Browsing by Subject "tropics"

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    • Converting forests into rubber plantations weakened the soil CH4 sink in tropical uplands 

      Lang, RongORCIDiD; Goldberg, Stefanie; Blagodatsky, SergeyORCIDiD; Piepho, Hans-Peter; Harrison, Rhett D.; Xu, Jianchu; Cadisch, Georg (Land Degradation & Development, 2019)
      Large-scale conversion of natural forest to rubber plantations has taken place for decades in Southeast Asia, help to make it a deforestation hot spot. Besides negative changes in biodiversity, ecosystem water, and carbon ...

    • Tropical Continents Rainier Than Expected From Geometrical Constraints 

      Hohenegger, CathyORCIDiD; Stevens, BjornORCIDiD (AGU Advances, 2022-07-06)
      Abundant rainfall over tropical land masses sustains rich ecosystems, a crucial source of biodiversity and sink of carbon. Here, we use two characteristics of the observed tropical precipitation distribution, its distinctive ...