Search Results - "Vos, Vincent"
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Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia
Published in Ecology and society (01-06-2017)“…Tree species in tropical forests provide economically important goods and ecosystem services. In submontane forests of southwestern Amazonia, we investigated…”
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An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests
Published in Quaternary (01-06-2023)“…Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across…”
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Differing local‐scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-08-2023)“…ABSTRACT Uncertainty remains over local‐scale responses of ecotonal Amazonian forests to middle Holocene drying due to the scarcity, and coarse spatial…”
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Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (18-10-2013)“…The vast extent of the Amazon Basin has historically restricted the study of its tree communities to the local and regional scales. Here, we provide empirical…”
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Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-12-2013)“…Aim: Large trees (d.b.h. ≥70 cm) store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, potentially…”
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Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-05-2018)“…Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although…”
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Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities
Published in Diversity & distributions (01-11-2015)“…AIM: To examine variation in the phylogenetic diversity (PD) of tree communities across geographical and environmental gradients in Amazonia. LOCATION: Two…”
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Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees
Published in Ecology letters (01-05-2014)“…The Amazon rain forest sustains the world's highest tree diversity, but it remains unclear why some clades of trees are hyperdiverse, whereas others are not…”
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Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (14-12-2016)“…Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have…”
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Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above‐ground biomass in A mazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models
Published in Global change biology (01-12-2016)“…Abstract Understanding the processes that determine above‐ground biomass ( AGB ) in Amazonian forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these…”
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Markedly divergent estimates of A mazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-08-2014)“…Abstract Aim The accurate mapping of forest carbon stocks is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle, for assessing emissions from deforestation,…”
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Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests accross the tropics
Published 2013“…Aim Large trees (d.b.h. 70 cm) store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, potentially…”
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