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Carlos A. Quesada
Researcher at National Institute of Amazonian Research
Publications - 132
Citations - 13663
Carlos A. Quesada is an academic researcher from National Institute of Amazonian Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 119 publications receiving 11479 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlos A. Quesada include Max Planck Society & University of Leeds.
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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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Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink
Roel J. W. Brienen,Oliver L. Phillips,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Emanuel Gloor,Timothy R. Baker,Jon Lloyd,Jon Lloyd,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza,Yadvinder Malhi,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,R. Vásquez Martínez,Miguel Alexiades,E. Alvarez Dávila,Patricia Alvarez-Loayza,Ana Andrade,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Eric Arets,Luzmila Arroyo,Olaf Bánki,Christopher Baraloto,Christopher Baraloto,Jorcely Barroso,Damien Bonal,René G. A. Boot,José Luís Camargo,Carolina V. Castilho,V. Chama,Kuo-Jung Chao,Kuo-Jung Chao,Jérôme Chave,James A. Comiskey,F. Cornejo Valverde,L da Costa,E. A. de Oliveira,A. Di Fiore,Terry L. Erwin,Sophie Fauset,Mônica Forsthofer,David W. Galbraith,E S Grahame,Nikée Groot,Bruno Hérault,Niro Higuchi,E.N. Honorio Coronado,E.N. Honorio Coronado,Helen C. Keeling,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Juan Carlos Licona,W E Magnussen,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben Hur Marimon-Junior,Casimiro Mendoza,David A. Neill,Euler Melo Nogueira,Pablo Núñez,N. C. Pallqui Camacho,Alexander Parada,G. Pardo-Molina,Julie Peacock,Marielos Peña-Claros,Georgia Pickavance,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Lourens Poorter,Adriana Prieto,Carlos A. Quesada,Fredy Ramírez,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Zorayda Restrepo,Anand Roopsind,Agustín Rudas,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Michael P. Schwarz,Natalino Silva,Javier E. Silva-Espejo,Marcos Silveira,Juliana Stropp,Joey Talbot,H. ter Steege,H. ter Steege,J Teran-Aguilar,John Terborgh,Raquel Thomas-Caesar,Marisol Toledo,Mireia Torello-Raventos,Ricardo Keichi Umetsu,G. M. F. van der Heijden,G. M. F. van der Heijden,G. M. F. van der Heijden,P. van der Hout,I. C. Guimarães Vieira,Simone Aparecida Vieira,Emilio Vilanova,Vincent A. Vos,Roderick Zagt +101 more
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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The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests
Yadvinder Malhi,Yadvinder Malhi,Daniel Wood,Timothy R. Baker,James S. Wright,Oliver L. Phillips,Thomas A. Cochrane,Patrick Meir,Jérôme Chave,Samuel Almeida,L. Arroyo,Niro Higuchi,Timothy J. Killeen,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Simon L. Lewis,Abel Monteagudo,David A. Neill,Percy Núñez Vargas,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Carlos A. Quesada,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,José Natalino Macedo Silva,José Natalino Macedo Silva,Armando Torres Lezama,John Terborgh,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,Barbara Vinceti +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new synthesis and interpolation of the basal area and aboveground live biomass of old-growth lowland tropical forests across South America, based on data from 227 forest plots, many previously unpublished.
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Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate
Carlos A. Quesada,Carlos A. Quesada,Oliver L. Phillips,Michael P. Schwarz,Claudia I. Czimczik,Timothy R. Baker,Sandra Patiño,Sandra Patiño,Nikolaos M. Fyllas,Martin G. Hodnett,Rafael Herrera,S. Almeida,E. Alvarez Dávila,Almut Arneth,Luzmila Arroyo,Kuo-Jung Chao,N. Dezzeo,Terry L. Erwin,A. Di Fiore,Niro Higuchi,E.N. Honorio Coronado,E. M. Jimenez,Timothy J. Killeen,Armando Torres Lezama,G. Lloyd,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Flávio J. Luizão,Yadvinder Malhi,Abel Monteagudo,David A. Neill,P. Núñez Vargas,R. Q. Paiva,Julie Peacock,M. C. Peñuela,A. Peña Cruz,Nigel C. A. Pitman,N. Priante Filho,Adriana Prieto,Hirma Ramírez,Agustín Rudas,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,A. J. B. Santos,A. J. B. Santos,J. Schmerler,Nelson R.F.A. Silva,Marcos Silveira,R. Vásquez,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,John Terborgh,Jon Lloyd,Jon Lloyd +50 more
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,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.