Luzmila Arroyo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of potassium as a modulator of tropical vegetation structure and function in the Amazon Basin, and found that it is an excellent predictor of 13C isotope discrimination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the floristic similarities of 118 permanent plots established in eastern Bolivia using detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and canonical correspondence analysis, and found that the Chiquitano dry forest is characterized by a north-to-south FLORistic gradient that intergrades with the Amazon flora to the north and with the Gran Chaco flora in the south, however, the forest situated between these two biomes is composed of taxa which are neither Chacoan nor Amazonian, but are a local variant of the seasonal dry tropical forest that

TL;DR: By averaging several methods to estimate total richness, this work confirms that over 15,000 tree species are expected to occur in Amazonia and shows that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals, where aggregation increases with rarity.

TL;DR: The Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative is presented, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database that offers the potential to improve the accuracy of RS-based biomass products while developing new synergies between the RS and ground-based ecosystem research communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the full carbon cycle for two 1-ha forest plots that straddle the ecotone between humid forest and dry forest in Amazonia, ca. 100 km from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.