Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: emerging patterns and putative mechanisms - Schnitzer, Stefan A; Bongers, Frans (Ecology letters, 2011)
Keywords: aboveground biomass; Abundance; Africa; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; barro-colorado island; below-ground competition; Biodiversity; Biological and medical sciences; Biomass; Carbon Cycle; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; classification; CO2; Community composition; community structure; disturbance; drought; eastern amazonia; Ecosystem; elevated atmospheric co2; Forestry; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; future climate-change; General aspects; General forest ecology; Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology; global change; growth & development; ivy toxicodendron radicans; Land use; land use change; liana increases; lianas; Magnoliopsida; Magnoliopsida - classification; Magnoliopsida - growth & development; monitoring; Plant diversity; Population Density; rain-forest; Rainforests; structural changes; temperate forests; toxicity responses; Trees; Tropical Climate; Tropical environments; Tropical forests; tropics; Africa; Modification; disturbance; Carbon dioxide; Tropical forest; Biomass; Perturbation; CO; structural changes; Land use; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; liana increases; Global change; Liana; tropical forests; Planetary scale; land use change; Drought