Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

Background Ecological processes such as seedling establishment, biotic interactions, and
mortality can leave footprints on species spatial structure that can be detectable through …

Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and
species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century …

Theory predicts that higher biodiversity in the tropics is maintained by specialized
interactions among plants and their natural enemies that result in conspecific negative …

Tree mortality, growth, and recruitment are essential components of forest dynamics and
resiliency, for which there is great concern as climate change progresses at high latitudes …

Climate is widely recognised as an important determinant of the latitudinal diversity gradient.
However, most existing studies make no distinction between direct and indirect effects of …

Rates and spatial patterns of tree mortality are predicted to change during forest structural
development. In young forests, mortality should be primarily density dependent due to …

It is well known that temperatures across the globe are rising, but climatic conditions are
becoming more variable as well. Forecasts of species range shifts, however, often focus on …

Aims Understanding the controls influencing tree growth is central to forest ecology.
Although many factors such as tree size, neighborhood competition and environmental …

The spatial distribution pattern and population structure of trees are shaped by multiple
processes, such as species characteristics, environmental factors, and intraspecific and …