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Dr Paulo Bittencourt
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Rwy'n Ecolegydd Planhigion Trofannol sy'n canolbwyntio ar ddeall sut mae planhigion a dŵr yn gyrru ecoleg, esblygiad a swyddogaeth amgylcheddau trofannol. Mae fy ngwaith wedi'i adeiladu ar ddealltwriaeth fanwl o ecoffisioleg planhigion a datblygu technolegau synhwyrydd newydd, gan fy ngalluogi i astudio sut mae planhigion yn siapio ein planed.
Ddaear - Planhigion Planed
Pe baech chi'n gosod dail pob planhigyn ochr yn ochr, byddent yn gorchuddio wyneb y Ddaear. Ac o dan bob un o'r dail hynny byddai cannoedd o gwndidau microsgopig yn eu cefnogi'n fecanyddol, gan eu cadw wedi'u hydradu a'u cyflenwi â maetholion. Mae'r cwndidau hynny'n ffurfio system cludo dŵr planhigion ac yn gosod y terfynau y gall planhigion weithredu ynddynt ac, o ganlyniad, yn gyrru eu ecoleg, eu esblygiad a'u hymatebion i newid yn yr hinsawdd.
System Cludo Dŵr Planhigion
Esblygiad system cludo dŵr planhigion (h.y. eu system hydrolig) oedd y digwyddiad esblygiadol pwysicaf yn y 550 miliwn o flynyddoedd diwethaf. Mae'r system hydrolig planhigion yn 60% o'r holl biomas byw ac yn dychwelyd 70% o'r holl law yn ôl i'r atmosffer. Newidiodd ei esblygiad bob un broses geomorffolegol, biocemegol a hinsoddol ar y blaned. Sut mae system cludo dŵr planhigion trofannol yn modiwleiddio y prosesau hynny, o nano-ffisioleg i ecoleg ecosystemau a biogeocemeg ar raddfa fawr, yw ffocws fy astudiaethau.
Arbrofion Trofannol ar Raddfa Fawr
Arbrawf Ffrwythloni CO2 aer am ddim Amazon (AmazonFACE, chwith) ac Arbrawf Gwahardd Trwy'r Caxiuanã (eSecaFlor, dde).
Y system cludo dŵr yw nod canolog swyddogaeth coeden. Mae'n nid yn unig yn pennu eu sensitifrwydd sychder ond yn gosod y ffiniau ar gyfer swyddogaeth canopi a gwrthsefyll biomecanyddol wrth ddal y rhan fwyaf o faetholion y goeden. Rwyf wedi bod yn arwain gwaith allweddol yn rhai o'r arbrofion trofannol mwyaf i ddeall sut mae ymatebion coed trofannol i newidiadau mewn argaeledd dŵr, CO2 a maetholion yn cael eu modiwleiddio gan eu system cludo dŵr.
Coedwigoedd Trofannol Enfawr
Dringwr coed ar ben coeden Dinizia excelsa 70m o uchder (chwith) a synwyryddion twf dendrometrig yn cael eu gosod yn ei boncyff (dde).
Rwyf hefyd yn gweithio gyda choedwigoedd trofannol enfawr. Mae gan yr ecosystemau anhygoel hynny ddwysedd uchel o goed mawr, rhai dros 80 m o uchder, sy'n dal symiau enfawr o biomas a bioamrywiaeth unigryw ac sydd heb ei archwilio o hyd. Mae'r coed enfawr hyn yn 1% o'r holl goed trofannol ond maent yn storio >50% o garbon uwchben y ddaear ac rhagwelir y byddant yn wynebu risg gynyddol o farwolaethau a achosir gan sychder, gyda goblygiadau mawr i storfeydd carbon daearol y Ddaear. Nid yw'r coedwigoedd enfawr hynny'n digwydd ar hap ar draws y trofannau ond mewn lleoliadau penodol iawn ym mhob cyfandir. Pam maen nhw'n digwydd lle maen nhw'n digwydd, pwy yw'r coed enfawr hynny, sut maen nhw'n gweithredu ac yn cludo dŵr a pha mor sensitif ydyn nhw i newid yn yr hinsawdd i gyd yn gwestiynau rwy'n ceisio eu hateb.
Deall rhyngweithiadau cymhleth
Goedwigoedd trofannol oedi trothwyon newid hinsawdd critigol o 20+ mlynedd. Gydag effeithiau newid yn yr hinsawdd yn costio dros 1.5 triliwn o ddoleri bob blwyddyn, mae gwybod yn union faint o amser y gall coedwigoedd trofannol ei brynu i ni yn frys. Fodd bynnag, mae modelau presennol yn methu â rhagweld tynged coedwigoedd trofannol. Mae hyn oherwydd y ddealltwriaeth fecanyddol sylfaenol o swyddogaeth coed sy'n deillio o astudiaethau sy'n canolbwyntio ar ffactorau cyfyngol unigol tra bod y gwir yw bod straen lluosog yn rhyngweithio i gyd-gyfyngu ar swyddogaeth coed ar yr un pryd. Er mwyn deall tynged coedwigoedd trofannol, mae angen i ni ddeall sut mae ffactorau biotig (ontogeny, maint, ffylogeni, plastigrwydd) ac abiotig (gwynt, ffrwythlondeb, golau, dŵr, CO2, tymheredd) a straen yn rhyngweithio ac yn cyd-gyfyngu ar swyddogaeth coedwigoedd trofannol.
Y Genhedlaeth Nesaf o Dechnoleg ar gyfer Ecoleg Drofannol
Gweithio yn y maes
Parc Cenedlaethol Mynyddoedd Tumucumaque, Dirgelion Coed Amazonaidd enfawr, llun gan Leonardo Chaves – Revista Fapesp
Rwy'n arbennig o angerddol am waith maes a'r gwerth aruthrol y mae'n ei gynnig. Mae gwaith maes trofannol yn dod â phrofiad trawsddiwylliannol unigryw at ei gilydd sy'n ein galluogi i ddeall yn well sut mae gweithio gyda'i gilydd ag actorion o gefndiroedd amrywiol yn sylfaenol ar gyfer byd gwell. Cysylltu a chryfhau'r grwpiau lluosog hynny, o gymunedau afonol, myfyrwyr, academyddion, arloeswyr a gwneuthurwyr penderfyniadau, yw fy hoff ran o'r swydd hon.
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Song, K. et al., 2026. Physiological fidelity of a satellite-derived forest resilience indicator in the Amazon. Nature Ecology & Evolution (10.1038/s41559-026-03116-z)
- Bittencourt, P. et al. 2026. Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees. Science 393 (6806), pp.60-64. (10.1126/science.aea9013)
- Silva, M. C. et al., 2026. Small understory trees increase growth following sustained drought in the Amazon. New Phytologist 249 (6), pp.2787-2799. (10.1111/nph.70873)
- Pereira, M. et al., 2026. Edaphic determinants of biomass hyperdominance in large trees of the Amazon. Forests 17 (3) 367. (10.3390/f17030367)
- Tavers, J. V. et al., 2026. Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance. Nature Communications 17 (1) 2073. (10.1038/s41467-026-69892-1)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2026. Tropical montane cloud forests have high resilience to five years of severe soil drought. Global Change Biology 32 (1) e70670. (10.1111/gcb.70670)
- de Lima, R. B. et al., 2026. Mapping the density of giant trees in the Amazon. New Phytologist 249 (1), pp.152-168. (10.1111/nph.70634)
2025
- Negrão-Rodrigues, V. et al., 2025. Amazonian trees functional adjustments to long term experimental drought are limited and species dependent. Flora 331 152821. (10.1016/j.flora.2025.152821)
- Zhang, B. et al., 2025. Soils and topography drive large and predictable shifts in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes. New Phytologist 247 (4), pp.1666-1679. (10.1111/nph.70300)
- Sanchez-Martinez, P. et al., 2025. Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought.. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9 , pp.970–979. (10.1038/s41559-025-02702-x)
- Metcalfe, D. B. et al., 2025. The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16 (2), pp.400-413. (10.1111/2041-210X.14483)
2024
- Jackson, T. D. et al., 2024. Wind shapes the growth strategies of trees in a tropical forest. Ecology Letters 27 (9) e14527. (10.1111/ele.14527)
- Martius, L. R. et al., 2024. Towards accurate monitoring of water content in woody tissue across tropical forests and other biomes. Tree Physiology 44 (8) tpae076. (10.1093/treephys/tpae076)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2024. Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure. Global Change Biology 30 (3) e17209. (10.1111/gcb.17209)
2023
- Paligi, S. S. et al., 2023. Assessing the agreement between the pneumatic and the flow‐centrifuge method for estimating xylem safety in temperate diffuse‐porous tree species. Plant Biology 25 (7), pp.1171-1185. (10.1111/plb.13573)
- Tavares, J. V. et al., 2023. Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature 617 , pp.111-117. (10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3)
- Bittencourt, P. et al. 2023. Bridging scales: an approach to evaluate the temporal patterns of global transpiration products using tree‐scale sap flow data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128 (3) e2022JG007308. (10.1029/2022JG007308)
- Brum, M. et al., 2023. Reconciling discrepancies in measurements of vulnerability to xylem embolism with the pneumatic method. New Phytologist 237 (2), pp.374-383. (10.1111/nph.18531)
2022
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2022. Divergence of hydraulic traits among tropical forest trees across topographic and vertical environment gradients in Borneo. New Phytologist 235 (6), pp.2183-2198. (10.1111/nph.18280)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2022. Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests. Functional Ecology 36 (8), pp.2084-2103. (10.1111/1365-2435.14094)
- Guillemot, J. et al., 2022. Small and slow is safe: on the drought tolerance of tropical tree species. Global Change Biology 28 (8), pp.2622-2638. (10.1111/gcb.16082)
- Giles, A. et al., 2022. Small understorey trees have greater capacity than canopy trees to adjust hydraulic traits following prolonged experimental drought in a tropical forest. Tree Physiology 42 (3), pp.537-556. (10.1093/treephys/tpab121)
- de V. Barros, F. et al., 2022. Phytogeographical origin determines tropical montane cloud forest hydraulic trait composition. Functional Ecology 36 (3), pp.607-621. (10.1111/1365-2435.14008)
- Jansen, S. et al., 2022. A crucial phase in plants – it's a gas, gas, gas!. New Phytologist 233 (4), pp.1556-1559. (10.1111/nph.17875)
2021
- Trabi, C. L. et al., 2021. A user manual to measure gas diffusion kinetics in plants: pneumatron construction, operation, and data analysis. Frontiers in Plant Science 12 633595. (10.3389/fpls.2021.633595)
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2021. Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems. New Phytologist 230 (3), pp.904-923. (10.1111/nph.17266)
- Signori-Müller, C. et al., 2021. Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests. Nature Communications 12 2310. (10.1038/s41467-021-22378-8)
- Rowland, L. et al., 2021. Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate. New Phytologist 229 (3), pp.1363-1374. (10.1111/nph.16972)
- Rowland, L. et al., 2021. The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability. Functional Ecology 35 (1), pp.43-53. (10.1111/1365-2435.13689)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2021. Using the Pneumatic method to estimate embolism resistance in species with long vessels: a commentary on the article “a comparison of five methods to assess embolism resistance in trees”. Forest Ecology and Management 479 118547. (10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118547)
2020
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2020. Small tropical forest trees have a greater capacity to adjust carbon metabolism to long‐term drought than large canopy trees. Plant, Cell and Environment 43 (10), pp.2380-2393. (10.1111/pce.13838)
- Fontes, C. G. et al., 2020. Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought. New Phytologist 228 (1), pp.106-120. (10.1111/nph.16675)
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2020. Amazonia trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long‐term drought. Global Change Biology 26 (6), pp.3569-3584. (10.1111/gcb.15040)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2020. The Pneumatron: an automated pneumatic apparatus for estimating xylem vulnerability to embolism at high temporal resolution. Plant, Cell and Environment 43 (1), pp.131-142. (10.1111/pce.13647)
- Jucker, T. et al., 2020. A research agenda for microclimate ecology in human-modified tropical forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2 92. (10.3389/ffgc.2019.00092)
2019
- Binks, O. et al., 2019. Foliar water uptake in Amazonian trees: evidence and consequences. Global Change Biology 25 (8), pp.2678-2690. (10.1111/gcb.14666)
- de V. Barros, F. et al., 2019. Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Niño‐induced drought. New Phytologist 223 (3), pp.1253-1266. (10.1111/nph.15909)
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2019. Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro‐topographic gradients. New Phytologist 221 (3), pp.1457-1465. (10.1111/nph.15463)
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2019. The fog regime in a tropical montane cloud forest in Brazil and its effects on water, light and microclimate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 265 , pp.359-369. (10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.030)
- Brum, M. et al., 2019. Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest. Journal of Ecology 107 (1), pp.318-333. (10.1111/1365-2745.13022)
2018
- Eller, C. B. et al., 2018. Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1760)(10.1098/rstb.2017.0315)
- van Emmerik, T. et al., 2018. Ideas and perspectives: tree–atmosphere interaction responds to water-related stem variations. Biogeosciences 15 (21), pp.6439-6449. (10.5194/bg-15-6439-2018)
- Bittencourt, P. R. , Pereira, L. and Oliveira, R. S. 2018. Pneumatic method to measure plant xylem embolism. Bio-protocol 8 (20) e3059. (10.21769/BioProtoc.3059)
- Lima, T. R. A. et al., 2018. Lignin composition is related to xylem embolism resistance and leaf life span in trees in a tropical semiarid climate. New Phytologist 219 (4), pp.1252-1262. (10.1111/nph.15211)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2018. Infrared nanospectroscopy reveals the chemical nature of pit membranes in water-conducting cells of the plant xylem. Plant Physiology 177 (4), pp.1629-1638. (10.1104/pp.18.00138)
- Zhang, Y. et al., 2018. Testing the plant pneumatic method to estimate xylem embolism resistance in stems of temperate trees. Tree Physiology 38 (7), pp.1016-1025. (10.1093/treephys/tpy015)
- Rowland, L. et al., 2018. Drought stress and tree size determine stem CO2 efflux in a tropical forest. New Phytologist 218 (4), pp.1393-1405. (10.1111/nph.15024)
- Eller, C. B. et al., 2018. Xylem hydraulic safety and construction costs determine tropical tree growth. Plant, Cell and Environment 41 (3), pp.548-562. (10.1111/pce.13106)
2017
- van Emmerik, T. et al., 2017. Water stress detection in the Amazon using radar. Geophysical Research Letters 44 (13), pp.6841-6849. (10.1002/2017GL073747)
2016
- Bittencourt, P. R. , Pereira, L. and Oliveira, R. S. 2016. On xylem hydraulic efficiencies, wood space‐use and the safety–efficiency tradeoff. New Phytologist 211 (4), pp.1152-1155. (10.1111/nph.14044)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2016. Plant pneumatics: stem air flow is related to embolism – new perspectives on methods in plant hydraulics. New Phytologist 211 (1), pp.357-370. (10.1111/nph.13905)
2014
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2014. The hydroclimatic and ecophysiological basis of cloud forest distributions under current and projected climates. Annals of Botany 113 (6), pp.909-920. (10.1093/aob/mcu060)
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2014. Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology 26 , pp.65-82. (10.1007/s40626-014-0007-1)
Erthyglau
- Song, K. et al., 2026. Physiological fidelity of a satellite-derived forest resilience indicator in the Amazon. Nature Ecology & Evolution (10.1038/s41559-026-03116-z)
- Bittencourt, P. et al. 2026. Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees. Science 393 (6806), pp.60-64. (10.1126/science.aea9013)
