Termites promote soil carbon and nitrogen depletion: Results from an in situ macrofauna exclusion experiment, Peru by Dahlsjö, C, Parr, C, Malhi, Y, Meir, P, Chevarria, O, Eggleton, P

The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences by Betts, R, Malhi, Y, Timmons Roberts, J

“…It acts as one of the major 'flywheels' of global climate, transpiring water and generating clouds, affecting atmospheric circulation across continents and hemispheres, and storing substantial reserves of biomass and soil carbon. Hence, the ongoing degradation of Amazonia is a threat to local climate stability and a contributor to the global atmospheric climate change crisis. …”

The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation by Malhi, Y, Lander, T, le Roux, E, Stevens, N, Macias-Fauria, M, Wedding, L, Girardin, C, Kristensen, JÅ, Sandom, CJ, Evans, TD, Svenning, J-C, Canney, S

“…We find that large animals have the greatest potential to facilitate climate change mitigation at a global scale via three mechanisms: changes in fire regime, especially in previously low-flammability biomes with a new or intensifying fire regime, such as mesic grasslands or warm temperate woodlands; changes in terrestrial albedo, particularly where there is potential to shift from closed canopy to open canopy systems at higher latitudes; and increases in vegetation and soil carbon stocks, especially through a shift towards below-ground carbon pools in temperate, tropical and sub-tropical grassland ecosystems. …”

Ecosystem carbon storage across the grassland-forest transition in the high Andes of Manu National Park, Peru by Gibbon, A, Silman, M, Malhi, Y, Fisher, J, Meir, P, Zimmermann, M, Dargie, G, Farfan, W, Garcia, K

“…Uncertainties in the fate of the large soil carbon stocks under an afforestation scenario exist.…”

Andean grasslands are as productive as tropical cloud forests by Oliveras, I, Girardin, C, Doughty, C, Cahuana, N, Arenas, C, Oliver, V, Huaraca Huasco, W, Malhi, Y

“…Grassland NPP varied between 4.6α0.25 (disturbed areas) to 15.3α0.9 Mg C ha^-1 yr^-1 (undisturbed areas) and cloud forest NPP was between 7.05α0.39 and 8.0α0.47 Mg C ha^-1 yr^-1, while soil carbon stocks were in the range of 126α22 to 285α31 Mg C ha^-1. …”

Carbon cycling in a Bornean tropical forest by Kho, L, Kho Lip Khoon

“…On the basis of the first soil carbon dioxide (CO2) efflux partitioning study undertaken in a tropical forest, the diurnal cycle in total soil respiration appeared to be entirely driven by the diurnal cycle in litter respiration, and in turn litter is strongly controlled by moisture.…”