Michelle Kalamandeen

Mar 10, 2024 | nature.com | Florian Wittmann |Rafael Assis |Aline Lopes |Rafael P. Salomão |Olaf Bánki |Carlos A. Peres | +68 more

AbstractAmazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin.

Sep 4, 2023 | nature.com | Amy Bennett |Paulo S. Morandi |Wendeson Castro |Eliana Marisa Ramos |Timothy R. Baker |Simon Lewis | +39 more

AbstractThe tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline conditions may be protected by prior adaptation, or more vulnerable because they operate closer to physiological limits. Here we report that forests in drier South American climates experienced the greatest impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño, indicating greater vulnerability to extreme temperatures and drought.

Mar 8, 2023 | mdpi.com | Alejandro Guizar-Coutiño |Michelle Kalamandeen |David A. Coomes |Aland H. Y

Open AccessArticlebyAland H. Y. Chan 1, Alejandro Guizar-Coutiño 1,2, Michelle Kalamandeen 1,3 and David A.