William Farfan-Rios

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.

Feb 20, 2024 | nature.com | Aud H. Halbritter |Vigdis Vandvik |William Farfan-Rios |Brian S. Maitner |Sean T. Michaletz |Richard J. Telford | +16 more

This paper reports on data from field experiments on fire history and climate impacts on high-elevation Puna grasslands in the eastern Peruvian Andes conducted between 2018 and 2020. It contains data on plant community, vegetation structure, plant functional traits, biomass, ecosystem fluxes, and climate data collected in one or several campaigns between March 2018 and March 2020.

Jun 29, 2023 | nature.com | Tong Qiu |Marie-Claire Aravena |Yves Bergeron |Michal Bogdziewicz |Thomas Boivin |Thomas Caignard | +44 more

AbstractThe benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balance between these benefits and costs, we expect mast avoidance in species that are heavily reliant on mutualist dispersers.