Amazonian forests
Consistent, small effects of tree-fall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests
... in Amazonian forests (Chambers et ...in Amazonian forests may limit their role as a mechanism maintaining the broad variation in species composition and diversity across this region: ...
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Do species traits determine patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests?
... between forests. For example, in Amazonian forests, it is well-established that there is an east-west gra- dient in average wood density (Baker et ...
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Model-based estimation of Amazonian forests recovery time after drought and fire events
... Amazon forests is considerably under pressure due to the increased frequency and intensity of disturbances in the tropical regions ...on Amazonian forests are often related to a combination of ...
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Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests
... tropical forests, both today and in the ...tropical forests in different settings on other continents ...of Amazonian forests by altering the abundance of a suite of dis- turbance-adapted taxa ...
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Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models
... AGB forests which have the lowest stem mortality rates ...tropical forests, whether dri- ven by increased growth, drought or fire, and extrapo- lations from forest plot data have been used to argue that ...
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An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)
... Abstract. The Amazon basin is likely to be increasingly affected by environmental changes: higher temperatures, changes in precipitation, CO 2 fertilization and habitat frag- mentation. To examine the important ...
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Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
... Mature Amazonian forest plots have therefore undergone sub- stantial change in functional ...of forests sampled through time, and other potential artefactual explanations can also be ruled out ...
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Tree growth and stem carbon accumulation in human modified Amazonian forests following drought and fire
... El Niño drought affected relative tree growth and carbon accumulation rates across the disturbance.. gradient?, 3 Is the post-El Niño growth and carbon accumulation of trees affected by [r] ...
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Second rate or a second chance?:Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests
... eastern Amazonian state of Par´a (Figure ...primary forests, and 57% of its remnant cover is fragmented (INPE, 2013; Supporting ...primary forests and half of that which remains is ...
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An Amazonian forest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change
... D’Angelo S, Andrade A, Laurance SG, Laurance WF, Mesquita R 2004 Inferred causes of tree mortality in fragmented and intact Amazonian forests.. da Silva JMC, Tabarelli M 2000 Tree specie[r] ...
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Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
... Amazon forests a significant increase in AGB is found even with a conservative assumption of zero growth for all trees where diameter measurements were made using optical methods and/or growth rates needed to be ...
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Characterization and antioxidant activity of Amazonian woods
... Further loss must be prevented to avoid global weather extremes, as well as threats to regional biodiversity and genetic resources. The fundamental cause of deforestation is that Amazonian woods are generally ...
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Multi-scale comparisons of tree composition in Amazonian terra firme forests
... While there are practical challenges with species-based analyses in hyper-diverse Amazonian forests (e.g. Phillips et al., 2003), ideally it is preferable to study variation at the species, rather than ...
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Spectroscopic and chemical analysis of burnt earth under Amazonian homegarden systems and anthropic Amazonian dark soils
... 2015). Ashes, from the biocarbonization of organic waste, contain large amounts of Ca, Mg and K that can react with negatively charged carbon functional groups of pyrogenic carbon, increasing soil CEC (cation exchange ...
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Securing the climate benefits of stable forests
... stable forests may also be a vital source of resilience in a changing climate, through qualities such as fi re resistance, and to the potential for such foreststo serve as eco- logical source areas to support ...
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Coppice Forest Management Planning and the Regeneration Potential of Pure and Mixed Oak Coppice Forests in North Macedonia
... coppice forests together with shrubs cover ...coppice forests alone cover about 50% of the total forest area subject to current Forest Management ...
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Forests Organization on the Base of Ecological Dynamic Characteristics of Vegetation (Some Methodological Aspects)
... of forests use nowadays is performed on the base of forests taxa- tion investigations for many years from 1950 to 2000ies, where such timber stand characteristics as species composition, yield class and age ...
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Quantile Regression Forests
... Evaluation To measure the quality of the conditional quantile approximations, loss func- tion (3) is used in conjunction with 5-fold cross-validation. The employed loss function measures the weighted absolute deviations ...
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Securing the climate benefits of stable forests
... stable forests may also be a vital source of resilience in a changing climate, through qualities such as fi re resistance, and to the potential for such foreststo serve as eco- logical source areas to support ...
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Stand dynamics of the drought-affected floodplain forests of Araguaia River, Brazilian Amazon
... many Amazonian flood- plain tree species are ecotypes of taxa originating from the surrounding terra firme ...drier forests of the south-eastern Amazon surrounding the Araguaia floodplain, but it probably ...
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