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Diego A. Campos, Eunice M. Andrade, Andréa D. A. Castanho, Ramon C. Feitosa and Helba Q. A. Palácio
Increases in water scarcity due to climate change, especially in dry regions, can affect the dynamics of successional species. In view of the longest sequence of dry years (2010?2019) to have occurred in the Brazilian semi-arid region, with a consequent ...
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Robert Treuhaft, Yang Lei, Fabio Gonçalves, Michael Keller, João Roberto dos Santos, Maxim Neumann and André Almeida
Changes in tropical-forest structure and aboveground biomass (AGB) contribute directly to atmospheric changes in CO 2 , which, in turn, bear on global climate. This paper demonstrates the capability of radar-interferometric phase-height time series at...
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Liza S. Comita, María Uriarte, Jimena Forero-Montaña, W. John Kress, Nathan G. Swenson, Jill Thompson, María Natalia Umaña and Jess K. Zimmerman
Disturbance plays a key role in shaping forest composition and diversity. We used a community phylogeny and long-term forest dynamics data to investigate biotic and abiotic factors shaping tropical forest regeneration following both human and natural dis...
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Jongyeol Lee, Sohye Lee, Seung Hyun Han, Seongjun Kim, Yujin Roh, Kamariah Abu Salim, Stephan A. Pietsch and Yowhan Son
Intact dipterocarp forests in Asia act as crucial carbon (C) reservoirs, and it is therefore important to investigate the C dynamics in these forests. We estimated C dynamics, together with net ecosystem production (NEP), in an intact tropical dipterocar...
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Thomas K. Rudel
Forests in the dry tropics differ significantly from forests in the humid tropics in their biomass and in their socio-ecological contexts, so it might be reasonable to assume that the dynamics that drive deforestation in these two settings would also dif...
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Maria Simas Guerreiro, Eunice Maia de Andrade, Marcos Makeison Moreira de Sousa, José Bandeira Brasil, Jacques Carvalho Ribeiro Filho and Helba Araújo de Queiroz Palácio
Non-rainfall water input to surface soil moisture is essential to ecosystems, especially in dry climates, where a water deficit may persist for several months. Quantifying the impact of water gains by soil moisture at night will help to understand vegeta...
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Emmanuel Da Ponte, Benjamin Mack, Christian Wohlfart, Oscar Rodas, Martina Fleckenstein, Natascha Oppelt, Stefan Dech and Claudia Kuenzer
The Upper Parana Atlantic Forest (BAAPA) in Paraguay is one of the most threatened tropical forests in the world. The rapid growth of deforestation has resulted in the loss of 91% of its original cover. Numerous efforts have been made to halt deforestati...
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Bagus Setiabudi Wiwoho, Stuart Phinn and Neil McIntyre
Java?s Brantas River Basin (BRB) is an increasingly urbanized tropical watershed with significant economic and ecological importance; yet knowledge of its land-use changes dynamics and drivers as well as their importance have barely been explored. This i...
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Taylor Joyal, Alexander K. Fremier and Jan Boll
In the humid tropics, forest conversion and climate change threaten the hydrological function and stationarity of watersheds, particularly in steep terrain. As climate change intensifies, shifting precipitation patterns and expanding agricultural and pas...
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Pedro Manuel Villa,Alisson Rodrigues,Lucieta Guerreiro Martorano,José Reinaldo Cabral Moraes,Benito González,Glauco Rolim,Alex Silva
The Amazon region has a fundamental role in the global hydrological balance because it is one of the regions that have high rainfall and evapotranspiration levels due to its vast tropical rain forest. For this reason, spatial and temporal analyses of rai...
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Kathi Jo Jankowski, Linda A. Deegan, Christopher Neill, Hillary L. Sullivan, Paulo Ilha, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Nubia Marques and Marcia N. Macedo
Intensive agriculture alters headwater streams, but our understanding of its effects is limited in tropical regions where rates of agricultural expansion and intensification are currently greatest. Riparian forest protections are an important conservatio...
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Rico Fischer
Tropical forests are an important component of the global carbon cycle, as they store large amounts of carbon. In some tropical regions, the forests are increasingly influenced by disturbances such as fires, which lead to structural changes but also alte...
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Shatya Devi Quintero-Gradilla,Angelina Martínez-Yrizar,Felipe García-Oliva,Ramón Cuevas-Guzmán,José Enrique Jardel-Peláez
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Aim of the study: To analyze the recovery pattern of carbon pools in terms of size and the relative contribution of each pool to total ecosystem C along a fire chronosequence of tropical mixed pine-hardwood forest.Area of the study: Las Joyas Research St...
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Rosely Alvim Sanches,Célia Regina Tomiko Futemma
In 2017, indigenous and non-indigenous people from the Xingu-Araguaia region met in Mato Grosso to celebrate 10 years of partnership and collective action of the Xingu Seeds Network (XSN). This network originated from the Campaign `Y Ikatu Xingu, a socia...
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Inkyin Khaine, Su Young Woo, MyeongJa Kwak, Seong Han Lee, Sun Mi Je, Hana You, Taeyoon Lee, Jihwi Jang, Hyun Kyung Lee, Hyo Cheng Cheng, Jeong Ho Park, Euddeum Lee, Yang Li, Haenaem Kim, Jong Kyu Lee and Jieun Kim
Natural regeneration is an essential component of forest dynamics and the recovery of ecosystem functions. Therefore, understanding regeneration status, and how abiotic and biotic factors affect it, is important for ecological studies. This study discove...
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Hugo Rosa da Conceição, Jan Börner and Sven Wunder
Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, notably REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation an...
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Ariel E. Lugo and Heather E. Erickson
Tropical and subtropical dry forest life zones support forests with lower stature and species richness than do tropical and subtropical life zones with greater water availability. The number of naturalized species that can thrive and mix with native spec...
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Tamara Heartsill Scalley
The science of ecology fundamentally aims to understand species and their relation to the environment. At sites where hurricane disturbance is part of the environmental context, permanent forest plots are critical to understand ecological vegetation dyna...
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Trevor G. Jones, Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba, Lalao Ravaoarinorotsihoarana, Leah Glass, Lisa Benson, Marianne Teoh, Aude Carro, Garth Cripps, Chandra Giri, Samir Gandhi, Zo Andriamahenina, Rado Rakotomanana and Pierre-Francois Roy
Mangroves are found throughout the tropics, providing critical ecosystem goods and services to coastal communities and supporting rich biodiversity. Globally, mangroves are being rapidly degraded and deforested at rates exceeding loss in many tropical in...
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K. A. J. M. Kuruppuarachchi,G. Seneviratne,B. D. Madurapperuma
Fine roots in forest soils have important implications for global carbon (C) balance, but processesunderlying this C sink are not well understood. This study evaluates year round dynamics of fine roots ina tropical dry mixed evergreen forest and an arbor...
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