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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...

Leaf-litter production in human-modified Amazonian forests following the El Niñ...

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:41:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-09-15; Leaf-litter production is an essential part of the carbon cycle of tropical forests. In the Amazon, it is influenced by climate, presenting high levels during the driest months of the year. However, it is less established how extreme climatic events may impact leaf-litter production in the long term. Ev...

Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian fo...

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:42:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-27; With humanity facing an unprecedented climate crisis, the conservation of tropical forests has never been so important – their vast terrestrial carbon stocks can be turned into emissions by climatic and human disturbances. However, the duration of these effects is poorly understood, and it is unclear wh...

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distribut...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:16:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Agence Nationale Des Parcs Nationaux; Centre for International Forestry Research; Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS); David and Lucile Packard Foundation; European Space Agency; Leverhulme Trust; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa ...

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

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...

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

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 p...

Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:28:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-12-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Amazonian 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 exten...

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:40:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-12-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); 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 sam...

Modelling Amazonian forest eddy covariance data: a comparison of big leaf versu...

Neste trabalho foi modelada a produtividade primária bruta através de duas técnicas simples para simular a fotossíntese no dossel: os modelos "folha-grande" e "sol/sombra". Para calibrar os modelos foram utilizados os parâmetros de fotossíntese da folha, estendidos à escala do dossel e um ajuste da bioquímica do dossel em relação à covariância de vórtices turbulentos. Os modelos foram validados com as medidas f...

Branch xylem density variation across Amazonia