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Author Sullivan, M.J.P.; Talbot, J.; Lewis, S.L.; Phillips, O.L.; Qie, L.; Begne, S.K.; Chave, J.; Cuni-Sanchez, A.; Hubau, W.; Lopez-Gonzalez, G.; Miles, L.; Monteagudo-Mendoza, A.; Sonké, B.; Sunderland, T.; Ter Steege, H.; White, L.J.T.; Affum-Baffoe, K.; Aiba, S.-I.; De Almeida, E.C.; De Oliveira, E.A.; Alvarez-Loayza, P.; Dávila, E.Á.; Andrade, A.; Aragão, L.E.O.C.; Ashton, P.; Aymard, G.A.; Baker, T.R.; Balinga, M.; Banin, L.F.; Baraloto, C.; Bastin, J.-F.; Berry, N.; Bogaert, J.; Bonal, D.; Bongers, F.; Brienen, R.; Camargo, J.L.C.; Cerón, C.; Moscoso, V.C.; Chezeaux, E.; Clark, C.J.; Pacheco, Á.C.; Comiskey, J.A.; Valverde, F.C.; Coronado, E.N.H.; Dargie, G.; Davies, S.J.; De Canniere, C.; Djuikouo, M.N.; Doucet, J.-L.; Erwin, T.L.; Espejo, J.S.; Ewango, C.E.N.; Fauset, S.; Feldpausch, T.R.; Herrera, R.; Gilpin, M.; Gloor, E.; Hall, J.S.; Harris, D.J.; Hart, T.B.; Kartawinata, K.; Kho, L.K.; Kitayama, K.; Laurance, S.G.W.; Laurance, W.F.; Leal, M.E.; Lovejoy, T.; Lovett, J.C.; Lukasu, F.M.; Makana, J.-R.; Malhi, Y.; Maracahipes, L.; Marimon, B.S.; Junior, B.H.M.; Marshall, A.R.; Morandi, P.S.; Mukendi, J.T.; Mukinzi, J.; Nilus, R.; Vargas, P.N.; Camacho, N.C.P.; Pardo, G.; Peña-Claros, M.; Petronelli, P.; Pickavance, G.C.; Poulsen, A.D.; Poulsen, J.R.; Primack, R.B.; Priyadi, H.; Quesada, C.A.; Reitsma, J.; Réjou-Méchain, M.; Restrepo, Z.; Rutishauser, E.; Salim, K.A.; Salomão, R.P.; Samsoedin, I.; Sheil, D.; Sierra, R.; Silveira, M.; Slik, J.W.F.; Steel, L.; Taedoumg, H.; Tan, S.; Terborgh, J.W.; Thomas, S.C.; Toledo, M.; Umunay, P.M.; Gamarra, L.V.; Vieira, I.C.G.; Vos, V.A.; Wang, O.; Willcock, S.; Zemagho, L. pdf  doi
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  Title Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Scientific Reports Abbreviated Journal Sci. Rep.  
  Volume 7 Issue Pages 39102  
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  Abstract Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but the conservation strategies needed to achieve these two functions depend critically on the tropical forest tree diversity-carbon storage relationship. Assessing this relationship is challenging due to the scarcity of inventories where carbon stocks in aboveground biomass and species identifications have been simultaneously and robustly quantified. Here, we compile a unique pan-Tropical dataset of 360 plots located in structurally intact old-growth closed-canopy forest, surveyed using standardised methods, allowing a multi-scale evaluation of diversity-carbon relationships in tropical forests. Diversity-carbon relationships among all plots at 1 ha scale across the tropics are absent, and within continents are either weak (Asia) or absent (Amazonia, Africa). A weak positive relationship is detectable within 1 ha plots, indicating that diversity effects in tropical forests may be scale dependent. The absence of clear diversity-carbon relationships at scales relevant to conservation planning means that carbon-centred conservation strategies will inevitably miss many high diversity ecosystems. As tropical forests can have any combination of tree diversity and carbon stocks both require explicit consideration when optimising policies to manage tropical carbon and biodiversity. © The Author(s) 2017.  
