Short-term effects of drought on tropical forest do not fully predict impacts of repeated or long-term drought: gas exchange versus growth

Shock and stabilisation following long-term drought in tropical forest from 15 years of litterfall dynamics

(2018) Lucy Rowland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stand dynamics modulate water cycling and mortality risk in droughted tropical forest

(2017) Antonio C. L. da Costa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

(2017) Thomas L. Powell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Growth and reproduction respond differently to climate in three Neotropical tree species

(2017) Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

(2017) Junjie Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of rainfall exclusion on leaf gas exchange traits and osmotic adjustment in mature canopy trees of Dryobalanops aromatica (Dipterocarpaceae) in a Malaysian tropical rain forest

(2017) Yuta Inoue et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate

(2017) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Communications

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biogeographic distributions of neotropical trees reflect their directly measured drought tolerances

(2017) Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert et al.   Scientific Reports

Seasonal and interannual changes in vegetation activity of tropical forests in Southeast Asia

(2016) Yuan Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

(2016) Marc Estiarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought

(2016) Oliver Binks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Optimal stomatal behavior with competition for water and risk of hydraulic impairment

(2016) Adam Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees

(2016) Oliver Binks et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments

(2015) Patrick Meir et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A comparison of plot-based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production

(2015) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

After more than a decade of soil moisture deficit, tropical rainforest trees maintain photosynthetic capacity, despite increased leaf respiration

(2015) Lucy Rowland et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

What plant hydraulics can tell us about responses to climate-change droughts

(2015) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-related tree mortality: addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction

(2015) Patrick Meir et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Projections of future meteorological drought and wet periods in the Amazon

(2015) Philip B. Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combining mechanism and drift in community ecology: a novel statistical mechanics approach

(2015) J. Bertram et al.   Theoretical Ecology

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

Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

(2014) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

(2014) L. V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

(2014) Wenju Cai et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

New insights into carbon allocation by trees from the hypothesis that annual wood production is maximized

(2013) Ross E. McMurtrie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

(2013) Antonio C.L. da Costa et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

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

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil-plant-atmosphere-climate system

(2012) Gabriel G. Katul et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles

(2012) O. Franklin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon

(2010) D. B. Metcalfe 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

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake

(2010) Daniel Markewitz 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

Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

(2010) TOMAS FERREIRA DOMINGUES et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Evaluating climatic and soil water controls on evapotranspiration at two Amazonian rainforest sites

(2008) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Impact of severe dry season on net ecosystem exchange in the Neotropical rainforest of French Guiana

(2008) DAMIEN BONAL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

(2008) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL