The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests

AR Townsend, GP Asner, CC Cleveland - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2008 - cell.com
Tropical forests are renowned for their biological diversity, but also harbor variable
combinations of soil age, chemistry and susceptibility to erosion or tectonic uplift. Here we …

Global overview on nitrogen dynamics in mangroves and consequences of increasing nitrogen availability for these systems

CRG Reis, GB Nardoto, RS Oliveira - Plant and soil, 2017 - Springer
Background and scope Mangroves provide several ecosystem goods and services to
society. However, mangroves are frequently subjected to land conversion, overharvesting …

Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

PM Vitousek, DNL Menge… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
New techniques have identified a wide range of organisms with the capacity to carry out
biological nitrogen fixation (BNF)—greatly expanding our appreciation of the diversity and …

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

TE Cerling, JG Wynn, SA Andanje, MI Bird, DK Korir… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The role of African savannahs in the evolution of early hominins has been debated for nearly
a century. Resolution of this issue has been hindered by difficulty in quantifying the fraction …

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

J Louys, P Roberts - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

The severe Delhi SMOG of 2016: A case of delayed crop residue burning, coincident firecracker emissions, and atypical meteorology

R Sawlani, R Agnihotri, C Sharma, PK Patra… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rising levels of air-borne suspended particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter≤ 2.5 μm
(PM 2.5) in the Asian mega cities is a serious cause of concern. A severe SMOG (smoke+ …

Impact of disturbance on biomass, carbon, and nitrogen storage in vegetation and on soil properties of tropical dry deciduous forest in Chhattisgarh, India

M Thakrey, L Singh, MK Jhariya… - Land Degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tropical deforestation due to biotic interference, land use change, and population
explosion in Asian countries has attracted the global concern with respect to conservation …

Land–atmosphere interactions in the tropics–a review

P Gentine, A Massmann, BR Lintner… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
The continental tropics play a leading role in the terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles.
Land–atmosphere interactions are integral in the regulation of these fluxes across multiple …

Isotopic composition (δ13C and δ15N) in the soil-plant system of subtropical urban forests

MAG Pereira, M Domingos, EA da Silva… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study brings information on the dynamics of C and N in urban forests in a subtropical
region. We tested the hypothesis that C and N isotopic sign of leaves and soil and …

Stocks of carbon and nitrogen and partitioning between above‐and belowground pools in the Brazilian coastal Atlantic Forest elevation range

SA Vieira, LF Alves, PJ Duarte‐Neto… - Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We estimated carbon and nitrogen stocks in aboveground biomass (AGB) and belowground
biomass (BGB) along an elevation range in forest sites located on the steep slopes of the …