Soil properties explain tree growth and mortality, but not biomass, across phosphorus-depleted tropical forests

African biomass burning is a substantial source of phosphorus deposition to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Ocean

(2019) Anne E. Barkley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography

(2019) Sophie Fauset et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests

(2018) Xubing Liu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tree mycorrhizal type predicts within-site variability in the storage and distribution of soil organic matter

(2018) Matthew E. Craig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pervasive phosphorus limitation of tree species but not communities in tropical forests

(2018) Benjamin L. Turner et al.   NATURE

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

(2017) Bob Carpenter et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Soils and rainfall drive landscape-scale changes in the diversity and functional composition of tree communities in premontane tropical forest

(2017) Cecilia M. Prada et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phosphate Uptake from Phytate Due to Hyphae-Mediated Phytase Activity by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Maize

(2017) Xin-Xin Wang et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Nutrient-cycling mechanisms other than the direct absorption from soil may control forest structure and dynamics in poor Amazonian soils

(2017) Oriol Grau et al.   Scientific Reports

Belowground carbon flux links biogeochemical cycles and resource-use efficiency at the global scale

(2016) Allison L. Gill et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Clay minerals, iron/aluminum oxides, and their contribution to phosphate sorption in soils — A myth revisited

(2016) Frédéric Gérard   GEODERMA

The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

(2015) Hongbin Yu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Annual burning of a tallgrass prairie inhibits C and N cycling in soil, increasing recalcitrant pyrogenic organic matter storage while reducing N availability

(2015) Jennifer L. Soong et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

Scale-dependent variation in nitrogen cycling and soil fungal communities along gradients of forest composition and age in regenerating tropical dry forests

(2015) Bonnie G. Waring et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

(2015) Katie J. Field et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sequence Depth, Not PCR Replication, Improves Ecological Inference from Next Generation DNA Sequencing

(2014) Dylan P. Smith et al.   PLoS One

A direct test of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation to net primary productivity in a lowland tropical wet forest

(2013) S. Alvarez-Clare et al.   ECOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

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

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

(2011) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Sorption and desorption of dissolved organic phosphorus onto iron (oxyhydr)oxides in seawater

(2011) K.C. Ruttenberg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Allocation of foliar phosphorus fractions and leaf traits of tropical tree species in response to decreased soil phosphorus availability on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

(2011) Amane Hidaka et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

(2010) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Controls over leaf litter decomposition in wet tropical forests

(2009) William R. Wieder et al.   ECOLOGY

The impact of climate changes during the Holocene on vegetation in northern French Guiana

(2009) Vincent Freycon et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Differences in chemical composition of soil organic matter in natural ecosystems from different climatic regions – A pyrolysis–GC/MS study

(2009) Karen Vancampenhout et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Retention of phosphorus in highly weathered soils under a lowland Amazonian forest ecosystem

(2008) M. E. McGroddy et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Contribution of Soil Organic Carbon to the Ion Exchange Capacity of Tropical Soils

(2008) Marcio Roberto Soares et al.   JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Amazonian lowland, white sand areas as ancestral regions for South American biodiversity: Biogeographic and phylogenetic patterns in Potalia (Angiospermae: Gentianaceae)

(2008) C FRASIER   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

(2007) Y. Malhi et al.   SCIENCE