Tree-ring-based disturbance reconstruction in interdisciplinary research: Current state and future directions

J Altman - Dendrochronologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Disturbances play an important role in forest dynamics. The determination of long-term
spatiotemporal characteristics of disturbance regimes is essential for understanding forest …

Definition and estimation of vital rates from repeated censuses: choices, comparisons and bias corrections focusing on trees

TS Kohyama, TI Kohyama… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mortality and recruitment rates are fundamental measures of population dynamics.
Ecologists and others have defined and estimated these vital rates in various ways. We …

Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms

M Uriarte, J Thompson, JK Zimmerman - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones are expected to intensify under a warming climate, with uncertain effects
on tropical forests. One key challenge to predicting how more intense storms will influence …

Trait-based sensitivity of large mammals to a catastrophic tropical cyclone

RH Walker, MC Hutchinson, JA Becker, JH Daskin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events perturb ecosystems and increasingly threaten biodiversity.
Ecologists emphasize the need to forecast and mitigate the impacts of these events, which …

Hurricane-induced rainfall is a stronger predictor of tropical forest damage in Puerto Rico than maximum wind speeds

J Hall, R Muscarella, A Quebbeman, G Arellano… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Projected increases in cyclonic storm intensity under a warming climate will have profound
effects on forests, potentially changing these ecosystems from carbon sinks to sources …

Old reserves and ancient buds fuel regrowth of coast redwood after catastrophic fire

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, M Enright, MC Marshall… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
For long-lived organisms, investment in insurance strategies such as reserve energy storage
can enable resilience to resource deficits, stress or catastrophic disturbance. Recent fire in …

Damage to living trees contributes to almost half of the biomass losses in tropical forests

D Zuleta, G Arellano, SM McMahon… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimates of forest biomass stocks and fluxes are needed to quantify global carbon
budgets and assess the response of forests to climate change. However, most forest …

Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests

T Ibanez, G Keppel, C Menkes, TW Gillespie… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical cyclones (TC s) are large‐scale disturbances that regularly impact tropical forests.
Although long‐term impacts of TC s on forest structure have been proposed, a global test of …

Is tropical montane forest heterogeneity promoted by a resource‐driven feedback cycle? Evidence from nutrient relations, herbivory and litter decomposition along a …

FA Werner, J Homeier - Functional Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ridges of tropical mountains often differ strikingly from neighbouring ravines in terms of
forest structure, productivity and species composition. This heterogeneity is poorly …

Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest

JF Needham, G Arellano, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crown damage can account for over 23% of canopy biomass turnover in tropical forests and
is a strong predictor of tree mortality; yet, it is not typically represented in vegetation models …