Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. We review the environmental
factors controlling their structure and global distribution and evaluate their current and future …

Several remote sensing missions will soon produce detailed carbon maps over all terrestrial
ecosystems. These missions are dependent on accurate and representative in situ datasets …

We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought
index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth: vegetation indices from …

The rich ecology of tropical forests is intimately tied to their moisture status. Multi‐site
syntheses can provide a macro‐scale view of these linkages and their susceptibility to …

A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Tropical forest biomass is a crucial component of global carbon emission estimations.
However, calibration and validation of such estimates require accurate and effective …

Variation in terrestrial net primary production (NPP) with climate is thought to originate from
a direct influence of temperature and precipitation on plant metabolism. However, variation …

Aim To evaluate the climate sensitivity of model‐based forest productivity estimates using a
continental‐scale tree‐ring network. Location E urope and N orth A frica (30–70° N, 10° W …

While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed
strongly towards relatively few 'hyperdominant'species. In addition to their diversity …

We report above-ground biomass (AGB), basal area, stem density and wood mass density
estimates from 260 sample plots (mean size: 1.2 ha) in intact closed-canopy tropical forests …