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Functional Traits and Water Transport Strategies in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Trees by Apgaua, Deborah M G, Ishida, Françoise Y, Tng, David Y P, Laidlaw, Melinda J, Santos, Rubens M, Rumman, Rizwana, Eamus, Derek, Holtum, Joseph A M, Laurance, Susan G W

“…Understanding how tropical rainforest trees may respond to the precipitation extremes predicted in future climate change scenarios is paramount for their…”
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A multifaceted approach to expanding conservation efforts in the Pan-Himalayan landscape by Ali, Maroof, Huang, Zhongde, Bai, Yang, Tng, David Y.P., Qin, Fei, Fang, Zhou

“…The Pan-Himalayan biogeographic domain is a significant region for biodiversity conservation and climate resilience. This region has both tropical and…”
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Do primary rainforest tree species recruit into passively and actively restored tropical rainforest? by Pohlman, Catherine L., Tng, David Y.P., Florentine, Singarayer K.

“…Restoring tropical rainforests is becoming increasingly urgent. However, in most restoration plantings it is not possible to include the full suite of species…”
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Cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in ethnotaxonomy: lessons from a fishing community in Northeast Brazil by Renck, Vítor, Apgaua, Deborah M G, Tng, David Y P, Bollettin, Paride, Ludwig, David, El-Hani, Charbel N

“…Traditional fishing communities are strongholds of ethnobiological knowledge but establishing to what degree they harbor cultural consensus about different…”
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Climate, fire, and anthropogenic disturbance determine the current global distribution of tropical forest and savanna by Williamson, Grant J, Tng, David YP, Bowman, David MJS

“…Tropical forest and savanna biomes are pivotal in the functioning of the Earth system. Both are biodiverse and under increasing threat due to land clearing and…”
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Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy by Apgaua, Deborah M. G., Tng, David Y. P., Cernusak, Lucas A., Cheesman, Alexander W., Santos, Rubens M., Edwards, Will J., Laurance, Susan G. W.

“…Summary Understanding the anatomical basis of plant water transport in forest ecosystems is crucial for contextualizing community‐level adaptations to drought,…”
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Elevated temperature and CO2 cause differential growth stimulation and drought survival responses in eucalypt species from contrasting habitats by Apgaua, Deborah M G, Tng, David Y P, Forbes, Samantha J, Ishida, Yoko F, Vogado, Nara O, Cernusak, Lucas A, Laurance, Susan G W

“…Abstract Climate change scenarios predict increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]), temperatures and droughts in tropical regions. Individually, the…”
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Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna by Tng, David Y P, Jordan, Greg J, Bowman, David M J S

“…Ecological theory differentiates rainforest and open vegetation in many regions as functionally divergent alternative stable states with transitional…”
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Drought reduces the growth and health of tropical rainforest understory plants by Tng, David Y.P., Apgaua, Deborah M.G., Paz, Claudia P., Dempsey, Raymond W., Cernusak, Lucas A., Liddell, Michael J., Laurance, Susan G.W.

“…•Tropical forest systems are at risk from climate changed induced drought.•Experimental drought reduced tree sapling and shrub biomass.•Drought led to more…”
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Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest by Nunes Miranda, Evandro, Henrique Groenner Barbosa, Bruno, Henrique Godinho Silva, Sergio, Augusto Ussi Monti, Cassio, Yue Phin Tng, David, Rezende Gomide, Lucas

“…•The FSGARF demonstrate adequacy to estimate the height of trees.•Feature selection resulted in an optimal set of variables to determine the height.•The…”
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Rainforest trees respond to drought by modifying their hydraulic architecture by Tng, David Y. P., Apgaua, Deborah M. G., Ishida, Yoko F., Mencuccini, Maurizio, Lloyd, Jon, Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan G. W.

“…Increased drought is forecasted for tropical regions, with severe implications for the health and function of forest ecosystems. How mature forest trees will…”
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Comparative Chloroplast Genomics of Litsea Lam. (Lauraceae) and Its Phylogenetic Implications by Yunyan Zhang, Yongjing Tian, David Y. P. Tng, Jingbo Zhou, Yuntian Zhang, Zhengwei Wang, Pengfu Li, Zhongsheng Wang

“…Litsea Lam. is an ecological and economic important genus of the “core Lauraceae” group in the Lauraceae. The few studies to date on the comparative…”
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Tropical wet and dry forest tree species exhibit contrasting hydraulic architecture by Apgaua, Deborah M.G., Tng, David Y.P., Laurance, Susan G.W.

“…•Some tree genera have wet forest (WF) and dry forest (DF) adapted species.•Anatomically, the wood of DF species has more storage tissue.•The wood of WF…”
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Characteristics of the Psidium cattleianum invasion of secondary rainforests by Tng, David Y. P., Goosem, Miriam W., Paz, Claudia P., Preece, Noel D., Goosem, Stephen, Fensham, Roderick J., Laurance, Susan G. W.

“…Strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum) is a shade‐tolerant shrub or small tree invader in tropical and subtropical regions and is considered among the world's…”
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Phylogeny and Systematics of Sassafras (Lauraceae), an Interesting Genus with Disjunct Distributions in Eastern North America and East Asia by Zhang, Yunyan, Zhou, Jingbo, Tng, David Y P, Wang, Shuang, Wang, Ying, Peng, Ye, Liu, Hong, Wang, Zhongsheng

“…The Lauraceae is a family of the order Laurales, with 2500-3000 species comprising 50 genera, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical evergreen…”
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Flooding regime drives tree community structure in Neotropical dry forests by Araújo, Felipe De Carvalho, Tng, David Yue Phin, Apgaua, Deborah Mattos Guimaraes, Morel, Jean Daniel, Pereira, Diego Gualberto Sales, Santos, Paola Ferreira, Santos, Rubens Manoel dos, Collins, Beverly

“…Questions Riverine and associated vegetation communities are periodically affected by floods. However, there have been few quantitative studies on the…”
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Phosphorus limits Eucalyptus grandis seedling growth in an unburnt rain forest soil by Tng, David Y P, Janos, David P, Jordan, Gregory J, Weber, Ellen, Bowman, David M J S

“…Although rain forest is characterized as pyrophobic, pyrophilic giant eucalypts grow as rain forest emergents in both temperate and tropical Australia. In…”
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Will the emblematic southern conifer Araucaria angustifolia survive to climate change in Brazil? by Castro, Monik Begname, Barbosa, Ana Carolina Maioli Campos, Pompeu, Patrícia Vieira, Eisenlohr, Pedro V., de Assis Pereira, Gabriel, Apgaua, Deborah Mattos Guimarães, Pires-Oliveira, João Carlos, Barbosa, João Paulo Rodrigues Alves Delfino, Fontes, Marco Aurélio Leite, dos Santos, Rubens Manoel, Tng, David Yue Phin

“…Conifer forests dominated by Araucaria pines ( Araucaria angustifolia ) are emblematic of the humid forests in the southeast of Brazil, South America. However,…”
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Expanding the wood anatomy economics spectrum: the correlates of vessel element lengths and pit apertures sizes in tropical forest trees by Silva, Marcelo dos S., Apgaua, Deborah M. G., Silva, Cássia C. S., da Silva, Lazaro B., Tng, David Y. P.

“…Plant functions all have an anatomical basis, but there are still major knowledge gaps in functional wood anatomy, especially of tropical trees. To examine the…”
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Letting giants be – rethinking active fire management of old-growth eucalypt forest in the Australian tropics by Tng, David Y. P., Goosem, Steve, Jordan, Greg J., Bowman, David M. J. S.

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