Forests

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A continental view of pine-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal spore banks: a quiescent functional guild with a strong biogeographic pattern. 
  • Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen. 
  • African forest elephant movements depend on time scale and individual behavior. 
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata. 
  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. 
  • Annual climate variation modifies nitrogen induced carbon accumulation of Pinus sylvestris forests. 
  • Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous United States. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • Balancing the scales: Preliminary investigation of total energy expenditure and daily metabolizable energy intake in Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei). 
  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. 
  • Bird extirpations and community dynamics in an Andean cloud forest over 100 years of land-use change. 
  • Can nature deliver on the sustainable development goals? 
  • China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda. 
  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests. 
  • Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. 
  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients. 
  • Community dynamics of soil-borne fungal communities along elevation gradients in neotropical and palaeotropical forests. 
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa. 
  • Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change. 
  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. 
  • Deadwood stocks increase with selective logging and large tree frequency in Gabon. 
  • Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Density declines, richness increases, and composition shifts in stream macroinvertebrates. 
  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content. 
  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. 
  • Do topography and fruit presence influence occurrence and intensity of crop-raiding by forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)? 
  • Does growing atmospheric CO₂ explain increasing carbon sink in a boreal coniferous forest? 
  • Ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests. 
  • Ecophysiological variation of transpiration of pine forests: synthesis of new and published results. 
  • Effects of land use, habitat characteristics, and small mammal community composition on Leptospira prevalence in northeast Madagascar. 
  • Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. 
  • Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation. 
  • Evaluating interactions of forest conservation policies on avoided deforestation. 
  • Evapotranspiration and water yield of a pine-broadleaf forest are not altered by long-term atmospheric [CO₂ ] enrichment under native or enhanced soil fertility. 
  • Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. 
  • Financing conservation by valuing carbon services produced by wild animals. 
  • Forest biogeochemistry in response to drought. 
  • Forest drought as an emerging research priority. 
  • Forest elephant movement and habitat use in a tropical forest-grassland mosaic in Gabon. 
  • Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients. 
  • Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest. 
  • Geogenetic patterns in mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) reveal the ghosts of Madagascar's forests past. 
  • Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. 
  • Greater carbon allocation to mycorrhizal fungi reduces tree nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest. 
  • How tree species, tree size, and topographical location influenced tree transpiration in northern boreal forests during the historic 2018 drought. 
  • Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States. 
  • Hydrologic Impacts of Municipal Wastewater Irrigation to a Temperate Forest Watershed. 
  • Impacts of forests on children's diet in rural areas across 27 developing countries. 
  • Implications of lemuriform extinctions for the Malagasy flora. 
  • Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List. 
  • Increases in atmospheric CO2 have little influence on transpiration of a temperate forest canopy. 
  • Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO₂ concentration alleviate forest mortality risk. 
  • Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake. 
  • Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. 
  • Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. 
  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. 
  • Living in tiny fragments: a glimpse at the ecology of Goodman's mouse lemurs (Microcebus lehilahytsara) in the relic forest of Ankafobe, Central Highlands, Madagascar. 
  • Long-term declines in nutritional quality of tropical leaves. 
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. 
  • Low-intensity frequent fires in coniferous forests transform soil organic matter in ways that may offset ecosystem carbon losses. 
  • Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas. 
  • Measuring environmental change in forest ecosystems by repeated soil sampling: a north american perspective. 
  • Modeling plant composition as community continua in a forest landscape with LiDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. 
  • Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests. 
  • More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from joint species distribution models. 
  • Multiyear drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in southeastern U.S. forests. 
  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. 
  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world. 
  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. 
  • Phylogenomic analyses highlight innovation and introgression in the continental radiations of Fagaceae across the Northern Hemisphere. 
  • 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. 
  • Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants. 
  • Production and turnover of ectomycorrhizal extramatrical mycelial biomass and necromass under elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization. 
  • Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning. 
  • Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil's Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact. 
  • Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea-level rise and extreme events. 
  • Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier. 
  • Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine-scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought. 
  • Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types. 
  • Reply to Cannon and Lerdau: Maintenance of tropical forest tree diversity. 
  • Reply: Graphing Ratio Measures on Forest Plot. 
  • Response to CO2 enrichment of understory vegetation in the shade of forests. 
  • Riparian buffers increase future baseflow and reduce peakflows in a developing watershed. 
  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. 
  • Seed limitation in an Amazonian floodplain forest. 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Seeking natural capital projects: Forest fires, haze, and early-life exposure in Indonesia. 
  • Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest Management Certification in Indonesia. 
  • Soil-plant-atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations. 
  • Species coexistence by wide constant size spacing. 
  • Stable and transient structural variation in lemur vaginal, labial and axillary microbiomes: patterns by species, body site, ovarian hormones and forest access. 
  • Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development. 
  • Survey of corticioid fungi in North American pinaceous forests reveals hyperdiversity, underpopulated sequence databases, and species that are potentially ectomycorrhizal. 
  • Sympatric parallel diversification of major oak clades in the Americas and the origins of Mexican species diversity. 
  • Synergies and trade-offs among integrated conservation approaches in Mexico. 
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database. 
  • Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests. 
  • Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests. 
  • Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity. 
  • Testing the effects of four urbanization filters on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. 
  • The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. 
  • The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss. 
  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States. 
  • The life of a naturalist. 
  • The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment. 
  • The number of tree species on Earth. 
  • The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory. 
  • The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park. 
  • Trade-offs between three forest ecosystem services across the state of New Hampshire, USA: timber, carbon, and albedo. 
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests. 
  • Tree water balance drives temperate forest responses to drought. 
  • Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies. 
  • Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. 
  • Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children's health across 35 developing countries. 
  • Using Machine Learning to Identify Heterogeneous Effects in Randomized Clinical Trials-Moving Beyond the Forest Plot and Into the Forest. 
  • Variability of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence according to stand age-related processes in a managed loblolly pine forest. 
  • 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. 
  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites. 
  • Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis. 
  • 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

  • Rasolofoson, Ranaivo, Postdoctoral Associate, Marine Science and Conservation