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Local Climate Conditions Shape the Seasonal Patterns of the Diptera Community in a Tropical Rainforest of the Americas
Insect life cycles are short-term and therefore sensitive to immediate changes triggered by climate, vegetation structure, or land use management;...
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Climatic regulation of the non-structural and structural carbon in the pioneer Senna multijuga and non-pioneer Hymenaea aurea trees of a humid tropical rainforest
Key messageStructural and non-structural carbon pools of Senna multijuga and Hymenaea aurea provide future projections on carbon dynamics in other...
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Traits, strategies, and niches of liana species in a tropical seasonal rainforest
Plant functional traits and strategies hold the promise to explain species distribution, but few studies have linked multiple traits to multiple...
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Tropical Ecology and Deforestation
From the perspective of biological diversity, there are a few regions on Earth that can compare with the tropics in terms of sheer numbers of...
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Giant African snail invasion homogenizes seasonal soil biodiversity in tropical coral islands
Background and aimsBiological invasions have tremendous effects on soil biodiversity. Although the effects of invasive plants on soil biota have been...
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Aerobic Methanotrophy and Co-occurrence Networks of a Tropical Rainforest and Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia
Oil palm (OP) plantations are gradually replacing tropical rainforest in Malaysia, one of the largest palm oil producers globally. Conversion of...
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Dynamics of soil and foliar phosphorus fractions in a secondary tropical forest under altered seasonal precipitation patterns
Background and aimsUnderstanding how altered precipitation patterns affect the dynamics of phosphorus (P) fractions in both soil and foliage is...
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A screening analysis of foliar terpene emissions of 36 rainforest tree species in French Guiana and their relationships with seasonality
Key messageInventory and seasonal variation of terpene emissions from tropical trees in French Guiana: implications for environmental and ecological...
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Southern Hot Tropical Biomes
The wet Tropics, home to the zonobiome E1, under the strong influence of the high tropical high temperatures and the Intertropical Convergence Zone...
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Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations
BackgroundIn the last decades, Southeast Asia has experienced massive conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm monoculture plantations. The...
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The Significance of Hydrological and Geomorphological Processes for Lowland Tropical Rainforest Ecology
Variations in water availability threaten ecosystem stability. Past droughts and wet periods with heavy, prolonged rainfalls strongly influence...
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Overstory functional groups indicate the legacy of land use in a secondary tropical forest in southwestern China
Anthropogenic disturbances are widespread in tropical forests and influence the species composition in the overstory. However, the impacts of...
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Seed high-temperature sensitivity and germination ecology in intermediate seeds of three species from **shuangbanna, tropical China
Plant invasion causes changes in floristic composition, and structural and functional degradation of tropical rainforest, which is driven by global...
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Implications of zero-deforestation palm oil for tropical grassy and dry forest biodiversity
Many companies have made zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) to reduce carbon emissions and biodiversity losses linked to tropical commodities....
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Why There Are No Modern Equids Living in Tropical Lowland Rainforests
Presently, the equid lineage occurs completely outside tropical rainforest environments, which is thought of as the cradle of Perissodactyls and...
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Selva: Flood-Driven Entrapment and Planned Relocation in Peru’s Rainforest
In Peru’s rainforest (Selva), the research interest was in two cases of flood-driven, short-distance, planned relocation in the Region of San Martín....
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Impacts of land use history on leaf litter input, chemical composition, decomposition and related nutrient cycling in young and old secondary tropical lowland rainforests (Sumatra, Indonesia)
BackgroundNutrient cycle in tropical forests is mainly driven by litter fall amounts and by litter decay due to litter physical and chemical...
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Photosynthetic microorganisms effectively contribute to bryophyte CO2 fixation in boreal and tropical regions
Photosynthetic microbes are omnipresent in land and water. While they critically influence primary productivity in aquatic systems, their importance...
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Temporal organization among pollination systems in a tropical seasonal forest
Temporal constancy of pollination systems is essential for the maintenance of pollinators through time. Community-level assessment of flowering...
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Browsing into a Panamanian tropical rainforest: micro- and mesowear study of Central American red brocket deer
The Mazama genus is one of the more diverse genera among deer (Cervidae); its classification is controversial because of its complex phylogenetic...
