An estimate of the number of tropical tree species [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Significance People are fascinated by the amazing diversity of tropical forests and will be surprised to learn that robust estimates of the number of tropical tree species are lacking. We show that there are at least 40,000, but possibly more than 53,000,
J W Ferry Slik +2 more
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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities [PDF]
NatureTrees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most ...
Declan L M Cooper +2 more
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Large differences in leaf cuticle conductance and its temperature response among 24 tropical tree species from across a rainfall gradient. [PDF]
New Phytol, 2021 Summary More frequent droughts and rising temperatures pose serious threats to tropical forests. When stomata are closed under dry and hot conditions, plants lose water through leaf cuticles, but little is known about cuticle conductance (g min) of ...
Slot M +5 more
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Partitioning mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards across 203 tropical tree species. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 Significance We present a model that partitions rates of tropical tree mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards. This creates the opportunity to examine the relative contributions of within-species and across-species variation on ...
Camac JS +7 more
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Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2022 Understanding how evolutionary history and the coordination between trait trade‐off axes shape the drought tolerance of trees is crucial to predict forest dynamics under climate change.
J. Guillemot +20 more
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The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and trnH-psbA [corrected] are suitable candidate loci for DNA barcoding of tropical tree species of India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 DNA barcoding as a tool for species identification has been successful in animals and other organisms, including certain groups of plants. The exploration of this new tool for species identification, particularly in tree species, is very scanty from ...
Abhinandan Mani Tripathi +6 more
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Classification of Tropical Forest Tree Species Using Meter-Scale Image Data
Remote Sensing, 2019 Accurate classification of tropical tree species is critical for understanding forest habitat, biodiversity, forest composition, biomass, and the role of trees in climate variability through carbon uptake.
Matthew Cross +5 more
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Estimating the global number of tropical tree species, and Fisher's paradox. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Hubbell SP.
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Given the importance of wood in many industrial applications, much research has focused on wood formation, especially lignin biosynthesis. However, the mechanisms governing the regulation of lignin biosynthesis in the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis ...
Xiangxu Meng +15 more
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BMC Genomics, 2021 Background Most plants rely on photosynthesis; therefore, albinism in plants with leaves that are white instead of green causes slow growth, dwarfing, and even death.
Xiangxu Meng +8 more
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