Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon

The ghosts of forests past and future: deforestation and botanical sampling in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) J. Stropp et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation

(2019) Clément Albergel et al.   Remote Sensing

Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

(2019) Izabela Aleixo et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes in leaf functional traits of rainforest canopy trees associated with an El Niño event in Borneo

(2019) M H Nunes et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Discovering floristic and geoecological gradients across Amazonia

(2019) Hanna Tuomisto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

What global reanalysis best represents near surface winds?

(2019) J. Ramon et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Slow rate of secondary forest carbon accumulation in the Guianas compared with the rest of the Neotropics

(2019) Jérôme Chave et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The giant trees of the Amazon basin

(2019) Eric Bastos Gorgens et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating spatial coverage of data on the aboveground biomass in undisturbed forests in the Brazilian Amazon

(2019) Graciela Tejada et al.   Carbon Balance and Management

Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest

(2019) Stephen P. Yanoviak et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Recent Systematic Increase in Vapor Pressure Deficit over Tropical South America

(2019) Armineh Barkhordarian et al.   Scientific Reports

Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality

(2018) Robinson I Negrón-Juárez et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A global climate niche for giant trees

(2018) Marten Scheffer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

(2018) John E. Drake et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

ERA5: The new champion of wind power modelling?

(2018) Jon Olauson   RENEWABLE ENERGY

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Do tall tree species have higher relative stiffness than shorter species?

(2018) Richard Jagels et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Airborne laser scanning for terrain modeling in the Amazon forest

(2018) Mariana Silva ANDRADE et al.   ACTA AMAZONICA

Deep soil water dynamics in an undisturbed primary forest in central Amazonia: Differences between normal years and the 2005 drought

(2017) Elisângela Broedel et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

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

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

Area-based vs tree-centric approaches to mapping forest carbon in Southeast Asian forests from airborne laser scanning data

(2017) David A. Coomes et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Characterization of Brazilian forest types utilizing canopy height profiles derived from airborne laser scanning

(2016) Eric B. Görgens et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth?

(2016) Rachel I. Albrecht et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Landscape-scale consequences of differential tree mortality from catastrophic wind disturbance in the Amazon

(2016) Sami W. Rifai et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global patterns and determinants of forest canopy height

(2016) Shengli Tao et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial and evolutionary parallelism between shade and drought tolerance explains the distributions of conifers in the conterminous United States

(2016) Marta Rueda et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Forest trees filter chronic wind-signals to acclimate to high winds

(2016) Vivien Bonnesoeur et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimation of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from multiple satellite data: Model development and validation

(2016) Xin Tao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees

(2016) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

(2016) Boris Sakschewski et al.   Nature Climate Change

Soil controls biomass and dynamics of an Amazonian forest through the shifting of species and traits

(2016) José Julio Toledo et al.   Brazilian Journal of Botany

Abiotic Controls on Macroscale Variations of Humid Tropical Forest Height

(2016) Yan Yang et al.   Remote Sensing

Water availability predicts forest canopy height at the global scale

(2015) Tamir Klein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

(2015) David Schimel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Landscape biogeochemistry reflected in shifting distributions of chemical traits in the Amazon forest canopy

(2015) Gregory P. Asner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

(2015) Nathan G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

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

(2015) Chris Funk et al.   Scientific Data

Extracting Ground-Level DEM From SRTM DEM in Forest Environments Based on Mathematical Morphology

(2014) Jung-kuan Liu et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Large-Scale Wind Disturbances Promote Tree Diversity in a Central Amazon Forest

(2014) Daniel Magnabosco Marra et al.   PLoS One

Amazonian landscapes and the bias in field studies of forest structure and biomass

(2014) David C. Marvin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographical regionalisation of the Neotropical region

(2014) JUAN J. MORRONE   ZOOTAXA

The world's tallest trees grow in thermally similar climates

(2013) Markku Larjavaara   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

(2012) A. Park Williams et al.   Nature Climate Change

A global forest canopy height map from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

(2010) Michael A. Lefsky   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Errors in LiDAR-derived shrub height and crown area on sloped terrain

(2010) N.F. Glenn et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

(2010) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimation of net radiation from the MODIS data under all sky conditions: Southern Great Plains case study

(2010) Gautam Bisht et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Tropical forest carbon assessment: integrating satellite and airborne mapping approaches

(2009) Gregory P Asner   Environmental Research Letters

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST