Natacha Nssi Bengone

TL;DR: Overall, the uptake of carbon into Earth’s intact tropical forests peaked in the 1990s and independent observations indicating greater recent carbon uptake into the Northern Hemisphere landmass reinforce the conclusion that the intact tropical forest carbon sink has already peaked.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how a global community is responding to the challenges of tropical ecosystem research with diverse teams measuring forests tree-by-tree in thousands of long-term plots.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative abundance of tree palms in tropical and subtropical moist forests was quantified to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial positions of individual trees above 10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) were mapped and their canopy size and shape recorded using geo-located tree canopy sizes and shape data, community-level trait values were estimated at the same spatial resolution as Sentinel-2 imagery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a novel dataset of fine root biomass, productivity, residence time, and allocation in tropical old-growth rainforest sites worldwide, measured using consistent methods, and examine how these variables are related to consistently determined soil and climatic characteristics.