La Mayombe (Congo) : contraintes et aménagements d'une moyenne montagne tropicale (The Mayombe (Congo) : constraints and planning in a tropical mountain)

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-335
Author(s):  
Gérard Mottet
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Mountain

scholarly journals Tree growth and aboveground biomass in a tropical mountain forest thirty years after selective logging in Sarawak, Borneo

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. e01461
Author(s):  
Renee Sherna Laing ◽  
Kian Huat Ong ◽  
Roland Jui Heng Kueh ◽  
Nixon Girang Mang ◽  
Patricia Jie Hung King
Keyword(s):  
Tree Growth ◽  
Aboveground Biomass ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Mountain Forest ◽  
Tropical Mountain

scholarly journals A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems

Oecologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Bendix ◽  
Nicolay Aguire ◽  
Erwin Beck ◽  
Achim Bräuning ◽  
Roland Brandl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Functional Traits ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Ecosystem Change ◽  
Mountain Ecosystems ◽  
Abiotic Conditions ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Tropical Mountain

AbstractTropical mountain ecosystems are threatened by climate and land-use changes. Their diversity and complexity make projections how they respond to environmental changes challenging. A suitable way are trait-based approaches, by distinguishing between response traits that determine the resistance of species to environmental changes and effect traits that are relevant for species' interactions, biotic processes, and ecosystem functions. The combination of those approaches with land surface models (LSM) linking the functional community composition to ecosystem functions provides new ways to project the response of ecosystems to environmental changes. With the interdisciplinary project RESPECT, we propose a research framework that uses a trait-based response-effect-framework (REF) to quantify relationships between abiotic conditions, the diversity of functional traits in communities, and associated biotic processes, informing a biodiversity-LSM. We apply the framework to a megadiverse tropical mountain forest. We use a plot design along an elevation and a land-use gradient to collect data on abiotic drivers, functional traits, and biotic processes. We integrate these data to build the biodiversity-LSM and illustrate how to test the model. REF results show that aboveground biomass production is not directly related to changing climatic conditions, but indirectly through associated changes in functional traits. Herbivory is directly related to changing abiotic conditions. The biodiversity-LSM informed by local functional trait and soil data improved the simulation of biomass production substantially. We conclude that local data, also derived from previous projects (platform Ecuador), are key elements of the research framework. We specify essential datasets to apply this framework to other mountain ecosystems.

Climate-growth relationships of Pinus pseudostrobus from a tropical mountain cloud forest in northeast Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 125749
Author(s):  
Genaro Gutiérrez-García ◽  
Laura E. Beramendi-Orosco ◽  
Kathleen R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Pinus Pseudostrobus

scholarly journals Functional traits of three major invasive grasses in a threatened tropical mountain grassland

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
GERALDO W. FERNANDES ◽  
LUCAS B.S. TAMEIRÃO ◽  
ADRIANA R. COSTA ◽  
DANIELE G. RIBEIRO ◽  
MICHELE N. NEVES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Mountain Grassland ◽  
Tropical Mountain ◽  
Invasive Grasses
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