A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits

N He, P Yan, C Liu, L Xu, M Li, K Van Meerbeek… - Trends in Plant …, 2023‏ - cell.com
With the rapid accumulation of plant trait data, major opportunities have arisen for the
integration of these data into predicting ecosystem primary productivity across a range of …

Temperature and rainfall interact to control carbon cycling in tropical forests

PG Taylor, CC Cleveland, WR Wieder… - Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests dominate global terrestrial carbon (C) exchange, and recent droughts in the
Amazon Basin have contributed to short‐term declines in terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake …

Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges

A Duque, MA Peña, F Cuesta, S González-Caro… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
It is largely unknown how South America's Andean forests affect the global carbon cycle,
and thus regulate climate change. Here, we measure aboveground carbon dynamics over …

Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass

HC Muller‐Landau, KC Cushman, EE Arroyo… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests vary widely in biomass carbon (C) stocks and fluxes even after controlling for
forest age. A mechanistic understanding of this variation is critical to accurately predicting …

Long-term variability, extremes and changes in temperature and hydrometeorology in the Amazon region: A review

JA Marengo, JC Espinoza, R Fu… - Acta …, 2024‏ - SciELO Brasil
This review discusses observed hydroclimatic trends and future climate projections for the
Amazon. Warming over this region is a fact, but the magnitude of the warming trend varies …

The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

Y Malhi, C Girardin, DB Metcalfe, CE Doughty… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A rich understanding of the productivity, carbon and nutrient cycling of terrestrial ecosystems
is essential in the context of understanding, modelling and managing the future response of …

Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient

NM Fyllas, LP Bentley, A Shenkin, GP Asner… - Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
One of the major challenges in ecology is to understand how ecosystems respond to
changes in environmental conditions, and how taxonomic and functional diversity mediate …

Short‐term acclimation to warmer temperatures accelerates leaf carbon exchange processes across plant types

NG Smith, JS Dukes - Global change biology, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
While temperature responses of photosynthesis and plant respiration are known to
acclimate over time in many species, few studies have been designed to directly compare …

Global depth distribution of belowground net primary productivity and its drivers

L **ao, G Wang, J Chang, Y Chen… - Global Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study aimed to infer the allocation of belowground net primary productivity (BNPP)
to sequential soil depths down to 2 m across the globe at a 1 km resolution and assess …