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Open AccessConsistent 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...
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Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds
The critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail averages approximately 46.7 °C (Tcrit)1. However, it remains unclear whether leaf temperatures experienced by tropic...
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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata
The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of how this extraordinary biodivers...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20537-x
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Open AccessTree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of ...
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Open AccessLong-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity
Tropical ecosystems adapted to high water availability may be highly impacted by climatic changes that increase soil and atmospheric moisture deficits. Many tropical regions are experiencing significant change...
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Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate...
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Open AccessDiversity 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...
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Modelling Amazonian Carbon Budgets and Vegetation Dynamics in a Changing Climate
Modelling the Amazon terrestrial carbon budget and vegetation dynamics is still at an early stage, despite the large amount of research on dynamic vegetation models and land–atmosphere exchange. We give an ove...
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Open AccessHyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling
While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed strongly towards relatively few ‘hyperdominant’ species. In addition to their diversity, Amazonian trees are a key componen...
