Amazon‐nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a hyperdominant and protected tree species, playing a keystone role in nutrient cycling and ecosystem service provision in Amazonia. Our main goal was to develop a robust habitat suitability model of Amazon‐nut and to identify the most important predictor vari...
Tourne, D.C.M.
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Ballester, M.V.R.
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James, P.M.A.
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Martorano, L.G.
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Guedes, M.C.
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Thomas, E.
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[Strategies to optimize modelling habitat suitability of Bertholletia excelsa in the Pan-Amazonia]
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Strategies to optimize modelling habitat suitability of Bertholletia excelsa in the Pan-Amazonia
Background
Humans threat the populations of tree species by overexploitation, deforestation, land use change, and climate change. We present a novel threat assessment at intraspecific level to support the conservation of genetic resources of 80 socioeconomically viable tree species in South Ameri...
Zonneveld, M.J. van
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Thomas, E.
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Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.
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Damme, V. van
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Alcázar, C.
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Loo, J.
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Scheldeman, X.
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[Tree genetic resources at risk in South America: A spatial threat assessment to prioritize populations for conservation]
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Tree genetic resources at risk in South America: A spatial threat assessment to prioritize populations for conservation
Conspecific distance and density-dependence is a key driver of tree diversity in natural forests, but the extent to which this process may influence ecosystem service provision is largely unknown. Drawing on a dataset of >135,000 trees from the Peruvian Amazon, we assessed its manifestation in bi...
Thomas, E.
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Atkinson, R.
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Kettle, C.
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[Fine-scale processes shape ecosystem service provision by an Amazonian hyperdominant tree species]
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Fine-scale processes shape ecosystem service provision by an Amazonian hyperdominant tree species
Understanding the factors that underlie the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), as well as regularly monitoring production levels, are key to allow sustainability assessments of NTFP extractive economies. Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) seed harvesting from natural ...
Thomas, E.
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Valdivia, J.
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Alcázar Caicedo, C.
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Quaedvlieg, J.
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Wadt, L.H.O.
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Corvera, R.
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[NTFP harvesters as citizen scientists: Validating traditional and crowdsourced knowledge on seed production of Brazil nut trees in the Peruvian Amazon]
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NTFP harvesters as citizen scientists: Validating traditional and crowdsourced knowledge on seed production of Brazil nut trees in the Peruvian Amazon
Rehabilitation and restoration of forest ecosystems are in growing demand to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification—major environmental problems of our time. Interest in restoration of ecosystems is increasingly translated into strong political commitment to large-scale tree...
Thomas, E.
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Jalonen, R.
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Loo, J.
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Boshier, D.
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Gallo, L.
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Cavers, S.
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Bordacs, S.
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Smith, Pete
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Bozzano, M.
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[Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species]
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Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species
Thomas, E.
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[The impact of traditional lifestyle, provenance and contact history on plant use knowledge and management: a cross-cultural comparison of two small-scale societies from the Bolivian Amazon]
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The impact of traditional lifestyle, provenance and contact history on plant use knowledge and management: a cross-cultural comparison of two small-scale societies from the Bolivian Amazon
Douterlungne, D.
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Thomas, E.
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Levy-Tacher, S.
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[Fast-growing pioneer trees as a rapid and cost-effective strategy for bracken elimination in the Neotropics]
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Fast-growing pioneer trees as a rapid and cost-effective strategy for bracken elimination in the Neotropics
Coppus, R.
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Romijn,J.E.
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Méndez-Toribio, M.
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Murcia, C.
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Thomas, E.
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Guariguata, M.R.
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Herold, M.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[What is out there? A typology of land restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean]
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What is out there? A typology of land restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thomas, E.
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Gil Tobon, C.
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Gutiérrez A., Janeth Patricia
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Alcázar Caicedo, C.
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Moscoso Higuita, L.G.
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Becerra, L.A.
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Loo, J.
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González, M.A.
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[Genetic diversity of Enterolobium cyclocarpum in Colombian seasonally dry tropical forest: implications for conservation and restoration]
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Genetic diversity of Enterolobium cyclocarpum in Colombian seasonally dry tropical forest: implications for conservation and restoration
Meeting the multimillion hectare commitments for forest and landscape restoration
(FLR) will require billions of tree seed and seedlings. However, the adequacy of seed
supply in terms of quantity, genetic diversity and quality has received scant attention
in FLR planning. We surveyed 139 FLR proj...
Jalonen, R.
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Valette, M.
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Boshier, D.
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Duminil, J.
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Thomas, E.
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[Forest and landscape restoration severely constrained by a lack of attention to the quantity and quality of tree seed: Insights from a global survey]
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Forest and landscape restoration severely constrained by a lack of attention to the quantity and quality of tree seed: Insights from a global survey