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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...
Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests
Phillips, Oliver L.; Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F.; Lewis, Simon L.; Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela; Aragao, L. E.O.C.; Lloyd, Jon; Malhi, Yadvinder SinghThe rich ecology of tropical forests is intimately tied to their moisture status. Multi-site syntheses can provide a macro-scale view of these linkages and their susceptibility to changing climates. Here, we report pan-tropical and regional-scale analyses of tree vulnerability to drought. We assembled available data on tropical forest tree stem mortality before, during, and after recent drought events, from 119...