SECO: Resolving the current and future carbon dynamics of the dry tropics

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Research output per year 2022 2022 2025

• 11 Article
• 1 Comment/debate

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• 2025

  Patterns and Drivers of Phylogenetic Beta Diversity in the Forests and Savannas of Africa

  Rees, M., Fayolle, A., Godlee, J. L., Gorel, A. P., Harris, D. J. & Dexter, K. G., 7 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of biogeography. e15140.

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  • Beta Diversity 100%
  • Savanna 100%
  • Biome 50%
  • Angiosperm 20%
  • Spatial Distribution 10%

• Precipitation-fire-functional interactions control biomass stocks and carbon exchanges across the world’s largest savanna

  Williams, M., Milodowski, D. T., Smallman, T. L., Dexter, K. G., Hegerl, G. C., McNicol, I. M., O'Sullivan, M., Roesch, C. M., Ryan, C. M., Sitch, S. & Valade, A., 27 Mar 2025, In: Biogeosciences. 22, 6, p. 1597–1614

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• 2024

  Fragmentation in patchy ecosystems: a call for a functional approach

  Benitez, L., Parr, C. L., Sankaran, M. & Ryan, C., 7 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

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  • Vegetation Structure 100%
  • Habitat Fragmentation 100%
  • Ecosystem Dynamics 100%
  • Deforestation 100%
  • Remote Sensing 100%

• Resilience, remoteness and war shape the land cover dynamics in one of the world's largest miombo woodlands

  Andrews, C. A., Bowers, S., Escobar-Alvarado, L. F., Collins, K., Dexter, K. G. & Ryan, C. M., 1 Sept 2024, In: Trees, Forests and People. 17, 100623.

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  • Land Cover 100%
  • Miombo 100%
  • Vegetation 66%
  • Protected Area 66%
  • Deforestation 66%
• 2023

  Protected areas reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance woody growth across African woodlands

  McNicol, I. (Lead Author), Keane, A., Burgess, N. D., Bowers, S., Mitchard, E. & Ryan, C., 25 Oct 2023, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 4, 1, 392.

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  • Protected Area 100%
  • Deforestation 100%
  • Vegetation Growth 40%
  • Vegetation 20%

• Net diversification rates of the woody plant genus Petalidium (Acanthaceae) are highest in the ancient and arid Namib Desert

  Loiseau, O., Swanepoel, W., Manzitto-Tripp, E. & Dexter, K., 15 May 2023, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11

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  • Cladistics 100%
  • Woody Plant 100%
  • Acanthaceae 100%
  • Species Diversity 50%
  • Lineages 50%
• 2022

  Forests: collect social as well as ecological data: collect social as well as ecological data

  Pritchard, R., Wells, G. & Ryan, C. M., 22 Sept 2022, In: Nature. 609, 7928, p. 676 1 p.

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  • Forests 100%

• Tallo–a global tree allometry and crown architecture database

  Jucker, T., Fischer, F. J., Chave, J., Coomes, D. A., Caspersen, J., Ali, A., Panzou, G. J. L., Feldpausch, T. R., Falster, D., Usoltsev, V. A., Adu‐bredu, S., Alves, L. F., Aminpour, M., Angoboy, I. B., Anten, N. P. R., Antin, C., Askari, Y., Avilés, R. M., Ayyappan, N. & Balvanera, P. & 99 others, Banin, L., Barbier, N., Battles, J. J., Beeckman, H., Bocko, Y. E., Bond‐lamberty, B., Bongers, F., Bowers, S., Brade, T., Van Breugel, M., Chantrain, A., Chaudhary, R., Dai, J., Dalponte, M., Dimobe, K., Domec, J., Doucet, J., Duursma, R. A., Enríquez, M., Van Ewijk, K. Y., Farfán‐rios, W., Fayolle, A., Forni, E., Forrester, D. I., Gilani, H., Godlee, J. L., Gourlet‐fleury, S., Haeni, M., Hall, J. S., He, J., Hemp, A., Hernández‐stefanoni, J. L., Higgins, S. I., Holdaway, R. J., Hussain, K., Hutley, L. B., Ichie, T., Iida, Y., Jiang, H., Joshi, P. R., Kaboli, H., Larsary, M. K., Kenzo, T., Kloeppel, B. D., Kohyama, T., Kunwar, S., Kuyah, S., Kvasnica, J., Lin, S., Lines, E. R., Liu, H., Lorimer, C., Loumeto, J., Malhi, Y., Marshall, P. L., Mattsson, E., Matula, R., Meave, J. A., Mensah, S., Mi, X., Momo, S., Moncrieff, G. R., Mora, F., Nissanka, S. P., O'hara, K. L., Pearce, S., Pelissier, R., Peri, P. L., Ploton, P., Poorter, L., Pour, M. J., Pourbabaei, H., Rada, J. M. D., Ribeiro, S. C., Ryan, C., Sanaei, A., Sanger, J., Schlund, M., Sellan, G., Shenkin, A., Sonké, B., Sterck, F. J., Svátek, M., Takagi, K., Trugman, A. T., Ullah, F., Vadeboncoeur, M. A., Valipour, A., Vanderwel, M. C., Vovides, A. G., Wang, W., Wang, L., Wirth, C., Woods, M., Xiang, W., De Aquino Ximenes, F., Xu, Y., Yamada, T. & Zavala, M. A., Sept 2022, In: Global Change Biology. 28, 17, p. 5254-5268

