13 Result(s)

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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

Trees 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 environmenta...

Declan L. M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Paulo I. Prado… in Nature (2024)

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Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system¹. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from gl...

Lidong Mo, Constantin M. Zohner, Peter B. Reich, **g**g Liang, Sergio de Miguel… in Nature (2023)

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The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit

Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our understanding of the fa...

Haozhi Ma, Thomas W. Crowther, Lidong Mo, Daniel S. Maynard… in Nature Plants (2023)

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Author Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

Camille S. Delavaux, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Niamh M. Robmann… in Nature (2023)

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Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species^1,2. Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even ...

Camille S. Delavaux, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Niamh M. Robmann… in Nature (2023)

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The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth’s ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment o...

Dmitry Schepaschenko, Jérôme Chave, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis… in Scientific Data (2019)

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Author Correction: Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects

The original version of this Article contained an error in the third sentence of the abstract and incorrectly read “Here, using long-term plot monitoring records of up to half a century, we find that intact fo...

Lan Qie, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan… in Nature Communications (2018)

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Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects

Less than half of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions remain in the atmosphere. While carbon balance models imply large carbon uptake in tropical forests, direct on-the-ground observations are still lacking...

Lan Qie, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan… in Nature Communications (2017)

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Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but the conservation strat...

Martin J. P. Sullivan, Joey Talbot, Simon L. Lewis… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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A methodological framework to assess the carbon balance of tropical managed forests

Managed forests are a major component of tropical landscapes. Production forests as designated by national forest services cover up to 400 million ha, i.e. half of the forested area in the humid tropics. Fores...

Camille Piponiot, Antoine Cabon, Laurent Descroix… in Carbon Balance and Management (2016)

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Community assessment of tropical tree biomass: challenges and opportunities for REDD+

REDD+ programs rely on accurate forest carbon monitoring. Several REDD+ projects have recently shown that local communities can monitor above ground biomass as well as external professionals, but at lower cost...

Ida Theilade, Ervan Rutishauser, Michael K Poulsen in Carbon Balance and Management (2015)