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Megafauna decline have reduced pathogen dispersal which may have increased emer...
Doughty, Christopher E.; Prys-Jones, Tomos O.; Faurby, Søren; Abraham, Andrew J.; Hepp, Crystal; Leshyk, Victor; Fofanov, Viacheslav Y.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:39:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-08-01; The Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna (defined as animal species > 44.5 kg) reduced the dispersal of seeds and nutrients, and likely also microbes and parasites. Here we use body-mass based scaling and range maps for extinct and extant mammal species to show that these extinctions led to an almos...
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...
ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics
Rifai, Sami W.; Girardin, Cecile A. J.; Berenguer, Erika; del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon; Dahlsjo, Cecilia A. L.; Doughty, Christopher E.; Jeffery, Kathryn J.Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-04T12:31:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-11-19; UK Natural Environment Research Council; European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award (GEM-TRAIT); Nature Conservancy-Oxford Martin School Climate Partnership; NERC; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Sime Darby Foundation; P...