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  1. Article ; Online: Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities.

    Cooper, Declan L M / Lewis, Simon L / Sullivan, Martin J P / Prado, Paulo I / Ter Steege, Hans / Barbier, Nicolas / Slik, Ferry / Sonké, Bonaventure / Ewango, Corneille E N / Adu-Bredu, Stephen / Affum-Baffoe, Kofi / de Aguiar, Daniel P P / Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto / Aiba, Shin-Ichiro / Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss / de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia / Alonso, Alfonso / Amani, Christian A / do Amaral, Dário Dantas /
    do Amaral, Iêda Leão / Andrade, Ana / de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula / Angoboy, Ilondea B / Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro / Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño / Arroyo, Luzmila / Ashton, Peter / Aymard C, Gerardo A / Baider, Cláudia / Baker, Timothy R / Balinga, Michael Philippe Bessike / Balslev, Henrik / Banin, Lindsay F / Bánki, Olaf S / Baraloto, Chris / Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques / Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues / Barlow, Jos / Bastin, Jean-Francois / Beeckman, Hans / Begne, Serge / Bengone, Natacha Nssi / Berenguer, Erika / Berry, Nicholas / Bitariho, Robert / Boeckx, Pascal / Bogaert, Jan / Bonyoma, Bernard / Boundja, Patrick / Bourland, Nils / Boyemba Bosela, Faustin / Brambach, Fabian / Brienen, Roel / Burslem, David F R P / Camargo, José Luís / Campelo, Wegliane / Cano, Angela / Cárdenas, Sasha / Cárdenas López, Dairon / de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen / Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina / Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes / Casas, Luisa Fernanda / Castellanos, Hernán / Castilho, Carolina V / Cerón, Carlos / Chapman, Colin A / Chave, Jerome / Chhang, Phourin / Chutipong, Wanlop / Chuyong, George B / Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat / Clark, Connie J / Coelho de Souza, Fernanda / Comiskey, James A / Coomes, David A / Cornejo Valverde, Fernando / Correa, Diego F / Costa, Flávia R C / Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa / Couteron, Pierre / Culmsee, Heike / Cuni-Sanchez, Aida / Dallmeier, Francisco / Damasco, Gabriel / Dauby, Gilles / Dávila, Nállarett / Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette / De Alban, Jose Don T / de Assis, Rafael L / De Canniere, Charles / De Haulleville, Thales / de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo / Demarchi, Layon O / Dexter, Kyle G / Di Fiore, Anthony / Din, Hazimah Haji Mohammad / Disney, Mathias I / Djiofack, Brice Yannick / Djuikouo, Marie-Noël K / Do, Tran Van / Doucet, Jean-Louis / Draper, Freddie C / Droissart, Vincent / Duivenvoorden, Joost F / Engel, Julien / Estienne, Vittoria / Farfan-Rios, William / Fauset, Sophie / Feeley, Kenneth J / Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira / Feldpausch, Ted R / Ferreira, Cid / Ferreira, Joice / Ferreira, Leandro Valle / Fletcher, Christine D / Flores, Bernardo Monteiro / Fofanah, Alusine / Foli, Ernest G / Fonty, Émile / Fredriksson, Gabriella M / Fuentes, Alfredo / Galbraith, David / Gallardo Gonzales, George Pepe / Garcia-Cabrera, Karina / García-Villacorta, Roosevelt / Gomes, Vitor H F / Gómez, Ricardo Zárate / Gonzales, Therany / Gribel, Rogerio / Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro / Guevara, Juan Ernesto / Hakeem, Khalid Rehman / Hall, Jefferson S / Hamer, Keith C / Hamilton, Alan C / Harris, David J / Harrison, Rhett D / Hart, Terese B / Hector, Andy / Henkel, Terry W / Herbohn, John / Hockemba, Mireille B N / Hoffman, Bruce / Holmgren, Milena / Honorio Coronado, Euridice N / Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau / Hubau, Wannes / Imai, Nobuo / Irume, Mariana Victória / Jansen, Patrick A / Jeffery, Kathryn J / Jimenez, Eliana M / Jucker, Tommaso / Junqueira, André Braga / Kalamandeen, Michelle / Kamdem, Narcisse G / Kartawinata, Kuswata / Kasongo Yakusu, Emmanuel / Katembo, John M / Kearsley, Elizabeth / Kenfack, David / Kessler, Michael / Khaing, Thiri Toe / Killeen, Timothy J / Kitayama, Kanehiro / Klitgaard, Bente / Labrière, Nicolas / Laumonier, Yves / Laurance, Susan G W / Laurance, William F / Laurent, Félix / Le, Tinh Cong / Le, Trai Trong / Leal, Miguel E / Leão de Moraes Novo, Evlyn Márcia / Levesley, Aurora / Libalah, Moses B / Licona, Juan Carlos / Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade / Lindsell, Jeremy A / Lopes, Aline / Lopes, Maria Aparecida / Lovett, Jon C / Lowe, Richard / Lozada, José Rafael / Lu, Xinghui / Luambua, Nestor K / Luize, Bruno Garcia / Maas, Paul / Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima / Magnusson, William E / Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana / Makana, Jean-Remy / Malhi, Yadvinder / Maniguaje Rincón, Lorena / Mansor, Asyraf / Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto / Marimon, Beatriz S / Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur / Marshall, Andrew R / Martins, Maria Pires / Mbayu, Faustin M / de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante / Mesones, Italo / Metali, Faizah / Mihindou, Vianet / Millet, Jerome / Milliken, William / Mogollón, Hugo F / Molino, Jean-François / Mohd Said, Mohd Nizam / Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel / Montero, Juan Carlos / Moore, Sam / Mostacedo, Bonifacio / Mozombite Pinto, Linder Felipe / Mukul, Sharif Ahmed / Munishi, Pantaleo K T / Nagamasu, Hidetoshi / Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça / Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade / Neill, David / Nilus, Reuben / Noronha, Janaína Costa / Nsenga, Laurent / Núñez Vargas, Percy / Ojo, Lucas / Oliveira, Alexandre A / de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida / Ondo, Fidèle Evouna / Palacios Cuenca, Walter / Pansini, Susamar / Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti / Paredes, Marcos Ríos / Paudel, Ekananda / Pauletto, Daniela / Pearson, Richard G / Pena, José Luis Marcelo / Pennington, R Toby / Peres, Carlos A / Permana, Andrea / Petronelli, Pascal / Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina / Phillips, Juan Fernando / Phillips, Oliver L / Pickavance, Georgia / Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez / Pitman, Nigel C A / Ploton, Pierre / Popelier, Andreas / Poulsen, John R / Prieto, Adriana / Primack, Richard B / Priyadi, Hari / Qie, Lan / Quaresma, Adriano Costa / de Queiroz, Helder Lima / Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma / Ramos, José Ferreira / Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa / Reitsma, Jan / Revilla, Juan David Cardenas / Riutta, Terhi / Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo / Robiansyah, Iyan / Rocha, Maira / Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus / Rodriguez-Ronderos, M Elizabeth / Rovero, Francesco / Rozak, Andes H / Rudas, Agustín / Rutishauser, Ervan / Sabatier, Daniel / Sagang, Le Bienfaiteur / Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe / Samsoedin, Ismayadi / Satdichanh, Manichanh / Schietti, Juliana / Schöngart, Jochen / Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni / Seuaturien, Naret / Sheil, Douglas / Sierra, Rodrigo / Silman, Miles R / Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire / da Silva Guimarães, José Renan / Simo-Droissart, Murielle / Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni / Sist, Plinio / Sousa, Thaiane R / de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle / de Souza Coelho, Luiz / Spracklen, Dominick V / Stas, Suzanne M / Steinmetz, Robert / Stevenson, Pablo R / Stropp, Juliana / Sukri, Rahayu S / Sunderland, Terry C H / Suzuki, Eizi / Swaine, Michael D / Tang, Jianwei / Taplin, James / Taylor, David M / Tello, J Sebastián / Terborgh, John / Texier, Nicolas / Theilade, Ida / Thomas, Duncan W / Thomas, Raquel / Thomas, Sean C / Tirado, Milton / Toirambe, Benjamin / de Toledo, José Julio / Tomlinson, Kyle W / Torres-Lezama, Armando / Tran, Hieu Dang / Tshibamba Mukendi, John / Tumaneng, Roven D / Umaña, Maria Natalia / Umunay, Peter M / Urrego Giraldo, Ligia Estela / Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H / Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis / Van Andel, Tinde R / van de Bult, Martin / van de Pol, Jaqueline / van der Heijden, Geertje / Vasquez, Rodolfo / Vela, César I A / Venticinque, Eduardo Martins / Verbeeck, Hans / Veridiano, Rizza Karen A / Vicentini, Alberto / Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães / Vilanova Torre, Emilio / Villarroel, Daniel / Villa Zegarra, Boris Eduardo / Vleminckx, Jason / von Hildebrand, Patricio / Vos, Vincent Antoine / Vriesendorp, Corine / Webb, Edward L / White, Lee J T / Wich, Serge / Wittmann, Florian / Zagt, Roderick / Zang, Runguo / Zartman, Charles Eugene / Zemagho, Lise / Zent, Egleé L / Zent, Stanford

    Nature

    2024  Volume 625, Issue 7996, Page(s) 728–734

    Abstract: Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most ... ...

    Abstract Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations
    MeSH term(s) Biodiversity ; Forests ; Trees/anatomy & histology ; Trees/classification ; Trees/growth & development ; Tropical Climate ; Africa ; Asia, Southeastern
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 120714-3
    ISSN 1476-4687 ; 0028-0836
    ISSN (online) 1476-4687
    ISSN 0028-0836
    DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
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  2. Article ; Online: Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests.

    Hubau, Wannes / Lewis, Simon L / Phillips, Oliver L / Affum-Baffoe, Kofi / Beeckman, Hans / Cuní-Sanchez, Aida / Daniels, Armandu K / Ewango, Corneille E N / Fauset, Sophie / Mukinzi, Jacques M / Sheil, Douglas / Sonké, Bonaventure / Sullivan, Martin J P / Sunderland, Terry C H / Taedoumg, Hermann / Thomas, Sean C / White, Lee J T / Abernethy, Katharine A / Adu-Bredu, Stephen /
    Amani, Christian A / Baker, Timothy R / Banin, Lindsay F / Baya, Fidèle / Begne, Serge K / Bennett, Amy C / Benedet, Fabrice / Bitariho, Robert / Bocko, Yannick E / Boeckx, Pascal / Boundja, Patrick / Brienen, Roel J W / Brncic, Terry / Chezeaux, Eric / Chuyong, George B / Clark, Connie J / Collins, Murray / Comiskey, James A / Coomes, David A / Dargie, Greta C / de Haulleville, Thales / Kamdem, Marie Noel Djuikouo / Doucet, Jean-Louis / Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane / Feldpausch, Ted R / Fofanah, Alusine / Foli, Ernest G / Gilpin, Martin / Gloor, Emanuel / Gonmadje, Christelle / Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie / Hall, Jefferson S / Hamilton, Alan C / Harris, David J / Hart, Terese B / Hockemba, Mireille B N / Hladik, Annette / Ifo, Suspense A / Jeffery, Kathryn J / Jucker, Tommaso / Yakusu, Emmanuel Kasongo / Kearsley, Elizabeth / Kenfack, David / Koch, Alexander / Leal, Miguel E / Levesley, Aurora / Lindsell, Jeremy A / Lisingo, Janvier / Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela / Lovett, Jon C / Makana, Jean-Remy / Malhi, Yadvinder / Marshall, Andrew R / Martin, Jim / Martin, Emanuel H / Mbayu, Faustin M / Medjibe, Vincent P / Mihindou, Vianet / Mitchard, Edward T A / Moore, Sam / Munishi, Pantaleo K T / Bengone, Natacha Nssi / Ojo, Lucas / Ondo, Fidèle Evouna / Peh, Kelvin S-H / Pickavance, Georgia C / Poulsen, Axel Dalberg / Poulsen, John R / Qie, Lan / Reitsma, Jan / Rovero, Francesco / Swaine, Michael D / Talbot, Joey / Taplin, James / Taylor, David M / Thomas, Duncan W / Toirambe, Benjamin / Mukendi, John Tshibamba / Tuagben, Darlington / Umunay, Peter M / van der Heijden, Geertje M F / Verbeeck, Hans / Vleminckx, Jason / Willcock, Simon / Wöll, Hannsjörg / Woods, John T / Zemagho, Lise

    Nature

    2020  Volume 579, Issue 7797, Page(s) 80–87

    Abstract: Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide ... ...

    Abstract Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions
    MeSH term(s) Africa ; Atmosphere/chemistry ; Biomass ; Brazil ; Carbon Dioxide/metabolism ; Carbon Sequestration ; Droughts ; Forests ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Models, Theoretical ; Temperature ; Trees/metabolism ; Tropical Climate
    Chemical Substances Carbon Dioxide (142M471B3J)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 120714-3
    ISSN 1476-4687 ; 0028-0836
    ISSN (online) 1476-4687
    ISSN 0028-0836
    DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0
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  3. Article ; Online: Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

    Cooper, Declan L.M. / Lewis, Simon L. / Sullivan, Martin J.P. / Prado, Paulo I. / ter Steege, Hans / Barbier, Nicolas / Slik, Ferry / Sonké, Bonaventure / Ewango, Corneille E.N. / Adu-Bredu, Stephen / Affum-Baffoe, Kofi / de Aguiar, Daniel P.P. / Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto / Aiba, Shin Ichiro / Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss / de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia / Alonso, Alfonso / Amani, Christian A. / do Amaral, Dário Dantas /
    do Amaral, Iêda Leão / Andrade, Ana / de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula / Angoboy, Ilondea B. / Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro / Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño / Arroyo, Luzmila / Ashton, Peter / Aymard C, Gerardo A. / Baider, Cláudia / Baker, Timothy R. / Balinga, Michael Philippe Bessike / Balslev, Henrik / Banin, Lindsay F. / Bánki, Olaf S. / Baraloto, Chris / Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques / Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues / Barlow, Jos / Bastin, Jean Francois / Beeckman, Hans / Begne, Serge / Bengone, Natacha Nssi / Berenguer, Erika / Berry, Nicholas / Bitariho, Robert / Boeckx, Pascal / Bogaert, Jan / Bonyoma, Bernard / Boundja, Patrick / Bourland, Nils / Boyemba Bosela, Faustin / Brambach, Fabian / Brienen, Roel / Burslem, David F.R.P. / Campelo, Wegliane / Cano, Angela / Cárdenas, Sasha / Cárdenas López, Dairon / de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen / Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina / Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes / Casas, Luisa Fernanda / Castellanos, Hernán / Castilho, Carolina V. / Cerón, Carlos / Chapman, Colin A. / Chave, Jerome / Chhang, Phourin / Chutipong, Wanlop / Chuyong, George B. / Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat / Clark, Connie J. / Coelho de Souza, Fernanda / Comiskey, James A. / Coomes, David A. / Cornejo Valverde, Fernando / Correa, Diego F. / Costa, Flávia R.C. / Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa / Couteron, Pierre / Culmsee, Heike / Cuni-Sanchez, Aida / Dallmeier, Francisco / Damasco, Gabriel / Dauby, Gilles / Dávila, Nállarett / Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette / De Alban, Jose Don T. / de Assis, Rafael L. / De Canniere, Charles / De Haulleville, Thales / de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo / Demarchi, Layon O. / Dexter, Kyle G. / Di Fiore, Anthony / Din, Hazimah Haji Mohammad / Disney, Mathias I. / Djiofack, Brice Yannick / Djuikouo, Marie Noël K. / Do, Tran Van / Doucet, Jean Louis / Draper, Freddie C. / Droissart, Vincent / Duivenvoorden, Joost F. / Engel, Julien / Estienne, Vittoria / Farfan-Rios, William / Fauset, Sophie / Feeley, Kenneth J. / Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira / Feldpausch, Ted R. / Ferreira, Cid / Ferreira, Joice / Ferreira, Leandro Valle / Fletcher, Christine D. / Flores, Bernardo Monteiro / Fofanah, Alusine / Foli, Ernest G. / Fonty, Émile / Fredriksson, Gabriella M. / Fuentes, Alfredo / Galbraith, David / Gallardo Gonzales, George Pepe / Garcia-Cabrera, Karina / García-Villacorta, Roosevelt / Gomes, Vitor H.F. / Gómez, Ricardo Zárate / Gonzales, Therany / Gribel, Rogerio / Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro / Guevara, Juan Ernesto / Hakeem, Khalid Rehman / Hall, Jefferson S. / Hamer, Keith C. / Hamilton, Alan C. / Harris, David J. / Harrison, Rhett D. / Hart, Terese B. / Hector, Andy / Henkel, Terry W. / Herbohn, John / Hockemba, Mireille B.N. / Hoffman, Bruce / Holmgren, Milena / Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. / Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau / Hubau, Wannes / Imai, Nobuo / Irume, Mariana Victória / Jansen, Patrick A. / Jeffery, Kathryn J. / Jimenez, Eliana M. / Jucker, Tommaso / Junqueira, André Braga / Kalamandeen, Michelle / Kamdem, Narcisse G. / Kartawinata, Kuswata / Kasongo Yakusu, Emmanuel / Katembo, John M. / Kearsley, Elizabeth / Kenfack, David / Kessler, Michael / Khaing, Thiri Toe / Killeen, Timothy J. / Kitayama, Kanehiro / Klitgaard, Bente / Labrière, Nicolas / Laumonier, Yves / Laurance, Susan G.W. / Laurance, William F. / Laurent, Félix / Le, Tinh Cong / Le, Trai Trong / Leal, Miguel E. / Leão de Moraes Novo, Evlyn Márcia / Levesley, Aurora / Libalah, Moses B. / Licona, Juan Carlos / de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes / Lindsell, Jeremy A. / Lopes, Aline / Lopes, Maria Aparecida / Lovett, Jon C. / Lowe, Richard / Lozada, José Rafael / Lu, Xinghui / Luambua, Nestor K. / Luize, Bruno Garcia / Maas, Paul / Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima / Magnusson, William E. / Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana / Makana, Jean Remy / Malhi, Yadvinder / Maniguaje Rincón, Lorena / Mansor, Asyraf / Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto / Marimon, Beatriz S. / Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur / Marshall, Andrew R. / Martins, Maria Pires / Mbayu, Faustin M. / de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante / Mesones, Italo / Metali, Faizah / Mihindou, Vianet / Millet, Jerome / Milliken, William / Mogollón, Hugo F. / Molino, Jean François / Mohd. Said, Mohd Nizam / Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel / Montero, Juan Carlos / Moore, Sam / Mostacedo, Bonifacio / Mozombite Pinto, Linder Felipe / Mukul, Sharif Ahmed / Munishi, Pantaleo K.T. / Nagamasu, Hidetoshi / Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça / Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade / Neill, David / Nilus, Reuben / Noronha, Janaína Costa / Nsenga, Laurent / Núñez Vargas, Percy / Ojo, Lucas / Oliveira, Alexandre A. / de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida / Ondo, Fidèle Evouna / Palacios Cuenca, Walter / Pansini, Susamar / Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti / Paredes, Marcos Ríos / Paudel, Ekananda / Pauletto, Daniela / Pearson, Richard G. / Pena, José Luis Marcelo / Pennington, R.T. / Peres, Carlos A. / Permana, Andrea / Petronelli, Pascal / Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina / Phillips, Juan Fernando / Phillips, Oliver L. / Pickavance, Georgia / Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez / Pitman, Nigel C.A. / Ploton, Pierre / Popelier, Andreas / Poulsen, John R. / Prieto, Adriana / Primack, Richard B. / Priyadi, Hari / Qie, Lan / Quaresma, Adriano Costa / de Queiroz, Helder Lima / Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma / Ramos, José Ferreira / Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa / Reitsma, Jan / Revilla, Juan David Cardenas / Riutta, Terhi / Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo / Robiansyah, Iyan / Rocha, Maira / de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos / Rodriguez-Ronderos, Elizabeth / Rovero, Francesco / Rozak, Andes H. / Rudas, Agustín / Rutishauser, Ervan / Sabatier, Daniel / Sagang, Le Bienfaiteur / Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe / Samsoedin, Ismayadi / Satdichanh, Manichanh / Schietti, Juliana / Schöngart, Jochen / Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni / Seuaturien, Naret / Sheil, Douglas / Sierra, Rodrigo / Silman, Miles R. / Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire / da Silva Guimarães, José Renan / Simo-Droissart, Murielle / Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni / Sist, Plinio / Sousa, Thaiane R. / de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle / de Souza Coelho, Luiz / Spracklen, Dominick V. / Stas, Suzanne M. / Steinmetz, Robert / Stevenson, Pablo R. / Stropp, Juliana / Sukri, Rahayu S. / Sunderland, Terry C.H. / Suzuki, Eizi / Swaine, Michael D. / Tang, Jianwei / Taplin, James / Taylor, David M. / Tello, J.S. / Terborgh, John / Texier, Nicolas / Theilade, Ida / Thomas, Duncan W. / Thomas, Raquel / Thomas, Sean C. / Tirado, Milton / Toirambe, Benjamin / de Toledo, José Julio / Tomlinson, Kyle W. / Torres-Lezama, Armando / Tran, Hieu Dang / Tshibamba Mukendi, John / Tumaneng, Roven D. / Umaña, Maria Natalia / Umunay, Peter M. / Urrego Giraldo, Ligia Estela / Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H. / Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis / van Andel, Tinde R. / van de Bult, Martin / van de Pol, Jaqueline / van der Heijden, Geertje / Vasquez, Rodolfo / Vela, César I.A. / Venticinque, Eduardo Martins / Verbeeck, Hans / Veridiano, Rizza Karen A. / Vicentini, Alberto / Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães / Vilanova Torre, Emilio / Villarroel, Daniel / Villa Zegarra, Boris Eduardo / Vleminckx, Jason / von Hildebrand, Patricio / Vos, Vincent Antoine / Vriesendorp, Corine / Webb, Edward L. / White, Lee J.T. / Wich, Serge / Wittmann, Florian / Zagt, Roderick / Zang, Runguo / Zartman, Charles Eugene / Zemagho, Lise / Zent, Egleé L. / Zent, Stanford

    Nature

    2024  Volume 625, Issue 7996

    Abstract: Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most ... ...

    Abstract Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations 1–6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories 7, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world’s most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.
    Keywords Life Science
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 120714-3
    ISSN 1476-4687 ; 0028-0836
    ISSN (online) 1476-4687
    ISSN 0028-0836
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  4. Article ; Online: Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Hubau, Wannes / Lewis, Simon L. / Phillips, Oliver L. / Affum-Baffoe, Kofi / Beeckman, Hans / Cuní-Sanchez, Aida / Daniels, Armandu K. / Ewango, Corneille E.N. / Fauset, Sophie / Mukinzi, Jacques M. / Sheil, Douglas / Sonké, Bonaventure / Sullivan, Martin J.P. / Sunderland, Terry C.H. / Taedoumg, Hermann / Thomas, Sean C. / White, Lee J.T. / Abernethy, Katharine A. / Adu-Bredu, Stephen /
    Amani, Christian A. / Baker, Timothy R. / Banin, Lindsay F. / Baya, Fidèle / Begne, Serge K. / Bennett, Amy C. / Benedet, Fabrice / Bitariho, Robert / Bocko, Yannick E. / Boeckx, Pascal / Boundja, Patrick / Brienen, Roel J.W. / Brncic, Terry / Chezeaux, Eric / Chuyong, George B. / Clark, Connie J. / Collins, Murray / Comiskey, James A. / Coomes, David A. / Dargie, Greta C. / de Haulleville, Thales / Kamdem, Marie Noel Djuikouo / Doucet, Jean Louis / Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane / Feldpausch, Ted R. / Fofanah, Alusine / Foli, Ernest G. / Gilpin, Martin / Gloor, Emanuel / Gonmadje, Christelle / Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie / Hall, Jefferson S. / Hamilton, Alan C. / Harris, David J. / Hart, Terese B. / Hockemba, Mireille B.N. / Hladik, Annette / Ifo, Suspense A. / Jeffery, Kathryn J. / Jucker, Tommaso / Yakusu, Emmanuel Kasongo / Kearsley, Elizabeth / Kenfack, David / Koch, Alexander / Leal, Miguel E. / Levesley, Aurora / Lindsell, Jeremy A. / Lisingo, Janvier / Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela / Lovett, Jon C. / Makana, Jean Remy / Malhi, Yadvinder / Marshall, Andrew R. / Martin, Jim / Martin, Emanuel H. / Mbayu, Faustin M. / Medjibe, Vincent P. / Mihindou, Vianet / Mitchard, Edward T.A. / Moore, Sam / Munishi, Pantaleo K.T. / Bengone, Natacha Nssi / Ojo, Lucas / Ondo, Fidèle Evouna / Peh, Kelvin S.H. / Pickavance, Georgia C. / Poulsen, Axel Dalberg / Poulsen, John R. / Qie, Lan / Reitsma, Jan / Rovero, Francesco / Swaine, Michael D. / Talbot, Joey / Taplin, James / Taylor, David M. / Thomas, Duncan W. / Toirambe, Benjamin / Mukendi, John Tshibamba / Tuagben, Darlington / Umunay, Peter M. / van der Heijden, Geertje M.F. / Verbeeck, Hans / Vleminckx, Jason / Willcock, Simon / Wöll, Hannsjörg / Woods, John T. / Zemagho, Lise

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    2020  Volume 579, Issue 7797

    Abstract: Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate-driven vegetation models typically ... ...

    Abstract Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate-driven vegetation models typically predict that this tropical forest ‘carbon sink’ will continue for decades4,5. Here we assess trends in the carbon sink using 244 structurally intact African tropical forests spanning 11 countries, compare them with 321 published plots from Amazonia and investigate the underlying drivers of the trends. The carbon sink in live aboveground biomass in intact African tropical forests has been stable for the three decades to 2015, at 0.66 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year (95 per cent confidence interval 0.53–0.79), in contrast to the long-term decline in Amazonian forests6. Therefore the carbon sink responses of Earth’s two largest expanses of tropical forest have diverged. The difference is largely driven by carbon losses from tree mortality, with no detectable multi-decadal trend in Africa and a long-term increase in Amazonia. Both continents show increasing tree growth, consistent with the expected net effect of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and air temperature7–9. Despite the past stability of the African carbon sink, our most intensively monitored plots suggest a post-2010 increase in carbon losses, delayed compared to Amazonia, indicating asynchronous carbon sink saturation on the two continents. A statistical model including carbon dioxide, temperature, drought and forest dynamics accounts for the observed trends and indicates a long-term future decline in the African sink, whereas the Amazonian sink continues to weaken rapidly. Overall, the uptake of carbon into Earth’s intact tropical forests peaked in the 1990s. Given that the global terrestrial carbon sink is increasing in size, independent observations indicating greater recent carbon uptake into the Northern Hemisphere landmass10 reinforce our conclusion that the intact tropical forest carbon sink has ...
    Keywords Life Science
    Subject code 550
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 120714-3
    ISSN 1476-4687 ; 0028-0836
    ISSN (online) 1476-4687
    ISSN 0028-0836
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  5. Article ; Online: Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Blundo, Cecilia / Carilla, Julieta / Grau, H. Ricardo / Malizia, Agustina / Malizia, Lucio / Osinaga-Acosta, Oriana / Bird, Michael / Bradford, Matt / Catchpole, Damien / Ford, Andrew / Graham, Andrew / Hilbert, David / Kemp, Jeanette / Laurance, Susan / Laurance, William / Ishida, Francoise Yoko / Marshall, Andrew / Waite, Catherine / Woell, Hannsjoerg /
    Bastin, Jean-François / Bauters, Marijn / Beeckman, Hans / Boeckx, Pfascal / Bogaert, Jan / De Canniere, Charles / de Haulleville, Thales / Doucet, Jean-Louis / Hardy, Olivier / Hubau, Wannes / Kearsley, Elizabeth / Verbeeck, Hans / Vleminckx, Jason / Brewer, Steven W. / Alarcón, Alfredo / Araujo Murakami, Alejandro / Arets, Eric / Arroyo, Luzmila / Chávez Alcaraz, Ezequiel / Fredericksen, Todd / Villaroel, René Guillén / Sibauty, Gloria Gutierrez / Killeen, Timothy / Licona, Juan Carlos / Lleigue, John / Mendoza, Casimiro / Murakami, Samaria / Gutierrez, Alexander Parada / Pardo, Guido / Peña-Claros, Marielos / Poorter, L. / Toledo, Marisol / Cayo, Jeanneth Villalobos / Viscarra, Laura Jessica / Vos, Vincent / Ahumada, Jorge / Almeida, Everton / Almeida, Jarcilene / de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida / da Cruz, Wesley Alves / de Oliveira, Atila Alves / Carvalho, Fabrício Alvim / Obermuller, Flávio Amorim / Andrade, Ana / Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes / Vieira, Simone Aparecida / Aquino, Ana Carla / Aragão, Luiz / Araújo, Ana Cláudia / Assis, Marco Antonio / Gomes, Jose Ataliba Mantelli Aboin / Baccaro, Fabrício / de Camargo, Plínio Barbosa / Barni, Paulo / Barroso, Jorcely / Bernacci, Luis Carlos / Bordin, Kauane / Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante de / Broggio, Igor / Camargo, José Luís / Cardoso, Domingos / Carniello, Maria Antonia / Rochelle, Andre Luis Casarin / Castilho, Carolina / Castro, Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias / Castro, Wendeson / Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto / Costa, Flavia / de Oliveira, Rodrigo Costa / Coutinho, Italo / Cunha, John / da Costa, Lola / Ferreira, Lúcia da Costa / da Costa Silva, Richarlly / da Graça Zacarias Simbine, Marta / de Andrade Kamimura, Vitor / de Lima, Haroldo Cavalcante / de Oliveira Melo, Lia / de Queiroz, Luciano / de Sousa Lima, José Romualdo / do Espírito Santo, Mário / Domingues, Tomas / dos Santos Prestes, Nayane Cristina / Carneiro, Steffan Eduardo Silva / Elías, Fernando / Eliseu, Gabriel / Emilio, Thaise / Farrapo, Camila Laís / Fernandes, Letícia / Ferreira, Gustavo L. / Ferreira, Joice / Ferreira, Leandro / Ferreira, Socorro / Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni / Freitas, Maria Aparecida / García, Queila S. / Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto / Graça, Paulo / Guilherme, Frederico / Hase, Eduardo / Higuchi, Niro / Iguatemy, Mariana / Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio / Jaramillo, Margarita / Joly, Carlos / Klipel, Joice / Amaral, Iêda Leão do / Levis, Carolina / Lima, Antonio S. / Dan, Maurício Lima / Lopes, Aline / Madeiros, Herison / Magnusson, William E. / dos Santos, Rubens Manoel / Marimon, Beatriz / Junior, Ben Hur Marimon / Grillo, Roberta Marotti Martelletti / Martinelli, Luiz / Reis, Simone Matias / Medeiros, Salomão / Meira-Junior, Milton / Metzker, Thiago / Morandi, Paulo / do Nascimento, Natanael Moreira / Moura, Magna / Müller, Sandra Cristina / Nagy, László / Nascimento, Henrique / Nascimento, Marcelo / Lima, Adriano Nogueira / de Araújo, Raimunda Oliveira / Silva, Jhonathan Oliveira / Pansonato, Marcelo / Sabino, Gabriel Pavan / de Abreu, Karla Maria Pedra / Rodrigues, Pablo José Francisco Pena / Piedade, Maria / Rodrigues, Domingos / Rodrigues Pinto, José Roberto / Quesada, Carlos / Ramos, Eliana / Ramos, Rafael / Rodrigues, Priscyla / de Sousa, Thaiane Rodrigues / Salomão, Rafael / Santana, Flávia / Scaranello, Marcos / Bergamin, Rodrigo Scarton / Schietti, Juliana / Schöngart, Jochen / Schwartz, Gustavo / Silva, Natalino / Silveira, Marcos / Seixas, Cristiana Simão / Simbine, Marta / Souza, Ana Claudia / Souza, Priscila / Souza, Rodolfo / Sposito, Tereza / Junior, Edson Stefani / do Vale, Julio Daniel / Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães / Villela, Dora / Vital, Marcos / Xaud, Haron / Zanini, Katia / Zartman, Charles E. / Ideris, Nur Khalish Hafizhah / Metali, Faizah binti Hj / Salim, Kamariah Abu / Saparudin, Muhd Shahruney / Serudin, Rafizah Mat / Sukri, Rahayu Sukmaria / Begne, Serge / Chuyong, George / Djuikouo, Marie Noel / Gonmadje, Christelle / Simo-Droissart, Murielle / Sonké, Bonaventure / 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    Biological conservation. 2020 Oct. 23, p.108849-

