Aparecido, L. M. T.; Santos, J. d.; Higuchi, N.; Kunert, N.: Relevance of wood anatomy and size of Amazonian trees in the determination and allometry of sapwood area. Acta Amazonica 49 (1), pp. 1 - 10 (2019)
Muhr, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Higuchi, N.; Kunert, N.: Living on borrowed time – Amazonian trees use decade‐old storage carbon to survive for months after complete stem girdling. New Phytologist 220 (1), pp. 111 - 120 (2018)
Kunert, N.; Aparecido, L. M. T.; Wolff, S.; Higuchi, N.; Santos, J. d.; de Araujo, A. C.; Trumbore, S. E.: A revised hydrological model for the Central Amazon: The importance of emergent canopy trees in the forest water budget. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 239, pp. 47 - 57 (2017)
Hilman, B.; Muhr, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Kunert, N.; Carbone, M. S.; Yuval, P.; Wright, S. J.; Moreno, G.; Pérez‑Priego, O.; Migliavacca, M.et al.; Carrara, A.; Grünzweig, J. M.; Osem, Y.; Weiner, T.; Angert, A.: Comparison of CO2 and O2 fluxes demonstrate retention of respired CO2 in tree stems from a range of tree species. Biogeosciences 16 (1), pp. 177 - 191 (2017)
Kunert, N.: Curios relationship revealed by looking at long term data sets—The geometry and allometric scaling of diel xylem sap flux in tropical trees. Journal of Plant Physiology 205, pp. 80 - 83 (2016)
Aparecido, L. M. T.; dos Santos, J.; Higuchi, N.; Kunert, N.: Ecological applications of differences in the hydraulic efficiency of palms and broad leaved trees. Trees 29, pp. 1431 - 1445 (2015)
Da Silva, F.; Suwa, R.; Kajimoto, T.; Ishizuka, M.; Higuchi, N.; Kunert, N.: Allometric equations for estimating biomass of Euterpe precatoria, the most abundant palm species in the Amazon. Forests 6 (2), pp. 450 - 463 (2015)
Kunert, N.; Aparecido, L. M. T.; Barros, P.; Higuchi, N.: Modeling potential impacts of planting palms or tree in small holder fruit plantations on ecohydrological processes in the Central Amazon. Forests 6 (8), pp. 2530 - 2544 (2015)
Kunert, N.; Aparecido, L. M. T.; dos Santos, J.; Higuchi, N.; Trumbore, S. E.: Higher tree transpiration due to road-associated edge effects in a tropical moist lowland forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 213, pp. 183 - 192 (2015)
Schwendenmann, L.; Pendall, E.; Sanchez-Bragado, R.; Kunert, N.; Hölscher, D.: Tree water uptake in a tropical plantation varying in tree diversity: interspecific differences, seasonal shifts and complementarity. Ecohydrology 8 (1), pp. 1 - 12 (2015)
Trumbore, S. E.; Angert, A.; Kunert, N.; Muhr, J.; Chambers, J. Q.: What's the flux? Unraveling how CO2 fluxes from trees reflect underlying physiological processes. New Phytologist 197 (2), pp. 353 - 355 (2013)
Kunert, N.; Mercado Cardenas, A.: Effects of xylem water transport on CO2 efflux of woody tissue in a tropical tree, Amazonas State. Hoehnea 39 (1), pp. 139 - 144 (2012)
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