A5048343133- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest ecology and management
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
- Forest Management and Policy
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
International Institute of Tropical Forestry
2024-2025
University of Florida
2022-2024
US Forest Service
2024
Florida International University
2017-2023
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2019-2023
University of Miami
2020
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
2014-2019
Forests are integral to the global land carbon sink, which has sequestered ~30% of anthropogenic emissions over recent decades. The persistence this sink depends on balance positive drivers that increase ecosystem storage-e.g., CO
Summary The root economics space (RES) is multidimensional and largely shaped by belowground biotic abiotic influences. However, how root–fungal symbioses edaphic fertility drive this complexity remains unclear. Here, we measured absorptive traits of 112 tree species in temperate subtropical forests China, including linked to functional differences between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) ectomycorrhizal (ECM) hosts. Our data, from known species, revealed a ‘fungal‐symbiosis’ dimension...
Tropical cyclones drive coastal ecosystem dynamics, and their frequency, intensity, spatial distribution are predicted to shift with climate change. Patterns of resistance resilience were synthesized for 4138 time series from n = 26 storms occurring between 1985 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere predict how ecosystems will respond future disturbance regimes. Data grouped by (fresh water, salt terrestrial, wetland) response categories (biogeochemistry, hydrography, mobile biota, sedentary...
Despite experimental and observational studies demonstrating that biodiversity enhances primary productivity, the best metric for predicting productivity at broad geographic extents—functional trait diversity, phylogenetic or species richness—remains unknown. Using >1.8 million tree measurements from across eastern US forests, we quantified relationships among functional richness, productivity. Surprisingly, diversity explained little variation in could not be by richness. This result was...
As cyclonic wind storms (hurricanes and typhoons) increase in frequency intensity with climate change, it is important to understand their effects on the populations communities of tropical trees they impact. Using tree demographic data from four large, forest dynamics plots that differ storm frequency, we compare population community dynamics. Additionally, assess effect three functional traits, specific leaf area, wood density, height dynamic assemblages. Mortality, growth recruitment...
Legumes provide an essential service to ecosystems by capturing nitrogen from the atmosphere and delivering it soil, where may then be available other plants. However, this facilitation legumes has not been widely studied in global tropical forests. Demographic data 11 large forest plots (16-60 ha) ranging 5.25° S 29.25° N latitude show that within forests, leguminous trees have a larger effect on neighbor diversity than non-legumes. Where soil is high, most legume species higher low, lower...
Abstract Tropical cyclones play an increasingly important role in shaping ecosystems. Understanding and generalizing their responses is challenging because of meteorological variability among storms its interaction with We present a research framework designed to compare tropical cyclone effects within across ecosystems that: a) uses disaggregating approach that measures the individual ecosystem components, b) links response components at fine temporal scales meteorology antecedent...
Abstract Aim Tropical cyclones are large‐scale disturbances that can shape the structure and dynamics of mangrove forests. Although tropical cyclone activity overlaps extensively with latitudinal distribution forests, relationships between intensity frequency forest canopy damage recovery not understood at global scale. Using remote sensing data, we examined how structure, climate characteristics influence cover loss dynamics. Location Global tropics. Time period 2000–2020. Major taxa...
Leaf-level gas exchange data support the mechanistic understanding of plant fluxes carbon and water. These inform our ecosystem function, are an important constraint on parameterization terrestrial biosphere models, necessary to understand response plants global environmental change, integral efforts improve crop production. Collection these using analyzers can be both technically challenging time consuming, individual studies generally focus a small range species, restricted periods, or...
Forest fungal communities are shaped by the interactions between host tree root systems and associated soil conditions. We investigated how environment, morphological traits, chemistry influence root-inhabiting in three tropical forest sites of varying successional status Xishuangbanna, China. For 150 trees 66 species, we measured morphology tissue chemistry. Tree species identity was confirmed sequencing rbcL, root-associated (RAF) were determined using high-throughput ITS2 sequencing....
Abstract Disturbance shapes plant communities over a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales. How natural anthropogenic disturbance interact to shape ecological is highly variable begs greater understanding. We used five censuses spanning the years 1990–2011 from 16‐ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot ( LFDP ) in northeast Puerto Rico investigate interplay human land‐use legacies dating early 20th century two recent hurricanes (Hugo, 1989 Georges, 1998). The landscape mosaic comprised an...
Abstract Droughts are predicted to become more frequent and intense in many tropical regions, which may cause shifts plant community composition. Especially diverse communities, understanding how traits mediate demographic responses drought can help provide insight into the effects of climate change on these ecosystems. To understand tree reduced soil moisture, we grew seedlings eight species across an experimental moisture gradient at Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. We quantified...
Satellite-based land use monitoring and farm-level traceability offer opportunities for targeted zero-deforestation interventions on private lands. Brazil's Rural Environmental Registry (Cadastro Ambiental Rural, or "CAR"), a cadaster based self-declaration of property boundaries, was created to monitor compliance with national forest laws. It has become an important enabling measure sustainable supply chain initiatives like the Amazon Soy Moratorium. However, CAR enrollment is increasingly...