Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

(2014) L. V. Gatti 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

Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

(2014) Michael J. O’Brien et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees

(2014) Rafael S. Oliveira et al.   Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology

Dampening effects of long-term experimental drought on growth and mortality rates of a Holm oak forest

(2013) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Replicated throughfall exclusion experiment in an Indonesian perhumid rainforest: wood production, litter fall and fine root growth under simulated drought

(2013) Gerald Moser et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest

(2013) Lucy Rowland et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability

(2013) Camilo Mora et al.   NATURE

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Feature: Improving our knowledge of drought-induced forest mortality through experiments, observations, and modeling

(2013) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

(2013) Antonio C.L. da Costa et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Sensitivity of Soil Respiration to Variability in Soil Moisture and Temperature in a Humid Tropical Forest

(2013) Tana E. Wood 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

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

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

Influences of diurnal rainfall cycle on CO2 exchange over Bornean tropical rainforests

(2012) Tomo’omi Kumagai et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Strong spatial variability in trace gasdynamics following experimental drought in a humid tropical forest

(2012) Tana E. Wood et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?

(2012) A. Sala et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Spectroscopy of canopy chemicals in humid tropical forests

(2011) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Simulated drought reduces soil CO2efflux and production in a tropical forest in Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2011) Oliver van Straaten et al.   Ecosphere

Experimental drought in a tropical rain forest increases soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere

(2010) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   ECOLOGY

Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forest

(2010) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Amazonian rain forests and drought: response and vulnerability

(2010) Patrick Meir et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon

(2010) D. B. Metcalfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

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

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake

(2010) Daniel Markewitz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Evaluating climatic and soil water controls on evapotranspiration at two Amazonian rainforest sites

(2008) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

The fate of assimilated carbon during drought: impacts on respiration in Amazon rainforests

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

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

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE