Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests

Trees at the Amazonia-Cerrado transition are approaching high temperature thresholds

(2021) Igor Araújo et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

(2021) Amy C. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2021) ForestPlots.net et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

(2021) Luciana V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests

(2021) Daniel Zuleta et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

(2020) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

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

Causes and consequences of liana infestation in Southern Amazonia

(2020) Simone Matias Reis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drought generates large, long-term changes in tree and liana regeneration in a monodominant Amazon forest

(2020) Beatriz S. Marimon et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Long-term forest degradation surpasses deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi et al.   SCIENCE

Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses

(2020) Celso H. L. Silva Junior et al.   Science Advances

The importance and challenges of detecting changes in forest mortality rates

(2019) Sean M. McMahon et al.   Ecosphere

Impacts of forestation and deforestation on local temperature across the globe

(2019) Jayme A. Prevedello et al.   PLoS One

Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

(2019) Izabela Aleixo et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

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

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

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

Revealing the causes and temporal distribution of tree mortality in Central Amazonia

(2018) Clarissa G. Fontes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

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

Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: a recipe for tropical forest degradation

(2018) Divino V. Silvério et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Crown damage and the mortality of tropical trees

(2018) Gabriel Arellano et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

Partitioning mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards across 203 tropical tree species

(2018) James S. Camac et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Overlooking what is underground: Root:shoot ratios and coarse root allometric equations for tropical forests

(2017) Bonnie G. Waring et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tree species vary widely in their tolerance for liana infestation: A case study of differential host response to generalist parasites

(2017) Marco D. Visser et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species

(2016) G.H.P.M. Ribeiro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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

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

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fates of trees damaged by logging in Amazonian Bolivia

(2015) Alexander Shenkin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests

(2015) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Projected strengthening of Amazonian dry season by constrained climate model simulations

(2015) Juan P. Boisier et al.   Nature Climate Change

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Köppen's climate classification map for Brazil

(2014) Clayton Alcarde Alvares et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

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

Linking size-dependent growth and mortality with architectural traits across 145 co-occurring tropical tree species

(2013) Yoshiko Iida et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

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

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tree mode of death in Central Amazonia: Effects of soil and topography on tree mortality associated with storm disturbances

(2011) José Julio de Toledo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Calibrating the liana crown occupancy index in Amazonian forests

(2010) Geertje M.F. van der Heijden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments

(2010) Olivier Flores et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do trees die? Mode of death in northern Amazonia

(2009) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

(2008) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY