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 …

A wood biology agenda to support global vegetation modelling

PA Zuidema, B Poulter, DC Frank - Trends in Plant Science, 2018 - cell.com
Realistic forecasting of forest responses to climate change critically depends on key
advancements in global vegetation modelling. Compared with traditional 'big-leaf'models …

Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally

KJ Anderson-Teixeira, V Herrmann… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Forests are major components of the global carbon (C) cycle and thereby strongly influence
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) and climate. However, efforts to incorporate forests into …

Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world

DS Ellsworth, KY Crous, MG De Kauwe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical forests take up more carbon (C) from the atmosphere per annum by photosynthesis
than any other type of vegetation. Phosphorus (P) limitations to C uptake are paramount for …

Tropical forest temperature thresholds for gross primary productivity

S Pau, M Detto, Y Kim, CJ Still - Ecosphere, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are hyper‐diverse and perform critical functions that regulate global climate,
yet they are also threatened by rising temperatures. Canopy temperatures depart …

Mapping tropical forest aboveground biomass using airborne SAR tomography

N Ramachandran, S Saatchi, S Tebaldini… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Mapping tropical forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is important for quantifying emissions
from land use change and evaluating climate mitigation strategies but remains a challenging …

Recent CO2 rise has modified the sensitivity of tropical tree growth to rainfall and temperature

PA Zuidema, I Heinrich, M Rahman… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric CO2 (ca) rise changes the physiology and possibly growth of tropical trees, but
these effects are likely modified by climate. Such ca× climate interactions importantly drive …

An individual‐based forest model to jointly simulate carbon and tree diversity in Amazonia: description and applications

I Maréchaux, J Chave - Ecological Monographs, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Forest dynamic models predict the current and future states of ecosystems and are a nexus
between physiological processes and empirical data, forest plot inventories and remote …

Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm

G Manoli, A Meijide, N Huth, A Knohl… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Given their ability to provide food, raw material and alleviate poverty, oil palm (OP)
plantations are driving significant losses of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, fuelling a heated …

[PDF][PDF] ForC: a global database of forest carbon stocks and fluxes.

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, MMH Wang, JC McGarvey… - Ecology, 2018 - researchgate.net
Forests play an influential role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing roughly half of
terrestrial C and annually exchanging with the atmosphere more than five times the carbon …