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  • Allometry 100%
  • Remote Sensing 100%
  • Ecologist 50%
  • Carbon Cycle 50%
  • Carbon Sink 50%

• Making Forest Data Fair and Open

  de Lima, R. A. F., Phillips, O. L., Duque Montoya, A. J., Tello, J. S., Davies, S. J., de Oliveira, A. A., Muller, S. & Ryan, C., 1 Jun 2022, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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• A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

  Araza, A., de Bruin, S., Herold, M., Quegan, S., Labriere, N., Rodrıguez-Veiga, P., Avitabile, V., Santoro, M., Mitchard, E., Ryan, C., Phillips, O., Willcock, S., Verbeeck, H., Carreiras, J., Hein, L., Schelhaas, M.-J., Pacheco-Pascagaza, A. M., da Conceicao Bispo, P., Vaglio Laurin, G. & Vieilledent, G. & 10 others, Silk, F., Wijaya, A., Lewis, S., Morel, A., Liang, J., Sukhdeo, H., Schepaschenko, D., Cavlovic, J., Gilani, H. & Lucas, R., 1 Apr 2022, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 272, 112917.

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  • Aboveground Biomass 100%
  • Standard Deviation 21%
  • Climate Cycle 7%
  • Variogram 7%
  • Satellite Mission 7%

• A State-of-the-Art Vegetation Map for Jordan: A New Tool for Conservation in a Biodiverse Country

  Taifour, H., Dexter, K. G., Al-bakri, J., Miller, A. & Neale, S., 3 Mar 2022, In: Conservation. 2, 1, p. 174-194

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  • State of the Art 100%
  • Vegetation 100%
  • Vegetation Type 28%
  • Satellite Image 28%
  • Land Cover 14%

• Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

  Rozendaal, D. M. A., Requena Suarez, D., De Sy, V., Avitabile, V., Carter, S., Adou Yao, C. Y., Alvarez-davila, E., Anderson-teixeira, K., Araujo-murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Barca, B., Baker, T. R., Birigazzi, L., Bongers, F., Branthomme, A., Brienen, R. J. W., Carreiras, J. M. B., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Cook-patton, S. C. & Decuyper, M. & 37 others, Devries, B., Espejo, A. B., Feldpausch, T. R., Fox, J., G P Gamarra, J., Griscom, B. W., Harris, N., Hérault, B., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Jonckheere, I., Konan, E., Leavitt, S. M., Lewis, S. L., Lindsell, J. A., N’dja, J. K., N’guessan, A. E., Marimon, B., Mitchard, E. T. A., Monteagudo, A., Morel, A., Pekkarinen, A., Phillips, O. L., Poorter, L., Qie, L., Rutishauser, E., Ryan, C. M., Santoro, M., Silayo, D. S., Sist, P., Slik, J. W. F., Sonké, B., Sullivan, M. J. P., Vaglio Laurin, G., Vilanova, E., Wang, M. M. H., Zahabu, E. & Herold, M., 1 Jan 2022, In: Environmental Research Letters. 17, 1, 014047.

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  • Ecological Zones 100%
  • Climate Change 100%
  • Aboveground Biomass 100%
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 100%
  • Secondary Forest 33%