Tree growth and stem carbon accumulation in human-modified Amazonian forests following drought and fire

Causes of reduced leaf-level photosynthesis during strong El Niño drought in a Central Amazon forest

(2018) Victor Alexandre Hardt Ferreira dos Santos et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species

(2018) Louis S. Santiago et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

(2018) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   Nature Communications

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

(2018) Eric F. Lambin et al.   Nature Climate Change

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

(2018) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Quantifying immediate carbon emissions from El Niño-mediated wildfires in humid tropical forests

(2018) Kieran Withey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Negative emissions from stopping deforestation and forest degradation, globally

(2017) Richard A. Houghton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

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

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Unprecedented drought over tropical South America in 2016: significantly under-predicted by tropical SST

(2017) Amir Erfanian et al.   Scientific Reports

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

(2016) Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Effects of experimental fuel additions on fire intensity and severity: unexpected carbon resilience of a neotropical forest

(2016) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Repeated fires trap Amazonian blackwater floodplains in an open vegetation state

(2016) Bernardo M. Flores et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016

(2016) Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz et al.   Scientific Reports

Strong and moderate nonlinear El Niño regimes

(2015) Ken Takahashi et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Demographic drivers of tree biomass change during secondary succession in northeastern Costa Rica

(2015) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

(2015) D. V. Spracklen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Projections of future meteorological drought and wet periods in the Amazon

(2015) Philip B. Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

(2015) Chris Funk et al.   Scientific Data

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

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

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

(2013) R. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

The critical importance of considering fire in REDD+ programs

(2012) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

(2010) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

(2010) Laura L. Ingwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

(2010) B. Soares-Filho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi 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

Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment

(2008) P. M Brando et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia

(2008) L. E. O.C Aragao et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

(2008) J. Barlow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES