Article history: Received 13 May 2016 Received in revised form 22 August 2016 Accepted 2 September 2016 Available online xxxx Tropical dry deciduous forests provide numerous ecosystem services yet their contribution to agricultural production remains underexplored. We address this research gap by quantifying the broader suite of ecosystem services that support small holder farmers and identifyi...

The environmental integrity of a mechanism rewarding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depends on appropriate accounting for emission reductions. Largely stemming from a lack of forest data in developing countries, emission reductions accounting contains substantial uncertainty as a result of forest carbon stock estimates, where the application of biome-averaged data o...

Forest degradation in the tropics is a widespread, yet poorly understood phenomenon. This particularly true for tropical and subtropical dry forests, where variety of disturbances, both natural anthropogenic, affect forest canopies. Addressing thus requires spatially-explicit understanding causes disturbances. Here, we apply an approach attributing agents disturbance across large areas based on...

We examined the roles of lithology, topography, vegetation and fire in generating local-scale (<1 km2) soil spatial variability in a seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) in southern India. For this, we mapped soil (available nutrients, Al, total C, pH, moisture and texture in the top 10 cm), rock outcrops, topography, all native woody plants ≥1 cm diameter at breast height (DBH), and spatial v...