Abel Monteagudo Mendoza

TL;DR: It is shown that non-fragmented Amazon forests are experiencing a concerted increase in the density, basal area and mean size of woody climbing plants (lianas), which implies that the tropical terrestrial carbon sink may shut down sooner than current models suggest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that severe drought suppresses photosynthetic carbon uptake and plant maintenance respiration, but growth is maintained, suggesting that less carbon is available for tree tissue maintenance and defence, which may cause the subsequent observed increase in tree mortality.

TL;DR: Analysis of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data indicates that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between forest biomass and climate is investigated to predict the impacts of climate change on carbon stores, and a dataset spanning multiple climatic regions is used to evaluate the generality of published biomass-climate correlations.

TL;DR: Simulation of growth and mortality indicates that even when all carbon losses from intermediate and large-scale disturbances are considered, these are outweighed by the net biomass accumulation by tree growth, supporting the inference of an Amazon carbon sink.