Publications by authors named "Robson Dos Santos A da Silva"
Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?
Robson Borges de Lima Eric Bastos Görgens Diego Armando S da Silva Cinthia Pereira de Oliveira Anderson Pedro B Batista Perseu da Silva Aparício José Antônio Aleixo da Silva José Jussian da Silva Wegliane Campelo da Silva Aparício Breno Marques da Silva E Silva Celice Alexandre Silva Robson Dos Santos A da Silva Natalino Silva Antônio Sérgio Lima da Silva Antônio Carlos da Silva Zanzini Ricardo José Silva
Glob Chang Biol
September 2023
For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm diameter, showing highest species diversity in the wetter western and northern Amazon forests. By contrast, little attention has been paid to patterns and drivers of diversity in the largest canopy and emergent trees, which is surprising given these have dominant ecological functions.
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