• Oceans and Society: An Introduction to Marine Studies 

  Spalding, Ana K.; Suman, Daniel O. (2023)

  This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment. Emphasizing the human dimension of coastal and ...
• Factors limiting plant recruitment in a tropical Afromontane Forest 

  Abiem, Iveren; Dickie, Ian; Kenfack, David; Chapman, Hazel M. (2022)
• Integrating deep-time palaeontology in conservation prioritisation 

  Pimiento, Catalina; Antonelli, Alexandre (2022)

  Halting biodiversity loss under growing anthropogenic pressure is arguably the greatest environmental challenge we face. Given that not all species are equally threatened and that resources are always limited, establishing ...
• Who is working on ant physiology? There is room to improve international collaborations 

  Virola-V, Brenda Sofia; Abrego, Jeancarlos; Castillo, Dilma; Bonilla, Eleodoro; Gálvez, Dumas (2022)

  Ants are an abundant and diverse group with worldwide distribution. Given their omnipresence, ecosystem services, and potential applications, ants may be excellent models for multiple lines of research such as physiology. ...
• Fossil evidence for earlier radiation in istiophorid billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoriformes) uncovered by comparative morphology of the caudal vertebrae 

  de Gracia, Carlos; Rodriguez, Félix; Aguilera, Orangel; Jaramillo, Carlos; Kriwet, Jürgen (2022)

  Billfishes include some of the largest pelagic teleostean species, but several aspects about their morphology, paleobiology, and evolution remain ambiguous. Their fossil record is fragmentary and mostly represented by ...
• Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest 

  Needham, Jessica F.; Arellano, Gabriel; Davies, Stuart J.; Fisher, Rosie A.; Hammer, Valerie; Knox, Ryan G.; Mitre, David; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Zuleta, Daniel; Koven, Charlie D. (2022)

  Crown damage can account for over 23% of canopy biomass turnover in tropical forests and is a strong predictor of tree mortality; yet, it is not typically represented in vegetation models. We incorporate crown damage into ...
• More winners than losers over 12 years of monitoring tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama 

  Lamarre, Greg P. A.; Pardikes, Nicholas A.; Segar, Simon; Hackforth, Charles N.; Laguerre, Michel; Vincent, Benoit; Lopez, Yacksecari; Perez, Filonila; Bobadilla, Ricardo; Ramirez Silva, Jose Alejandro; Basset, Yves (2022)

  Understanding the causes and consequences of insect declines has become an important goal in ecology, particularly in the tropics, where most terrestrial diversity exists. Over the past 12 years, the ForestGEO Arthropod ...
• Pre-dispersal seed predation could help explain premature fruit drop in a tropical forest 

  Jackson, Eleanor E.; Wright, S. Joseph; Calderón, Osvaldo; Bullock, James M.; Oliver, Tom; Gripenberg, Sofia (2022)

  Pre-dispersal seed mortality caused by premature fruit drop is a potentially important source of plant mortality, but one which has rarely been studied in the context of tropical forest plants. Of particular interest is ...
• Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world 

  Piponiot, Camille; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Davies, Stuart J.; Allen, David; Bourg, Norman A.; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Cardenas, Dairon; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Chuyong, George; Cordell, Susan; Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah; Duque, Alvaro; Ediriweera, Sisira; Ewango, Corneille; Ezedin, Zacky; Filip, Jonah; Giardina, Christian P.; Howe, Robert; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Inman-Narahari, Faith M.; Itoh, Akira; Janik, David; Kenfack, David; Kral, Kamil; Lutz, James A.; Makana, Jean-Remy; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William; Mi, Xiangcheng; Mohamad, Mohizah Bt; Novotny, Vojtech; O'Brien, Michael J.; Ostertag, Rebecca; Parker, Geoffrey; Perez, Rolando; Ren, Haibao; Reynolds, Glen; Sabri, Mohamad Danial Md; Sack, Lawren; Shringi, Ankur; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I-Fang; Suresh, Hebbalalu S.; Thomas, Duncan W.; Thompson, Jill; Uriarte, Maria; Vandermeer, John; Wang, Yunquan; Ware, Ian M.; Weiblen, George D.; Whitfeld, Timothy J. S.; Wolf, Amy; Yao, Tze Leong; Yu, Mingjian; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Zimmerman, Jess K.; Zuleta, Daniel; Muller-Landau, Helene C. (2022)

  Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of among-site differences in how aboveground biomass ...
• Individual tree damage dominates mortality risk factors across six tropical forests 

  Zuleta, Daniel; Arellano, Gabriel; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; McMahon, Sean M.; Aguilar, Salomon; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Cardenas, Dairon; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Duque, Alvaro; Mitre, David; Nasardin, Musalmah; Perez, Rolando; Sun, I-Fang; Yao, Tze Leong; Davies, Stuart J. (2022)

  The relative importance of tree mortality risk factors remains unknown, especially in diverse tropical forests where species may vary widely in their responses to particular conditions. We present a new framework for ...
• Methodological considerations for monitoring soil/litter arthropods in tropical rainforests using DNA metabarcoding, with a special emphasis on ants, springtails and termites 

  Basset, Yves; Donoso, David A.; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Wright, Michael T. G.; Perez, Kate H. J.; Lamarre, Greg P. A.; De León, Luis F.; Palacios-Vargas, Jos; Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela; Rivera, Marleny; Perez, Filonila; Bobadilla, Ricardo; Lopez, Yacksecari; Ramirez, José Alejandro; Barrios, Héctor (2020)

  Robust data to refute or support claims of global insect decline are currently lacking, particularly for the soil fauna in the tropics. DNA metabarcoding represents a powerful approach for rigorous spatial and temporal ...
• Savanna woody plants responses to mammalian herbivory and implications for management of livestock–wildlife landscape 

  Kibet, Staline; Nyangito, Moses; MacOpiyo, Laban; Kenfack, David (2021)

  The need to address wildlife conservation outside of protected areas has become more urgent than ever before to meet environmental and socio-economic goals. However, there is limited knowledge about how woody plants respond ...
• Hypoxia from depth shocks shallow tropical reef animals 

  Lucey, Noelle M.; Haskett, Eileen; Collin, Rachel (2021)

  Coastal deoxygenation is poorly documented in the tropics. When the Isthmus of Panama separated the Caribbean from the Pacific, sister lineages diverged and adapted to changing oxy-thermal conditions along both coasts. ...
• Asymmetry of marine invasions across tropical oceans 

  Torchin, Mark E.; Freestone, Amy L.; McCann, Linda; Larson, Kristen; Schlöder, Carmen; Steves, Brian P.; Fofonoff, Paul; Repetto, Michele F.; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2021)

  Understanding the mechanisms of spatial variation of biological invasions, across local-to-global scales, has been a major challenge. The importance of evolutionary history for invasion dynamics was noted by Darwin, and ...
• Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest 

  Chitra-Tarak, Rutuja; Xu, Chonggang; Aguilar, Salomon; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Chambers, Jeff; Detto, Matteo; Faybishenko, Boris; Fisher, Rosie A.; Knox, Ryan G.; Koven, Charles D.; Kueppers, Lara M.; Kunert, Nobert; Kupers, Stefan J.; McDowell, Nate G.; Newman, Brent D.; Paton, Steven R.; Perez, Rolando; Ruiz, Laurent; Sack, Lawren; Warren, Jeffrey M.; Wolfe, Brett T.; Wright, Cynthia; Wright, S. Joseph; Zailaa, Joseph; McMahon, Sean M. (2021)

  Deep-water access is arguably the most effective, but under-studied, mechanism that plants employ to survive during drought. Vulnerability to embolism and hydraulic safety margins can predict mortality risk at given levels ...
• Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation: Good Practices Protocol 

