New Phytologist - 187 (3), 2010

Volume 187, Number 3, August 2010


Amazonian rain forests and drought: response and vulnerability
Meir, Patrick; Ian Woodward, F.

Discovering biodiversity and its dynamics
Ian Woodward, F.

The role of facilitative interactions in tree invasions
Reinhart, Kurt O.

Understanding natural epigenetic variation
Richards, Christina L.; Bossdorf, Oliver; Verhoeven, Koen J. F.

Potentially immortal?
Penuelas, Josep; Munné-Bosch, Sergi

Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective
Asner, Gregory P.; Alencar, Ane

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest
da Costa, Antonio Carlos Lola; Galbraith, David; Almeida, Samuel; Portela, Bruno Takeshi Tanaka; da Costa, Mauricio; de Athaydes Silva Junior, Joao; Braga, Alan P.; de Gonçalves, Paulo H. L.; de Oliveira, Alex AR; Fisher, Rosie; Phillips, Oliver L.; Metcalfe, Daniel B.; Levy, Peter; Meir, Patrick

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake
Markewitz, Daniel; Devine, Scott; Davidson, Eric A.; Brando, Paulo; Nepstad, Daniel C.

Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon
Metcalfe, D. B.; Meir, P.; Aragao, L. E. O. C.; Lobo-do-Vale, R.; Galbraith, D.; Fisher, R. A.; Chaves, M. M.; Maroco, J. P.; da Costa, A. C. L.; de Almeida, S. S.; Braga, A. P.; Gonçalves, P. H. L.; de Athaydes, J.; da Costa, M.; Portela, T. T. B.; de Oliveira, A. A. R.; Malhi, Y.; Williams, M.

Effects of water and nutrient availability on fine root growth in eastern Amazonian forest regrowth, Brazil
Lima, Tâmara Thaiz Santana; Miranda, Izildinha Souza; Vasconcelos, Steel Silva

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests
Phillips, Oliver L.; van der Heijden, Geertje; Lewis, Simon L.; López-González, Gabriela; Aragao, Luiz E. O. C.; Lloyd, Jon; Malhi, Yadvinder; Monteagudo, Abel; Almeida, Samuel; Dávila, Esteban Alvarez; Amaral, Ieda; Andelman, Sandy; Andrade, Ana; Arroyo, Luzmila; Aymard, Gerardo; Baker, Tim R.; Blanc, Lilian; Bonal, Damien; de Oliveira, Átila Cristina Alves; Chao, Kuo-Jung; Cardozo, Nallaret Dávila; da Costa, Lola; Feldpausch, Ted R.; Fisher, Joshua B.; Fyllas, Nikolaos M.; Freitas, Maria Aparecida; Galbraith, David; Gloor, Emanuel; Higuchi, Niro; Honorio, Eurídice; Jiménez, Eliana; Keeling, Helen; Killeen, Tim J.; Lovett, Jon C.; Meir, Patrick; Mendoza, Casimiro; Morel, Alexandra; Vargas, Percy Núnez; Patino, Sandra; Peh, Kelvin S-H.; Cruz, Antonio Pena; Prieto, Adriana; Quesada, Carlos A.; Ramírez, Fredy; Ramírez, Hirma; Rudas, Agustín; Salamao, Rafael; Schwarz, Michael; Silva, Javier; Silveira, Marcos; Ferry Slik, J. W.; Sonké, Bonaventure; Thomas, Anne Sota; Stropp, Juliana; Taplin, James R. D.; Vásquez, Rodolfo; Vilanova, Emilio

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change
Galbraith, David; Levy, Peter E.; Sitch, Stephen; Huntingford, Chris; Cox, Peter; Williams, Mathew; Meir, Patrick

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations
Fisher, Rosie; McDowell, Nate; Purves, Drew; Moorcroft, Paul; Sitch, Stephen; Cox, Peter; Huntingford, Chris; Meir, Patrick; Ian Woodward, F.

Development of probability density functions for future South American rainfall
Jupp, Tim E.; Cox, Peter M.; Rammig, Anja; Thonicke, Kirsten; Lucht, Wolfgang; Cramer, Wolfgang

Estimating the risk of Amazonian forest dieback
Rammig, Anja; Jupp, Tim; Thonicke, Kirsten; Tietjen, Britta; Heinke, Jens; Ostberg, Sebastian; Lucht, Wolfgang; Cramer, Wolfgang; Cox, Peter

The climatic sensitivity of the forest, savanna and forest-savanna transition in tropical South America
Hirota, Marina; Nobre, Carlos; Oyama, Marcos Daisuke; Bustamante, Mercedes MC

Predicting moisture dynamics of fine understory fuels in a moist tropical rainforest system: results of a pilot study undertaken to identify proxy variables useful for rating fire danger
Ray, David; Nepstad, Dan; Brando, Paulo

Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies
Anderson, Liana O.; Malhi, Yadvinder; Aragao, Luiz E. O. C.; Ladle, Richard; Arai, Egidio; Barbier, Nicolas; Phillips, Oliver

A putative TRAPPII tethering factor is required for cell plate assembly during cytokinesis in Arabidopsis
Jaber, Emad; Thiele, Knut; Kindzierski, Viktoria; Loderer, Christoph; Rybak, Katarzyna; Jürgens, Gerd; Mayer, Ulrike; Söllner, Rosemarie; Wanner, Gerhard; Assaad, Farhah F.

Seasonal reorganization of the xylem transcriptome at different tree ages reveals novel insights into wood formation in Pinus radiata
Li, Xinguo; Wu, Harry X.; Southerton, Simon G.

Characterization of cellulose synthase complexes in Populus xylem differentiation
Song, Dongliang; Shen, Junhui; Li, Laigeng

Starch turnover in developing oilseed embryos
Andriotis, Vasilios M. E.; Pike, Marilyn J.; Kular, Baldeep; Rawsthorne, Stephen; Smith, Alison M.

MicroRNA expression profile in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) under nutrient deficiency stresses and manganese toxicity
Valdés-López, Oswaldo; Yang, S. Samuel; Aparicio-Fabre, Rosaura; Graham, Peter H.; Reyes, José Luis; Vance, Carroll P.; Hernández, Georgina

Link between continuous stem radius changes and net ecosystem productivity of a subalpine Norway spruce forest in the Swiss Alps
Zweifel, R.; Eugster, W.; Etzold, S.; Dobbertin, M.; Buchmann, N.; Häsler, R.

Acer negundo invasion along a successional gradient: early direct facilitation by native pioneers and late indirect facilitation by conspecifics
Saccone, Patrick; Pages, Jean-Philippe; Girel, Jacky; Brun, Jean-Jacques; Michalet, Richard

Belowground carbon allocation by trees drives seasonal patterns of extracellular enzyme activities by altering microbial community composition in a beech forest soil
Kaiser, Christina; Koranda, Marianne; Kitzler, Barbara; Fuchslueger, Lucia; Schnecker, Jörg; Schweiger, Peter; Rasche, Frank; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Sophie; Sessitsch, Angela; Richter, Andreas

Complex interactions among host pines and fungi vectored by an invasive bark beetle
Lu, Min; Wingfield, Michael J.; Gillette, Nancy E.; Mori, Sylvia R.; Sun, Jiang-Hua

Epigenetic differentiation and relationship to adaptive genetic divergence in discrete populations of the violet Viola cazorlensis
Herrera, Carlos M.; Bazaga, Pilar

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