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Impact of Ants on the Order Composition of Canopy Arthropod Communities in Temperate and Tropical Forests [PDF]

Animals
Ants are key drivers of biodiversity in both tropical and temperate forests, though the underlying mechanisms of this remain debated. In tropical lowland rainforests, ants dominate the canopy as opportunistic predators, shaping arthropod abundance and ...
Andreas Floren, Tobias Müller
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Narrow thresholds of canopy disturbance determine the microclimate buffering potential of tropical forests [PDF]

iScience
Summary: The importance of protecting logged and recovering tropical forests has gained much attention. Disturbed forests can, however, have hotter microclimates, exacerbating the effects of future climate change.
Michael J.W. Boyle, Joseph Williamson, Stephen J. Rossiter, Marion Pfeifer, Rosie Drinkwater, Joel S. Woon, Louise A. Ashton, Michiel van Breugel, Paul Eggleton, Theodore A. Evans, Owen T. Lewis, Sarab S. Sethi, Eleanor M. Slade, Arthur Y.C. Chung, Robert M. Ewers   +14 more
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Litterfall Production and Litter Decomposition Experiments: In Situ Datasets of Nutrient Fluxes in Two Bornean Lowland Rain Forests Associated with Acacia Invasion

Data, 2023
It is increasingly recognized that invasion by alien plant species such as Acacia spp. can impact tropical forest ecosystems, although quantifications of nutrient fluxes for invaded lowland tropical rain forests in aseasonal climates remain understudied.
Salwana Md. Jaafar, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Faizah Metali, David F. R. P. Burslem   +3 more
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Attributes of host-specificity better explain the diversified wood-boring longhorn beetles in tropical SW China than plant species diversity

Scientific Reports, 2023
A long-debated question in ecology is whether the hyper-diversity of tropical plant-feeding insects is a direct consequence of high tropical plant diversity or should be attributed to increases in host plant specialization.
Fang Luo, Farkhanda Bibi, Terd Disayathanoowat, Tial C. Ling   +3 more
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Diazotrophs Show Signs of Restoration in Amazon Rain Forest Soils with Ecosystem Rehabilitation. [PDF]

, 2020
Biological nitrogen fixation can be an important source of nitrogen in tropical forests that serve as a major CO2 sink. Extensive deforestation of the Amazon is known to influence microbial communities and the biogeochemical cycles they mediate. However,
Bohannan, Brendan JM, McGlinn, Daniel J, Mirza, Babur S, Nüsslein, Klaus, Rodrigues, Jorge LM, Tiedje, James M   +5 more
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Does Gap Opening and Planting to Rehabilitate the Degraded Tropical Natural Forests Affect the Forest Composition and Structure?

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2022
By 2020, there were 33.4 million ha of degraded forests in Indonesia. If it is not rehabilitated, there will be land-use changes that significantly affect its biodiversity and environment.
Elias, Bintang C. H. Simangunsong
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Forest structure in low-diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The potential influence of diversity on ecosystem structure and function remains a topic of significant debate, especially for tropical forests where diversity can range widely.
Rebecca Ostertag, Faith Inman-Narahari, Susan Cordell, Christian P Giardina, Lawren Sack   +4 more
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Tropical deciduous forest in Yunnan, southwestern China: Implications for geological and climatic histories from a little-known forest formation

Plant Diversity, 2021
In the southern mountain ranges of Yunnan province, China, deep valleys of several large rivers create rain shadows with hot dry summers, and are locally designated tropical; towards the north, notably in the Lancang (Upper Mekong) valley, these regions ...
Hua Zhu, Peter Ashton, Bojian Gu, Shisun Zhou, Yunhong Tan   +4 more
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Elevated growth and biomass along temperate forest edges

Nature Communications, 2021
Studies from tropical regions indicate that fragmented forests are less productive. Here, the authors report higher growth and biomass in temperate forest edges in North America, and show that temperate forests are more fragmented than tropical forests ...
Luca L. Morreale, Jonathan R. Thompson, Xiaojing Tang, Andrew B. Reinmann, Lucy R. Hutyra   +4 more
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Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests: The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots

Plants, People, Planet, 2021
Societal Impact Statement Understanding of tropical forests has been revolutionized by monitoring in permanent plots. Data from global plot networks have transformed our knowledge of forests’ diversity, function, contribution to global biogeochemical ...
Peter W. Moonlight, Karina Banda‐R, Oliver L. Phillips, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, Tim R. Baker, Haroldo C. de Lima, Laurie Fajardo, Roy González‐M., Reynaldo Linares‐Palomino, Jon Lloyd, Marcelo Nascimento, Darién Prado, Catalina Quintana, Ricarda Riina, Gina M. Rodríguez M., Dora Maria Villela, Ana Carla M. M. Aquino, Luzmila Arroyo, Cidney Bezerra, Alexandre Tadeu Brunello, Roel J. W. Brienen, Domingos Cardoso, Kuo‐Jung Chao, Ítalo Antônio Cotta Coutinho, John Cunha, Tomas Domingues, Mário Marcos doEspírito Santo, Ted R. Feldpausch, Moabe Ferreira Fernandes, Zoë A. Goodwin, Eliana María Jiménez, Aurora Levesley, Leonel Lopez‐Toledo, Beatriz Marimon, Raquel C. Miatto, Marcelo Mizushima, Abel Monteagudo, Magna Soelma Beserra de Moura, Alejandro Murakami, Danilo Neves, Renata Nicora Chequín, Tony César de Sousa Oliveira, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Luciano P. de Queiroz, Alan Pilon, Desirée Marques Ramos, Carlos Reynel, Priscyla M. S. Rodrigues, Rubens Santos, Tiina Särkinen, Valdemir Fernando da Silva, Rodolfo M. S. Souza, Rodolfo Vasquez, Elmar Veenendaal   +54 more
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