Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass
- T. Baker, O. Phillips, R. Vásquez Martínez
- 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…
Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest
- O. Phillips, L. Aragão, A. Torres‐Lezama
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 6 March 2009
Records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia are used to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events that may accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances.
TROPICAL FORESTS: THEIR RICHNESS IN COLEOPTERA AND OTHER ARTHROPOD SPECIES
- T. Erwin
- Environmental Science
- 1982
It is concluded that current estimates of Arthropod species numbers are grossly underestimated; that there could be as many as 30 million species extant globally, not 1.5 million a, usually estimated.
Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.
- T. Baker, O. Phillips, R. V. Martinez
- Environmental SciencePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
- 29 March 2004
The results presented here suggest that the total biomass of these plots has on average increased and that there has been a regional-scale carbon sink in old-growth Amazonian forests during the previous two decades.
The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them
- P. Cardoso, T. Erwin, P. Borges, T. New
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2011
Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
- O. Phillips, R. V. Martinez, B. Vinceti
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 15 August 2002
It is shown that non-fragmented Amazon forests are experiencing a concerted increase in the density, basal area and mean size of woody climbing plants (lianas), which implies that the tropical terrestrial carbon sink may shut down sooner than current models suggest.
Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning
- C. Kremen, Robert K. Colwell, T. Erwin, D. Murphy, R. Noss, M. Sanjayan
- Geography
- 1 December 1993
: Arthropods, the most diverse component of terrestrial ecosystems, occupy a tremendous variety of functional niches and microhabitats across a wide array of spatial and temporal scales. We propose…
Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink
- R. Brienen, O. Phillips, R. Zagt
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 19 March 2015
Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong global carbon sink over recent decades, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably located in the…
Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate
- C. Quesada, O. Phillips, J. Lloyd
- Environmental Science
- 22 June 2012
Abstract. Forest structure and dynamics vary across the Amazon Basin in an east-west gradient coincident with variations in soil fertility and geology. This has resulted in the hypothesis that soil…
Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.
- O. Phillips, T. Baker, B. Vinceti
- Environmental SciencePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
- 29 March 2004
Previous work has shown that tree turnover, tree biomass and large liana densities have increased in mature tropical forest plots in the late twentieth century. These results point to a concerted…
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