Dr Paulo Bittencourt

2025

• 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), article number: 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), article number: 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), article number: 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., Rowland, L., Sitch, S., Poyatos, R., Miralles, D. G. and Mencuccini, M. 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), article number: e2022JG007308. (10.1029/2022JG007308)
• Brum, M., Pereira, L., Ribeiro, R. V., Jansen, S., Bittencourt, P. R., Oliveira, R. S. and Saleska, S. R. 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., Bartholomew, D. C., Banin, L. F., Suis, M. A. F. B., Nilus, R., Burslem, D. F. R. P. and Rowland, L. 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., Bittencourt, P. L., Eller, C. B., Signori-Müller, C., Meireles, L. D. and Oliveira, R. S. 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., Bittencourt, P., Pereira, L., Schenk, H. J. and Kunert, N. 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, article number: 633595. (10.3389/fpls.2021.633595)
• Oliveira, R. S., Eller, C. B., de V. Barros, F., Hirota, M., Brum, M. and Bittencourt, P. 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, article number: 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, article number: 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, article number: 92. (10.3389/ffgc.2019.00092)

2019

• 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)
• 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)
• 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., de V. Barros, F., Eller, C. B., Müller, C. S. and Oliveira, R. S. 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., Steele-Dunne, S., Gentine, P., Oliveira, R. S., Bittencourt, P., Barros, F. and van de Giesen, N. 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), article number: 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., de V. Barros, F., Bittencourt, P. R., Rowland, L., Mencuccini, M. and Oliveira, R. S. 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., Steele-Dunne, S., Paget, A., Oliveira, R. S., Bittencourt, P. R., de V. Barros, F. and van de Giesen, N. 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., Bittencourt, P. R., Oliveira, R. S., Junior, M. B. M., Barros, F. V., Ribeiro, R. V. and Mazzafera, P. 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., Eller, C. B., Bittencourt, P. R. and Mulligan, M. 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., Christoffersen, B. O., Barros, F. d. V., Teodoro, G. S., Bittencourt, P., Brum-Jr, M. M. and Viani, R. A. G. 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)