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Alexandra C. Morel
Researcher at University of Dundee
Publications - 32
Citations - 6596
Alexandra C. Morel is an academic researcher from University of Dundee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Deforestation. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 30 publications receiving 5610 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexandra C. Morel include Zoological Society of London & Environmental Change Institute.
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Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.
Sassan Saatchi,Nancy L. Harris,Sandra Brown,Michael A. Lefsky,Edward T. A. Mitchard,William Salas,Brian R. Zutta,Wolfgang Buermann,Simon L. Lewis,Stephen J. Hagen,Silvia Petrova,Lee J. T. White,Miles R. Silman,Alexandra C. Morel +13 more
TL;DR: A “benchmark” map of biomass carbon stocks over 2.5 billion ha of forests on three continents, encompassing all tropical forests, for the early 2000s is presented, which will be invaluable for REDD assessments at both project and national scales.
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Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.
Oliver L. Phillips,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Simon L. Lewis,Joshua B. Fisher,Jon Lloyd,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Yadvinder Malhi,Abel Monteagudo,Julie Peacock,Carlos A. Quesada,Geertjer Van Der Heijden,Samuel Almeida,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Luzmila Arroyo,Gerardo Aymard,Timothy R. Baker,Olaf Bánki,Lilian Blanc,Damien Bonal,Paulo M. Brando,Jérôme Chave,Atila Alves de Oliveira,Nallaret Davila Cardozo,Claudia I. Czimczik,Ted R. Feldpausch,Maria Aparecida Freitas,Emanuel Gloor,Niro Higuchi,E. M. Jimenez,Gareth Lloyd,Patrick Meir,Casimiro Mendoza,Alexandra C. Morel,David A. Neill,Daniel C. Nepstad,Sandra Patiño,M. C. Peñuela,Adriana Prieto,Fredy Ramírez,Michael P. Schwarz,Javier Silva,Marcos Silveira,Anne Sota Thomas,Hans ter Steege,Juliana Stropp,Rodolfo Vasquez,Przemyslaw Zelazowski,Esteban Alvarez Dávila,Sandy J. Andelman,Ana Andrade,Kuo-Jung Chao,Terry L. Erwin,Anthony Di Fiore,C Eurídice Honorio,Helen C. Keeling,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Antonio Peña Cruz,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Percy Núñez Vargas,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Agustín Rudas,Rafael Salamão,Natalino Silva,John Terborgh,Armando Torres-Lezama +65 more
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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How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity
Emily Fitzherbert,Matthew J. Struebig,Alexandra C. Morel,Finn Danielsen,Carsten A. Brühl,Paul F. Donald,Ben Phalan +6 more
TL;DR: Large biodiversity losses will only be averted if future oil palm expansion is managed to avoid deforestation, and strong overlap between areas suitable for oil palm and those of most importance for biodiversity is reviewed.
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Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests
Oliver L. Phillips,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Simon L. Lewis,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Jon Lloyd,Yadvinder Malhi,Abel Monteagudo,Samuel Almeida,Esteban Alvarez Dávila,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Sandy J. Andelman,Ana Andrade,Luzmila Arroyo,Gerardo Aymard,Timothy R. Baker,Lilian Blanc,Damien Bonal,Atila Alves de Oliveira,Kuo-Jung Chao,Nallaret Davila Cardozo,Lola da Costa,Ted R. Feldpausch,Joshua B. Fisher,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Maria Aparecida Freitas,David W. Galbraith,Emanuel Gloor,Niro Higuchi,Euridice Honorio,E. M. Jimenez,Helen C. Keeling,Timothy J. Killeen,Jon C. Lovett,Patrick Meir,Casimiro Mendoza,Alexandra C. Morel,Percy Núñez Vargas,Sandra Patiño,Sandra Patiño,Kelvin S.-H. Peh,Antonio Peña Cruz,Adriana Prieto,Carlos A. Quesada,Fredy Ramírez,Hirma Ramírez,Agustín Rudas,Rafael Salamão,Michael P. Schwarz,Michael P. Schwarz,Javier Silva,Marcos Silveira,J. W. Ferry Slik,Bonaventure Sonké,Anne Sota Thomas,Juliana Stropp,James Taplin,Rodolfo Vasquez,Emilio Vilanova +58 more
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.
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An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets
Valerio Avitabile,Martin Herold,Gerard B. M. Heuvelink,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Oliver L. Phillips,Gregory P. Asner,John Armston,Peter S. Ashton,Peter S. Ashton,Lindsay F. Banin,Nicolas Bayol,Nicholas J. Berry,Pascal Boeckx,Bernardus H. J. de Jong,Ben DeVries,Cécile A. J. Girardin,Elizabeth Kearsley,Elizabeth Kearsley,Jeremy A. Lindsell,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Richard Lucas,Yadvinder Malhi,Alexandra C. Morel,Edward T. A. Mitchard,Laszlo Nagy,Lan Qie,Marcela J. Quinones,Casey M. Ryan,Slik J.W. Ferry,Terry Sunderland,Gaia Vaglio Laurin,Roberto Cazzolla Gatti,Riccardo Valentini,Hans Verbeeck,Arief Wijaya,Simon Willcock +36 more
TL;DR: The fusion method can be applied at any scale including the policy-relevant national level, where it can provide improved biomass estimates by integrating existing regional biomass maps as input maps and additional, country-specific reference datasets.