Large old trees are some of the most iconic biota on earth and are integral parts of many
terrestrial ecosystems including those in tropical, temperate and boreal forests, deserts …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review shows that a more or less constant rate of tip-to-
base vessel widening across species, together with the assumption that wider vessels are …

A plant's growth rate is seen as a central element of its ecological strategy, and as
determined by its traits. Yet the literature is inconsistent about the empirical correlation …

In many ecosystems globally, large old trees occur as single, spatially isolated individual
trees or as small groups of scattered trees and can therefore be considered to be small …

The length of time that carbon remains in forest biomass is one of the largest uncertainties in
the global carbon cycle, with both recent-historical baselines and future responses to …

Plant species differ in many functional traits that drive differences in rates of photosynthesis,
biomass allocation, and tissue turnover. However, it remains unclear how—and even if …

Earth system models must predict forest responses to global change in order to simulate
future global climate, hydrology, and ecosystem dynamics. These models are increasingly …

The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the
evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought …

The ability of forests to withstand, and recover from, acute drought stress is a critical
uncertainty regarding the impacts of climate change on the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, but it …

There is growing realization that intraspecific variation in seed dispersal can have important
ecological and evolutionary consequences. However, we do not have a good understanding …