Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

(2021) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Who studies where? Boosting tropical conservation research where it is most needed

(2020) Ana L Reboredo Segovia et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Palms and trees resist extreme drought in Amazon forests with shallow water tables

(2020) T.R. Sousa et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network

(2020) Agustina Malizia et al.   PLoS One

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

(2020) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   SCIENCE

Old growth Afrotropical forests critical for maintaining forest carbon

(2020) John R. Poulsen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Legacy of Amazonian Dark Earth soils on forest structure and species composition

(2020) Edmar Almeida Oliveira et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: A century of ecological and applied research

(2020) S. Joseph Wright   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

sP lot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

(2019) Helge Bruelheide et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought

(2019) Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opportunities and challenges for an Indonesian forest monitoring network

(2019) Francis Q. Brearley et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

(2019) B. S. Steidinger et al.   NATURE

The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

(2019) L. Duncanson et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Ground Data are Essential for Biomass Remote Sensing Missions

(2019) Jérôme Chave et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Impacts of Fire on Forest Biomass Dynamics at the Southern Amazon Edge

(2019) Denis S Nogueira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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

Species Matter: Wood Density Influences Tropical Forest Biomass at Multiple Scales

(2019) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Revision and new species of the African genus Mischogyne (Annonaceae)

(2019) George Gosline et al.   KEW BULLETIN

Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

(2019) César Terrer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests

(2019) Fernanda Coelho de Souza et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2019) Fernando Elias et al.   ECOLOGY

Tropical savannas and dry forests

(2018) R. Toby Pennington et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate and fragmentation affect forest structure at the southern border of Amazonia

(2018) Simone Matias Reis et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests

(2018) Emilio Vilanova et al.   PLoS One

Weighing trees with lasers: advances, challenges and opportunities

(2018) M. I. Disney et al.   Interface Focus

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

Are fieldwork studies being relegated to second place in conservation science?

(2018) C. Antonio Ríos-Saldaña et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

(2018) Belén Fadrique et al.   NATURE

Estimating net biomass production and loss from repeated measurements of trees in forests and woodlands: Formulae, biases and recommendations

(2018) Takashi S. Kohyama et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

(2017) C. Levis et al.   SCIENCE

Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science

(2017) Akihiro Nakamura et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists

(2017) Timothy R. Baker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects

(2017) Lan Qie et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

(2017) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Scientific Reports

Enhancing interoperability to facilitate implementation of REDD+: case study of Mexico

(2017) Rodrigo Vargas et al.   Carbon Management

Incadendron : a new genus of Euphorbiaceae tribe Hippomaneae from the sub-Andean cordilleras of Ecuador and Peru

(2017) Kenneth J. Wurdack et al.   PhytoKeys

Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science

(2017) Moreno Di Marco et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Forest biomass density across large climate gradients in northern South America is related to water availability but not with temperature

(2017) Esteban Álvarez-Dávila et al.   PLoS One

Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

(2016) Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

(2016) T. R. Feldpausch et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

(2016) Michelle O. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest structure along a 600 km transect of natural disturbances and seasonality gradients in central-southern Amazonia

(2016) Juliana Schietti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

(2016) Carlos A. Peres et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

(2016) et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

(2016) R. L. Chazdon et al.   Science Advances

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

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

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

(2015) Sophie Fauset et al.   Nature Communications

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

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

The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests

(2014) Plinio Sist et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonian forests

(2014) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

(2014) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tropical forest wood production: a cross-continental comparison

(2014) Lindsay Banin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

(2014) L. V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

(2014) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Nature Communications

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

(2013) S. L. Lewis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

(2013) S. Gourlet-Fleury et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disequilibrium and hyperdynamic tree turnover at the forest–cerrado transition zone in southern Amazonia

(2013) Beatriz S. Marimon et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru

(2013) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

(2012) L. Banin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years

(2012) A. P. Ballantyne et al.   NATURE

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

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies

(2010) Liana O. Anderson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?

(2009) M. GLOOR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

The changing Amazon forest

(2008) O. L Phillips et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES