Tropical Climate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Review of Hearing Loss Associated with Zika, Ebola, and Lassa Fever. 
  • A large and persistent carbon sink in the world's forests. 
  • A review of molecular mechanisms linked to potential renal injury agents in tropical rural farming communities. 
  • A validated agent-based model to study the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of malaria incidence in the rainforest environment. 
  • An assessment of skin temperature gradients in a tropical primate using infrared thermography and subcutaneous implants. 
  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees. 
  • Boreal forests' carbon stores need better management. 
  • Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale multidisciplinary model. 
  • Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale. 
  • Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density. 
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa. 
  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. 
  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. 
  • Constraints on physiological function associated with branch architecture and wood density in tropical forest trees. 
  • Contrasting hydraulic strategies in two tropical lianas and their host trees. 
  • Coordination of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees. 
  • Deadwood stocks increase with selective logging and large tree frequency in Gabon. 
  • Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. 
  • Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest. 
  • Diurnal and seasonal variation in root xylem embolism in neotropical savanna woody species: impact on stomatal control of plant water status. 
  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. 
  • Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots? 
  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. 
  • Ecology. Domains of diversity. 
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a tropical forest dominated by the Neotropical Dipterocarp, Pakaraimea dipterocarpaceae 
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and community structure on three co-occurring leguminous canopy tree species in a Neotropical rainforest 
  • Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures. 
  • Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests. 
  • Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. 
  • Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. 
  • Evolutionary origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts. 
  • Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. 
  • Experimental habitat fragmentation increases linkage disequilibrium but does not affect genetic diversity or population structure in the Amazonian liverwort Radula flaccida. 
  • Experimental manipulation of seed shadows of an Afrotropical tree determines drivers of recruitment. 
  • Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities. 
  • Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees. 
  • Fruiting trees as dispersal foci in a semi-deciduous tropical forest. 
  • Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest. 
  • Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness. 
  • Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees. 
  • Hot in the Tropics. 
  • How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure. 
  • How many seeds does it take to make a sapling? 
  • Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa. 
  • It is Time to Stop Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Debate on Corticosteroid Use in Pediatric Heart Surgery. 
  • Landscape-level validation of allometric relationships for carbon stock estimation reveals bias driven by soil type. 
  • Logging concessions can extend the conservation estate for Central African tropical forests. 
  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. 
  • Long-term declines in nutritional quality of tropical leaves. 
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • Metapopulation extinction thresholds in rain forest remnants. 
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success. 
  • Neotropical peatland methane emissions along a vegetation and biogeochemical gradient. 
  • New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield, with a key to the lowland neotropical taxa. 
  • New species of Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with resupinate and effused basidiomata from the Guiana Shield. 
  • Organic forms dominate hydrologic nitrogen export from a lowland tropical watershed. 
  • Paleoclimate. Trans-Atlantic climate connections. 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. 
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of East Asian evergreen oaks (Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis; Fagaceae): Insights into the Cenozoic history of evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical Asia. 
  • Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. 
  • Relative growth of the limbs and trunk in sifakas: heterochronic, ecological, and functional considerations. 
  • Repellent plants provide affordable natural screening to prevent mosquito house entry in tropical rural settings--results from a pilot efficacy study. 
  • Reply to Cannon and Lerdau: Maintenance of tropical forest tree diversity. 
  • Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. 
  • Responses of tropical native and invader C4 grasses to water stress, clipping and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. 
  • Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. 
  • Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures 
  • Seed limitation in an Amazonian floodplain forest. 
  • Snakebite Envenoming Diagnosis and Diagnostics. 
  • Squamous cell skin cancer in the north-west of England, 1967--69, and its relation to occupation. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tropical setting: patient outcome and impact of antibiotic resistance. 
  • Sustaining the variety of life. 
  • Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests. 
  • Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity. 
  • The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus) 
  • The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. 
  • The efficacy of influenza vaccination in healthcare workers in a tropical setting: a prospective investigator blinded observational study. 
  • The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. 
  • The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory. 
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests. 
  • Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests. 
  • Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies. 
  • Underground hibernation in a primate. 
  • Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions. 
  • Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. 
  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. 
  • Variations in leaf water status and drought tolerance of dominant tree species growing in multi-aged tropical forests in Thailand. 
  • Woody vegetation dynamics in the tropical and subtropical Andes from 2001 to 2014: Satellite image interpretation and expert validation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy