The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

FRC Costa, J Schietti, SC Stark, MN Smith - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically
determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater is tightly related to soil water through …

Forest regeneration within Earth system models: current process representations and ways forward

AR Hanbury‐Brown, RE Ward, LM Kueppers - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth system models must predict forest responses to global change in order to simulate
future global climate, hydrology, and ecosystem dynamics. These models are increasingly …

Terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from plant carbonyl sulfide uptake

J Lai, LMJ Kooijmans, W Sun, D Lombardozzi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Terrestrial photosynthesis, or gross primary production (GPP), is the largest carbon flux in
the biosphere, but its global magnitude and spatiotemporal dynamics remain uncertain. The …

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

C Blundo, J Carilla, R Grau, A Malizia, L Malizia… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better 10
understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts 11 …

Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere

MB Mills, Y Malhi, RM Ewers, LK Kho… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most
prevalent land-use types throughout the tropics and are routinely assumed to be a net …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Human adaptability: An introduction to ecological anthropology

EF Moran - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession

M Bauters, IA Janssens, D Wasner, S Doetterl… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Secondary forests constitute an increasingly important component of tropical forests
worldwide. Although cycling of essential nutrients affects recovery trajectories of secondary …

Unraveling the enigma of NPP variation in Chinese vegetation ecosystems: The interplay of climate change and land use change

Y Xu, YG Lu, B Zou, M Xu, YX Feng - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Global carbon emissions have exacerbated the greenhouse effect, exerting a profound
impact on ecosystems worldwide. Gaining an understanding of the fluctuations in vegetation …

Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics

Y Malhi, T Riutta, OR Wearn, NJ Deere, SL Mitchell… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Old-growth tropical forests are widely recognized as being immensely important for their
biodiversity and high biomass. Conversely, logged tropical forests are usually characterized …

Why models underestimate West African tropical forest primary productivity

H Zhang-Zheng, X Deng, J Aguirre-Gutiérrez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tropical forests dominate terrestrial photosynthesis, yet there are major contradictions in our
understanding due to a lack of field studies, especially outside the tropical Americas. A …