Tropical dry forest diversity, climatic response, and resilience in a changing climate

K Stan, A Sanchez-Azofeifa - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Central and South America tropical dry forest (TDF) is a water-limited biome with a high
number of endemic species and numerous ecosystem services which has experienced a …

Restoring Mexican tropical dry forests: A national review

N Mesa-Sierra, M de la Peña-Domene, J Campo… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Deforestation is the dominant threat to tropical dry forests (TDFs) in Mexico. Its causes
include agriculture, tourism, and mining. In some cases, unassisted forest regeneration is …

Effects of landscape composition and site land-use intensity on secondary succession in a tropical dry forest

N Pérez-Cárdenas, F Mora, F Arreola-Villa… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Regenerating forests after agricultural land abandonment are increasingly common in
human-modified tropical landscapes. These secondary forests preserve biodiversity and …

[HTML][HTML] Plant functional traits under cattle grazing and fallow age scenarios in a tropical dry forest of Northwestern Mexico

S Maza-Villalobos, P García-Ramírez… - Basic and Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Evaluating plant functional traits helps to understand how plants respond to changing
environmental conditions and resource availability associated with disturbance events …

Resilience of tropical dry forests to extreme disturbance events

JC Álvarez-Yépiz, A Martínez-Yrízar… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Extreme climatic and anthropogenic disturbance events are driving forces of regional and
global forest change. This special issue is dedicated towards evaluating tropical dry forest …

Climate change scenarios and projected impacts for forest productivity in Guanacaste Province (Costa Rica): lessons for tropical forest regions

K Stan, A Sanchez-Azofeifa, S Calvo-Rodriguez… - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica is home to highly diverse forests which are
under threat of degradation due to ongoing climatic changes. There is concern that …

Dynamics of carbon accumulation in tropical dry forests under climate change extremes

S Calvo-Rodriguez, GA Sánchez-Azofeifa, SM Durán… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
We analyze here how much carbon is being accumulated annually by secondary tropical dry
forests (TDFs) and how structure, composition, time since abandonment, and climate can …

Resilience of soil fungal community to hurricane Patricia (category 4)

J Alvarez-Manjarrez, R Garibay-Orijel - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of catastrophic events such as
hurricanes. Soil microbial communities regulate geochemical cycles and other important …

Increase in abundance and decrease in richness of soil microbes following Hurricane Otto in three primary forest types in the Northern Zone of Costa Rica

WD Eaton, KM McGee, K Alderfer, AR Jimenez… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Little is known of how hurricane-induced deposition of canopy material onto tropical forest
floors influences the soil microbial communities involved in decomposition of these …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of hurricane disturbance on mycorrhizal co-occurrence networks: Resilience and community dynamics in the Neotropics

J Alvarez-Manjarrez, M Bahram, S Polme… - Fungal Ecology, 2024 - Elsevier
Extreme climatic events and related disturbances such as hurricanes are increasingly
altering forest ecosystems. How these events impact forest fungal communities is poorly …