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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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Dissolved organic matter quantity and quality response of tropical rainforest headwater rivers to the transition from dry to wet season
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) and its composition in aquatic ecosystems is a key indicator of ecosystem function and an important component of the...
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A systematic map of evidence on the relationship between agricultural production and biodiversity in tropical rainforest areas
BackgroundThe tropical rainforest biome plays a significant role in providing habitats for terrestrial biodiversity and delivering ecosystem service...
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Response of tropical forest productivity to seasonal drought mediated by potassium and phosphorus availability
Tropical forest productivity is increasingly reported to be nutrient limited, which may affect its response to seasonal droughts. Yet experimental...
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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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Exploratory radioisotope measurements suggest that in-stream erosion represents the main sediment source in a pristine, tropical rainforest in Costa Rica
PurposeVolcanic, humid tropical landscapes are characterized by short-term geomorphic transformations due to volcanism and seismic activity,...
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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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Effects of drought and recovery on soil volatile organic compound fluxes in an experimental rainforest
Drought can affect the capacity of soils to emit and consume biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Here we show the impact of prolonged drought...
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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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Part D: ZB I—Zonobiome of the Evergreen Tropical Rainforest or of the Equatorial Humid Diurnal Climate
The entire tropics are generally radiation surplus areas of the earth because of the equally favourable radiation conditions in the area between 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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Identification and quantification of giant bioaerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest
Eukarya dominate the coarse primary biological aerosol (PBA) above the Amazon rainforest canopy, but their vertical profile and seasonality is...
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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...
