Tropical dry woodlands are rapidly being lost to agricultural expansion, but how deforestation dynamics play out in these woodlands remains poorly understood. Better understanding these deforestation dynamics is critically important to develop strategies towards more sustainable tropical dry woodlands futures.

The importance of tropical forests in the global climate system is widely known. However, their productivity needs a continuous supply of nutrients, mainly nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). However, the availability and biogeochemical cycling of these nutrients is highly variable in space and time and the understanding of different nutrient loss pathways is still lacking.