Oliver L. Phillips

TL;DR: Simulation of growth and mortality indicates that even when all carbon losses from intermediate and large-scale disturbances are considered, these are outweighed by the net biomass accumulation by tree growth, supporting the inference of an Amazon carbon sink.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which the vertical structure of tropical forests is determined by environment, forest structure or biogeographical history was tested using height and diameter data from 20,497 trees in 112 non-contiguous plots.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the census interval effect for tropical forest trees, develop correction methods and re-assess some previously published conclusions about forest dynamics, and show that the pan-tropical increase in stem turnover rates over the late 20th century cannot be attributed to combining data with differing census interval.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the 2010 Amazon drought on forest dynamics using ground-based observations of mortality and growth from an extensive forest plot network and found that during the 2010 drought interval, forests did not gain biomass (net change: −0.43

TL;DR: It was found that subtle differences in elevation – which control soil chemistry and hydrology – profoundly influenced the structure, composition and diversity of the canopy of old‐growth forest.