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1. Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics: Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in the climate of tropical forest regions - Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation, potential impacts on tropical forests - Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes. 2. Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes: Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests - Ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses to atmospheric change - Tropical forests dynamics in response to a CO2-rich atmosphere - The effects of drought on tropical forest ecosystems. 3. Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests: Ecological responses of amazonian forests to El Nino-induced surface fires - Late twentieth-century trends in tree-commun[...]

1. Contemporary atmospheric change in the tropics: Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in the climate of tropical forest regions - Twenty-first century atmospheric change and deforestation, potential impacts on tropical forests - Forest-climate interactions in fragmented tropical landscapes. 2. Atmospheric change and ecosystem processes: Predicting the impacts of global environmental changes on tropical forests - Ecophysiological and biogeochemical responses to atmospheric change - Tropical forests dynamics in response to a CO2-rich atmosphere - The effects of drought on tropical forest ecosystems. 3. Observations of contemporary change in tropical forests: Ecological responses of amazonian forests to El Nino-induced surface fires - Late twentieth-century trends in tree-community composition in an amazonian forest - Late twentieth-century patterns and trends in amazonian tree turnover - Late twentieth-century trends in the biomass of amazonian forest
plots - Late twentieth-century trends in the structure and dynamics of south american forests - Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates. 4. The past and future of tropical forests: The longevity and resilience of the amazonian rainforest - Amazonian ecosystems and atmospheric change since the last glacial maximum - Modelling the past and future fate of the amazonian forest - Climate change and speciation in neotropical seasonally dry forest plants - The prospects for tropical forests in the twenty-first-century atmosphere.