Search Results - "Feldpausch, Ted"
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Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-11-2015)“…In recent years, LiDAR technology has provided accurate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) maps in several forest ecosystems, including tropical forests…”
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Drought‐induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2012)“…The future of tropical forests under global environmental change is uncertain, with biodiversity and carbon stocks at risk if precipitation regimes alter…”
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Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought
Published in Ecology letters (01-05-2019)“…Climatic changes have profound effects on the distribution of biodiversity, but untangling the links between climatic change and ecosystem functioning is…”
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Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-01-2016)“…Amazon forests, which store ∼50% of tropical forest carbon and play a vital role in global water, energy, and carbon cycling, are predicted to experience both…”
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SAR tomography for the retrieval of forest biomass and height: Cross-validation at two tropical forest sites in French Guiana
Published in Remote sensing of environment (01-03-2016)“…Developing and improving methods to monitor forest carbon in space and time is a timely challenge, especially for tropical forests. The next European Space…”
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Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance
Published in Nature communications (18-03-2014)“…Forest inventory studies in the Amazon indicate a large terrestrial carbon sink. However, field plots may fail to represent forest mortality processes at…”
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Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests
Published in Nature (19-02-2009)“…The response of terrestrial vegetation to a globally changing environment is central to predictions of future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The role of…”
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Tracing carbon flow through a sugar maple forest and its soil components: role of invasive earthworms
Published in Plant and soil (01-07-2021)“…Aims We conducted a suite of tracer studies using the stable isotope 13 C to follow and quantify the flow of carbon from leaf litter and roots into soil…”
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Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-01-2016)“…Empirical evidence and modelling both suggest that global changes may lead to an increased dominance of lianas and thus to an increased prevalence of…”
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Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-04-2022)“…Tree death is a key process for our understanding of how forests are and will respond to global change. The extensive forests across the southern Amazonia…”
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Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands
Published in Plant, cell and environment (01-06-2010)“…Photosynthetic leaf traits were determined for savanna and forest ecosystems in West Africa, spanning a large range in precipitation. Standardized major axis…”
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Representation of fire, land-use change and vegetation dynamics in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator vn4.9 (JULES)
Published in Geoscientific Model Development (09-01-2019)“…Disturbance of vegetation is a critical component of land cover, but is generally poorly constrained in land surface and carbon cycle models. In particular,…”
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Relationships of S-Band Radar Backscatter and Forest Aboveground Biomass in Different Forest Types
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-11-2017)“…Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) signals respond to the interactions of microwaves with vegetation canopy scatterers that collectively characterise forest…”
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Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2012)“…We examine the influence of climate, soil properties and vegetation characteristics on soil organic carbon (SOC) along a transect of West African ecosystems…”
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Soil water-holding capacity and monodominance in Southern Amazon tropical forests
Published in Plant and soil (01-05-2020)“…Background and aims We explored the hypothesis that low soil water-holding capacity is the main factor driving the monodominance of Brosimum rubescens in a…”
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Tree diversity and above-ground biomass in the South America Cerrado biome and their conservation implications
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-04-2020)“…Less than half of the original two million square kilometers of the Cerrado vegetation remains standing, and there are still many uncertainties as to how to…”
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Climate defined but not soil-restricted: the distribution of a Neotropical tree through space and time
Published in Plant and soil (01-02-2022)“…Brosimum rubescens, a tree species with Neotropical distribution, can achieve local monodominance in Southern Amazonian forests. Understanding how and why this…”
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Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-05-2014)“…•We develop analytical methods for estimating wood production in forest plots.•Our corrections provide suggested methods to minimise three time-sensitive…”
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Legacy of Amazonian Dark Earth soils on forest structure and species composition
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-09-2020)“…Aim Amazonian forests predominantly grow on highly weathered and nutrient poor soils. Anthropogenically enriched Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), traditionally…”
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Causes and consequences of liana infestation in southern Amazonia
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-11-2020)“…Lianas, a key component of tropical forests, can limit growth of trees, impacting both the structure and functioning of forests, and are expected to benefit…”
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