Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such “monodominant” forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tr...
Increasing evidence shows that the functioning of the tropical forest biome is intimately related to the climate variability with some variables such as annual precipitation, temperature or seasonal water stress identified as key drivers of ecosystem dynamics. How tropical tree communities will respond to the future climate change is hard to predic...
BackgroundCoral reefs can experience salinity fluctuations due to rainfall and runoff; these events can have major impacts on the corals and lead to bleaching and mortality. On the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), low salinity events, which occur during summer seasons and can involve salinity dropping ~ 10 PSU correlate with declines in coral cover, and t...
preserving coral reef resilience is a major challenge in the Anthropocene, yet recent studiesdemonstrate failures of reef recovery from disturbance, globally. the wide and vigorous outer-reefsystem of French polynesia presents a rare opportunity to assess ecosystem resilience to disturbancesat a large-scale equivalent to the size of europe. In this...
Little is known regarding how trophic interactions shape community assembly in tropical forests. Here we assess multi-taxonomic community assembly rules using a rare standardized coordinated inventory comprising exhaustive surveys of five highly-diverse taxonomic groups exerting key ecological functions: trees, fungi, earthworms, ants and spiders. ...
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Zawita natural forest has recently has been subject to mass recreational activities during spring that have denuded large areas of the forest. It was thus essential to assess regeneration before designing optimizing strategies. To this end, we studied the overstory canopy and microhabitat conditions for recruitment of Pinus brutia Ten in 10 plots (...
Understanding the multifunctional role of soil in ecosystem functioning is crucial, and soil scientists have recently give more importance to quantifying the contribution of soils to climate change mitigation (Paustian et al., 2016). The soil system is considered a significant terrestrial sink of carbon. Therefore, quantifying and mapping Soil Orga...
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