Carbon flux and forest dynamics: Increased deadwood decomposition in tropical rainforest tree‐fall canopy gaps

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

Suspended Dead Wood Decomposes Slowly in the Tropics, with Microbial Decay Greater than Termite Decay

(2019) Stephanie Law et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest

(2019) L. A. Ashton et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiotic Plant Biomass Decomposition in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2019) Rafael da Costa et al.   Insects

Termites can decompose more than half of deadwood in tropical rainforest

(2019) Hannah M. Griffiths et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Accurate forest projections require long‐term wood decay experiments because plant trait effects change through time

(2019) Brad Oberle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Logging of rainforest and conversion to oil palm reduces bioturbator diversity but not levels of bioturbation

(2019) Jiri Tuma et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees

(2019) Tom Swinfield et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

(2019) David M. Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests

(2018) Terhi Riutta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Traits drive global wood decomposition rates more than climate

(2018) Zhenhong Hu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Simulated leaf litter addition causes opposite priming effects on natural forest and plantation soils

(2018) Maokui Lyu et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Wood decomposition is more strongly controlled by temperature than by tree species and decomposer diversity in highly species rich subtropical forests

(2018) Katherina A. Pietsch et al.   OIKOS

Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities

(2017) Tiemo Kahl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

Bark coverage and insects influence wood decomposition: Direct and indirect effects

(2016) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Effects of mesh bag enclosure and termites on fine woody debris decomposition in a subtropical forest

(2016) Allison M. Stoklosa et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Deadwood stocks increase with selective logging and large tree frequency in Gabon

(2016) Ben S. Carlson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Termites utilise clay to build structural supports and so increase foraging resources

(2016) Sebastian Oberst et al.   Scientific Reports

The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate

(2015) Stephen R. Hardwick et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Deadwood biomass: an underestimated carbon stock in degraded tropical forests?

(2015) Marion Pfeifer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A deteriorating state of affairs: How endogenous and exogenous factors determine plant decay rates

(2015) Amy E. Zanne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species

(2015) Guofang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

(2015) Robert M. Ewers et al.   Nature Communications

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps

(2015) Maria O. Hunter et al.   PLoS One

Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo

(2014) Sarah H. Luke et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Influence of the substrate and ecosystem attributes on the decomposition rates of coarse woody debris in European boreal forests

(2014) Ekaterina Shorohova et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wood nitrogen concentrations in tropical trees: phylogenetic patterns and ecological correlates

(2014) Adam R. Martin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

(2014) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effect of wood density and water permeability on wood decomposition rates of 32 Bornean rainforest trees

(2013) Sanae Mori et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Uncertainty in temperature projections reduced using carbon cycle and climate observations

(2013) Roger W. Bodman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Leaf wax n-alkane chemotaxonomy of bamboo from a tropical rain forest in Southwest China

(2012) Rencheng Li et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology

(2010) David I. Warton et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

(2009) WILLIAM K. CORNWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY