CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

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 …

Carnegie Airborne Observatory-2: Increasing science data dimensionality via high-fidelity multi-sensor fusion

GP Asner, DE Knapp, J Boardman, RO Green… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) was developed to address a need for
macroscale measurements that reveal the structural, functional and organismic composition …

Wetland-dryland vegetational dynamics in the Pennsylvanian ice age tropics

WA DiMichele - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age was the last extensive pre-Pleistocene ice
age. It includes many climate changes of different intensities, permitting examination of …

Photoperiodic induction of synchronous flowering near the Equator

R Borchert, SS Renner, Z Calle, D Navarrete, A Tye… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Abstract In tropical rainforests, 30–65% of tree species grow at densities of less than one
individual per hectare. At these low population densities, successful cross-pollination relies …

Can we predict carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems from tree diversity? Comparing species and functional diversity in a plantation and a natural forest

MC Ruiz‐Jaen, C Potvin - New Phytologist, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Linking tree diversity to carbon storage can provide further motivation to conserve tropical
forests and to design carbon‐enriched plantations. Here, we examine the role of tree …

Canopy phylogenetic, chemical and spectral assembly in a lowland Amazonian forest

GP Asner, RE Martin - New Phytologist, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Canopy chemistry and spectroscopy offer insight into community assembly and ecosystem
processes in high‐diversity tropical forests, but phylogenetic and environmental factors …

The rhetoric of: Scapegoating, utopia, and the privatization of social responsibility

DL Cloud - Western Journal of Communication (includes …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
This article performs an ideographic analysis of the bipartisan political deployment of the
slogan during the 1992 Presidential election campaign. The analysis shows that talk …

Leaf reflectance spectroscopy captures variation in carboxylation capacity across species, canopy environment and leaf age in lowland moist tropical forests

J Wu, A Rogers, LP Albert, K Ely, N Prohaska… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the pronounced seasonal and spatial variation in leaf carboxylation capacity
(Vc, max) is critical for determining terrestrial carbon cycling in tropical forests. However, an …

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

FM Sabatini, B Jiménez-Alfaro, U Jandt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether
these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain …