Tropical Ecosystems in the 21st Century

Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.

1. Protecting environmental and socio-economic values of selectively logged tropical forests in the Anthropocene Christopher G. Bousfield, Gianluca R. Cerullo, Mike R. Massam and David P. Edwards 2. Novelty in the tropical forests of the 21st century Ariel E. Lugo, Oscar J. Abelleira Martínez, Ernesto Medina, Gerardo Aymard and Tamara Heartsill Scalley 3. Monitoring tropical forest degradation and restoration with satellite remote sensing: A test using Sabah Biodiversity Experiment Jinhui Wu, Bin Chen, Glen Reynolds, Jun Xie, Michael J. O'Brien, Shunlin Liang and Andy Hector 4. The long and short of it: A review of the timescales of how fire affects soils using the pulse-press framework Adam F. A. Pellegrini and Robert B. Jackson 5. Revisiting nutrient cycling by litterfall - Insights from 15 years of litter manipulation in old-growth lowland tropical forest Emma J. Sayer, Chadtip Rodtassana, Merlin Sheldrake, Laëtitia M. Bréchet, Oliver S. Ashford, Luis Lopez-Sangil, DeirdreKerdraon-Byrne, Biancolini Castro, Benjamin L. Turner, S. Joseph Wright and Edmund V.J. Tanner 6. Soil biogeochemical responses of a tropical forest to warming and hurricane disturbance Sasha C. Reed, Robin Reibold, Molly A. Cavaleri, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Megan E. Berberich and Tana E. Wood 7. Critical role and collapse of tropical mega-trees: A key global resource Bruno X. Pinho, Carlos A. Peres, Inara R. Leal and Marcelo Tabarelli 8. Monitoring tropical insects in the 21st century Greg P.A Lamarre, Tom M. Fayle, Simon T. Segar, Benita Laird-Hopkins, Akihiro Nakamura, Daniel Souto-Vilarós, Shuntaro Watanabe and Yves Basset 9. Advances and prospects of environmental DNA in neotropical rainforests Lucie Zinger, Julian Donald, Sebastien Brosse, Mailyn A. Gonzalez, Amaia Iribar, Céline Leroy, Jérôme Murienne, Jérôme Orivel, Heidy Schimann, Pierre Taberlet and Carla Martins Lopes 10. Informing marine spatial planning decisions with environmental DNA Alessia Bani, Maarten De Brauwer, Simon