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Exploring tropical forest aboveground carbon dynamics via modelled landscapes of varied food production, past and present

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Contemporary land use studies often place food production in direct conflict with tropical forests, with forest land use for human needs exiting in conflict with carbon‐related forest conservation and biodiversity protection efforts. We highlight the more nuanced, mixed activities possible in the space between primary forest and fixed, monocultures ...
Sebastian A. Los, Ricarda Winkelmann, Patrick Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services in rainforest, traditional and industrial oil palm cultivation systems in Liberia, West Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Oil palm is native to the west African forest, where industrial production is expanding. We assessed differences in plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services across 54 forest, community agriculture and oil palm plots in Sinoe County, Liberia.
Cicely A. M. Marshall, Marshall M. Guahn, Tiecanna Jones, Morris T. Jah, Peter M. Hadfield, Ari Saputra, Rudy Widodo, Benedictus Freeman, William Draper, Jean‐Pierre Caliman, Edgar C. Turner, Michael D. Pashkevich   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote Sensing Based Spatial Statistics to Document Tropical Rainforest Transition Pathways

Remote Sensing, 2015
In this paper, grid cell based spatial statistics were used to quantify the drivers of land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) and habitat degradation in a tropical rainforest in Madagascar.
A. Ghulam, O. Ghulam, M. Maimaitijiang, K. Freeman, I. Porton, M. Maimaitiyiming   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards the sustainability of African sandalwood: Understanding the distribution and environmental requirements

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
African sandalwood (Osyris lanceolata) leaves, roots, barks, fruits, and woods are used for multiple purposes throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe. The species is threatened in several eastern African countries. To improve the species' management and conservation, a habitat suitability study was undertaken in its at‐risk region in eastern Africa and ...
Jane Gachambi Mwangi, Salisu Mohammed, Kabir Mustapha Umar, Jeremy Haggar, Truly Santika   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A test of the mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy framework in two types of tropical rainforests under nutrient enrichments

Forest Ecosystems, 2023
Shifts in tree species and their mycorrhizal associations driven by global change play key roles in biogeochemical cycles. In this paper, we proposed a framework of the mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy (MANE), and tested it using nutrient addition
Qingshui Yu, Suhui Ma, Xiaofeng Ni, Lai Jiang, Zhang Zhou, Jiangling Zhu, Chengjun Ji, Zhiyao Tang, Xiaoli Cheng, Jingyun Fang   +9 more
doaj  

Seasonal fluctuations of litter and soil Collembola and their drivers in rainforest and plantation systems [PDF]

PeerJ
Rainforest conversion and expansion of plantations in tropical regions change local microclimate and are associated with biodiversity decline. Tropical soils are a hotspot of animal biodiversity and may sensitively respond to microclimate changes, but ...
Winda Ika Susanti, Valentyna Krashevska, Rahayu Widyastuti, Christian Stiegler, Dodo Gunawan, Stefan Scheu, Anton M. Potapov   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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

Global Change Biology, 2015
Determining climate change feedbacks from tropical rainforests requires an understanding of how carbon gain through photosynthesis and loss through respiration will be altered.
L. Rowland, R. Lobo-do-Vale, B. Christoffersen, Eliane A. Melém, B. Kruijt, S. S. Vasconcelos, T. Domingues, O. Binks, Alex A. R. Oliveira, D. Metcalfe, A. D. da Costa, Maurizio Mencuccini, P. Meir   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Resolution dependence of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer in global storm‐resolving climate simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 151, Issue 768, April 2025 Part A.
Increasing the resolution by the order of a few kilometres in global climate simulations causes no substantial changes to boundary‐layer properties and processes over land. Some global changes are detected that indicate circulation changes, and small changes to the boundary‐layer depth and structure are found over land in the Tropics.
Linnea Huusko, Páll Ágúst Þórarinsson, Joakim Pyykkö, Gunilla Svensson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trophic niches, diversity and community composition of invertebrate top predators (Chilopoda) as affected by conversion of tropical lowland rainforest in Sumatra (Indonesia)

PLoS ONE, 2017
Conversion of tropical rainforests into plantations fundamentally alters ecological niches of animal species. Generalist predators such as centipedes (Chilopoda) may be able to persist in converted ecosystems due to their ability to adapt and switch to ...
B. Klarner, H. Winkelmann, Valentyna Krashevska, M. Maraun, R. Widyastuti, S. Scheu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intraseasonal synchronization of extreme rainfall between North India and the Sahel

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) and the West African Monsoon (WAM) are dominant drivers of boreal summer precipitation variability in tropical and subtropical regions. We employ a climate network approach to uncover synchronously occurring extreme rainfall patterns across the two monsoon systems.
Felix M. Strnad, Kieran M.R. Hunt, Niklas Boers, Bedartha Goswami   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source