Search Results - "Doughty, C E"

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements by Gatti, L. V., Gloor, M., Miller, J. B., Doughty, C. E., Malhi, Y., Domingues, L. G., Basso, L. S., Martinewski, A., Correia, C. S. C., Borges, V. F., Freitas, S., Braz, R., Anderson, L. O., Rocha, H., Grace, J., Phillips, O. L., Lloyd, J.

“…Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide measurements across the Amazon basin for 2010 and 2011 reveal that drought rather than temperature caused the observed halt…”
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The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest by Rowland, Lucy, Malhi, Y., Silva-Espejo, J. E., Farfán-Amézquita, F., Halladay, K., Doughty, C. E., Meir, P., Phillips, O. L.

“…Understanding climatic controls on tropical forest productivity is key to developing more reliable models for predicting how tropical biomes may respond to…”
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Andean grasslands are as productive as tropical cloud forests by Oliveras, I, Girardin, C, Doughty, C E, Cahuana, N, Arenas, C E, Oliver, V, Huaraca Huasco, W, Malhi, Y

“…We aim to assess net primary productivity (NPP) and carbon cycling in Andean tropical alpine grasslands (puna) and compare it with NPP of tropical montane…”
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Seasonality of above-ground net primary productivity along an Andean altitudinal transect in Peru by Girardin, C. A. J., Malhi, Y., Feeley, K. J., Rapp, J. M., Silman, M. R., Meir, P., Huaraca Huasco, W., Salinas, N., Mamani, M., Silva-Espejo, J. E., García Cabrera, K., Farfan Rios, W., Metcalfe, D. B., Doughty, C. E., Aragão, L. E. O. C.

“…Solar irradiance and precipitation are the most likely drivers of the seasonal variation of net primary productivity (NPP) in tropical forests. Since their…”
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Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation by Rowland, L., da Costa, A. C. L., Galbraith, D. R., Oliveira, R. S., Binks, O. J., Oliveira, A. A. R., Pullen, A. M., Doughty, C. E., Metcalfe, D. B., Vasconcelos, S. S., Ferreira, L. V., Malhi, Y., Grace, J., Mencuccini, M., Meir, P.

“…It has been suggested that carbon starvation, owing to reduced availability of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs), is an important contributor to tree…”
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Megafauna decline have reduced pathogen dispersal which may have increased emergent infectious diseases by Doughty, Christopher E., Prys‐Jones, Tomos O., Faurby, Søren, Abraham, Andrew J., Hepp, Crystal, Leshyk, Victor, Fofanov, Viacheslav Y., Nieto, Nathan C., Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Galetti, Mauro

“…The Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna (defined as animal species > 44.5 kg) reduced the dispersal of seeds and nutrients, and likely also microbes and…”
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