Walter A. Palacios

TL;DR: In this article, the distribution and abundance of tropical tree species in lowland terra firme forests in western Amazonia is investigated. But the results show that most species show landscape-scale densities of <1 individual/ha, and most trees in both forests belong to a small set of ubiquitous common species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize regional-scale patterns of "tree turnover" (the rate with which trees die and recruit into a population) by using improved datasets now available for Amazonia that span the past 25 years, and assess whether concerted changes in turnover are occurring and if so whether they are general throughout the Amazon or restricted to one region or environmental zone.

TL;DR: Pantropical biomass maps are widely used by governments and by projects aiming to reduce deforestation using carbon offsets, but may have significant regional biases and carbon accounting techniques must be revised to account for the known ecological variation in tree wood density and allometry.

TL;DR: This synthesis of plot networks across climatic and biogeographic gradients shows that forest thermal sensitivity is dominated by high daytime temperatures, and biome-wide variation in tropical forest carbon stocks and dynamics shows long-term resilience to increasing high temperatures.

TL;DR: In this article, two Amazonian tree communities separated by ;1400 km of continuous lowland tropical forest, in an effort to understand why one was more diverse than the other, were inventoried.