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Author Fournier, M.; Dlouhá, J.; Jaouen, G.; Almeras, T. url  openurl
  Title Integrative biomechanics for tree ecology: Beyond wood density and strength Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication Journal of Experimental Botany Abbreviated Journal J. Exp. Bot.  
  Volume 64 Issue 15 Pages 4793-4815  
  Keywords Biomechanics; Ecological strategy; Gravitropism; Shape; Size; Trees; Wood  
  Abstract Functional ecology has long considered the support function as important, but its biomechanical complexity is only just being elucidated. We show here that it can be described on the basis of four biomechanical traits, two safety traits against winds and self-buckling, and two motricity traits involved in sustaining an upright position, tropic motion velocity (MV) and posture control (PC). All these traits are integrated at the tree scale, combining tree size and shape together with wood properties. The assumption of trait constancy has been used to derive allometric scaling laws, but it was more recently found that observing their variations among environments and functional groups, or during ontogeny, provides more insights into adaptive syndromes of tree shape and wood properties. However, oversimpli-fed expressions have often been used, possibly concealing key adaptive drivers. An extreme case of oversimplification is the use of wood basic density as a proxy for safety. Actually, as wood density is involved in stiffiness, loads, and construction costs, the impact of its variations on safety is non-trivial. Moreover, other wood features, especially the microfibril angle (MFA), are also involved. Furthermore, wood is not only stiff and strong, but it also acts as a motor for MV and PC. The relevant wood trait for this is maturation strain asymmetry. Maturation strains vary with cell-wall characteristics such as MFA, rather than with wood density. Finally, the need for further studies about the ecological relevance of branching patterns, motricity traits, and growth responses to mechanical loads is discussed. © The Author 2013.  
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  Title Distribution of calcium oxalate crystals in floral organs of araceae in relation to pollination strategy Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication American Journal of Botany Abbreviated Journal Am. J. Bot.  
  Volume 99 Issue 7 Pages 1231-1242  
  Keywords Araceae; Beetles; Calcium oxalate; Crystal; Defense; Flowers; Herbivory; Pollination  
  Abstract Premise of the study: Many flowers are pollinated by potentially hungry insects, yet flowers also contain gametes and embryos which must be protected from predation. Microscopic calcium oxalate crystals in plant tissues have been proposed to protect against herbivory. Aroids, which have an unusual diversity of such crystals, also exhibit diverse pollination strategies. Many species have pollinators that do not feed while visiting the flowers, while other species, especially those pollinated by beetles, offer sterile staminodia as food rewards. We examined flowers of 21 aroid species with various pollination strategies to test the hypothesis that crystals protect vital gametes and embryos while allowing consumption of food bribes.Methods: Aroid inflorescences collected from the field or from greenhouse material were sectioned, cleared, and examined by bright field and polarization microscopy.Key results: All species examined, regardless of pollination strategy, arrayed crystals around unshed pollen and ovules. Less vital tissues, such as odoriferous appendages, had few crystals. Staminodia offered as food to beetle pollinators, however, differed greatly between species in their crystal contents. Some had minimal crystals; some had crystals in patterns suggesting they limit beetle feeding; still others had abundant crystals in no obvious pattern.Conclusions: The results are consistent with crystals protecting against insect predation of gametes and embryos. However, the role of crystals in food-bribe staminodia is unclear. They may limit and direct feeding by beetles in some species, while in others they might have no protective role. © 2012 Botanical Society of America.  
  Address (up) CNRS-Ecolog (UMR 8172), Campus Agronomique BP316, Korou cedex 97379, France  
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  Notes Export Date: 10 August 2012; Source: Scopus; Coden: Ajboa; doi: 10.3732/ajb.1100499; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Coté, G. G.; Biology Department, Radford University, Radford, VA 24142-6931, United States; email: gcote@radford.edu Approved no  
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Author Rodrigues, A.M.; Amusant, N.; Beauchene, J.; Eparvier, V.; Lemenager, N.; Baudasse, C.; Espindola, L.S.; Stien, D. url  openurl
  Title The termiticidal activity of Sextonia rubra (Mez) van der Werff (Lauraceae) extract and its active constituent rubrynolide Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Pest Management Science Abbreviated Journal Pest Manage. Sci.  
  Volume 67 Issue 11 Pages 1420-1423  
  Keywords Nasutitermes macrocephalus; Reticulitermes flavipes; Rubrynolide; Sextonia rubra extract; Wood preservation  
  Abstract Termites are degradation agents that inflict severe damage on wood. Some long-lasting Amazonian trees can resist these insects by producing toxic secondary metabolites. These metabolites could potentially replace synthetic termiticidal products which are becoming more restricted to use. Results: Sextonia rubra is resistant to termite-induced degradation. It has been demonstrated that this species naturally produces an ethyl-acetate-soluble termiticidal metabolite, rubrynolide, to protect its wood. Assays in the presence of tropical and invasive termites established that both rubrynolide and crude ethyl acetate extract from S. rubra wood can be used as a treatment for the protection of sensitive woods against termites. Conclusion: Rubrynolide and S. rubra extract are promising candidates for the replacement of synthetic termiticides. © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry.  
  Address (up) CNRS-Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, Gif-sur-Yvette, France  
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  Notes Export Date: 26 October 2011; Source: Scopus; Coden: Pmscf; doi: 10.1002/ps.2167; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Rodrigues, A.M.; UMR Ecofog, Institut d'Enseignement Supérieur de la Guyane, BP792, 97337 Cayenne Cedex, France; email: alice.rodrigues@pop.com.br Approved no  
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Author Bourreau, D.; Aimene, Y.; Beauchene, J.; Thibaut, B. url  openurl
  Title Feasibility of glued laminated timber beams with tropical hardwoods Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication European Journal of Wood and Wood Products Abbreviated Journal Eur. J. Wood Wood Prod.  
  Volume 71 Issue 5 Pages 653-662  
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  Abstract A feasibility study of glulam was carried out in French Guiana using local wood species. The aim was to determine gluing parameters affording satisfactory behaviour to manufactured glulam in a tropical climate. Three abundant wood species, with special properties, were selected for the study and resorcinol-phenol-formaldehyde resin was used for bonding. Three industrial parameters were considered: adhesive spread rate, closed assembly time and gluing pressure. Delamination and shearing tests were carried out in accordance with European Standards. The tests revealed the influence of wood properties and manufacturing parameters on joint resistance. In fact, the results showed that specific gravity and the shrinkage coefficient greatly influenced the gluing step. Indeed, wood with a medium specific gravity needed more adhesive and more pressure than wood with a high specific gravity. In addition, planing and lamella thickness were found to affect glue joint resistance. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.  
  Address (up) CNRS-LMGC Université de Montpellier2, 34095 Montpellier, France  
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  Notes Export Date: 30 August 2013; Source: Scopus; doi: 10.1007/s00107-013-0721-4; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Bourreau, D.; UAG-UMR Ecofog, Pôle Universitaire Guyanais, 97337 Cayenne cedex, French Guiana; email: dbourreau@nancy.inra.fr Approved no  
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Author Revel, N.; Alvarez, N.; Gibernau, M.; Espíndola, A. url  openurl
  Title Investigating the relationship between pollination strategies and the size-advantage model in zoophilous plants using the reproductive biology of Arum cylindraceum and other European Arum species as case studies Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication Arthropod-Plant Interactions Abbreviated Journal Arthropod-Plant Interact.  
  Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 35-44  
  Keywords Araceae; Flower evolution; Plant-insect interactions; Reproductive strategy; Sex allocation  
  Abstract The size-advantage model (SAM) explains the temporal variation of energetic investment on reproductive structures (i. e. male and female gametes and reproductive organs) in long-lived hermaphroditic plants and animals. It proposes that an increase in the resources available to an organism induces a higher relative investment on the most energetically costly sexual structures. In plants, pollination interactions are known to play an important role in the evolution of floral features. Because the SAM directly concerns flower characters, pollinators are expected to have a strong influence on the application of the model. This hypothesis, however, has never been tested. Here, we investigate whether the identity and diversity of pollinators can be used as a proxy to predict the application of the SAM in exclusive zoophilous plants. We present a new approach to unravel the dynamics of the model and test it on several widespread Arum (Araceae) species. By identifying the species composition, abundance and spatial variation of arthropods trapped in inflorescences, we show that some species (i. e. A. cylindraceum and A. italicum) display a generalist reproductive strategy, relying on the exploitation of a low number of dipterans, in contrast to the pattern seen in the specialist A. maculatum (pollinated specifically by two fly species only). Based on the model presented here, the application of the SAM is predicted for the first two and not expected in the latter species, those predictions being further confirmed by allometric measures. We here demonstrate that while an increase in the female zone occurs in larger inflorescences of generalist species, this does not happen in species demonstrating specific pollinators. This is the first time that this theory is both proposed and empirically tested in zoophilous plants. Its overall biological importance is discussed through its application in other non-Arum systems. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.  
  Address (up) CNRS-UMR 8172 Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, BP 709, 97387 Kourou, France  
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  Notes Export Date: 21 March 2012; Source: Scopus; doi: 10.1007/s11829-011-9164-1; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Espíndola, A.; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; email: MariaAnahi.Espindola@unil.ch Approved no  
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Author Wagner, F.H.; Herault, B.; Bonal, D.; Stahl, C.; Anderson, L.O.; Baker, T.R.; Sebastian Becker, G.; Beeckman, H.; Boanerges Souza, D.; Cesar Botosso, P.; Bowman, D.M.J.S.; Bräuning, A.; Brede, B.; Irving Brown, F.; Julio Camarero, J.; Camargo, P.B.; Cardoso, F.C.G.; Carvalho, F.A.; Castro, W.; Koloski Chagas, R.; Chave, J.; Chidumayo, E.N.; Clark, D.A.; Regina Capellotto Costa, F.; Couralet, C.; Henrique Da Silva Mauricio, P.; Dalitz, H.; Resende De Castro, V.; Milani, J.E.D.F.; Consuelo De Oliveira, E.; De Souza Arruda, L.; Devineau, J.L.; Drew, D.M.; Dünisch, O.; Durigan, G.; Elifuraha, E.; Fedele, M.; Ferreira Fedele, L.; Figueiredo Filho, A.; Finger, C.A.G.; César Franco, A.; Jnior, L.F.; Galvão, F.; Gebrekirstos, A.; Gliniars, R.; Maurício Lima De Alencastro Graça, P.; Griffiths, A.D.; Grogan, J.; Guan, K.; Homeier, J.; Raquel Kanieski, M.; Khoon Kho, L.; Koenig, J.; Valerio Kohler, S.; Krepkowski, J.; Lemos-Filho, J.P.; Lieberman, D.; Eugene Lieberman, M.; Sergio Lisi, C.; Longhi Santos, T.; Ayala, J.L.L.; Eijji Maeda, E.; Malhi, Y.; Maria, V.R.B.; Marques, M.C.M.; Marques, R.; Maza Chamba, H.; Mbwambo, L.; Liana Lisboa Melgaço, K.; Angela Mendivelso, H.; Murphy, B.P.; O'Brien, J.J.; F. Oberbauer, S.; Okada, N.; Plissier, R.; Prior, L.D.; Alejandro Roig, F.; Ross, M.; Rodrigo Rossatto, D.; Rossi, V.; Rowland, L.; Rutishauser, E.; Santana, H.; Schulze, M.; Selhorst, D.; Rodrigues Silva, W.; Silveira, M.; Spannl, S.; Swaine, M.D.; Toledo, J.J.; Miranda Toledo, M.; Toledo, M.; Toma, T.; Tomazello Filho, M.; Ignacio Valdez Hernández, J.; Verbesselt, J.; Aparecida Vieira, S.; Vincent, G.; Volkmer De Castilho, C.; Volland, F.; Worbes, M.; Lea Bolzan Zanon, M.; Aragão, L.E.O.C. url  doi
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  Title Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Biogeosciences Abbreviated Journal Biogeosciences  
  Volume 13 Issue 8 Pages 2537-2562  
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  Abstract The seasonal climate drivers of the carbon cycle in tropical forests remain poorly known, although these forests account for more carbon assimilation and storage than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Based on a unique combination of seasonal pan-tropical data sets from 89 experimental sites (68 include aboveground wood productivity measurements and 35 litter productivity measurements), their associated canopy photosynthetic capacity (enhanced vegetation index, EVI) and climate, we ask how carbon assimilation and aboveground allocation are related to climate seasonality in tropical forests and how they interact in the seasonal carbon cycle. We found that canopy photosynthetic capacity seasonality responds positively to precipitation when rainfall is < 2000ĝ€-mmĝ€-yrĝ'1 (water-limited forests) and to radiation otherwise (light-limited forests). On the other hand, independent of climate limitations, wood productivity and litterfall are driven by seasonal variation in precipitation and evapotranspiration, respectively. Consequently, light-limited forests present an asynchronism between canopy photosynthetic capacity and wood productivity. First-order control by precipitation likely indicates a decrease in tropical forest productivity in a drier climate in water-limited forest, and in current light-limited forest with future rainfall < 2000ĝ€-mmĝ€-yrĝ'1. Author(s) 2016.  
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Author Wagner, F.H.; Herault, B.; Rossi, V.; Hilker, T.; Maeda, E.E.; Sanchez, A.; Lyapustin, A.I.; Galvão, L.S.; Wang, Y.; Aragão, L.E.O.C. pdf  url
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  Title Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication PLoS ONE Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 12 Issue 7 Pages e0180932  
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  Abstract Our limited understanding of the climate controls on tropical forest seasonality is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in modeling climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. Combining leaf production, litterfall and climate observations from satellite and ground data in the Amazon forest, we show that seasonal variation in leaf production is largely triggered by climate signals, specifically, insolation increase (70.4% of the total area) and precipitation increase (29.6%). Increase of insolation drives leaf growth in the absence of water limitation. For these non-water-limited forests, the simultaneous leaf flush occurs in a sufficient proportion of the trees to be observed from space. While tropical cycles are generally defined in terms of dry or wet season, we show that for a large part of Amazonia the increase in insolation triggers the visible progress of leaf growth, just like during spring in temperate forests. The dependence of leaf growth initiation on climate seasonality may result in a higher sensitivity of these ecosystems to changes in climate than previously thought.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.  
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Author Eva, H.D.; Belward, A.S.; De Miranda, E.E.; Di Bella, C.M.; Gond, V.; Huber, O.; Jones, S.; Sgrenzaroli, M.; Fritz, S. openurl 
  Title A land cover map of South America Type Journal Article
  Year 2004 Publication Global Change Biology Abbreviated Journal Glob. Change Biol.  
  Volume 10 Issue 5 Pages 731-744  
  Keywords Amazonia; ecosystems; land cover; mapping; South America; vegetation classes  
  Abstract A digital land cover map of South America has been produced using remotely sensed satellite data acquired between 1995 and the year 2000. The mapping scale is defined by the 1 km spatial resolution of the map grid-cell. In order to realize the product, different sources of satellite data were used, each source providing either a particular parameter of land cover characteristic required by the legend, or mapping a particular land cover class. The map legend is designed both to fit requirements for regional climate modelling and for studies on land cover change. The legend is also compatible with a wider, global, land cover mapping exercise, which seeks to characterize the world's land surface for the year 2000. As a first step, the humid forest domain has been validated using a sample of high-resolution satellite images. The map demonstrates both the major incursions of agriculture into the remaining forest domains and the extensive areas of agriculture, which now dominate South America's grasslands.  
  Address (up) Commiss European Communities, Joint Res Ctr, Inst Environm & Sustainabil, TP 440, I-21020 Ispra, Italy, Email: hugh.eva@jrc.it  
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Author Hudson, L.N.; Newbold, T.; Contu, S.; Hill, S.L.L.; Lysenko, I.; De Palma, A.; Phillips, H.R.P.; Alhusseini, T.I.; Bedford, F.E.; Bennett, D.J.; Booth, H.; Burton, V.J.; Chng, C.W.T.; Choimes, A.; Correia, D.L.P.; Day, J.; Echeverría-Londoño, S.; Emerson, S.R.; Gao, D.; Garon, M.; Harrison, M.L.K.; Ingram, D.J.; Jung, M.; Kemp, V.; Kirkpatrick, L.; Martin, C.D.; Pan, Y.; Pask-Hale, G.D.; Pynegar, E.L.; Robinson, A.N.; Sanchez-Ortiz, K.; Senior, R.A.; Simmons, B.I.; White, H.J.; Zhang, H.; Aben, J.; Abrahamczyk, S.; Adum, G.B.; Aguilar-Barquero, V.; Aizen, M.A.; Albertos, B.; Alcala, E.L.; del Mar Alguacil, M.; Alignier, A.; Ancrenaz, M.; Andersen, A.N.; Arbeláez-Cortés, E.; Armbrecht, I.; Arroyo-Rodríguez, V.; Aumann, T.; Axmacher, J.C.; Azhar, B.; Azpiroz, A.B.; Baeten, L.; Bakayoko, A.; Báldi, A.; Banks, J.E.; Baral, S.K.; Barlow, J.; Barratt, B.I.P.; Barrico, L.; Bartolommei, P.; Barton, D.M.; Basset, Y.; Batáry, P.; Bates, A.J.; Baur, B.; Bayne, E.M.; Beja, P.; Benedick, S.; Berg, Å.; Bernard, H.; Berry, N.J.; Bhatt, D.; Bicknell, J.E.; Bihn, J.H.; Blake, R.J.; Bobo, K.S.; Bóçon, R.; Boekhout, T.; Böhning-Gaese, K.; Bonham, K.J.; Borges, P.A.V.; Borges, S.H.; Boutin, C.; Bouyer, J.; Bragagnolo, C.; Brandt, J.S.; Brearley, F.Q.; Brito, I.; Bros, V.; Brunet, J.; Buczkowski, G.; Buddle, C.M.; Bugter, R.; Buscardo, E.; Buse, J.; Cabra-García, J.; Cáceres, N.C.; Cagle, N.L.; Calviño-Cancela, M.; Cameron, S.A.; Cancello, E.M.; Caparrós, R.; Cardoso, P.; Carpenter, D.; Carrijo, T.F.; Carvalho, A.L.; Cassano, C.R.; Castro, H.; Castro-Luna, A.A.; Rolando, C.B.; Cerezo, A.; Chapman, K.A.; Chauvat, M.; Christensen, M.; Clarke, F.M.; Cleary, D.F.R.; Colombo, G.; Connop, S.P.; Craig, M.D.; Cruz-López, L.; Cunningham, S.A.; D'Aniello, B.; D'Cruze, N.; da Silva, P.G.; Dallimer, M.; Danquah, E.; Darvill, B.; Dauber, J.; Davis, A.L.V.; Dawson, J.; de Sassi, C.; de Thoisy, B.; Deheuvels, O.; Dejean, A.; Devineau, J.-L.; Diekötter, T.; Dolia, J.V.; Domínguez, E.; Dominguez-Haydar, Y.; Dorn, S.; Draper, I.; Dreber, N.; Dumont, B.; Dures, S.G.; Dynesius, M.; Edenius, L.; Eggleton, P.; Eigenbrod, F.; Elek, Z.; Entling, M.H.; Esler, K.J.; de Lima, R.F.; Faruk, A.; Farwig, N.; Fayle, T.M.; Felicioli, A.; Felton, A.M.; Fensham, R.J.; Fernandez, I.C.; Ferreira, C.C.; Ficetola, G.F.; Fiera, C.; Filgueiras, B.K.C.; Fırıncıoğlu, H.K.; Flaspohler, D.; Floren, A.; Fonte, S.J.; Fournier, A.; Fowler, R.E.; Franzén, M.; Fraser, L.H.; Fredriksson, G.M.; Freire, G.B., Jr.; Frizzo, T.L.M.; Fukuda, D.; Furlani, D.; Gaigher, R.; Ganzhorn, J.U.; García, K.P.; Garcia-R, J.C.; Garden, J.G.; Garilleti, R.; Ge, B.-M.; Gendreau-Berthiaume, B.; Gerard, P.J.; Gheler-Costa, C.; Gilbert, B.; Giordani, P.; Giordano, S.; Golodets, C.; Gomes, L.G.L.; Gould, R.K.; Goulson, D.; Gove, A.D.; Granjon, L.; Grass, I.; Gray, C.L.; Grogan, J.; Gu, W.; Guardiola, M.; Gunawardene, N.R.; Gutierrez, A.G.; Gutiérrez-Lamus, D.L.; Haarmeyer, D.H.; Hanley, M.E.; Hanson, T.; Hashim, N.R.; Hassan, S.N.; Hatfield, R.G.; Hawes, J.E.; Hayward, M.W.; Hébert, C.; Helden, A.J.; Henden, J.-A.; Henschel, P.; Hernández, L.; Herrera, J.P.; Herrmann, F.; Herzog, F.; Higuera-Diaz, D.; Hilje, B.; Höfer, H.; Hoffmann, A.; Horgan, F.G.; Hornung, E.; Horváth, R.; Hylander, K.; Isaacs-Cubides, P.; Ishida, H.; Ishitani, M.; Jacobs, C.T.; Jaramillo, V.J.; Jauker, B.; Hernández, F.J.; Johnson, M.F.; Jolli, V.; Jonsell, M.; Juliani, S.N.; Jung, T.S.; Kapoor, V.; Kappes, H.; Kati, V.; Katovai, E.; Kellner, K.; Kessler, M.; Kirby, K.R.; Kittle, A.M.; Knight, M.E.; Knop, E.; Kohler, F.; Koivula, M.; Kolb, A.; Kone, M.; Kőrösi, Á.; Krauss, J.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, R.; Kurz, D.J.; Kutt, A.S.; Lachat, T.; Lantschner, V.; Lara, F.; Lasky, J.R.; Latta, S.C.; Laurance, W.F.; Lavelle, P.; Le Féon, V.; LeBuhn, G.; Légaré, J.-P.; Lehouck, V.; Lencinas, M.V.; Lentini, P.E.; Letcher, S.G.; Li, Q.; Litchwark, S.A.; Littlewood, N.A.; Liu, Y.; Lo-Man-Hung, N.; López-Quintero, C.A.; Louhaichi, M.; Lövei, G.L.; Lucas-Borja, M.E.; Luja, V.H.; Luskin, M.S.; MacSwiney G, M.C.; Maeto, K.; Magura, T.; Mallari, N.A.; Malone, L.A.; Malonza, P.K.; Malumbres-Olarte, J.; Mandujano, S.; Måren, I.E.; Marin-Spiotta, E.; Marsh, C.J.; Marshall, E.J.P.; Martínez, E.; Martínez Pastur, G.; Moreno Mateos, D.; Mayfield, M.M.; Mazimpaka, V.; McCarthy, J.L.; McCarthy, K.P.; McFrederick, Q.S.; McNamara, S.; Medina, N.G.; Medina, R.; Mena, J.L.; Mico, E.; Mikusinski, G.; Milder, J.C.; Miller, J.R.; Miranda-Esquivel, D.R.; Moir, M.L.; Morales, C.L.; Muchane, M.N.; Muchane, M.; Mudri-Stojnic, S.; Munira, A.N.; Muoñz-Alonso, A.; Munyekenye, B.F.; Naidoo, R.; Naithani, A.; Nakagawa, M.; Nakamura, A.; Nakashima, Y.; Naoe, S.; Nates-Parra, G.; Navarrete Gutierrez, D.A.; Navarro-Iriarte, L.; Ndang'ang'a, P.K.; Neuschulz, E.L.; Ngai, J.T.; Nicolas, V.; Nilsson, S.G.; Noreika, N.; Norfolk, O.; Noriega, J.A.; Norton, D.A.; Nöske, N.M.; Nowakowski, A.J.; Numa, C.; O'Dea, N.; O'Farrell, P.J.; Oduro, W.; Oertli, S.; Ofori-Boateng, C.; Oke, C.O.; Oostra, V.; Osgathorpe, L.M.; Otavo, S.E.; Page, N.V.; Paritsis, J.; Parra-H, A.; Parry, L.; Pe'er, G.; Pearman, P.B.; Pelegrin, N.; Pélissier, R.; Peres, C.A.; Peri, P.L.; Persson, A.S.; Petanidou, T.; Peters, M.K.; Pethiyagoda, R.S.; Phalan, B.; Philips, T.K.; Pillsbury, F.C.; Pincheira-Ulbrich, J.; Pineda, E.; Pino, J.; Pizarro-Araya, J.; Plumptre, A.J.; Poggio, S.L.; Politi, N.; Pons, P.; Poveda, K.; Power, E.F.; Presley, S.J.; Proença, V.; Quaranta, M.; Quintero, C.; Rader, R.; Ramesh, B.R.; Ramirez-Pinilla, M.P.; Ranganathan, J.; Rasmussen, C.; Redpath-Downing, N.A.; Reid, J.L.; Reis, Y.T.; Rey Benayas, J.M.; Rey-Velasco, J.C.; Reynolds, C.; Ribeiro, D.B.; Richards, M.H.; Richardson, B.A.; Richardson, M.J.; Ríos, R.M.; Robinson, R.; Robles, C.A.; Römbke, J.; Romero-Duque, L.P.; Rös, M.; Rosselli, L.; Rossiter, S.J.; Roth, D.S.; Roulston, T.H.; Rousseau, L.; Rubio, A.V.; Ruel, J.-C.; Sadler, J.P.; Sáfián, S.; Saldaña-Vázquez, R.A.; Sam, K.; Samnegård, U.; Santana, J.; Santos, X.; Savage, J.; Schellhorn, N.A.; Schilthuizen, M.; Schmiedel, U.; Schmitt, C.B.; Schon, N.L.; Schüepp, C.; Schumann, K.; Schweiger, O.; Scott, D.M.; Scott, K.A.; Sedlock, J.L.; Seefeldt, S.S.; Shahabuddin, G.; Shannon, G.; Sheil, D.; Sheldon, F.H.; Shochat, E.; Siebert, S.J.; Silva, F.A.B.; Simonetti, J.A.; Slade, E.M.; Smith, J.; Smith-Pardo, A.H.; Sodhi, N.S.; Somarriba, E.J.; Sosa, R.A.; Soto Quiroga, G.; St-Laurent, M.-H.; Starzomski, B.M.; Stefanescu, C.; Steffan-Dewenter, I.; Stouffer, P.C.; Stout, J.C.; Strauch, A.M.; Struebig, M.J.; Su, Z.; Suarez-Rubio, M.; Sugiura, S.; Summerville, K.S.; Sung, Y.-H.; Sutrisno, H.; Svenning, J.-C.; Teder, T.; Threlfall, C.G.; Tiitsaar, A.; Todd, J.H.; Tonietto, R.K.; Torre, I.; Tóthmérész, B.; Tscharntke, T.; Turner, E.C.; Tylianakis, J.M.; Uehara-Prado, M.; Urbina-Cardona, N.; Vallan, D.; Vanbergen, A.J.; Vasconcelos, H.L.; Vassilev, K.; Verboven, H.A.F.; Verdasca, M.J.; Verdú, J.R.; Vergara, C.H.; Vergara, P.M.; Verhulst, J.; Virgilio, M.; Vu, L.V.; Waite, E.M.; Walker, T.R.; Wang, H.-F.; Wang, Y.; Watling, J.I.; Weller, B.; Wells, K.; Westphal, C.; Wiafe, E.D.; Williams, C.D.; Willig, M.R.; Woinarski, J.C.Z.; Wolf, J.H.D.; Wolters, V.; Woodcock, B.A.; Wu, J.; Wunderle, J.M., Jr.; Yamaura, Y.; Yoshikura, S.; Yu, D.W.; Zaitsev, A.S.; Zeidler, J.; Zou, F.; Collen, B.; Ewers, R.M.; Mace, G.M.; Purves, D.W.; Scharlemann, J.P.W.; Purvis, A. pdf  url
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  Title The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Ecology and Evolution Abbreviated Journal Ecology and Evolution  
  Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 145-188  
  Keywords data sharing; global biodiversity modeling; global change; habitat destruction; land use  
  Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity. © 2016 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  
  Address (up) Computational Ecology and Environmental Science, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom  
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Author Solander, K.C.; Newman, B.D.; Carioca De Araujo, A.; Barnard, H.R.; Berry, Z.C.; Bonal, D.; Bretfeld, M.; Burban, B.; Candido, L.A.; Célleri, R.; Chambers, J.Q.; Christoffersen, B.O.; Detto, M.; Dorigo, W.A.; Ewers, B.E.; Ferreira, S.J.F.; Knohl, A.; Leung, L.R.; McDowell, N.G.; Miller, G.R.; Monteiro, M.T.F.; Moore, G.W.; Negron-Juarez, R.; Saleska, S.R.; Stiegler, C.; Tomasella, J.; Xu, C. pdf  url
