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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...

Legume tree dominance in Central Amazonian floodplain forests

Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

Interannual variability in the global land carbon sink is strongly related to variations in tropical temperature and rainfall. This association suggests an important role for moisture-driven fluctuations in tropical vegetation productivity, but empirical evidence to quantify the responsible ecological processes is missing. Such evidence can be obtained from tree-ring data that quantify variability in a major ve...

Fires in Amazonian Blackwater Floodplain Forests: Causes, Human Dimension, and ...

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:48:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-12-14; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas; The Amazon basin is being increasingly affected by anthropogenic fires, however, most studies focus on the impac...

Minimum temperature and evapotranspiration in Central Amazonian floodplains lim...

Fires in Amazonian blackwater floodplain forests: causes, human dimension, and ...

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 ...

The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impac...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:22:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-05-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established in the Uatumã River in the 1980s, is emblema...

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...