Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: emerging patterns and putative mechanisms

The future of tropical forests

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

Predicted impact of exotic vines on an endangered ecological community under future climate change

(2010) Rachael V. Gallagher et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Spatiotemporal dynamics of lianas during 50 years of succession to temperate forest

(2010) Laura M. Ladwig et al.   ECOLOGY

Lianas suppress tree regeneration and diversity in treefall gaps

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central-equatorial Pacific

(2010) Tong Lee et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

(2010) Laura L. Ingwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Liana host preference and implications for deciduous forest regeneration1

(2010) Laura M. Ladwig et al.   JOURNAL OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY

Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective

(2010) Gregory P. Asner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contrasting cost–benefit strategy between lianas and trees in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China

(2010) Shi-Dan Zhu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Impact of landscape spatial pattern on liana communities in tropical rainforests at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

(2009) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

(2009) Saara J. DeWalt et al.   BIOTROPICA

Lianas and self-supporting plants during tropical forest succession

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of human disturbances and plant invasion on liana community structure and relationship with trees in the Tinte Bepo forest reserve, Ghana

(2009) P. Addo-Fordjour et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Environmental effects on Neotropical liana species richness

(2009) Geertje M. F. van der Heijden et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonal differences in leaf-level physiology give lianas a competitive advantage over trees in a tropical seasonal forest

(2009) Zhi-Quan Cai et al.   OECOLOGIA

Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil

(2009) Bruno G. Madeira et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Hydraulic properties and photosynthetic rates in co-occurring lianas and trees in a seasonal tropical rainforest in southwestern China

(2009) Shi-Dan Zhu et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests

(2009) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

BIOMASS AND TOXICITY RESPONSES OF POISON IVY (TOXICODENDRON RADICANS) TO ELEVATED ATMOSPHERIC CO2: COMMENT

(2008) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

SHIFTS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN FOREST CANOPY AND UNDERSTORY RICHNESS, COMPOSITION, AND HETEROGENEITY

(2008) David A. Rogers et al.   ECOLOGY

Beyond reduced-impact logging: Silvicultural treatments to increase growth rates of tropical trees

(2008) M. Peña-Claros et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A regional climate model study of how biomass burning aerosol impacts land-atmosphere interactions over the Amazon

(2008) Yan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Above- and below-ground competition in high and low irradiance: tree seedling responses to a competing liana Byttneria grandifolia

(2008) Ya-Jun Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Above-ground biomass and productivity in a rain forest of eastern South America

(2008) Jérôme Chave et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Effect of lianas on tree regeneration in gaps and forest understorey in a tropical forest in Ghana

(2008) T. Toledo-Aceves et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Infestation of trees by lianas in a tropical forest in Amazonian Peru

(2008) Geertje M.F. van der Heijden et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

High variation in foliage and leaf litter chemistry among 45 tree species of a neotropical rainforest community

(2008) Stephan Hättenschwiler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Spatial and temporal patterns of gap dominance by low-canopy lianas detected using EO-1 Hyperion and Landsat Thematic Mapper

(2008) Jane R. Foster et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Supplemental protocol for liana censuses

(2007) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Contribution of a liana species, Mucuna macrocarpa Wall., to litterfall production and nitrogen input in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest

(2007) Buntarou Kusumoto et al.   Journal of Forest Research