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Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function by Lloyd, J, Domingues, T. F, Schrodt, F, Ishida, F. Y, Feldpausch, T. R, Saiz, G, Quesada, C. A, Schwarz, M, Torello-Raventos, M, Gilpin, M, Marimon, B. S, Marimon-Junior, B. H, Ratter, J. A, Grace, J, Nardoto, G. B, Veenendaal, E, Arroyo, L, Villarroel, D, Killeen, T. J, Steininger, M, Phillips, O. L

“…Sampling along a precipitation gradient in tropical South America extending from ca. 0.8 to 2.0 m a−1, savanna soils had consistently lower exchangeable cation…”
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Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests by Mayle, Francis E., Burbridge, Rachel, Killeen, Timothy J.

“…Amazonian rain forest-savanna boundaries are highly sensitive to climatic change and may also play an important role in rain forest speciation. However, their…”
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Do species traits determine patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests? by Baker, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Laurance, W. F., Pitman, N. C. A., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., DiFiore, A., Erwin, T., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Nascimento, H., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Silva, J. N. M., Malhi, Y., López Gonzalez, G., Peacock, J., Quesada, C. A., Lewis, S. L., Lloyd, J.

“…Understanding the relationships between plant traits and ecosystem properties at large spatial scales is important for predicting how compositional change will…”
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Multi-scale comparisons of tree composition in Amazonian terra firme forests by Honorio Coronado, E. N., Baker, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Pitman, N. C. A., Pennington, R. T., Vásquez Martínez, R., Monteagudo, A., Mogollón, H., Dávila Cardozo, N., Ríos, M., García-Villacorta, R., Valderrama, E., Ahuite, M., Huamantupa, I., Neill, D. A., Laurance, W. F., Nascimento, H. E. M., Soares de Almeida, S., Killeen, T. J., Arroyo, L., Núñez, P., Freitas Alvarado, L.

“…We explored the floristic composition of terra firme forests across Amazonia using 55 plots. Firstly, we examined the floristic patterns using both genus- and…”
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Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees by Malhado, A. C. M., Malhi, Y., Whittaker, R. J., Ladle, R. J., ter Steege, H., Phillips, O. L., Butt, N., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Quesada, C. A., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Peacock, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Baker, T. R., Anderson, L. O., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Pitman, N., Prieto, A., Salomão, R. P., Vásquez-Martínez, R., Laurance, W. F.

“…Leaf size influences many aspects of tree function such as rates of transpiration and photosynthesis and, consequently, often varies in a predictable way in…”
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Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees by Malhado, A. C. M., Whittaker, R. J., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R. J., ter Steege, H., Butt, N., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Quesada, C. A., Murakami-Araujo, A., Phillips, O. L., Peacock, J., López-González, G., Baker, T. R., Anderson, L. O., Arroyo, L., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Pitman, N. C. A., Prieto, A., Salomão, R. P., Vásquez-M., R., Laurance, W. F., Ramírez A., H.

“…Leaves in tropical forests come in an enormous variety of sizes and shapes, each of which can be ultimately viewed as an adaptation to the complex problem of…”
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Clearance and fragmentation of tropical deciduous forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia by Steininger, M. K., Tucker, C. J., Ersts, P., Killeen, T. J., Villegas, Z., Hecht, S. B.

“…The Tierras Bajas is an area of 20,000 km2 of lowland deciduous forest in eastern Santa Cruz, Bolivia, that has undergone rapid change during the past two…”
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Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass by Baker, T.R, Phillips, O.L, Malhi, Y, Almeida, S, Arroyo, L, Di Fiore, A, Erwin, T, Killeen, T.J, Laurance, S.G, Laurance, W.F

“…Inventory data from forest plots across Amazonia and a consistent regression approach were used to estimate aboveground biomass. Wood specific gravity data for…”
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above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots by Malhi, Y, Baker, T.R, Phillips, O.L, Almeida, S, Alvarez, E, Arroyo, L, Chave, J, Czimczik, C.I, Di Fiore, A, Higuchi, N

“…The net primary production of tropical forests and its partitioning between long‐lived carbon pools (wood) and shorter‐lived pools (leaves, fine roots) are of…”
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Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976–2001 by Phillips, O. L., Baker, T. R., Arroyo, L., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Núñez Vargas, P., Silva, J. N. M., Terborgh, J., Vásquez Martínez, R., Alexiades, M., Almeida, S., Brown, S., Chave, J., Comiskey, J. A., Czimczik, C. I., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Kuebler, C., Laurance, S. G., Nascimento, H. E. M., Olivier, J., Palacios, W., Patiño, S., Pitman, N. C. A., Quesada, C. A., Saldias, M., Torres Lezama, A., Vinceti, B.

“…Previous work has shown that tree turnover, tree biomass and large liana densities have increased in mature tropical forest plots in the late twentieth…”
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Tropical deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon by Steininger, Marc K., Tucker, Compton J., Townshend, John R. G., Killeen, Timothy J., Desch, Arthur, Bell, Vivre, Ersts, Peter

“…The distributions of forest and deforestation throughout the tropics are poorly known despite their importance to regional biodiversity and global climate and…”
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Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition by Bongers, F., Clement, C. R., Junqueira, A. B., Tamanaha, E. K., Figueiredo, F. O. G., Salomão, R. P., Magnusson, W. E., Phillips, O. L., Sabatier, D., Molino, J.-F., López, D. Cárdenas, Mendoza, A. M., Zartman, C. E., Vasquez, R., Laurance, S. G. W., Laurance, W. F., Killeen, T. J., Nascimento, H. E. Mendonça, Montero, J. C., Amaral, I. L., Brienen, R., Terborgh, J., de Souza Coelho, L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., Wittmann, F., Dávila, N., Coronado, E. N. H., Emilio, T., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Souza, P., Comiskey, J. A., Marimon, B.-H., Neill, D., Alonso, A., Arroyo, L., Carvalho, F. A., de Souza, F. C., Pansonato, M. P., Fine, P. V. A., Stevenson, P. R., Araujo-Murakami, A., Aymard C., G. A., do Amaral, D. D., Revilla, J. D. Cardenas, Stropp, J., Daly, D., Paredes, M. Ríos, Silveira, M., Thomas-Caesar, R., da Silva, N. F., Ferreira, L. V., Peres, C. A., Silman, M. R., Di Fiore, A., Jimenez, E. M., Mora, M. C. Peñuela, Toledo, M., Barbosa, E. M., de Sousa Farias, E., Guillaumet, J.-L., Jørgensen, P. Møller, Malhi, Y., de Andrade Miranda, I. P., Prieto, A., Rudas, A., Ruschel, A. R., Silva, N., von Hildebrand, P., Vos, V. A., Zent, S., Cintra, B. B. L., Nascimento, M. T., Ramos, J. F., Schöngart, J., Sierra, R., Tirado, M., Torre, E. V., Baider, C., Farfan-Rios, W., Ferreira, C., Hoffman, B., Mendoza, C., Mesones, I., Torres-Lezama, A., van Andel, T. R., Villarroel, D., Zagt, R., Balslev, H., Garcia-Cabrera, K., Gonzales, T., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I., Milliken, W., Cuenca, W. P., Pansini, S., Pauletto, D., Reis, N. F. Costa, Sampaio, A. F., Giraldo, L. E. Urrego, Vela, C. I. A., ter Steege, H.

“…The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on…”
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Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink by Brienen, R. J. W., Phillips, O. L., Feldpausch, T. R., Gloor, E., Baker, T. R., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S. L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E. J. M. M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O. S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R. G. A., Camargo, J. L. C., Castilho, C. V., Chama, V., Chao, K. J., Chave, J., Comiskey, J. A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E. A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T. L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, D. R., Grahame, E. S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W. E., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D. A., Nogueira, E. M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N. C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G. C., Pitman, N. C. A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, C. A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, R. P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J. E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R. K., van der Heijden, G. M. F., van der Hout, P., Guimarães Vieira, I. C., Vieira, S. A., Vilanova, E., Vos, V. A., Zagt, R. J.

“…The capacity of Amazonian forests to sequester carbon has weakened with potentially important implications for climate change. Long-term decline of the Amazon…”
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Diversity, composition and structure of a tropical semideciduous forest in the Chiquitanía region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia by Killeen, Timothy J., Jardim, Antony, Mamani, Fabiana, Rojas, Nelson

“…An exhaustive floristic inventory was conducted in a 400-ha block of tropical semideciduous forest in the Chiquitanía region of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. A total of…”
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Quantifying changes in flooding and habitats in the Tonle Sap Lake (Cambodia) caused by water infrastructure development and climate change in the Mekong Basin by Arias, Mauricio E., Cochrane, Thomas A., Piman, Thanapon, Kummu, Matti, Caruso, Brian S., Killeen, Timothy J.

“…The economic value of the Tonle Sap Lake Floodplain to Cambodia is arguably among the highest provided to a nation by a single ecosystem around the world…”
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Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates by Feldpausch, T. R, Lloyd, J, Lewis, S. L, Brienen, R. J. W, Gloor, M, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Banin, L, Abu Salim, K, Affum-Baffoe, K, Alexiades, M, Almeida, S, Amaral, I, Andrade, A, Aragão, L. E. O. C, Araujo Murakami, A, Arets, E. J. M. M, Arroyo, L, Aymard C., G. A, Baker, T. R, Bánki, O. S, Berry, N. J, Cardozo, N, Chave, J, Comiskey, J. A, Alvarez, E, de Oliveira, A, Di Fiore, A, Djagbletey, G, Domingues, T. F, Erwin, T. L, Fearnside, P. M, França, M. B, Freitas, M. A, Higuchi, N, E. Honorio C, Iida, Y, Jiménez, E, Kassim, A. R, Killeen, T. J, Laurance, W. F, Lovett, J. C, Malhi, Y, Marimon, B. S, Marimon-Junior, B. H, Lenza, E, Marshall, A. R, Mendoza, C, Metcalfe, D. J, Mitchard, E. T. A, Neill, D. A, Nelson, B. W, Nilus, R, Nogueira, E. M, Parada, A, Peh, K. S.-H, Pena Cruz, A, Peñuela, M. C, Pitman, N. C. A, Prieto, A, Quesada, C. A, Ramírez, F, Ramírez-Angulo, H, Reitsma, J. M, Rudas, A, Saiz, G, Salomão, R. P, Schwarz, M, Silva, N, Silva-Espejo, J. E, Silveira, M, Sonké, B, Stropp, J, Taedoumg, H. E, Tan, S, ter Steege, H, Terborgh, J, Torello-Raventos, M, van der Heijden, G. M. F, Vásquez, R, Vilanova, E, Vos, V. A, White, L, Willcock, S, Woell, H, Phillips, O. L

“…Aboveground tropical tree biomass and carbon storage estimates commonly ignore tree height (H). We estimate the effect of incorporating H on tropics-wide…”
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Total Historical Land-Use Change in Eastern Bolivia: Who, Where, When, and How Much? by Killeen, Timothy J., Guerra, Anna, Calzada, Miki, Correa, Lisette, Calderon, Veronica, Soria, Liliana, Quezada, Belem, Steininger, Marc K.

“…We documented the history of land-use change and migration in eastern Bolivia in five temporal periods: pre-1976, 1976–1986, 1986–1991, 1991–2001, and…”
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Grasses of the Precambrian Shield region in eastern lowland Bolivia. I. Habitat preferences by Killeen, Timothy J., Hinz, Paul N.

“…The habitat distribution and relative abundance of 113 species of Gramineae were documented by releves in 82 stands near Conception, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. A…”
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Chromosome Numbers in Bolivian Grasses (Gramineae) by Norrmann, Guillermo A., Quarin, Camilo L., Killeen, Timothy J.

“…Chromosome numbers are reported for 59 collections of grasses from Bolivia representing 43 species and 21 genera. First chromosome counts are reported for the…”
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Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots by Baker, Timothy R., Phillips, Oliver L., Malhi, Yadvinder, Almeida, Samuel, Arroyo, Luzmila, Di Fiore, Anthony, Erwin, Terry, Higuchi, Niro, Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, Susan G., Laurance, William F., Lewis, Simon L., Monteagudo, Abel, Neill, David A., Núñez Vargas, Percy, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Silva, J. Natalino M., Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo

“…), where 1 ha = 10…”
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