Foreword
Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics
1. Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions, Yadvinder Malhi and James Wright
2. Impacts of future CO2 increase, climate change and deforestation on tropical forests, Wolfgang Cramer, Alberte Bondeau, Sibyll Schaphoff, Wolfgang Lucht, Ben Smith and Stephen Sitch
3. Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes, William F. Laurance
Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes
4. Are concerted, widespread, directional changes occurring in the structure and dynamics of South American tropical forests?, S. L. Lewis, O. L. Phillips, T. R. Baker, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, S. Almeida, N. Higuchi, W. F. Laurance, D. A. Neill, J. N. M. Silva, J. Terborgh, A. Torres Lezama, R. Vásquez Martínez, S. Brown, J. Chave, C. Kuebler, P. Núñez Vargas and B. Vinceti
5. Tropical forests and atmospheric change: a summary of ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses, Jeffrey Q. Chambers and Whendee L. Silver
6. Through enhanced tree dynamics, CO2 enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon, Christian Körner
7. The response by tropical forest ecosystems to drought, Patrick Meir and John Grace
Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests
8. Ecological responses to El Niño-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia: management implications for flammable tropical forests, Jos Barlow and Carlos A. Peres
9. Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: effects of global change?, William F. Laurance, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Susan G. Laurance, Richard Condit, Henrique E. M. Nascimento, Ana Andrade, Christopher W. Dick, Ana C. Sanchez-Thorin, Thomas E. Lovejoy, José E. L. S. Ribeiro
10. Amazon tree turnover in the late twentieth century, O. Phillips, T. Baker, L. Arroyo, N. Higuchi, T. Killeen, W.F. Laurance, S.L. Lewis, J. Lloyd, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, D. Neill, P. Núñez Vargas, N. Silva, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez Martínez, M. Alexiades, S. Almeida, S. Brown, J. Chave, J.A. Comiskey, C.I. Czimczik, A. Di Fiore, T. Erwin, C. Kuebler, S.G. Laurance, H.E.M. Nascimento, J. Olivier, W. Palacios, S. Patiño, N. Pitman, C.A. Quesada, M. Saldias, A. Torres Lezama and B. Vinceti
11. Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots, Timothy R. Baker, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Samuel Almeida, Luzmila Arroyo, Anthony Di Fiore, Terry Erwin, Niro Higuchi, Timothy J. Killeen, Susan G. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Simon L. Lewis, Abel Monteagudo, David A. Neill, Percy Núnez Vargas, Nigel C.A. Pitman, J. Natalino M. Silva, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez
12. Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests, Simon L. Lewis, Yadvinder Malhi and Oliver L. Phillips
13. Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates, Jerome Chave, Guillem Chust, Richard Condit, Salomon Aguilar, Andres Hernandez, Suzanne Lao, Rolando Perez
The past and future of tropical forests
14. The longevity and resilience of the Amazon Rainforest, Mark Maslin
15. Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric CO2 changes since the Last Glacial Maximum, Francis E. Mayle and Mark B. Bush
16. Modelling the past and future fate of the Amazonian Forest, Sharon A. Cowling, Richard A. Betts, Peter M. Cox, Virginia J. Ettwein, Chris D. Jones, Mark A. Maslin and Steven A. Spall
17. Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants, R. Toby Pennington, Matt Lavin, Darién E. Prado, Colin A. Pendry, Susan K. Pell
Synthesis Oliver Phillips and Yadvinder Malhi