Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Environmental science, Ecology, Atmospheric sciences, Biology, Ecosystem, and Primary production.
Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – A white paper
Ghosts of dry seasons past: Legacy of severe drought enhances mangrove salinity tolerance through coordinated cellular osmotic and elastic adjustments
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Forest fluxes and mortality response to drought: model description (ORCHIDEE-CAN-NHA r7236) and evaluation at the Caxiuanã drought experiment
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database
Evolutionary Diversity Peaks at Mid-Elevations Along an Amazon-to-Andes Elevation Gradient
Radially transmitted changes in hydraulic and osmotic pressures help explain reversible and irreversible patterns of tree stem expansion
Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?
Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient
Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests
Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites
Isoprene emission structures tropical tree biogeography and community assembly responses to climate
Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems
Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites
Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions
Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient
Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove <i>Avicennia marina</i>: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment and access to multiple water sources
Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees
Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation
Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia
Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world
Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits
A test of the ‘one‐point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis
Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses
Markedly divergent estimates of <scp>A</scp> mazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites
Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change
Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought
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