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Gerardo Aymard
Publications - 31
Citations - 3930
Gerardo Aymard is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 26 publications receiving 3235 citations.
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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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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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Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications
Dryflor,Karina Banda-R,Alfonso Delgado-Salinas,Kyle G. Dexter,Kyle G. Dexter,Reynaldo Linares-Palomino,Reynaldo Linares-Palomino,Ary Teixeira de Oliveira-Filho,Darién E. Prado,Martin R. Pullan,Catalina Quintana,Ricarda Riina,M M Gina Rodríguez,Julia Weintritt,Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez,Juan Adarve,Esteban Álvarez,B Anairamiz Aranguren,Julián Camilo Arteaga,Gerardo Aymard,Alejandro Castaño,Natalia Ceballos-Mago,Álvaro Cogollo,Hermes Cuadros,Freddy Delgado,Wilson Devia,Hilda del Carmen Dueñas,Laurie Fajardo,Ángel Fernández,Miller Ángel Fernández,Janet Franklin,Ethan H. Freid,Luciano A. Galetti,Reina Gonto,Roy González-M.,Roy González-M.,Roger Graveson,Eileen H. Helmer,Álvaro Idárraga,René López,Humfredo Marcano-Vega,Olga Gladys Martínez,Hernán M. Maturo,Morag McDonald,Kurt McLaren,Omar Melo,Francisco Mijares,Virginia Yanina Mogni,Diego Alonso Restrepo Molina,Natalia del Pilar Moreno,Jafet M. Nassar,Danilo M. Neves,Danilo M. Neves,Luis Jorge Oakley,Michael P. Oatham,Alma Rosa Olvera-Luna,Flávia Fonseca Pezzini,Orlando Joel Reyes Dominguez,María Elvira Ríos,Orlando Rivera,Nelly Rodríguez,Alicia Rojas,Tiina Särkinen,Roberto Sánchez,Melvin Smith,Carlos Vargas,Boris Villanueva,R. Toby Pennington +67 more
TL;DR: Using 835 inventories covering 4660 species of woody plants, marked floristic turnover among inventories and regions indicates that numerous conservation areas across many countries will be needed to protect the full diversity of tropical dry forests.
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Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites
Edward T. A. Mitchard,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Roel J. W. Brienen,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Abel Monteagudo,Timothy R. Baker,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Jon Lloyd,Carlos A. Quesada,Manuel Gloor,Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Patrick Meir,Patrick Meir,Esteban Álvarez,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Luzmila Arroyo,Gerardo Aymard,Olaf Bánki,Damien Bonal,Sandra Brown,Foster Brown,Foster Brown,Carlos Cerón,Victor Chama Moscoso,Jérôme Chave,James A. Comiskey,Fernando Cornejo,Massiel Corrales Medina,Lola da Costa,Flávia R. C. Costa,Anthony Di Fiore,Tomas F. Domingues,Terry L. Erwin,Todd Frederickson,Niro Higuchi,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Timothy J. Killeen,William F. Laurance,Carolina Levis,William E. Magnusson,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben Hur Marimon Junior,Irina Mendoza Polo,Piyush Mishra,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,David A. Neill,Mario Percy Núñez Vargas,Walter A. Palacios,Alexander Parada,Guido Pardo Molina,Marielos Peña-Claros,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Carlos A. Peres,Lourens Poorter,Adriana Prieto,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Zorayda Restrepo Correa,Anand Roopsind,Katherine H Roucoux,Agustín Rudas,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Juliana Schietti,Marcos Silveira,Priscila Souza,Marc K. Steininger,Juliana Stropp,John Terborgh,Raquel Thomas,Marisol Toledo,Armando Torres-Lezama,Tinde van Andel,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Simone Aparecida Vieira,Emilio Vilanova-Torre,Vincent A. Vos,Ophelia Wang,Charles E. Zartman,Yadvinder Malhi,Oliver L. Phillips +85 more
TL;DR: Pantropical biomass maps are widely used by governments and by projects aiming to reduce deforestation using carbon offsets, but may have significant regional biases and carbon accounting techniques must be revised to account for the known ecological variation in tree wood density and allometry.
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Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Martin J. P. Sullivan,Martin J. P. Sullivan,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Kofi Affum-Baffoe,Carolina V. Castilho,Flávia R. C. Costa,Aida Cuni Sanchez,Aida Cuni Sanchez,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Wannes Hubau,Wannes Hubau,Wannes Hubau,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza,Lan Qie,Bonaventure Sonké,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,Timothy R. Baker,Roel J. W. Brienen,Ted R. Feldpausch,David W. Galbraith,Manuel Gloor,Yadvinder Malhi,Shin-ichiro Aiba,Miguel Alexiades,Everton Cristo de Almeida,Edmar Almeida de Oliveira,Esteban Alvarez Dávila,Patricia Alvarez Loayza,Ana Andrade,Simone Aparecida Vieira,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Eric Arets,Luzmila Arroyo,Peter S. Ashton,Gerardo Aymard,Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro,Lindsay F. Banin,Christopher Baraloto,Plínio Barbosa de Camargo,Jos Barlow,Jorcely Barroso,Jean-François Bastin,Jean-François Bastin,Sarah A. Batterman,Hans Beeckman,Serge K. Begne,Serge K. Begne,Amy C. Bennett,Erika Berenguer,Erika Berenguer,Nicholas J. Berry,Lilian Blanc,Pascal Boeckx,Jan Bogaert,Damien Bonal,Frans Bongers,Matt Bradford,Francis Q. Brearley,Terry Brncic,Foster Brown,Benoit Burban,José Luís Camargo,Wendeson Castro,Carlos Cerón,Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro,Victor Chama Moscoso,Jérôme Chave,Eric Chezeaux,Connie J. Clark,Fernanda Coelho de Souza,Murray Collins,James A. Comiskey,James A. Comiskey,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,Massiel Corrales Medina,Lola da Costa,Martin Dančák,Greta C. Dargie,Stuart J. Davies,Nallaret Davila Cardozo,Thalès de Haulleville,Thalès de Haulleville,Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros,Jhon del Aguila Pasquel,Géraldine Derroire,Anthony Di Fiore,Jean-Louis Doucet,Aurélie Dourdain,Vincent Droissart,Luisa Fernanda Duque,Romeo Ekoungoulou,Fernando Elias,Terry L. Erwin,Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert,Sophie Fauset,Joice Ferreira,Gerardo Flores Llampazo,Ernest G. Foli,Andrew Ford,Martin Gilpin,Jefferson S. Hall,Keith C. Hamer,Alan Hamilton,David Harris,Terese B. Hart,Terese B. Hart,Radim Hédl,Bruno Herault,Rafael Herrera,Niro Higuchi,Annette Hladik,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,Walter Huaraca Huasco,Kathryn J. Jeffery,Eliana Jimenez-Rojas,Michelle Kalamandeen,Michelle Kalamandeen,Michelle Kalamandeen,Marie Noël Kamdem Djuikouo,Elizabeth Kearsley,Ricardo Keichi Umetsu,Lip Khoon Kho,Timothy J. Killeen,Kanehiro Kitayama,Bente B. Klitgaard,Alexander K. Koch,Nicolas Labrière,William F. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Miguel E. Leal,Aurora Levesley,Adriano José Nogueira Lima,Janvier Lisingo,Aline Pontes Lopes,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Jon C. Lovett,Jon C. Lovett,Richard Lowe,William E. Magnusson,Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte,Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte,Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto,Ben Hur Marimon,Andrew R. Marshall,Andrew R. Marshall,Toby R. Marthews,Simone Matias Reis,Simone Matias Reis,Colin R. Maycock,Karina Melgaço,Casimiro Mendoza,Faizah Metali,Vianet Mihindou,William Milliken,Edward T. A. Mitchard,Paulo S. Morandi,Hannah L. Mossman,Laszlo Nagy,Henrique E. M. Nascimento,David A. Neill,Reuben Nilus,Percy Núñez Vargas,Walter A. Palacios,Nadir Pallqui Camacho,Nadir Pallqui Camacho,Julie Peacock,Colin A. Pendry,Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora,Georgia Pickavance,John Pipoly,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Maureen Playfair,Lourens Poorter,John R. Poulsen,Axel Dalberg Poulsen,Richard F. Preziosi,Adriana Prieto,Richard B. Primack,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Jan Reitsma,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Zorayda Restrepo Correa,Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa,Lily Rodriguez Bayona,Anand Roopsind,Agustín Rudas,Ervan Rutishauser,Kamariah Abu Salim,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Juliana Schietti,Douglas Sheil,Richarlly da Costa Silva,Javier Silva Espejo,Camila Silva Valeria,Marcos Silveira,Murielle Simo-Droissart,Marcelo F. Simon,James Singh,Yahn Carlos Soto Shareva,Clément Stahl,Juliana Stropp,Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri,Terry Sunderland,Terry Sunderland,Martin Svátek,Michael D. Swaine,Varun Swamy,Hermann Taedoumg,Hermann Taedoumg,Joey Talbot,James Taplin,David Taylor,Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,John Terborgh,Raquel Thomas,Sean C. Thomas,Armando Torres-Lezama,Peter M. Umunay,Peter M. Umunay,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Peter van der Hout,Peter J. Van Der Meer,Mark van Nieuwstadt,Hans Verbeeck,Ronald Vernimmen,Alberto Vicentini,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Jason Vleminckx,Vincent A. Vos,Ophelia Wang,Lee J. T. White,Simon Willcock,John T. Woods,Verginia Wortel,Kenneth R. Young,Roderick Zagt,Lise Zemagho,Pieter A. Zuidema,Joeri A. Zwerts,Oliver L. Phillips +250 more
TL;DR: This synthesis of plot networks across climatic and biogeographic gradients shows that forest thermal sensitivity is dominated by high daytime temperatures, and biome-wide variation in tropical forest carbon stocks and dynamics shows long-term resilience to increasing high temperatures.