O L Phillips

Summary

Affiliation: University of Leeds
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001
    O L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:381-407. 2004
  2. ncbi Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
    Oliver L Phillips
    Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, School of Geography, University of Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Nature 418:770-4. 2002
  3. ncbi Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots
    S L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:421-36. 2004
  4. ncbi Fingerprinting the impacts of global change on tropical forests
    Simon L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:437-62. 2004
  5. ncbi Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest
    Oliver L Phillips
    Ecology and Global Change, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Science 323:1344-7. 2009
  6. ncbi Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests
    Oliver L Phillips
    Ecology and Global Change, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    New Phytol 187:631-46. 2010
  7. ncbi Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests
    Simon L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Nature 457:1003-6. 2009
  8. ncbi The changing Amazon forest
    Oliver L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:1819-27. 2008
  9. ncbi Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a southwest Amazonian forest
    Timothy R Baker
    School of Geography, Earth and Biosphere Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Oecologia 152:495-504. 2007
  10. ncbi Resilience of southwestern Amazon forests to anthropogenic edge effects
    Oliver L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
    Conserv Biol 20:1698-710. 2006

Detail Information

Publications18

  1. ncbi Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001
    O L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:381-407. 2004
    ..Our findings therefore indicate that long-acting and widespread environmental changes are stimulating the growth and productivity of Amazon forests...
  2. ncbi Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
    Oliver L Phillips
    Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, School of Geography, University of Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Nature 418:770-4. 2002
    ..Predictions of future tropical carbon fluxes will need to account for the changing composition and dynamics of supposedly undisturbed forests...
  3. ncbi Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots
    S L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:421-36. 2004
    ....
  4. ncbi Fingerprinting the impacts of global change on tropical forests
    Simon L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:437-62. 2004
    ..Finally, we discuss how these drivers may change in the future and the possible consequences for tropical forests...
  5. ncbi Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest
    Oliver L Phillips
    Ecology and Global Change, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Science 323:1344-7. 2009
    ..2 to 1.6 petagrams (1.2 x 10(15) to 1.6 x 10(15) grams). Amazon forests therefore appear vulnerable to increasing moisture stress, with the potential for large carbon losses to exert feedback on climate change...
  6. ncbi Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests
    Oliver L Phillips
    Ecology and Global Change, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    New Phytol 187:631-46. 2010
    ....
  7. ncbi Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests
    Simon L Lewis
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Nature 457:1003-6. 2009
    ....
  8. ncbi The changing Amazon forest
    Oliver L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:1819-27. 2008
    ....
  9. ncbi Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a southwest Amazonian forest
    Timothy R Baker
    School of Geography, Earth and Biosphere Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Oecologia 152:495-504. 2007
    ..7 +/- 2.6 or 6.1 +/- 2.6 years). These results indicate that these sites have not experienced a recent, large-scale disturbance event and emphasise the distinctive, rapid nature of carbon cycling in these western Amazonian forests...
  10. ncbi Resilience of southwestern Amazon forests to anthropogenic edge effects
    Oliver L Phillips
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
    Conserv Biol 20:1698-710. 2006
    ....
  11. ncbi The 2010 Amazon drought
    Simon L Lewis
    School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Science 331:554. 2011
    ..2 × 10(15) grams of carbon [95% confidence intervals (CIs) are 1.2 and 3.4], largely longer-term committed emissions from drought-induced tree deaths, compared with 1.6 × 10(15) grams of carbon (CIs 0.8 and 2.6) for the 2005 event...
  12. ncbi Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
    Timothy R Baker
    Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Postfach 10 01 64, D 07701 Jena, Germany
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:353-65. 2004
    ....
  13. ncbi Extinction risk from climate change
    Chris D Thomas
    Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    Nature 427:145-8. 2004
    ..These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration...
  14. ncbi Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests
    Helen C Keeling
    Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    Oecologia 158:521-34. 2008
    ..However, the relationships between rho and AGB and diameter increments were weak; resource availability always exerted a stronger influence on tree growth rates...
  15. ncbi Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest
    Daniel E Bunker
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
    Science 310:1029-31. 2005
    ..These results indicate that future carbon storage in tropical forests will be influenced strongly by future species composition...
  16. ncbi Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis
    Yadvinder Malhi
    School of Geosciences, Darwin Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JU, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:549-55. 2004
    ..Understanding and monitoring of their response to this atmospheric change are essential if we are to maximize their conservation options...
  17. ncbi Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia
    Hans ter Steege
    Institute of Environmental Biology, Section Plant Ecology and Biodiversity, and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands NHN, Utrecht University Branch, Sorbonnelaan 14 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Nature 443:444-7. 2006
    ....
  18. ncbi Impacts of global atmospheric change on tropical forests
    Simon L Lewis
    Trends Ecol Evol 21:173-4; author reply 174-5. 2006