  Address (down) School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom  
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Author Fukami, T.; Nakajima, M.; Fortunel, C.; Fine, P.V.A.; Baraloto, C.; Russo, S.E.; Peay, K.G. doi  openurl
  Title Geographical variation in community divergence: insights from tropical forest monodominance by ectomycorrhizal trees Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication American Naturalist Abbreviated Journal American Naturalist  
  Volume 190 Issue Pages S105-S122  
  Keywords Community assembly; Mycorrhizae; Plant traits; Plant-soil feedback; Priority effects; Species pools  
  Abstract Convergence occurs in both species traits and community structure, but how convergence at the two scales influences each other remains unclear. To address this question, we focus on tropical forest monodominance, in which a single, often ectomycorrhizal (EM) tree species occasionally dominates forest stands within a landscape otherwise characterized by diverse communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) trees. Such monodominance is a striking potential example of community divergence resulting in alternative stable states. However, it is observed only in some tropical regions. A diverse suite of AM and EM trees locally codominate forest stands elsewhere. We develop a hypothesis to explain this geographical difference using a simulation model of plant community assembly. Simulation results suggest that in a region with a few EM species (e.g., South America), EM trees experience strong selection for convergent traits that match the abiotic conditions of the environment. Consequently, EM species successfully compete against other species to form monodominant stands via positive plant-soil feedbacks. By contrast, in a region with many EM species (e.g., Southeast Asia), species maintain divergent traits because of complex plant-soil feedbacks, with no species having traits that enablemonodominance. An analysis of plant trait data from Borneo and Peruvian Amazon was inconclusive. Overall, this work highlights the utility of geographical comparison in understanding the relationship between trait convergence and community convergence. © 2017 by The University of Chicago.  
  Address (down) School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States  
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Author Moore, A.L.; McCarthy, M.A.; Parris, K.M.; Moore, J.L. pdf  url
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  Title The optimal number of surveys when detectability varies Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication PLoS ONE Abbreviated Journal PLoS ONE  
  Volume 9 Issue 12 Pages e115345  
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  Abstract The survey of plant and animal populations is central to undertaking field ecology. However, detection is imperfect, so the absence of a species cannot be determined with certainty. Methods developed to account for imperfect detectability during surveys do not yet account for stochastic variation in detectability over time or space. When each survey entails a fixed cost that is not spent searching (e.g., time required to travel to the site), stochastic detection rates result in a trade-off between the number of surveys and the length of each survey when surveying a single site. We present a model that addresses this trade-off and use it to determine the number of surveys that: 1) maximizes the expected probability of detection over the entire survey period; and 2) is most likely to achieve a minimally-acceptable probability of detection. We illustrate the applicability of our approach using three practical examples (minimum survey effort protocols, number of frog surveys per season, and number of quadrats per site to detect a plant species) and test our model's predictions using data from experimental plant surveys. We find that when maximizing the expected probability of detection, the optimal survey design is most sensitive to the coefficient of variation in the rate of detection and the ratio of the search budget to the travel cost. When maximizing the likelihood of achieving a particular probability of detection, the optimal survey design is most sensitive to the required probability of detection, the expected number of detections if the budget were spent only on searching, and the expected number of detections that are missed due to travel costs. We find that accounting for stochasticity in detection rates is likely to be particularly important for designing surveys when detection rates are low. Our model provides a framework to do this. © 2014 Moore et al.  
  Address (down) School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia  
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Author Do, N.A.; Dias, D.; Zhang, Z.; Huang, X.; Nguyen, T.T.; Pham, V.V.; Nait-Rabah, O. url  doi
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  Title Study on the behavior of squared and sub-rectangular tunnels using the Hyperstatic Reaction Method Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Transportation Geotechnics Abbreviated Journal Transp. Geotech.  
  Volume 22 Issue 100321 Pages  
  Keywords Finite element method; Lining; Squared shape; Sub-rectangular shape; Tunnel; efficiency measurement; finite element method; numerical model; transportation development; transportation planning; tunnel design; tunnel lining  
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  Address (down) Saint-Petersburg Mining University, Russian Federation  
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Author Ntawuhiganayo, E.B.; Uwizeye, F.K.; Zibera, E.; Dusenge, M.E.; Ziegler, C.; Ntirugulirwa, B.; Nsabimana, D.; Wallin, G.; Uddling, J. pdf  url
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  Title Traits controlling shade tolerance in tropical montane trees Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Tree physiology Abbreviated Journal Tree Physiol.  
  Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 183-197  
  Keywords biomass allocation; leaf temperature; plant traits; Rwanda; shade intolerance; shade tolerance; tropical montane forest; article; biomass allocation; breathing; canopy; carbon balance; compensation; photosynthesis; plant leaf; plant stem; rain forest; Rwanda; shade tolerance; species difference; sweating  
  Abstract Tropical canopies are complex, with multiple canopy layers and pronounced gap dynamics contributing to their high species diversity and productivity. An important reason for this complexity is the large variation in shade tolerance among different tree species. At present, we lack a clear understanding of which plant traits control this variation, e.g., regarding the relative contributions of whole-plant versus leaf traits or structural versus physiological traits. We investigated a broad range of traits in six tropical montane rainforest tree species with different degrees of shade tolerance, grown under three different radiation regimes (under the open sky or beneath sparse or dense canopies). The two distinct shade-tolerant species had higher fractional biomass in leaves and branches while shade-intolerant species invested more into stems, and these differences were greater under low radiation. Leaf respiration and photosynthetic light compensation point did not vary with species shade tolerance, regardless of radiation regime. Leaf temperatures in open plots were markedly higher in shade-tolerant species due to their low transpiration rates and large leaf sizes. Our results suggest that interspecific variation in shade tolerance of tropical montane trees is controlled by species differences in whole-plant biomass allocation strategy rather than by difference in physiological leaf traits determining leaf carbon balance at low radiation. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press.  
  Address (down) Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development, PO Box 5016Kigali, Rwanda  
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Author Baraloto, C.; Hardy, O.J.; Paine, C.E.T.; Dexter, K.G.; Cruaud, C.; Dunning, L.T.; Gonzalez, M.-A.; Molino, J.-F.; Sabatier, D.; Savolainen, V.; Chave, J. url  openurl
  Title Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication Journal of Ecology Abbreviated Journal J. Ecol.  
  Volume 100 Issue 3 Pages 690-701  
  Keywords Competition; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Environmental filtering; French Guiana; Functional traits; Limiting similarity; Niche; Phylogenetic signal; Tropical forests  
  Abstract Niche theory proposes that species differences underlie both coexistence within communities and the differentiation in species composition among communities via limiting similarity and environmental filtering. However, it has been difficult to extend niche theory to species-rich communities because of the empirical challenge of quantifying niches for many species. This has motivated the development of functional and phylogeny-based approaches in community ecology, which represent two different means of approximating niche attributes. Here, we assess the utility of plant functional traits and phylogenetic relationships in predicting community assembly processes using the largest trait and phylogenetic data base to date for any set of species-rich communities. We measured 17 functional traits for all 4672 individuals of 668 tree species co-occurring in nine tropical rain forest plots in French Guiana. Trait variation was summarized into two ordination axes that reflect species niche overlap. We also generated a dated molecular phylogenetic tree based on DNA sequencing of two plastid loci (rbcL and matK) comprising 97% of the individuals and 91% of the species in the plots. We found that, on average, co-occurring species had greater functional and, to a lesser extent, phylogenetic similarity than expected by chance. We also found that functional traits and their ordination loadings showed significant, albeit weak, phylogenetic signal, suggesting that phylogenetic distance provides pertinent information on niche overlap in tropical tree communities. Synthesis. We provide the most comprehensive examination to date of the relative importance of environmental filtering and limiting similarity in structuring tropical tree communities. Our results confirm that environmental filtering is the overriding influence on community assembly in these species-rich systems. © 2012 The Authors. Journal of Ecology © 2012 British Ecological Society.  
  Address (down) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, United Kingdom  
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  Notes Export Date: 24 April 2012; Source: Scopus; Coden: Jecoa; doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01966.x; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Chave, J.; Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, UMR 5174 Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, 31062 Toulouse, France; email: chave@cict.fr Approved no  
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Author Lang, G.; Marcon, E.; Puech, F. doi  openurl
  Title Distance-based measures of spatial concentration: introducing a relative density function Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Annals of Regional Science Abbreviated Journal Ann. Reg. Sci.  
  Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 243-265  
  Keywords Agglomeration; Aggregation; Economic geography; Point patterns; Spatial concentration; accuracy assessment; econometrics; economic activity; economic geography; industrial agglomeration; industrial location; location decision; spatial analysis; spatial distribution  
  Abstract For more than a decade, distance-based methods have been widely employed and constantly improved in spatial economics. These methods are a very useful tool for accurately evaluating the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce a new distance-based statistical measure for evaluating the spatial concentration of industries. The m function is the first relative density function to be proposed in economics. This tool supplements the typology of distance-based methods recently drawn up by Marcon and Puech (J Econ Geogr 3(4):409–428, 2003). By considering several simulated and real examples, we show the advantages and the limits of the m function for detecting spatial structures in economics. © 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.  
  Address (down) RITM, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay and CREST, Sceaux, France  
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Author Marcon, E.; Puech, F. url  doi
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  Title A typology of distance-based measures of spatial concentration Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Regional Science and Urban Economics Abbreviated Journal Regional Science and Urban Economics  
  Volume 62 Issue Pages 56-67  
  Keywords Agglomeration; Aggregation; Economic geography; Point patterns; Spatial concentration  
  Abstract Over the last decade, distance-based methods have been introduced and then improved in the field of spatial economics to gauge the geographic concentration of activities. There is a growing literature on this theme including new tools, discussions on their specific properties and various applications. However, there is currently no typology of distance-based methods. This paper fills that gap. The proposed classification helps understand all the properties of distance-based methods and proves that they are variations on the same framework. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.  
