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Variation in plant traits along a tropical wet-dry gradient: a test of ecophysiological theories Open

H. Zhang, Yadvinder Malhi, Agne Gvozdevaite, Theresa Peprah, Mickey Boakye , et al. · 2024

Many ecophysiological theories have been proposed as universal rules to calculate plant photosynthesis given their living environment, where temperature and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) are commonly considered. Although these theories clai…

Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia Open

H. Zhang, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Akwasi Duah‐Gyamfi, Sam Moore, Shalom D. Addo‐Danso , et al. · 2024

Tropical forests cover large areas of equatorial Africa and play a substantial role in the global carbon cycle. However, there has been a lack of biometric measurements to understand the forests’ gross and net primary productivity (GPP, NP…

Why models underestimate West African tropical forest productivity Open

H. Zhang, Xiongjie Deng, Benjamin D. Stocker, Ruijie Ding, Eleanor R. Thomson , et al. · 2024

Tropical forests dominate terrestrial photosynthesis, yet there are major contradictions in our understanding due to a lack of field studies, especially outside the tropical Americas. A recent field study indicated that West African forest…

Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in W Africa and Amazonia Open

H. Zhang, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Akwasi Duah‐Gyamfi, Sam Moore, Shalom D. Addo‐Danso , et al. · 2023

Tropical forests cover large areas of equatorial Africa and play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. However, there has been a lack of in-situ measurements to understand the forests’ gross and net primary productivity (GPP and N…

Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in W Africa and Amazonia Open

H. Zhang, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Akwasi Duah‐Gyamfi, Sam Moore, Shalom D. Addo‐Danso , et al. · 2023

2 Abstract Tropical forests cover large areas of equatorial Africa and play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. However, there has been a lack of in-situ measurements to understand the forests’ gross and net primary productivity…

Photosynthetic and water transport strategies of plants along a tropical forest aridity gradient: a test of optimality theory Open

H. Zhang, Yadvinder Malhi, Agne Gvozdevaite, Theresa Peprah, Mickey Boakye , et al. · 2023

Summary (1) The research conducted, including the rationale The direct effect of aridity on photosynthetic and water-transport strategies is not easy to discern in global analyses because of large-scale correlations between precipitation a…

Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity Open

Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Yadvinder Malhi, Simon L. Lewis, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu‐Bredu , et al. · 2020

Corrigendum: The Influence of Taxonomy and Environment on Leaf Trait Variation Along Tropical Abiotic Gradients Open

Imma Oliveras Menor, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Agne Gvozdevaite, Alexander Shenkin , et al. · 2020

An author name was incorrectly spelled as **Theresa Prepah**. The correct spelling is **Theresa Peprah**. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The or…

The Influence of Taxonomy and Environment on Leaf Trait Variation Along Tropical Abiotic Gradients Open

Imma Oliveras Menor, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Agne Gvozdevaite, Alexander Shenkin , et al. · 2020

Deconstructing functional trait variation and co-variation across a wide range of environmental conditions is necessary to increase the mechanistic understanding of community assembly processes and improve current parameterization of dynam…

Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity Open

Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Yadvinder Malhi, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe, Timothy R. Baker , et al. · 2020

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Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought Open

Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Imma Oliveras Menor, Sami W. Rifai, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu‐Bredu , et al. · 2019

Climatic changes have profound effects on the distribution of biodiversity, but untangling the links between climatic change and ecosystem functioning is challenging, particularly in high diversity systems such as tropical forests. Tropica…

Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity dynamics in relation to soil and foliar nutrients along forest–savanna boundaries in Ghana and Brazil Open

Agne Gvozdevaite, Imma Oliveras Menor, Tomas F. Domingues, Theresa Peprah, Mickey Boakye , et al. · 2018

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Mapping the Leaf Economic Spectrum across West African Tropical Forests Using UAV-Acquired Hyperspectral Imagery Open

Eleanor R. Thomson, Yadvinder Malhi, Harm Bartholomeus, Imma Oliveras Menor, Agne Gvozdevaite , et al. · 2018

The leaf economic spectrum (LES) describes a set of universal trade-offs between leaf mass per area (LMA), leaf nitrogen (N), leaf phosphorus (P) and leaf photosynthesis that influence patterns of primary productivity and nutrient cycling.…

The role of economic, venation and morphological leaf traits in plant and ecosystem function along forest-savanna gradients in the tropics Open

Agne Gvozdevaite · 2018

Predictions about the impacts of current and projected anthropogenic climate change on tropical forest ecosystems require a better understanding of sensitivity and variability of plant attributes to biotic and abiotic factors. Leaf functio…

Leaf gas exchange dynamics along Fores-Savannah transitions in Ghana and Brazil Open

Agne Gvozdevaite · 2015

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