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Overview

Christopher E. Doughty is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular expertise in areas such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Environmental Engineering.

Their recent publications cover significant topics in biosphere functioning and climate impacts on tropical forests. Notable papers include:

  • "The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds," 2023, Nature
  • "The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Adaptive capacity in the foundation tree species Populus fremontii: implications for resilience to climate change and non-native species invasion in the American Southwest," 2020, Conservation Physiology
  • "Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems," 2021, Global Change Biology

Their main research topics encompass plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, wildlife ecology and conservation, and applications of remote sensing and LiDAR technologies.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Andrew J. Abraham
  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • Kevin R. Hultine
  • Hillary F. Cooper
  • Thomas G. Whitham

Their work has been published across various venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Biological Conservation
  • New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

    Lucy Rowland;A.C.L. da Costa;David R. Galbraith;R.S. Oliveira

  • Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

    Christopher E. Doughty;D. B. Metcalfe;C. A. J. Girardin;F. Farfán Amézquita

  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Mauro Galetti;Felisa A. Smith

  • Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

    L. V. Gatti;M. Gloor;J. B. Miller;C. E. Doughty

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Global nutrient transport in a world of giants.

    Christopher E. Doughty;Joe Roman;Joe Roman;Søren Faurby;Adam Wolf

  • The allocation of ecosystem net primary productivity in tropical forests.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher Doughty;David Galbraith

  • Are tropical forests near a high temperature threshold

    Christopher E. Doughty;Michael L. Goulden

  • Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

    Jamie Lorimer;Chris Sandom;Paul Jepson;Chris Doughty

  • Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Christopher C. Wilmers;Shawn J. Leroux;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Seasonal patterns of tropical forest leaf area index and CO2 exchange

    Christopher E. Doughty;Michael L. Goulden

  • Herbivory makes major contributions to ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical forests.

    Daniel B. Metcalfe;Gregory P. Asner;Roberta E. Martin;Javier E. Silva Espejo

  • The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Yadvinder Malhi

  • The linkages between photosynthesis, productivity, growth and biomass in lowland Amazonian forests.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile A. J. Girardin;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Christopher E. Doughty

  • The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Andrew J. Abraham;Michael B. J. Harfoot;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Temperature and rainfall interact to control carbon cycling in tropical forests.

    Philip G. Taylor;Cory C. Cleveland;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder;Benjamin W. Sullivan

  • Leaf aging of Amazonian canopy trees as revealed by spectral and physiochemical measurements

    Cecilia Chavana-Bryant;Yadvinder Malhi;Jin Wu;Gregory P. Asner

  • Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Naia Morueta-Holme;Naia Morueta-Holme;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • Biophysical feedbacks between the Pleistocene megafauna extinction and climate: The first human‐induced global warming?

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Christopher B. Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Daniel B. Metcalfe
Daniel B. Metcalfe Umeå University
Cécile A. J. Girardin
Cécile A. J. Girardin University of Oxford
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
David W. Galbraith
David W. Galbraith University of Arizona
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine

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