  Address (down) RITM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CREST, Université Paris-Saclay, Sceaux, France  
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Author Leba, L.-J.; Popovici, J.; Estevez, Y.; Pelleau, S.; Legrand, E.; Musset, L.; Duplais, C. pdf  url
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  Title Antiplasmodial activities of dyes against Plasmodium falciparum asexual and sexual stages: Contrasted uptakes of triarylmethanes Brilliant green, Green S (E142), and Patent Blue V (E131) by erythrocytes Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance Abbreviated Journal International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance  
  Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 314-320  
  Keywords Antimalarial dyes; Brilliant green; Drug uptake; Food dyes; Transmission blocking; Triarylmethanes  
  Abstract The search for safe antimalarial compounds acting against asexual symptom-responsible stages and sexual transmission-responsible forms of Plasmodium species is one of the major challenges in malaria elimination programs. So far, among current drugs approved for human use, only primaquine has transmission-blocking activity. The discovery of small molecules targeting different Plasmodium falciparum life stages remains a priority in antimalarial drug research. In this context, several independent studies have recently reported antiplasmodial and transmission-blocking activities of commonly used stains, dyes and fluorescent probes against P. falciparum including chloroquine-resistant isolates. Herein we have studied the antimalarial activities of dyes with different scaffold and we report that the triarylmethane dye (TRAM) Brilliant green inhibits the growth of asexual stages (IC50 ≤ 2 μM) and has exflagellation-blocking activity (IC50 ≤ 800 nM) against P. falciparum reference strains (3D7, 7G8) and chloroquine-resistant clinical isolate (Q206). In a second step we have investigated the antiplasmodial activities of two polysulfonated triarylmethane food dyes. Green S (E142) is weakly active against P. falciparum asexual stage (IC50 ≃ 17 μM) whereas Patent Blue V (E131) is inactive in both antimalarial assays. By applying liquid chromatography techniques for the culture supernatant analysis after cell washings and lysis, we report the detection of Brilliant green in erythrocytes, the selective uptake of Green S (E142) by infected erythrocytes, whereas Patent Blue V (E131) could not be detected within non-infected and 3D7-infected erythrocytes. Overall, our results suggest that two polysulfonated food dyes might display different affinity with transporters or channels on infected RBC membrane. © 2017 The Authors  
  Address (down) Research Unit of Genetics and Genomics of Insect Vectors Institut Pasteur, Paris, France  
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Author Rowland, L.; Hill, T.C.; Stahl, C.; Siebicke, L.; Burban, B.; Zaragoza-Castells, J.; Ponton, S.; Bonal, D.; Meir, P.; Williams, M. url  openurl
  Title Evidence for strong seasonality in the carbon storage and carbon use efficiency of an Amazonian forest Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Global Change Biology Abbreviated Journal Global Change Biol.  
  Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 979-991  
  Keywords Carbon use efficiency; Dalec; Data assimilation; Ecosystem respiration; French Guiana; Seasonal carbon fluxes; Tropical forest  
  Abstract The relative contribution of gross primary production and ecosystem respiration to seasonal changes in the net carbon flux of tropical forests remains poorly quantified by both modelling and field studies. We use data assimilation to combine nine ecological time series from an eastern Amazonian forest, with mass balance constraints from an ecosystem carbon cycle model. The resulting analysis quantifies, with uncertainty estimates, the seasonal changes in the net carbon flux of a tropical rainforest which experiences a pronounced dry season. We show that the carbon accumulation in this forest was four times greater in the dry season than in the wet season and that this was accompanied by a 5% increase in the carbon use efficiency. This seasonal response was caused by a dry season increase in gross primary productivity, in response to radiation and a similar magnitude decrease in heterotrophic respiration, in response to drying soils. The analysis also predicts increased carbon allocation to leaves and wood in the wet season, and greater allocation to fine roots in the dry season. This study demonstrates implementation of seasonal variations in parameters better enables models to simulate observed patterns in data. In particular, we highlight the necessity to simulate the seasonal patterns of heterotrophic respiration to accurately simulate the net carbon flux seasonal tropical forest. © 2013 The Authors Global Change Biology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  
  Address (down) Research School of Biology, Division of Plant Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia  
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  Notes Cited By (since 1996):1; Export Date: 24 February 2014; Source: Scopus; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Rowland, L.; School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JN, United Kingdom; email: lucy.rowland@ed.ac.uk; Funding Details: FT110100457, ARC, Australian Research Council; Funding Details: NE/F002149/1, NERC, Natural Environment Research Council; Funding Details: NE/J011002/1, NERC, Natural Environment Research Council Approved no  
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