Tropical forests (Research)
Incorporating Canopy Cover for Airborne-Derived Assessments of Forest Biomass in the Tropical Forests of Cambodia.
... This research examines the role of canopy cover in influencing above ground biomass (AGB) dynamics of an open canopied forest and evaluates the efficacy of individual-based and plot-scale height metrics in predicting AGB ...
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ARTIGO_El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests - Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes
... in tropical forests, such as ants (Griffiths et ...resilient tropical forest fauna and ecosystem functioning are to the interactions between human- and climate-associated ...
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TESE_Dendroclimatology in seasonally dry tropical forests in the São Francisco Basin, Brazil
... This work aimed to develop dendroclimatic studies in seasonally dry tropical forests in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil. Complete cross-sections and cores from Cedrela fissilis Vell trees were used to ...
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Muscidae (Diptera) of medico-legal importance associated with ephemeral organic substrates in seasonally dry tropical forests
... Dry tropical forests are among the most threatened environments in the world due to cli- mate change, deforestation, fire and conversion to agriculture, particularly in Brazil (Miles et ...dry ...
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ARTIGO_Quantifying responses of dung beetles to fire disturbance in tropical forests - the importance of trapping method and seasonality
... Understanding how biodiversity responds to environmental changes is essential to provide the evidence-base that underpins conservation initiatives. The present study provides a standardized comparison between unbaited ...
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Environmental and biophysical controls of evapotranspiration from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (Caatinga) in the Brazilian Semiarid
... Seasonally dry tropical forests are among the most important biomes regarding regional and global hydrological and carbon fluxes. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the seasonal and ...
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Stem profile modeling in Cerrado and tropical forests formations in Brazil
... a tropical humid forest in Costa Rica, considering the simplicity in obtaining the tree ...in tropical forests the most important predictors of above ground vo lume of trees in order of decreasing ...
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Termite assemblages in dry tropical forests of Northeastern Brazil: Are termites bioindicators of environmental disturbances?
... From the results of relative abundance, average rich- ness per transect, and the accumulation curve, it is possible to suggest that the richness and abundance of termites can be changed by altering habitat, being ...
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TESE_Species or environment: what drives ecosystems processes in tropical forests?
... by tropical forests are of central importance to life on ...Semideciduous Tropical Forest to Deciduous Tropical Forest, in the southeast of the ...Deciduous Tropical Forest and higher ...
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Molybdenum and phosphorus interact to constrain asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in tropical forests.
... lowland tropical forests within and south of the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Republic of ...six forests along a steep and well-characterized [21–24] gradient in total soil P, from high (AVA and ...
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Biodiversity Can Help Prevent Malaria Outbreaks in Tropical Forests
... in tropical regions (mainly in the Amazon) is clearing large areas of forest and rapidly establishing agriculture or farming in order to limit the exposure of new settlers to infective mosquito bites ...in ...
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Hydraulic functioning and drought vulnerability of two tropical forests = Funcionamento hidráulico e vulnerabilidade à seca de duas florestas tropicais
... in tropical forests ecosystems, the coordination across different hydraulic traits, the trade-offs involved on their evolution, and discuss drought resistance as an important determinant on tropical ...
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Convergence in relationships between leaf traits, spectra and age across diverse canopy environments and two contrasting tropical forests
... deciduous forests (Richardson et ...in tropical evergreen forests and its application could prove challenging due to the high diversity of leaf phenolo- gies, with many tree species being ...
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ARTIGO_Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots
... The DRYFLOR Plot Protocol is a product of a large, collaborative net- work of researchers working across Latin American dry forests and related dry biomes. It is intended to permit the rapid and efficient ...
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WATER RECYCLING IN TROPICAL FORESTS AS A STOCHASTIC PROCESS. ()
... between 300 and 500 m altitude; the basic has a central region of swampy tropical jungle which gradually changes to savannahtype country away from the centre.On a rainfall map of [r] ...
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Through the eyes of children: perceptions of environmental change in tropical forests.
... intact forests) may have less access to such information compared to children in more degraded landscapes and so may hold views of their current and future environments that are less influenced by the generally ...
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MANAGEMENT OF DIAMETRIC STRUCTURE REMAINING FROM TROPICAL FORESTS
... a tropical forest under logging depends not only on the growth rate but also on the residual diameter structure of the ...of tropical forest in the state of Amazonas, in ...
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Climate change effects on the geographic distribution of specialist tree species of the Brazilian tropical dry forests
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the ecological niche models (ENMs) for three specialist trees (Anadenanthera colubrina, Aspidosperma pyrifolium and Myracrodruon urundeuva) in seasonally dry tropical ...
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Tropical montane forests are a larger than expected global carbon store
... humid tropical forest cover at a resolution of ...of tropical forests we averaged the GMTED data to the same spatial resolution of the forest cover ...
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ARTIGO_Measuring the conservation value of tropical primary forests - the effect of occasional species on estimates of biodiversity uniqueness
... of tropical forest species, and are thereby forced to use species sample-abundances as a proximate estimate of its viability in a given environment (while acknowledging the abundance does not always provide a good ...
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