Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Assessment of socioenvironmental benefits and feasibility identifies priority areas for restoring global tropical rainforests.
Brancalion PHS +12 more
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Remote Sensing of Tropical Rainforest Biomass Changes in Hainan Island, China from 2003 to 2018
Remote Sensing, 2021 The largest area of tropical rainforests in China is on Hainan Island, and it is an important part of the world’s tropical rainforests. The structure of the tropical rainforests in Hainan is complex, the biomass density is high, and conducting ground ...
Meizhi Lin +7 more
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Tropical rainforest species have larger increases in temperature optima with warming than warm-temperate rainforest trees. [PDF]
New Phytol, 2022 Summary While trees can acclimate to warming, there is concern that tropical rainforest species may be less able to acclimate because they have adapted to a relatively stable thermal environment.
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Tropical rainforests: Diversity begets diversity [PDF]
Current Biology, 1997 Tropical rainforests exhibit an extraordinarily high level of biological diversity. A new study shows that the patterns of seedling survival surrounding parent trees are responsible in large part for this amazing diversity.
Audrey L. Mayer, Stuart L. Pimm
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Non-microbial methane emissions from tropical rainforest soils under different conditions [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Non-microbial methane (NM-CH4), emissions from soil might play a significant role in carbon cycling and global climate change. However, the production mechanisms and emission potential of soil NM-CH4 from tropical rainforest remain highly uncertain.
Gaohui Jia +10 more
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Effects of plant diversity, soil microbial diversity, and network complexity on ecosystem multifunctionality in a tropical rainforest [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 IntroductionPlant diversity and soil microbial diversity are important driving factors in sustaining ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in terrestrial ecosystems.
Yanxuan Chen +18 more
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Habitat Suitability Assessment of Key Wildlife in Hainan Tropical Rainforest Based on ESDM [PDF]
LifeHainan tropical rainforest is the largest contiguous tropical rainforest in China, but it has experienced increasing disturbances from anthropogenic activities in recent decades due to economic and social development.
Wutao Yao +5 more
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Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2023 The Amazon rainforest is considered one of the Earth’s tipping elements and may lose stability under ongoing climate change. Recently a decrease in tropical rainforest resilience has been identified globally from remotely sensed vegetation data. However,
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Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest [PDF]
Science, 2019 Forest termites mitigate the effects of droughtIn many tropical regions, where drought is predicted to become more frequent in the coming years, termites are key components of ecosystem function. Ashtonet al.experimentally manipulated termite communities to quantify their role during the 2015–2016 “super El Niño” drought in a Malaysian tropical ...
Hoe Seng Tin +14 more
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Metabolism of a tropical rainforest stream
Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 2005 AbstractGradients in photosynthesis (P) and respiration (R) were measured on an unperturbed portion of the Rio Mameyes, a tropical stream in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, northeastern Puerto Rico. Rates of P, which were similar to those of streams in temperate-deciduous forests, were low in the heavily canopied headwaters (
Jorge R. Ortíz-Zayas +4 more
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