Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity

C Hoorn, FP Wesselingh, H Ter Steege, MA Bermudez… - science, 2010‏ - science.org
The Amazonian rainforest is arguably the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem in the
world, yet the timing of the origin and evolutionary causes of this diversity are a matter of …

Global review and state-of-the-art of biomass and carbon stock in the Amazon

ECG Araujo, CR Sanquetta, AP Dalla Corte… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Understanding how studies have been carried out in the region helps to understand the
Amazon rainforest potential in mitigating climate change. In addition, evaluating scientific …

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

RJW Brienen, OL Phillips, TR Feldpausch, E Gloor… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong
global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

L Poorter, MT van der Sande… - Global Ecology and …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Tropical forests store 25% of global carbon and harbour 96% of the world's tree species,
but it is not clear whether this high biodiversity matters for carbon storage. Few studies have …

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

RCR Abreu, WA Hoffmann, HL Vasconcelos… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Tropical savannas have been increasingly viewed as an opportunity for carbon
sequestration through fire suppression and afforestation, but insufficient attention has been …

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

W Hubau, SL Lewis, OL Phillips, K Affum-Baffoe… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon
uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic …

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

J Chave, D Coomes, S Jansen, SL Lewis… - Ecology …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wood performs several essential functions in plants, including mechanically supporting
aboveground tissue, storing water and other resources, and transporting sap. Woody tissues …

Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

J Chave, C Andalo, S Brown, MA Cairns, JQ Chambers… - Oecologia, 2005‏ - Springer
Tropical forests hold large stores of carbon, yet uncertainty remains regarding their
quantitative contribution to the global carbon cycle. One approach to quantifying carbon …

Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

TR Feldpausch, J Lloyd, SL Lewis, RJW Brienen… - …, 2012‏ - bg.copernicus.org
Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree
height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide forest biomass …

Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data

Q Mu, FA Heinsch, M Zhao, SW Running - Remote sensing of Environment, 2007‏ - Elsevier
The objective of this research is to develop a global remote sensing evapotranspiration (ET)
algorithm based on Cleugh et al.'s [Cleugh, HA, R. Leuning, Q. Mu, SW Running (2007) …