Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests

Understanding the key mechanisms of tropical forest responses to canopy loss and biomass deposition from experimental hurricane effects

(2014) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Thermal acclimation of leaf respiration of tropical trees and lianas: response to experimental canopy warming, and consequences for tropical forest carbon balance

(2014) Martijn Slot et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

(2014) Xuhui Wang et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming

(2014) Jianyang Xia et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network

(2013) Natalia Restrepo-Coupe et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

(2013) Yude Pan et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Tropical forest responses to increasing atmospheric CO2: current knowledge and opportunities for future research

(2013) Lucas A. Cernusak et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2trends

(2013) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal tolerance, net CO2 exchange and growth of a tropical tree species, Ficus insipida, cultivated at elevated daytime and nighttime temperatures

(2013) G. Heinrich Krause et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Global warming and tropical carbon

(2013) James T. Randerson   NATURE

Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

(2013) Peter M. Cox et al.   NATURE

The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability

(2013) Camilo Mora et al.   NATURE

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Variations in atmospheric CO2 growth rates coupled with tropical temperature

(2013) W. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

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

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

Acclimation and soil moisture constrain sugar maple root respiration in experimentally warmed soil

(2013) M. P. Jarvi et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

An imperative need for global change research in tropical forests

(2013) X. Zhou et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

(2013) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

(2013) Josep Peñuelas et al.   Nature Communications

Field-quantified responses of tropical rainforest aboveground productivity to increasing CO2and climatic stress, 1997-2009

(2013) Deborah A. Clark et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes

(2012) Tana E. Wood et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A physiological trait-based approach to predicting the responses of species to experimental climate warming

(2012) Sarah E. Diamond et al.   ECOLOGY

When Wet Gets Wetter: Decoupling of Moisture, Redox Biogeochemistry, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Humid Tropical Forest Soil

(2012) Steven J. Hall et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

High sensitivity of future global warming to land carbon cycle processes

(2012) Ben B B Booth et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A positive carbon feedback to ENSO and volcanic aerosols in the tropical terrestrial biosphere

(2012) Kevin R. Gurney et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Strong spatial variability in trace gasdynamics following experimental drought in a humid tropical forest

(2012) Tana E. Wood et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The carbon sink in intact tropical forests

(2012) Stuart Joseph Wright   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant respiration and photosynthesis in global-scale models: incorporating acclimation to temperature and CO2

(2012) Nicholas G Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon storage in successional and plantation forest soils: a tropical analysis

(2012) Erika Marín-Spiotta et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Comparing Tropical Forest Projections from Two Generations of Hadley Centre Earth System Models, HadGEM2-ES and HadCM3LC

(2012) Peter Good et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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

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

Decade-long soil nitrogen constraint on the CO2 fertilization of plant biomass

(2012) Peter B. Reich et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

(2011) Richard J. Norby et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries

(2011) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Intensification of seasonal extremes given a 2°C global warming target

(2011) Bruce T. Anderson   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Near-term increase in frequency of seasonal temperature extremes prior to the 2°C global warming target

(2011) Bruce T. Anderson   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

(2011) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Multi-element regulation of the tropical forest carbon cycle

(2011) Alan R Townsend et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Improving the predictability of global CO2assimilation rates under climate change

(2011) T. Ziehn et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tropical forests in a warming world

(2011) Sasha C. Reed et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation

(2011) J. S. Powers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil warming, carbon-nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets

(2011) J. M. Melillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Performance and energy costs associated with scaling infrared heater arrays for warming field plots from 1 to 100 m

(2011) Bruce A. Kimball et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The future of tropical forests

(2010) S. Joseph Wright   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Quantifying carbon-nitrogen feedbacks in the Community Land Model (CLM4)

(2010) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

(2010) Y. MALHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A method for experimental heating of intact soil profiles for application to climate change experiments

(2010) PAUL J. HANSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

(2010) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Global climate change and tree nutrition: effects of elevated CO2 and temperature

(2010) M. Lukac et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Appropriate experimental ecosystem warming methods by ecosystem, objective, and practicality

(2009) Emma L. Aronson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Responses of Humid Tropical Trees to Rising CO2

(2009) Christian Körner   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Future of Tropical Species on a Warmer Planet

(2009) S. JOSEPH WRIGHT et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large-scale litter manipulation

(2009) Tana E. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region

(2009) C. Tarnocai et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns of water and heat flux across a biome gradient from tropical forest to savanna in Brazil

(2009) Humberto R. da Rocha et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Diel patterns of soil respiration in a tropical forest after Hurricane Wilma

(2008) Rodrigo Vargas et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Are tropical forests near a high temperature threshold?

(2008) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Effects of seasonality, litter removal and dry-season irrigation on litterfall quantity and quality in eastern Amazonian forest regrowth, Brazil

(2008) Steel Silva Vasconcelos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

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

Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment

(2008) P. M Brando et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

(2008) J. Lloyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The response of terrestrial ecosystems to global climate change: Towards an integrated approach

(2008) Lindsey E. Rustad   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests

(2008) A TOWNSEND et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION