Francis E. Putz, Pieter A. Zuidema, Michelle A. Pinard, René Boot et al.
Using reduced-impact timber-harvesting practices in legally logged tropical forests would reduce global carbon emissions by 0.16 Gt/year at a modest cost and with little risk of "leakage" (increased carbon emissions elsewhere).
Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Valérie Trouet et al.
Md. Saidur Rahman, Ute Sass‐Klaassen, Pieter A. Zuidema, Md. Qumruzzaman Chowdhury et al.
Mangroves throughout the world are threatened by environmental changes apart from anthropogenic disturbances. Many of these changes may inhibit the growth and survival of mangrove species. To understand and predict the effects of global change on mangrove forests, it is necessary to obtain insights ...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Ingo Heinrich, Mizanur Rahman, Mart Vlam et al.
Abstract Atmospheric CO 2 ( c a ) rise changes the physiology and possibly growth of tropical trees, but these effects are likely modified by climate. Such c a × climate interactions importantly drive CO 2 fertilization effects of tropical forests predicted by global vegetation models, but have not ...
M. R. Zaman, Md. Saidur Rahman, Shamim Ahmed, Pieter A. Zuidema
Mangrove forests provide a variety of ecosystem services, and among them, the ability to sequester large quantities of below-ground carbon reservoirs is considered the most critical service for mitigating climate change. Therefore, most mangrove studies are highly concerned with estimating ecosystem...
Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique, Pieter A. Zuidema, Ute Sass‐Klaassen, Md. Qumruzzaman Chowdhury
The Bangladesh Sundarbans is the largest continuous mangrove in the world that providing crucial environmental services, particularly related to coastal protection and livelihoods of millions of people. However, anthropogenic disturbances, diseases infestation and environmental changes including sea...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Peter Groenendijk, Mizanur Rahman, Valérie Trouet et al.
Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and ...
Sophie A. Zwartsenberg, Frank J. Sterck, Lenny Haddad, Jürgen Schleucher et al.
Summary Tropical forests substantially influence the terrestrial carbon sink. Their contributions to the forest carbon sink may increase due to the stimulation of photosynthesis by rising atmospheric CO 2 ( C a ); however, the magnitude of this effect is poorly quantified for tropical canopy trees. ...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Md. Mizanur Rahman et al.
Tropical forests will be increasingly impacted by intensifying droughts under ongoing climate change. Droughts may have large implications for the capacity of tropical forests to store carbon in wood and act as long-term carbon sinks. To assess this possible implication, pantropical analyses of tree...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Valérie Trouet et al.
One of the most pervasive drought impacts on tropical forests is increased tree mortality. While satellite imagery can detect large-scale drought-induced tree mortality events, it cannot detect individual tree mortality that is scattered in space and lagged in time. To estimate the latter mortality ...