Land use and land cover change (LUCC) affects regional climate through modifications in
the water balance and energy budget. These impacts are frequently expressed by: changes …

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of the current regional literature
associated with tropical dry forest (TDF) along three main axes: biodiversity, carbon and …

This paper shows the results of an assessment on the current extent of Neotropical dry
forests based on a supervised classification of MODIS surface reflectance imagery at 500-m …

Our understanding of the human and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forest change
and its cumulative effects is still in the early stages of academic discovery. The papers in this …

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as
tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered …

We analyzed successional patterns in a very dry tropical deciduous forest by using 15 plots
differing in age after abandonment and contrasted them to secondary successions …

Central and South America tropical dry forest (TDF) is a water-limited biome with a high
number of endemic species and numerous ecosystem services which has experienced a …

Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated
anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical …

Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …

We compared vegetation structure and species richness across a 56‐yr chronosequence of
six replicated age classes of dry tropical forest on the island of Providencia, Colombia, in the …