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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
- Y. Pan, R. Birdsey, +15 authors D. Hayes
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Science
- 19 August 2011
Net average global annual uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by forests was 1.1 petagrams of carbon, roughly one-sixth of fossil fuel emissions. The terrestrial carbon sink has been large in recent… Expand
Extinction risk from climate change
- C. Thomas, A. Cameron, +16 authors S. Williams
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Nature
- 8 January 2004
Climate change over the past ∼30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of… Expand
TRY – a global database of plant traits
- J. Kattge, Sandra Díaz, +132 authors C. Wirth
- Biology
- Global Change Biology
- 1 September 2011
Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to environmental… Expand
Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass
- T. Baker, O. Phillips, +15 authors R. V. Martinez
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 2004
Uncertainty in biomass estimates is one of the greatest limitations to models of carbon flux in tropical forests. Previous comparisons of field-based estimates of the aboveground biomass (AGB) of… Expand
Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests
- S. Lewis, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, +30 authors H. Wöll
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Nature
- 19 February 2009
The response of terrestrial vegetation to a globally changing environment is central to predictions of future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The role of tropical forests is critical because… Expand
Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest
- O. Phillips, L. Aragão, +63 authors A. Torres-Lezama
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Science
- 6 March 2009
Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed… Expand
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique
- O. Phillips, A. Gentry
- Geography
- Economic Botany
- 2008
This paper describes a new, simple, quantitative technique for evaluating the relative usefulness of plants to people. The technique is then compared to the quantitative approaches in ethnobotany… Expand
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: II. Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany
- O. Phillips, A. Gentry
- Biology
- Economic Botany
- 2008
We present results of applying a simple technique to statistically test several hypotheses in ethnobotany, using plant use data from non-indigenous people in southeast Peru. Hypotheses tested… Expand
Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.
- T. Baker, O. Phillips, +15 authors R. V. Martinez
- Biology, Medicine
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
- 29 March 2004
A previous study by Phillips et al. of changes in the biomass of permanent sample plots in Amazonian forests was used to infer the presence of a regional carbon sink. However, these results generated… Expand
Dynamics and species richness of tropical rain forests.
- O. Phillips, P. Hall, A. Gentry, S. Sawyer, R. Vasquez
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 29 March 1994
We present a worldwide analysis of humid tropical forest dynamics and tree species richness. New tree mortality, recruitment, and species richness data include the most dynamic and diverse mature… Expand
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