Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

By H. ter Steege, N. Pitman, Oliver L. Phillips, Jérôme Chave, Daniel Sabatier, Á. Duque, Jean-François Molino, M. Prévost, R. Spichiger, H. Castellanos and 2 more. Nature, 2006

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Beyond climate control on species range: The importance of soil data to predict distribution of Amazonian plant species (2018, background): “…power for most species, which is consistent with earlier findings suggesting that both climate and soil properties are important as drivers of plant diversity and community composition across Amazonia (ter Steege et al., 2006; Tuomisto, Ruokolainen, & Yli-Halla, 2003; Zuquim et al., 2014).”
Disturbance‐Mediated Drift in Tree Functional Groups in Amazonian Forest Fragments (2007, background): “For example, seed mass and wood density assigned to the level of genus has been applied to basin-wide studies across Amazonia (ter Steege et al. 2006).”
Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. (2008, neutral): “Except for forest areas with very high tree diversity, most of the standing carbon stock is often attributed to relatively few, tall and dense-wooded species (Ter Steege et al. 2006).”
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