Wood anatomy variability under contrasted environmental conditions of common deciduous and evergreen species from central African forests

Wood Density Profiles and Their Corresponding Tissue Fractions in Tropical Angiosperm Trees

(2018) Tom De Mil et al.   Forests

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Progressing from ‘functional’ to mechanistic traits

(2017) Timothy J. Brodribb   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Analysis of the diurnal cycles for a better understanding of the mean annual cycle of forests greenness in Central Africa

(2016) N. Philippon et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A field-to-desktop toolchain for X-ray CT densitometry enables tree ring analysis

(2016) Tom De Mil et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Deciduousness in tropical trees and its potential as indicator of climate change: A review

(2016) K.P. Singh et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

GROWTH-RING DISTINCTNESS AND BOUNDARY ANATOMY VARIABILITY IN TROPICAL TREES

(2016) Yegor Tarelkin et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

INTRA-ANNUAL DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS IN TREE RINGS: HOW, WHEN, WHERE, AND WHY?

(2016) V. De Micco et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

WOOD ANATOMY AND TRAIT-BASED ECOLOGY

(2016) Hans Beeckman   IAWA JOURNAL

Contrasting patterns of carbon sequestration between Gilbertiodendron dewevrei monodominant forests and Scorodophloeus zenkeri mixed forests in the Central Congo basin

(2016) Benoît Cassart et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Weather stations lack forest data

(2016) P. De Frenne et al.   SCIENCE

Growth rings in tropical trees: role of functional traits, environment, and phylogeny

(2016) Cheryl D. Nath et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Patterns of energy exchange for tropical ecosystems across a climate gradient in Mato Grosso, Brazil

(2015) Marcelo Sacardi Biudes et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

NATURE AND PERIODICITY OF GROWTH RINGS IN AFRICAN TIMBER: CAN THEY BE USED TO DETERMINE THE AGE OF TREES?

(2015) Alain Mariaux et al.   BOIS ET FORETS DES TROPIQUES

Wet season precipitation during the past century reconstructed from tree-rings of a tropical dry forest in Southern Ecuador

(2015) Darwin Pucha-Cofrep et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods

(2015) Richard L. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conservation policy and the measurement of forests

(2015) Joseph O. Sexton et al.   Nature Climate Change

Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

(2015) J.-F. Bastin et al.   Scientific Reports

Operational Tree Species Mapping in a Diverse Tropical Forest with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy

(2015) Claire A. Baldeck et al.   PLoS One

Wood Specific Gravity Variations and Biomass of Central African Tree Species: The Simple Choice of the Outer Wood

(2015) Jean-François Bastin et al.   PLoS One

Potential of tree-ring analysis in a wet tropical forest: A case study on 22 commercial tree species in Central Africa

(2014) Peter Groenendijk et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season

(2014) Douglas C. Morton et al.   NATURE

Insolation and photoperiodic control of tree development near the equator

(2014) Rolf Borchert et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recent micro-CT scanner developments at UGCT

(2014) Manuel Dierick et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

3D tree-ring analysis using helical X-ray tomography

(2013) Jan Van den Bulcke et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Tree-Ring Formation, Radial Increment Periodicity, and Phenology of Tree Species from a Seasonal Semi-Deciduous Forest in Southeast Brazil

(2013) Claudio S. Lisi et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

(2013) Flurin Babst et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

(2013) Mart Vlam et al.   OECOLOGIA

Implications of global warming for the climate of African rainforests

(2013) R. James et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A tree-ring based comparison of Terminalia superba climate–growth relationships in West and Central Africa

(2013) Maaike De Ridder et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

(2013) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Conventional tree height–diameter relationships significantly overestimate aboveground carbon stocks in the Central Congo Basin

(2013) Elizabeth Kearsley et al.   Nature Communications

Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms

(2013) Kasia Ziemińska et al.   AoB Plants

Variability in solar radiation and temperature explains observed patterns and trends in tree growth rates across four tropical forests

(2012) S. X. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Use of MISR/Terra data to study intra- and inter-annual EVI variations in the dry season of tropical forest

(2012) Yhasmin Mendes Moura et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity

(2010) Amy E. Zanne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

High-resolution proxies for wood density variations in Terminalia superba

(2010) Maaike De Ridder et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Species-Specific Growth Responses to Climate Variations in Understory Trees of a Central African Rain Forest

(2010) Camille Couralet et al.   BIOTROPICA

Wavelet characterization of eucalypt flowering and the influence of climate

(2010) I. L. Hudson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dendroecology in the tropics: a review

(2010) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Wood anatomy and wood density in shrubs: Responses to varying aridity along transcontinental transects

(2009) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

CO2 emissions from forest loss

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

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Studying global change through investigation of the plastic responses of xylem anatomy in tree rings

(2009) Patrick Fonti et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

(2008) Jérôme Chave et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY