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Adriana Prieto

Researcher at National University of Colombia

Publications -  51
Citations -  8507

Adriana Prieto is an academic researcher from National University of Colombia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amazon rainforest & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 47 publications receiving 6959 citations. Previous affiliations of Adriana Prieto include Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute & Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana.

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Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

TL;DR: Records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia are used to assess forest responses to the intense 2005 drought, a possible analog of future events that may accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances.
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Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

Hans ter Steege, +125 more
- 18 Oct 2013 - 
TL;DR: The finding that Amazonia is dominated by just 227 tree species implies that most biogeochemical cycling in the world’s largest tropical forest is performed by a tiny sliver of its diversity.
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Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Roel J. W. Brienen, +101 more
- 19 Mar 2015 - 
TL;DR: It is confirmed that Amazon forests have acted as a long-term net biomass sink, but the observed decline of the Amazon sink diverges markedly from the recent increase in terrestrial carbon uptake at the global scale, and is contrary to expectations based on models
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Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of soil fertility in forest structure and dynamics in the Amazon Basin in an east-west gradient coincident with variations in soil fertility and geology and found that soil fertility may play an important role in explaining Basinwide variations in forest biomass, growth and stem turnover rates.
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Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

Oliver L. Phillips, +58 more
- 01 Aug 2010 - 
TL;DR: It is indicated that repeated droughts would shift the functional composition of tropical forests toward smaller, denser-wooded trees, suggesting the existence of moisture stress thresholds beyond which some tropical forests would suffer catastrophic tree mortality.