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  Title The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abbreviated Journal Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.  
  Volume 24 Issue 5 Pages 2303-2322  
  Keywords Cluster analysis; Oceanography; Soil moisture; Surface waters; Tropics; Climate anomalies; Clustered datum; Hydrologic changes; Land data assimilation systems; Sea surface temperature anomalies; Situ soil moistures; Tropical hydrologies; Tropical Pacific ocean; Soil surveys  
  Abstract The 2015–2016 El Niño event ranks as one of the most severe on record in terms of the magnitude and extent of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies generated in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Corresponding global impacts on the climate were expected to rival, or even surpass, those of the 1997–1998 severe El Niño event, which had SST anomalies that were similar in size. However, the 2015–2016 event failed to meet expectations for hydrologic change in many areas, including those expected to receive well above normal precipitation. To better understand how climate anomalies during an El Niño event impact soil moisture, we investigate changes in soil moisture in the humid tropics (between ±25∘) during the three most recent super El Niño events of 1982–1983, 1997–1998 and 2015–2016, using data from the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS). First, we use in situ soil moisture observations obtained from 16 sites across five continents to validate and bias-correct estimates from GLDAS (r2=0.54). Next, we apply a k-means cluster analysis to the soil moisture estimates during the El Niño mature phase, resulting in four groups of clustered data. The strongest and most consistent decreases in soil moisture occur in the Amazon basin and maritime southeastern Asia, while the most consistent increases occur over eastern Africa. In addition, we compare changes in soil moisture to both precipitation and evapotranspiration, which showed a lack of agreement in the direction of change between these variables and soil moisture most prominently in the southern Amazon basin, the Sahel and mainland southeastern Asia. Our results can be used to improve estimates of spatiotemporal differences in El Niño impacts on soil moisture in tropical hydrology and ecosystem models at multiple scales.  
  Address (up) Coordination of Research and Development, National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil  
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  Notes Export Date: 29 May 2020; Correspondence Address: Solander, K.C.; Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States; email: ksolander@lanl.gov Approved no  
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