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Limited carbon and biodiversity co-benefits for tropical forest mammals and birds
Beaudrot, Lydia H.; Kroetz, Kailin M.; Álvarez-Loayza, Patricia; Amaral, Iêda Leão do; Breuer, Thomas; Fletcher, Christine Dawn; Jansen, Patrick A.The conservation of tropical forest carbon stocks offers the opportunity to curb climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and simultaneously conserve biodiversity. However, there has been considerable debate about the extent to which carbon stock conservation will provide benefits to biodiversity in part because whether forests that contain high carbon density in their aboveground ...
Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gra...
Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Lewis, Simon L.; Affum-Baffoe, Kofi; Alvarez, Esteban; Andrade, Ana C.S.; Aragao, L. E.O.C.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 mor...
Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees
Feldpausch, Ted R.; Banin, Lindsay F.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Baker, Timothy R.; Lewis, Simon L.; Quesada, Carlos Alberto; Affum-Baffoe, KofiTropical tree height-diameter (<i>H:D</i>) relationships may vary by forest type and region making large-scale estimates of above-ground biomass subject to bias if they ignore these differences in stem allometry. We have therefore developed a new global tropical forest database consisting of 39 955 concurrent <i>H</i> and <i>D</i> measurements encompassing 283 sites in 22 tropical countries. Utilising this data...
Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates
Feldpausch, Ted R.; Lloyd, Jon; Lewis, Simon L.; Brienen, Roel J.W.; Gloor, Manuel E.; Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel; Lopez-Gonzalez, GabrielaAboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass estimates in 327 plots across four continents using 42 656 H and diameter measurements and harvested trees from 20 sites to answer the following questions: ; 1. What is the best H-model form and geographic unit to include in biomass models to mi...
Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeogr...
Steidinger, Brian S.; Crowther, Thomas Ward; Liang, Jingjing; van Nuland, Michael E.; Werner, Gijsbert; Reich, Peter B.; Nabuurs, Gert JanIn this Letter, the middle initial of author G. J. Nabuurs was omitted, and he should have been associated with an additional affiliation: ‘Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands’ (now added as affiliation 182). In addition, the following two statements have been added to the Supplementary Acknowledgements. (1): ‘We would particularly like to ...
Phylogenetic composition and structure of tree communities shed light on histor...
Carlucci, Marcos Bergmann; Seger, Guilherme Dubal dos Santos; Sheil, Douglas; Amaral, Iêda Leão do; Chuyong, George Bindeh; Ferreira, Leandro ValleThe Neotropics, Afrotropics and Madagascar have different histories which have influenced their respective patterns of diversity. Based on current knowledge of these histories, we developed the following predictions about the phylogenetic structure and composition of rainforest tree communities: (Hypothesis 1) isolation of Gondwanan biotas generated differences in phylogenetic composition among biogeographical ...
Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests
Slik, J. W.Ferry; Franklin, Janet; Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor; Field, Richard; Aguilar, Salomón; Aguirre, Nikolay; Ahumada, Jorge A.; Aiba, ShinichiroKnowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world's tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific responses to global environmental change. Modern phylogenies, in combination with broad coverage of species inventory data, now allow for global biogeographic analyses...
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome
Sullivan, Martin J.P.; Talbot, Joey; Lewis, Simon L.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Qie, Lan; Begne, Serge K.; Chave, Jérôme; Cuni, Sanchez, Aida; Hubau, WannesTropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but the conservation strategies needed to achieve these two functions depend critically on the tropical forest tree diversity-carbon storage relationship. Assessing this relationship is challenging due to the scarcity of inventorie...