  Duncanson, Laura; Armston, John; Disney, Mat; Avitabile, V.; Barbier, N.; Calders, K.; Carter, S.; Chave, J.; Herold, M.; MacBean, N.; McRoberts, R.; Minor, David; Paul, K.; Réjou-Méchain, M.; Roxburgh, S.; Williams, M.; Albinet, C.; Baker, T.; Bartholomeus, H.; Bastin, J. F.; Coomes, D.; Crowther, T.; Davies, Stuart J.; De Bruin, S.; De Kauwe, M.; Domke, G.; Dubayah, R.; Falkowski, M.; Fatoyinbo, L.; Goetz, S.; Jantz, P.; Jonckheere, I.; Jucker, T.; Kay, H.; Kellner, J.; Labriere, N.; Lucas, R.; Mitchard, E.; Morsdorf, F.; Næsset, E.; Park, T.; Phillips, O. L.; Ploton, P.; Puliti, S.; Quegan, S.; Saatchi, S.; Schaaf, C.; Schepaschenko, D.; Scipal, K.; Stovall, A.; Thiel, C.; Wulder, M. A.; Camacho, Fernando; Nickeson, Jaime; Román, M.; Margolis, H. (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Working Group on Calibration and Validation. Land Product Validation Subgroup, 2021)
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide 

  Zhong, Yonglin; Chu, Chengjin; Myers, Jonathan A.; Gilbert, Gregory S.; Lutz, James A.; Stillhard, Jonas; Zhu, Kai; Thompson, Jill; Baltzer, Jennifer L.; He, Fangliang; LaManna, Joseph A.; Davies, Stuart J.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Alonso, Alfonso; Chao, Kuo-Jung; Wang, Xugao; Gao, Lianming; Orwig, David A.; Yin, Xue; Sui, Xinghua; Su, Zhiyao; Abiem, Iveren; Bissiengou, Pulchérie; Bourg, Norm; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Chang-Yang, Chia; Chao, Wei-Chun; Chapman, Hazel; Chen, Yu-Yun; Coomes, David A.; Cordell, Susan; de Oliveira, Alexandre A.; Du, Hu; Fang, Suqin; Giardina, Christian P.; Hao, Zhanqing; Hector, Andrew; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Janík, David; Jansen, Patrick A.; Jiang, Mingxi; Jin, Guangze; Kenfack, David; Král, Kamil; Larson, Andrew J.; Li, Buhang; Li, Xiankun; Li, Yide; Lian, Juyu; Lin, Luxiang; Liu, Feng; Liu, Yankun; Liu, Yu; Luan, Fuchen; Luo, Yahuang; Ma, Keping; Malhi, Yadvinder; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William; Memiaghe, Hervé; Mi, Xiangcheng; Morecroft, Mike; Novotny, Vojtech; O'Brien, Michael J.; Ouden, Jan den; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Qiao, Xiujuan; Ren, Haibao; Reynolds, Glen; Samonil, Pavel; Sang, Weiguo; Shen, Guochun; Shen, Zhiqiang; Song, Guo-Zhang Michael; Sun, I. -F; Tang, Hui; Tian, Songyan; Uowolo, Amanda L.; Uriarte, María; Wang, Bin; Wang, Xihua; Wang, Youshi; Weiblen, George D.; Wu, Zhihong; Xi, Nianxun; Xiang, Wusheng; Xu, Han; Xu, Kun; Ye, Wanhui; Yu, Mingjian; Zeng, Fuping; Zhang, Minhua; Zhang, Yingming; Zhu, Li; Zimmerman, Jess K. (2021)

  Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) associations are critical for host-tree performance. However, how mycorrhizal associations correlate with the latitudinal tree beta-diversity remains untested. Using a ...
• Mutualism within a parasitism within a mutualism: the bees and coccids that inhabit <I>Cecropia</I> ant-plants 

  Roubik, David W. (2021)
• Understanding the monodominance of Acacia drepanolobium in East African savannas: insights from demographic data 

  Kenfack, David; Arellano, Gabriel; Kibet, Staline; Kimuyu, Duncan; Musili, Paul (2021)

  Key message The high mortality and low recruitment of the myrmecophytic Acacia drepanolobium are not consistent with the demographic rates of monodominant species. The positive conspecific density dependence observed from ...
• Lutz Creek watershed, Barro Colorado Island, Republic of Panama 

  Larsen, Matthew C.; Stallard, Robert F.; Paton, Steven (2021)

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