- Silva, M. C. et al., 2026. Small understory trees increase growth following sustained drought in the Amazon. New Phytologist 249 (6), pp.2787-2799. (10.1111/nph.70873)
- Pereira, M. et al., 2026. Edaphic determinants of biomass hyperdominance in large trees of the Amazon. Forests 17 (3) 367. (10.3390/f17030367)
- Tavers, J. V. et al., 2026. Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance. Nature Communications 17 (1) 2073. (10.1038/s41467-026-69892-1)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2026. Tropical montane cloud forests have high resilience to five years of severe soil drought. Global Change Biology 32 (1) e70670. (10.1111/gcb.70670)
- de Lima, R. B. et al., 2026. Mapping the density of giant trees in the Amazon. New Phytologist 249 (1), pp.152-168. (10.1111/nph.70634)
- Negrão-Rodrigues, V. et al., 2025. Amazonian trees functional adjustments to long term experimental drought are limited and species dependent. Flora 331 152821. (10.1016/j.flora.2025.152821)
- Zhang, B. et al., 2025. Soils and topography drive large and predictable shifts in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes. New Phytologist 247 (4), pp.1666-1679. (10.1111/nph.70300)
- Sanchez-Martinez, P. et al., 2025. Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought.. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9 , pp.970–979. (10.1038/s41559-025-02702-x)
- Metcalfe, D. B. et al., 2025. The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16 (2), pp.400-413. (10.1111/2041-210X.14483)
- Jackson, T. D. et al., 2024. Wind shapes the growth strategies of trees in a tropical forest. Ecology Letters 27 (9) e14527. (10.1111/ele.14527)
- Martius, L. R. et al., 2024. Towards accurate monitoring of water content in woody tissue across tropical forests and other biomes. Tree Physiology 44 (8) tpae076. (10.1093/treephys/tpae076)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2024. Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure. Global Change Biology 30 (3) e17209. (10.1111/gcb.17209)
- Paligi, S. S. et al., 2023. Assessing the agreement between the pneumatic and the flow‐centrifuge method for estimating xylem safety in temperate diffuse‐porous tree species. Plant Biology 25 (7), pp.1171-1185. (10.1111/plb.13573)
- Tavares, J. V. et al., 2023. Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature 617 , pp.111-117. (10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3)
- Bittencourt, P. et al. 2023. Bridging scales: an approach to evaluate the temporal patterns of global transpiration products using tree‐scale sap flow data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128 (3) e2022JG007308. (10.1029/2022JG007308)
- Brum, M. et al., 2023. Reconciling discrepancies in measurements of vulnerability to xylem embolism with the pneumatic method. New Phytologist 237 (2), pp.374-383. (10.1111/nph.18531)
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2022. Divergence of hydraulic traits among tropical forest trees across topographic and vertical environment gradients in Borneo. New Phytologist 235 (6), pp.2183-2198. (10.1111/nph.18280)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2022. Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests. Functional Ecology 36 (8), pp.2084-2103. (10.1111/1365-2435.14094)
- Guillemot, J. et al., 2022. Small and slow is safe: on the drought tolerance of tropical tree species. Global Change Biology 28 (8), pp.2622-2638. (10.1111/gcb.16082)
- Giles, A. et al., 2022. Small understorey trees have greater capacity than canopy trees to adjust hydraulic traits following prolonged experimental drought in a tropical forest. Tree Physiology 42 (3), pp.537-556. (10.1093/treephys/tpab121)
- de V. Barros, F. et al., 2022. Phytogeographical origin determines tropical montane cloud forest hydraulic trait composition. Functional Ecology 36 (3), pp.607-621. (10.1111/1365-2435.14008)
