tropical forests
Fixing tropical forests
... Tropical forests recovering from deforestation, degradation and agriculture have the potential to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping countries meet their climate ...
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Increasing turnover through time in tropical forests
... Mature forests inventoried for two or more successive periods (equal to at least three successive inventories) provide a more rigorous test of the hypothesis that tropical forests have become more ...
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Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests
... these forests act as carbon sinks, but, based on our results, they only reach ∼24% of their carbon sink potential when compared to liana- free ...neotropical forests (9, 10, 23) may be partially responsible ...
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Leaf chemical and spectral diversity in Australian tropical forests
... in tropical forests as it is globally across ...in forests, multiple pigments are important determinants of light capture, protection from high radiation, and regulation of photosynthetic functions ...
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Conservation and Restoration of Endangered Plant Species in the Tropical Forests
... only forests and its products would be given the needed attention for conservation, endangered plant species (such as- Prosopis africana, Parkia biglobosa, Khaya senegalensis, Gleditsia assamica, Gymnocladus ...
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Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis
... that tropical forests may now be near an upper temperature threshold where these physiological mechanisms become positive feedbacks that induce forest ...that tropical taxa have experienced for ...
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Fingerprinting the impacts of global change on tropical forests
... in tropical forests high enough to cause declines in photosynthesis? Points of inflection typically occur at 35–45 ° C for many high- temperature-adapted plants (Berry & Bjo¨rkman ...
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Management inventory of mixed tropical forests of Burma
... mixed tropical forests which by nature are very ...large tropical forests into blocks of regular shape if a more suitable basis for stratification is not ...
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Environmental controls on wood density in tropical forests
... The coarse woody debris (CWD) pool of a forest in composed mainly by death trees, large branches and death leaves. The nutrients that are confined on the death material return to the ecosystems to be reused by living ...
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Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests
... closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African ...Bornean forests, and significantly greater than East or West African ...closed-canopy tropical forests may be particularly sensitive ...
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Quantitative Evaluation of Bitterlich Sampling for Estimating Basal Area in Sparse Boreal Forests and Dense Tropical Forests
... The performance of Bitterlich sampling was also evaluated using different CN values for the dense tropical forests. The theoretical estimation was slightly im- proved when the MNB was slightly decreased and ...
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Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests
... closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African ...Bornean forests, and significantly greater than East or West African ...closed-canopy tropical forests may be particularly sensitive ...
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Life after logging in tropical forests of Borneo: A meta-analysis
... In the case of mammals, small species (e.g., Leopodalmys, Maxomys, Niviventer, Tupaia) were generally more abundant in logged than in pri- mary tropical forests. This is in contrast to a previous study, ...
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Predicting tree heights for biomass estimates in tropical forests
... e ff ect. In the past, various Height–DBH model shapes have been proposed (Huang et al., 1992) but their applications to large scale tropical forests are rare (Brown et al., 1989; Feldpausch et al., 2011). ...
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MONITORING TROPICAL FORESTS USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR
... In tropical forests height differences between individual trees can be substantial and are ...logged-over forests can reach more than 10 m above other upper canopy ...
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Changes in growth of tropical forests: evaluating potential biases
... We have compiled a list of methodological issues that have been argued to cause a systematic negative or positive bias in plot-based estimates of basal area change (Table 1), based on our own work and other published and ...
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Efficient plot-based floristic assessment of tropical forests
... The tropical flora remains chronically understudied and the lack of floristic understanding hampers ecological research and its application for large-scale conservation ...sampled forests in two regions of ...
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Tropical forests, climate change and neoliberal environmental governmentality
... of forests in mitigating climate change dictates that they be governed as global commons, but the principle is not universally accepted and belied by state ...treat forests as the common heritage of ...
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Road expansion and the fate of Africa's tropical forests
... The tropical forests of Africa are experiencing unprecedented changes as a result of a rapid proliferation of roads and other ...the forests and wildlife populations of Africa’s most biologically ...
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Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
... of tropical forests (1, ...3–5), tropical forests maintain conspicuous regional differences in species ...of tropical tree species are shared among Africa, America, and Asia ...among ...
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