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Sandra Patiño

Researcher at National University of Colombia

Publications -  26
Citations -  7138

Sandra Patiño is an academic researcher from National University of Colombia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil fertility & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 26 publications receiving 6350 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra Patiño include Institut national de la recherche agronomique & Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute.

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TRY - a global database of plant traits

Jens Kattge, +136 more
TL;DR: TRY as discussed by the authors is a global database of plant traits, including morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs, which can be used for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography.
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Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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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Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of soil fertility in forest structure and dynamics in the Amazon Basin in an east-west gradient coincident with variations in soil fertility and geology and found that soil fertility may play an important role in explaining Basinwide variations in forest biomass, growth and stem turnover rates.
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Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

Oliver L. Phillips, +58 more
- 01 Aug 2010 - 
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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Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

Ted R. Feldpausch, +60 more
- 05 May 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a new global tropical forest database consisting of 39 955 concurrent H and D measurements encompassing 283 sites in 22 tropical countries, and used this database to determine if H:D relationships differ by geographic region and forest type (wet to dry forests, including zones of tension where forest and savanna overlap).