Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

(2019) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   Science Advances

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

(2019) Lourens Poorter et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

(2019) Paulo M. Brando et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

(2019) Daniela Requena Suarez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon‐biodiversity co‐benefits

(2019) Fabio A. R. Matos et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Idiosyncratic soil-tree species associations and their relationships with drought in a monodominant Amazon forest

(2018) Fernando Elias et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of long-term inter-annual rainfall variation on the dynamics of regenerative communities during the old-field succession of a neotropical dry forest

(2018) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Special Issue: Resilience of tropical dry forests to extreme disturbance events

(2018) Juan C. Álvarez-Yépiz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant water use responses along secondary forest succession during the 2015-2016 El Niño drought in Panama

(2018) Mario Bretfeld et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation

(2018) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

(2018) Joice Ferreira et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Effects of Tropical Vegetation On Rainfall

(2018) D.V. Spracklen et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Intensification of shifting cultivation reduces forest resilience in the northern Amazon

(2018) Pedro Manuel Villa et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests

(2018) Gareth D Lennox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica

(2018) J. Leighton Reid et al.   Conservation Letters

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

(2018) Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Vulnerability of Amazonian forests to repeated droughts

(2018) Liana Oighenstein Anderson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of lightgaps and topography on Amazon secondary forest: Changes in species richness and community composition

(2017) Tony Vizcarra Bentos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Negative emissions from stopping deforestation and forest degradation, globally

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

Global patterns of drought recovery

(2017) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   NATURE

Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

(2016) María Uriarte et al.   BIOTROPICA

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

(2016) Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Do fragment size and edge effects predict carbon stocks in trees and lianas in tropical forests?

(2016) Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Temperature response of CO2 exchange in three tropical tree species

(2016) Martijn Slot et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Land use change emission scenarios: anticipating a forest transition process in the Brazilian Amazon

(2016) Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do space-for-time assessments underestimate the impacts of logging on tropical biodiversity? An Amazonian case study using dung beetles

(2016) Filipe França et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

(2015) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

(2015) Ervan Rutishauser et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes?

(2015) Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

(2015) Natalia Norden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) C. Bello et al.   Science Advances

Time-dependent effects of climate and drought on tree growth in a Neotropical dry forest: Short-term tolerance vs. long-term sensitivity

(2014) Hooz A. Mendivelso et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Two Hundred Years of Local Avian Extinctions in Eastern Amazonia

(2014) NÁRGILA G. MOURA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shifts in community leaf functional traits are related to litter decomposition along a secondary forest succession series in subtropical China

(2014) David Eichenberg et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest

(2013) Lucy Rowland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of ENSO and Temporal Rainfall Variation on the Dynamics of Successional Communities in Old-Field Succession of a Tropical Dry Forest

(2013) Susana Maza-Villalobos et al.   PLoS One

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

ForestPlots.net: a web application and research tool to manage and analyse tropical forest plot data

(2011) Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bayesian change point analysis of abundance trends for pelagic fishes in the upper San Francisco Estuary

(2010) James R. Thomson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

(2009) ROBIN L. CHAZDON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Nonfrontier Deforestation in the Eastern Amazon

(2009) Arlete Silva de Almeida et al.   Earth Interactions

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

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

Generic reversible jump MCMC using graphical models

(2008) David J. Lunn et al.   STATISTICS AND COMPUTING