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    Abstract: Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. ... ...

    Institution ForestPlots.net
    Abstract Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Networking is essential to discover the answers to questions that transcend borders and the horizons of funding agencies. Here we show how a global community is responding to the challenges of tropical ecosystem research with diverse teams measuring forests tree-by-tree in thousands of long-term plots. We review the major scientific discoveries of this work and show how this process is changing tropical forest science. Our core approach involves linking long-term grassroots initiatives with standardized protocols and data management to generate robust scaled-up results. By connecting tropical researchers and elevating their status, our Social Research Network model recognises the key role of the data originator in scientific discovery. Conceived in 1999 with RAINFOR (South America), our permanent plot networks have been adapted to Africa (AfriTRON) and Southeast Asia (T-FORCES) and widely emulated worldwide. Now these multiple initiatives are integrated via ForestPlots.net cyber-infrastructure, linking colleagues from 54 countries across 24 plot networks. Collectively these are transforming understanding of tropical forests and their biospheric role. Together we have discovered how, where and why forest carbon and biodiversity are responding to climate change, and how they feedback on it. This long-term pan-tropical collaboration has revealed a large long-term carbon sink and its trends, as well as making clear which drivers are most important, which forest processes are affected, where they are changing, what the lags are, and the likely future responses of tropical forests as the climate continues to change. By leveraging a remarkably old technology, plot networks are sparking a very modern revolution in tropical forest science. In the future, humanity can benefit greatly by nurturing the grassroots communities now collectively capable of generating unique, long-term understanding of Earth's most precious forests.
    Keywords biodiversity ; biosphere ; carbon ; carbon sinks ; climate ; climate change ; ecosystems ; information management ; models ; tropical forests ; Africa ; South America ; South East Asia ; Amazonia ; Southeast Asia ; Rainforest ; RAINFOR ; AfriTRON ; Species richness ; Forest plots ; Permanent sample plots ; Monitoring ; Dynamics ; Carbon sink ; Global change ; Ecology
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2020-1023
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note NAL-AP-2-clean ; Pre-press version
    ISSN 0006-3207
    DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849
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