. In this study, we use a trait-spectra and individual-based model, to analyse variation in forest primary productivity along a 3.3 km elevation gradient in the Amazon-Andes. The model accurately predicted the magnitude and trends in forest productivity with elevation, with solar radiation and plant functional traits (leaf dry mass per area, leaf nitrogen and phosphorus concentration, and wood density) collectively accounting for productivity variation. Remarkably, explicit representation of temperature variation with elevation was not required to achieve accurate predictions of forest productivity, as trait variation driven by species turnover appears to capture the effect of temperature. Our semi-mechanistic model suggests that spatial variation in traits can potentially be used to estimate spatial variation in productivity at the landscape scale.},

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@article{Koele2017-zl,

title = {Amazon Basin forest pyrogenic carbon stocks: First estimate of deep storage},

author = {Nina Koele and Michael Bird and Jordahna Haig and Ben Hur Marimon-Junior and Beatriz Schwantes Marimon and Oliver L Phillips and Edmar A Oliveira and C A Quesada and Ted R Feldpausch},

doi = {10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.029},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-01},

urldate = {2017-11-01},

journal = {Geoderma},

volume = {306},

pages = {237--243},

publisher = {Elsevier BV},

abstract = {Amazon Basin forest soils contain considerable soil organic carbon stocks; however, the contribution of soil pyrogenic carbon (PyC) to the total is unknown. PyC is derived from local fires (historical and modern) and external inputs via aeolian deposition. To establish an initial estimate of PyC stocks in non-terra preta forest with no known history of fire, to assess site and vertical variability, as well as to determine optimal sampling design, we sampled 37 one hectare forest plots in the Amazon Basin and analysed PyC via hydrogen pyrolysis of three individual samples per plot and of bulked samples to 200 cm depth. Using our data and published total organic carbon stocks, we present the first field-based estimate of total PyC stock for the Amazon Basin of 1.10 Pg over 0--30 cm soil depth, and 2.76 Pg over 0--100 cm soil depth. This is up to 20 times higher than previously assumed. Three individual samples per 1 ha are sufficient to capture the site variability of PyC in our plots. PyC showed significant, large-scale variability among plots. To capture 50% of the PyC in 200 cm soil profiles, soil must be sampled to a depth of at least 71 cm. PyC represents a significant (11%) portion of total organic carbon in soil profiles 0--200 cm depth. This finding highlights the potentially important role that historical fire has played in modifying soil C stocks. Our data suggest that PyC is an important carbon pool for long-term storage, involved in millennial scale biogeochemical cycling, particularly in the subsurface soil.},

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@article{Levis_pmid28254935,

title = {Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition},

author = {C Levis and F R C Costa and F Bongers and M Peña-Claros and C R Clement and A B Junqueira and E G Neves and E K Tamanaha and F O G Figueiredo and R P Salomão and C V Castilho and W E Magnusson and O L Phillips and J E Guevara and D Sabatier and J-F Molino and D Cárdenas López and A M Mendoza and N C A Pitman and A Duque and P Núñez Vargas and C E Zartman and R Vasquez and A Andrade and J L Camargo and T R Feldpausch and S G W Laurance and W F Laurance and T J Killeen and H E Mendonça Nascimento and J C Montero and B Mostacedo and I L Amaral and I C Guimarães Vieira and R Brienen and H Castellanos and J Terborgh and M de Jesus Veiga Carim and J R da Silva Guimarães and L de Souza Coelho and F D de Almeida Matos and F Wittmann and H F Mogollón and G Damasco and N Dávila and R García-Villacorta and E N H Coronado and T Emilio and D de Andrade Lima Filho and J Schietti and P Souza and N Targhetta and J A Comiskey and B S Marimon and B-H Marimon and D Neill and A Alonso and L Arroyo and F A Carvalho and F C de Souza and F Dallmeier and M P Pansonato and J F Duivenvoorden and P V A Fine and P R Stevenson and A Araujo-Murakami and G A Aymard C and C Baraloto and D D do Amaral and J Engel and T W Henkel and P Maas and P Petronelli and J D Cardenas Revilla and J Stropp and D Daly and R Gribel and M Ríos Paredes and M Silveira and R Thomas-Caesar and T R Baker and N F da Silva and L V Ferreira and C A Peres and M R Silman and C Cerón and F C Valverde and A Di Fiore and E M Jimenez and M C Peñuela Mora and M Toledo and E M Barbosa and L C de Matos Bonates and N C Arboleda and E de Sousa Farias and A Fuentes and J-L Guillaumet and P Møller Jørgensen and Y Malhi and I P de Andrade Miranda and J F Phillips and A Prieto and A Rudas and A R Ruschel and N Silva and P von Hildebrand and V A Vos and E L Zent and S Zent and B B L Cintra and M T Nascimento and A A Oliveira and H Ramirez-Angulo and J F Ramos and G Rivas and J Schöngart and R Sierra and M Tirado and G van der Heijden and E V Torre and O Wang and K R Young and C Baider and A Cano and W Farfan-Rios and C Ferreira and B Hoffman and C Mendoza and I Mesones and A Torres-Lezama and M N U Medina and T R van Andel and D Villarroel and R Zagt and M N Alexiades and H Balslev and K Garcia-Cabrera and T Gonzales and L Hernandez and I Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and A G Manzatto and W Milliken and W P Cuenca and S Pansini and D Pauletto and F R Arevalo and N F Costa Reis and A F Sampaio and L E Urrego Giraldo and E H Valderrama Sandoval and L Valenzuela Gamarra and C I A Vela and H Ter Steege},

doi = {10.1126/science.aal0157},

issn = {1095-9203},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Science},

volume = {355},

number = {6328},

pages = {925--931},

abstract = {The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia, distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.},

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