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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
Draper, Frederick C.; Costa, Flavia R. C.; Arellano, Gabriel; Phillips, Oliver L.; Duque, Alvaro; Macía, Manuel J.; ter Steege, Hans; Asner, Gregory P.Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); 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...
Individual-based modeling of amazon forests suggests that climate controls prod...
Fauset, Sophie; Gloor, Manuel U.; Fyllas, Nikolaos M.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Asner, Gregory P.; Baker, Timothy R.; Patrick Bentley, LisaClimate, 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 diffe...
Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Ande...
Bahar, Nur H.A.; Ishida, Francoise Yoko; Weerasinghe, Lasantha K.; Guerrieri, Rossella; O'Sullivan, Odhran S.; Bloomfield, Keith J.; Asner, Gregory P.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 (Vcmax), and the maximum rate of electron transport (Jmax)), leaf mass, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) per unit leaf area (M...
Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topograph...
Clark, Kathryn E.; West, A. Joshua; Hilton, Robert G.; Asner, Gregory P.; Quesada, Carlos Alberto; Silman, Miles R.; Saatchi, Sassan S.In this study, we assess the geomorphic role of a rare, large-magnitude landslide-triggering event and consider its effect on mountain forest ecosystems and the erosion of organic carbon in an Andean river catchment. Proximal triggers such as large rain storms are known to cause large numbers of landslides, but the relative effects of such low-frequency, high-magnitude events are not well known in the context o...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Kattge, Jens; Bönisch, Gerhard; Díaz, Sandra; Lavorel, Sandra; Prentice, Iain Colin; Leadley, Paul; Tautenhahn, Susanne; Werner, Gijsbert D. A.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; AXA Research Fund; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Natural Environment Research Council; 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 ...
Influence of Deforestation, Logging, and Fire on Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
Hahn, Micah B.; Gangnon, Ronald E.; Barcellos, Christovam de Castro; Asner, Gregory P.; Patz, Jonathan A.Nelson Institute. Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America; Department of Population Health Sciences. School of Medicine and Public Health. Madison, WI, United States of America; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Department of Global Ecolog...