Tropical secondary forests sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests.
This rate does not capture spatial regrowth patterns due to environmental and disturbance …

Amazonia contains the most extensive tropical forests on Earth, but Amazon carbon sinks of
atmospheric CO2 are declining, as deforestation and climate-change-associated droughts …

A vast literature indicates that environment plays a paramount role in determining floristic
composition in tropical forests. However, it remains unclear which are the most important …

Abstract Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on
Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution …

To determine the effect of rivers, environmental conditions, and isolation by distance on the
distribution of species in Amazonia. Location: Brazilian Amazonia. Time period: Current …

Canopy gaps are openings in the forest canopy resulting from branch fall and tree mortality
events. The geographical distribution of large canopy gaps may reflect underlying variation …

The soil supports many ecosystem services (ES) essential to human well‐being. Rapid
developments in digital soil map** (DSM) allow the map** of soil types and soil …

Aim Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most
research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little …

Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the
water supplied by precipitation. Nevertheless, within the same climatic regime, water …

Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000
years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the …