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Species and trait abundance distributions as tools for understanding disturbanc...
Ulrich, Werner; Borges, P.A.V.; Fattorini, Simone; ter Steege, Hans; Gotelli, Nicholas; Magurran, Anne; Marquet, Pablo; Schrader, JulianABSTRACT: Species abundance distributions (SADs) depict the order of species based on their ranked abundances. While they have been central to much theoretical work in community ecology, their practical value in applied ecology is still debated. Supported by a meta-analysis of 1153 publications on SADs, we review the state of the art in the practical use of SADs and provide a conceptual framework for the study ...
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity 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...
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distribut...
Blundo, Cecilia; Carilla, Julieta; Grau, Ricardo; Malizia, Agustina; Malizia, Lucio; Osinaga-Acosta, Oriana; Bird, Michael; Bradford, MattMade 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...
Schöngart, Jochen; Wittmann, Florian; Faria de Resende, Angélica; Assahira, Cyro; de Sousa Lobo, Guilherme; Rocha Duarte Neves, Juliana; da Rocha, MaíraMade 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...
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
Draper, Frederick C.; Costa, Flavia R. C.; Arellano, Gabriel; Phillips, Oliver L.; Duque, Alvaro; Macía, Manuel J.; ter Steege, Hans; Asner, Gregory P.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...
Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: Tree species in the Atl...
ter Steege, Hans
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Sullivan, Martin J. P.; Lewis, Simon L.; Affum-Baffoe, Kofi; Castilho, Carolina; Costa, Flávia; Sanchez, Aida Cuni; Ewango, Corneille E. N.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
ter Steege, Hans; Prado, Paulo I.; Lima, Renato A. F. de; Pos, Edwin; de Souza Coelho, Luiz; de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes; Salomão, Rafael P.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
ter Steege, Hans; Henkel, Terry W.; Helal, Nora; Marimon, Beatriz S.; Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur; Huth, Andreas; Groeneveld, Jürgen; Sabatier, DanielMade 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...
Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin fo...
Massi, Klécia G. [UNESP]; Bird, Michael; Marimon, Beatriz S.; Marimon, Ben Hur; Nogueira, Denis S.; Oliveira, Edmar A.; Phillips, Oliver L.Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:48:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-09-01; National Research Council of Science and Technology; Amazon forests are fire-sensitive ecosystems and consequently fires affect forest structure and composition. For instance, the legacy of past fire regimes may persist through some species and traits that are found due to past fires. In this study, we ...