The PDFs of almost all my publications can be downloaded by clicking on the links below. This is particularly for tropical students and researchers, and the general public, who could not afford journal subscriptions.
2024 Publications
Boonman, C.C., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Hoeks, S., Guo, W.Y., Enquist, B.J., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Merow, C., Buitenwerf, R. and Svenning, J.C., 2024. More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications, 15(1), p.166.
Cooper, D.L et al (including Malhi), 2024. Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, pp.1-10.
Gopalakrishna, T., Rifai, S., Ratnam, J., Menor, I.O., Stevens, N. and Malhi, Y., 2024. The distribution and drivers of tree cover in India, in press.
Wilkes, P., Disney, M., Armston, J., Bartholomeus, H., Bentley, L., Brede, B., Burt, A., Calders, K., Chavana-Bryant, C., Clewley, D., Duncanson, L., Forbes, B., Krisanski, S., Malhi, Y., Moffat, D., Origo, N., Shenkin, A., & Yang, W. 2024. TLS2trees: A scalable tree segmentation pipeline for TLS data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 3083–3099
2023 Publications
Balmford A. et al (including Malhi (2023) Credit credibility threatens forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 380 (6644). pp. 466-467
Carvalho RL et al (including Malhi (2023). Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3544. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.046. Erratum for: Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3495-3504.e4.
Christmann, T., Palomeque, X., Armenteras, D., Wilson, S. J., Malhi, Y., & Oliveras Menor, I. (2023). Disrupted montane forest recovery hinders biodiversity conservation in the tropical Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 793– 808
Correa, D. F., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 49– 69.
de Lima, R.B. et al (including Malhi (2023) Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?. Global Change Biology.
de Souza Leite, M. et al (including Huaraca Huasco W. and Malhi, Y.) (2023) Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523538.
Dechant B. et al (including Malhi and Aguierre- Aguirre-Gutierrez) (2023). Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches EarthArXiv
Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1066.
Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi), 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621, 773–781
Doughty,C. E, et al. .(Including Malhi and Oliveras) (2023). Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds. Nature (2023): 1-7.
Doughty, C.E., Gaillard, C., Burns, P., Keany, J., Abraham, A., Malhi, Y.S., Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Koch, G., Jantz, P., Shenkin, A. and Tang, H., (2023). Tropical forests are mainly unstratified especially in Amazonia and regions with lower fertility or higher temperatures. Environmental Research: Ecology.
González-Caro S. et al. (including Malhi), 2023.Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities. Plants. 2023; 12(20):3546.
Hawkins, I., Smith, A., Addison, P., Malhi, Y., Whitney, M. and zu Ermgassen, S., (2023). The potential contribution of revenue from Biodiversity Net Gain offsets towards nature recovery ambitions in Oxfordshire.
Hordijk, I. et al (including Malhi) (2023). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1308–1326.
Jennison, C.B., Ostertag, R., Rayome, D., Cordell, S. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Non-timber Forest Products Survey of Forest Landscape Restoration: A Case Study of Hybrid Ecosystem Restoration in Invaded Hawaiian Forest. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 42(7), pp.712-727.
Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S., et al. (including Malhi), (2023). Intraspecific Trait Variability is a Key Feature Underlying High Arctic Plant Community Resistance to Climate Warming. Ecological Monographs 93( 1): e1555.
Ma, H., Crowther, T.W., Mo, L. et al. (including Malhi). 2023. The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nat. Plants 9, 1795–1809
Mills MB, Malhi Y, Ewers RM, Kho LK, Teh YA, Both S, Burslem DFRP, Majalap N, Nilus R, Huaraca Huasco W, Cruz R, Pillco MM, Turner EC, Reynolds G, Riutta T. (2023) Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(3) e2214462120.
Mo et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature
Pos E., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.Scientific Reports 13.1: 2859.
Tavares, J.V. et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature: 1-7.
Ter Steege et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1130.
Vedovato LB, et al (including Malhi) (2023). Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change E-ISSN 2624-893X, Vol. 6, article id 1024101.
Vinicius Peripato et al. (including Malhi), 2023. More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.Science382,103-109
Westerband, A. C., Wright, I. J., Maire, V., Paillassa, J., Prentice, I. C., Atkin, O. K., Bloomfield, K. J., Cernusak, L. A., Dong, N., Gleason, S. M., Guilherme Pereira, C., Lambers, H., Leishman, M. R., Malhi, Y., & Nolan, R. H. (2023). Coordination of photosynthetic traits across soil and climate gradients. Global Change Biology, 29, 856– 873
Zelazowski, P., Jozefowicz, S., Feeley, K.J. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Establishing the Position and Drivers of the Eastern Andean Treeline with Automated Transect Sampling. Remote Sensing, 15(10), p.2679.
Zhang-Zheng H, Malhi Y, Gvozdevaite A, Peprah T, Boackye M, Ziemińska K, Adu-Bredu S, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Sandoval D, Prentice C, Oliveras I. (2023) Photosynthetic and water transport strategies of plants along a tropical forest aridity gradient: a test of optimality theory. doi:10.1101/2023.01.10.523419.
2022 publications
Bauman, D., Fortunel, C., Cernusak, L.A., Bentley, L.P., McMahon, S.M., Rifai, S.W., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Oliveras, I., Bradford, M., Laurance, S.G. Delhaye, G... and Y Malhi. 2022. Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits. Global change biology, 28(4), pp.1414-1432.
Bauters, M., et al. (including Malhi, Oliveras and Riutta). 2022 Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why. Biotropica.
Gatti, R.C. (including Malhi), et al. 2022. The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.6
Gonzalez‐Akre, E. (including Malhi), et al. 2022 : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13.2: 330-338.
Gopalakrishna, T., Lomax, G., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Bauman, D., Roy, P.S., Joshi, P.K. and Malhi, Y. 2022. Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India. Conservation Letters, p.e12867.
Malhi, Y., Lander, T., le Roux, E., Stevens, N., Macias-Fauria, M., Wedding, L., Girardin, C., Kristensen, J.Å., Sandom, C.J., Evans, T.D. and Svenning, J.C and Canney S. 2022. The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Current Biology, 32(4), pp.R181-R196.
Nottingham, A. T., et al (including Malhi, Huaraca Huasco and Riutta). 2022. Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling. Journal of Ecology 110.2, 387-403.
Reis, S.M., et al. (including Malhi). 2022. Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests. Journal of Ecology, Vol.10, issue 2, pp 876-888
Signori‐Müller, C., et al (including Malhi). 2022. Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees." Functional Ecology 36.2 : 341-355.
Scerri, E.M., Roberts, P., Yoshi Maezumi, S. and Malhi, Y. 2022. Tropical forests in the deep human past. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1849), p.20200500.
2021 publications
Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J. et al. (Including Berenguer, Girardin, Riutta, Shenkin, Oliveras and Malhi) (2021). Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment 252: 112122.
Barreto, J.R., Berenguer, E., Ferreira, J., Joly, C.A., Malhi, Y., de Seixas, M.M.M. and Barlow, J., (2021). Assessing invertebrate herbivory in human‐modified tropical forest canopies. Ecology and evolution, 11(9), pp.4012-4022.
Bennett, A.C., Dargie, G.C., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Mukendi, J.T., Hubau, W., Mukinzi, J.M., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Sullivan, M.J., Cooper, D.L. and Adu-Bredu, S., (2021). Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. PNAS, 118(21).
Berenguer, E. et al (Including Malhi). (2021). Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(30).
Blundo, C., et al. (Including Malhi) . (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation: 108849.
Cardoso, A.W., Oliveras, I., Abernethy, K.A., Jeffery, K.J., Glover, S., Lehmann, D., Edzang Ndong, J., White, L.J., Bond, W.J. and Malhi, Y., (2021). A distinct ecotonal tree community exists at central African forest–savanna transitions. Journal of Ecology, 109(3), pp.1170-1183.
Creedy, T., Asare, R.A., Morel, A.C., Hirons, M., Malhi, Y., Mason, J.J., McDermott, C., Opoku, E. and Norris, K., (2021). Climate change alters impacts of extreme climate events on a tropical perennial tree crop (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1086061/v1).
Cuni-Sanchez, A., et al (Including Malhi) (2021). High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests. Nature, 596(7873), pp.536-542.
Davies, S.J et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation, 253, p.108907.
de Morais, T.M.O., Berenguer, E., Barlow, J., França, F., Lennox, G.D., Malhi, Y., Rossi, L.C., de Seixas, M.M.M. and Ferreira, J., (2021). Leaf-litter production in human-modified Amazonian forests following the El Niño-mediated drought and fires of 2015–2016. Forest Ecology and Management, 496, p.119441.
Disney M, Jackson T, Shenkin A., Majalap N, bin Jami U., bin Sailim A., Reynolds G.,Coomes D., Chandler C., Boyd D., Burt A., Wilkes P., Malhi Y. (2021) The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees. Biotropica 53, 110-120.
Doughty, C.E., Cheesman, A.W., Riutta, T., Thomson, E.R., Shenkin, A., Nottingham, A.T., Telford, E.M., Huaraca Huasco, W., Majalap, N., Arn Teh, Y. and Meir, P and Malhi Y. (2021). Predicting tropical tree mortality with leaf spectroscopy. Biotropica, 53(2), pp.581-595.
Draper, Frederick C., et al. (Including Malhi and Berenguer) (2021). Amazon tree dominance across forest strata. Nature ecology & evolution 5.6 (2021): 757-767.
Duque, A. et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges. Nature communications 12.1: 1-10.
Flack‐Prain, S., Meir, P., Malhi, Y., Smallman, T.L. and Williams, M., (2021). Does economic optimisation explain LAI and leaf trait distributions across an Amazon soil moisture gradient?. Global Change Biology, 27(3), pp.587-605.
Girardin, C.A., Jenkins, S., Seddon, N., Allen, M., Lewis, S.L., Wheeler, C.E., Griscom, B.W. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet—if we act now. 191-194.
Kristensen, J.A., Svenning, J.C., Georgiou, K. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 37, Issue 2, 117-128.
Li, S., Sparrow, S.N., Otto, F.E., Rifai, S.W., Oliveras, I., Krikken, F., Anderson, L.O., Malhi, Y. and Wallom, D., (2021). Anthropogenic climate change contribution to wildfire-prone weather conditions in the Cerrado and Arc of deforestation. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), p.094051.
Linan, A.G., et al. (Including Malhi) (2021). The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre-adapted clades?.New Phytol.;232(6):pp 2506-2519
Huaraca Huasco, W., et al. (including Girardin, Malhi, Oliveras and Riutta) (2021) Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems. Global change biology, Vol.27, Issue15, pp 3657-3680
Malhi, Y et al. (2021). The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. Biological Conservation, 253, p.108889.
Meunier, F., Krishna Moorthy, S.M., Peaucelle, M., Calders, K., Terryn, L., Verbruggen, W., Liu, C., Saarinen, N., Origo, N., Nightingale, J. and Disney, M, Malhi Y and Verbeeck H. (2021). Using terrestrial laser scanning to constrain forest ecosystem structure and functions in the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2. 2). Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, pp.1-33.
Milodowski, D.T., Coomes, D.A., Swinfield, T., Jucker, T., Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Svatek, M., Kvasnica, J., Burslem, D.F., Ewers, R.M. and Teh, Y.A., (2021). The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(8), pp.1764-1775.
Pos, E. et al. (Including Malhi) (2021) The Maximum Entropy Formalism of statistical mechanics in a biological application: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology." bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.31.437717
Restrepo-Coupe N, et al. (including Malhi Y) (2021) Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation‐model intercomparison. Global Change Biology 27: 1802-1819.
Riutta, T., Kho, L.K., Teh, Y.A., Ewers, R., Majalap, N. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Major and persistent shifts in below‐ground carbon dynamics and soil respiration following logging in tropical forests. Global change biology, 27(10), pp.2225-2240.,
Signori-Müller, C. et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests. Nature communications 12.1:1-9.
Thomson, E. R., et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data. Environmental Research Letters 16.5: 055006.
van der Sande, M.T., Bush, M.B., Urrego, D.H., Silman, M., Farfan‐Rios, W., Garcia Cabrera, K., Shenkin, A., Malhi, Y., McMichael, C.H. and Gosling, W., (2021). Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), p.e12925.
Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg, S., Malhi, Y. and Riutta, T.(2021). Does insect herbivory suppress ecosystem productivity? Evidence from a temperate woodland. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.28.428605
Wilkes, P., Shenkin, A., Disney, M., Malhi, Y., Bentley, L.P. and Vicari, M.B., (2021). Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Wills C, et al. (including Malhi Y) (2021) Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories. PLOS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008853
Xin, H., Malhi, Y., Coomes, D.A., Lin, Y., Liu, B., Yang, Q. and Shenkin, A.,( 2021). Individual tree detection and crown segmentation based on metabolic theory from airborne laser scanning data. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 15(3), p.034504.
Zhong, Yonglin, et al (Including Malhi). (2021). Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature communications 12.; 1-12.
2020 publications
Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, et al. (including Malhi Y and Oliveras I.) (2020) Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity. Nat Commun 11, 3346
Asaaga FA , Hirons MA, Malhi Y (2020) Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana. World Development 130, 104913
Blonder, B., Both, S., Jodra, M., Xu, H., Fricker, M., Matos, I.S., Majalap, N., Burslem, D.F., Teh, Y.A. and Malhi, Y. (2020) Linking functional traits to multiscale statistics of leaf venation networks. New Phytol.
Burt A, Calders K, Cuni-Sanchez A, Gómez-Dans J, Lewis P, Lewis SL, Malhi Y, Phillips OL and Disney M (2020) Assessment of Bias in Pan-Tropical Biomass Predictions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3:12. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00012
Enquist, B.J., Abraham, A.J., Harfoot, M.B.J. et al (2020). The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning. Nature Communication 11, 699.
Ferracci, V., Bolas, C. G., Freshwater, R. A., Staniaszek, Z., King, T., & Jaars, K., et al. 2020.Continuous isoprene measurements in a UK temperate forest for a whole growing season: Effects of drought stress during the 2018 heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088885
Hirons, M., Beauchamp E., Whitfield S., ConwayD., Asare, R.and Malhi Y. 2020. Resilience to climate shocks in the tropics. Environmental Research Letters. ISSN 1748-9326 (In Press)
Hubau, W., Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L. et al (2020). Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. Nature 579, 80–87 .
Jones, R., Bolas, C. G., Staniaszek, Z., Otu-Larbi, F., Ferracci, V., Malhi, Y., Harris, N. R., et al.(2020). Modelling the effect of the 2018 summer heatwave and drought on isoprene emissions in a UK woodland. Global Change Biology
Liang, B., Chen, X., Lang, W., Liu G., Malhi Y., Rifai S. 2020. Examining land surface phenology in the tropical moist forest eco-zone of South America. Int J Biometeorol.
Macias-Fauria M, Jepson P, Zimov N, Malhi Y (2020). Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190122
Malhi Y, Franklin J, Seddon N, Solan M, Turner MG, Field CB, Knowlton N (2020). Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190104
Muscarella, R. et al. 2020. The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecol Biogeogr. 29: 1495– 1514.
Oliveras I, et al (2020). The influence of taxonomy and environment on leaf trait variation along tropical abiotic gradients. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 18
Staver AC , Brando PM, Barlow J, et al (2020). Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire. Ecology letters 23 (1), 99-106
Terryn L., Calders K., Disney M., Origo N., Malhi Y., Newnham G., Raumonen P., Å kerblom M. and Verbeeck H. 2020. Tree species classification using structural features derived from terrestrial las er scanning ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 168, 170-181
Ter Steege, et al, 2020, Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports 10 (1), -13
Visakorpi K, Riutta T, Malhi Y, Salminen JP, Salinas N, Gripenberg S (2020). Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits. PloS one 15 (1), e0228157
Walker A.P. et al. 2020. Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2. New Phytol.
2019 publications
Adnan M. et al (2019). A simple approach to forest structure classification using airborne laser scanning that can be adopted across bioregions. Forest ecology and management 433, 111-121
Aguirre‐Gutiérrez J. et al. (2019), Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional change in response to a long‐term drought. Ecology letters 22 (5), 855-865
Bennett A. , Ravikumar A., McDermott C., Malhi Y. (2019) Smallholder oil palm production in the Peruvian Amazon: rethinking the promise of associations and partnerships for economically sustainable livelihoods.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2-14
Beauchamp E. et al. (2019), The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate shocks, Environmental Research Letters 14 (12), 125013
Blonder B., Both S., Jodra M., Majalap N., Burslem D., Teh Y.A., Malhi Y. (2019) Leaf venation networks of Bornean trees: images and hand-traced segmentations. Ecology 100 (11)
Both S. et al. (2019). Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests.
New Phytologist 221 (4), 1853-1865
Bush E.R. et al. (2019), Ground data confirm warming and drying are at a critical level for forest survival in western equatorial Africa. PeerJ Preprints
Cardoso, A.W., Malhi, Y., Oliveras, I. et al. (2019). The Role of Forest Elephants in Shaping Tropical Forest–Savanna Coexistence Ecosystems https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00424-3
Chavana-Bryant C., Malhi Y., Anastasiou A., Enquist B.J., Cosio E.G., Keenan T.F., Gerard F.F. (2019) Leaf age effects on the spectral predictability of leaf traits in Amazonian canopy trees, Science of the Total Environment, 666, 1301-1315. Supplementary Material
Coelho de Souza F. et al. (2019) Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution
Devisscher, T., Malhi, Y. and Boyd, E. (2019) Deliberation for wildfire risk management: Addressing conflicting views in the Chiquitania, Bolivia. The Geographical Journal, 218, 1-17.
Durán S.M. et al. (2019) Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient. Science advances 5 (12), eaaw8114
Elsherif A., Gaulton R., Shenkin A., Malhi Y., Mills J. (2019) Three dimensional mapping of forest canopy equivalent water thickness using dual-wavelength terrestrial laser scanning Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 276, 107627
Esquivel-Muelbert A. et al. (2019) Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. Global Change Biology, 25, 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14413. Supplementary 1, Supplementary 2
Flack-Prain S., Meir P., Malhi Y. , Smallman TL., Williams M. (2019), The importance of physiological, structural and trait responses to drought stress in driving spatial and temporal variation in GPP across Amazon forests
Biogeosciences 16 (22), 4463-4484
Hubau et al. (2019) The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory Nature Plants, 5, 133-140.
Ibrahim F. et al. (2019), Patterns and controls on fine-root dynamics along a rainfall gradient in Ghana, Trees Structure and Function ISSN 0931-1890
Jackson T.,Shenkin A., Wellpott A., Calders K., Origo N., Disney M., Burt A., Raumonen P., Gardiner B., Herold M., Fourcaud T., Malhi Y (2019). Finite element analysis of trees in the wind based on terrestrial laser scanning data.
Agricultural and forest meteorology 265, 137-144
Jackson T, Shenkin A, Kalyan B, Zionts J, Calders K, Origo N, Disney M, Burt A, Raumonen P and
Malhi Y (2019) A New Architectural Perspective on Wind Damage in a Natural Forest. Front. For. Glob. Change 1:13. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2018.00013. Supplementary Information.
Jackson T., Shenkin A., Moore J., Bunce A., van Emmerik T., Kane B., Burcham D., James K., Selker J., Calders K., Origo N., Disney M., Burt A., Wilkes P., Raumonen P., Gonzalez de Tanago Menaca J., Lau A., Herold M., Goodman R. C., Fourcaud T. and Malhi Y. (2019) An architectural understanding of natural sway frequencies in trees, J. R. Soc. Interface, 16 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0116 Supplementary Online Material
Julier, A.C. M.; Jardine, P.E.; Adu-Bredu, S.; Coe, A.L.; Fraser, W.T.; Lomax, B.H.; Malhi, Y.; Moore, S., Gosling, W.D. (2019). Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa. Grana, 58(1) pp. 45–62.
Lau A. et al. (2019). Estimating architecture-based metabolic scaling exponents of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling. Forest ecology and management 439, 132-145
Liang B., Dahlsjö C. A. L. , Maguire-RajpaulV. , Malhi Y. and Liu S. (2019), Modelling error evaluation of ground observed vegetation parameters, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. doi: 10.1109/TIM.2019.2956614
Martin R.E. et al (2019) Covariance of Sun and Shade Leaf Traits Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient.
Frontiers in plant science 10:1810
Maxwell SL, Evans T, Watson JEM, Morel A,Grantham H, Duncan A, Harris N, Potapov P, Runting RK, Venter O, Wang S, Malhi Y (2019) Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626% Science Advances Vol. 5, no. 10, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2546 Supplementary Material
Menge D.N.L. et al. (2019) Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America J. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13199 Supplementary Material
Moore C., Morel AC, Asare RA, Adu Sasu M, Adu-Bredu S, Malhi Y (2019) Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity of Complex Mosaic Landscapes, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00038
Morel A.C., Hirons M., Demissie S., Gonfa T., Mehrabi Z., Long P.R., Rifai S., Woldemariam Gole T., Mason J., McDermott C., Boyd E., Robinson E.J.Z., Malhi Y., Norris K. (2019) The structures underpinning vulnerability: Examining landscape-society interactions in a smallholder coffee agroforestry system Environmental Research Letters, 14, 7
Morel A.C. et al, (2019) The Ecological Limits Acting on Cocoa Smallholders and the Implications for Poverty Alleviation in an African Forest-Agriculture Landscape. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3: 57
Morel A.C. et al, (2019), Carbon dynamics, net primary productivity and human‐appropriated net primary productivity across a forest–cocoa farm landscape in West Africa, Global change biology 25 (8), 2661-2677
Otu‐Larbi F. et al. (2019), Modelling the effect of the 2018 summer heatwave and drought on isoprene emissions in a UK woodland. Glob Change Biol. 2020; 00: 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14963
Rifai S.W., Li S., Malhi Y. (2019). Coupling of El Niño events and long-term warming leads to pervasive climate extremes in the terrestrial tropics. Environmental Research Letters 14 (10), 105002
Rosan, T. M., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Oliveras, I., Phillips, O. L., Malhi, Y., Gloor, E., & Wagner, F. H. (2019). Extensive twenty‐first century woody encroachment in South America's savanna Geophysical Research Letters 46, 6594–6603. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082327 Supplementary Information
Schepaschenko D. et al. (2019), The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. Scientific data 6 (1), 1-11
Shenkin A. et al (2019), The world’s tallest tropical tree in three dimensions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 32
Staver AC, Brando PM, Barlow B., Morton DC, Paine CET, Malhi Y, Araujo Murakami A, del Aguila Pasquel J Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13409
Swinfield T. et al. (2019), Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees. Glob Change Biol. 2019; 00: 1– 14.
ter Steege, H., Henkel, T.W., Helal, N. et al. Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Sci Rep 9, 13822 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9
2018 publications
Addo‐Danso S.D., Cindy E. Prescott, Stephen Adu‐Bredu , Akwasi Duah‐Gyamfi, Sam Moore, Robert D. Guy , David I. Forrester , Kennedy Owusu‐Afriyie, Peter L. Marshall, Yadvinder Malhi (2018) Fine‐root exploitation strategies differ in tropical old growth and logged‐over forests in Ghana, Biotropica; https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12556
Bennett, A., Cronkleton, P., Menton, M. and Malhi, Y. (2018) Rethinking fuelwood: people, policy and the anatomy of a charcoal supply chain in a decentralizing Peru. Forests, 9(9): 533-549.
Berenguer E, Malhi Y, Brando P, Nunes Cordeiro A, Ferreira J, França F, Chesini Rossi L, Maria Moraes de Seixas M, Barlow J. 2018. Tree growth and stem carbon accumulation in human-modified Amazonian forests following drought and fire. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373, 20170308 (10.1098/rstb.2017.0308)
Blonder, B., Salinas, N., Bentley, L.P., Shenkin, A., Porroa, P.O.C., Tejeira, Y.V., Espinoza, T.E.B., Goldsmith, G.R., Enrico, L., Martin, R., Asner, G.P., Diaz, S., Enquist, B.J. and Malhi, Y. (2018) Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient. Journal of Ecology (2018) ;00:1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12945. Supplementary Info
Both, S., Riutta, T., Paine, C. E. T., Elias, D. M. O., Chino, R., Jain, A., ... Malhi, Y., Burslem, D. F. R. P. (2018). Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15444. Supplementary Info
Bruelheide, H. et al. (2018) Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1906–1917 Supplementary Online Material
Burton C, Rifai S, Malhi Y. (2018) Inter-comparison and assessment of gridded climate products over tropical forests during the 2015/2016 El Niño. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373: 20170406.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0406
Cardoso, A.W., Oliveras, I., Abernethy, K.A., Jeffery, K.J., Lehmann, D., Ndong, J.E., McGregor, I., Belcher, C.M., Bond, W.J. and Malhi, Y. (2018) Grass species flammability, not biomass, drives changes in fire behaviour at tropical forest-savanna transitions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
Crane, N., Larner, W., Mackln, M., Malhi, Y., Rose, P., Vira, B. (2018) Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2018. The Geographical Journal, 184(3).
Doughty, C. E., Goldsmith, G. R., Raab, N., Girardin, C. A. J., Farfan-Amezquita, F., Huaraca-Huasco, W., Silva-Espejo, J. E., Araujo-Murakami, A., da Costa, A. C. L., Rocha, W., Galbraith, D., Meir, P., Metcalfe, D. B. and Malhi, Y. (2018), What controls variation in carbon use efficiency among Amazonian tropical forests?. Biotropica, 50: 16–25. doi:10.1111/btp.12504
Doughty, C.E., Santos-Andrade, P.E., Shenkin A., Goldsmith G.R., Bentley L.P., Blonder B., Díaz S., Salinas N., Enquist B.J., Martin R.E., Asner G.P. & Malhi Y. (2018) Tropical forest leaves may darken in response to climate change, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1918-1924 Supplementary Information
Fadrique, B., Baez, S., Duque, A., Malizia, A., Blundo, C., Carilla, J., Osinaga-Acosta, O., Malizia, L., Silman, M., Farfan-Rios, W., Malhi, Y., Young, K.R., Cuesta, F., Homeier, J., Peralvo, M., Pinto, E., Jadan, O., Aguirre, N., Aguirre, Z. and Feeley, K. (2018) Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change. Nature, 564, 207-212. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0715-9
Gvozdevaite, A., Oliveras, I., Domingues, T.F., Peprah, T., Boakye, M., Afriyie, L., Peixoto da Silva, K., de Farias, J., Almeida de Oliveira, E., Farias, C.C.A., Prestes, N.C.C., Neyret, M., Moore, S., Marimon, B.S., Junior, B.H., Adu-Bredu, S. and Malhi, Y. (2018) Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity dynamics in relation to soil and foliar nutrients along forest–savanna boundaries in Ghana and Brazil. Tree Physiology, 38, 1912-1925. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpy136
Hirons H., Z. Mehrabi, T.A. Gonfa, A. Morel, T.W. Gole, C. McDermott, E. Boyd, E. Robinson, D. Sheleme, Y. Malhi, J. Mason, K. Norris (2018) Pursuing climate resilient coffee in Ethiopia – A critical review, Geoforum, 91, pp. 108-116
Hirons, M., Boyd, E., McDermott, C., Asare, R., Morel, A., Mason, J., Malhi, Y., Norris, K. (2018) Understanding climate resilience in Ghanaian cocoa communities – Advancing a biocultural perspective. Journal of Rural Studies, 63, 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.010
Hirons, M., McDermott, C., Asare, R., Morel, A., Robinson, E., Mason, J., Boyd, E., Malhi, Y. and Norris, K. (2018) Illegality and inequity in Ghana’s cocoa-forest landscape: How formalization can undermine farmers control and benefits from trees on their farms. Land Use Policy, 76, 405-413.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.014
Hirons, M., Robinson, E., McDermott, C., Morel, A., Asare, R., Boyd, E., Gonfa, T., Gole, T.W., Malhi, Y., Mason, J. and Norris, K. (2018) Understanding Poverty in Cash-crop Agro-forestry Systems: Evidence from Ghana and Ethiopia. Ecological Economics, 154: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.07.021
Jackson, T., Shenkin A., Wellpott A,, Calders K., Origo N., Disney M., Burt A., Raumonen P., Gardiner B., Herold M.,
Fourcaud T., Malhi Y. (2019) Finite element analysis of trees in the wind based on terrestrial laser scanning data, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, Pages 137-144, ISSN 0168-1923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.014. Supplementary Online Info
Jimenez JC, Barichivich J, Mattar C, Takahashi K, Santamaría-Artigas A, Sobrino JA, Malhi Y. 2018. Spatio-temporal patterns of thermal anomalies and drought over tropical forests driven by recent extreme climatic anomalies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373, 20170300 (10.1098/rstb.2017.0300)
Jucker, T., Asner, G.P., Dalponte, M., Brodrick, P., Philipson, C.D., Vaughn, N., The, Y.A., Brelsford, C., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Deere, N., Ewers, R.M., Kvasnica, J., Lewis, S., Malhi, Y., Milne, S., Nilus, R., Pfeifer, M., Phillips, O.L., Qie, L., Renneboog, N., Reynolds, G., Riutta, T., Struebig, M.J., Svatek, M., Turner, E.C. and Coomes, D.A. (2018) Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo’s structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning. Biogeosciences,.15, 3811–3830 Supplementary Material
Labriere, N., Tao, S., Chave, J., Scipal, K., Le Toan, R., Abernethy, K., Alonso, A., Barber, N., Bissiengou, P., Casal, R., Davies, S.J., Farraz, A., Herault, B., Jaouen, G., Jeffery, K.J., Kenfack, D., Korte, L., Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., Memiaghe, H.R., Poulsen, J.R., Rejou-Mechain, M., Villard, L., Vencent, G., White, L.J.T. and Saatchi, S. (2018) Data In situ reference datasets from the TropiSAR and AfriSAR campaigns in support of upcoming spaceborne biomass missions. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing: 3617-3627.
Lau, A.., Bentley, L.P., Martius, C., Shenkin, A., Bartholomeus, H., Raumonen, P., Malhi, Y., Jackson, T., and Herold, M. (2018) Quantifying branch architecture of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling. Trees: 1-13.
Macdonald, E.A., Cushman, S.A., Landguth, E.L., Hearn, A.J., Malhi, Y. and Macdonald, D.W. (2018) Simulating impacts of rapid forest loss on population size, connectivity and genetic diversity of Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi) in Borneo. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0196974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196974
Malhi, Y. (2018) Ancient deforestation in the green heart of Africa, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Malhi, Y., Jackson, T., Bentley, L.P., Lau, A., Shenkin, A., Herold, M., Calders, K., Bartholmeus, H. and Disney, M.I. (2018) New perspectives on the ecology of tree structure and tree communities through terrestrial laser scanning. Interface Focus, 8(2).
Malhi Y., Rowland R., Aragão L.E.O.C. , Fisher R.A. New insights into the variability of the tropical land carbon cycle from the El Niño of 2015/2016 (2018) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2018 373 20170298; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0298.
Meir, P., Shenkin, A., Disney, M., Rowland, L., Malhi, Y., Herold, M. and da Costa, A.C.L. (2018) Plant Structure-Function Relationships and Woody Tissue Respiration: Upscaling to Forests from Laser-Derived Measurements. In, Tcherkez G. and Ghashghaie J. (eds.) Plant Respiration: Metabolic Fluxes and Carbon Balance. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration (Including Bioenergy and Related Processes). Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-319-68701-8
Moore S, Adu-Bredu S, Duah-Gyamfi A, et al. Forest biomass, productivity and carbon cycling along a rainfall gradient in West Africa. Glob Change Biol. 2017;00:1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13907
Oliveras I, Román-Cuesta RM, Urquiaga-Flores E, et al. Fire effects and ecological recovery pathways of tropical montane cloud forests along a time chronosequence. Glob Change Biol. 2018;24:758–772. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13951. Supplementary Info.
Pathak K., Malhi Y., Sileshi G.W., Das A.K., Nath A.J. (2018) Net ecosystem productivity and carbon dynamics of the traditionally managed Imperata grasslands of North East India, Science of the Total Environment, 635, 1124-1131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.230
Rifai SW et al. 2018 ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373: 20170410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0410 Supplementary Info
Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Kho, L.K., Marthews, T.R., Huasco, W.H., Khoo, M., Tan, S., Turner, E., Reynolds, G., Both, S., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Teh, Y.A., Wairappan, C.S., Majalap, N. and Ewers, R. (2018) Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests. Global Change Biology.
Rowland, L., Costa, A.C.L., Oliveira, A.A.R., Almeida, S.S., Ferreira, L.V., Malhi, Y., Metcalfe, D.B., Mencuccini, M., Grace, J. and Meir, P. (2018) Shock and stabilisation following long-term drought in tropical forest from 15 years of litterfall dynamics. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12931
Smith, P., Price, J., Molotoks, A ., Warren, R., Malhi, Y. (2018) Impacts on terrestrial biodiversity of moving from a 2 degrees C to a 1.5 degrees C target, Phil Trans Roy Soc B, 376, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0456
Thomson, E.R.; Malhi, Y.; Bartholomeus, H.; Oliveras, I.; Gvozdevaite, A.; Peprah, T.; Suomalainen, J.; Quansah, J.; Seidu, J.; Adonteng, C.; Abraham, A.J.; Herold, M.; Adu-Bredu, S.; Doughty, C.E. (2018) Mapping the Leaf Economic Spectrum across West African Tropical Forests Using UAV-Acquired Hyperspectral Imagery. Remote Sens., 10, 1532.
Vinya, R., Malhi, Y., Brown, N.D., Fisher, J.B., Bodribb, T. and Aragao, L.E.O.C. (2018) Seasonal changes in plant–water relations influence patterns of leaf display in Miombo woodlands: evidence of water conservative strategies. Tree Physiology, tpy062, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy062
Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg S., Malhi Y., Bolas C., Oliveras I., Harris N., Rifai S. and Riutta T. (2018) Small-scale indirect plant responses to insect herbivory could have major impacts on canopy photosynthesis and isoprene emission. New Phytologist, 220, 799-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15338 Supplementary Info.
Withey K, et al. 2018. Quantifying the immediate carbon emissions from El Niño-mediated wildfires in humid tropical forests. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373, 20170312 (10.1098/rstb.2017.0312)
2017 publications
Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Anderson, C. B., Kryston, K., Vaughn, N., Knapp, D. E., Bentley, L. P., Shenkin, A., Salinas, N., Sinca, F., Tupayachi, R., Quispe Huaypar, K., Montoya Pillco, M., Ccori Álvarez, F. D., Díaz, S., Enquist, B. and Malhi, Y. (2017), Scale dependence of canopy trait distributions along a tropical forest elevation gradient. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14068
Bahar, N. H. A., Ishida, F. Y., Weerasinghe, L. K., Guerrieri, R., O'Sullivan, O. S., Bloomfield, K. J., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O. L., Meir, P., Salinas, N., Cosio, E. G., Domingues, T. F., Quesada, C. A., Sinca, F., Escudero Vega, A., Zuloaga Ccorimanya, P. P., del Aguila-Pasquel, J., Quispe Huaypar, K., Cuba Torres, I., Butrón Loayza, R., Pelaez Tapia, Y., Huaman Ovalle, J., Long, B. M., Evans, J. R. and Atkin, O. K. (2017), Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14079
Bispo PdC, Balzter H, Malhi Y, Slik JWF, dos Santos JR, Renno´ CD, et al. (2017) Drivers of metacommunity structure diverge for common and rare Amazonian tree species. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0188300. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0188300
Blonder, B., Salinas, N., Patrick-Bentley, L., Shenkin, A., Chambi Porroa, P.O., Valdez Tejeira, Y., Violle, C., Fyllas, N.M., Goldsmith, G.R., Martin, R., Asner, G.P., Diaz, S., Enquist, B.E. and Malhi, Y. (2017) Predicting trait-environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient. Ecology, 98(5): 1239-1255.
Chavana-Bryant, C., Malhi, Y., Wu, J., Asner, G. P., Anastasiou, A., Enquist, B. J., Cosio Caravasi, E. G., Doughty, C. E., Saleska, S. R., Martin, R. E. and Gerard, F. F. (2017), Leaf aging of Amazonian canopy trees as revealed by spectral and physiochemical measurements. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.13853. Supplementary Info.
Chiti, T., Mihindou, V., Jeffery, K. J., Malhi, Y., De Oliveira, F. L., White, L. J. T. and Valentini, R. (2017), Impact of woody encroachment on soil organic carbon storage in the Lopé National Park, Gabon. Biotropica, 49: 9–12. doi:10.1111/btp.12369
Clark, K. E., R. G. Hilton, A. J. West, A. Robles Caceres, D. R. Gröcke, T. R. Marthews, R. I. Ferguson, G. P. Asner, M. New, and Y. Malhi (2017), Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its effects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122, 449–469, doi:10.1002/2016JG003615. Supplementary Info. Supplementary Data.
Cushman, S.A., Macdonald, E.A., Landguth, E.L., Malhi, Y. and Macdonald, D.W. (2017) Multiple-scale prediction of forest loss risk across Borneo. Landscape Ecology 32:1581–1598. doi: 10.1007/s10980-017-0520-0.
Doughty, C.E., P. E. Santos‐Andrade G. R. Goldsmith B. Blonder A. Shenkin L. P. Bentley C. Chavana‐Bryant W. Huaraca‐Huasco S. Díaz N. Salinas B. J. Enquist R. Martin G. P. Asner, Malhi, Y. (2017) Can Leaf Spectroscopy Predict Leaf and Forest Traits Along a Peruvian Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient? JGR Biogeosciences, 122, 2952-2965. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG003883. Supplementary Info
Enquist BJ, Bentley LP, Shenkin A, Maitner B , Savage V , Michaletz S, Blonder B , Buzzard V , Boza Espinoza TE , Farfan-Rios W, Doughty C, Goldsmith GR, Martin RE , Salinas N, Silman M, Díaz S, Asner GP, Malhi Y. Assessing trait-based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient. Global Ecol Biogeogr. 2017;26:1357–1373. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12645 Supplementary Info
Esquivel Muelbert, A. et al. (2017) Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics. Ecography, 40(5): 618-629.
Fyllas, N. M., Bentley, L. P., Shenkin, A., Asner, G. P., Atkin, O. K., Díaz, S., Enquist, B. J., Farfan-Rios, W., Gloor, E., Guerrieri, R., Huasco, W. H., Ishida, Y., Martin, R. E., Meir, P., Phillips, O., Salinas, N., Silman, M., Weerasinghe, L. K., Zaragoza-Castells, J. and Malhi, Y. (2017), Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient. Ecol Lett. doi:10.1111/ele.12771
Goldsmith, G. R., Bentley, L. P., Shenkin, A., Salinas, N., Blonder, B., Martin, R. E., Castro-Ccossco, R., Chambi-Porroa, P., Diaz, S., Enquist, B. J., Asner, G. P. and Malhi, Y. (2017), Variation in leaf wettability traits along a tropical montane elevation gradient. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14121 Supplementary Info
Huntingford C., Atkin O.K., Martinez-de la Torre A., Mercado L.M., Heskel M.A., Harper A.B., Bloomfield K.J., O’Sullivan, O.S., Reich P.B., Wythers, K.R., Butler E.E., Chen M., Griffin, K.L., Meir P., Tjoelker, M.G., Turnbull, M.H., Sitch, S., Wiltshire, A., Malhi Y. (2017) Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate Nature Communications 8, 1602 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01774-z Supplementary Info
Lee, J., Coomes, D., Schonlieb, C.B., Cai, A., Lellmann, J., Dalponte, M., Malhi, Y., Butt, N. and Morecroft, M. (2017) A graph cut approach to 3D tree delineation, using integrated airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery. arXiv, 1701.06715.
Macdonald EA., Hinks A., Weiss DJ, Dickman A, Burnham D, Sandom CJ, Malhi Y, Macdonald DW (2017) Identifying ambassador species for conservation marketing Global Ecology and Conservation, 12, 204-2014 Supplementary data
Malhi, Y. (2017) The concept of the Anthropocene. Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060854
Malhi, Y., Girardin, C. A. J., Goldsmith, G. R., Doughty, C. E., Salinas, N., Metcalfe, D. B., Huaraca Huasco, W., Silva-Espejo, J. E., del Aguilla-Pasquell, J., Farfán Amézquita, F., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Guerrieri, R., Ishida, F. Y., Bahar, N. H. A., Farfan-Rios, W., Phillips, O. L., Meir, P. and Silman, M. (2017), The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective. New Phytol, 214: 1019–1032. doi:10.1111/nph.14189. Supplementary Info
Massi, K.G. et al. (2017) Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin forests? Plant Ecology, 218, 1047-1062.
Nakamura, A., Kitching R.L., Cao M., Creedy T.J., Fayle T.M., Freiberg M., Hewitt MN., Itioka T., Koh L.P., Ma K., Malhi Y., Mitchell A., Novotny V., Ozanne C.M.P., Song L., Wang H., Ashton A.A. (2017) Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science. Trends Ecol. Evol., 32, 432-451
Peixoto, K.S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Marimon, B.S., Elias, F., de Farias, J., Freitag, R., Mews, H.A., das Neves, E.C., Prestes, N.C.C.S. and Malhi, Y. (2017) Unravelling ecosystem functions at the Amazonia-Cerrado transition: II. Carbon stocks and CO2 soil efflux in cerradão forest undergoing ecological succession. Acta Oecologica, 82: 23-31.
Qie L. et al (2017) Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects. Nature Communications, 9, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02920-x
Restrepo-Coupe N; Levine NM; Christoffersen BO; Albert LP; Wu J; Costa MH; Galbraith D; Imbuzeiro H; Martins G; da Araujo AC; Malhi YS; Zeng X; Moorcroft P; Saleska SR (2017) Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison, Global Change Biology, 23(1): 191-208.. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13442
Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Y. Malhi, and A. Lara. 2017. Soil respiration and mass balance estimation of fine root production in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile. Ecosphere 8(4):e01640. 10.1002/ecs2.1640 Supplementary Info
Wu, J., Chavana-Bryant, C., Prohaska, N., Serbin, S. P., Guan, K., Albert, L. P., Yang, X., van Leeuwen, W. J. D., Garnello, A. J., Martins, G., Malhi, Y., Gerard, F., Oliviera, R. C. and Saleska, S. R. (2017), Convergence in relationships between leaf traits, spectra and age across diverse canopy environments and two contrasting tropical forests. New Phytol. doi:10.1111/nph.14051
Wu M.S., Feakins, S.J., Martin R.E. , Shenkin A., Bentley, L.P., Blonder B., Salinas N., Asner G.P., Malhi Y. (2017), Altitude effect on leaf wax carbon isotopic composition in humid tropical forests, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 206, ,1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.02.022.
2016 publications
Avitabile, V., Herold, M., Heuvelink, G. B. M., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Asner, G. P., Armston, J., Ashton, P. S., Banin, L., Bayol, N., Berry, N. J., Boeckx, P., de Jong, B. H. J., DeVries, B., Girardin, C. A. J., Kearsley, E., Lindsell, J. A., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lucas, R., Malhi, Y., Morel, A., Mitchard, E. T. A., Nagy, L., Qie, L., Quinones, M. J., Ryan, C. M., Ferry, S. J. W., Sunderland, T., Laurin, G. V., Gatti, R. C., Valentini, R., Verbeeck, H., Wijaya, A. and Willcock, S. (2016), An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets. Glob Change Biol. doi:10.1111/gcb.13139
Campioli M, Y. Malhi, S. Vicca, S. Luyssaert, D. Papale, J. Peñuelas, M. Reichstein, M. Migliavacca, M. A. Arain & I. A. Janssens (2016) Evaluating the convergence between eddy-covariance and biometric methods for assessing carbon budgets of forests, Nature Communications 7, Article number: 13717 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13717. Supplementary Info 1, Supplementary Data
Cardoso, A. W., Medina-Vega, J. A., Malhi, Y., Adu-Bredu, S., Ametsitsi, G. K.D., Djagbletey, G., van Langevelde, F., Veenendaal, E. and Oliveras, I. (2016), Winners and losers: tropical forest tree seedling survival across a West African forest–savanna transition. Ecol Evol, 6: 3417–3429. doi:10.1002/ece3.2133
Clark, K. E., West, A. J., Hilton, R. G., Asner, G. P., Quesada, C. A., Silman, M. R., Saatchi, S. S., Farfan-Rios, W., Martin, R. E., Horwath, A. B., Halladay, K., New, M., and Malhi, Y (2016), Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topography, carbon cycles, and biodiversity, Earth Surface Dynamics, 4, 47-70, doi:10.5194/esurf-4-47-2016.
Coelho de Souza F et al. 2016 Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology. Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20161587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1587. Supplementary Info.
Devisscher T, Malhi Y, Rojas Landivar VD, Oliveras I Understanding ecological transitions under recurrent wildfire: A case study in the seasonally dry tropical forests of the Chiquitania, Bolivia (2016) Forest Ecology and Management, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.033
Doughty CE, Roman J., Faurby S., Haquea A., Bakker E.S., Malhi Y., Dunning J.B. and Svenning J.-C. (2016) Global nutrient transport in a world of giants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113 : 868–873 10.1073/pnas.1502549112
Doughty, C. E., Wolf, A., Baraloto, C. and Malhi, Y. (2016), Interdependency of plants and animals in controlling the sodium balance of ecosystems and the impacts of global defaunation. Ecography, 39: 204–212. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01589
Doughty, E.E., Faurby, S., Wolf, A., Malhi Y., JSvenning, J.-C. (2016) Changing NPP consumption patterns in the Holocene: From megafauna-‘liberated’ NPP to ‘ecological bankruptcy’ The Anthropocene Review Vol 3, Issue 3, pp. 174 - 187 10.1177/2053019616650466.
Feakins, S.J., L. Patrick Bentley, N. Salinas, A. Shenkin, B. Blonder, G. R. Goldsmith, C. Ponton, L. J. Arvin, M. S. Wu, T. Peters, A. J. West, R. E. Martin, B. J. Enquist, G. P. Asner, Y., Malhi Y. (2016) Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon, Geochimica and Cosmochimica Acta 182, 155-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.018
Feakins, S.J., Peters, T., Wu, M.S., Shenkin, A., Salinas, N., Girardin, C.A.J., Bentley, L.P., Blonder, B., Enquist, B.J., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y., Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect, Organic Geochemistry (2016), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem. 2016.07.004
Girardin, C. A. J., Malhi Y., et al. (2016), Seasonal trends of Amazonian rainforest phenology, net primary productivity, and carbon allocation, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 30, 700–715, doi:10.1002/2015GB005270. Supplementary Information.
Jiménez-Muñoz J.C., Mattar C., Sobrino J.A. & Malhi Y. (2016) Digital thermal monitoring of the Amazon forest: an intercomparison of satellite and reanalysis products, International Journal of Digital Earth, 9:5, 477-498, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1056559
Jiménez-Muñoz, J. C., Mattar C., Santamaría-Artigas A., Takahashi K., Sobrino J.A. and van der Schrier, G. Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016. Sci. Rep. 6, 33130; doi: 10.1038/srep33130 (2016). Supplementary Info.
Lee J., Cai, XH, Lellmann, J., Dalponte, M., Malhi, Y, Butt, N., Morecroft, M ., Schonlieb, C.B., Coomes, D.A., Individual Tree Species Classification From Airborne Multisensor Imagery Using Robust PCA, in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 2554-2567, June 2016.
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Levine NM, Zhang K, Longo M, Baccini A, Phillips OL, et al., (2016) Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 113 (3), 793-797.
Malhi Y., Doughty C.E., Galetti M., Smith F.A., Svenning J.-C., Terborgh J.W. (2016) Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 113 (4) 838-846.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1502540113
Needham, J., Merow, C., Butt, N., Malhi, Y., Marthews, T. R., Morecroft, M. and McMahon, S. M. (2016), Forest community response to invasive pathogens: the case of ash dieback in a British woodland. J Ecol, 104: 315–330. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12545
Neyret, M., Bentley, L. P., Oliveras, I., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Almeida de Oliveira, E., Barbosa Passos, F., Castro Ccoscco, R., dos Santos, J., Matias Reis, S., Morandi, P. S., Rayme Paucar, G., Robles Cáceres, A., Valdez Tejeira, Y., Yllanes Choque, Y., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Asner, G. P., Díaz, S., Enquist, B. J. and Malhi, Y. (2016), Examining variation in the leaf mass per area of dominant species across two contrasting tropical gradients in light of community assembly. Ecol Evol. doi:10.1002/ece3.2281
Oliveras, I., Malhi, Y. (2016). Many shades of green: the dynamic forest savanna transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 371: 20150308.
Restrepo-Coupe N; Levine NM; Christoffersen BO; Albert LP; Wu J; Costa MH; Galbraith D; Imbuzeiro H; Martins G; da Araujo AC; Malhi YS; Zeng X; Moorcroft P; Saleska SR (2017) Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison, Global Change Biology, . doi: 10.1111/gcb.13442
Smith, F. A., Doughty, C. E., Malhi, Y., Svenning, J.-C. and Terborgh, J. (2016), Megafauna in the Earth system. Ecography, 39: 99–108. doi: 10.1111/ecog.02156
Thornton T.F. & Malhi Y. (2016) The Trickster in the Anthropocene, The Anthropocene Review, 1 (4) doi:10.1177/2053019616634359
Wagner, F. H. et al.: Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests, Biogeosciences, 13, 2537-2562, doi:10.5194/bg-13-2537-2016, 2016. Supplementary Information.
2015 publications
Anderson, L. O., et al. (2015), Disentangling the contribution of multiple land covers to fire-mediated carbon emissions in Amazonia during the 2010 drought, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 29, 1739–1753, doi:10.1002/2014GB005008.
Atkin, O. K., Bloomfield, K. J., Reich, P. B., Tjoelker, M. G., Asner, G. P., Bonal, D., Bönisch, G., Bradford, M. G., Cernusak, L. A., Cosio, E. G., Creek, D., Crous, K. Y., Domingues, T. F., Dukes, J. S., Egerton, J. J. G., Evans, J. R., Farquhar, G. D., Fyllas, N. M., Gauthier, P. P. G., Gloor, E., Gimeno, T. E., Griffin, K. L., Guerrieri, R., Heskel, M. A., Huntingford, C., Ishida, F. Y., Kattge, J., Lambers, H., Liddell, M. J., Lloyd, J., Lusk, C. H., Martin, R. E., Maksimov, A. P., Maximov, T. C., Malhi, Y., Medlyn, B. E., Meir, P., Mercado, L. M., Mirotchnick, N., Ng, D., Niinemets, Ü., O'Sullivan, O. S., Phillips, O. L., Poorter, L., Poot, P., Prentice, I. C., Salinas, N., Rowland, L. M., Ryan, M. G., Sitch, S., Slot, M., Smith, N. G., Turnbull, M. H., VanderWel, M. C., Valladares, F., Veneklaas, E. J., Weerasinghe, L. K., Wirth, C., Wright, I. J., Wythers, K. R., Xiang, J., Xiang, S. and Zaragoza-Castells, J. (2015), Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits. New Phytologist, 206: 614–636. doi: 10.1111/nph.13253. Supporting Information.
Bastin, J.-F., N. Barbier, M. Réjou-Méchain, A. Fayolle, S. Gourlet-Fleury, D. Maniatis, T. de Haulleville, F. Baya, H. Beeckman, D. Beina, P. Couteron, G. Chuyong, G. Dauby, J.-L. Doucet, V. Droissart, M. Dufrêne, C. Ewango, J.F. Gillet, C.H. Gonmadje, T. Hart, T. Kavali, D. Kenfack, M. Libalah, Y. Malhi, J.-R. Makana, R. Pélissier, P. Ploton, A. Serckx, B. Sonké, T. Stevart, D.W. Thomas, C. De Cannière & J. Bogaert Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees_. Scientific Reports. 5, 13156; doi: 10.1038/srep13156 (2015)
Brienen R.J.W. et al. (2015) Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink, Nature 519, 344–348. doi:10.1038/nature14283
Campioli M., S. Vicca, S. Luyssaert, J. Bilcke , E. Ceschia, F. S. Chapin III , P. Ciais, M. Fernández-Martínez, Y. Malhi, M. Obersteiner , D. Olefeldt, D. Papale, S. L. Piao , J. Peñuelas, P. F. Sullivan, X. Wang , T. Zenone and I. A. Janssens Biomass production effi ciency controlled by management in temperate and boreal ecosystems (2015). Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/NGEO2553
Cleveland, C.C., Taylor, P., Chadwick, K.D., Dahlin, K.L., Doughty, C.E., Malhi, Y., Smith, W.K., Sullivan, B.W., Wieder, W.R. and Townsend, A.R. (2015) A comparison of plot-based, satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, 626-644. Supplementary Info.
Dahlsjö C.A.L., Parr C.L., Malhi Y., Meir P., Eggleton P. (2015) Describing termite assemblage structure in a Peruvian lowland tropical rain forest: a comparison of two alternative methods, Insectes Sociaux, 62, 141-150. DOI 10.1007/s00040-014-0385-z. Supplementary info 1, Supp info 2
Dahlsjö C.A.L. , Parr C.L., Malhi Y., Meir P., Rahman H. Density-body mass relationships: Inconsistent intercontinental patterns among termite feeding-groups (2015) , Acta Oecologica, 63, 16-21
Doughty, C.E., Metcalfe, D.B., Girardin, C.A.J., Farfan Amezquita, F., Galiano Cabrera, D., Huaraca Huasco, W., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Araujo-Murakami, A., da Costa, M.C., Rocha, W., Feldpausch, T.R., Mendoza, A.L.M., da Costa, A.C.L., Meir, P., Phillips, O.L. and Malhi, Y. (2015) Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia. Nature, 519: 78-82.
Doughty, C.E., Metcalfe, D.B., Girardin, C.A.J., Amezquita, F.F., Durand, L., Huaraca Huasco, W., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Araujo-Murakami, A., da Costa, M.C., da Costa, A.C.L., Rocha, W., Meir, P., Galbraith, D. and Malhi, Y. (2015) Source and sink carbon dynamics and carbon allocation in the Amazon basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29, 645–655. doi:10.1002/2014GB005028.
Fauset, S. et al. Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications 6:6857 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7857 (2015). Supplementary Information
Fenn, K., Malhi, Y., Morecroft, M., Lloyd, C. and Thomas, M. (2015) The Carbon Cycle of a Maritime Ancient Temperature Broadleaved Woodland at Seasonal and Annual Scales. Ecosystems, 18, 1-15. 10.1007/s10021-014-9793-1. Supplementary info.
Guan, K., Pan M., Li H., Wolf A., Wu J., Medvigy D., Caylor K.K., Sheffield J., Wood E.F., Malhi Y., Liang M., Kimball J.S., Saleska S., Berry J., Joiner J., Lyapustin A.I., Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate, Nature Geoscience, 8, 284-289, DOI:10.1038/ngeo2382
Macdonald, E.A., Burnham, D., Hinks, A., Dickman, A., Malhi, Y. Macdonald, D.W. (2015) Conservation inequality and the charismatic cat: Felis felicis. Global Ecology and Conservation, 3, 851-866. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2015.04.006/
Malhi Y., C. E. Doughty, G. R. Goldsmith, D. B. Metcalfe, C. A. J. Girardin, T. R. Marthews, J. del Aguila-Pasquel3, L. E. O. C. Aragão, A. Araujo-Murakami, P. Brando, A. C. L. da Costa, J. E. Silva-Espejo, F. Farfán Amézquita, D. R. Galbraith, C. A. Quesada, W. Rocha, N. Salinas-Revilla, D. Silvério, P. Meir and O. L. Phillips (2015) The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology, 21: 2283–2295. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12859. Supplementary Information.
Malhi, Y., Moore, S. and Riutta, T. (2015) Forest carbon budgets and climate change. In, Peh, K., Cortlett, R. and Bergeron, Y. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Forest ecology. Routledge, Oxford. pp. 517-526.
Nottingham A.T., J. Whitaker, B.L. Turner, N. Salinas, M. Zimmermann, Y. Malhi, P.Meir (2015) Climate Warming and Soil Carbon in Tropical Forests: Insights from an Elevation Gradient in the Peruvian Andes BioScience, 65, 906-921.
Ripple W.J., Thomas M. Newsome, Christopher Wolf, Rodolfo Dirzo, Kristoffer T. Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Matt W. Hayward, Graham I. H. Kerley, Taal Levi, Peter A. Lindsey, David W. Macdonald, Yadvinder Malhi, Luke E. Painter, Christopher J. Sandom, John Terborgh, Blaire Van Valkenburgh. Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores, Science Advances, Vol. 1 no. 4 e1400103 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400103
Rowland, L., Harper, A., Christoffersen, B. O., Galbraith, D. R., Imbuzeiro, H. M. A., Powell, T. L., Doughty, C., Levine, N. M., Malhi, Y., Saleska, S. R., Moorcroft, P. R., Meir, P., and Williams, M.: Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1097-1110, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1097-2015, 2015.
Rowland, L., A. C. L. da Costa, D. R. Galbraith, R. S. Oliveira, O. J. Binks, A. A. R. Oliveira, A. M. Pullen, C. E. Doughty, D. B. Metcalfe, S. S. Vasconcelos, L. V. Ferreira, Y. Malhi, J. Grace, M. Mencuccini & P. Meir Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation, Nature, 528. 119-122. doi:10.1038/nature15539
Ter Steege H, Pitman NC, Killeen TJ, Laurance WF, Peres CA, Guevara JE, Salomão RP, Castilho CV, Amaral IL, et al. Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances 2015;1:e1500936
Urrutia-Jalabert R, Malhi Y, Lara A (2015) The Oldest, Slowest Rainforests in the World? Massive Biomass and Slow Carbon Dynamics of Fitzroya cupressoidesTemperate Forests in Southern Chile_. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137569. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137569, Supp. Information 1, 2
Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Y. Malhi, J. Barichivich, A. Lara, A. Delgado-Huertas, C. G. Rodríguez, and E. Cuq (2015), Increased water use efficiency but contrasting tree growth patterns in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile during recent decades, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 120, 2505–2524, doi:10.1002/2015JG003098.
Zhang, K., de Almeida Castanho, A. D., Galbraith, D. R., Moghim, S., Levine, N. M., Bras, R. L., Coe, M. T., Costa, M. H., Malhi, Y., Longo, M., Knox, R. G., McKnight, S., Wang, J. and Moorcroft, P. R. (2015), The fate of Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century arising from changes in climate, atmospheric CO2, and land use. Global Change Biology. 21: 2569–2587doi: 10.1111/gcb.12903. Supplementary Info.
2014 publications
del Aguila-Pasquel J., Christopher E. Doughty, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Cecile A.J. Girardin, Jack A. Chung Gutierrez, Gilberto E. Navarro-Aguilar, Carlos A. Quesada, Carlos G. Hidalgo, Jose M. Reyna Huaymacari, Kate Halladay, Dennis del Castillo Torres, Oliver Phillips & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): The seasonal cycle of productivity, metabolism and carbon dynamics in a wet aseasonal forest in north-west Amazonia (Iquitos, Peru), Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 71-83. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798365
Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Davies SJ, Bennett, Amy C., Gonzalez-Akre EB, Muller-Landau HC, Wright SJ, et al. (2014) CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology, 21, 528-549 doi: 10.1111/gcb.12712. Supplementary Info.
Aragão, L. E. O. C., Poulter, B., Barlow, J. B., Anderson, L. O., Malhi, Y., Saatchi, S., Phillips, O. L. and Gloor, E. (2014), Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonian forests. Biological Reviews. 89, 913-931. doi: 10.1111/brv.12088
Araujo-Murakami A., Christopher E. Doughty, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Luzmila Arroyo, Juan P. Heredia, Marcio Flores, Rebeca Sibler, Luz M. Mendizabal, Erwin Pardo-Toledo, Meison Vega, Luzmarina Moreno, Victor D. Rojas-Landivar, Kate Halladay, Cecile A.J. Girardin, Timothy J. Killeen & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): The productivity, allocation and cycling of carbon in forests at the dry margin of the Amazon forest in Bolivia, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 55-69. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798364
Asner, G. P., Anderson, C. B., Martin, R. E., Knapp, D. E., Tupayachi, R., Sinca, F., and Malhi, Y.: Landscape-scale changes in forest structure and functional traits along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient, Biogeosciences, 11, 843-856, doi:10.5194/bg-11-843-2014, 2014.
Baker, T. R., Pennington, R. T., Magallon, S., Gloor, E., Laurance, W. F., Alexiades, M., Alvarez, E., Araujo, A., Arets, E. J. M. M., Aymard, G., de Oliveira, A. A., Amaral, I., Arroyo, L., Bonal, D., Brienen, R. J. W., Chave, J., Dexter, K. G., Di Fiore, A., Eler, E., Feldpausch, T. R., Ferreira, L., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., van der Heijden, G., Higuchi, N., Honorio, E., Huamantupa, I., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S., Leaño, C., Lewis, S. L., Malhi, Y., Marimon, B. S., Marimon Junior, B. H., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Neill, D., Peñuela-Mora, M. C., Pitman, N., Prieto, A., Quesada, C. A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez Angulo, H., Rudas, A., Ruschel, A. R., Salomão, R. P., de Andrade, A. S., Silva, J. N. M., Silveira, M., Simon, M. F., Spironello, W., Steege, H. t., Terborgh, J., Toledo, M., Torres-Lezama, A., Vasquez, R., Vieira, I. C. G., Vilanova, E., Vos, V. A., Phillips, O. L. (2014), Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees. Ecology Letters, 5, 527-536. doi: 10.1111/ele.12252
de Barros, A.E., Macdonald, E.A., Matsumoto, M.H., Paula, R.C., Nijhawan, S., Malhi, Y.and Macdonald, D.W. (2014) Identification of areas in Brazil that optimize conservation of forest carbon, jaguars and biodiversity.Conservation Biology, 28(2): 580-593. Supplementary Material.
Butt N., Yadvinder Malhi , Mark New , Manuel J. Macía , Simon L. Lewis , Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez , William F. Laurance , Susan Laurance , Regina Luizão , Ana Andrade , Timothy R. Baker , Samuel Almeida & Oliver L. Phillips (2014): Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 267-279. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.715210
Butt N., D.P. Bebber, T. Riutta, M. Crockatt, M.D. Morecroft, Y. Malhi (2014) Relationships between tree growth and weather extremes: spatial and interspecific comparisons in a temperate broadleaf forest, Forest Ecology and Management, 334, 209-216. Supplementary Info.
Clark, K. E., Torres, M. A., West, A. J., Hilton, R. G., New, M., Horwath, A. B., Fisher, J. B., Rapp, J. M., Robles Caceres, A., and Malhi, Y.: The hydrological regime of a forested tropical Andean catchment, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 5377-5397, doi:10.5194/hess-18-5377-2014, 2014. Supplementary material.
da Costa A.C.L. , Daniel B. Metcalfe, Chris E. Dought , Alexandre A.R. de Oliveira, Guilherme F.C. Neto , Mauricio C. da Costa, João de Athaydes Silva Junior, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Samuel Almeid , David R. Galbraith, Lucy M. Rowland,Patrick Meir & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest, Plant Ecology & Diversity,7, 7-24. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798366
Dahlsjö C.A.L, Catherine L. Parr, Yadvinder Malhi, Homathevi Rahman, Patrick Meir, David T. Jones and Paul Eggleton (2014). First comparison of quantitative estimates of termite biomass and abundance reveals strong intercontinental differences. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30, pp 143-152 doi:10.1017/S0266467413000898
Dahlsjö C.A.L., Catherine L. Parr, Yadvinder Malhi, Patrick Meir, Omayra V.C. Chevarria, Paul Eggleton, Termites promote soil carbon and nitrogen depletion: Results from an in situ macrofauna exclusion experiment, Peru, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 77, pp 109-111, ISSN 0038-0717. Supplementary Info.
Doughty, C.E., Malhi, Y., Araujo-Murakami, A., Metcalfe, D.B., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Arroyo, L., Heredia, J.P., Pardo-Toledo, E., Mendizabal, L.M., Rojas-Landivar, V.D., Martinez, M., Valencia, M., Rivero, R. and Vare, L. (2014) Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought. Ecology, 95, 2192-2201
Doughty, C. E., L. L. Taylor, C. A. J. Girardin, Y. Malhi, and D. J. Beerling (2014), Montane forest root growth and soil organic layer depth as potential factors stabilizing Cenozoic global change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 983-990. doi:10.1002/2013GL058737.
Doughty C.E. , Metcalfe D.B. , da Costa M.C. , de Oliveira A.A.R , Neto G. F.C. , Silva J.A. , Aragão L.E.O.C , Almeida S.A. , Quesada C.A., Girardin C.A.J. , Halladay K., da Costa A.C.L. & Malhi Y. (2014) The production, allocation and cycling of carbon in a forest on fertile terra preta soil in eastern Amazonia compared with a forest on adjacent infertile soil Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 41-53. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798367
Emilio, T., Quesada, C.A., Costa, F.R.C., Magnusson, W.E., Schietti, J., Feldpausch, T.R., Brienen, R.J.W., Baker, T.R., Chave, J., Álvarez, E., Araújo, A., Bánki, O., Castilho, C.V., Honorio C., E.N., Killeen, T.J., Malhi, Y., Oblitas Mendoza, E.M., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Alexander Parada, G., Peña-Cruz, A., Ramirez-Angulo, H., Schwarz, M., Silveira, M., ter Steege, H., Terborgh, J.W., Thomas, R., Torres-Lezama, A., Vilanova, E. and Phillips, O.L. (2014) Soil physical conditions limit palm and tree basal area in Amazonian forests. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 7: 215-229. Special Issue: Ecosystem Dynamics of Amazonian and Andean Forests..
Espírito-Santo FDB, Gloor M, Keller M, Malhi Y, Saatchi S, Nelson B, Junior RCO, Pereira C, Lloyd J, Frolking S, Palace M, Shimabukuro YE, Duarte V, Mendoza AM, López-González G, Baker TR, Feldpausch TR, Brienen RJW, Asner GP, Boyd DS & Phillips OL. 2014. Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance. Nature Communications 5:3434 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4434 (2014). Supplementary material.
Fernández-Martínez, S. Vicca, I. A. Janssens, J. Sardans, S. Luyssaert, M. Campioli,, F. S. Chapin III, P. Ciais, Y. Malhi, M. Obersteiner, D. Papale, S. L. Piao, M. Reichstein, F. Rodà& J. Peñuelas (2014) Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance Nature Climate Change 4, 471–476 (2014) doi:10.1038/nclimate2177. Supplementary Information.
Fyllas, N. M., Gloor, E., Mercado, L. M., Sitch, S., Quesada, C. A., Domingues, T. F., Galbraith, D. R., Torre-Lezama, A., Vilanova, E., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Higuchi, N., Neill, D. A., Silveira, M., Ferreira, L., Aymard C., G. A., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O. L., and Lloyd, J. (2014) Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1), Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 1251-1269, doi:10.5194/gmd-7-1251-2014. Supplementary Information.
Galbraith D., Malhi Y., Aragão L., Baker T. The ecosystem dynamics of Amazonian and Andean forests, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, , 2014
Gatti L.V., M. Gloor, J. B. Miller, C. E. Doughty, Y. Malhi, L. G. Domingues, L. S. Basso, A. Martinewski, C. S. C. Correia, V. F. Borges, S. Freitas, R. Braz, L. O. Anderson, H. Rocha, J. Grace, O. L. Phillips & J. Lloyd Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements, Nature 506, 76–80.
Gillman, L. N., Wright, S. D., Cusens, J., McBride, P. D., Malhi, Y. and Whittaker, R. J. (2014), Latitude, productivity and species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/geb.12245. Supplementary Material
Girardin C.A.J., Javier E. Silva Espejo, Christopher E. Doughty, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Dan B. Metcalfe, Liliana Durand-Baca, Toby R. Marthews, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, William Farfán-Rios, Karina García-Cabrera, Katherine Halladay, Joshua B. Fisher, Darcy F. Galiano-Cabrera, Lidia P. Huaraca-Quispe, Ivonne Alzamora-Taype, Luzmila Eguiluz-Mora, Norma Salinas-Revilla, Miles R. Silman, Patrick Meir & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): Productivity and carbon allocation in a tropical montane cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 107-123. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.820222
Girardin C.A.J., William Farfan-Rios, Karina Garcia, Keneth J. Feeley, Peter M. Jørgensen, Alejandro Araujo Murakami, Leslie Cayola Pérez, Renate Seidel, Narel Paniagua, Alfredo F. Fuentes Claros, Carla Maldonado, Miles Silman, Norma Salinas, Carlos Reynel, David A. Neill, Martha Serrano, Carlos J. Caballero, María de los Angeles La Torre Cuadros, Maria J. Macía, Timothy J. Killeen & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): Spatial patterns of above-ground structure, biomass and composition in a network of six Andean elevation transects, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 161-171DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.820806
Girardin C. A. J. , Y. Malhi, K. J. Feeley, J. M. Rapp, M. R. Silman, P. Meir, W. Huaraca Huasco, N. Salinas, M. Mamani, J. E. Silva-Espejo, K. García Cabrera, W. Farfan Rios, D. B. Metcalfe, C. E. Doughty and L. E. O. C. Aragão Seasonality of above-ground net primary productivity along an Andean altitudinal transect in Peru. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30(06): 503-519.
Gurdak D.J., Aragão L.E.O.C , Rozas-Dávila A., Huasco W.H., Cabrera K.G., Doughty C.E., Farfan-Rios W., Silva-Espejo J.E., Metcalfe D.B., Silman M.R. & Malhi Y. , Plant Ecology & Diversity (2014): Assessing above-ground woody debris dynamics along a gradient of elevation in Amazonian cloud forests in Peru: balancing above-ground inputs and respiration outputs, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 143-160. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.818073
Huaraca Huasco W., Cécile A.J. Girardin, Christopher E. Doughty, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Liliana D. Baca, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Darcy G. Cabrera, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Angela R. Davila, Toby R. Marthews, Lidia P. HuaracaQuispe, Ivonne Alzamora-Taype, Luzmila E. Mora, William Farfán-Rios, Karina G. Cabrera, Katherine Halladay, Norma Salinas-Revilla, Miles R. Silman, Patrick Meir & Yadvinder Malhi (2014): Seasonal production, allocation and cycling of carbon in two mid-elevation tropical montane forest plots in the Peruvian Andes, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 125-142. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.819042
Malhi Y. , Gardner T.A., Goldsmith G.R., Silman M.R., Zelazowski P. Tropical forests in the Anthropocene, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 39: 125-159. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-030713-155141
Malhi Y. (2014) The metabolism of a human-dominated planet, in "Is the Planet Full?" (ed. Ian Goldin), Oxford University Press
Malhi Y., Filio Farfán Amézquita, Christopher E. Doughty, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Cécile A.J. Girardin, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Lidia P. Huaraca-Quispe, Ivonne Alzamora-Taype, Luzmilla Eguiluz-Mora, Toby R. Marthews, Kate Halladay, Carlos A. Quesada, Amanda L. Robertson, Joshua B. Fisher, Joana Zaragoza-Castells, Clara M. Rojas-Villagra, Yulina Pelaez-Tapia, Norma Salinas, Patrick Meir & Oliver L. Phillips (2014): The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of two lowland tropical forest plots in south-western Amazonia, Peru, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 81-105. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.820805
Marthews, T. R., Quesada, C. A., Galbraith, D. R., Malhi, Y., Mullins, C. E., Hodnett, M. G., and Dharssi, I. (2014): High-resolution hydraulic parameter maps for surface soils in tropical South America, Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 711-723, doi:10.5194 /gmd-7-711-2014.
Metcalfe, D. B., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Silva Espejo, J. E., Huasco, W. H., Farfán Amézquita, F. F., Carranza-Jimenez, L., Galiano Cabrera, D. F., Baca, L. D., Sinca, F., Huaraca Quispe, L. P., Taype, I. A., Mora, L. E., Dávila, A. R., Solórzano, M. M., Puma Vilca, B. L., Laupa Román, J. M., Guerra Bustios, P. C., Revilla, N. S., Tupayachi, R., Girardin, C. A. J., Doughty, C. E., Malhi, Y. (2014), Herbivory makes major contributions to ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical forests. Ecology Letters, 17, 324-332 doi: 10.1111/ele.12233. Supporting Information.
Mitchard E.T.A. et al. (2014) Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 935-946. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12168. Supplementary Information. Data Package
Oliveras I., Yadvinder Malhi, Norma Salinas, Vicky Huaman, Erickson Urquiaga-Flores, Jose Kala Mamani, Jose Antonio Quintano-Loaiza, Israel Cuba-Torres, Nohemi Lizarraga-Morales & Rosa-Maria Román-Cuesta (2014): Changes in forest structure and composition after fire in tropical montane cloud forests near the Andean treeline, Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 239-240. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.816800
Oliveras, I., L. O. Anderson, and Y. Malhi (2014), Application of remote sensing to understanding fire regimes and biomass burning emissions of the tropical Andes, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28, 480-496. doi:10.1002/2013GB004664.
Oliveras, I., van der Eynden, M., Malhi, Y., Cahuana, N., Menor, C., Zamora, F. and Haugaasen, T. (2014), Grass allometry and estimation of above-ground biomass in tropical alpine tussock grasslands. Austral Ecology, 39: 408–415. doi: 10.1111/aec.12098. Supp Info Part 1; Part 2
Oliveras I, C Girardin, C E Doughty, N Cahuana, C E Arenas, V Oliver, W Huaraca Huasco and Y Malhi (2014) Andean grasslands are as productive as tropical cloud forests Environ. Res. Lett. 9, 115011 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/115011
Réjou-Méchain, M., Muller-Landau, H. C., Detto, M., Thomas, S. C., Le Toan, T., Saatchi, S. S., Barreto-Silva, J. S., Bourg, N. A., Bunyavejchewin, S., Butt, N., Brockelman, W. Y., Cao, M., Cárdenas, D., Chiang, J.-M., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Condit, R., Dattaraja, H. S., Davies, S. J., Duque, A., Esufali, S., Ewango, C., Fernando, R. H. S., Fletcher, C. D., Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N., Hao, Z., Harms, K. E., Hart, T. B., Hérault, B., Howe, R. W., Hubbell, S. P., Johnson, D. J., Kenfack, D., Larson, A. J., Lin, L., Lin, Y., Lutz, J. A., Makana, J.-R., Malhi, Y., Marthews, T. R., McEwan, R. W., McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J., Muscarella, R., Nathalang, A., Noor, N. S. M., Nytch, C. J., Oliveira, A. A., Phillips, R. P., Pongpattananurak, N., Punchi-Manage, R., Salim, R., Schurman, J., Sukumar, R., Suresh, H. S., Suwanvecho, U., Thomas, D. W., Thompson, J., Uríarte, M., Valencia, R., Vicentini, A., Wolf, A. T., Yap, S., Yuan, Z., Zartman, C. E., Zimmerman, J. K., and Chave, J.: Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks, Biogeosciences, 11, 6827-6840, doi:10.5194/bg-11-6827-2014, 2014. Supplementary Material.
Riutta T., Slade E.M., Morecroft M.D., Bebber D.P., Malhi Y. (2014) Living on the edge: quantifying the structure of a fragmented forest landscape in England, Landscape Ecology, DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0025-z
Rocha W., Daniel B. Metcalfe, Chris E. Doughty, Paulo Brando, Divino Silvério, Kate Halladay, Daniel C. Nepstad, Jennifer K. Balch & Yadvinder Malhi , (2014): Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil), Plant Ecology & Diversity, 7, 25-40. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.798368. Supplementary Info.
Román-Cuesta, R. M., Carmona-Moreno, C., Lizcano, G., New, M., Silman, M., Knoke, T., Malhi, Y., Oliveras, I., Asbjornsen, H. and Vuille, M. (2014), Synchronous fire activity in the tropical high Andes: an indication of regional climate forcing. Global Change Biology, 20: 1929–1942. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12538
Rowland L., Y. Malhi, J. E. Silva-Espejo, F. Farfán-Amézquita, K. Halladay, C. E. Doughty, P. Meir, O. L. Phillips. (2014) The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest. Oecologia, 174, 295-306.
Singh M., Malhi Y. Bhagwat S. (2014) Evaluating land use and aboveground biomass dynamics in an oil palm-dominated landscape in Borneo using optical remote sensing. J. Appl. Remote Sens. 8 (1), 083695; doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083695
Singh M., Malhi Y. Bhagwat S. (2014) Biomass estimation of mixed forest landscape using a Fourier transform texture-based approach on very-high-resolution optical satellite imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35, 9
Talbot J, Lewis SL, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Brienen RJW, Monteagudo A, Baker TR, Feldpausch TR, Malhi Y, Vanderwel M, Araujo Murakami A, Arroyo LP, Chao K-J, Erwin T, van der Heijden G, Keeling H, Killeen T, Neill D, Núñez Vargas P, Parada Gutierrez GA, Pitman N, Quesada CA, Silveira M, Stropp J & Phillips OL. 2014. Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots. Forest Ecology and Management 320:30-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.021. Supplementary Information.
Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Rossi, S., Deslauriers, A., Malhi, Y. and Lara, A. (2014) Environmental correlates of stem radius change in the endangered Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 200: 209-221.
Valentini, R., Arneth, A., Bombelli, A., Castaldi, S., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Grieco, E., Hartmann, J., Henry, M., Houghton, R. A., Jung, M., Kutsch, W. L., Malhi, Y., Mayorga, E., Merbold, L., Murray-Tortarolo, G., Papale, D., Peylin, P., Poulter, B., Raymond, P. A., Santini, M., Sitch, S., Vaglio Laurin, G., van der Werf, G. R., Williams, C. A., and Scholes, R. J.: A full greenhouse gases budget of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities, Biogeosciences, 11, 381-407, doi:10.5194/bg-11-381-2014, 2014.
van de Weg, M.J., Meir, P., Williams, M., Girardin, C., Malhi, Y., Silva-Espejo, J. and Grace, J. (2014) Gross Primary Productivity of a high elevation tropical montane cloud forest/ Ecosystems,17, 751-764. Supplementary Material
2013 publications
Bennett-Curry A., Malhi Y. and Menton M. (2013) Leakage effects in natural resource supply chains: a case study from the Peruvian commercial charcoal market, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 20, 336-348.
Butt, N., Slade E., Thompson, J., Malhi Y., Riutta T. (2013) Quantifying the sampling error in tree census measurements by volunteers and its effect on carbon stock estimates Ecological Applications 23:4, 936-943
Castanho A.D.A, M. T. Coe, M. H. Costa, Y. Malhi, D. Galbraith, and C. A. Quesada (2013) Improving simulated Amazon forest biomass and productivity by including spatial variation in biophysical parameters. Biogeosciences, 10, 2255-2272, 2013
Chisholm, Ryan, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Kassim Abdul Rahman, Daniel P. Bebber, Yue Bin, Stephanie A. Bohlman, Norman A. Bourg, Joshua Brinks, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nathalie Butt, Honglin Cao, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George Chuyong, Richard Condit, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Stuart Davies, Alvaro Duque, Christine Fletcher, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, Rhett D. Harrison, Robert Howe, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, David Kenfack, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Andrew J. Larson, Juyu Lian, Dunmei Lin, Haifeng Liu, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean McMahon, William McShea, Madhava Meegaskumbura, Salim Mohd. Razman, Michael D. Morecroft, Christopher J. Nytch, Alexandre Oliveira, Geoffrey G. Parker, Sandeep Pulla, Ruwan Punchi-Manage, Hugo Romero-Saltos, Weiguo Sang, Jon Schurman, Sheng-Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I-Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Sean Thomas, Jill Thompson, Renato Valencia, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap, Wanhui Ye, Zuoqiang Yuan, Jess K. Zimmerman. Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests, Journal of Ecology, Article first published online: 28 AUG 2013, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12132
Clark, K. E., R. G. Hilton, A. J. West, Y. Malhi, D. R. Gröcke, C. L. Bryant, P. L. Ascough, A. Robles Caceres, and M. New (2013), New views on “old” carbon in the Amazon River: Insight from the source of organic carbon eroded from the Peruvian Andes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 14, 1644–1659, doi:10.1002/ggge.20122. Supplementary table.
Coe, MT, Marthews, TR, Costa, MH, Galbraith, DR, Greenglass, NL, Imbuzeiro, HMA, Levine, NM, Malhi, Y, Moorcroft, PR, Muza, MN, Powell, TL, Saleska, SR, Solorzano, LA, Wang, JF (2013) Deforestation and climate feedbacks threaten the ecological integrity of south-southeastern Amazonia, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 368, 1619-1628
Doughty, C.E., Wolf A., and Malhi Y. (2013) The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia, Nature Geoscience, 6, 161-764. doi:10.1038/ngeo1895. Supplementary Information.
Doughty C.E, Wolf A., and Y Malhi Y. 2013. The impact of large animal extinctions on nutrient fluxes in early river valley civilizations. Ecosphere 4:art148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00221.1
Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Torres, I.C., Metcalfe, D.B., van de Weg, M., Meir, P., Espejo, J.E.S., Huaraca, W., 2013. Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3000 m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. Oecologia 172(3): 889-902.
Fisher, J.B., Sikka, M., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Poulter, B., Galbraith, D., Lee, J.-E., Huntingford, C., Viovy, N., Zeng, N., Ahlstrom, A., Lomas, M.R., Levy, P.E., Frankenberg, C., Saatchi, S., Malhi, Y. 2013 African tropical rainforest net carbon dioxide fluxes in the twentieth century. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0376
Galbraith D. , Malhi Y., Affum-Baffoe K., Castanho A.D.A., Doughty C.E., Fisher R.A., Lewis S.L., Peh K. S.-H., Phillips O.L., Quesada C.A., Sonké B. & Lloyd J. (2013): Residence times of woody biomass in tropical forests, Plant Ecology & Diversity, DOI:10.1080/17550874.2013.770578. Supplementary Info.
Girardin, C. A. J., L. E. O. C. Aragão, Y. Malhi, W. Huaraca Huasco, D. B. Metcalfe, L. Durand, M. Mamani, J. E. Silva-Espejo, and R. J. Whittaker (2013), Fine root dynamics along an elevational gradient in tropical Amazonian and Andean forests, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 27, 252–264, doi:10.1029/2011GB004082.
Huntingford C., Zelazowski P., Galbraith D., Mercado L. M., Sitch S., Fisher R., Lomas M., Walker A. P., Jones C. D., Booth B. B., Malhi Y., Hemming D., Kay G., Good P., Lewis S. L., Phillips O. L., Atkin O. K., Lloyd J., Gloor E., Zaragoza-Castells J., Meir P., Betts R., Harris P. P., Nobre C., Marengo J., Cox P. M. (2013) Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1741
Jiménez-Muñoz, J. C., J. A. Sobrino, C. Mattar, and Y. Malhi (2013), Spatial and temporal patterns of the recent warming of the Amazon forest, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50456
Kho, L. K., Y. Malhi, and S. K. S. Tan (2013), Annual budget and seasonal variation of aboveground and belowground net primary productivity in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Borneo, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 118, 1282–1296, doi:10.1002/jgrg.20109
Lewis O.T., Ewers R.M., Lowman M.D. and Malhi Y. (2013) Conservation of tropical forests: maintaining ecological integrity and resilience, in Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2, Edited by David W. Macdonald and Katherine J. Willis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Lewis S.L. et al. 2013 Aboveground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0295
Malhado A.C.M., Ladle R.J., Whittaker R.J., Neto J.A.O., Malhi Y. and ter Steege H. (2013) The ecological biogeography of Amazonia, Frontiers of Biogeography, 5.2, 103-112.
Malhi, Y., Adu-Bredu, S., Asare, R.A., Lewis, S.L., Mayaux, P. 2013 Introduction: The past, present and future of Africa’s rainforests. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0293
Malhi, Y., Adu-Bredu, S., Asare, R.A., Lewis, S.L., Mayaux, P. 2013 Synthesis: African rainforests: past, present and future. Phil Trans R Soc B 368: 20120312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0312
Oliveras, I., van der Eynden, M., Malhi, Y., Cahuana, N., Menor, C., Zamora, F. and Haugaasen, T. (2013), Grass allometry and estimation of above-ground biomass in tropical alpine tussock grasslands. Austral Ecology. doi: 10.1111/aec.12098, Advanced Online. Supplementary Information Part 1 and 2.
Powell, T. L., Galbraith, D. R., Christoffersen, B. O., Harper, A., Imbuzeiro, H. M. A., Rowland, L., Almeida, S., Brando, P. M., da Costa, A. C. L., Costa, M. H., Levine, N. M., Malhi, Y., Saleska, S. R., Sotta, E., Williams, M., Meir, P. and Moorcroft, P. R. (2013), Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought. New Phytologist, 200: 350–365. doi: 10.1111/nph.12390
Restrepo-Coupe, N., Humberto R. da Rocha, Lucy R. Hutyra, Alessandro C. da Araujo, Laura S. Borma, Bradley Christoffersen, Osvaldo M.R. Cabral, Plinio B. de Camargo, Fernando L. Cardoso, Antonio C. Lola da Costa, David R. Fitzjarrald, Michael L. Goulden, Bart Kruijt, Jair M.F. Maia, Yadvinder S. Malhi, Antonio O. Manzi, Scott D. Miller, Antonio D. Nobre, Celso von Randow, Leonardo D. Abreu Sá, Ricardo K. Sakai, Julio Tota, Steven C. Wofsy, Fabricio B. Zanchi, Scott R. Saleska. What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volumes 182–183, , Pages 128–144; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.04.031. Supplementary Online Info.
Ruhoff A.L., A. R. Paz, L. E. O. C. Aragao, Q. Mu, Y. Malhi, W. Collischonn, H. R. Rocha & S. W. Running , Hydrological Sciences Journal (2013): Assessment of the MODIS global evapotranspiration algorithm using eddy covariance measurements and hydrological modelling in the Rio Grande basin, Hydrological Sciences Journal, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.837578
Saatchi S., Asefi-Najafabady S., Malhi Y., Aragão L. E. O. C., Anderson L. O., Myneni R. B., Nemani R. (2013) Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 10.1073/pnas.1204651110
Slik J.W.F. et al. (2013) Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist forests across the tropics, Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12092
Sutherland, W. J., Freckleton, R. P., Godfray, H. C. J., Beissinger, S. R., Benton, T., Cameron, D. D., Carmel, Y., Coomes, D. A., Coulson, T., Emmerson, M. C., Hails, R. S., Hays, G. C., Hodgson, D. J., Hutchings, M. J., Johnson, D., Jones, J. P. G., Keeling, M. J., Kokko, H., Kunin, W. E., Lambin, X., Lewis, O. T., Malhi, Y., Mieszkowska, N., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Norris, K., Phillimore, A. B., Purves, D. W., Reid, J. M., Reuman, D. C., Thompson, K., Travis, J. M. J., Turnbull, L. A., Wardle, D. A., Wiegand, T. (2013), Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions. Journal of Ecology, 101: 58–67. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12025
ter Steege H. et al. (2013) Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora, Science, 342 no. 6156 DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092. Supplementary Material. Appendices.
Vinya R., Malhi Y., Fisher J.B., Brown N., Brodribb T.J., Aragao L.E. (2013) Xylem cavitation vulnerability influences tree species’ habitat preferences in miombo woodlands Oecologia 173:711–720 DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2671-2. Supplementary Table.
Wolf, A., Doughty, C.E., and Malhi, Y. (2013) Lateral Diffusion of Nutrients by Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71352. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071352. Supplementary Information.
2012 publications
Feldpausch T. R. , Lloyd J., Lewis S. L., Brienen R. J. W., Gloor M., Monteagudo Mendoza A., Lopez-Gonzalez G., Banin L., Abu Salim K., Affum-Baffoe K., Alexiades M., Almeida S., Amaral I., Andrade A., Aragao L. E. O. C., Araujo Murakami A., Arets E. J. M. M., Arroyo L., Aymard G. A., Baker T. R., Banki O. S., Berry N. J., Cardozo N., Chave J., Comiskey J. A., Alvarez E., de Oliveira A., Di Fiore A., Djagbletey G., Domingues T. F., Erwin T. L., Fearnside P. M., Franc M. B.¸ Freitas M. A., Higuchi N., Honorio E., Iida Y., Jimenez E., Kassim A. R., Killeen T. J., Laurance W. F., LovettJ. C., Malhi Y., Marimon B. S., Marimon-Junior B. H., Lenza E., Marshal A. R., Mendoza C., Metcalfe D. J., Mitchard E. T. A., Neill D. A., Nelson B.W., Nilus R., Nogueira E. M., Parada A., Peh K. S.-H., Pena Cruz A., M. C. Penuela M. C., Pitman N. C. A., Prieto A., Quesada C. A., Ramırez F., Ramırez-Angulo H., Reitsma J. M., A. Rudas, G. Saiz, R. P. Salom˜ao, M. Schwarz, N. Silva, J. E. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, B. Sonk´e, J. Stropp, H. E. Taedoumg, S. Tan, H. ter Steege, J. Terborgh, M. Torello-Raventos, G. M. F. van der Heijden, R. Vasquez, E. Vilanova, V. A. Vos, L. White, S.Willcock, H. Woell, and O. L. Phillips (2012) Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates, Biogeosciences 9: 3381–3403
Feeley K. J., Malhi Y., Zelazowski P., Silman M. R. (2012) The relative importance of deforestation, precipitation change, and temperature sensitivity in determining the future distributions and diversity of Amazonian plant species Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02719.x
Gloor M., L. Gatti, R. Brienen, T. R. Feldpausch, O. L. Phillips, J. Miller, J. P. Ometto, H. Rocha, T. Baker, B. de Jong, R. A. Houghton, Y. Malhi, L. E. O. C. Aragão, J.-L. Guyot, K. Zhao, R. Jackson, P. Peylin, S. Sitch, B. Poulter, M. Lomas, S. Zaehle, C. Huntingford, P. Levy, and J. Lloyd. The carbon balance of South America: a review of the status, decadal trends and main determinants. Biogeosciences, 9, 5407-5430, 2012
Halladay K., Malhi Y., New M., (2012) Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 1. Seasonal and diurnal cycles Journal of Geophysical Research 117, D23102, doi:10.1029/2012JD017770
Halladay K., Malhi Y., New M., (2012) Cloud frequency climatology at the Andes/Amazon transition: 2. Trends and variability Journal of Geophysical Research 117, D23103, doi:10.1029/2012JD017789
Malhado A. C. M., Malhi Y., Whittaker R. J., Ladle R. J., ter Steege H., Fabre N. N., Phillips O., Laurance W. F., Aragão L. E. O. C., Pitman N. C. A., Ramírez-Angulo H, Malhado C. H. M. (2012) Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest Biotropica 44(6): 728–737 2012
Malhi Y. (2012). The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation Journal of Ecology, 100(1): 65-75
Marthews T.R., Malhi Y., Iwata H. (2012) Calculating downward longwave radiation under clear and cloudy conditions over a tropical lowland forest site: an evaluation of model schemes for hourly data. Theoretical and Applied Meteorology, 107(3-4): 461-477.
Morel, A.C., Fisher, J.B. and Malhi, Y. (2012) Evaluating the potential to monitor aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm in Sabah, Malaysia, for 2000-2008 with Landsat ETM+ and ALOS-PALSAR. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33(11): 3614-3639.
Quesada C. A., Phillips O. L., Schwarz M., Czimczik C. I., Baker T. R., Patino S., Fyllas N. M., Hodnett M. G., Herrera R., Almeida S., Alvarez Davila E., Arneth A., Arroyo L., Chao K. J., Dezzeo N., Erwin T., di Fiore A., Higuchi N., Honorio Coronado E., Jimenez E. M., Killeen T., Lezama A. T., Lloyd G., Lopez-Gonzalez G. , Luizao F. J., Malhi Y., Monteagudo A., Neill D. A., Nunez Vargas P., Paiva R., Peacock J., Penuela M. C., Pena Cruz A., Pitman N., Priante Filho N., Prieto A., Ramrez H. , Rudas A., R. Salomao, A. J. B. Santos, J. Schmerler, N. Silva, M. Silveira, R. Vasquez, I. Vieira, J. Terborgh, and J. Lloyd. (2012) Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate Biogeosciences 9: 2203–2246. Supplementary info.
Riutta T., Slade E. M., Bebber D. P., Taylor M. E., Malhi Y., Riordan P., Macdonald D. W., Morecroft M. D. (2012) Experimental evidence for the interacting effects of forest edge, moisture and soil, Soil Biology & Biochemistry 49: 124e131
Scriven J., Malhi Y. (2012) Smallholder REDD+ strategies at the forest-farm frontier: a comparative analysis of options from the Peruvian Amazon, Carbon Management, Future Science Group 3(3): 265-281
Vicca, S., Luyssaert, S., Penuelas, Campioli, J. M., III Chapin, F. S., Ciais, P., Heinemeyer, A., Hogberg, P., Kutsch, W. L., Law, B. E.,. Malhi, Y., Papale, D., Piao, S. L., Reichstein, M., Schulze, E. D., Janssens, I. A. (2012) Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently Ecology Letters 15: 520–526
Vinya R., Malhi Y., Brown N., Fisher J. B., (2012) Functional coordination between branch hydraulic properties and leaf functional traits in miombo woodlands: implications for water stress management and species habitat preference, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 34(5):1701–1710
2011 publications
Barlow, J., Ewers, R.M., Anderson, L., Aragao, L.E., Baker, T.R., Boyd, E., Feldpausch, T.R., Gloor, E., Hall, A. and Malhi, Y. (2011) Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon. Biological Reviews, 86(2): 457-474.
Feeley, K.J., Silman, M.R., Bush, M.B., Farfan, W., Cabrera, K.G., Malhi, Y., Meir, P., Revilla, N.S., Quisiyupanqui, M.N. and Saatchi, S. (2011) Upslope migration of Andean trees. Journal of Biogeography, 38(4): 783-791.
Fisher, J.B., Whittaker, R.W. and Malhi, Y. (2011) ET Come Home: Potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20, 1, 1-18
Macdonald, E.A., Collins, M., Johnson, P.J., Clayton, L.M., Malhi, Y., Fisher, J.B., Milner-Gulland, E.J. and Macdonald, D.W. (2011) Wildlife conservation and reduced emissions from deforestation in a case study of Nantu National Park, Sulawesi. Environmental Science and Policy, 14(6): 697-708.
Mercado, L.M., Patino, S., Domingues, T.F., Fyllas, N.M., Weedon, G.P., Sitch, S., Quesada, C.A., Phillips, O.L., Aragao, L.E.O.C. and Malhi, Y. (2011)Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and modelled rates of photosynthetic carbon supply Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 366(1582): 3316-3329.
Malhi, Y., Doughty, C. and Galbraith, D. (2011) The allocation of ecosystem net primary productivity in tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 366(1582): 3225-3245.
Maniatis D., Malhi Y., Saint André L., et al., “Evaluating the Potential of Commercial Forest Inventory Data to Report on Forest Carbon Stock and Forest Carbon Stock Changes for REDD+ under the UNFCCC,” International Journal of Forestry Research, vol. 2011, Article ID 134526, 13 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/134526
Morel, A.C., Saatchi, S.S., Malhi, Y., Berry, N.J., Banin, L., Burslem, D., Nilus, R. and Ong, R.C. (2011) Estimating aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo using ALOS PALSAR data. Forest Ecology and Management, 262(9): 1786-1798.
Palin, O.F., Eggleton, P., Malhi, Y., Girardin, C.A.J., Rozas-Davila, A., Parr, C.L. (2011) Termite diversity along an Amazon -Andes elevation gradient, Peru,Biotropica 43, 1, 100-107
Parmentier, I., Harrigan, R.J., Buermann, W., Mitchard, E.T., Saatchi, S., Malhi, Y., Bongers, F., Hawthorne, W.D., Leal, M.E. and Lewis, S.L. (2011)Predicting alpha diversity of African rain forests: models based on climate and satellite-derived data do not perform better than a purely spatial model.Journal of Biogeography, 38(6): 1164-1176.
Salinas, N., Malhi, Y., Meir, P., Silman, M., Roman Cuesta, R., Huaman, J., Salinas, D., Huaman, V., Gibaja, A., Mamani, M. and Farfan, F. (2011) The sensitivity of tropical leaf litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests, New Phytologist 189, 4, 967-977, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03521.x
Thomas, M. V., Malhi, Y., Fenn, K. M., Fisher, J. B., Morecroft, M. D., Lloyd, C. R., Taylor, M. E., and McNeil, D. D (2011).: Carbon dioxide fluxes over an ancient broadleaved deciduous woodland in southern England, Biogeosciences, 8, 1595-1613, doi:10.5194/bg-8-1595-2011.
Zelazowski, P., Malhi, Y., Huntingford, C., Sitch, S., Fisher, J.B. (2011) Changes in the potential distribution of humid tropical forests on a warmer planet ,Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 369, 1934, 137-160
2010 publications
Anderson, L.O., Malhi, Y., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Ladle, R., Arai, E., Barbier, N. and Phillips, O. (2010), Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies. New Phytologist, 187: 733–750. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03355.x
Barbier, N; Couteron, P; Proisy, C; Malhi, Y; Gastellu-Etchegorry, JP (2010) The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 19, pp 72-84
Butt, N., New, M., Malhi, Y., da Costa, A.C.L., Oliveira, P., Silva-Espejo, J.E, (2010) Diffuse radiation and cloud fraction relationships in two contrasting Amazonian rainforest sites, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150, 361-368
Chave, J., Navarrete, D., Almeida, S., Alvarez, E., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Bonal, D., Chatelet, P., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Goret, J.Y., von Hildebrand, P., Jimenez, E., Patino, S., Penuela, M.C., Phillips, O.L., Stevenson, P., Malhi, Y. (2010) Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America,Biogeosciences, 7, 43-55
Delbart, N., Ciais, P., Chave, J., Viovy, N., Malhi, Y., Le Toan, T. Mortality as a key driver of the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests : results from a Dynamic Vegetation Model, Biogeosciences Discussions, 7, 3095-3123
Fenn, K., Malhi, Y., Morecroft, M.D. (2010) Soil CO2 Efflux In A Temperate Deciduous Forest: Environmental Drivers And Component Contributions, Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, 42, 1685-1693
Fenn, K., Malhi, Y., Morecroft, M., Lloyd, C. and Thomas, M. (2010) Comprehensive description of the carbon cycle of an ancient temperate broadleaved woodland, Biogeosciences Discussions, 7, 3735-3763
Fisher, J.B., Sitch, S., Malhi, Y., Fisher, R.A., Huntingford, C., Tan, S.Y. (2010) Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation, and fixation, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB1014
Gibbon, A., Silman, M.R., Malhi, Y., Fisher, J.B., Meir, P., Zimmerman, M., Dargie, G.C., Farfan, W.R., Garcia, K.C. (2010) Ecosystem carbon storage across the grassland-forest transition in the high Andes of Manu National Park, Peru, Ecosystems, 13: 1097-1111
Girardin, C.A.J., Malhi, Y., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Mamani, M., Huaraca Huasco, W., Durand, L., Feeley, K.J., Rapp, J., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silman, M., Salinas, N., Whittaker, R.J., (2010) Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes, Global Change Biology, 16, 12, 3176-3192
Kleidon, A., Malhi, Y., Cox, P.M. (2010) Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 1545
Malhi, Y. (2010) The carbon balance of tropical forest regions, 1990-2005, Current Opinion in Sustainability Science, 2, 4, 237-244
Malhi, Y., Silman, M., Salinas, N., Bush, M., Meir, P. and Saatchi, S. (2010) Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research, Global Change Biology, 16, 12, 3171-3175
Metcalfe, D.B., Meir, P., Aragão, 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. and Williams, M. (2010), Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon, New Phytologist, 187: 608–621. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03319.x
Metcalfe, D..,; Lobo-do-Vale, R., Chaves, M.M., Maroco, J.P., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Da Costa, A.L., Braga, A.P., Goncalves, P.L., De Athaydes, J., Da Costa, M., Almeida, S.S., Campbell, C., Hurry, V., Williams, M., Meir, P. (2010) Impacts of experimentally imposed drought on leaf respiration and morphology in an Amazon rain forestFunctional Ecology, 24, 524-533
Phillips, O.L., Van Der Heijden, G., Lewis, S.L., López-González, G., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Almeida, S., Dávila, E.A., Amaral, I., Andelman, S., Andrade, A., Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Baker, T.R., Blanc, L., Bonal, D., De Oliveira, Á.C.A., Chao, K.-J., Cardozo, N.D., Da Costa, L., Feldpausch, T.R., Fisher, J.B., Fyllas, N.M., Freitas, M.A., Galbraith, D., Gloor, E., Higuchi, N., Honorio, E., Jiménez, E., Keeling, H., Killeen, T.J., Lovett, J.C., Meir, P., Mendoza, C., Morel, A., Vargas, P.N., Patiño, S., Peh, K.S.-H., Cruz, A.P., Prieto, A., Quesada, C. A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez, H., Rudas, A., Salamão, R., Schwarz, M., Silva, J., Silveira, M., Ferry Slik, J.W., Sonké, B., Thomas, A.S., Stropp, J., Taplin, J.R.D., Vásquez, R. and Vilanova, E. (2010), Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests. New Phytologist, 187: 631–646. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03359.x
Robertson, A.L., Malhi, Y., Farfan-Amezquita, F., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Robertson, M.A. (2010) Stem respiration in tropical forests along an elevation gradient in the Amazon and Andes, Global Change Biology, 16, 12, 3193-204
Zimmerman, M., Meir, P., Bird, M.I., Malhi, Y. and Ccahuana, A.J.Q. (2010) Temporal variation and climate dependence of soil respiration and its components along a 3000m altitudinal tropical forest gradient, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB4012
Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Silman, M.R., Fedders, A., Gibbon, A., Malhi, Y., Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B., Feeley, K.J.; Garcia, K.C., Dargie, G.C., Farfan, W.R., Goetz, B.P., Johnson, W.T., Kline, K.M., Modi, A.T., Rurau, N.M.Q., Staudt, B.T., Zamora, F. (2010) No Differences in Soil Carbon Stocks Across the Tree Line in the Peruvian Andes, Ecosystems, 13, 62-74
2009 publications
Malhi, Y., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Galbraith, D., Huntingford, C., Fisher, R., Zelazowski, P., Sitch, S., McSweeney, C., Meir, P. (2009) Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 20610-20615
Malhi, Y., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Metcalfe, D.B., Paiva, R., Quesada, C.A., Almeida, S., Anderson, L., Brando, P., Chambers, J.Q., da Costa, A.C..L., Hutyra, LR., Oliveira, P., Patino, S., Pyle, E.H., Robertson, A.L., Teixeira, L.M. (2009) Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests, Global Change Biology, 15, 1255-1274
Malhi, Y., Davidson E.A., (2009) Biogeochemistry and ecology of terrestrial ecosystems of Amazonia, in Amazonia and Global Change, Geophysical Monographs Series 186, 293-29710.1029/2008GM000905
Malhi, Y., Saatchi, S., Girardin, C.A.J., Aragão, L.E.O.C. The production, storage and flow of carbon in Amazonian forests, in Amazonia and Global Change, Geophysical Monographs Series 186, doi: 10.1029/2008GM000779
Phillips, O.L., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Lewis, S.L., Fisher, J.B., Lloyd, J., López-González, G., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Peacock, J., Quesada, C.A. et al. (2009) Drought sensitivity of the Amazon forest, Science, 323, 1344-1347
Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Metcalfe, D.B., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Jimenez, E., Navarrete, D., Almeida, S., Costa, A.C.L., Salinas, N., Phillips, O.L., Anderson, L.O., Alvarez, E., Baker, T.R., Goncalvez, P.H., Huaman-Ovalle, J., Mamani-Solorzano, M., Meir, P., Monteagudo, A., Patino, S., Penuela, M.C., Prieto, A., Quesada, C.A., Rozas-Davila, A., Rudas, A., Silva, J.A., Vasquez, R. (2009) Above- and below-ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils, Biogeosciences, 12, 2759-2778
Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Bonal, D., Da Rocha, H.R., De Araujo, A.C., Gamo, M., Goulden, M.L., Hirano, T., Huete, A.R., Kondo, H., Kumagai, T., Loescher, H.W., Miller, S., Nobre, A.D., Nouvellon, Y., Oberbauer, S.F., Panuthai, S., Roupsard, O., Saleska, S., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, N., Tu, K.P., Von Randow, C. (2009) The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics, Global Change Biology, 15, 2694-2714
Anderson, LO., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R.J., Aragao, .LE.O.C., Shimabukuro, Y., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T., Costa, A.C.L., Espejo, J.S., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Monteagudo, A., Nunez-Vargas, P., Peacock, J., Quesada, C.A., Almeida, S. (2009) Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia, Biogeosciences, 6, 1883-1902
Malhado, A.C.M., Malhi, Y., Whittaker, R.J., Ladle, R.J., ter Steege, H., Phillips, O.L., Butt, N., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Quesada, C.A., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Peacock, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Baker, T.R., Anderson, L.O., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Pitman, N., Prieto, A., Salomao, R.P., Vasquez-Martinez, R., Laurance, W.F. (2009) Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees, Biogeosciences, 6, 1563-1576
Fyllas, N.M., Patino, S., Baker, T.R., Nardoto, G.B., Martinelli, L.A., Quesada, C.A., Paiva, R., Schwarz, M., Horna, V., Mercado, L.M., Santos, A., Arroyo, L., Jimenez, E.M., Luizao, F.J., Neill, D.A., Silva, N., Prieto, A., Rudas, A., Silviera, M., Vieira, I.C.G., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., Lloyd, J. (2009) Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate, Biogeosciences, 6, 2677-2708
Butt, N., New, M., Lizcano, G., Malhi, Y. (2009) Spatial patterns and recent trends in cloud fraction and cloud-related diffuse radiation in Amazonia,Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 114, D21104
Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Bird, M.I., Malhi, Y., Ccahuana, A.J.Q. (2009) Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000m tropical forest altitudinal gradient. European Journal of Soil Science, 60, 895-906
Malhado, A.C.M., Whittaker, R.J., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R.J., ter Steege, H., Butt, N., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Quesada, C.A., Murakami-Araujo, A., Phillips, O.L., Peacock, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Baker, T.R., Anderson, .LO., Arroyo, L., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Pitman, N.C.A., Prieto, A., Salomao, R.P., Vasquez, R., Laurance, W.F., Ramirez, H. (2009) Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees. Biogeosciences,6, 1577-1590
Gloor, M., Phillips, O.L., Lloyd, J.J., Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., Baker, T.R., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Peacock, J., Almeida, S., de Oliveira, A.C.A., Alvarez, E., Amaral, I., Arroyo, L., Aymard, G., Banki, O., Blanc, L., Bonal, D., Brando, P., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Davila, N., Erwin, T., Silva, J., Di Fiore, A., Feldpausch, T.R., Freitas, A., Herrera, R., Higuchi, N., Honorio, E., Jimenez, E., Killeen, T., Laurance, W., Mendoza, C., Monteagudo, A., Andrade, A., Neill, D., Nepstad, D., Vargas, .PN., Penuela, M.C., Cruz, A.P., Prieto, A., Pitman, N., Quesada, C., Salomao, R., Silveira, M., Schwarz, M., Stropp, J., Ramirez, F., Ramirez, H., Rudas, A., ter Steege, H., Silva, N., Torres, A., Terborgh, J., Vasquez, R., van der Heijden, G. (2009) Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology, 15, 2418-2430
Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Bird, M., Malhi Y., Ccahuana, A. (2009) Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41, 1338-1340
Patiño, S., Lloyd, J., Paiva, R., Baker, T.R., Quesada, C.A., Mercado, L.M., Schmerler, J., Schwarz, M., Santos, A.J.B., Aguilar, A., Czimczik, C.I., Gallo, J., Horna, V., Hoyos, E.J., Jimenez, E.M., Palomino, W., Peacock, J., Pena-Cruz, A., Sarmiento, C., Sota, A., Turriago, J.D., Villanueva, B., Vitzthum, P., Alvarez, E., Arroyo, L., Baraloto, C., Bonal, D., Chave, J., Costa, A.C.L., Herrera, R., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T., Leal, E., Luizao, F., Meir, P., Monteagudo, A., Neil, D., Nunez-Vargas, P., Penuela, M.C., Pitman, N., Priante, N., Prieto, A., Panfil, S.N., Rudas, A., Salomao, R., Silva, N., Silveira, M., deAlmeida, S.S., Torres-Lezama, A., Vasquez-Martinez, R., Vieira, I., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., (2009) Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin,Biogeosciences, 6, 545-568. Supplementary Info.
Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., Laurance, W.F., Pitman, N.C.A., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., DiFiore, A., Erwin, T., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Laurance, S.G., Nascimento, H., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Silva, J.N.M., Malhi, Y., Gonzalez, G.L., Peacock, J., Quesada, C.A., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd, J. (2009) Do species traits determine patterns of wood production in Amazonian forests? Biogeosciences, 6, 297-307
Lewis, S.L., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Sonke, B., Affum-Baffoe, K., Baker, T.R., Ojo, L.O., Phillips, O.L., Reitsma, J.M., White, L., Comiskey, J.A., Djuikouo, M.N., Ewango, C.E.N., Feldpausch, T.R., Hamilton, A.C., Gloor, M., Hart, T., Hladik, A., Lloyd, J., Lovett, J.C., Makana, J.R., Malhi, Y., Mbago, F.M., Ndangalasi, H.J., Peacock, J., Peh, K.S.H., Sheil, D., Sunderland, T., Swaine, M.D., Taplin, J., Taylor, D., Thomas, S.C., Votere, R., Woll, H. (2009)Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests. Nature, 457, 1003-1006
Metcalfe, D.B., Meir, P., Aragao, L.E.O.C., da Costa, A.C.L., Braga, A.P., Goncalves, P.H.L., Silva, J.D., de Almeida, S.S;., Dawson, L.A., Malhi, Y., Williams, M. (2009) The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest, Plant and Soil, 311, 189-199
Butt, N., Campbell, G., Malhi, Y., Morecroft, M., Fenn, K., Thomas, M. (2009) Initial results from establishment of a long-term broadleaf monitoring plot at Wytham Woods, Oxford, UK. University of Oxford report
Stropp, J., ter Steege, H. and Malhi, Y., (2009) Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon. Ecography, vol 32, pp 46-54
2008 publications
Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Barbier, N., Lima , A., Shimabukuro, Y., Anderson , L., and Saatchi, S., ‘Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia', Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B, 363, 1779-1785.
Huntingford, C., Fisher, R.A., Mercado, L., Booth, B.B.B., Sitch, S., Harris, P.P., Cox, P.M., Jones, C.D., Betts, R.A., Malhi, Y., Harris, G.R., Collins, M. and Moorecroft, P.,(2008) ‘Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon “dieback”', Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, 363, 1857-1864.
Metcalfe, D., Meir, P., Aragão, L.E.O.C., da Costa, A., Almeida, S., Braga, A., Goncalves, P., Athaydes, J., Malhi, Y. and Williams, M. (2008), ‘Sample sizes for estimating key ecosystem characteristics in a tropical terra firme rainforest', Forest Ecology and Management, 255, 558-566.
Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T., Betts, R.A., Killeen , T.J. and Nobre , C.A. (2008) , ‘Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon', Science, 319, 169-172.
Malhi, Y., Roman Cuesta, R.M. (2008), ‘Analysis of lacunarity and scales of spatial homogeneity in IKONOS satellite images of tropical forest canopies', Remote Sensing of the Environment, 112, 2074-2087.
Betts, R.A., Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T. (2008) ‘The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 363, 1729-1735.
Butt, N., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., New, M., (2008) ‘Floristic and functional affiliations of woody plants with climate in western Amazonia ', Journal of Biogeography, 35, 939-950.
2007 publications
Anderson , L.O., Malhi, Y., Aragao, L.E.O.C. and Saatchi, S., ‘Spatial patterns of the canopy stress during 2005 drought in Amazonia ', IGARSS: 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Saatchi, S., Anderson, L.O., Shimabukuro, Y.E., ‘Spatial patterns and fire response of recent Amazonian droughts", Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L07701, doi:10.1029/2006GL028946
Fisher, R.A., Williams, M., da Costa, A.L., Malhi, Y., da Costa, R.F., Almeida, S. and Meir, P., ‘The response of an Eastern Amazonian rain forest to drought stress: results and modelling analyses from a throughfall exclusion experiment', Global Change Biology, 13, 2361–2378, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01417.x
Luyssaert, S., Inglima, I., Jung, M., Richardson, A.D., Reichstein, M., Papale, D., Piao, S.L., Schulze, E.-D., Wingate, L., Matteucci, G., Aragão, L., Aubinet, M., Beer, C., Bernhofer, C., Black, K.G., Bonal, D., Bonnefond, J.-M., Chambers, J., Ciais, P., Cook, B., Davis, K.J., Dolman, A.J., Gielen, B., Goulden, M., Grace, J., Granier, A., Grelle, A., Griffis, T., Grünwald, T., Guidolotti, G., Hanson, P.J., Harding, R., Hollinger, D.Y., Hutyra, L.R., Kolari, P., Kruijt, B., Kutsch, W., Lagergren, F., Laurila, T., Law, B.E., le Maire, G., Lindroth, A., Loustau, D., Malhi, Y., Mataus, J., Migliavacca, M., Misson, L., Montagnani, L., Moncrieff, J., Moors, E., Munger, J.W., Nikinmaa, E., Ollinger, S.V., Pita, G., Rebmann, C., Roupsard, O., Saigusa, N., Sanz, M.J., Seufert, G., Sierra, C., Smith, M.-L., Tang, J., Valentini, R., Vesala, T. and Janssens, I.A., ‘CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database', Global Change Biology, 13, 2509–2537, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x
Metcalfe, D.B., Williams, M., Aragao, L.E.O.C., da Costa, A.C.L., de Almeida, S.S., Braga, A.P., Goncalves, P.H.L., de Athaydes Silva Junior, J., Malhi, Y. and Meir, P., ‘A method for extracting plant roots from soil which facilitates rapid sample processing without compromising measurement accuracy', New Phytologist, 174: 697–703
Metcalfe, D.B., Meir, P., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., da Costa, A.D.L., Braga, A., Gonçalves, P.H.L., de Athaydes, J., de Almeida, S.S. and Williams, M., ‘Factors controlling spatio-temporal variation in carbon dioxide efflux from surface litter, roots, and soil organic matter at four rain forest sites in the eastern Amazon', Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, G04001, doi:10.1029/2007JG000443
Malhi, Y., ‘Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early Anthropocene' in Advances in Science (editor P. Sammonds), Cambridge University Press
Parmentier, I. , Malhi, Y., Senterre, B., Whittaker, R.J. et al., ‘The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree a-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?', Journal of Ecology, 95, 1058–1071 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01273.x
2006 publications
Malhi, Y., Wood, D., Baker, T. R., Wright, J., Phillips, O. L., Cochrane, T., Meir, P., Chave, J., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Vargas, P. N., Pitman, N. C. A., Quesada, C. A., Salomão, R., Silva, J. N. M., Lezama, A. T., Terborgh, J., Martínez, R. V. and Vinceti, B. (2006), The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology, 12: 1107–1138. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01120.x
Phillips, O.L., Lewis, S.L., Baker, T.R. and Malhi, Y., ‘The response of South American tropical forests to contemporary atmospheric change., in Tropical forest responses to climate change (editors M Bush and J.R. Flenley), Springer, Berlin
Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T.R., Malhi, Y., and Lloyd, J., ‘Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide: current conditions and future scenarios, in avoiding dangerous climate change', eds Schellnhuber, H.J., Cramer, W., Nakecenovic, N. and Yohe, G., Cambridge University Press
2005 publications
Malhi Y. and Phillips OL (editors) Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change , Oxford University Press, 356 pp.
Malhi Y. (2005) The carbon balance of the tropical forest biome, in The carbon balance of forest biomes, ed. H Griffiths and P.G. Jarvis, Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK.
Maslin, M., Malhi, Y. , Phillips, O.L. and Cowling, S. 2005, New views on an old, old forest: assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30, 477-499.
Velarde S.J., Malhi Y., Moran D., Wright J. & Hussain S. (2005) Valuing the impacts of climate change on protected areas in Africa, Ecological Economics, doi: 10.10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.07.024.
Iwata H., Malhi Y. and von Randow C. Gap-filling measurements of carbon dioxide storage within a tropical rainforest canopy airspace, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 132, 305-314.
Ciais P., Janssens I., Shvidenko A., Wirth C., Malhi Y., Grace J., Schulze E.-D., Heimann M., Phillips O. & Dolman A.J. (2005) The potential for rising CO2 to account for the observed uptake of carbon by tropical, temperate, and boreal forest biomes, in The carbon balance of forest biomes, ed. H Griffiths and P.G. Jarvis, Taylor and Francis, Oxford, UK.
Pegoraro, E., Rey, A., Barron-Gafford, G., Monson, R., Malhi, Y . and Murthy, R. 2005 The interacting effects of elevated atmospheric [CO 2 ], drought and leaf-to-air vapour pressure deficit on ecosystem isoprene fluxes, Oecologia , 146, 120-129.
Pegoraro, E., Abrell, L., Vanharen, J., Malhi, Y ., Guanghui, L. and Murthy, R. Effects of elevated atmospheric [CO 2 ] and drought on sources and sinks of isoprene in a temperate and tropical rainforest mesocosm, Global Change Biology, 11, 1234-1246.
2004 publications
Malhi Y. & Wright J. (2004) Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical forest regions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 359, 311-329.
Malhi, Y., Baker, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Almeida, S., Alvarez, E., Arroyo, L., Chave, J., Czimczik, C. I., Fiore, A. D., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, S. G., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Montoya, L. M. M., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D. A., Vargas, P. N., Patiño, S., Pitman, N. C.A., Quesada, C. A., Salomão, R., Silva, J. N. M., Lezama, A. T., Martínez, R. V., Terborgh, J., Vinceti, B. and Lloyd, J. (2004), The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots. Global Change Biology, 10: 563–591. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00778.x
Malhi, Y., MacNaughton, K. & Von Randow, C. 2004 Low frequency atmospheric transport and surface flux measurements, in Handbook of Micrometeorology: A guide for surface flux measurement and analysis (ed. X. Lee, W. Massman and B.E.Law), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrechr, The Netherlands.
Lewis S. L., Malhi Y. & Phillips O. L. 2004 Fingerprinting agents of global change in tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.
Baker T. R., Phillips O. L., Malhi Y. & et al 2004 Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass. Global Change Biology.
Baker T. R., Phillips O. L., Malhi Y., Almeida S., Arroyo L., Di Fiore A., Higuchi N., Killeen T. J., Laurance S. G., Laurance W. F., Lewis S. L., Monteagudo A., Neill D. A., Pitman N. C. A., Silva N. & Vasquez R. 2004 Increasing biomass in Amazon forests Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences.
Sotta E. D., Meir P., Malhi Y., Nobre A. D. & Grace J. (2004) Soil carbon dioxide efflux in tropical forest in central Amazonia. Global Change Biology.
Phillips O. L., Baker T. R., Arroyo L., Higuchi N., Killeen T. J., Laurance W. F., Lewis S. L., Lloyd J., Malhi Y., Monteagudo A., Neill D. A., Nunez P., Silva J. M. N., Terborgh J., Vasquez-Martinez R., Alexiades M., Almeida S., Brown S., Chave J., Comiskey J. A., Czimczik C. I., Di Fiore A., Erwin T., Kuebler C. A., Laurance S. G., Nascimento H. E. M., Palacios W., Patino S., Pitman N. C. A., Olivier J., Quesada C. A., Saldias M., Torres Lezama A. & Vinceti B. 2004 Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences.
Harris P. P., Huntingford C., Gash J. H. C., Hodnett M., Cox P. M., Malhi Y. & Araujo A. C. 2004 Calibration of a land surface model using data from primary forest sites in Amazonia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
Harris P. P., Huntingford C., Cox P. M., Gash J. H. C. & Malhi Y. 2004 The effect of soil moisture on canopy conductance of primary rainforest in central Amazonia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Lewis S. L., Phillips O. L., Baker T. R., Lloyd J., Malhi Y., Almeida S., Higuchi N., Laurance W. F., Neill D. A., Silva J. M. N., Terborgh J., Torres Lezama A., Brown S., Chave J., Keubler C. A., Nunez P. V., Vasquez R. & Vinceti B. 2003 Are Global Change Agents Causing Widespread Changes in Tropical Forest Dynamics? A Test of Predictions Using Long-Term Inventory data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.
Harley P., Vasconcellos P., Vierling L., Pinheiro C. C., Greenburg J., Guenther A., Klinger L., Neill D., Baker T. R., Phillips O. L. & Malhi Y. 2002 Variation in potential for isoprene emissions among Neotropical forest sites. Global Change Biology, 10: 630–650. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00760.x
Lewis, S. L., O. L. Phillips, D. Sheil, B. Vinceti, T. R. Baker, S. Brown, A. W. Graham, N. Higuchi, D. W. Hilbert, W. F. Laurance, J. Lejoly, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, P. N. Vargas, B. Sonke, N. Supardi, J. W. Terborgh and R. V. Martinez (2004). "Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary." Journal of Ecology 92(6): 929-944.
Pegoraro, E., A. Rey, E. G. Bobich, G. Barron-Gafford, K. A. Grieve, Y. Malhi and R. Murthy (2004). "Effect of elevated CO2 concentration and vapour pressure deficit on isoprene emission from leaves of Populus deltoides during drought." Functional Plant Biology 31(12): 1137-1147.
Pegoraro, E., A. Rey, J. Greenberg, P. Harley, J. Grace, Y. Malhi and A. Guenther (2004). "Effect of drought on isoprene emission rates from leaves of Quercus virginiana Mill." Atmospheric Environment 38(36): 6149-6156.
2003 publications
Malhi Y., Meir P. & Brown S. 2003 Forests, carbon and global climate. In Capturing carbon and conserving biodiversity: a market approach (ed. I. R. Swingland), pp. 15-41. London: Earthscan.
Malhi Y., Diary Jan-Jun 2002. In Ten Scientists’ Diaries, Gulbenkian Foundation
Finnigan J. J., Clement R., Malhi Y., Leuning R. & Cleugh H. A. 2002 A re-evaluation of long-term flux measurement techniques part 1: averaging and co-ordinate rotation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 107, 1-48
2002 publications
Grace J. & Malhi Y. 2002 Global change - Carbon dioxide goes with the flow. Nature 416, 594-595.
Malhi Y. 2002 Carbon in the Atmosphere and Biosphere in the 21st Century. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A
Malhi Y., Pegoraro E., Nobre A. D., Pereira M. G. P., Grace J., Culf A. D. & Clement R. 2002 The water and energy dynamics of a central Amazonian rain forest. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107, D20.
Malhi Y., Meir P. & Brown S. 2002 Forests, carbon and global climate._ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 360, 1567-1591.
Malhi Y., Phillips O. L., Baker T., Almeida S., Fredericksen T., Grace J., Higuchi N., Killeen T., Laurance W. F., Leano C., Lloyd J., Meir P., Monteagudo A., Neill D., Nunez P. V., Panfil S. N., Pitman N., Rudas A., Salomao R., Saleska S., Silva N., Silveira M., Sombroek W. G., Valencia R., Vieira I. & Vinceti B. 2001 An international network to understand the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR). Journal of Vegetation Science 13, 439-450.
Phillips O. L., Malhi Y., Vinceti B., Baker T., Lewis S. L., Higuchi N., Laurance W. F., Vargas P. N., Martinez R. V., Laurance S., Ferreira L. V., Stern M., Brown S. & Grace J. 2002 Changes in growth of tropical forests: Evaluating potential biases. Ecological Applications 12, 576-587.
Carswell F. E., Costa A. L., Palheta M., Malhi Y., Meir P., Costa J. d. P. R., Leal L. d. S. M., Costa J. M. N., Clement R. J. & Grace J. 2002 Seasonality in CO2 and H20 flux at an eastern Amazonian rain forest. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107, D20, art. no. 8076.
Phillips O. L., Martinez R. V., Arroyo L., Baker T. R., Killeen T., Lewis S. L., Malhi Y., Mendoza A. M., Neill D., Vargas P. N., Alexiades M., Ceron C., Di Fiore A., Erwin T., Jardim A., Palacios W., Saldias M. & Vinceti B. 2002 Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests. Nature 418, 770-774.
Law B. E., Falge E., Gu L., Baldocchi D. D., Bakwin P., Berbigier P., Davis K., Dolman A. J., Falk M., Fuentes J. D., Goldstein A., Granier A., Grelle A., Hollinger D., Janssens I. A., Jarvis P., Jensen N. O., Katul G., Malhi Y., Matteucci G., Meyers T., Monson R., Munger W., Oechel W., Olson R., Pilegaard K., Paw K. T., Thorgeirsson H., Valentini R., Verma S., Vesala T., Wilson K. & Wofsy S. 2002 Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113, 97-120.
Falge E., Baldocchi D., Tenhunen J., Aubinet M., Bakwin P., Berbigier P., Bernhofer C., Burba G., Clement R., Davis K. J., Elbers J. A., Goldstein A. H., Grelle A., Granier A., Guomundsson J., Hollinger D., Kowalski A. S., Katul G., Law B. E., Malhi Y., Meyers T., Monson R. K., Munger J. W., Oechel W., Paw K. T., Pilegaard K., Rannik U., Rebmann C., Suyker A., Valentini R., Wilson K. & Wofsy S. 2002 Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113, 53-74.
Falge E., Tenhunen J., Baldocchi D., Aubinet M., Bakwin P., Berbigier P., Bernhofer C., Bonnefond J. M., Burba G., Clement R., Davis K. J., Elbers J. A., Falk M., Goldstein A. H., Grelle A., Granier A., Grunwald T., Gudmundsson J., Hollinger D., Janssens I. A., Keronen P., Kowalski A. S., Katul G., Law B. E., Malhi Y., Meyers T., Monson R. K., Moors E., Munger J. W., Oechel W., U K., Pilegaard K., Rannik U., Rebmann C., Suyker A., Thorgeirsson H., Tirone G., Turnipseed A., Wilson K. & Wofsy S. 2002 Phase and amplitude of ecosystem carbon release and uptake potentials as derived from FLUXNET measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113, 75-95.
Andreae M. O., Artaxo P., Brandão C., Carswell F. E., Ciccioli P., da Costa A. L., Culf A. D., Esteves J. L., Gash J. H. C., Grace J., Kabat P., Lelieveld J.,Malhi Y., Manzi A. O., Meixner F. X., Nobre A. D., NOBRE C., Ruivo M. d. L. P., Silva-Dias M. A., Stefani P., Valentini R., von Jouanne J. & Waterloo M. J. 2002 Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases, and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA-EUSTACH experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107, D20.
2001 publications
Baldocchi D., Falge E., Gu L. H., Olson R., Hollinger D., Running S., Anthoni P., Bernhofer C., Davis K., Evans R., Fuentes J., Goldstein A., Katul G., Law B., Lee X. H., Malhi Y., Meyers T., Munger W., Oechel W., U K., Pilegaard K., Schmid H. P., Valentini R., Verma S., Vesala T., Wilson K. & Wofsy S. 2001 FLUXNET: A new tool to study the temporal and spatial variability of ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy flux densities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 82, 2415-2434.
Grace J., Meir P. & Malhi Y. 2001 Keeping track of carbon flows between biosphere and atmosphere. In Ecology: Achievement and Challenge (ed. M. C. Press), pp. 249-269.Blackwell Science, Blackwell.
Grace J., Malhi Y., Higuchi N. & Meir P. 2001 Productivity and carbon fluxes of tropical rain forests. In Terrestrial Global Productivity: Past, Present and Future (ed. H. Mooney & B. Saugier), pp. 401-426.Academic Press.
Hellier A., McGhee W., Tipper R., Mayhew J., Malhi Y. & Meir P. 2001 Climate Change and Forestry. In State of the World's Forests 2001 (ed. M. H. El-Lakany), pp. 60-73. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The Royal Society Working Group on Land Carbon Sinks (Read, D., Beerling, D., Cannell, M., Cox, P., Curran, P., Grace, J., Ineson, P., Jarvis, P., Malhi Y., Powlson, D., Shepherd, J., and Woodward, I). The role of land carbon sinks in mitigating global climate change. 1-27. 6-1-2001. The Royal Society.
2000 publications
Fisch G., Culf A. D., Malhi Y., Nobre C. A. & Nobre A. D. 2000 Carbon dioxide measurements in the nocturnal boundary layer over Amazonian tropical forest. In Global climate change and tropical ecosystems (ed. R. Lal, J. Kimble, & B. A. Stewart), pp. 391-404.Lewis.
Kruijt B., Malhi Y., Lloyd J., Nobre A. D., Miranda A. C., Pereira M. G. P., Culf A. & Grace J. 2000 Turbulence statistics above and within two Amazon rain forest canopies. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 94, 297-331.
Malhi Y. and Meir, P. Climate Change: the threats to world forests. 1-56. 2000. United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK.
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Malhi Y. & Grace J. 2000 Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15, 332-337.
1999 publications
Culf A. D., Fisch G., Malhi Y., Costa R. C., Nobre A. D., Marques A. D., Gash J. H. C. & Grace J. 1999 Carbon dioxide measurements in the nocturnal boundary layer over Amazonian forest. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 3, 39-53.
Grace J. & Malhi Y. 1999 How rain forests influence the atmosphere. Botanical Journal of Scotland 51, 69-85.
Grace J. & Malhi Y. 1999 The role of rain forests in the global carbon cycle. Progress in Environmental Science 1, 177-193.
Malhi Y., Baldocchi D. D. & Jarvis P. G. 1999 The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests. Plant Cell and Environment 22, 715-740.
Tipper R., Malhi Y., Meir P., Glace J. & Jarvis P. 1999 Woods and sinks. New Scientist 164, 59-59.
1998 publications
Malhi Y., Nobre A. D., Grace J., Kruijt B., Pereira M. G. P., Culf A. & Scott S. 1998 Carbon dioxide transfer over a Central Amazonian rain forest. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 103, 31593-31612.
Phillips O. L., Malhi Y., Higuchi N., Laurance W. F., Nunez P. V., Vasquez R. M., Laurance S. G., Ferreira L. V., Stern M., Brown S. & Grace J. 1998 Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forests: Evidence from long-term plots. Science 282, 439-442.
Williams M., Malhi Y., Nobre A. D., Rastetter E. B., Grace J. & Pereira M. G. P. 1998 Seasonal variation in net carbon exchange and evapotranspiration in a Brazilian rain forest: a modelling analysis. Plant Cell and Environment 21, 953-968.
1997 publications
Culf A. D., Fisch G., Malhi Y. & Nobre C. A. 1997 The influence of the atmospheric boundary layer on carbon dioxide concentrations over a tropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 85, 149-158.
1996 publications
Grace J., Malhi Y., Lloyd J., McIntyre J., Miranda A. C., Meir P. & Miranda H. S. 1996 The use of eddy covariance to infer the net carbon dioxide uptake of Brazilian rain forest. Global Change Biology 2, 209-217.
Malhi Y. 1996 The behaviour of the roughness length for temperature over heterogeneous surfaces. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 122, 1095-1125.
Moncrieff J. B., Malhi Y. & Leuning R. 1996 The propagation of errors in long-term measurements of land- atmosphere fluxes of carbon and water. Global Change Biology 2, 231-240.
1995 publications
Grace J., Lloyd J., McIntyre J., Miranda A. C., Meir P., Miranda H. S., Nobre, Moncrieff J., Gash J. H. C., Malhi Y., Wright I. R. & Gash J. H. C. 1995 Carbon dioxide uptake by an undisturbed tropical rainforest in southwest Amazonia, 1992 to 1993. Science 270, 778-780.
Malhi Y. 1995 The significance of the dual solutions for heat fluxes measured by the temperature fluctuation method in stable conditions. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 74, 389-396.
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2022 Publications
Bauman, D., Fortunel, C., Cernusak, L.A., Bentley, L.P., McMahon, S.M., Rifai, S.W., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Oliveras, I., Bradford, M., Laurance, S.G. Delhaye, G... and Y Malhi. 2022. Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits. Global change biology, 28(4), pp.1414-1432.
Bauters, M., et al. (including Malhi, Oliveras and Riutta) 2022 Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why. Biotropica.
Gatti, R.C. (including Malhi), et al. 2022. The number of tree species on Earth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.6
Gonzalez‐Akre, E. (including Malhi), et al. 2022 : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13.2: 330-338.
Gopalakrishna, T., Lomax, G., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Bauman, D., Roy, P.S., Joshi, P.K. and Malhi, Y., 2022. Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India. Conservation Letters, p.e12867.
Malhi, Y., Lander, T., le Roux, E., Stevens, N., Macias-Fauria, M., Wedding, L., Girardin, C., Kristensen, J.Å., Sandom, C.J., Evans, T.D. and Svenning, J.C and Canney S.., 2022. The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Current Biology, 32(4), pp.R181-R196.
Nottingham, A. T., et al (including Malhi, Huaraca Huasco and Riutta). 2022 Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling. Journal of Ecology 110.2, 387-403.
Reis, S.M., et al. (including Malhi) 2022. Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests. Journal of Ecology
Signori‐Müller, C., et al (including Malhi) 2022. Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees." Functional Ecology 36.2 : 341-355.
Scerri, E.M., Roberts, P., Yoshi Maezumi, S. and Malhi, Y., 2022. Tropical forests in the deep human past. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1849), p.20200500.
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2023 Publications
Balmford A. et al (including Malhi (2023) Credit credibility threatens forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 380 (6644). pp. 466-467
Carvalho RL et al (including Malhi (2023). Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3544. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.046. Erratum for: Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3495-3504.e4.
Christmann, T., Palomeque, X., Armenteras, D., Wilson, S. J., Malhi, Y., & Oliveras Menor, I. (2023). Disrupted montane forest recovery hinders biodiversity conservation in the tropical Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 793– 808
Correa, D. F., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 49– 69.
de Lima, R.B. et al (including Malhi (2023) Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?. Global Change Biology.
de Souza Leite, M. et al (including Huaraca Huasco W. and Malhi, Y.) (2023) Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523538.
Dechant B. et al (including Malhi and Aguierre- Aguirre-Gutierrez) (2023). Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches EarthArXiv
Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1066.
Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi), 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621, 773–781
Doughty,C. E, et al. .(Including Malhi and Oliveras) (2023). Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds. Nature (2023): 1-7.
Doughty, C.E., Gaillard, C., Burns, P., Keany, J., Abraham, A., Malhi, Y.S., Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Koch, G., Jantz, P., Shenkin, A. and Tang, H., (2023). Tropical forests are mainly unstratified especially in Amazonia and regions with lower fertility or higher temperatures. Environmental Research: Ecology.
González-Caro S. et al. (including Malhi), 2023.Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities. Plants. 2023; 12(20):3546.
Hawkins, I., Smith, A., Addison, P., Malhi, Y., Whitney, M. and zu Ermgassen, S., (2023). The potential contribution of revenue from Biodiversity Net Gain offsets towards nature recovery ambitions in Oxfordshire.
Hordijk, I. et al (including Malhi) (2023). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1308–1326.
Jennison, C.B., Ostertag, R., Rayome, D., Cordell, S. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Non-timber Forest Products Survey of Forest Landscape Restoration: A Case Study of Hybrid Ecosystem Restoration in Invaded Hawaiian Forest. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 42(7), pp.712-727.
Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S., et al. (including Malhi), (2023). Intraspecific Trait Variability is a Key Feature Underlying High Arctic Plant Community Resistance to Climate Warming. Ecological Monographs 93( 1): e1555.
Ma, H., Crowther, T.W., Mo, L. et al. (including Malhi). 2023. The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nat. Plants 9, 1795–1809
Mills MB, Malhi Y, Ewers RM, Kho LK, Teh YA, Both S, Burslem DFRP, Majalap N, Nilus R, Huaraca Huasco W, Cruz R, Pillco MM, Turner EC, Reynolds G, Riutta T. (2023) Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(3) e2214462120.
Mo et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature
Pos E., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.Scientific Reports 13.1: 2859.
Tavares, J.V. et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature: 1-7.
Ter Steege et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1130.
Vedovato LB, et al (including Malhi) (2023). Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change E-ISSN 2624-893X, Vol. 6, article id 1024101.
Vinicius Peripato et al. (including Malhi), 2023. More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.Science382,103-109
Westerband, A. C., Wright, I. J., Maire, V., Paillassa, J., Prentice, I. C., Atkin, O. K., Bloomfield, K. J., Cernusak, L. A., Dong, N., Gleason, S. M., Guilherme Pereira, C., Lambers, H., Leishman, M. R., Malhi, Y., & Nolan, R. H. (2023). Coordination of photosynthetic traits across soil and climate gradients. Global Change Biology, 29, 856– 873
Zelazowski, P., Jozefowicz, S., Feeley, K.J. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Establishing the Position and Drivers of the Eastern Andean Treeline with Automated Transect Sampling. Remote Sensing, 15(10), p.2679.
Zhang-Zheng H, Malhi Y, Gvozdevaite A, Peprah T, Boackye M, Ziemińska K, Adu-Bredu S, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Sandoval D, Prentice C, Oliveras I. (2023) Photosynthetic and water transport strategies of plants along a tropical forest aridity gradient: a test of optimality theory. doi:10.1101/2023.01.10.523419.
Books
Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change, Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver Phillips, 2005. More...
Science, not art: Ten Scientists' Diaries, ed. Jon Turney, 2003. More...
