The supplied HTML contains a reference list rather than a complete article, so the bibliographic titles should not be rewritten because doing so could compromise citation accuracy. For SEO and accessibility, you can add a descriptive heading, semantic structure, and a short keyword-relevant introduction while keeping all existing <li>, <p>, <i>, <b>, and <a> tags unchanged.
References on Tropical Forests, Amazon Ecology, Drought and Carbon Storage
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Explore the scientific research supporting this article on tropical forest ecosystems,
Amazon forest biomass, drought impacts, tree mortality, climate change, biodiversity,
remote sensing and forest carbon storage.
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Fauset, S. et al. Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana.
<i>Ecol. Lett.</i> <b>15</b>, 1120–1129 (2012).
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data-track-label="10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01834.x"
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href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1461-0248.2012.01834.x"
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data-doi="10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01834.x">
Article
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data-track-label="link"
data-track-item_id="link"
data-track-value="pubmed reference"
data-track-action="pubmed reference"
href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22812661/"
aria-label="PubMed reference 1">
PubMed
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data-track-action="google scholar reference"
data-track-value="google scholar reference"
data-track-label="link"
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rel="nofollow noopener"
aria-label="Google Scholar reference 1"
href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Drought-induced%20shifts%20in%20the%20floristic%20and%20functional%20composition%20of%20tropical%20forests%20in%20Ghana&journal=Ecol.%20Lett.&doi=10.1111%2Fj.1461-0248.2012.01834.x&volume=15&pages=1120-1129&publication_year=2012&author=Fauset%2CS">
Google Scholar
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IDs, data-counter values, classes or tracking attributes. -->Recommended SEO metadata for the page containing these references:
<meta name=”description”
content=”Scientific references on tropical forest ecology, Amazon forest biomass, drought impacts, tree mortality, biodiversity, climate change and remote sensing.”>
<meta name=”keywords”
content=”tropical forest ecology, Amazon forest biomass, drought and tree mortality, forest carbon storage, tropical biodiversity, remote sensing”>
I also recommend replacing the older http:// PubMed, ADS and Google Scholar URLs with their secure https:// versions throughout the original HTML.
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