The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

(2018) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   SCIENCE

Forest loss maps from regional satellite monitoring systematically underestimate deforestation in two rapidly changing parts of the Amazon

(2017) D T Milodowski et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

(2017) Greta C. Dargie et al.   NATURE

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle

(2017) Katharina Brinck et al.   Nature Communications

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2017) Laura J. Sonter et al.   Nature Communications

The future of tropical forests under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

(2017) Latha Swamy et al.   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Carbon sequestration and biodiversity following 18 years of active tropical forest restoration

(2016) Charlotte E. Wheeler et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

(2016) Daniel J. Zarin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

(2016) Carl-Friedrich Schleussner et al.   Nature Climate Change

Envisioning REDD+ in a post-Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice

(2016) Esther Turnhout et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation

(2015) Van Butsic et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

(2015) A Tyukavina et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling

(2015) Anders Ahlström et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Assessing change in national forest monitoring capacities of 99 tropical countries

(2015) Erika Romijn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) Rodney J. Keenan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2015) Agnieszka E Latawiec et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Accelerated deforestation in the humid tropics from the 1990s to the 2000s

(2015) Do-Hyung Kim et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests

(2015) Molly A. Cavaleri et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

(2015) Mercedes M. C. Bustamante et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges

(2015) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   Nature Communications

A role for tropical forests in stabilizing atmospheric CO2

(2015) R. A. Houghton et al.   Nature Climate Change

Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

(2015) Yi Y. Liu et al.   Nature Climate Change

The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia

(2014) Frederick C Draper et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

(2014) Frédéric Achard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

(2014) Erika Berenguer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of increasing CO2on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) David Schimel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations

(2013) Mark T.L. Bonner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

(2013) Peter M. Cox et al.   NATURE

Deep instability of deforested tropical peatlands revealed by fluvial organic carbon fluxes

(2013) Sam Moore et al.   NATURE

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections

(2012) A Ahlström et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions

(2012) N. L. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

(2012) A. Baccini et al.   Nature Climate Change

The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation

(2011) Yadvinder Malhi   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

(2011) Martin Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Global and regional importance of the tropical peatland carbon pool

(2010) SUSAN E. PAGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

The carbon balance of tropical forest regions, 1990–2005

(2010) Yadvinder Malhi   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

CO2 emissions from forest loss

(2009) G. R. van der Werf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad

(2009) P. Meyfroidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Difficulties in tracking the long-term global trend in tropical forest area

(2008) A. Grainger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA