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Percy Núñez Vargas
Researcher at National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Publications - 48
Citations - 9004
Percy Núñez Vargas is an academic researcher from National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 45 publications receiving 7707 citations. Previous affiliations of Percy Núñez Vargas include Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno & Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research.
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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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Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Daniel Sabatier,Christopher Baraloto,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Oliver L. Phillips,Carolina V. Castilho,William E. Magnusson,Jean-François Molino,Abel Monteagudo,Percy Núñez Vargas,Juan Carlos Montero,Ted R. Feldpausch,Ted R. Feldpausch,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Timothy J. Killeen,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Rodolfo Vasquez,Rafael L. Assis,Rafael L. Assis,John Terborgh,Florian Wittmann,Ana Andrade,William F. Laurance,Susan G. Laurance,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben Hur Marimon,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Iêda Leão do Amaral,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,Dairon Cárdenas López,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Hugo Mogollón,Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Pablo Roberto Stevenson Diaz,Flávia R. C. Costa,Thaise Emilio,Carolina Levis,Juliana Schietti,Priscila Souza,Alfonso Alonso,Francisco Dallmeier,Álvaro Javier Duque Montoya,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Rogério Gribel,Paul V. A. Fine,Carlos A. Peres,Marisol Toledo,A C Gerardo Aymard,Timothy R. Baker,Carlos Cerón,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,Paul J. M. Maas,Pascal Petronelli,Juliana Stropp,Charles E. Zartman,Doug Daly,David A. Neill,Marcos Silveira,Marcos Ríos Paredes,Jérôme Chave,Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho,Peter M. Jørgensen,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Jochen Schöngart,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,Anthony Di Fiore,E. M. Jimenez,Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora,Juan Fernando Phillips,Gonzalo Rivas,Tinde van Andel,Patricio von Hildebrand,Bruce Hoffman,Egleé L. Zent,Yadvinder Malhi,Adriana Prieto,Agustín Rudas,Ademir R. Ruschell,Natalino Silva,Vincent A. Vos,Stanford Zent,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Angela Cano Schutz,Therany Gonzales,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,Geertje M. F. van der Heijden,César I.A. Vela,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Corine Vriesendorp,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia Baider,Henrik Balslev,Cid Ferreira,Italo Mesones,Armando Torres-Lezama,Ligia Estela Urrego Giraldo,Roderick Zagt,Miguel Alexiades,Lionel Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Daniela Pauletto,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval,Luis Valenzuela Gamarra,Kyle G. Dexter,Kenneth J. Feeley,Kenneth J. Feeley,Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez,Miles R. Silman +125 more
TL;DR: The finding that Amazonia is dominated by just 227 tree species implies that most biogeochemical cycling in the world’s largest tropical forest is performed by a tiny sliver of its diversity.
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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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Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
Oliver L. Phillips,Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez,Luzmila Arroyo,Timothy R. Baker,Timothy J. Killeen,Timothy J. Killeen,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Yadvinder Malhi,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,David A. Neill,Percy Núñez Vargas,Miguel Alexiades,Carlos Cerón,A. Di Fiore,Terry L. Erwin,A. Jardim,W. Palacios,M. Saldias,Barbara Vinceti +19 more
TL;DR: It is shown that non-fragmented Amazon forests are experiencing a concerted increase in the density, basal area and mean size of woody climbing plants (lianas), which implies that the tropical terrestrial carbon sink may shut down sooner than current models suggest.
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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.