- Jansen, S. et al., 2022. A crucial phase in plants – it's a gas, gas, gas!. New Phytologist 233 (4), pp.1556-1559. (10.1111/nph.17875)
- Trabi, C. L. et al., 2021. A user manual to measure gas diffusion kinetics in plants: pneumatron construction, operation, and data analysis. Frontiers in Plant Science 12 633595. (10.3389/fpls.2021.633595)
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2021. Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems. New Phytologist 230 (3), pp.904-923. (10.1111/nph.17266)
- Signori-Müller, C. et al., 2021. Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests. Nature Communications 12 2310. (10.1038/s41467-021-22378-8)
- Rowland, L. et al., 2021. Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate. New Phytologist 229 (3), pp.1363-1374. (10.1111/nph.16972)
- Rowland, L. et al., 2021. The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability. Functional Ecology 35 (1), pp.43-53. (10.1111/1365-2435.13689)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2021. Using the Pneumatic method to estimate embolism resistance in species with long vessels: a commentary on the article “a comparison of five methods to assess embolism resistance in trees”. Forest Ecology and Management 479 118547. (10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118547)
- Bartholomew, D. C. et al., 2020. Small tropical forest trees have a greater capacity to adjust carbon metabolism to long‐term drought than large canopy trees. Plant, Cell and Environment 43 (10), pp.2380-2393. (10.1111/pce.13838)
- Fontes, C. G. et al., 2020. Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought. New Phytologist 228 (1), pp.106-120. (10.1111/nph.16675)
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2020. Amazonia trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long‐term drought. Global Change Biology 26 (6), pp.3569-3584. (10.1111/gcb.15040)
- Pereira, L. et al., 2020. The Pneumatron: an automated pneumatic apparatus for estimating xylem vulnerability to embolism at high temporal resolution. Plant, Cell and Environment 43 (1), pp.131-142. (10.1111/pce.13647)
- Jucker, T. et al., 2020. A research agenda for microclimate ecology in human-modified tropical forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2 92. (10.3389/ffgc.2019.00092)
- Binks, O. et al., 2019. Foliar water uptake in Amazonian trees: evidence and consequences. Global Change Biology 25 (8), pp.2678-2690. (10.1111/gcb.14666)
- de V. Barros, F. et al., 2019. Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Niño‐induced drought. New Phytologist 223 (3), pp.1253-1266. (10.1111/nph.15909)
- Oliveira, R. S. et al., 2019. Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro‐topographic gradients. New Phytologist 221 (3), pp.1457-1465. (10.1111/nph.15463)
- Bittencourt, P. R. et al. 2019. The fog regime in a tropical montane cloud forest in Brazil and its effects on water, light and microclimate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 265 , pp.359-369. (10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.030)
- Brum, M. et al., 2019. Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest. Journal of Ecology 107 (1), pp.318-333. (10.1111/1365-2745.13022)
- Eller, C. B. et al., 2018. Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 (1760)(10.1098/rstb.2017.0315)
- van Emmerik, T. et al., 2018. Ideas and perspectives: tree–atmosphere interaction responds to water-related stem variations. Biogeosciences 15 (21), pp.6439-6449. (10.5194/bg-15-6439-2018)
- Bittencourt, P. R. , Pereira, L. and Oliveira, R. S. 2018. Pneumatic method to measure plant xylem embolism. Bio-protocol 8 (20) e3059. (10.21769/BioProtoc.3059)
- Lima, T. R. A. et al., 2018. Lignin composition is related to xylem embolism resistance and leaf life span in trees in a tropical semiarid climate. New Phytologist 219 (4), pp.1252-1262. (10.1111/nph.15211)
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